Please congratulate Dr. Rodrigo Carlessi who won the best poster prize at the Australian Islet Study Group Meeting (AISG 2016) which took place at the RMIT University in Melbourne on the 18th November.  The poster title was ‘GLP-1 receptor signaling promotes β-cell glucose metabolism via mTOR-dependent HIF-1α activation’.  Rodrigo’s supervisor is Prof. Philip Newsholme (School of Biomedical Sciences) and other CHIRI researchers collaborating on this project include Jordan Rowlands, Dr. Vinicius F. Cruzat, Dr. Kevin N. Keane and A/Prof. Cyril Mamotte.