EMBL Australia

Australia’s national bioinformatics conference was held in Brisbane at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) October 31 to November 2.

Marcus Heisler was the first Group Leader to be appointed under an EMBL-Australia Faculty Development Program after Australia became an Associate Member of EMBL in 2008.

The Heisler Group focuses on investigating fundamental plant development questions such as how tissues are organised and patterned. Recently they have investigated how leaves grow flat, publishing a paper in PNAS.

In July this year, as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda, the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap Capability Issues Paper (NRIRC 2016) was released to encourage consultation to support development of the 2016 Roadmap.

We are well versed on the links between diet, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Yet the conversation around diabetic kidney disease, and the effect on heart disease and lifespan, remains largely unspoken.

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s (EMBL) Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is established by EMBL’s governing Council to provide it with advice, particularly regarding proposals from the Director General on the realisation of the programme of scientific activity of the Laboratory.