EMBL Australia

The EMBL Australia South Australia Node hosted a delegation from the University of Oulu in Finland at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). The visitors, all members in the Computational Medicine Research Team, specialise in population-based large-scale metabolomics and genetics of common human diseases.

Dr Seán O’Donoghue is a biodata visualisation expert who spent his early research career in the Structural and Computational Biology program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and at Lion Bioscience AG (EMBL’s first start-up company), both in Heidelberg, Germany.

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.

• Profile – Maree Agiazis, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Secretariat for EMBL Australia
• Nanoparticle shape affects voyage through a cell
• Travel grants to EMBL PhD Symposium (Heidelberg) announced
• Registration Open: 3rd EMBL Australia PhD student symposium
• Opportunity: EMBL – Heidelberg, New Group Leader Positions (2)
• Postdoctoral Opportunity in T Cell Signalling: NSW node
• Postdoctoral Opportunities in Cell Biology: EMBL headquarters, Heidelberg
• AB3ACBS-2016 conference – registration and abstracts submissions now open
• EMBL-ABR Best Practice workshop series: the data life-cycle
• EMBL-ABR hosting Galaxy Australasia meeting

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.