EMBL Australia

EMBL Australia Scientific Head Professor Nadia Rosenthal has accepted a newly created position as Scientific Director of The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) in Maine.

Nicholas Plachta will join the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) later this year as Senior Principal Investigator to lead his own research group.

2013 has been a year of growth and renewal for EMBL Australia.

Our biggest achievement this past year has been the establishment of the South Australian node at the new South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). On behalf of the EMBL Australia Council, I’d like to welcome Ville-Petteri Mäkinen and David Lynn to EMBL Australia, and wish them all the best in their research endeavours.

• Australian Bioinformatics Network to merge with new Society
• Our first PhD Symposium—giving students the upper hand
• Also in this newsletter:
  • Aussie PhD students meet like minds in Germany
  • “An investment in the future of science and innovation”
• About EMBL Australia​

• Understanding how life begins – Nicolas Plachta awarded fellowships for his research
• Stopping the immune system’s ‘friendly fire’
• Also in this newsletter:
  • The data is in on BiC 2014 Bioinformatics Conference
  • Become a member of the new bioinformatics society
  • BioInfoSummer comes to Monash in December
  • PhD students – register now for the first EMBL Australia PhD Symposium
• Events coming up

• Jobs at EMBL Australia
• Showing Canberra what Australia’s research infrastructure can do
• Also in this newsletter:
  • Systems biology conference wrap-up
  • Join the new Australian Bioinformatics Society
  • Aussie PhD students head to EMBL for symposium
• Upcoming events
• About EMBL Australia

• Systems biology innovator and a pioneer join conference in Melbourne
• Wanted: EMBL Australia Group Leaders in Single Molecule Science @ UNSW
• More EMBL Australia Group Leaders on the way
• In other news:
  • SBI Australia’s model networks
  • Need a Genome? We’ve got 80: UCSC Genome Browser Roadshow is back
  • Unlocking clinical research roadmaps using a systems approach
  • MAXIMA brings maths to summer
• Events coming up

• A new research centre to transform medicine
• Can BRAEMBL help handle your data?
• In other news:
  • Discovery of stem cell ‘buddy system’ brings us closer to a cure for blood disorders
  • Happy 40th Birthday to EMBL
  • Watch Winter School talks online
  • Giving bioinformatics the Senate floor
  • ABiC 2014 call for abstracts, awards and travel bursaries for students
• Upcoming events

• Want to travel to Europe? EMBL Australia can help
• 60 students head to Canberra to glimpse what’s ‘hot’ in research
• In other news:
• Upcoming events
• About EMBL Australia