EMBL Australia

• 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

News this month:

• Profile, Professor Peter Currie, EMBL Australia, Victoria Node
• A/Prof Ville Mäkinen –  Investigating the molecular risk factors for Type I diabetes sufferers
• Open – Early bird registration for the 3rd EMBL Australia PhD student symposium, SAHRMI with speaker update
• EMBL- Heidelberg, Postdoc Opportunities still open
• EMBL-ABR: Survey extended – tell us what you want and need
• ABACBS-2016 conference with GOBLET meeting – registration and abstracts submissions now open
• EMBL-ABR Best Practice workshop series: the data life-cycle
• EMBL-ABR hosting Galaxy Australasia meeting

News this month:

• Professor Matthias Hentze, Director, EMBL Heidelberg – public lecture ANU, 4th July
• EMBL Australia showcase – 5th July, 2016, John Curtin/ANU College of Medicine and Environment
• Max Cryle awarded Otto Schmeil prize
• Australian student travel grants now open for 18th EMBL (Heidelberg) PhD Symposium
• Calls for applications for EI3POD program (EMBL Europe) now open
• Third EMBL Australia PhD student symposium, 16-18 November, 2016
• SAHRMI EMBL – Heidelberg Postdoc Opportunities
• ARC – Winter school course in mathematical and computational biology, 4-8 July
• EMBL-ABR hosting Galaxy Australasia meeting (Melbourne, 3-9 February 2017)

News this month:

• Profile – Chair of EMBL Australia Council – Professor Brandon Wainwright
• Professor Kat Gaus, NSW node, building the next generation of innovative microscopes
• EMBL Australia – PhD Scholarship Program 2017
• EMBL – Heidelberg Postdoc Opportunities
• Reminder – 18th EMBL (Heidelberg) PhD Symposium: 10 travel grants available to Australian students

News this month:

• EMBL Australia council decision – New Scientific Head, Professor James Whisstock
• Update on name change – BRAEMBL is now EMBL ABR
• 10 travel grants to attend the 18th EMBL (Heidelberg) PhD Symposium
• Positions vacant
• EMBL Australia showcase, 5 July 2016, Canberra

News this month:

• Profile – Matthias Hentze, EMBL Director, Heidelberg
• A/Professor Andrew Lonie invited to present at the ELIXIR hands on meeting in Barcelona
• Max Cryle secures accesses to crystallisation facilities at EMBL – Hamburg
• A/Professor Vicky Schneider presented at CSIRO/DATA61 Open FOAM Meeting

Notice board:

• Call for Nominations – Appointment to the EMBL Scientific Advisory Committee
• EMBL Australia seeking to identify active collaborators with EMBL scientists
• Internships still available for MSc or PhD students at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals

• ACABS conference October 2015 – brief overview
• Profile – A/Professor James Bourne, EMBL-Australia Collaborating Group Leader, Monash University
• Successful candidates of the joint EMBL Australia and UNSW postgraduate scholarships pilot programme announced
• EMBL Australia Postgraduate Symposium 2015 – Recap and Reflection
• EMBL Australia Bioinformatics Resource holds Intensive training in Cancer Genomics and the Genome Analysis Tool Kit in Melbourne and Sydney in February
• Post-doctoral Fellowship opportunities at EMBL Australia and Post-graduate opportunities at EMBL
• EMBL Showcase planned for July 2016, ANU Canberra
• Change of date for 2016 EMBL Australia, Student PhD symposium, 16-18 November, SAHRMI, Adelaide
• Internships still available for MSc or PhD students at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals

• Dr Pirjo Apaja appointed as EMBL Australia Group Leader, SAHMRI
• Internships still available for MSc or PhD students at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals

• Thanks to support from the EMBL Australia Bioinformatics Resource, CSIRO’s Annette McGrath attends GOBLET and secures 2016 GOBLET AGM
• Dr Vicky Schneider announced as Deputy Director, EMBL Australia Bioinformatics Resource
• EMBL Showcase planned for early July 2016
• Announcement of the EMBL Australia, 2016 PhD symposium followed by the success of 2015 Australian PhD symposium, Melbourne
• EMBL Heidelberg – seeking highly motivated student to join the Protein Expression and Purification Core Facility
• Internships still available for MSc or PhD students at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals

• Remarkable research infrastructure that can be accessed at EMBL Australia – BRAEMBL
• Dr Niklas Blomberg, Director, ELIXIR, EMBL (UK), visiting in early December
• Dr Max Cryle appointed as EMBL Australia, Group Leader, Monash University
• Profile – Prof Thomas Preiss, EMBL-Australia, Collaborating Group Leader, ANU
• Feedback from Student PhD Symposium and EMBL Noncoding Genome Conference, EMBL Heidelberg
• EMBL Heidelberg – seeking highly motivated student to join the Protein Expression and Purification Core Facility
• BioInfoSummer, 7-10 December, 2015 Registration still open
• Internships still available for MSc or PhD students at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals