About EMBL Australia
About EMBL Australia
Australia’s Associate Membership of EMBL commenced in March 2008. EMBL Australia was formed by the Australian universities of Monash, Queensland, Sydney and Western Australia, along with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
EMBL Australia aims to advance collaboration and research quality through four activity streams:
- First-class scientific training and collaborative opportunities for Australian life scientists
- Establishing the EMBL Australia Partner Laboratory Network throughout Australia
- Pursuing international co-funding for research; and
- Exchange of expertise, resources, services and innovation between Europe and Australia
More News
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11.05.12
Support our young scientists, says EMBL Australia to McKeon Review
EMBL Australia has made a submission to the McKeon strategic review of health and medical research in Australia.
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10.05.12
International training opportunities for PhD students
EMBL Australia has opened two new travel grants for PhD students worth up to $7500 to attend conferences, short courses or laboratory training at one of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s (EMBL) five sites in Europe.
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13.03.12
Melbourne wins conference on future biology
The cellular-wide impact of cancer; how pests interact with wheat plants; what characteristics of yeast give wine its taste.
These are the sorts of complicated questions scientists from around the world will come to Melbourne in 2014 to discuss at the 15th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2014). Systems biology uses all the tools of the biological and computer science revolutions to look at whole plants and animals. Over the next decade it is set to transform biology.
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13.03.12
A new international initiative to understand life
Australian scientists will collaborate with a pioneering Japanese group in systems biology research. – a new field of science that bridges biology and computer science to understand how whole organisms – plants, animals, bacteria, people – work.
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01.08.11
Bioinformatics for the Future - an update Aug 2011
An update to Dr Ewan Birney's Report "Bioinformatics for the Future - 2009".