EMBL Australia

PhD students Bec Degnan and Bonnie Werner share the benefits of travelling to EMBL Heidelberg with an EMBL Australia travel grant, including newfound confidence in science communication and inspiration to change research direction.

EMBL Australia and Burnet Institute group leader Dr Michelle Boyle has been awarded Australia’s largest philanthropic biomedical fellowship to support her research into malaria immunity.

Dr William Roman will begin as an EMBL Australia Group Leader, based at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, in May.

We’re excited to welcome three new members – Professor Helen Thomas, Professor Jennifer Stow and Ms Erica Kneipp – to the EMBL Australia Council, as we bid a fond farewell to Professor Andrew Sinclair and Dr David Hansen.

Farewell to Professor David Lynn and Associate Professor Ville-Petteri Mäkinen, who have successfully completed their nine-year terms as EMBL Australia group leaders.

EMBL Australia group leader Dr Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan and her team uncover the mechanism that facilitates symmetrical cell division.

The highly competitive grants will fund innovative research projects to advance a wide range of health issues, including tissue regeneration, immune responses to vaccination, mRNA therapeutics and suppressing cancer growth.

Professor Eduardo Eyras and Dr Richard Morris are chief investigators in the new ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems.

Congratulations to EMBL Australia group leader Professor David Lynn, Dr Feargal Ryan (a postdoctoral fellow  in the Lynn Group) and Dr Qi Zhang (a Monash BDI group leader in the Davidovich Group) for their recent grant successes.

An ARC LIEF grant will enable fundamental research in 3D environments that closely mimic lifelike conditions via the bioprinting of 3D models of organs and tissues, realising the vision of the late world-leading immunologist Katharina Gaus.