Julienne is a PhD candidate from St Vincent’s Institute for Medical Research and the University of Melbourne where she is a member of Dr Andrew Dean’s team. Julienne is studying the rare and inherited syndrome, Fanconi Anaemia.

From the author of ‘Struck by Lightning: Curious World of Probability’, mathematician and comedian Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal is touring Australia with his new talk 'From Lotteries to Polls to Monte Carlo'.

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.

Ten postgraduate students have been awarded travel grants to attend the 18^th EMBL student PhD symposium, L1f3 by Numb3r5 held at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

The National Research Infrastructure Roadmap Capability Issues Paper (NRIRC) sets out the proposed capability requirements that will inform the development of the 2016 Roadmap. This will be accompanied by extensive consultation with key stakeholders, including EMBL Australia.

The Gaus research team has been working on an age-old question: How does nanoparticle shape affect the voyage through a cell?