EMBL Australia

EMBL Australia group leader Dr Robert Weatheritt was co-awarded a $470,000 ARC Discovery Project grant to study the biogenesis and function of circular RNAs in the brain. The exciting international collaboration begins later this month.

An international team of researchers, co-led by EMBL Australia group leader Dr Richard Morris, has revealed the mechanisms behind fish schooling – and what they found differs from what scientists had previously thought.

In 2019, the EMBL Australia Partner Laboratory Network continued to expand, with the addition of three new research groups. We trained hundreds of PhD students in the life sciences through various student programs, strengthened international linkages and our researchers were awarded a number of highly competitive grants, made innovative discoveries and published many high-impact papers.

An international consortium of researchers, led by EMBL Australia group leader Professor David Lynn, has painstakingly mapped an intracellular network that could open the door to discovering new targeted treatments for colorectal cancer.

An EMBL Australia group leader has co-developed a powerful 3D-printed microscope, making it widely available so researchers can easily harness this powerful technology.

News this quarter:

• Six group leaders awarded NHMRC Ideas Grants
• ARC Grant for novel study of brain function using plant receptors
• Group leader position at UNSW
• High hopes for futuristic tissue-healing method
• Science by the sea: EMBL Partnership Conference
• Max Cryle to lead Victorian node of new $35 million ARC research centre
• EAPS 2019: Student-run symposium continues to shine
• Profile: Dr Senthil Arumugam, EMBL Australia group leader

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Six EMBL Australia group leaders have been awarded more than $4.3 million in funding for their innovative research through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)’s Ideas Grant scheme.

EMBL Australia group leader Dr Harald Janovjak has been awarded a $600,000 ARC Discovery Projects Grant for research that will expand our ability to manipulate nerve cell function with high specificity and without side effects.

Dr Senthil Arumugam recently joined EMBL Australia as a group leader, based at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute.

An international team of scientists, led by EMBL Australia group leader Associate Professor Mikaël Martino, has cleared the way for the use of growth factors to promote tissue repair by improving the delivery system of the molecules, busting cancer side effects and potentially slashing costs.