EMBL Australia

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.

• 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

In July this year, as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda, the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap Capability Issues Paper (NRIRC 2016) was released to encourage consultation to support development of the 2016 Roadmap.

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

We are well versed on the links between diet, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Yet the conversation around diabetic kidney disease, and the effect on heart disease and lifespan, remains largely unspoken.

In 2015-16, EMBL Australia moved into a new phase with the renewal of Australia's associate membership of EMBL funded by the Australian Government and a new governance structure.

This coincided with a change in both the Chair of the EMBL Australia Council and Scientific Head of the organisation and the continued expansion of the Partner Laboratory Network.