EMBL Australia

• Understanding how life begins – Nicolas Plachta awarded fellowships for his research
• Stopping the immune system’s ‘friendly fire’
• Also in this newsletter:
  • The data is in on BiC 2014 Bioinformatics Conference
  • Become a member of the new bioinformatics society
  • BioInfoSummer comes to Monash in December
  • PhD students – register now for the first EMBL Australia PhD Symposium
• Events coming up

• Jobs at EMBL Australia
• Showing Canberra what Australia’s research infrastructure can do
• Also in this newsletter:
  • Systems biology conference wrap-up
  • Join the new Australian Bioinformatics Society
  • Aussie PhD students head to EMBL for symposium
• Upcoming events
• About EMBL Australia

• Systems biology innovator and a pioneer join conference in Melbourne
• Wanted: EMBL Australia Group Leaders in Single Molecule Science @ UNSW
• More EMBL Australia Group Leaders on the way
• In other news:
  • SBI Australia’s model networks
  • Need a Genome? We’ve got 80: UCSC Genome Browser Roadshow is back
  • Unlocking clinical research roadmaps using a systems approach
  • MAXIMA brings maths to summer
• Events coming up

• A new research centre to transform medicine
• Can BRAEMBL help handle your data?
• In other news:
  • Discovery of stem cell ‘buddy system’ brings us closer to a cure for blood disorders
  • Happy 40th Birthday to EMBL
  • Watch Winter School talks online
  • Giving bioinformatics the Senate floor
  • ABiC 2014 call for abstracts, awards and travel bursaries for students
• Upcoming events

• Want to travel to Europe? EMBL Australia can help
• 60 students head to Canberra to glimpse what’s ‘hot’ in research
• In other news:
• Upcoming events
• About EMBL Australia

• Understand my genome to understand yours
• Boosting Aussie bioinformatics – Connection Grants go to…
• In other news:
• Upcoming events and deadlines

• Research head-start: the 2nd EMBL Australia PhD Course comes to ANU
• Right time, right place – when punctuality is a matter of life or death
• In other news:
  • Want to work with EMBL Australia in Adelaide?
  • AMSI Intern is searching for an up and coming bioinformatician
  • Who runs the world? Microbes!
  • EMBO workshops come to Australia
• Events and deadlines

• Introducing our new South Australian group leaders
• Systems biology is tackling the big questions in Melbourne – ICSB 2014
• In other news:
  • Travel to Europe with an EMBL Australia travel grant
  • How resilient is our Great Barrier Reef to climate change?
  • Got an idea to bring bioinformaticians together? Make it happen with a Connection Grant
• Events and deadlines
• About EMBL Australia

2012 has been a busy and important year for EMBL Australia.

As required by the then Department of Innovation, Industry, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, a review was conducted of the progress made by EMBL Australia since Australia was accepted as the first Associate Member of EMBL in 2008.