EMBL Australia

Researchers at the EMBL Australia Single Molecule Science node at UNSW Sydney – including group leaders Yann Gambin and Richard Morris and node head Till Böcking – have cracked a mystery whose solution has long eluded researchers.

New insights into long-haul transport of molecular cargo in mammalian cell lines have been revealed with super-resolution microscopy in a study led by EMBL Australia group leader Dr Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan.

Congratulations to EMBL Australia group leader Dr William Roman, who was awarded a $1.58 million NHMRC Investigator Grant to investigate the transcriptional repair program during muscle reconstruction.

News this quarter:

• Three group leaders awarded ARC Discovery Project grants
• Are you EMBL Australia’s next Chief Operating Officer?
• Strengthening our European connections to EMBL & beyond
• Students praise “life-changing” PhD Course at ANU
• A spin-out company to transform regenerative medicine
• New malaria vaccine important step towards eradication
• Students take centre stage at postgraduate symposium
• Engineering ancestral antibiotics for future superbug treatments

And more:

• Job opportunities
• Student opportunities
• Upcoming events
• Recent publications

We’re hiring a Chief Operating Officer to lead the EMBL Australia Secretariat & collaborate closely with the EMBL Australia Council Chair and Scientific Director.

EMBL Australia group leader Professor Max Cryle was part of an international team that reconstructed ancestral antibiotics to learn more about how they work in order to produce new antibiotics to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Published in Nature Communications, this vital information will inform the development of next-generation superbug treatments.

EMBL Australia group leader Mikaël Martino has co-founded protein-engineering company Orio Therapeutics.

On a recent visit to EMBL Heidelberg, Ian Smith, Chair of the EMBL Australia Council, spoke about the synergies between EMBL and EMBL Australia, opportunities for collaboration and ideas for exciting future programs.

Michelle Boyle – an EMBL Australia group leader and Snow Medical Fellow based at the Burnet Institute – and Burnet Institute CEO and Director Brendan Crabb share their thoughts on the malaria vaccine newly recommended by the World Health Organisation in an article for The Conversation.

EMBL Australia group leaders Associate Professor Richard Morris, Associate Professor Yann Gambin & Dr Qi Zhang have each been awarded Discovery Project grants, totalling almost $1.7m collectively.