EMBL Australia

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.

News this quarter:

• Dr Qi Zhang joins EMBL Australia as group leader at SAiGENCI
• Australian NCRIS health groups & European counterparts unite
• Group leader reviews for Richard Morris and Eduardo Eyras a success
• Dodgem car-like bumping helps vesicular transport system deliver on time
• Professor Max Cryle promoted
• Register to attend our popular postgrad symposium
• Read our Partner Laboratory Network 2022 Highlights Report
• Get to Know… Dr Qi Zhang

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

Dr Qi Zhang will commence in December as the first EMBL Australia Group Leader to be based at the South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute (SAiGENCI), Adelaide.

A study co-led by group leader Dr Senthil Arumugam and published in Nature Communications reveals a novel mechanism by which cells control the orderly & timely delivery of molecular cargo.

We’re excited to announce that Dr Qi Zhang will be the first EMBL Australia group leader to be hosted at the South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute.

News this quarter:

• Dr Michelle Boyle awarded $8m Snow Fellowship for malaria research
• Apply now for a our popular two-week PhD Course
• Full house for our first light-sheet microscopy workshop, ‘Beyond Imaging’
•  Discovery boosts the healing power of therapeutic proteins in regenerative medicine
• Travel grants inspire personal growth and new research direction
• Get to Know… recent alumnus Dr Ville-Petteri Mäkinen

And more:

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

EMBL Australia researchers have made an exciting breakthrough in the field of regenerative medicine, offering new hope for safer and more effective treatments.

The recent EMBL Australia training event at Monash University, ‘Beyond Imaging: Visualisation, analysis & inference’, proved a hit with the local imaging community, with many keen to see the event return and expand.

PhD students Bec Degnan and Bonnie Werner share the benefits of travelling to EMBL Heidelberg with an EMBL Australia travel grant, including newfound confidence in science communication and inspiration to change research direction.