News this month:

• Profile: Dr Seán O’Donoghue (EMBL Alumni) – where is he now?
• SA Node hosts Finnish delegation, Peter Meikle and goes to ABACBS
• A Festival of Bioinformatics - report from Brisbane
• Australia tour: Prof Jeffrey Rosenthal - from Lotteries to Polls to Monte Carlo

Notice Board:

• EMBL - ABR training opportunities
• EMBL Heidelberg Post-doctoral opportunity

From the author of ‘Struck by Lightning: Curious World of Probability’, mathematician and comedian Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal is touring Australia with his new talk 'From Lotteries to Polls to Monte Carlo'.

The EMBL Australia South Australia Node hosted a delegation from the University of Oulu in Finland at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). The visitors, all members in the Computational Medicine Research Team, specialise in population-based large-scale metabolomics and genetics of common human diseases.

Dr Seán O’Donoghue is a biodata visualisation expert who spent his early research career in the Structural and Computational Biology program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and at Lion Bioscience AG (EMBL’s first start-up company), both in Heidelberg, Germany.

Australia’s national bioinformatics conference was held in Brisbane at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) October 31 to November 2.

• Profile - A/Professor Marcus Heisler, Australia’s first Group Leader
• How do leaves grow flat? Marcus Heisler (EMBL Heidelberg)
• EMBL-ABR officially launches new Galaxy Australia community
• Join us in Adelaide for AMSI BioInfoSummer this summer
• Last Call - Registration for the 3rd EMBL Australia PhD student symposium, SAHRMI
• EMBL Australia– NSW Node seeking Postdoctoral Scientist
• EMBL Monterotondo, Italy – Seeking Two Group Leaders
• EMBL- Heidelberg Post-doctoral opportunities still open
• AB3ACBS 2016 conference with GOBLET meeting

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

Ten postgraduate students have been awarded travel grants to attend the 18^th EMBL student PhD symposium, L1f3 by Numb3r5 held at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.