More than 200 delegates gathered to learn about the cutting edge of bioinformatics and computational biology research from a variety of top international and local speakers at the Australian Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) national conference and the Combine Student Symposium, held at SAHMRI in Adelaide in late 2017 and chaired by EMBL Australia Group Leader, David Lynn.

News this quarter:

• Max Cryle awarded fellowship to battle antimicrobial resistance
• Edwina McGlinn and Maté Biro awarded ARC Discovery Project grants
• Harald Janovjak is a ‘Scientist to Watch’
• EMBL Australia researcher awarded a Victoria Fellowship
• David Lynn on the importance of incentivising Open Science
• Aussie contingent shines at EMBL PhD Symposium

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• Upcoming events
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• Get to know EMBL Australia Group Leader Mikaël Martino

Associate Professor Edwina McGlinn and Dr Maté Biro have each been awarded grants for their respective projects investigating genome structure and regulation and biological mathematics.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grants will provide three years of funding, commencing in 2018.

Thirteen talented Australian PhD students were given the "invaluable opportunity" to attend the 19^th EMBL PhD Symposium in Germany thanks to EMBL Australia travel grants.

Postdoctoral research fellow Dr Jennifer Payne has been awarded a prestigious Victoria Fellowship to expand her work using cutting-edge techniques to develop new treatments to battle the antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’.

Congratulations to EMBL Australia Group Leader Associate Professor Max Cryle, who has been awarded a Career Development Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council. 

News this quarter:

• Our Partner Laboratory Network is expanding and we’re looking for new group leaders
• Nobel Laureate imparts lessons in perseverance to PhD Course students
• Antibiotic insight may help in battle against ‘superbugs’
• EMBL Australia PhD Course: 60 students, 57 presenters, 10 big days
• EMBL alumni in Australia come together for the first time
• PhD student’s imaging app impresses at VIZBI

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• Upcoming events
• Jobs at EMBL Australia

With three new institutions joining our Partner Laboratory Network, we're searching for three ambitious early-career researchers to become EMBL Australia Group Leaders in the areas of Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics and Host Pathogen Interactions.

A young member of EMBL Australia’s Partner Laboratory Network took out the award for the best scientific poster at the Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI 2017) conference in June.

On 9 June, many of the 74 EMBL alumni now living in Australia, as well as their colleagues and networks, congregated at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney for the first EMBL alumni event to be held in Australia.