Category: EMBL Australia

In this month’s EMBL Australia newsletter:

• EMBL Australia’s Japan Month
• Understanding Pathogens: A Systems Biology Approach
• Mike Hucka on how to succeed with open source computing
• From development to regeneration: meet EMBL Australia at ComBio 2013
• International researchers to teach sequence analysis master class in Sydney
• Helping Australian PhD students get to Europe
• Upcoming events and deadlines
• About EMBL Australia

Read More about Partnering with Japan, understanding pathogens and more travel grants for students: EMBL Australia in September

University of Melbourne, Tuesday 11 June

Understanding neurodegeneration is one of the big life science challenges. It’s attracting massive international investment but the complexity of the brain means there will be no simple answers.

That’s why we’ve chosen neurodegenerative diseases as the topic for the first Victorian Systems Biology Collaborative on Tuesday 11 June.

Read More about Neurodegeneration: from lab to clinic with systems biology

In this month’s EMBL Australia newsletter:

• Getting personal (medicine) with Howard Jacob
• Neurodegeneration – from lab to clinic with systems biology
• Enhancing Systems Biology in Victoria
• Join the EMBL PhD Symposium with a travel grant from EMBL Australia
• “What is Bioinformatics?”
• Events and meetings around the country

Read More about Saving lives with personalised medicine; exploring neurodegeneration; travel grants for students: EMBL Australia in June

Symposium: Royal Children’s Hospital, Monday 3 June

Professor Howard Jacob is getting genomics out of the research lab and into the clinic.

He’s at the forefront of personalised medicine. He and his colleagues successfully treated a five year old with a life threatening digestive condition in 2010, sequencing the boy’s genome to find a rare mutation.

He says we need to not just talk about how personal genomes will change medicine. It’s time to use it now especially for undiagnosed conditions.

Read More about Personalised medicine: a young life saved through genomics and systems biology

EMBL Australia is offering secure funding for young science leaders to set up their own research group supported by the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).

Also high on the agenda is building a bioinformatics community, through the launch of the Australian Bioinformatics Network. And getting feedback from scientists on their bioinformatics needs.

Plus: PhD symposiums, travel grants and training school. And how to get maths students interested in systems biology.

Read More about Funding for young science leaders and support for PhD students

What is EMBL Australia

This document is intended as a resource and guide for anyone writing about EMBL Australia and its projects. It is based on a paper discussed with the EMBL Australia Executive Council on 26 February.

A full version of the document is available here: What is EMBL Australia – 21 March 2014

EMBL Australia Style Guide

The Executive Committee of the EMBL Australia approved the following guidelines for use for all EMBL Australia Communications programs and documents at its February 2013 meeting. It’s a work in progress and the master is maintained by Science in Public.

The current version is available here: EMBL Australia Style Guide – 21 March 2014

High resolution logos for EMBL Australia, its partners, initiatives and resources are available here