Our February newsletter is out! 🚀
• Breakthrough #malaria research
• 10th annual #PhD Course highlights
• Grant successes & leadership updates
• New #training opportunities + #postdoc roles
Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/emblaustrali...
🦟 A new study led by EMBL Australia Group Leader Dr Michelle Boyle @burnetinstitute.bsky.social reveals a promising #malaria treatment approach.
Adding widely used drug #ruxolitinib to standard therapy may reduce dangerous inflammation & boost immune protection.
We are hiring!
The Monash Organoid Program is searching for a skilled and motivated Research Officer to join the team.
More info about the position and how to apply can be found here (Job No 689543):
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
📢 Australian students, learn from the best - apply now to do your #PhD at one of EMBL's six European sites!
🔦 Spotlighting Prof @edueyras.bsky.social - EMBL Australia Group Leader & newly appointed Director of the Shine‑Dalgarno Centre for #RNA Innovation at ANU!
🔗 Read about his vision for the Centre:
www.emblaustralia.org/eduardo-eyra...
We send our sincerest sympathies to the family and friends of EMBL’s Interim Director General, Prof. Peer Bork.
Peer was a great supporter of Australian science and is being remembered as an exceptional scientist and person, a natural leader, and a generous mentor to many.
Australian life scientists - planning your 2026 training?
EMBL has a brilliant line-up of hands-on #training & events across the life sciences, held in person or virtually.
👉 Explore the full list of EMBL events and courses for 2026: embl.org/training/
Wishing our community a joyful end to the year and a refreshing break, wherever and however you’re celebrating ✨
MACSYS was proud to partner with EMBL Australia for the 2025 edition of its flagship PhD training course. As a course sponsor, MACSYS led two dedicated teaching days, introducing participants to our mission of modelling an entire cell. This video📽️explains how: youtu.be/Gsm2taPZffI
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🌟 10 DAYS - 60 STUDENTS - 34 SPEAKERS 🌟
Today we wrapped our 10th PhD Course with a focus on careers & research impact after two weeks of learning, networking & inspiration.
Congratulations to all participants! And thanks to our wonderful sponsors, speakers & organising committee👏👏 #EMBLAPhD
🎉 Delighted the White Paper is out, confirming commitment of EU & Australian Research Infrastructures to strengthen collaboration - a great outcome from the 🇪🇺🇦🇺Symposiums on Health & Life Sciences Research Infrastructures in Prato.
Proud to have participated with our partners! 🤝
🔬 Huge thanks to @micro-au.bsky.social & Adelaide Microscopy for an incredible day at the #EMBLAPhD Course!
From volume EM & cryo-TEM, to AI-powered image analysis & spatial transcriptomics, students gained a valuable behind-the-scenes glimpse at cutting-edge imaging.
Today’s focus was all about #scicomm - and our PhD Course participants couldn’t have been in better hands with our trainers, Jodie Haigh & Dr Jonathan Berengut.
Students put all the tips into practice with 3MTs & a poster session. A day of skills that will last a career!
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A huge thanks to the SMART CRC for supporting our 10th PhD Course! 👏
We’re grateful for an informative, engaging day - from bridging the gap between #research and #industry, to group work on bringing a cell therapy to market, plus sessions on IP & commercialisation.
#EMBLAPhD #NCRISimpact
Congratulations to the researchers & alumni in our Partner Laboratory Network who secured funding in the latest Australian Research Council (ARC) #DiscoveryProject & #DECRA rounds - @vaishananth.bsky.social, Senthil Arumugam, Max Cryle, Jose Polo and Sami Al-Izzi! 👏
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Huge thanks to @ausbiocommons.bsky.social for supporting our 10th PhD Course & an amazing day of training.
Dr Ben Goudey gave a crash course in AI/ML & Dr Giorgia Mori ran a hands-on session on effective data visualisation & storytelling.
A fantastic, tailored day for our cohort! 🙌
#EMBLAPhD
Strengthening Australia–Europe research infrastructure collaboration 🤝
A joint whitepaper shows clear momentum, trust and shared commitment to long-term, structured collaboration - essential for globally connected, competitive science: shorturl.at/veus1
#NCRISimpact
Ben Goudey from Australian BioCommons has been INCREDIBLE teaching #MachineLearning in the morning workshops. He’s so engaging and can get most to understand the 101 of regression/classification/cross validation etc! (Note most in this course don’t have this background) #EMBLAPhD @emblaustralia.org
A huge thanks to @macsys.bsky.social for supporting our 10th PhD Course - we could not have done it without you! 👏
Thank you, @macsys.bsky.social, for your generous support and for empowering the next generation of life science researchers with the tools, maths and mindset that will drive the field forward! 🚀
#EMBLAPhD #NCRISimpact
And today:
🧬 Machine Learning in RNA Biology - with our very own Prof
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🧪 Text Mining for data organisation & understanding - Prof Richi Nayak
🧠 Building a genomic language model from scratch - Dr Ke Ding
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Here’s what MACSYS has delivered across today and yesterday:
🔬 Computational modelling of biological networks - Prof Lan Nguyen
🧩 Whole-cell modelling - Dr Anthony Hart
👩🔬 Stochastic modelling of cellular systems - Dr Lucy Ham
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We’re now into our second day of MACSYS-supported sessions, and their researchers have brought an incredible range of expertise & passion to our program. 🧠 (2/5)
A huge shout-out to one of our major supporters of the 10th EMBL Australia PhD Course - @macsys.bsky.social, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems. 👏
Their mission? Delivering the mathematics needed to compute life. (1/5)
Been seeing AI thrown a lot and I’m not sure everyone knows what it means. Eduardo Eyras gives a brilliant summary from #AI to deep neural networks, for all to understand! #EMBLAPHD @emblaustralia.org
Mechanistic modelling with ODEs and Virtual Cell Models with foundational models this morning at #EMBLAPhD with SAiGENCIs Lan and Anthony - looking forward to more #AI 🦾🤖 @emblaustralia.org @saigenci.bsky.social @acepigenetics.bsky.social
Huge thanks to our sponsors @macsys.bsky.social & SMART CRC, and to @saigenci.bsky.social for hosting.
Here’s to a big two weeks of learning + collaboration! 🚀
#EMBLAPhD #NCRISImpact (2/2)
What a kick-off! 🎉
Day 1 of the 10th EMBL Australia PhD Course was a blast!
🦘 Beautiful Welcome to Country
🔬 SA Chief Scientist on why infrastructure matters
💻 Jo McEntyre @ebi.embl.org on global data + Renee Winzar (ACAMI) on AI in medical science
👩💻 Intro to R by @noraliu.bsky.social
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Our warmest congratulations from Australia to Prof Anthony A. Hyman, appointed as the next EMBL Director General! 🌏
Congratulations also to Peer Bork and Ewan Birney for their outstanding stewardship as Interim Director General and Interim Executive Director.
Fantastic news - congratulations Sami & @r-g-morris.bsky.social! 💪
