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 @emblaustralia.org

🌟 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! #EMBLAPhD

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! 👏 shorturl.at/fd8H2

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! 👏

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

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 (1/2)

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! 💪

Thrilled to have you with us @joshnguyen.bsky.social & looking forward to a fantastic two weeks of delving deep into #AI in the life sciences at #EMBLAPhD!

Really interesting topics/philosophies on AI this morning at #emblaphd 2025! Strong start to the course, I look forward to the discussion! #AI @emblaustralia.org @acepigenetics.bsky.social @saigenci.bsky.social

Our latest newsletter has landed! Inside: 🌏 Global research partnerships update 🧠 Neural regeneration group leader opportunity at ARMI 💡 Breakthrough imaging tech Check it out 👉 bit.ly/471W7lC

📢 Only two weeks left to apply! ⌛️ Join us at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash Uni, Melbourne. If you're ready to lead your independent research group in Neural Regeneration, we want to hear from you! 👉 bit.ly/487kQak #aussci #sciencejobs

Thrilled to take a delegation of Aussie research infrastructure leaders to visit the brilliant teams & facilities @embl.org Barcelona. Thanks to Aus’s membership of EMBL (supported by the Dept of Education's #NCRIS), we’re building global connections to drive collaboration & impact. 🌏 #NCRISimpact

Privileged to join the ranks of EMBL Australia’s partner laboratories steering committee, representing @singmolsci.bsky.social, the EMBL Aus node in Single Molecule Science. Lots of new developments around the corner for this wonderful Medical & Life Sciences community in Australia.

We’re expanding our Partner Laboratory Network Steering Committee! 🎉 Thrilled to welcome Lisa Butler, Edwina McGlinn, @ijayas.bsky.social, Amee George, @ryanlister.bsky.social & Denise Doolan to our #leadership team - strengthening national & international collab'n in life sciences. bit.ly/4gFxzDE

Fantastic to have the global health & life science #research #infrastructure community reunite in person at the 2025 Aus & EU Health RI Symposium in Prato, IT. Sharing expertise, exploring cross-border opportunities & advancing shared priorities. Thanks to all attendees & partners! #NCRISImpact

🚨 We're hiring! EMBL Australia & the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute @monashuniversity.bsky.social seek a Group Leader in neural regeneration 🧠 🌱 5-year research-only role 💰 Generous funding & salary 🌏 Global @embl.org network 📍 Clayton, Melbourne Apply by Oct 16: bit.ly/487kQak

🌏 Inside every cell is a world in motion. Dr Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan @vaishananth.bsky.social uses advanced live-cell microscopy to decode the choreography of motor proteins and the cytoskeleton - molecular systems that power everything.🔬 🔗More: bit.ly/3EVhwD8 #ScienceWeek #DecodingTheUniverse

🔬 To decode the universe, sometimes you need to see what’s never been seen. Dr Senthil Arumugam is building advanced custom light-sheet microscopes to see biology in stunning new detail. 🔗 More in our Impact Report: bit.ly/3EVhwD8 #ScienceWeek #DecodingTheUniverse

Muscles that talk back? 💬💪 Dr @williamroman.bsky.social’s team (at ARMI @armilabs.bsky.social) is growing 'mini-muscles' to study neuron-to-muscle signals - and how disease rewrites that conversation. #MND 🔗 Discover more: bit.ly/4fyxCAy #ScienceWeek #DecodingTheUniverse

How does the immune system fight malaria? 🦟💉 A/Prof Michelle Boyle @burnetinstitute.bsky.social is decoding immune responses to design better vaccines - and save young lives. 🔗 More in our Impact Report: bit.ly/3EVhwD8 #DecodingTheUniverse #ScienceWeek

🧬 DNA’s message is only part of the story. Dr @qizhang85.bsky.social @saigenci.bsky.social is decoding epigenetic modifiers - the hidden editors of gene expression - to uncover new cancer treatments. 🔗 More in our Impact Report: bit.ly/3EVhwD8 #DecodingTheUniverse #ScienceWeek

RNA is life’s instruction manual🧬 A/Prof Robert Weatheritt @garvaninstitute.bsky.social is decoding how cells turn RNA into proteins - and how that translation breaks down in disease.🧠🔬 🔗 More in our Impact Report: bit.ly/3EVhwD8 #ScienceWeek #DecodingTheUniverse

ACE is proud to announce that our director Prof Jose Polo has been appointed as the scientific head of EMBL Australia. Massive Congratulations Jose! @emblaustralia.org @saigenci.bsky.social www.adelaide.edu.au/saigenci/new...

🚨 PhD students! The EMBL Australia PhD Course is back and the 2025 program preview is live. Think big science, AI and career insights - all in one epic fortnight. 📅 Applications open until 27 July: bit.ly/3IvyV6H #PhDchat #PhDLife #AusSci #ScienceCareers

⏰ Less than two weeks left to apply for our 2025 #PhD Course! Don't miss your spot: bit.ly/4kljhsO

Our COO, Annette Wittmann, represented us at yesterday's 'Connecting Continents: Research Dialogue with Europe' event at the Shine Dome, which covered themes at the core of our mission: cross-border collaboration, shared scientific values & building global research capability. (1/2)

We ❤️ big data in biology - and so does Jo McEntyre! The Interim Director of @ebi.embl.org is joining the 10th EMBL Australia PhD Course as keynote speaker this December. Come learn, connect & kickstart your PhD journey. 🔗Apply now: bit.ly/4kljhsO #PhDLife #PhDchat

📢🔬Fantastic opportunity for researchers interested in the development or improvement of technologies to support life science research! #aussci #LifeSciences

🌟 Apply now for the EMBL Australia #PhD Course! This year's program includes two exciting workshops from @ausbiocommons.bsky.social: 💻 Machine Learning in the Life Sciences 📊 Mastering Data Visualisation Design 🔗 Applications close 27 July - don't miss out! bit.ly/4kljhsO

Congratulations to our 2024 Metcalf Prize winner Dr William Roman and his team 👏 @williamroman.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social @emblaustralia.org @armilabs.bsky.social Find out why we backed him: www.stemcellfoundation.net.au/william_roma...

Exciting work from EMBL Australia group leader William Roman & team at ARMI! They’ve developed a new imaging-based spatial transcriptomics platform that maps gene expression within cells & tissues - for a fraction of the usual cost. Great eg of accessible tech coming out of the EMBLA community.

The EMBL Australia PhD Course = more than just science. It’s where future researchers learn to pitch, present & plan their careers. 💬📊🧠 🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/4kljhsO #PhDLife #3MT #PosterSession #ScienceCareers #aussci #phdchat