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EMBL Australia March 2015 – February 2016 Annual Report EMBL Australia March 2015 – February 2016 Annual Report EMBL Australia Australia has been an associate member of EMBL, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Europe’s flagship for the life sciences, since 2008. Associate membership gives Australia the opportunity to internationalise our life sciences research: introducing the world’s best young researchers to new networks and tools for life sciences here in Australia. It helps Australia develop highly competitive research teams networked across the nation and with Europe and Asia. EMBL Australia was created to maximise the benefits of Australia’s associate membership of EMBL and does so via research projects, infrastructure and training programs across Australia. EMBL Australia is an unincorporated joint venture between the CSIRO, Bioplatforms Australia, the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (AAMRI), Universities Australia (UA) and EMBL. The secretariat is hosted by the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) at Monash University. EMBL Australia has: • nodes and initiatives in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia and the ACT • a nationwide reach through student and training programs, bioinformatics resources and bioinformatics network • international linkages through EMBL and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL–EBI). ii EMBL AUSTRALIA 2015–16 ANNUAL REPORT Contents Report of the Chair of EMBL Australia Council 2 Report of the Scientific Head 3 EMBL Australia 4 2015–16 Highlights 10 2016–17 Outlook 15 The EMBL–Australia relationship 17 Life science research programs 18 Initiatives to support Australian life sciences 35 Student training and support 39 Outreach and communication 46 Professional activities 51 Staff and students 53 Research partners 56 Governance 57 Funding and stakeholders 62 Appendix 1. Publications 66 Appendix 2. Grants 70 Appendix 3. Membership of professional societies 73 Appendix 4. Journal editorial roles 74 Appendix 5. Additional academic contributions 75 EMBL AUSTRALIA 2015–16 ANNUAL REPORT 1 Report of the Chair of EMBL Australia Council In 2015–16, EMBL Australia has moved into a new phase We thank Executive Director Silvio Tiziani, the leadership with renewal of Australia’s associate membership of EMBL team and the EMBL Australia Council members (former funded by the Australian Government through the National and current), for their hard work and dedication to keeping Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). EMBL Australia running smoothly. We also thank our We also introduced a new governance structure that fully stakeholders, including the Australian Government, represents Australia’s research community. This coincided Universities Australia, Bioplatforms Australia, CSIRO, our with a change in Chair of the EMBL Australia Council in partner research institutes and EMBL for their ongoing December 2015, as Prof Brandon Wainwright replaced the support of EMBL Australia. retiring inaugural Chair, Prof Richard Larkins. Finally, we thank outgoing Scientific Head Nadia Rosenthal A significant event for EMBL Australia was the resignation for her vision and persistence in building EMBL Australia of Scientific Head Prof Nadia Rosenthal, who leaves us from an idea into the thriving organisation it is today. at the end of the reporting period to take up a position as We wish her the best with her new role at The Jackson Scientific Director of the renowned Jackson Laboratory Laboratory and look forward to opportunities for future in Maine, USA. Nadia has been the driving force behind collaborative work. EMBL Australia from the beginning. We are pleased to report that Prof James Whisstock, National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Principal Research Fellow at Monash University and Scientific Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, successfully nominated to fill the role of scientific head of EMBL Australia. He begins on 1 March 2016. Prof Brandon Wainwright Chair, EMBL Australia Council Over the past year, EMBL Australia has continued to expand, adding new groups at our NSW and Victorian nodes and appointing two more group leaders to start in 2016: Pirjo Apaja in South Australia and Mikaël Martino in Victoria. In the past year, EMBL Australia has successfully moved Prof Richard G. Larkins, AO the Australian Bioinformatics Resource to a new host Former Chair, EMBL Australia Council institution — The University of Melbourne’s Victorian Life Science Computation Initiative. Now restructured into a hub and nodes service model, the resource is placing an increased emphasis on training and support to bioinformaticians and the life sciences community. Following a successful pilot at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2015, we are pleased that 2016 will see an expansion of the EMBL Australia Partnership PhD Program, which provides Australian and international PhD students with the opportunity to work with our research teams and take advantage of the programs offered by EMBL’s many campuses as well as our own programs. EMBL Australia’s focus on early-career scientists, from students through to postdoctoral scientists, establishing their own research programs makes it a unique and vital addition to the Australian research community. 2 EMBL AUSTRALIA 2015–16 ANNUAL REPORT Report of the Scientific Head Sadly, this is my last report as the Scientific Head of EMBL Our most established research node, based at Monash Australia as I am leaving to take up a position as Scientific University, was reviewed by an independent panel of Director of The Jackson Laboratory in the USA. As I look scientists this year. I am pleased to say that the panel back over the past eight years, I am enormously proud praised the success of the node and each of its research of the deep and rich international networks we have built teams. The node’s two new group leaders, Max Cryle and together. The confirmed funding for Australia’s associate Chen Davidovich, are building their research groups and membership of the EMBL has reinforced my conviction that programs. Node Head Peter Currie leads a strong node our current value and future potential has been recognised and provides excellent mentorship. at the highest national level. I am immensely proud of what EMBL Australia has become— a thriving research At SAHMRI, Ville-Petteri Mäkinen and David Lynn are organisation with strong local and international linkages. well under way with their research programs under the leadership of Node Head Prof Steve Wesselingh. In Our flagship EMBL Australia Partner Laboratory program Sydney, Maté Biro and Yann Gambin are establishing their offers outstanding young scientists a secure funding and research programs and teams at our newest node, led by support base from which to establish their research. We Prof Kat Gaus at the Centre for Single Molecule Science, now have eight Partner Laboratory Group Leaders, and 14 UNSW. This node was also the focus of our successful pilot groups in total, including our node heads and collaborating EMBL Australia Partnership PhD Program. groups across the three nodes of the Partner Laboratory. I thank all who have worked to make EMBL Australia With the expansion of the Partner Laboratory, we have also what it is today: our stakeholders (including the Australian moved into new areas of life science. At Monash University, Government, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, we continue with regenerative medicine but have also Bioplatforms Australia, CSIRO, the Association of Australian added groups who work in the area of structural biology Medical Research Institutes, Universities Australia and the and advanced molecular imaging. At UNSW, the emphasis Group of Eight universities); our researchers and staff; the is also on the use of advanced imaging techniques and EMBL Australia Council and committee members; and the single molecule science. Our node at the South Australian leadership team. Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) applies systems biology approaches to issues of human health and I especially thank Prof Richard Larkins, the former infectious disease. Chair of EMBL Australia, and Executive Director Silvio Tiziani for the unwavering dedication they have provided A highlight this year was the publication of research by to EMBL Australia. Edwina McGlinn on the role microRNAs play in controlling gene expression during the formation of the skeleton. Edwina’s research program is one that has benefited significantly from the EMBL model of secure long-term funding, which has allowed her to delve into the layers of regulatory control that direct skeletal formation in embryos. As with all of our research into fundamental biological processes, Edwina’s findings may help in the future treatment of diseases. Prof Nadia Rosenthal Scientific Head, EMBL Australia I consider it to be a great achievement that our first ‘graduate’ from the program, Nicolas Plachta, has taken a senior research position at Singapore’s Agency for Science Technology and Research. During his time at EMBL Australia, Nico received a number of awards and honours, including the Sylvia and Charles Viertel Fellowship in 2014, and his cutting-edge research program using live-imaging techniques to understand the behaviour of individual cells in the developing embryo has been widely published. I wish him the very best for this new stage in his career. EMBL AUSTRALIA 2015–16 ANNUAL REPORT 3 EMBL Australia – At a glance Over 2015–16, 12 EMBL
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