by AEpiA | Dec 4, 2015 | Meeting Highlights, News

Last month, we hosted AEpiA’s sixth flagship conference, Epigenetics 2015, in beautiful Hobart, Tasmania. What an exciting and inspiring three days! Thank you Hobart for welcoming us and well done to Adele Holloway, Jo Dickinson and all the organising committee...

by AEpiA | Nov 20, 2015 | News

The Epigenetics Consortium of South Australia Incorporated (EpiCSA) hosted its Inaugural Seminar earlier this week in Adelaide. On Wednesday 18th November, EpiCSA hosted its Inaugural Seminar at The Science Exchange in Adelaide. The Chairperson of EpiCSA, Tina...

by AEpiA | Nov 17, 2015 | News, Opportunities

Australian Rotary Health is advertising for a PhD Scholarship in Epigenetics. The scholarship is valued at $29,000 per annum for up to 3.5 years. This amount relies on a university/institute contribution of $11,000 per annum. Only applicants about to commence their...

by AEpiA | Nov 19, 2015 | News

Epigenetics, Cancer and Biomarkers The Epigenetics Research Laboratory at the Garvan Institute in Sydney has released the last two in a series of four sketch videos about epigenetics, created by Armando Hasudungan in collaboration with Professor Susan Clark and Dr...

by AEpiA | Oct 27, 2015 | Spotlight on ...

Our Spotlight this month is on Dr Lee Wong, head of the Epigenetics and Chromatin (EpiC) Research Laboratory at Monash University in Melbourne. Lee completed her PhD (2000) at Monash with Dr Stephen Ralph, working on interferon signalling and melanoma....

by AEpiA | Jul 26, 2015 | News

Some of our brightest epigenetics researchers from the Garvan Institute in Sydney have identified new mechanisms by which oestrogen receptor positive breast cancers become resistant to hormone therapy. See their publication this month in Nature Communications. While...

by AEpiA | Oct 27, 2015 | Meeting Highlights

Dr Kate Patterson participated in HealthHack 2015 last weekend at The Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Sydney, and here she tells us all about it: This weekend I participated in HealthHack, a national product-building event that ran in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane...

by AEpiA | Oct 23, 2015 | News

Congratulations to Dr Fatima Valdes Mora, one of the winners in Spain’s recent Hechos de Talento (Made of Talent) competition. In winning, she becomes the face of her native country’s talent in Medicine and Science. The Hechos de Talento campaign is an...

by AEpiA | Oct 20, 2015 | News

How are epigenetic patterns inherited? The Epigenetics Research Laboratory at the Garvan Institute in Sydney has released DNA Methylation & Development, the second in a series of four sketch videos about epigenetics, created by Armando Hasudungan in collaboration...

by AEpiA | Jul 25, 2015 | News

How are genes turned on and off? Why is epigenetics important? The Epigenetics Research Laboratory at the Garvan Institute in Sydney has released Epigenetics Basics, the first in a series of four sketch videos about epigenetics, created by Armando Hasudungan in...

by AEpiA | Jul 25, 2015 | News, World epi news

We like to keep an eye on world epigenetics news and opinions – please share any interesting articles with us – contact@epialliance.org.au See this article by AEpiA member Jeff Craig, published recently in The Conversation: Epigenetics: phenomenon...

by AEpiA | Jul 20, 2015 | News, World epi news

We like to keep an eye on world epigenetics news and opinions – please share any interesting articles with us – contact@epialliance.org.au See this article by Adam Rutherford published recently in The Guardian: Beware the pseudo gene genies After ‘nano’...

by AEpiA | Jul 20, 2015 | Spotlight on ...

This month our spotlight is on AEpiA member Dr Marnie Blewitt from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. The year 2015 has been a busy one so far for Marnie – she was awarded the inaugural Lorne Genome Conference...

by AEpiA | Jul 19, 2015 | News

How can cells that contain the same DNA be so different? This simple question is posed right at the beginning of the latest 3D animation created by Dr Kate Patterson of the Garvan Institute as part of ‘VIZBIplus: Visualising the Future of Biomedicine’. Tagging DNA...

by AEpiA | Jul 9, 2015 | Meeting Highlights

Kenneth Sabir from the Garvan Institute in Sydney was at VIZBI 2015 and here he tells us all about it: In March 2015, the BROAD Institute hosted the 6th VIZBI conference to a large number of attendees. Contrasting to other scientific conferences based on submissions,...

by AEpiA | May 26, 2015 | News

Congratulations to our AEpiA President, Professor Susan Clark, who has been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in recognition of her outstanding contributions to science and scientific research. Professor Clark is one of 21 new fellows, 9 women and 12...

by AEpiA | Apr 20, 2015 | Meeting Highlights

Earlier this year the Keystone Symposia hosted concurrent meetings on DNA Methylation and Epigenomics in Colorado. Dr Clare Stirzaker from the Garvan Institute was there, and she told us about some of the highlights for her. Surrounded by the breathtaking Rocky...

Early in 2008, Sue Clark brought a handful of epigenetics researchers from Australia together to form the Australian Epigenetics Alliance. The AEpiA has now grown to a membership of over 600, with members spanning not only Australasia, but the globe.  In February 2021, our Victorian local organising committee hosted our eighth flagship Epigenetics conference, online for the first time.  Our NSW team is now busy preparing for Epigenetics 2022, which will be held in September in Kingscliff, NSW.