by AEpiA | Nov 25, 2022 | News, Spotlight on ...

This month we’re hearing from Dr Melanie Eckersley-Maslin, group leader and Snow Medical Fellow at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Melanie is also a research fellow in Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Melbourne. Melanie spoke at our online...

by AEpiA | Jul 25, 2022 | News, Spotlight on ...

This month we’re introducing Dr Jessamy Tiffen, head of the Melanoma Epigenetics Lab at the Centenary Institute in Sydney. Jessamy spoke at our online Epigenetics seminar earlier this month and we’re also excited to see her present at Epigenetics 2022 in...

by AEpiA | Jul 16, 2022 | News, Spotlight on ...

This month our Early Career Researcher Spotlight is on AEpiA ECR Committee rep, Dr Alex Woodworth.  Alex is a post-doc in the  2D and 3D Epigenomic Remodelling – Taberlay Lab at the University of Tasmania. Alex is performing exciting research to Integrate...

by AEpiA | Jun 30, 2022 | News, Opportunities

To all Early Career Researchers, The AEpiA Committee would like to invite you to apply for the new Emma Whitelaw ECR Publication Award. This award has a value of $1000 and is open to post-doctoral ECRs (less than 5 years post-PhD) and PhD/Masters/Honours students. It...

by AEpiA | May 31, 2022 | News, Spotlight on ...

Welcome to our second Early Career Researcher (ECR) Spotlight! This month we continue getting to know our AEpiA ECR Committee reps and have a Q&A with Dr Kate Giles. Kate is a member of the Cesare Lab at the Children’s Medical Research Institute in NSW and...

by AEpiA | Apr 18, 2022 | News, Spotlight on ...

This month we’d like to introduce Dr Hamish King, Lab Head at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Hamish will be speaking at our online Epigenetics seminar on 21st April. He has also taken the time recently to tell us a little about his...

by AEpiA | Jul 15, 2022 | News

POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS END INFOUR WEEKS! Submit your poster abstract before Friday 12 August 2022. Submit now Register now Meet the speakers The invited speakers at Epigenetics 2022 are a mix international and local scientists from a wide range of organisations,...

by AEpiA | Jun 17, 2022 | News

Fewer than 90 days to go! Are you joining us at Salt Beach, Kingscliff for EPIGENETICS 2022? Register now Preliminary program is now online Our program will include presentations on the latest advances in epigenetics research that will inspire your own research and...

by AEpiA | May 30, 2022 | News, Spotlight on ...

This month we’d like to introduce Dr Luciano Martelotto, Head of the Single cell and Spatial-omics Development Lab at the Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics (ACE), at the South Australia ImmunoGENomics Cancer Institute (SAIGENCI). Luciano spoke at our online...

by AEpiA | Apr 20, 2022 | News

Epigenetics 2022 #AusEpi22 11-14 September 2022 Confirmed invited speakers announced! Meet our invited speakers—more to come! Dr Justin Crocker Dr Justin Crocker received his PhD in 2010 from Dartmouth College. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton...

by AEpiA | Apr 6, 2022 | News, Spotlight on ...

Welcome to our first Early Career Researcher (ECR) Spotlight! Each month we will have a short Q&A with one of our outstanding ECR members to learn more about the exciting epigenetics research taking place across Australia and New Zealand. First up we will be...

by AEpiA | Mar 14, 2022 | News, Spotlight on ...

We’re delighted to introduce Dr Louise Bicknell, Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, and Co-Deputy Director of Genetics Otago. Louise will be speaking at our first online Epigenetics seminar of 2022 on 15th March. She has also taken the time recently to...

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.