ABACBS Postdoc Subcommittee

EMCR Funding futures

The ABACBS Post-doc Subcommittee is excited to present ABACBS EMCR Funding Futures. This one-day professional development event will bring together early- and mid-career researchers for a day focused on grant writing, research pitching, funding strategy, and career development in bioinformatics, genomics, AI, and digital biology.

Funding Futures is designed to foster Australia’s next bright minds in bioinformatics and computational biology by connecting EMCRs with successful research fellows, established lab heads, professors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. Participants will gain practical insights into grants, fellowships, funding pathways, and career development while building networks across institutions and disciplines.

  • Date: Monday, 16 November 2026

  • Location: RMIT University, City Campus, Melbourne

  • Presented by: ABACBS Postdoc committee

  • In partnership with: ABACBS Annual Conference

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Program highlights

  • Speakers from successful research fellows, established lab heads, professors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders.

  • Practical perspectives on grants, fellowships, funding, and career pathways.

  • Interactive team-based grant pitch sessions

  • Expert review panel will judge the best grant pitch, and the winning team will receive a prize for each member

  • Establishing a friendly peer grant-reviewer network

Travel Scholarship

All scholarship applicants will be assessed and ranked. The top three ranked applicants will each receive a $500 travel scholarship

How to apply:

1.     Register for Funding Futures event & ABACBS 2026

2.     Apply for the Funding Futures scholarship by (TBD)

 Organising Committee

 ·      Alex de Sá (University of Queensland, QLD)

·      Emma de Jong (The University of Western Australia, WA)

·      Kathy Huang (University of Melbourne, VIC)

·      Luis Lara Gonzalez (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC)

·      Manoharan Kumar (James Cook University, QLD)

·      Mikaela Barresi (RMIT University, VIC)

·      Pedro Baldoni (WEHI, VIC)

·      Rafael Peres (The Kids Research Institute, WA)

·      Sagrika Chugh (St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, VIC)