Committee bio
A/Prof Melanie Eckersley-Maslin
A/Prof Melanie Eckersley-Maslin is a group leader and Snow Fellow at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and research fellow in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Melanie completed her PhD in molecular biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s School of Biological Sciences in New York, USA with Prof David Spector before postdoctoral research in developmental epigenetics with Prof Wolf Reik at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge UK. In 2021, Melanie returned to Australia to establish her research group. Her lab investigates epigenetic plasticity in development and cancer to explore how cell identity is established in embryos yet deregulated in cancers, with the ultimate aim to identify new therapeutic targets.
A/Prof Melanie Eckersley-Maslin
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and University of Melbourne, VIC Email Melanie
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.