Executive Committee
President
Prof Edwina McGlinn
Group Leader, Professor, EMBL Australia Partner Laboratory
Monash University
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Twitter @Eddy_McGlinn
Professor Edwina McGlinn
Vaish is an EMBL Australia Group Leader at UNSW Sydney. Her team uses high-resolution live-cell and single-molecule imaging to investigate how motor proteins and the cytoskeleton organise the cell interior in both health and disease.
She completed a PhD in Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Dresden) in January 2014. She established her independent laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science later that year, and joined the EMBL Australia Node for Single Molecule Science at UNSW in November 2020. Alongside her research, she has been an active advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion, and has led EDI initiatives within academia, including co-founding BiasWatchIndia. Her research has been recognised with the European Molecular Biology Organisation Young Investigator distinction (2019), the American Society for Cell Biology (WICB) Junior Award for Excellence in Research (2021), and the Royal Microscopical Society (UK) Life Sciences Award (2025).
Professor Aleksandra Filipovska
Past President
Prof Aleksandra Filipovska