Welcome to the AuSMB website. Below is a video from our members highlighting recent research in the field of mechanobiology.
Upcoming Events
AuSMB Research & Strategy Workshop — 11–12 November 2026, Melbourne — registration and abstract submissions are open.
News
September 2026 — Planning is underway for the 2027 AuSMB Meeting in New Zealand. Members: please complete the short poll circulated by email on 10 September, which closes 17 September, to help us gauge numbers and timing.
September 2026 — Congratulations to Yang Guo (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute), Early Career Researcher Oral Competition Runner Up at SynSci2026 in Glasgow.
September 2026 — Conference reports and photos from our Glasgow registration support recipients are now online.
August 2026 — Registration and abstract submissions opened for the Research & Strategy Workshop. Abstracts close 30 September 2026.
July 2026 — Our inaugural Winter Newsletter 2026 is out now.
Awards
2026 — ISMB at SynSci2026, Glasgow — Registration Support
- Registration Support: Phoebe Adler
- Registration Support: Metka Gorkič Casey
2025 — MechBio2025, Brisbane
- Best Presentation: Christanny Schmidt
- Best Poster: Frankie Zhang
2024 — Travel Awards to International Society of Mechanobiology Meeting, Taiwan
- Travel Award: Amber Driessen, University of Queensland
- Travel Award: Julia Eckert, University of Queensland
- Travel Award: Manijeh Khanmohammadi, RMIT University
- Travel Award: Shin Wei Chong, The University of Sydney
2023 — Meeting of the Australian Society for Mechanobiology, Melbourne
- Best ECR Talk: Lennart Kuck, Menzies Health Institute Queensland
- Best Student Talk: Shin Wei Chong, The University of Sydney
- Best Poster: Shirin Nour, The University of Melbourne
- Student Travel Award: Shin Wei Chong, The University of Sydney
2022 — 4th International Symposium on Mechanobiology, Sydney
- Best Presentation: Marco Enriquez, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ
- 1st Poster: Nicole Jia Wen Lee, National University of Singapore
- Poster Runner Up: Samuel Maher, University of Western Australia
- Poster 2nd Runner Up: Jashan Singh, National University of Singapore
2019 — Mechanobiology Symposium, Melbourne
- Best Oral Presentation: Jung Un (Ally) Choi, The University of Queensland
- Oral Presentation 1st Runner Up: Amrutha Patkunarajah, UNSW
- Best Poster: Jessica Richardson, UNSW
- Poster 1st Runner Up: Austin Lai (SHBS-RMIT) and Ngan Nguyen (SEng-RMIT)
- COHERENT SCIENTIFIC Poster Prize: Sharda Yadav, Griffith University
