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Australian Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Society

Vice-President of ABACBS

ABACBS is Australia's national society and peak body for bioinformatics and computational biology, representing more than 1,000 researchers. As Vice-President, Feargal wrote the society's submissions to the 2025 NHMRC Strategy and the 2024 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap.

He also helped bring the society's national conference to Adelaide Oval in November 2025. It drew more than 500 attendees and $90,000 in sponsorship, with keynotes from Stanford and EMBL-EBI, and was opened by the Governor of South Australia, Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC.

2025–presentVice-President
2023–2024Postdoctoral Representative
2025Special Recognition Award
  • Australian Society for MicrobiologyChair, ASM LGBTQIA+ Network
  • Grant assessmentNHMRC Investigator Grants · Medical Research Future Fund · Worldwide Cancer Research · Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation · Flinders Foundation Health Research Grants
  • Peer reviewNature Microbiology, Cell Host & Microbe, Cell Reports Medicine, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, BMC Medicine, eBioMedicine and others, reviewing 1–2 manuscripts a month
  • TeachingBIOL3771 DNA-to-Genome · MDSC1102 Skills for Medical Scientists