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Brief
History |
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2008
Australia becomes EMBL's associate member state
2007
Luxembourg becomes EMBL's 20th member state
2006
Croatia joins as EMBL's 19th member state.
Construction of the new Advanced Training Centre starts in Heidelberg
2005
Prof. Iain Mattaj, the former Scientific Director, is appointed
as EMBL's fourth Director General.
2004
Iceland joins as EMBL's 18th member state.
The EMBL site in Hamburg celebrates its 30th anniversary.
2003
Ireland joins as EMBL's 17th member state.
2002
EMBL participates in completion and analysis of human and other genomes, made publicly accessible on Ensembl website.
2001
EMBLEM GmbH, EMBL's technology transfer arm, is established.
International Technology Transfer Center is built on the EMBL campus.
1999
A new programme in Mouse Biology begins operation in Monterotondo near Rome, Italy, strengthening the involvement of EMBL in research related to molecular medicine.
1997
The EBI is officially opened at Hinxton.
1994
The ESRF synchrotron facility at Grenoble, in
collaboration with EMBL, opens its doors to biological
experimentation.
1993
Fotis Kafatos is appointed as the third Director
General of EMBL.
The EMBL Data Library moves to the EBI Outstation
at Cambridge, England.
1991
Construction of EMBL's NMR facility begins.
1988
EMBL and others establish EMBnet, the international
sequence database network. EMBL's Operon Conference
Centre and seminar facilities are built at Heidelberg.
The first EMBL childcare facilities are opened.
1985
A unique neutron diffractometer is built at Grenoble
in collaboration with the ILL.
1984
EMBL's predoctoral training programme is established.
Construction of EMBL guest houses for visiting
scientists and newcomers is begun.
1983
Differentiation is added to the EMBL research
units.
1982
Lennart Philipson becomes the second Director
General. EMBL is reorganised into new scientific
research and instrumentation units.
1981
The EMBL Data Library is founded – the first
central depository of nucleotide sequence data
in the world [precursor to EMBL's EBI Outstation].
1978
Scientists move from temporary facilities into
the newly completed laboratory at Heidelberg.
1976
An agreement is signed establishing a second Outstation
at the site of the Iinstitut Laue Langevin in
Grenoble.
1975
Construction of the Heidelberg Facility begins.
An official agreement is signed with German officials
to establish an EMBL Outstation at the DESY synchrotron
ring in Hamburg.
1974
On July 4th, with the decision of France to ratify
the EMBL Agreement, EMBL becomes a legal entity.
Sir John Kendrew is appointed as its first Director
General.
1973
Delegates of the participating countries agree
to and sign a draft accord in Geneva to establish
a European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
1971
Heidelberg is chosen as the site for EMBL's main
laboratory.
1969
The first proposals to include outstations in
addition to the main laboratory and stronger emphasis
on technological development and service functions
for the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
[EMBL] are made at a meeting at Lake Constance.
1968
The European Molecular Biology Conference is founded,
associating 14 governments with EMBO, providing
the organisation with stable funding and scientific
independence.
1963
Scientists at a professional meeting in Ravello,
Italy decide to pursue the idea of the laboratory.
They form the European Molecular Biology Organisation
[EMBO] in order to realise this goal. International
fellowships and advanced courses are added to
the EMBO agenda.
1962
Leo Szilard, Victor F. Weisskopf, James D. Watson and John Kendrew meet in Geneva to discuss possibility
of establishing an international laboratory for
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