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We are proud to have officially cut the ribbon of the EMBL-USA Chapter: the first Local Chapter Meeting was held on 9 December in San Diego, prior to the opening of the annual American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) meeting. We had a good crowd for the lectures and dinner: Colin Stewart, Brian…
Matti Saraste The Alumni Association would like to thank all those who have generously donated to the Matti Saraste Fund. Matti, who was a Group Leader and Unit Coordinator of EMBL’s Structural and Computational Biology Unit (1990- 2001), died in 2001. To commemorate him, and in recognition…
“Excuse me, waiter, I think there’s been a mistake – I actually ordered a large one.” A warm, sunny day in late summer on the shores of the Mediterranean. With this kind of setting, it didn’t take a lot of armtwisting to convince EMBL alumni to switch off their computers, hang up…
Sanja Tomic enjoys a paddle near Susak, one of Croatia’s islands Croatian alumni returning to their home country now find themselves taking their skills back to the newest EMBL member state. We caught up with one of them, Sanja Tomic, to ask about her experiences at EMBL and the situation in…
Croatia has officially joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) as the organisation’s 19th Member State.
The EMBL Alumni Association local chapters serve as important platforms for scientific exchange, in organising scientific meetings, seminars, expertise and resource sharing, and social gatherings. They can also provide a unified and powerful voice to local and national politicians and funding…
Brice Kauffmann, a former postdoc at EMBL Hamburg, was recently the winner of a silkscreen painting as the 1,000th person to register with the Alumni Association, in which there are now 1,050 members. Now a Senior Scientist at the CNRS Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (IECB), Pessac,…
The first local chapter meeting for EMBL alumni in the UK took place on 15 February at London’s University College. Forty scientists gathered for an afternoon of science and networking. Talks were given by ex-EMBL Group Leader Angus Lamond of Dundee University (“Time-lapse proteomics…