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Trio celebrates two-decade collaboration In 1990 Peter Becker, Hans Schöler and Francis Stewart were simultaneously recruited to EMBL as group leaders by the recently appointed Gene Expression Program Director, Iain Mattaj. At that time chromatin was emerging as a new, puzzling, component in the…
Bartek Wilczynski, former Furlong Group postdoc and one of the 2011 EMBO Installation Grantees, tells Yvonne Kaul about his first year as Group Leader in Poland, at the Institute of Informatics in Warsaw University. How was the first year back in Poland?It was overwhelming. Senior colleagues had…
Two of EMBL’s most northerly alumni tell us about life and science in their wintry lands… Varpu Marjomaki, group leader at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland Science after EMBL?I am studying endocytic membrane traffic, looking at certain picornaviruses (such as echovirus 1) that are…
‘Publish or perish’ is the mantra for many young researchers, but it was publishing of a very different kind that helped earn Amaicha Depino the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award for 2011. Since completing her EMBL postdoc in the Gross Group at Monterotondo (2004–2006), Amaicha has, with…
In 1980 Sven Hovmöller was a postdoc in EMBL Heidelberg’s Structural and Computational Biology Unit. His lifelong interest in China meant he was thrilled to meet another postdoc, Yun Li, who joined the unit from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry. Thirty years later, Sven – now professor…
Exchange and networking are key tenets of science, as cell biologist and imaging specialist Caroline Medioni discovered when she spent six months at EMBL Heidelberg in Anne Ephrussi’s group honing a system to image axon growth within intact fly brains. Caroline’s team leader, Florence Besse, of…
Fifteen EMBL alumni working in Greece gathered for their fourth annual meeting in the picturesque villages of Aspraggeloi and Dilofo on 26-27 June 2010. Along with 13 family members and ten postdocs from their research groups, the alumni enjoyed a sunny weekend discussing life and science in…
The first ever EMBL local chapter meeting in Ireland was hosted by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) on 24 February and attracted alumni from academia, industry and government alike. Former EMBO Director Frank Gannon, EMBL Director General Iain Mattaj and EMBL group leaders Eileen Furlong and…
For the third year running, EMBL alumni in Greece met for a weekend break in Dilofo on 13th-15th June. The focus of their meeting was to further develop means of encouraging young people pursuing a career in science. Several of the participating Greek alumni had already visited schools to give…
There was much heartfelt handshaking and back-slapping at the official opening of the upgraded high-field NMR centre at EMBL Heidelberg on 13 March, as the tight and relatively small European NMR community came together for a day-long symposium. Attendees included the ex-EMBL NMR group leaders –…