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The 9th meeting of Advancement Directors working in Central Europe will be held via ZOOM on Monday 21 June 2020 from 14:00-16:00 and on Tuesday 22 June 2021 from 10:00-12:00 hrs. Who should attend? Heads of Advancement based at universities and institutes across Europe. Organisers: Mehrnoosh…
Supporting EMBL and fundamental research Angus Lamond, former EMBL Heidelberg Group Leader and Senior Scientist (1987-1995) is a fine example of the way in which EMBL alumni help to galvanise the community through their own passion for EMBL and life sciences. Having been involved in the EMBL Alumni…
While the EMBL alumni community is made up of nearly 10,000 former staff, only those registered with the EMBL Alumni Association (EAA) can make full use of the benefits, event invitations and news updates available to former staff. December 2020 represented a major milestone in the growth of this…
EMBL is supporting other life science institutes in establishing alumni relations and nurturing their own networks Although many life science institutes have begun to engage their alumni in recent years, many more are not yet aware of the potential of investing in their alumni communities. The…
EMBL alumni tackling environmental challenges EMBL World Alumni Day 2020 takes place virtually on Friday 17 July, and we look forward to hearing from EMBL Director General Edith Heard about EMBL’s future research directions and the newly launched Environmental Research Initiative from…
After a new EMBL Alumni Association (EAA) Board was elected in May 2019, incoming members were keen for their activities and aims to be endorsed by feedback from the community. This is why incoming Chair Fátima Gebauer asked the Alumni Relations team to conduct their 3-yearly alumni survey to…
Thursday 27 – Friday 28 JuneUniversity of Graz (Karl-Franzens-University) Programme Thursday, 27 June 12:00 Arrival, lunch and introductions 13:00 Tour of the University and Welcome by the Rector Christa Neuper – All 14:15 How we support the University of Graz: Globalisation programme…
Big Data to find new questions For centuries, data visualisation has helped humanity identify patterns and gain new insights. When London suffered a cholera outbreak in 1854, the English physician John Snow used a map to trace the source of the infection to the water pump in Broad Street, Soho. Now…
A medical revolution EMBL alumnus Raffaele De Francesco’s work on the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) led to a medical revolution. Previously, certain chronic viral infections had been kept under control using drugs, but it had never been possible to cure them completely by removing the virus from the…
Philipp keller was selected as the 2017 John Kendrew Young Scientist Award winner for ground-breaking work on light-sheet microscopy and computational technologies that allow whole-animal imaging. Much of the image analysis software and microscope blueprints developed by Philipp and his team are…