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Patricia Rodriguez-Tomé, one of EMBL-EBI’s first recruits in 1994, is now a group leader at the CRS4 in south Sardinia, headed by EMBL-EBI’s first Director, Paolo Zanella. Patricia flew from Sardinia to Rome to meet EMBLers past and present at the staff-alumni gathering at EMBL Monterotondo.…
Matthias Mann met us at the EMBL get-together in Nice to talk about his contribution to the development of mass spectrometry and proteomics, and to the role of EMBL in his career. Tell us about your EMBL days: “I was a bit of an outsider as I came from instrumentation and physics when Wilhelm…
“Let’s not wait until memories have faded and papers be discarded at the end of a career before deciding to save our heritage.” Scientists involved in the molecular biology revolution are aware of the transforming power of their discipline for society and history. Yet, the obsessive…
It’s thanks to EMBL’s IT group that we can maintain contact with alumni via online registrations and updates – an interface which was set up in 2003 by Björn Kindler. Since his departure it has been enhanced by Matthias Helmling to carry out advanced searches and to import the records of all…
To stay in academia, you have to be convinced about the topic you are working on, and be sure that it’s going to motivate you for the next ten to fifteen years.” This was the message from former EMBL Monterotondo group leader Walter Witke at the ‘Where next after EMBL?’ event at EMBL…
The Alumni Association held their thirteenth board meeting on 11 May 2009 at EMBL Heidelberg. This was the first meeting to be chaired by Giulio Superti-Furga, who made it all the sweeter with an original Sachertorte from Vienna! A major item for discussion was the future of the John Kendrew Young…
In his last Alumni Association board meeting in November 2008, Angus Lamond stepped down after sixs years as Chair. “If EMBL is paradise, then you could say that leaving it is hell. That must make me, as Chair of the Alumni Association, Satan”, he once joked. This title will now go to…
The 12th EMBL Alumni Association board meeting on Monday 3rd November was the last to be attended by Angus Lamond, Chair of the Association since 2002. Angus welcomed newly elected board members and provided guidelines in selecting the next Chair and Deputy. After the meeting, board members voted…
The EMBL Alumni Association board held their biannual meeting at EMBL Heidelberg on 25 February 2008. One of the major topics was the upcoming board elections. On behalf of EMBL, Matthias Hentze thanked those members stepping down, in particular treasurer Albert Stegmüller. The Board welcomed…
After the ceremony to mark the opening of the new site extension, EMBL-EBI hosted an on-campus symposium for all EMBL alumni and EBI staff. The event attracted 116 participants and was a great opportunity to meet friends and enjoy an excellent programme of talks by EMBL-EBI’s directors,…