Connecting, engaging and nurturing EMBL’s global community of current and former scientists, technicians, communicators and administrators
and serendipity EMBL alumnus Thibaut Brunet, recipient of the 2024 John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, shares his scientific journey – from a childhood passion for nature to the discovery of a new species of choanoflagellate.
Since 2011, Roland Specker has sponsored the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, which both supports early-career scientists while also honouring EMBL’s first director general.
EMBL's 50th anniversary symposium brought together its vibrant community, showcased its many scientific contributions, and drove discussions on the future of Europe's leading life sciences laboratory.
In the second session of Coffee with EMBL this year, held online on Friday 14 June 2024, EMBL alumni and current staff reflected on the 1990s as part of the “5 decades of EMBL” series, and considered how the culture and innovations of the nineties paved the way for current-day EMBL. Moderator…
EMBL is excited to share its position paper on the upcoming European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10).
A special Coffee with EMBL session celebrated EMBL’s 50th anniversary by inviting alumni to reflect on the organisation’s first two decades
Empowering science through collaborative efforts
Stephen Cusack, world-renowned structural biologist and former Head of EMBL Grenoble, reflects on his early influences, his achievements, and the lessons he’s learned as he embarks on his next adventure.
From growing up enjoying the nature around him, Toby Gibson led his career towards computational biology where he collaborated with Des Higgins and Julie Thompson to develop the groundbreaking Clustal W bioinformatics tool that became the focus of one of the most cited scientific papers of all time
When big ideas open new doors