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In 1976, Talmon Arad joined the EMBL Structural and Computational Biology Unit as a Research Technician for Kevin Leonard, whose task it was to build an electron microscope lab. Talmon had a few years’ experience in this field, and was looking forward to what turned out to be an incredible…
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…
This year saw the highest number of superbly qualified John Kendrew Young Scientist Award candidates, making the job of the selection committee very challenging indeed! Nonetheless, the decision was unanimous with the selection of Katharina Ribbeck as the recipient of the Award. Katharina, former…
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…
It was the call for a practical mind that attracted Alan Sawyer to EMBL Heidelberg back in 1990. Alan joined EMBL as a technical assistant to do the antibody work (mono- and polyclonal) for Thomas Kreis’ and Eric Karsenti’s groups. In reality he ended up working for the whole Cell Biology Unit…
In the five years since Luxembourg became an EMBL member state, exchange of scientists and science has gathered pace. It’s now six months since the new building for the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) was officially opened at the University of Luxembourg – the only university…
There’s only one satisfactory solution when a selection committee is challenged to decide between two equally excellent candidates: two winners! And so, on Friday 16th December, the EMBL Alumni Association board selected Gáspár Jékely, former postdoc from the Rorth and then Arendt Group, and…
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…
In September this year the EMBL Alumni Association will be holding its three-yearly board elections. The process will be conducted online, and candidates will comprise continuing and new board members who may serve for a period of three to six years in total. Who are we looking for? Ideally, the…