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The 5th Iberian chapter meeting – the first to be held in Portugal – took place on 2 October at the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC) in Porto. Participants were largely EMBL Portuguese alumni as well as IBMC staff, who gathered to listen to talks on neurodegeneration,…
Paula Sampaio, who is often seen walking through the corridors of the IBMC with a screwdriver, was a visiting scientist in the EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics Gonzalez Group from 1995 to 2001. While responsible for maintaining the first Leica confocal microscope at EMBL and teaching scientists how…
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…
One of the interesting career paths outlined at the ‘Where next after EMBL’ event was that of former EMBL predoc Pavel Tomancak, now a group leader at the MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden. He has gained experience in three very different fields during his…
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…
EMBL Heidelberg said goodbye to some very familiar faces on 30 June when EMBL’s obligation to tender for cleaning services meant that the Gegenbauer company’s tenure at the lab ended. No one was more sad to leave than supervisor Anni Stenzel, who for 13 years has led the team of ladies in their…
Photo Gallery An extremely well-attended part of EMBL’s labday was the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award Ceremony. Ken Holmes, former Head of Unit at EMBL Hamburg (1975-1977) and close friend and advisor to the late John Kendrew, presented the award to the winner, Julius Brennecke. Formerly an…
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…
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…
The EMBL European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS) has been helping EMBL alumni to attract school leavers in their country to a career in science, and sharing know-how on providing an infrastructure to help teachers with science teaching. Barely had ELLS been established at EMBL in…