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High risk, high gain Melina Schuh’s approach to science has been described as “fearless”. But dig beneath this steely description of this year’s John Kendrew Award winner and you find a story of outstanding research, fast-track career progression, and innovative outreach. “In both my…
It’s the one time of year when the EMBL community gets together in one place to celebrate scientific achievements, the Laboratory’s unique spirit, and draw inspiration from friends and colleagues. And one of the highlights of Lab Day, which took place on 10 July, is where EMBL celebrates the…
Ingrid Sulston, former EMBL Genome Biology Diploma student and daughter of Nobel Prize winning scientist, John Sulston, shares her passion for science education, and the path that led her to this profession in Canada. “I am a science educator, a profession that I love, though it took me a while…
The 2014 John Kendrew Young Scientist Award recipient was selected on 21 November at the EMBL Alumni Association board meeting. Martin Jinek from the Czech Republic, former Structural and Computational Biology Unit predoc in the Conti lab, was chosen in recognition of the impact of his academic…
Eleven years after leaving EMBL, Giovanni Frazzetto – joint-recipient of the first John Kendrew Award in 2008 – is now the academic coordinator of a new programme at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, known as Wiko (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin). “Wiko is a cultural paradise,”…
Trio celebrates two-decade collaboration In 1990 Peter Becker, Hans Schöler and Francis Stewart were simultaneously recruited to EMBL as group leaders by the recently appointed Gene Expression Program Director, Iain Mattaj. At that time chromatin was emerging as a new, puzzling, component in the…
On 18 July, the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lisbon and EMBL organised an event dedicated to molecular biology in Portugal and at EMBL – local alumni were involved as co-organisers, speakers and participants. More than 230 scientists took part in the event exploring connections…
Former Genome Biology Unit group leader Andreas Ladurner and colleagues, recently discovered the enzymes responsible for indicating when cell stress is over and when the cell machinery should come out of defence and repair mode to resume normal functions. They also found that the absence of one of…
Patricia Kahn, former EMBL staff scientist from the Structural and Computational Biology Unit, writes about her humbling and rewarding experience working as medical editor of Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “MSF is known for its medical work after natural disasters, in…
Emmanuel Lacroix works at the cross-section of science and industry, as Senior Director of Global Business Development for UCB, a Brussels-headquartered global biopharmaceutical company. With a PhD from EMBL’s Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Emmanuel began his career in the biopharma…