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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…
There was much heartfelt handshaking and back-slapping at the official opening of the upgraded high-field NMR centre at EMBL Heidelberg on 13 March, as the tight and relatively small European NMR community came together for a day-long symposium. Attendees included the ex-EMBL NMR group leaders –…
EMBL alumnus George Christophides and his colleagues at Imperial College London have made a major breakthrough in malaria research by discovering how mosquitoes’ immune systems fight off the parasites. “Far from being the ‘bad guys’, mosquitoes are unwilling carriers of the…
Britta Schläger has two tips for anyone applying for an EC grant: prepare your proposal carefully, and get managerial help as early as you can. Easier said than done? Look no further. Britta – the first research technician in the Hentze Group, who started at EMBL in 1989 – is celebrating the…
“Parties are the social glue that keep people together”Gareth Griffiths It’s the end of an era whenever an EMBL legend departs. At the beginning of this year, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit (CBB) group leader Gareth Griffiths left EMBL for the sunny climes of Oslo after an…
EMBL alumni collaborate to capture a unique moment in the history of science EMBL non-scientific alumni Russ Hodge (OIPA) and Maj Britt Hansen (Photolab) are still experimenting with new ways to communicate science to the public. Together with Nicola Graf, who has worked for several years on the…
EMBL alumni in Spain and Portugal met for the fourth year running on 28 November at the Spanish National Cancer Research Institute (CNIO) in Madrid. The programme, which was organised by host Guillermo Montoya, included scientific talks by Ignacio Dolado, Robert Kypta and Fatima Gebauer, and an…
Thank you to the 274 members who voted in the Alumni Association board elections between 15th August and 30th September 2008. The results are: 1. New board members Giulio Superti-FurgaMaria del Mar VivancoAnastasia PolitouAnastasios KoutsosCedric Notredame 2. Continuing board members Annalisa…
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…
An exciting part of the Alumni Association board meeting on 3rd November 2008 was the selection of a John Kendrew Award recipient for 2009. The already demanding task of having to compare the achievements of scientists from entirely different fields was made even more difficult in the face of the…