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On 20 July 2018, the EMBL Alumni Association board gathered at EMBL in Heidelberg for their 31st meeting. The agenda included updates on developments across EMBL and, in particular, on alumni relations, the alumni volunteer programme and international relations. There were also in-depth discussions…
The EMBL Archive is open for business! In 2015, several boxes and many digital files greeted Anne-Flore Laloë on her first day at EMBL as the newly instated Archivist. Three years on, the EMBL Archive – now located in EMBL Heidelberg’s Building 14 – houses even more boxes, stacked neatly in…
EMBL again entered a team of staff and alumni in the 7th annual NCT race on 13 July 2018. EMBL’s team of 70 joined more than 4000 other race participants including patients and their families, physicians, scientists and friends of the NCT. Runners participated in the 2,7-kilometer circuit,…
On 21 May 2018, more than 80 researchers and EMBL alumni in the UK gathered in Edinburgh to learn about EMBL research, training and services, and to strengthen their scientific networks. Wendy Bickmore, the director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Human Genetics Unit at the University of…
EMBL alumna Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez on how her research and career evolved after searching the seas For Archimedes, the eureka moment came as he took a bath. For EMBL alumna Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez, the bath was a little bigger: she was on a boat in the Indian Ocean. Under the burning midday sun,…
Big Data to find new questions For centuries, data visualisation has helped humanity identify patterns and gain new insights. When London suffered a cholera outbreak in 1854, the English physician John Snow used a map to trace the source of the infection to the water pump in Broad Street, Soho. Now…
A medical revolution EMBL alumnus Raffaele De Francesco’s work on the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) led to a medical revolution. Previously, certain chronic viral infections had been kept under control using drugs, but it had never been possible to cure them completely by removing the virus from the…
Philipp keller was selected as the 2017 John Kendrew Young Scientist Award winner for ground-breaking work on light-sheet microscopy and computational technologies that allow whole-animal imaging. Much of the image analysis software and microscope blueprints developed by Philipp and his team are…
Matthias Mann was selected as the 2017 Lennart Philipson Award winner for his pioneering work in the field of mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Matthias has contributed breakthroughs that have revolutionised proteomics techniques in biomedical laboratories around the world. His contributions…
One of the highlights of Lab Day, which takes place this year at EMBL Heidelberg on 22 July, is when EMBL celebrates the very special work of alumni through the John Kendrew and Lennart Philipson awards. All staff and alumni are invited to attend the ceremony. Charting the way Jop Kind EMBL:…