{"id":5242,"date":"2021-08-03T12:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/?page_id=5242"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:18:10","slug":"embl-in-germany-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/embl-in-events\/embl-in-germany\/embl-in-germany-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"EMBL in… Germany 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Staff and alumni meet at the summer party to discuss \u201cWhere next after EMBL?\u201d<\/h3>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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To stay in academia, you have to be convinced about the topic you are working on, and be sure that it\u2019s going to motivate you for the next ten to fifteen years.\u201d This was the message from former EMBL Monterotondo group leader Walter Witke at the \u2018Where next after EMBL?\u2019 event at EMBL Heidelberg on the morning of the summer party. \u201cOnce you\u2019ve chosen this path, be stubborn!\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Alumni based in Germany met to catch up with old friends and present their career paths after leaving EMBL, with speakers from academia and industry giving a fascinating insight into future options and some valuable career development tips. While Walter, now professor at the University of Bonn, was speaking for the academic route, Luca Toldo, principal research scientist at Merck and former EMBL staff scientist, promoted industry. \u201cMy motivation is driven by the goal to operate in a worldwide competitive business producing meaningful benefits for patients, doctors and the scientific community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having been successful both in science and industry, G\u00e1bor Lamm, Managing Director of EMBLEM and former Gene Expression predoc, concluded that neither side can live without the other. \u201cIndustry creates devices for scientists, but requires their scientific input to get there,\u201d he said, going on to present EMBLEM\u2019s work. Matthias Hentze talked about how proud EMBL is of its relationships: with current EMBL staff on the one hand, and its alumni through the Alumni Association on the other. He pointed out that the large staff presence amongst the fifty participants on the day was a direct result of the increasing efforts by the association to include staff in their activities, projects and services as early as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other speakers on the day were Werner K\u00fchlbrandt, Director of the MPI for Biophysics in Frankfurt and former EMBL group leader and senior scientist, who\u2019s also chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Daniel Forler from Bayer Schering Pharma AG and Pavel Tomancak (see below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Alumni Association would like to thank all the speakers for their excellent contribution to this event.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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