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<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nVarpu and colleagues Lassi Paavolainen, Nina Rintanen, Mikko Karjalainen, Moona Lehkonen and Ilari Kuronen, in the lab<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Science after EMBL? Location after EMBL?<\/strong> Connections after EMBL?<\/strong> Feeling festive in the cold!<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n I have visited former postdocs Harald Stenmark in Oslo and Toshihide Kobayashi in Tokyo. I recently collaborated with Finnish researchers Elina Ikonen and Vesa Olkkonen, postdocs in Kai Simons\u2019 laboratory, and with Sarah Butcher, who is now a group leader in the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Virus Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I visit my good friends and EMBL alumni Ari Huovila and his wife Seija Majoinen, and am in contact with Hanna Kuusinen (formerly Lechtonen) who works in Finland as technician in VTT technical research center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Memories of EMBL?<\/strong> Stepan in the snow<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Science after EMBL?<\/strong> Location after EMBL?<\/strong> Stepan with colleagues Daniil Maksimov (left) and Petr Laktionov (right)<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Connections after EMBL?<\/strong> Memories of EMBL?<\/strong> Two of EMBL\u2019s most northerly alumni tell us about life and science in their wintry lands… Varpu Marjomaki, group leader at the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland Science after EMBL?I am studying endocytic membrane traffic, looking at certain picornaviruses (such as echovirus 1) that are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-28143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/finland_1l-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28163,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions\/28163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=28143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>I am studying endocytic membrane traffic, looking at certain picornaviruses (such as echovirus 1) that are human pathogens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I work in a biology department that is part of an interdisciplinary nanoscience centre, interacting closely with physicists and chemists. This is really exciting \u2013 we have learned to communicate well and collaborate on interesting projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am in regular contact with former group leader Jean Gruenberg \u2013 I plan to visit his lab in Geneva next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
EMBL was a very special place with an exciting atmosphere for science and fun. My visits there have been my most important learning experience. I enjoyed the intense pace of the work, the wealth of things I learned and the friendly atmosphere. I miss all this, and the amusing lectures by Gareth Griffiths!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nStepan Belyakin, a group leader at the Novosibirsk Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IMCB), Russia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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My group is working in the field of developmental biology of drosophila. We are particularly interested in genetic cascades that regulate sexual dimorphism in different body parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Living in Siberia is fun. What I really like here and what I always missed in Germany is a proper winter. Here we have about five months of snow and down to -40\u00b0C, which keeps you always busy staying warm. For some reason, winter is also the most productive season in the lab!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
I am in contact with many friends I met at EMBL: Pavel Natalin (former predoc in Izaurralde Group) visited me few weeks ago. He is a representative of Life Technologies Company in Russia now. Ivan Yudushkin (Bastiaens Group) came here this summer with his wife and two babygirls on his \u2018curvy\u2019 way from California to Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s really hard to choose my most favourite memory: I would say it was the feeling that everything is possible and feasible. This is a feeling I try to revive in myself and plant in my students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"