EMBL Archive

The EMBL Archive captures, preserves and shares records and archival material from across the EMBL’s sites and activities, in analogue and digital formats. As a whole, these holdings bear witness to the Laboratory’s scientific research and institutional activities, and to the history of European molecular biology.

Category: General

7 June 2024 A woman looks into a microscope, while a group of people stand in the background.

Flashback Friday: ELLS welcomes its first group of international teachers

Travel back to 2003 when the first group of international teachers took part in EMBL’s newly formed facility devoted to life science education.

5 June 2024

Fotis Kafatos Collection

The EMBL Archive celebrates the sixth International Archives Week (#IAW2024) and introduces the newly created collection of Fotis Kafatos, EMBL's third Director General.

17 May 2024

Flashback Friday: EMBL Australia launches down under

Already an associate member, Australia deepened its connection to EMBL in 2010 as it established EMBL Australia.

3 May 2024 Four people smile for camera during a ribbon cutting ceremony

Flashback Friday: A cause for celebration

In 2005, EMBL Hamburg opened Europe’s largest high-throughput crystallisation facility with DESY -- a collaboration that has only grown.

19 April 2024 Male scientist looks at equipment in front of him.

Flashback Friday: Doors open at genomics and proteomics core facilities

This article first published in in August 2001 showcases EMBL’s commitment to developing and providing cutting-edge services to the life sciences research community.

5 April 2024 Black and white photo shows a man is walking in a room overfilled with conference participants

Flashback Friday: Proteins translate into EMBL-Heidelberg’s biggest-ever conference

EMBL is well known for hosting, impactful conferences. The following , from 2005 describes what was the biggest-ever conference at that point in EMBL’s history.

15 March 2024

Flashback Friday: Where do you start when developing a new medicine?

The following, from 2014, published shortly after the launch of a new public-private research initiative, later known as Open Targets.

1 March 2024 Two black and white headshots of male scientists surrounded by a green and blue graphic background

Flashback Friday: Winners of the first John Kendrew Young Scientist Award

The following recounts the first time the Kendrew award was presented – as described in an EMBLetc. article from December 2007.

16 February 2024 Four scientists look at a worm that appears more like a very long piece of string being held in one scientist’s hands.

Flashback Friday: Group leaders face to face with sea creatures in partnership talks

From a 2006 EMBLetc. article: one of EMBL’s first partnering efforts with Station Biologique de Roscoff – the starting point for EMBL’s Traversing European Coastlines (TREC) expedition in 2023.

13 February 2024