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.
Archive stories
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.
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.
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.
Archive and Records Management Highlights 2023
An article about EMBL's archive and records management activities during 2023.
Flashback Friday: Who is Leo Szilárd?
An article about Leo Szilard was originally published in EMBLetc., issue 1, July 1999, explaining his connection to EMBL.
Flashback Friday: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss to make microscope developed at EMBL
An EMBLetc. article from 2005 celebrates a new high-tech microscope developed in one of EMBL Heidelberg's research groups.
Remembering the moment EMBL was established
The pivotal moment in establishing EMBL was the signing of the EMBL Agreement on May 10, 1973, followed by its ratification in July 1974.
Flashback May 1978: The EMBL Heidelberg Inauguration Day
The 5th of May 1978 is one of the historical moments of the EMBL development as it was the day of the inauguration of the EMBL Headquarters in Heidelberg. The decision for the site selection of the Laboratory was taken in 1971 by the European Molecular Biology Conference Working Group “Site…
Tracing the history of women in science at EMBL
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2023, EMBL archivist Maria Papanikolaou discusses the traces left by the women in science who have passed through EMBL, irrevocably changing the organisation in small and big ways By Maria Papanikolaou, Archive and Records Manager, EMBL The EMBL…