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Rianne Moes – Course and Conference Office

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Our mission is to train scientists. This blog is a platform for us to share updates on our annual programme, tips and tricks for scientists, new e-learning opportunities, and sometimes just something to make you smile.


The EMBL Course and Conference Office was established in 1983 to support EMBL scientists in the organisation of conferences, medium-sized workshops, practical courses, EMBL internal and one-off events. 
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Return to onsite: our first in-person meeting in 2 years

A little over 100 participants from over 20 countries attended the first on-site meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Europe in March 2020. And since then, we have been preparing for this moment. We just didn’t have a clue when it would come. And the rules of the ‘game’ kept changing.…



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Best Poster Flash Talk winners of the Mobile Genome

This year, the virtual EMBO Workshop: “the Mobile Genome: Genetic and Physiological Impacts of Transposable Elements” centered around the broad impacts of TEs on organismal biology. It turned out to be a diverse meeting with interesting cross-disciplinary discussions,…


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Record attendance at New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology

Written by event reporter Magdalena Wutkowska. This year’s EMBO|EMBL Symposium: New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology took place 7-9 July 2021. For the first time in its history, the meeting was held virtually, with a record of over 650 attendees from all over the world. The three…




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Best poster awards – BioMalPar XVII

This year,  the BioMalPar conference took place for the 17th time, but the second time virtually. Three poster presenters stunned their peers with their visually attractive digital posters, presentations and research insights. Out of 90 posters, they received the best poster award by popular…


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Lazy Fur upgrades virtual conference experience with live music

Meet Ira and Tom – a newly-wed couple from Heidelberg and band members of Lazy Fur – a music duo that have been performing live for participants of numerous virtual EMBL conferences and symposia. “It feels good that we can bring joy and help provide even a better conference experience…



Rianne Moes Conference Officer Nathalie working at a virtual event in an empty Auditorium.

Looking back on a year of organising virtual events

Exactly one year ago, the Covid-19 pandemic hit Europe. All on-site events had to be cancelled and we had to rethink our entire program. Our Course and Conference Officers worked really hard to create a virtual equivalent of EMBL’s on-site training offering.  We…

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