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.
It’s safe to say that 2020 has been – and continues to be – a strange year! We have all been forced to adapt the way we live and think, and at EMBL it is no different. Traditionally we would now be presenting a sneak peek of our 2021 training programme. However, since we have…
“Like punning, programming is a play on words.” Alan J. Perlis. You don’t have to be a programmer to have programming skills. Writing code is an essential part of being a programmer (duh!), but is also a vital component of being a scientific developer, software developer or computer…
For those of us who like data, end of year statistics are like the holidays all over again. It’s a few days combining the external training data from all six EMBL sites, then playing with excel sheets and pivot tables galore. The point of it all? We want to know how many scientists we reach…
We would like to thank all our supporters of the 2018 EMBL Course and Conference Programme. With their help we were able to provide top-class training and keep the registration fees as low as possible allowing more people to profit from these opportunities. 86 companies sponsored a total of 25…
Friday night the entire EMBL Events team came together in the Heidelberg old town for our annual social. It’s tough to organise an event for 65 people who spend their time organising events. Even agreeing a date is a mammoth task as they are usually busy working on an event….but somehow it…