Maria Bernabeu Aznar
Group Leader and Co-chair of Infection Biology Transversal Theme
Bernabeu Group
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Tissue Biology and Disease Modelling
Group Leader and Co-chair of Infection Biology Transversal Theme
Bernabeu Group
EditKristina Haase, EMBL Barcelona, Spain (Placental vascular models, placental malaria, pathogenesis)
Chris Moxon, University of Glasgow, Scotland (Cerebal malaria pathogenesis, immunity, omics, spatial omics, translational applications)
Alejandro Torres-Sanchez, EMBL Barcelona, Spain (Mathematical modelling, endotelial barrier, malaria pathogenesis)
Group Leader
Dayton Group
EditGroup Leader and Co-chair of Theory at EMBL Transversal Theme
Trivedi Group
EditTalya Dayton, EMBL Barcelona, Spain
Alba Diz Muñoz, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Pierre-François Lenne, IBDM, Marseille, France
Matthias Merkel, CENTURI, Marseille, France
Nicoletta Petridou, EMBL Heidelberg
Structural Biology
Group Leader
Bhogaraju Group
EditCarmen Buchrieser, Pasteur Institute, France (Legionella infection expert)
Alban de Kerchove D’Éxaerde, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (Mouse genetics, behavioural neuroscience)
Ulrike Uhrig, Chemical Biology Core Facility, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Head of EMBL Grenoble
EMBL Grenoble
EditHolger Daims, University of Vienna, Austria
Rob Fin, EMBL EBI, Hinxton, UK
Nassos Typas, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Michael Wagner, University of Vienna, Austria
Team Leader
McCarthy Team
EditStructural Biology
Head of EMBL SPC Facility
Garcia Alai Team
EditStephen Muench, University of Leeds, UK (Stability Proteomics, Molecular Biophysics, Membrane Proteins, Native MS, Time resolved structural biology, Extremophiles)
Mikhail Savitski, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Stability Proteomics, Molecular Biophysics, Membrane Proteins, Native MS, Time resolved structural biology, Extremophiles)
Frank Sobott, Univeristy of Leeds, UK (Stability Proteomics, Molecular Biophysics, Membrane Proteins, Native MS, Time resolved structural biology, Extremophiles)
Cell Biology and Biophysics
Group Leader
Deo Group
EditJan Ellenberg, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Fluorescent sensors, live cell imaging of genome structure, super resolution microscopy)
Robert Prevedel, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Voltage imaging, photo acoustic tomography, deep tissue microscopy)
Jonas Ries, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Super resolution microscopy)
Timo Zimmermann, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Super-resolution microscopy, fluorescence lifetime, cryo-fluorescence)
Group Leader
Dey Group
EditNiccolo Banterle, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Centrosomes/microtubule organising centres/evolutionary biochemistry)
Anne Erzberger, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Spatial patterning in cells/plankton cell cycle dynamics/ciliate physiology )
Flora Vincent, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Plankton cell cycle and population dynamics/multimodal imaging of marine plankton)
Group Leader
Erzberger Group
EditCaren Norden, IGC Portugal (Nuclear mechanics)
Thomas Quail, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Droplet physics and chromatin)
Jordi van Gestel, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Evolution of fruiting body mechanics)
Flora Vincent, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Size dynamics of diatoms)
Hanh Vu, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Body size control, planarian tissue mechanics)
Group Leader
Kreshuk Group
anna.kreshuk [at] embl.de
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Prevedel Group
robert.prevedel [at] embl.de
EditAlba Diz-Muñoz, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Mechanobiology, brillouin microscopy)
Kareem Elsayad, Medical University of Vienna, Austria (Biophysics, brillouin microscopy)
Sylvain Gigan, Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, France (Computation imaging, adaptive optics)
Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands (Intravital microscopy, mammalian development)
Anna Kreschuk, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Computational image analysis, machine learning)
Group Leader
Quail Group
EditDevelopmental Biology
Group Leader
Petridou Group
EditGroup Leader
Rapti Group
EditDetlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Nervous system comparative analysis, glia cell evolution)
Vladimir Benes, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Genomics of nervous system development)
Anna Kreshuk, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Computational analysis of neurodevelopment)
Aissam Ikmi, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Nervous system comparative analysis, neuron cell evolution)
Robert Prevedel, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Biomechanics of neurodevelopment)
Yannick Schwab, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Correlative electron microscopy, neurodevelopment phenomics)
Group Leader
Vincent Group
EditArnau Sebe, CRG, Spain
Genome Biology
Head of Genome Biology Unit
Furlong Group
EditJustin Crocker, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Developmental phenotyping)
Mounia Lagha, IGMM, France (Live imaging of enhancer activity)
Sinem Saka, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Spatial omics)
Alexander Stark, IMP, Austria (Enhancer logic, gene regulation)
Oliver Stegle, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Modelling single cell data and gene regulation)
Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK (Human heart development)
Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich, Germany (Modelling single cell data)
Judith Zaugg, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Gene regulation)
Group Leader and Senior Scientist
Huber Group
wolfgang.huber [at] embl.org
EditAedín Culhane, University of Limerick, Ireland (Dimension reduction and latent spaces for (single cell resolution) omics data)
Sascha Dietrich, University Hospital Düsseldorf (Spatial omics, immunotherapies and the tumor microenvironment, immunooncology)
Anna Kreshuk, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Biological phenotyping in imaging-based latent spaces, foundation models, LLMs)
Davide Risso, University of Padova, Italy (Statistical method development for spatial omics, deep learning, latent space models)
Sinem Saka, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Spatial biology from molecules to tissues)
Misha Savitski, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Stability proteomics)
Oliver Stegle, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Statistical genomics and systems genetics)
Lars Steinmetz, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Statistical method development for phenotyping environmental microbial communities using high-speed fluorescence image–enabled cell sorting)
Nassos Typas, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (High-throughput phenotyping of microbial communities under genetic and chemical perturbations; antibiotica, phages)
Thorsten Zenz, University Hospital Zürich (Omics of drug sensitivity in blood cancers)
Head of Data Science
Korbel Group
jan.korbel [at] embl.de
EditTalya Dayton, EMBL Barcelona, Spain (Advanced imaging and genomic analyses in tumour organoids to identify drivers and biomarkers of cancer progression)
Tobias Marschall, University Clinic Düsseldorf, Germany (Haplotype-resolved structural variation characterization, population-scale long-read sequencing and pan-genome analysis)
Oliver Stegle, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Spatial and single-cell multi-omics in common cancers, methodological innovations in multi-omics data integration, identification of causal cancer states as novel biomarkers)
Michael Dorrity, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Group Leader
Saka Group
sinem.saka [at] embl.de
EditFabian Coscia, Max Delbrück Center, Germany
Gautam Dey, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Eileen Furlong, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Matthias Hentze, EMBL Heidelberg,
Germany
Anna Kreshuk, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Pedro Matos Pereira, ITQB NOVA (UNL), Portugal
Nicoletta Petridou, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Mikhail Savitski, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Yannick Schwab, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Group Leader, Senior Scientist, Co-chair of Infection Biology and Microbial Ecosystems Transversal Themes
Typas Group
athanasios.typas [at] embl.de
EditGroup Leader
Zimmermann-Kogadeeva Group
maria.zimmermann [at] embl.de
EditJosef Ecker, Technische Universität München, Germany (gut microbiota influence on lipid metabolism in the host)
Rob Finn, EMBL-EBI Hinxton, UK (Investigating metabolic functions and interactions across large metagenomics datasets)
Olga Kalinina, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, Germany (Structural determinants of microbial metabolic functions)
Julia Mahamid, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Cryo-EM and multi-omics-based modelling of molecular interactions inside the cells)
Mikhail Savitski, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Proteomics-based modelling of microbial metabolism)
Luís Teixeira, Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Portugal (Modeling microbe-host interactions in insects)
Nassos Typas, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (High-throughput functional genomics in bacteria)
Alexander Westermann, Helmholz Institute for RNA-based Infection Biology, Germany (RNA biology in human gut microbes)
Karina Xavier, Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Portugal (metabolism and bacterial signalling in the gut)
Structural and Computational Biology
Group Leader
Dodonova Group
EditNiccolò Banterle, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (High-speed AFM, cryo-EM, archaeal chromatin structure and dynamics)
Buzz Baum, University College London, UK (Archaea, chromatin, cell division, cryo-EM, live cell imaging)
Sebastian Eustermann, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Archaeal chromatin, genome libraries, sequencing, cryo-ET)
Dina Grohmann, University of Regensburg, Germany (Archaea, microbiology, cryo-EM, chromatin)
Arnaud Krebs, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (archaeal chromatin, structure, cryo-EM, single molecule footprinting, sequencing)
Group Leader
Dorrity Group
michael.dorrity [at] embl.de
EditOliver Stegle, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Time-resolved single-cell profiling and modelling)
Group Leader
Eustermann Group
EditThomas Quail, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Group Leader and Senior Scientist
Mahamid Group
julia.mahamid [at] embl.de
EditTeam Leader
EMBL Imaging Centre
simone.mattei [at] embl.de
EditGroup Leader
Zimmermann Group
EditSerina Robinson, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland (Drug metabolism, bioinformatics, microbiome, bacteriology)
Janoš Terzič, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia (Human microbiome, cancer, clinical biomarkers)
Maria Vila-Costa, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spain (Marine pollutants, biotransformation, metagenomics, microbiology)
Georg Zeller, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands (Microbial secondary/xenobiotic metabolism, gene function prediction, reconstruction of microbial enzyme-metabolite networks)
Epigenetics and Neurobiology
Group Leader
Rompani Group
EditBertil Schmidt, University of Mainz, Germany (Machine learning, high-performance computing, animal behavior quantification, behavioral neuroscience, keypoint tracking)
Senior Team Leader – Protein Sequence Resources
Sequence Family Resources
agb [at] ebi.ac.uk
EditGroup Leader
Cortes Ciriano Group
icortes [at] ebi.ac.uk
EditTalya Dayton, EMBL Barcelona, Spain (Cancer, lung cancer, pollution, exposome, environmental exposures)
Jamie Hackett, EMBL Rome, Italy (Artificial intelligence, Epigenome editing)
Group Leader
Goldman Group
goldman [at] ebi.ac.uk
EditGroup Leader and Co-chair of Infection Biology Transversal Theme
Lees Group
jlees [at] ebi.ac.uk
EditJukka Corander, University of Oslo, Norway (Mathematical modelling, statistical genetics and metagenomics, AMR)
Gabriele Margos, Bavarian Heath and Food Safety Authority, Germany (Adaptive nanopore sequencing, ticks and Borrelia)
Davide Sassera, University of Pavia, Italy (Adaptive nanopore sequencing, ticks and Borrelia)
Jordi van Gestel, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Adaptive nanopore sequencing, ticks and Borrelia)
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