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8 July 2024

EMBL Annual Report 2023 now online

EMBL Announcements EMBL’s 2023 Annual Report has been published, sharing achievements in its various missions, plus facts & figures from the year.

2024

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2 July 2024

Bulgaria becomes EMBL prospect member state

EMBL Announcements Bulgaria has become the latest EMBL prospect member state, starting a three-year process toward full membership. The prospect membership opens up new opportunities for mutual exchange and collaboration. Including Bulgaria, EMBL is now supported by 29 full member states, one associate member state,…

2024

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1 July 2024

EMBL celebrates 50 years of cutting-edge life science research

EMBL Announcements EMBL celebrates 50 years of cutting-edge European research: founded in Heidelberg by the first ten member states, Europe's pioneering Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is now supported by 29 member states and stands for outstanding open research, scientific services for researchers, innovative…

2024

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30 April 2024 Open Targets logo

MSD joins the Open Targets consortium

EMBL Announcements MSD joins as the latest partner in the Open Targets consortium, enhancing the initiative’s collaborative efforts in drug discovery.

2024

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1 March 2024 Photographs of two male scientists in round insets against a decorative background

2024 EMBL Alumni Award recipients announced

EMBL Announcements Two former EMBL scientists have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to research and leadership capabilities in the fields of evolutionary cell biology and molecular medicine.

2024

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9 January 2024 Latvian flag comprised of deep red with a horizontal white stripe across the center

Latvia becomes EMBL’s 29th member state

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Latvia’s life sciences sector will benefit from expanded access to the leading European research, services, and training provided by EMBL.

2024

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23 November 2023 Photographs of two scientists on a decorative background

ERC Consolidator Grants awarded to two EMBL researchers

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Alba Diz-Muñoz and Arnaud Krebs from EMBL Heidelberg have received grants to work on projects that aim, respectively, to understand the cellular mechanics that control cell division and investigate the regulatory networks that govern transcription factor function.

2023

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16 November 2023

EMBLetc. issue 101 published

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The newest issue of our online magazine dives deep into a critical research direction in developmental biology, structures of promiscuous proteins, EMBL’s newest service offerings in field research, and much, much more.

2023

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26 October 2023 Photographs of three scientists on a decorative blue background

EMBL scientists receive prestigious ERC Synergy Grants

EMBL Announcements Jan Kosinski, Julia Mahamid, and Georg Zeller have received grants to enable ambitious projects aimed at mapping the cellular protein synthesis machinery in context and understanding complex host-microbiome interactions, respectively.

2023

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18 October 2023 Female scientist looks directly at the camera, wearing blue jacket and white top

EMBL’s second Kafatos Lecture this Friday

EMBL Announcements Elena Conti will discuss how cells control the life and death of mRNA molecules at the 2023 annual Kafatos Lecture on 20 October in Munich.

2023

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28 September 2023 Visual of AlphaFold Protein prediction, embedded into a visual of scientific data

EMBL receives German AI prize

EMBL Announcements EMBL receives the German AI prize awarded for outstanding services to the research and development as well as application and commercialisation of artificial intelligence (AI) in life science research.

2023

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5 September 2023 Faces of Jordi van Gestel and Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva.

ERC starting grants for two EMBL Heidelberg researchers

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Jordi van Gestel and Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva each receive 1.5 million EUR funding for research projects on microbial predators and the gut microbiome respectively

2023

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5 July 2023 Man standing in corridor

David Hulcoop appointed as Open Targets Director

EMBL Announcements Coming from a pharmaceutical industry background, David Hulcoop is set to take over as Executive Director of the public-private partnership Open Targets.

2023

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5 July 2023 Front page of annual report as shown on a tablet.

2022 EMBL Annual Report published

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL’s 2022 Annual Report is now available online, including a downloadable ‘Year in Review’.

2023

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4 July 2023 EMBL logo amended to note its upcoming 50th anniversary

Save the date: 4-5 July 2024!

EMBL Announcements EMBL will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024 with a dynamic scientific symposium. The event will share fundamental research that continues to open the way to scientific discoveries.

2023

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28 June 2023 Serbian flag

Serbia becomes EMBL prospect member

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Starts three-year process toward full membership, opening up new opportunities for mutual exchange and collaboration.

2023

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15 May 2023 Science illustration representing research on organoids, organs-on-chip and human health. The image shows an abstract composition of several elements referring to the tools and some areas of research covered at EMBL Barcelona, featured on the cover of the 100th issue of EMBL etc.

100th issue of EMBLetc. published

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters First published in 1999 as a black-and-white printed newsletter for EMBL staff and alumni, EMBLetc. has undergone many transformations in its 24 years of existence.

2023

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11 May 2023 An colourful image taken from the World of Molecular Biology exhibition.

The World of Molecular Biology is open 

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL´s new permanent exhibition ‘The World of Molecular Biology’ in Heidelberg is now open for registration. The exhibition takes the visitor on a journey of scales, from genomes to ecosystems, and introduces key imaging technologies.

2023

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4 April 2023 A mobile lab on a road, with the TREC logo on the side.

TREC is underway!

EMBL Announcements EMBL’s planetary biology flagship TREC expedition has officially started. The new project applies EMBL's expertise and technologies in molecular and cellular biology to current environmental challenges, and connects with a wide range of research disciplines.

2023

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30 March 2023 Profile picture of Cornelius Gross, interim head of EMBL Rome

ERC Advanced Grant awarded to EMBL Rome researcher

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Interim head of EMBL Rome Cornelius Gross has been awarded an Advanced grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project TERRITORY, aimed at investigating the neural basis of territorial aggression and fear.

2023

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20 February 2023 The Estonian flag

EMBL welcomes Estonia as full member

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The Baltic nation of Estonia has become a full member of EMBL, joining the organisation as its 28th member state.

2023

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31 January 2023

ERC Consolidator Grant success at EMBL

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL Rome group leader Jamie Hackett receives EUR 2 million for the ModLogic project, aimed at understanding how chromatin modifications impact gene activity.

2023

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8 December 2022 Image of Prof. Peter B. Becker in the laboratory

New chair of EMBL Council

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL alumnus and eminent molecular biologist Peter B. Becker has been named the next chair of EMBL’s Council as of January 2023.

2022

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7 December 2022 Two scientists in a lab conversing

Making a great postdoc program even better with our member states

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL’s EIPOD-Learning in Context programme focuses on interdisciplinary research that explores ‘life in context’ and adds a new collaborative dimension with member state organisations.

2022

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22 November 2022 Image portraying the three scientists who received the ERC Starting grant

EMBL scientists receive prestigious ERC Starting Grant

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Three EMBL scientists received this year’s ERC Starting Grants, and will be awarded €1.5 million over five years to carry out research projects.

2022

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18 November 2022 A molecular illustration in the background showing ribosomes inside a Mycoplasma cell. A banner on top reads 'EMBLetc. Issue 99'

EMBLetc. receives digital-first makeover

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The biannual magazine that highlights EMBL’s research, people, and projects now has a new online home.

2022

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29 June 2022 Two scientists are surrounded by an illustration of various types of molecules in pastel colours

EMBL 2021 Annual Report published

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL’s 2021 Annual Report is now available, sharing mission highlights from the year in a new digital-first, sustainable format.

2022

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8 June 2022 Two female scientists shown against a green background

2022 EMBL Alumni Awards Winners announced

EMBL Announcements Two former EMBL staff members have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to research in the fields of brain evolution and cancer.

2022

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21 May 2022 Portrait photo of Edith Heard

Edith Heard elected as a member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected as a foreign member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of her academic excellence. Heard is among 15 new members of the Academy, which has been advancing basic research and interdisciplinarity for nearly 280 years.

2022

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10 May 2022

Royal Society honour for Eileen Furlong

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL’s Head of Genome Biology announced as Fellow of the Royal Society for her exceptional contributions to science.

2022

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5 May 2022 Colourful vertical panels each show different microscopic images possible with the high-tech tools in EMBL's Imaging Centre

Enabling imaging across scales

EMBL Announcements EMBL’s first Imaging Centre Symposium will occur onsite at EMBL and include tours of the new Imaging Centre on 31 May, introducing participants to the facility and its staff and featuring talks on the rapid developments in imaging technologies that have led to notable biological and medical…

2022

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27 April 2022 Portrait of Kristina Djinović-Carugo

Next Head of EMBL Grenoble appointed

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Professor Kristina Djinović-Carugo has been appointed as the next head of EMBL Grenoble. She will join EMBL in July from the Max Perutz Laboratories at the University of Vienna, where she is currently Head of the Department of Structural and Computational Biology and full Professor of Structural…

2022

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6 April 2022 Portrait photo of Matthias Hentze surrounded by a colourful background

Matthias Hentze receives Centenary Award

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL Heidelberg’s Matthias Hentze receives the Biochemical Society’s Centenary Award for his discoveries in RNA biology.

2022

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20 March 2022 Portrait photo of EMBL Group Leader Judith Zaugg against a green background.

Judith Zaugg from EMBL Heidelberg receives ERC Consolidator Grant

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Judith Zaugg, Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Over the next five years, the grant will enable her group to study cellular interactions in the human bone…

2022

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17 March 2022 EMBL statement visual

EMBL’s statement on the invasion of Ukraine

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL condemns in the strongest terms the unjustified military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, with the support of Belarus, and the resulting loss of life and human suffering. We express our deepest sympathy to the Ukrainian people and to all the victims of this war.  As an…

2022

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2 March 2022 Image composition showing a building with sun reflecting off the glass and microscopy images of microorganisms in multiple colours.

‘The World of Molecular Biology’ exhibition

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The new permanent ‘The World of Molecular Biology’ exhibition will open in mid-2023 at EMBL’s headquarters in Heidelberg. It will encourage people to actively engage with science and its relevance for everyday life.

2022

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19 January 2022 "From Molecules to Ecosystems" are words on top of a collage of images that span from molecules to ecosystems

A new era for European molecular biology

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL announces details about its next programme, ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’. It will guide studying life across scales and in context with changing environments.

2022

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9 December 2021 Portrait photo of Eileen Furlong against blue-green background.

Eileen Furlong honoured with Leibniz Prize

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL Senior Scientist and Head of the Genome Biology Unit is among the researchers honoured for outstanding work by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).

2021

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9 September 2021 Portrait of former EMBL Director General Iain Mattaj

German Cross of Merit for former EMBL Director General

EMBL Announcements Former EMBL Director General Professor Iain Mattaj was awarded the German Cross of Merit (‘Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’) at a ceremony held at EMBL Heidelberg on 9 September 2021.

2021

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12 August 2021 Edith Heard's photo portrait in a circle in the middle of the image.

Edith Heard elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Her admission to the ‘Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine’ section recognises her outstanding professional contributions to science.

2021

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2 July 2021 Portrait photo of a man in front of trees on a balcony

New head for EMBL’s Developmental Biology Unit

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Dr Alexander Aulehla has been appointed the new Head of EMBL’s Developmental Biology Unit, and will take up the role starting in July 2021.

2021

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20 May 2021 Male scientist in white coat is laboratory setting

Michael Zimmermann receives FEBS Anniversary Prize

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie has awarded a FEBS Anniversary Prize to Michael Zimmermann for his gut microbiome research.

2021

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9 March 2021 Wolfgang Huber faces the camera smiling

Wolfgang Huber becomes ISCB Fellow

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The contribution of EMBL Group Leader and Senior Scientist Wolfgang Huber has been recognised by the International Society for Computational Biology

2021

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22 February 2021

Feldberg Prize for Anne Ephrussi

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Anne Ephrussi has been awarded the German Feldberg Prize 2022 in recognition of her outstanding research.

2021

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11 December 2020 Woman with glasses wearing a parka stands in the snow outside a building at EMBL

EMBL Scientific Visitor Programme opens eyes and doors

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Facilitated by EMBL’s Scientific Visitor Programme in 2019, Silvia Dias Almeida spent a year in the Diz-Muñoz group, helping solidify her career plans and set her up for a competitive PhD programme in biomedical imaging.

2020

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2 December 2020 Dark purple image with flashes of orange, gold, pink and paler purple that look a bit like lightning with a small sun-like image in the upper right section of the image

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recognises EMBL scientists

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has recognised four EMBL researchers with their most recent awards, showing how tech trailblazers are integral to advancing science and medicine.

2020

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23 November 2020

Statement on recent paper on mentorships in academia

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL’s Eileen Furlong, Chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee and Head of the Genome Biology Unit, responds to the recent Nature Comms paper on the potential effects of mentor–mentee relationships.

2020

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2 September 2020 Microscopy image of cerebral organoid cross section

An organoid cell atlas to enhance biomedical research

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL-EBI is one of the eight European institutes involved in the Humanoid Cell Atlas initiative, a new open-access platform that combines single-cell profiling and organoid technology

2020

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1 September 2020 EMBL Fellow's Career Service

EMBL Fellows’ Career Service celebrates first birthday

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters As the EMBL Fellows' Career Service program reaches a milestone, it reflects on its first year and looks forward to ways to improve its offerings to EMBL postdocs and predocs.

2020

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25 August 2020

Training the next generation of molecular biologists

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The EMBL International PhD Programme is one of EMBL’s flagship training programmes. It forms part of our efforts to train and inspire talented scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders. Submission of applications for the current PhD student recruitment round is now possible.

2020

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25 August 2020 Circular beamline building, surrounded by illuminated Grenoble city in the evening and the alps in the background.

Upgraded beamlines at EMBL Grenoble unveiled

EMBL Announcements The beamlines run jointly by EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF reopen today, unveiling significant upgrades that exploit the brand new fourth generation ESRF synchrotron source.

2020

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29 July 2020 Screenshot from the online SAXS course. Clement Blanchet, a senior scientist in the Svergun group at EMBL Hamburg, is presenting the P12 SAXS beamline at Petra III to the participants.

EMBL releases online course on solution scattering from biological macromolecules

EMBL Announcements The Svergun group at EMBL Hamburg has released the course ‘Solution Scattering from Biological Macromolecules’ in an online format for the first time. The course explores different aspects of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) for studying the structure of macromolecules.

2020

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16 July 2020 A collage of portrait photos of Jessica Vamathevan, Jan Korbel, and Nassos Typas.

Changes in senior roles at EMBL

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Three changes in senior staff positions have been confirmed at EMBL today. Jessica Vamathevan becomes Head of Strategy, Jan Korbel becomes Head of Data Science for EMBL Heidelberg, and Nassos Typas becomes Senior Scientist.

2020

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8 July 2020 The national flag of Latvia: A carmine field bisected by a narrow white stripe (one-fifth the width of the flag)

Latvia becomes EMBL prospect member state

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Latvia has joined EMBL as a prospect member, starting a three-year process toward full membership.

2020

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8 July 2020 Alexander Aulehla on the left and Paul Flicek on the Right

Two EMBL scientists become EMBO Members

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters This year, EMBO elected 63 new members, including Alexander Aulehla, Group Leader and Senior Scientist at EMBL Heidelberg, and Paul Flicek, Associate Director of EMBL-EBI Services, Senior Scientist, Group and Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.

2020

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6 July 2020 EMBL Director General Edith Heard standing at a laboratory work bench, facing the camera. Edith Heard on the left side, lab bench with pipettes and equipment on the right. Photo taken by érôme Brébion at Institut Curie, Paris.

Edith Heard elected senator of the Max Planck Society

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected a senator of the Max Planck Society, one of Germany’s leading scientific research organisations. She joins the Senate along with Nobel Laureates and EMBL alumni Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Stefan W. Hell, as well as nine additional new…

2020

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2 July 2020 Edith Heard

Restructure of senior management

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The governing Council of EMBL has approved Director General Edith Heard’s restructure of senior management with effect from 1 July 2020.

2020

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18 June 2020 Illustration of gender balances in academia

Closing the gender gap

EMBL Announcements To explore the origins of gender imbalances in academia and possible ways of overcoming them, international experts will meet for the virtual EMBL | EMBO | HHMI conference ‘Gender Roles and their Impact in Academia’ from 13–15 Oct 2020. The conference’s outcomes will be integrated into a…

2020

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15 June 2020 Key visual for the virtual EMBL conference ‘SARS-CoV-2: Towards a New Era in Infection Research’. Credits: Aleksandra Krolik/EMBL

Improving our response to emerging pandemics

EMBL Announcements The emergence of previously unknown pathogens, such as the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, raises many questions. To explore these questions in an international scientific forum, EMBL will host the virtual conference ‘SARS-CoV-2: Towards a New Era in Infection Research’ on 3 July. Invited…

2020

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22 April 2020 Earth Day 2020 logo

EMBL statement on Earth Day 2020

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters To address global challenges, we need to better understand life in the context of environmental change, says EMBL Director General Edith Heard

2020

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11 March 2020 Leukaemia stem cells are located in a patient’s bone marrow (shown here in blue) in the so-called stem cell niche. The green structure is the bone itself. Credit: Dr. Raphael Lutz, Haas Lab

€2.45 m to investigate leukaemia causes and therapies

EMBL Announcements The Heidelberg-based LeukoSyStem consortium investigates leukaemia stem cells in acute myeloid leukaemia. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research financially supports this collaboration between Heidelberg University Hospital, HI-STEM gGmbH, the German Cancer Research Center and EMBL.

2020

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31 January 2020

Statement on Brexit

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Today marks the next chapter in the UK’s relationship with Europe. While we wait to see what a future relationship brings, researchers will continue to work across borders to tackle society’s most pressing problems, such as climate change, ageing, and disease.

2020

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21 January 2020

Judith Reichmann receives Paul Ehrlich prize

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Judith Reichmann will receive this year’s Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers

2020

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20 January 2020

Science in School #49 available

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The latest issue of the free magazine, Science in School, is now available for teachers worldwide.

2020

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15 January 2020

Bridging Excellence Fellowships

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The call for applications for Bridging Excellence Fellowships is now open

2020

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19 December 2019 Before a biological sample reaches the beamline, a lot of work is put into its preparation. Scientists can use the wide range of services and resources at EMBL to prepare their biological samples for structural studies at the X-ray beamlines in Grenoble and Hamburg. Photo: Marietta Schupp/EMBL

Empowering European structural biology

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EU funding for iNEXT-Discovery consortium unlocks key technologies for structural biology

2019

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9 December 2019

New chair of EMBL Council

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Professor Eiríkur Steingrímsson will commence his initial one-year term as Chair of EMBL Council on 1 January 2020.

2019

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15 November 2019 Fluorescence microscopy images of differentiated human hepatocytes

ATTRACT: funding innovation in imaging

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL is a collaborator in four of the projects funded in the first phase of ATTRACT.

2019

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5 November 2019

Edith’s inauguration

EMBL Announcements Edith Heard is inaugurated as EMBL Director General

2019

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3 October 2019

EMBL and Tara: Barcelona

EMBL Announcements EMBL joins Tara in Barcelona to promote science and interdisciplinarity

2019

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26 September 2019 The Old Port of Marseille.

EMBL and Tara: Marseille

EMBL Announcements From 27–30 September, Tara will be docked in the port of Marseille, France’s second largest city.

2019

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12 September 2019 Tara stopover in Rome

EMBL and Tara: Rome

EMBL Announcements The next stop on Tara’s journey will be at the mouth of the Tiber

2019

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12 August 2019

Obituary: Bernd-Uwe Jahn

EMBL Announcements Bernd-Uwe Jahn, former EMBL Administrative Director, Ministerialrat and Jurist has passed away

2019

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12 July 2019 Suzanne Eaton, former EMBL staff scientist from 1993–2001. PHOTO: EMBL

In remembrance of Suzanne Eaton

EMBL Announcements The life science community is deeply saddened by the death of Suzanne Eaton

2019

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5 July 2019 Picture of a fern gametophyte

Fun with fern photography

EMBL Announcements EMBL alumna Jennifer Deegan built a prize-winning system for photographing ferns

2019

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28 June 2019 EIPOD4 logo banner showing the 4 available tracks, research, industrial, clinical and academic.

EIPOD4: 2019 applications are open

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EIPOD4 will prepare researchers for the increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific career paths

2019

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17 June 2019 A photo of the Hamburg harbour at dusk

EMBL and Tara: Hamburg

EMBL Announcements EMBL Hamburg and Tara raise awareness of the risks of microplastic pollution and global infection

2019

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Sveika, Lietuva!

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Lithuania becomes EMBL’s 27th member state

2019

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11 May 2018 Iain Mattaj has been elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States of America.

Iain Mattaj elected NAS foreign associate

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL’s Director General has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States

2018

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30 November 2017 Portrait of Edith Heard

Edith Heard awarded Grand Prix Inserm 2017

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL Director General elect, Edith Heard, awarded 2017’s Grand Prix Inserm for her work in epigenetics

2017

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11 July 2017

New name for EMBL’s site in Italy

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL’s unit in Italy changes name to better reflect new research focuses and highlight its location

2017

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2 May 2017

Hungary becomes EMBL member state

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL welcomes its 23rd member state, with a promising collaboration already in place

2017

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14 December 2016

New Crystallography platform inaugurated

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters A new crystallography platform in Grenoble opens the door to new technological developments

2016

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14 October 2016 Global Alliance for Genomics and Health logo

Ewan Birney to lead Global Alliance

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Global Alliance for Genomics and Health chose Birney to lead efforts to bring genomics to the clinic

2016

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29 August 2016

Awards & Honours

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.

2016

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21 April 2016 Both the John Kendrew and Lennart Philipson Awards consist of a gold medal and a cash prize of €5,000, presented in recognition of the very special work of alumni. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab

Alumni awards

EMBL Announcements EMBL rewards the special work of alumni through the John Kendrew and Lennart Philipson awards.

2016

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24 November 2015

Awards & Honours

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.

2015

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29 September 2015 Lithuanian flag

Lithuania, new prospect member state

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Sveiki Lietuva! Lithuania becomes EMBL’s fourth prospect member state.

2015

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29 September 2015

Karsenti wins CNRS gold

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Gold medal celebrates Eric Karsenti’s exceptional career and outstanding contributions to biology.

2015

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28 September 2015

EMBL-EBI training news

EMBL Announcements Highlights from EMBL-EBI’s Training Programme: Open Day, revamped webpages, free webinar series.

2015

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24 August 2015

Alumni board meeting

EMBL Announcements EMBL Alumni Association board meets for the last time in their current constellation.

2015

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24 August 2015 Twelve members make up the EMBL Alumni Association board, taking up office in 2016

New board from 2016

EMBL Announcements Results are in for the EMBL Alumni Association board election – the board takes up office in 2016.

2015

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24 August 2015

Awards & Honours

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.

2015

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13 July 2015

EIPOD goes cubic

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EI3POD: flagship interdisciplinary postdoc programme opens its doors to academia and industry.

2015

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10 June 2014

Czech Republic becomes EMBL’s 21st member state

EMBL Announcements Forty years after its foundation, EMBL announces its 21st member state: the Czech Republic. Building on a successful bilateral relationship, the Czech Republic’s membership grants Czech scientists access to EMBL’s state-of-the-art instruments, facilities and world-class training…

2014

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22 April 2014

Argentina joins EMBL as associate member state

EMBL Announcements At a signing ceremony today, Argentina joins the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) as an associate member state. The move strengthens the ties between the European and Latin American life science communities. It grants Argentinian scientists access to EMBL’s world-class facilities and…

2014

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7 March 2014

Slovak Republic becomes EMBL Prospect Member State

EMBL Announcements The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) welcomes the Slovak Republic as the first country to join its new Prospect Member scheme. In a Statement of Intent signed last month, the Slovak Republic and EMBL agree to explore the possibilities for long-term cooperation, with a view to the…

2014

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7 September 2006

New EMBL/CRG Research Unit for Systems Biology launched today

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science (MEC) officially launch their new joint EMBL/CRG Research Unit in Systems Biology on the campus of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. The Spanish…

2006

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31 July 2006

EMBL-EBI and collaborators win bid to run UK PubMed Central

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Scientists will be able to access a vast collection of biomedical research at the touch of a button thanks to a major new initiative that aims to promote the free transfer of ideas in a bid to speed up scientific discovery. Based on a model currently used in the United States, UK PubMed Central…

2006

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29 June 2006

Croatia becomes EMBL’s 19th Member State

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Croatia has officially joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) as the organisation’s 19th Member State. The Croatian parliament ratified its membership after EMBL’s council had accepted the country’s application. “Joining EMBL is a very important step…

2006

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13 May 2005

EMBL-EBI expansion goes ahead with help from The Wellcome Trust and UK Research Councils

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has received a big boost from The Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), who have given funds to expand the EBI site in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK. The new…

2005

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1 May 2005

EMBL’s fourth Director-General, Dr Iain Mattaj, takes office

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Dr. Iain Mattaj today took over the leadership of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL], a prominent basic research and training institute with laboratories in France, Germany, Italy and the UK. “The pace of progress in the life sciences is remarkable. I see my job as ensuring that…

2005

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28 February 2005

Double recognition of EBI scientists by the ISCB

EMBL Announcements The International Society for Computational Biology has named two scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute as the winners of its awards for 2005. Janet Thornton wins the Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award while the Overton Prize goes to Ewan Birney. Thomas Lengauer, the ISCB’s…

2005

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1 February 2005

European bioinformatics grid receives 8 million Euro

EMBL Announcements The Commission of the European Union has awarded 8.3 million Euro to a pan-European task force who will improve access to biological information for scientists throughout and beyond Europe. The EMBRACE Network of Excellence, which encompasses computational biologists from 17 institutes in 11…

2005

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