Lab Matters The new group leader is setting up the first purely theory-focused research group at EMBL Barcelona. He aims to understand fundamental biological principles using mathematical models and computer simulations, in close collaboration with experimental researchers across EMBL.
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Lab Matters Scientists from EMBL and its French academic partners gathered at EMBL Rome for a workshop to foster collaboration and advance research in neuroscience.
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Lab Matters New group leader Thomas Quail studies the fundamental processes that determine how proteins organise the genome inside a cell.
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Lab Matters Together with his team, Gergely Papp pushes the frontiers of technology development in the field of structural biology.
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Lab Matters Biological X-ray imaging is an emerging technology that uses X-rays to image tissues or even entire organisms. It will play an important role in EMBL Hamburg’s future service portfolio, and will allow studying life on multiple scales. Team Leader Liz Duke discusses her plans to establish X-ray…
2023
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Lab Matters EMBL’s site by the sea completed its fifth year of operations. We look back at some key milestones and achievements since 2017.
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Lab Matters EMBL is leading the TREC project: the first pan-European and cross-disciplinary effort to examine life in its natural context.
2023
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Lab Matters 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.
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Lab Matters EMBL’s French site was highlighted in a short film presenting its expertise in structural biology research and services.
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Lab Matters Physicists, engineers and robotics experts work together in EMBL Hamburg’s Instrumentation Team to design instruments that support structural biology research. The team has finished a transfer robot that facilitates automated handling of protein crystals with care and precision. This will help…
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Lab Matters, Picture of the week Researchers in the Prevedel Group use photoacoustic spectroscopy setup to test and optimise probes before their usage in mouse neuroscience.
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Lab Matters, Perspectives Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
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Lab Matters The Baltic nation of Estonia has become a full member of EMBL, joining the organisation as its 28th member state.
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Lab Matters EMBL is one of the partners of this project that aims to accelerate drug discovery and development, bringing in expertise from EMBL Grenoble and EMBL-EBI.
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Lab Matters EMBL Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation (SPC) Facility offers scientists access to almost all available biophysics technologies. The facility’s staff provides advice and support with experiments and data analysis. The facility is conveniently located just next to the EMBL…
2023
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Lab Matters Group Leader Hanh Vu studies ‘immortal’ flatworms that can grow and de-grow to understand better factors that determine organisms’ sizes.
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Lab Matters A recent student visitor shares her impressions from visiting EMBL’s Vincent group as we recognise International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
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Lab Matters One of EMBL’s core missions is the development and transfer of scientific know-how and technologies to academia, industry, and commercial entities to facilitate further research, innovations, and commercialisation for the benefit of society at large. Working across Europe, EMBL has partnerships…
2023
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Lab 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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Lab Matters New agreement with UN organisation will enable cooperation in the fields of open science, capacity building, and talent development
2023
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Lab Matters EMBL hosts inaugural meeting for major interdisciplinary project designed to boost understanding of ocean life
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Lab Matters The group leader, together with three other principal investigators, has been awarded the ERC Synergy Grant, one of the most prestigious public grants in Europe.
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Lab Matters, Picture of the week Tasmanian flatworms add to an EMBL researcher’s collection as she studies principles that control animal body size.
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Lab Matters, Picture of the week Mucus present in the mouse colon can be visualised using Alcian blue staining, as imaged here by EMBL predoctoral fellow Linda Decker.
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Lab Matters Rob Finn, one of the co-chairs of the Microbial Ecosystems theme, discusses his work, the challenges of multidisciplinary research, and how the theme is already helping to promote the exchange of scientific ideas.
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Lab Matters, Picture of the week Zebrafish embryos during gastrulation, a very early stage of development, to study the effect of temperature on vertebrate embryo development.
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Lab Matters, Picture of the week To identify which drugs disrupt bacterial envelope integrity, the Typas group uses a molecule called chlorophenyl red-β-D-galactopyranoside.
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Lab Matters Europe-wide project studies coastal and marine biodiversity from viruses to whales
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Lab Matters The Director General of EMBL was elected by her peers to become a member of one of France’s oldest national science academies.
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Lab Matters In October 2022, EMBL Grenoble participated in the annual science outreach event Parvis des Sciences, organised by the GIANT campus under the umbrella of the French science week – La Fête de la science.
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Lab Matters EMBL alumnus and eminent molecular biologist Peter B. Becker has been named the next chair of EMBL’s Council as of January 2023.
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Lab 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.
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Lab Matters The new group leader in Barcelona aims to understand how cells behave in health and in disease, and approaches her favourite hobby, cooking, very similarly to her work in the lab.
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Lab 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.
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Lab Matters Looking to understand microbial predator-prey relationships, EMBL’s newest group leader tackles a molecular ‘arms race’ in his lab.
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Lab Matters The biannual magazine that highlights EMBL’s research, people, and projects now has a new online home.
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Lab Matters Researchers and engineers have integrated a CrystalDirect harvester into the fully automated beamline MASSIF-1, a unique combination of structural biology technologies that is now open to external academic users.
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Lab Matters Newly appointed member of the ASAPbio Board of Directors, EMBL Group Leader Gautam Dey speaks about preprints, data management, and open science.
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Lab Matters After a postdoc at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, Flora Vincent has joined EMBL’s Developmental Biology unit to further explore the world of phytoplankton.
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Lab Matters The recent construction of the new ID29 beamline in Grenoble is pioneering a new way of doing experiments in time-resolved crystallography and opening up technology transfer possibilities
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Lab Matters The Royal Microscopical Society awarded Ardan Patwardhan and Wim Hagen with Scientific Achievement Award
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Lab Matters The final pilot project in Iceland marked the countdown to the ‘Traversing European Coastlines’ (TREC) expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to changes in the environment.
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Lab Matters The institutes have launched a joint new initiative which aims to make biology as engineerable as an aeroplane or a bridge.
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Lab Matters EMBL reminds teachers of freely available educational resources and workshops just in time for school.
2022
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Lab Matters Cell biologist Anthony Hyman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were announced among 25 Breakthrough Prize recipients
2022
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Lab Matters EMBL joined a kick-off event focusing on the developments related to the upgrade of the PETRA III synchrotron storage ring to PETRA IV at the DESY campus, where EMBL Hamburg is located. PETRA IV could open new possibilities at EMBL Hamburg, contributing to the goals of the EMBL Programme…
2022
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Lab Matters Dieter Schwarz Foundation renews 3-year funding to EMBL for the EMBL | Stanford Life Science Alliance, a unique international collaboration bringing together researchers from the two leading institutions to develop transformative technologies and accelerate biomedical research.
2022
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Lab Matters 20 secondary school students from all over Italy participated in the fourth edition of Summer in Science at EMBL Rome.
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Lab Matters The Scientific Visitor Programme shares EMBL tools and talent with outside researchers in collaborative, multidisciplinary environments.
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Lab Matters A new grant will provide a way for fundamental metabolomic research to realise its commercial potential and promise in aiding drug development and precision medicine.
2022
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Lab Matters EMBL delegation including the Director General visits Iceland marking another stage in this deepening scientific collaboration
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Lab Matters Virginie Uhlmann, Research Group Leader at EMBL-EBI and one of the co-chairs of the Theory@EMBL transversal theme, chats about how this theme will open up new research avenues.
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Lab Matters EMBL’s site by the sea hosted a trio of conferences this summer, covering topics ranging from vascular biology to engineered living systems to evolution.
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Lab Matters Jan Kosinski, Group Leader at EMBL Hamburg and one of the co-chairs of the Infection Biology theme in EMBL’s new programme, chats about how this theme will support his work and help establish new collaborations.
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Lab Matters EMBL’s new archive and records manager, Maria Papanikolaou, explains the dual role she and an additional colleague will have in the Office of Science Information Management.
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Lab Matters The GEEF facility at EMBL Rome supports scientists worldwide with scientific expertise and state-of-the-art gene editing technologies.
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Lab Matters Cornelius Gross, Miki Ebisuya and Nassos Typas join EMBO, the prestigious organisation for the life sciences.
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Lab Matters Participating researchers will lead projects to develop novel technologies for better science.
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Lab Matters EMBL’s 2021 Annual Report is now available, sharing mission highlights from the year in a new digital-first, sustainable format.
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Lab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard joined other L’Oreal-UNESCO Laureates in Paris for a series of events celebrating these outstanding researchers and their contributions.
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Announcements, Lab Matters The African BioGenome Project and EMBL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support each other in building genomics and bioinformatics capacity across Africa
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Lab Matters EMBL and IIT scientists met in person at EMBL Rome to strengthen their collaboration and explore new opportunities for scientific exchange
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Lab Matters Pascale Cossart, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the biology of Listeria, brings four decades of expertise in intracellular bacterial parasitism to EMBL as a visiting scientist.
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Lab Matters A new formal collaboration agreement enables will help smooth the transition from fundamental science to innovation.
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Lab Matters Fergal Martin discusses the importance of open access data and his work in different biodiversity initiatives
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Lab 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.
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Lab Matters Students from the Business Academy Aarhus visit EMBL Hamburg annually. Many of them return later as trainees to gain experience as lab technicians. EMBL Hamburg offers great opportunities to learn diverse techniques and work with various equipment. This experience helps them in their future jobs in…
2022
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Lab Matters, Perspectives Janet Thornton, the inaugural winner of the FEBS Journal Open Science Award, explains the importance and impact of open science.
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Lab Matters Peter Harrison discusses the importance of data accessibility and his passion for biodiversity and agricultural genomics.
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Lab Matters EMBL’s Head of Genome Biology announced as Fellow of the Royal Society for her exceptional contributions to science.
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Lab Matters The honour recognises distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Lab 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…
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Lab Matters Slovenian structural biologist Kristina Djinović-Carugo will join EMBL in July as the new Head of EMBL Grenoble. We spoke to her about her background, research interests, and plans for EMBL Grenoble.
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Lab Matters, Perspectives Ewan Birney discusses the input of both genetics and our environment in making us who we are
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Lab Matters EMBO Director Fiona Watt discusses preprints, data sharing, and evaluation in light of EMBL’s new Open Science policy
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Lab Matters EMBL and the Sapienza University of Rome confirm their reciprocal interest in intensifying collaborations and launch new opportunities for exchange of expertise
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Lab Matters EMBL Heidelberg’s Matthias Hentze receives the Biochemical Society’s Centenary Award for his discoveries in RNA biology.
2022
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Lab Matters John Lees joins EMBL-EBI as a Group Leader in Pathogen informatics and modelling.
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Lab Matters After a two-year break, the summer school organised by Adamas Scienza and EMBL in collaboration with CNR is back. It will take place at the International Research Campus of Monterotondo (Rome) from 13 to 24 June 2022.
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Lab 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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Lab 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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Lab Matters, Perspectives An exploration of what gender bias looks like in science and how organisations and individuals can address it
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Alumni, Lab Matters New study: EMBL PhDs and postdocs develop skills that make them highly employable in roles that drive research and innovation in academia, industry, and other sectors.
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Lab 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.
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Lab Matters The 11th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine meeting was hosted in virtual format by DANDRITE, the Danish node of the Partnership, from 31 January–2 February 2022. The programme included updates from all partnership nodes, discussions about opportunities for new collaborations,…
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Lab Matters Michael Dorrity, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, is studying how the environment influences early life stages in zebrafish.
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Alumni, Lab Matters, Technology and innovation Experiences at EMBL Rome led former group leader to establish his start-up in Italy, developing a new generation of gene therapies.
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Events, Lab Matters Ahead of the annual meeting of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, we spoke with its new Speaker, Mark Daly. Mark Daly, FIMM Director, recently accepted the post of Speaker of the Nordic EMBL Partnership. He explains his vision of the future cooperation between EMBL and the Nordics.
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Lab Matters The new EMBL Imaging Centre held its first on-site training workshop, introducing undergraduate students to the basics of volume electron microscopy. This marks the first of many opportunities to aid capacity-building in imaging techniques in Europe.
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Announcements, Lab Matters EMBL announces details about its next programme, ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’. It will guide studying life across scales and in context with changing environments.
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Lab Matters Melissa Harrison joins EMBL-EBI as the new Team Leader of Literature Services. We found out more about her plans for open access publishing and Europe PMC.
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Lab Matters Kristina Haase, Group Leader at EMBL Barcelona, will receive €1.5 million over the next five years to develop her project on 3D vascularised in vitro cardiac tissues.
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Lab Matters This year marks the beginning of EMBL’s next programme ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’ to advance the understanding of life across scales and in the context of changing environments.
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Lab Matters The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between EMBL and the Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB) a year ago has already catalysed new grants for joint research projects related to cancer and infection biology, thereby deepening collaborative activities.
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Lab Matters The agreement focuses on reinforcing the collaboration between scientists to strengthen our understanding of the organism in its environment.
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Lab Matters Showing a continued commitment to providing a diverse and inclusive organisation for conducting leading molecular biology research, EMBL has launched an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) strategy.
2021
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Lab Matters EMBL announces the release of its new Open Science Policy, contributing to positive culture change across the life sciences.
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Lab 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).
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Lab Matters EMBL and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) signed a memorandum of understanding.
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Lab Matters The new EMBL Imaging Centre has announced its first open user call, and new project evaluation process and training opportunities.
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Lab Matters Using gene editing and three types of microscopy, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders is deciphering the functions of one of the smallest molecules involved in cell division, motility, and signalling, known as a centriole.
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Lab Matters Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva is one of EMBL’s newest group leaders and a computational biologist whose research group applies computational modelling to better understand the metabolism of gut bacteria and their potential to have far-reaching impacts on other organs.
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Lab Matters Tudor Groza joins EMBL-EBI as our new Phenomics Team Lead. We found out from Tudor exactly what this new role will entail
2021
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Lab Matters A new model could serve as a platform to investigate critical placenta barrier phenomena, including defence against bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
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Lab Matters Correlative microscopy service enables PhD student from Switzerland to study structure and location of proteins cells use to communicate.
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Lab Matters Independent impact review finds EMBL experimental services are ‘critical’ for research and endorses EMBL as a world-class service provider for academia and industry.
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Lab Matters EMBL's PhD and postdoc programmes evolve to the more multidisciplinary way of doing great molecular biology research.
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Lab Matters Each year, EMBL Hamburg’s Svergun Group offers practical EMBO courses and lecture courses on biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The courses provide young scientists an opportunity to gain hands-on experience by measuring their own samples, and by exploring different aspects of SAXS…
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Lab Matters Svetlana Dodonova is one of EMBL's newest group leaders, leading a team of researchers who will study how genetic material is organised inside cells using structural biology approaches.
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Lab Matters Independent study reveals that EMBL-EBI open data resources are critical for the life sciences.
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Lab Matters The engagement of US and European Big Science facilities
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Lab Matters EMBL attends COP26 to argue for strategy to involve molecular biology in the Green Recovery
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Lab Matters A technology around since the ‘60s, flow cytometry has increasing applications. New leadership at EMBL’s flow cytometry facilities is looking to ease use, expand training, and encourage more collaboration.
2021
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Lab Matters Ian Dunham walks us through his career so far including working on the human genome project, seeing his work on the cover of Nature and his current role as Director of Open Targets.
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Lab Matters Professor Edith Heard is among new members elected to US National Academy of Medicine
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Lab Matters The two organisations have signed a memorandum of understanding to support scientific cooperation in the exploration of coastal and oceanic ecosystems.
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Lab Matters This autumn, students begin their PhD in research groups across EMBL’s six sites.
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Lab Matters A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between EMBL and the University of Tartu, a leading centre of research and training. The MoU aims to strengthen cooperation between EMBL and the life science research community in Estonia.
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Lab Matters In the lab, Diënty Hazenbrink works with microbes that live in our guts. In her free time, she enjoys wildlife photography. A shared set of skills facilitates both activities.
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Lab Matters EMBL and Hungarian research institutes will collaborate to address urgent biological and environmental challenges.
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Lab Matters Hundreds of school children explore the beauty of proteins through art
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Lab Matters EMBL and Helmholtz Association have signed a memorandum of understanding. The expanded collaboration of both institutions will focus on research related to health.
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Lab Matters Giulia Zanetti from the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB) in London explains how the collaboration with the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform enabled her group to reveal the structure of protein transport complexes.
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Lab Matters The new team leader at EMBL Hamburg talks about her plans to establish biological X-ray imaging and high-throughput tomography.
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Lab Matters EMBL launches new mentoring opportunity, linking Master’s students with postdoctoral researchers.
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Lab 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.
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Lab Matters MASSIF-1, run jointly by EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF, is a beamline for macromolecular crystallography. It is used by the research community to study the 3D structure of proteins, which is important for drug development.
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Lab Matters Distinctions recognise Peer’s development and sharing of bioinformatics tools as well as his significant contributions to bioinformatics research, education, and services.
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Lab Matters Mehdi Khadraoui, a former member of the EMBL Communications team, took this close-up of a black redstart.
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Lab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard has warmly welcomed Fiona Watt, who will become the new director of EMBO.
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Lab Matters The EMBL Imaging Centre is preparing for external user access, after an on-time and on-budget build and handover to the science team.
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Lab Matters EMBL welcomes Sarah Dyer, the new Non-Vertebrate Genomics Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.
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Lab 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.
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Lab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard has warmly welcomed the appointment of Professor Maria Leptin as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC)
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Lab Matters Anna Erzberger, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, will provide unique perspective as a theoretical biological physicist.
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Lab Matters EMBL group leaders Julia Mahamid, Anna Kreshuk & Jonas Ries awarded Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to advance what we see inside cells.
2021
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Lab Matters John Marioni, Alex Bateman, and Takashi Hiiragi have been elected to EMBO Membership.
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Lab Matters EMBL is conducting an Impact Assessment of our experimental services to understand the value these services have for our external user community. If you have accessed EMBL experimental services at one or more of our facilities to support the conduct of your research, we would like to hear from you.
2021
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Lab Matters EMBL’s EU Green Week event showcased various ways molecular biology research can help solve environmental challenges.
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Lab Matters EMBL Director Matthias Hentze describes the Environmental Research Initiative: a community effort to solve global environmental challenges.
2021
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Lab Matters EMBL and the Swedish Science for Life Laboratory sign agreement to advance science together.
2021
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Lab 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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Lab Matters A memorandum of understanding has been signed between EMBL and Inserm to strengthen their scientific cooperation.
2021
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Lab Matters The EMBL-Tara Ocean Foundation collaboration will expand opportunities to jointly explore molecular connections between ocean and humankind.
2021
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Lab Matters The European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the Italian Institute of Technology have signed an agreement to expand the scope of their collaboration to include areas of mutual interest and in the context of EMBL’s 2022-2026 Programme “Molecules to Ecosystems”.
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Lab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected into the US National Academy of Sciences, recognising her contributions to research.
2021
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Lab Matters Edith Heard has been appointed to a new World Health Organization advisory council.
2021
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Lab Matters A memorandum of understanding has been signed between EMBL, Collège de France, and the Institute of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS).
2021
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Lab Matters In a talk on 29 April, Professor Jeanette Woolard will share her experience of creating a more positive research culture
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Lab Matters Florent Cipriani, who recently retired as Head of the Instrumentation Team after a long career at EMBL Grenoble, is one of the pioneers of instrumentation development in this field.
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Lab Matters The challenges and opportunities when setting up a global archive for bioimages
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Lab Matters This MoU formalises a 15-year collaboration between the two institutes and strengthens Grenoble as a European research centre in the life sciences.
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Lab Matters The new group leader at EMBL Rome will study how embryos can inherit non-genetic information from their parents that causes stable and heritable effects
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Lab Matters Nassos Typas has received the German VAAM Research Award.
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Lab 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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Lab Matters Tracey Brown from Sense about Science shares her thoughts on the need to empower women to share and access scientific information.
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Lab Matters Members of EMBL’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee explain how EMBL is choosing to challenge through its LEAP mentoring programme.
2021
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Lab Matters EMBL invites Simon Gallow, an advocate at UN Women UK, to give a talk marking International Women’s Day.
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Lab Matters Applications are now open for the Life Science Alliance’s Bridging Excellence Fellowships, enabling postdocs to carry out collaborative projects at EMBL and Stanford University.
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Lab Matters EMBL's Environmental Officer Brendan Rouse explains more about his role as a European Climate Pact Ambassador.
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Lab Matters As one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, Sinem Saka will combine multiple technologies, such as microscopy and single-cell omics, to solve biological puzzles.
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Lab Matters Being a woman in science takes allies, not just great science. Here, EMBL’s L’Oréal–UNESCO Fellows talk about support networks.
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Lab Matters Anne Ephrussi has been awarded the German Feldberg Prize 2022 in recognition of her outstanding research.
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Lab Matters The Sample Preparation and Characterisation (SPC) Facility at EMBL Hamburg is one of the founding members of the Molecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure (MOSBRI). Within this new European initiative, the SPC Facility will offer services related to membrane proteins, protein complexes,…
2021
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Lab Matters Gautam Dey is fascinated by the evolutionary origins of the nucleus, and is looking forward to making the most of EMBL's infrastructure.
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Lab Matters Professor Dame Janet Thornton discusses work–life balance, the support she has received during her career, and how organisations can help staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
2021
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Lab Matters EMBL and EMBRC have signed a memorandum of understanding for increased scientific collaboration.
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Lab Matters EMBL Teen Maria-Theresa Licka shares how female scientists guided & inspired her to develop an app to ID vine disease.
2021
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Lab Matters Roshni Mooneeram discusses what Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is to her, and what the meaning of allyship is.
2021
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Lab Matters Open letter galvanises life science community in support of open COVID-19 data
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Lab Matters EMBL and CNR have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen scientific cooperation. The agreement will foster collaborative projects and integrate them within the European and global scientific landscape.
2021
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Lab Matters The latest issue of Science in School highlights the eight members of EIROforum.
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Lab Matters New group leader Nicoletta Petridou explains her fascination with the complexity of early embryo development, and how the interdisciplinary nature of EMBL will aid her research.
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Lab Matters EMBL and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg are increasing their already existing collaborations with a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions.
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Lab Matters The EMBL Imaging Centre is scheduled to open in 2021 with Timo Zimmermann as Team Leader for advanced light microscopy technology development and service provision.
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Lab Matters One of EMBL’s newest group leaders, Olivier Duss, will explore how RNA folds into functional structures and how it works with proteins to control a diverse range of activities in the cell.
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Lab Matters EMBL’s sites in Grenoble, Hamburg, and Heidelberg form the newest Instruct Centre. The new centre offers users access to a broad range of state-of-the-art facilities.
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Lab Matters Schoolchildren create exquisite protein-inspired artworks
2020
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Lab 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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Lab Matters Funding by the European Research Council (ERC) will support research on the timing of developmental processes in mammals
2020
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Lab 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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Lab 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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Lab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard introduced EMBL’s future plans during a parliamentary event at the Paul-Löbe-Haus of the German Bundestag in Berlin. She shared examples of EMBL’s research and outlined how EMBL’s activities will develop.
2020
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Lab Matters Ever-evolving technology and related budgetary, regulatory, and management challenges prompted EMBL to establish its new ARISE fellowship programme, which begins accepting applicants in December.
2020
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Lab Matters Why should researchers make artificial intelligence more transparent and how can they do it?
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL’s Rupert Lück is engaged in developing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): the infrastructure that will support the future of data sharing and analysis in Europe.
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL and CIML have signed a memorandum of understanding that will open up new scientific opportunities.
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Lab Matters New associate group leader at EMBL Hamburg investigates the structure of functional amyloids in bacteria and in human disease
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Lab Matters On 9 October, EMBL and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding that paves the way for stronger collaboration between these two leading research institutions.
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Lab Matters Research facilities play a crucial role in the advancement of science by supporting scientists with specialised expertise and state-of-the-art equipment. The Microscopy Facility at EMBL Rome exemplifies this role by making a wide variety of light microscopy technologies available to its researchers…
2020
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Lab Matters On 8 September, EMBL and Vilnius University Life Sciences Center signed a framework agreement for the establishment of the VU LSC–EMBL Partnership for Genome Editing Technologies.
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Lab Matters ARISE fellowships to offer first-ever comprehensive training for bioscience infrastructure operations
2020
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Lab Matters A decadal roadmap points the way to cell-based medicine for Europe
2020
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Lab Matters Two EMBL speakers gave presentations that looked toward the future and at ways to trailblaze on the endless frontier of science.
2020
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Lab Matters Maria Bernabeu and Wojciech Galej have each been awarded €1.5 million to research malaria and pre-mRNA splicing, respectively.
2020
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Lab 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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Lab 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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Lab Matters The Head of the Electron Microscopy Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg receives Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Award 2020
2020
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Lab 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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Lab Matters The new team leader offering services in electron microscopy discusses his hopes and plans for the forthcoming EMBL Imaging Centre
2020
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Lab Matters The Web Development team provides a central source of web design and development for EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). In July, Geetika Malhotra joined the team as their new Head.
2020
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Lab Matters As he enters retirement, Head of EMBL Rome Phil Avner reflects on his scientific career and memories from his time as Head of EMBL’s site in Italy
2020
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Lab Matters Researchers from all life science disciplines – from fundamental biological research to medical applications – generate immense datasets. Analysing these datasets and gaining new knowledge from them is a growing challenge for scientists. The fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine…
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard and EMBO Director Maria Leptin respond to the current proposal on the Multiannual Financial Framework.
2020
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Lab Matters European collaboration receives funding to explore risks and impact of future infectious disease outbreaks.
2020
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Lab 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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Lab Matters The European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS), EMBL’s education facility, invites secondary school science teachers to participate in a virtual training course this autumn entitled ‘Introducing your microbiome’.
2020
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Lab Matters Latvia has joined EMBL as a prospect member, starting a three-year process toward full membership.
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Lab 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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Lab Matters The CrystalDirect® technology, combined with the web-based CRIMS software enable a fully automated, remote-controlled protein-to-structure pipeline.
2020
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Lab 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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Lab 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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Lab Matters Open Targets welcomes new Informatics Science Director
2020
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Lab Matters A national consortium including EMBL and the DKFZ is set to launch the German Human Genome–Phenome Archive, creating an invaluable bridge between fundamental biomedical research and applied healthcare.
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL is joining the virtual seminar series ‘Life Science Across the Globe’ – a timely initiative to foster international scientific exchange across countries and continents, starting on 1 July.
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL is striving to make its labs and offices a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. To achieve this goal, EMBL's Equality and Diversity Officers, Luisa Vieites Rodrigues and Zac O'Sullivan, are working closely with leadership and the EMBL community. In this interview, they share their…
2020
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Lab Matters Jan Korbel and Oliver Stegle have performed a survey of fellow life scientists to learn how the current crisis, with partial or complete institutional shutdowns, is affecting their work.
2020
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Lab Matters The European Molecular Biology Laboratory has secured 6.8 million Euros funding from the European Commission to launch a unique training programme. The ARISE Programme will train and develop Europe’s next generation leadership for research infrastructures in the life sciences.
2020
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Lab Matters The nervous system has fascinated Georgia Rapti ever since her first introduction to biology. Her research group in the Developmental Biology unit will focus on understanding the early biological events involved in the nervous system’s formation.
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL welcomes NetApp, a leader in cloud data services empowering global organisations to change their world with data, as member of the Corporate Partnership Programme of the EMBL Advanced Training Centre.
2020
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Lab Matters The Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine has been awarded 210,000 euros. The funds will be used to train the next generation of specialists and research leaders in molecular medicine in the Nordic countries.
2020
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Lab 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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Lab Matters Brendan Rouse came to Heidelberg in March as EMBL’s Environmental Officer, tasked with monitoring the organisation’s environmental impact and promoting sustainable practices. Here, he discusses his plans for the new role.
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL Director General Edith Heard responds to the resignation of the President of the European Research Council (ERC)
2020
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Lab Matters Three international teams involving EMBL Heidelberg have been granted funding from the European Commission for three Twinning projects with institutes in Portugal and the Czech Republic.
2020
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Lab Matters Bastian Drees is a biophysicist turned librarian, who joined EMBL in January as the new Head of Library. Here, he discusses the changing role of libraries and how they can help scientists organise and share their results.
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for our staff and visitors.
2020
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Lab Matters Stories from EMBL’s past are captured via the EMBL Archive’s Oral Histories programme
2020
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Lab Matters Theresia Bauer and EMBL discuss organisational developments and future strategies
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL’s new Science and Society Manager shares her plans for fostering multidisciplinary dialogue
2020
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Lab Matters 2020 call now open for FNR funding of bilateral projects between EMBL and Luxembourg
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL Director General recognised alongside four other exceptional women in the life sciences
2020
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Lab Matters How EMBL’s ‘Microscope in Action’ introduces teenagers to the basics of fluorescence microscopy
2020
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Lab 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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Lab Matters New grant will increase collaboration between imaging centres and fuel scientific discovery
2020
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Lab Matters The new EMBL spinoff company Araxa Biosciences GmbH aims to set new standards for the development of antibody-based therapeutics and diagnostics
2020
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Lab Matters Judith Reichmann will receive this year’s Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers
2020
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Lab Matters The latest issue of the free magazine, Science in School, is now available for teachers worldwide.
2020
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Lab Matters The call for applications for Bridging Excellence Fellowships is now open
2020
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Lab Matters EU funding for iNEXT-Discovery consortium unlocks key technologies for structural biology
2019
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Lab Matters EMBL’s Jan Ellenberg reflects on the process of forming a European research infrastructure
2019
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Lab Matters Forty-seven PhD students from all of EMBL’s six sites were celebrated during EMBL’s 2019 Graduation Ceremony on Friday 13 December
2019
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Lab Matters EMBL is now a member of the Instruct-ERIC organisation
2019
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Lab 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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Lab Matters For many students in the life sciences, finishing a PhD marks a professional crossroads
2019
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Lab Matters The Szilárd Library celebrates its 40th anniversary on 20 November 2019.
2019
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Lab Matters EMBL is a collaborator in four of the projects funded in the first phase of ATTRACT.
2019
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Lab Matters Euro-BioImaging now established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium
2019
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Lab Matters EMBL career advisors discuss the new portfolio of activities
2019
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Lab Matters Native Scientist’ organises multilingual science workshops for children of migrant communities.
2019
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Lab Matters Interview with Janka Motešická: a EUCYS 2018 prize winner
2019
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Lab Matters Indrek Reimand discusses the life sciences in Estonia, a prospect member of EMBL.
2019
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Lab Matters Promotions for Anne Ephrussi, Rainer Pepperkok, Paul Flicek and Jo McEntyre
2019
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Lab Matters Tomasz Smolarek and Natalia Kret in conversation.
2019
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Lab Matters Reflecting on 20 years of EMBLEM
2019
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Lab Matters Setting up a kids coding club - where to start
2019
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Lab Matters EIPOD4 will prepare researchers for the increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific career paths
2019
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Lab Matters Joining forces to support early-career scientists
2019
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Lab Matters The team at ELLS use Lego to teach children the fundamentals of DNA.
2019
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Lab Matters The head of EMBL’s Barcelona site joins a prestigious group of more than 1800 scientists worldwide
2019
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Lab Matters Lithuania becomes EMBL’s 27th member state
2019
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Lab Matters Overwhelmed as a biologist getting to grips with computer programming? EMBLers are here to help!
2019
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Lab Matters Edith Heard and Jean-Eric Paquet discuss the future of European science
2019
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Lab Matters EMBL success in attracting EU funding
2019
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Lab Matters The current and previous Directors General discuss what it means to lead an organisation like EMBL
2019
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Lab Matters Building bonds between academia and industry
2019
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Lab Matters The Nordic EMBL Partnership directors discuss the value of collaborating across borders
2019
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Lab Matters New head of ORD will build and expand the partnerships that help EMBL achieve its ambitions
2019
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Lab Matters The Francis Crick Institute and EMBL have agreed to work together to strengthen European science
2019
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Lab Matters EMBL’s Plamena Markova reflects on the EMBL Partnership Programme
2019
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Lab Matters EMBL begins partnership with Polish centre of excellence for neural plasticity and brain disorders
2019
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Lab Matters PDBe-KB - new data resource for protein structure and function launches
2019
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Lab Matters On 5 February 2019, EMBL welcomed Poland as its 26th member state
2019
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Lab Matters Enhancing the world's bioinformatics infrastructure
2019
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Lab Matters A collection of the most read articles from the EMBL news website in 2018
2019
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Lab Matters New director drives drug discovery partnership forward
2019
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Lab Matters Joining forces to advance training in biomedical research and therapy
2019
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Lab Matters On January 1 2019, Edith Heard takes up the position of EMBL’s Director General
2019
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Lab Matters EMBL’s Design Team Lead on translating scientific discoveries into visual designs
2018
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Lab Matters EMBL’s GeneCore steps up to discover the facts and settle disputes
2018
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Lab Matters EMBL partners with the Hungarian Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine
2018
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Lab Matters What does it take to create a vaccine or improve cancer therapies?
2018
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Lab Matters Building bridges between scientists and software developers
2018
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Lab Matters The EMBL Archive is open for business!
2018
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Lab Matters How EMBL scientists are using machine learning to advance biology
2018
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Lab Matters Pharmaceutical company Sanofi strengthens drug targets discovery collaboration Open Targets
2018
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Lab Matters Ioanna Ydraiou and Bernd Pulverer spoke about their view of challenges and opportunities of OA.
2018
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Lab Matters Researchers at EMBL Hamburg have released the next generation of their ARP/wARP software
2018
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Lab Matters EMBL and Promega collaborate to train young scientists
2018
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Lab Matters ATTRACT initiative will fund 170 breakthrough detection and imaging ideas with market potential
2018
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Lab Matters The ATTRACT initiative, of which EMBL is a partner, has launched an open call for seed funding
2018
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Lab Matters Discover how EMBLers across all sites share their passion for science
2018
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Lab Matters Roche and EMBL join forces
2018
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Lab Matters A history of EMBL in six objects from the EMBL Archive
2018
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Lab Matters Montenegro becomes EMBL’s 25th member state
2018
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Lab Matters EMBL-EBI PhD student launches start-up focusing on epigenetics and wellbeing
2018
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Lab Matters EMBL’s Director General has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
2018
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Lab Matters EMBL alumna, Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez, on how her research and career evolved after searching the seas
2018
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Lab Matters New partner strengthens drug discovery collaboration
2018
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Lab Matters Montenegro’s Minister of Science discusses the importance of international collaboration in research
2018
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Lab Matters Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001, scientists and the media described the genome as “the book of life”, holding the answers to the way genes are linked to disease. Yet, seventeen years later, we are still deciphering how cells interpret this book. Since…
2018
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Lab Matters EMBL Group Leader creates Ben Barres Prize to support talented young neuroscientists
2018
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Lab Matters For Vasiliki Karyoti, troubleshooting and problem-solving take on a greater meaning at EMBL
2018
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Lab Matters New EMBL spinoff company Velabs Therapeutics aims to speed up discovery of therapeutic antibodies
2018
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Lab Matters Maria Leptin reflects on how to create a research environment that serves the needs of the community
2018
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Lab Matters Discover the past lives and journeys that brought people to EMBL
2018
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Lab Matters Joining forces for single-cell research
2018
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Lab Matters EMBL welcomes Slovakia as its 24th member state
2018
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Lab Matters EMBL instrumentation teams adapting tech to run biological experiments on the synchrotron after its upgrade
2018
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Lab Matters Historian Soraya de Chadarevian explores how EMBL’s first Director General shaped molecular biology
2017
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Lab Matters A look back at some of the most read stories on EMBL’s news website this year
2017
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Lab Matters Curious about what goes on in EMBL’s Fly Room? Prepare to be a fly on the wall
2017
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Lab Matters Takeda joins pioneering public-private drug discover collaboration Open Targets
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL Director General elect, Edith Heard, awarded 2017’s Grand Prix Inserm for her work in epigenetics
2017
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Lab Matters EMBLers across all sites share how their curiosity about the world shapes their everyday life
2017
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Lab Matters Interview with EMBL’s Joint Heads of Government and EU Relations
2017
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Lab Matters Takashi Hiiragi and Lars Steinmetz received Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC)
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL releases recommendations for the 9th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
2017
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Lab Matters Six curious questions and the EMBL community's answers. Check back each week for the next question
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL and HeidelbergCement sign Memorandum of Understanding
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
2017
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Lab Matters Aid for Labs is an EMBL-based charity aiming to provide scientific equipment to researchers in need
2017
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Lab Matters How Australia’s associate membership of EMBL empowers scientists and drives collaboration
2017
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Lab Matters Bernt Eric Uhlin, Director of MIMS, will replace Kjetil Taskén, Director of NCMM
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL’s annual reception took place on 18 September, with more than 150 attendees
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL researchers separated facts from fiction at a Friends of EMBL Science Movie Night
2017
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Lab Matters German state and federal governments agree funding for microscopy centre at EMBL Heidelberg
2017
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Lab Matters Biologists Sydney Brenner and Richard J. Roberts addressed the importance of scientific archives
2017
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Lab Matters School student Andrea Totaro and EMBL group leader Christophe Lancrin reflect
2017
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Lab Matters NEB joins EMBL’s corporate partnership programme
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL-EBI supports bioinformatics training and capacity in Latin America
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL’s cycling team complete epic journey to raise money for Heidelberg’s children’s hospital
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL’s unit in Italy changes name to better reflect new research focuses and highlight its location
2017
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Lab Matters On 29 June, at a ceremony in front of 700 guests, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) in Hamburg, was officially opened. At the event on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Campus in Hamburg, Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, presented Head of EMBL Hamburg…
2017
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Lab Matters Edith Heard’s mandate scheduled to begin 1 January 2019
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL-EBI, the Broad and UCSC Genomics Institute to build Data Coordination Platform with CZI support
2017
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Lab Matters Inventor of OPT will be the first Head of EMBL’s new Barcelona site
2017
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Lab Matters People across EMBL’s sites reflect on the ways they perceive their world
2017
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Lab Matters Accelerating researchers’ access to next-generation light-sheet microscopy
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL welcomes its 23rd member state, with a promising collaboration already in place
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL alumnus Konrad Müller has sadly passed away
2017
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Lab Matters Call for applications for school students to join ‘Summer in Science’ in Monterotondo
2017
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Lab Matters Spanish government and EMBL sign agreement for new site
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL Director-General, Iain Mattaj, reflects on the work done to establish a new site in Barcelona
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL’s Monterotondo site strengthens links with the Italian scientific community
2017
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Lab Matters Silke Schumacher explains how the new EMBL site in Barcelona came into being
2017
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Lab Matters Anna Tramontano, bioinformatics pioneer and EMBL alumna, has passed away
2017
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Lab Matters Janet Thornton reflects on the contributions of EMBL alumna Anna Tramontano
2017
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Lab Matters Diversity, internationality and collaboration works, writes EMBL Director-General Iain Mattaj
2017
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Lab Matters “Without John Kendrew there would have been no EMBL,” wrote Ken Holmes
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL’s new Academic Coordinator and Dean of Graduate Studies Monika Lachner leads programmes that help young scientists to flourish
2017
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Lab Matters Ottoline Leyser on the fallacy of failure and the road to self-determination
2017
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Lab Matters Sartorius and EMBL join forces to support advanced training and science education
2017
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Lab Matters GSK and EMBL have signed an agreement to enhance understanding of disease and drug mechanisms
2017
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Lab Matters Beamline BM14 in Grenoble shuts down, continues collaboration with India
2017
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Lab Matters In this interview from the EMBL Archive, Sir John Kendrew reflects on his time leading 'the Lab'.
2017
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Lab Matters Helke Hillebrand on leaving EMBL after 9 years as Academic Coordinator and Dean of Graduate Studies
2017
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Lab Matters Ewan Birney's nine "Structures of Christmas" celebrate 20 years of PDBe
2016
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Lab Matters Iain Mattaj on failure, adventure, determination and the Scientific Method
2016
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Lab Matters For the past two months EMBL Heidelberg has hosted around 60 first year PhD students from EMBL’s International PhD Programme (EIPP). From thousands of applicants, the students were selected from over 40 countries to work on their PhD research at one of EMBL’s five sites – Grenoble, Hamburg,…
2016
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Lab Matters A new crystallography platform in Grenoble opens the door to new technological developments
2016
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Lab Matters EMBL’s Petra Riedinger retires after 40 years producing posters, graphics, artwork and more
2016
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Lab Matters How a team of scientists and artists at EMBL transformed microscopy data into stunning 3D images
2016
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Lab Matters EMBL study finds that rearranging how DNA packs the nucleus can activate cancer genes
2016
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Lab Matters Upgraded server room is ready to take the heat at EMBL Grenoble
2016
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Lab Matters Hope Jahren’s autobiography educates and delights
2016
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Lab Matters We catch up with neuroscientist Craig Stark, speaker at the EMBL/EMBO Science and Society Conference
2016
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Lab Matters Global Alliance for Genomics and Health chose Birney to lead efforts to bring genomics to the clinic
2016
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Lab Matters Rosemary Wilson talks about imposter syndrome and how to handle it
2016
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Lab Matters EMBL recently attended the Naturejobs Career Expo, advising scientists about their career options
2016
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Lab Matters CORBEL Open Call launches October 2016, for access to 15 facilities and 8 research infrastructures
2016
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Lab Matters Stephen Cusack looks back on the early days of his collaboration with Anacor developing anti-infectives
2016
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Lab Matters Andrés Palencia on the design of compounds that may help fight drug-resistant TB and more
2016
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Lab Matters A new repository helps identify emerging trends in data-driven science.
2016
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Lab Matters EMBL and the Hubrecht Institute signed a 5-year partnership agreement
2016
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Lab Matters Turning the spotlight on the diverse universe of EMBL’s 200-strong postdoc community
2016
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Lab Matters Celebrating the rich history of scientific contributions in Malta, EMBL's newest member state
2016
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Lab Matters Unexpected adventures at EMBL LearningLAB focused on biodiversity
2016
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Lab Matters Integration, collaboration and openness on agenda for Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research
2016
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Lab Matters Bruce Alberts on fixing the broken academic career pipeline
2016
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Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
2016
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Lab Matters German students visit EMBL-EBI on a tour to explore a new culture and different career paths
2016
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Lab Matters In a time of great uncertainty, key facts about EMBL's status, collaborations, funding and recruitment
2016
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Lab Matters The UK’s decision to leave the EU has no direct consequences for the UK’s membership of EMBL
2016
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Lab Matters Grenoble-based Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) renewed for five more years
2016
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Lab Matters Review of 'Life’s Blueprint: The Science and Art of Embryo Creation' by Benny Shilo
2016
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Lab Matters Illustrator Edmond Baudoin donates an original artwork to the EMBL Archive
2016
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Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
2016
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Lab Matters Award acknowledges leadership in gender equality on the Wellcome Genome Campus
2016
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Lab Matters Iain Mattaj talks about the search for his successor
2016
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Lab Matters Independent analysis of EMBL-EBI underscores the value and impact of open data in the life sciences
2016
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Lab Matters Pioneering target validation collaboration expands to accelerate drug discovery research.
2016
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Lab Matters "We’re open! We’re open to working with everybody, we’re open to new things."
2016
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Lab Matters Identifying evidence-based relationships between drug targets and diseases.
2015
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Lab Matters The new Toolkit for Trainers, an online resource hosted at EMBL-EBI, helps biomedical science trainers create and explore new ways of teaching.
2015
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Lab Matters "There’s nothing nicer than seeing a user leave the facility happy"
2015
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Lab Matters Compelling short stories that shine light on the life and work of EMBL staff.
2015
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Lab Matters Roland Block, EMBL's Head of HR, on emphasising the ‘human’ in human resources.
2015
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Lab Matters Ewan Birney on the risks, rewards and realities of studying humans as a model species.
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Lab Matters Halldór Stefánsson on the long history of complex interactions between humans and animals.
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Lab Matters Giuseppe Testa reflects on the myriad intersections of our digital and biological lives.
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Lab Matters Postdoc Thibaut Brunet reviews two popular science books that explore the rise of Homo sapiens.
2015
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Lab Matters What does a physicist do in a biology lab?
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Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
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Lab Matters Sybrand van der Zwaag gives his five top tips for young researchers thinking about their next move.
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Lab Matters Hamburg researchers have a ball creating game to explain transporter protein mechanism.
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Lab Matters A microscopy technique is poised to shine new light on biological questions: as sheets of light can scan everything from developing embryos to single cells or functioning brains, a technique called light-sheet microscopy is gaining traction. It enables scientists to observe living cells in three…
2015
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Lab Matters Amidst the excitement of Nobel Week, behind the scenes of the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
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Lab Matters Sveiki Lietuva! Lithuania becomes EMBL’s fourth prospect member state.
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Lab Matters Gold medal celebrates Eric Karsenti’s exceptional career and outstanding contributions to biology.
2015
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Lab Matters Renewals and reunions: EMBL’s Nordic partners look to the future.
2015
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Lab Matters Introducing the Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank, developed at EMBL Hamburg.
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Lab Matters “A structure alone is not so interesting, you need the biology too,” says new NMR-focused group leader
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Lab Matters New group explores why patients with same cancer exhibit unique constellations of genetic mutations.
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Lab Matters Maja Köhn’s lab is ideal to learn what life is like working at the interface of disciplines.
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Lab Matters Janet Thornton reflects on her time as Director of one of Europe’s fastest growing research institutes.
2015
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Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
2015
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Lab Matters What’s on your Summer reading list? Here are some favourites of staff in the Lab.
2015
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Lab Matters Maria Kamber, who heads the mouse facility, ensures “dignity, compassion and respect” for her charges.
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Lab Matters EMBL Core Facilities collaborate with French research programme Signalife to revive training visit.
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Lab Matters Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) with the University of Heidelberg, renewed until 2025.
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Lab Matters Alumnus Damian Brunner revisits EMBL in a very special capacity, as Swiss delegate on EMBL’s Council.
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Lab Matters EI3POD: flagship interdisciplinary postdoc programme opens its doors to academia and industry.
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Lab Matters “Interactions: that’s what I like the most in biology” – meet Lukáš Janošík, EUCYS 2014 prize winner.
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Lab Matters Database administrator's photo essay reflects internationality and personality of the Genome Campus.
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Lab Matters Academic community clouds take cancer research towards a brighter future.
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Lab Matters Staff gather to celebrate Janet Thorton's 14 years as Director of EMBL-EBI.
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Lab Matters Sarah Teichmann recognised for her contributions to science with the EMBO Gold Award 2015.
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Lab Matters EMBL’s new open access policy aims to make EMBL research widely and freely accessible.
2015
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Lab Matters CERN openlab enters a new phase, expanding to include EMBL-EBI and other public research organisations.
2015
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Lab Matters Jenny Cham blogs about how ORCID helps distinguish her from all the other Jenny Chams in the world.
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Lab Matters HMMER – a fast, sensitive search tool – helps find sequence relationships deep in evolutionary time.
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Lab Matters ELIXIR receives major Horizon 2020 funding to ‘EXCELERATE' activities over the next four years.
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Lab Matters Stephen Cusack, head of EMBL Grenoble, among 47 new Royal Society fellows.
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Lab Matters In their quest to make structural biology more accessible, PDBe launches a new website.
2015
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Lab Matters EMBL’s new Archivist will help chronicle the twists and turns, ups and downs of life at the Lab.
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Lab Matters Q&A: Which analogy best describes your research?
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Lab Matters Karin Sasaki is helping bridge the gap between quantitative and life science at EMBL.
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Lab Matters Major EU funding for CORBEL, facilitating access to data and biological imaging facilities.
2015
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Lab Matters GWAS Catalog, originally developed by the NHGRI in the US, moves to EMBL-EBI.
2015
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Lab Matters Klaus Tschira, a tireless supporter of science, education and talent, died 31 March 2015.
2015
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Lab Matters Rolf Apweiler and Ewan Birney appointed Joint Directors of EMBL-EBI, as Janet Thornton steps down.
2015
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Lab Matters A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases.
2015
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Lab Matters Wellcome Genome Campus gives first Best Practice Award for Supporting Women in Science.
2015
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Lab Matters Building and visualising protein-interaction networks is easier and more accurate thanks to IntAct.
2015
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Lab Matters Jeffrey Barrett appointed Director of CTTV, the GSK, EMBL-EBI and Sanger Institute partnership.
2015
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Lab Matters A blog extract by Ewan Birney reflects on the challenges of moving a massive data-centre.
2015
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Lab Matters Find answers to 40 of your questions about life, the Lab and everything!
2015
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Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
2015
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Lab Matters Which tales have illuminated something important to you? Staff from the Lab provide their favourite.
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Lab Matters Meet Dean of Graduate Studies, Helke Hillebrand.
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Lab Matters PhD student Silvia Rohr on studying eyes – and talking about it for a general audience.
2015
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Lab Matters New project aims to speed up detection and response to disease outbreaks using genome technology.
2015
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Lab Matters New Christian Boulin Fellowship: 15 awards of up to €1500 for visitors to EMBL’s Core Facilities.
2015
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Lab Matters EMBL-EBI supports relaunch of yourgenome.org, to bring genetics advances to a wider audience.
2015
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Lab Matters Third round of calls for joint research projects between EMBL and Luxembourg in 2015
2014
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Lab Matters The day EMBL Hamburg predocs and postdocs invited Nobel Prize Winner Ada Yonath to dinner.
2014
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Lab Matters Workshops, seminars and honorary lectures – strong start for EMBL’s newest associate member state.
2014
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Lab Matters 'Big Data to Knowledge' project by UCLA, Scripps and EMBL-EBI to transform protein data to knowledge.
2014
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Lab Matters How the author of a prize-winning project on bee travel ended up at a stem cells and cancer conference
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Lab Matters How does EMBL-EBI run millions of jobs for its users while moving its two large data centres?
2014
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Lab Matters Music, bubbles and DNA: a collaborative project brings artist and scientist together
2014
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Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards - meet the latest honourees
2014
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Lab Matters Drumming, drama, dancing and discovery in a diary of art and science event, Roche Continents.
2014
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Lab Matters Bibliophiles from the Lab pick out the stories that have inspired them at work and elsewhere.
2014
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Lab Matters PhD student Charles breeze found inspiration at this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting.
2014
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Lab Matters Pathfinding – poetic and practical – was a common theme in blogs from the EMBL network.
2014
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Lab Matters Andrew D Robertson, scientific coordinator of EICAT between 2011–12, died on 14 August 2014.
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Lab Matters Tschira-Jugendakademie pupils get hands-on during day of DNA barcoding
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Lab Matters Nordic partners focus on "enhancing research enterprise", says Kjetil Taskén
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Lab Matters Artist Stephen Wright gifts artwork inspired by DNA storage research to EMBL-EBI.
2014
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Lab Matters A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases
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Lab Matters Gyron Ltd awarded contract to supply EMBL-EBI's data centres over the next five years
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Lab Matters New genomics API allows researchers to share anonymised genetic data seamlessly across platforms.
2014
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Lab Matters Have a pressing question? EMBL experts are standing by to answer! Submit yours today.
2014
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Lab Matters Czech delegate Jana Bystřická represents EMBL's 21st member state at her first Council Meeting.
2014
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Lab Matters As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
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Lab Matters School ambassadors show next generation that scientists are more ‘role model’ than ‘mad professor’
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Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards - meet the latest honourees
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Lab Matters To photographer Horst Hamann, it's the people, not the science, that make EMBL unique
2014
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Lab Matters Film enthusiasts from the Lab review their favourite science movies, one for each EMBL decade
2014
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Lab Matters Christian Boulin, EMBL’s Director of Core Facilities and Services, died on 27 April 2014
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Lab Matters What might life alien life look like? Lewis Dartnell studies extreme bacteria to find out
2014
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Lab Matters As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
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Lab Matters Busy times for EMBL keep Director of International Relations Silke Schumacher on the move
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Lab Matters Scientists from EMBL's five sites reflect on the opportunities and challenges that might lie ahead
2014
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Lab Matters Which scientific breakthroughs would EMBL scientists most like to see in the next 40 years?
2014
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Lab Matters A new EMBL-EBI biomedical initiative works to determine the best target proteins for new drugs.
2014
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Lab Matters A pioneering public-private research initiative between GSK, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is to harness the power of ‘big data’ and genome sequencing to improve the success rate for discovering new medicines. The new Centre for…
2014
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Lab Matters Europe is uniting to make state-of-the-art imaging technologies accessible to biomedical researchers throughout the continent in a concerted manner. The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and seven countries (Belgium, Finland, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom)…
2014
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Lab Matters Euro-BioImaging, the pan-European open access research infrastructure for biological and medical imaging technologies, invites leading European imaging facilities to submit proposals to participate. Applications to become a Euro-BioImaging node will be reviewed by a board of independent…
2013
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Lab Matters Today, the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine celebrates two important milestones: the renewal of the partnership agreement for an extended period of 10 years, and the expansion of the Nordic EMBL network with the official opening of the Danish Research Institute of Translational…
2013
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Lab Matters The European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) warmly welcome today’s announcement from the UK Government of a £75 million commitment from the Department for Business, Innovation…
2011
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Lab Matters Today marks an important step for ELIXIR, Europe’s emerging research infrastructure for life-science information, as five countries plus the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to catalyse the implementation and construction of ELIXIR. The…
2011
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Lab Matters Lennart Philipson, who served as EMBL’s second Director General, has passed away. Lennart headed EMBL for over a decade between 1982-93, a crucial time for molecular biology when different scientific disciplines in the life sciences were becoming increasingly interlinked. He reorganised the…
2011
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Lab Matters In a Memorandum of Understanding signed today, the European Commission (EC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) formalise their desire to maintain and further develop their cooperation. “I am delighted to sign the renewed and strengthened Memorandum of Understanding between the…
2011
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Lab Matters The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) welcome news that funding has been earmarked from the UK’s Large Facilities Capital Fund for ELIXIR – the European Life-science…
2011
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Lab Matters At the Autumn 2010Council meeting of the EIROforum, a partnership of seven European intergovernmental research organisations with large research infrastructures, the Directors General unanimously accepted the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL), based in Hamburg, Germany, to…
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Lab Matters Today, the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine officially inaugurates the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) in Helsinki. Together with the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM, University of Oslo) and the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS, Umeå…
2010
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Lab Matters Today, the German Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, officially opens the new training and conference centre for the life sciences on the campus of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. “This new centre in Heidelberg will form a central European…
2010
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Lab Matters BBSRC has awarded funding to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), based at Hinxton near Cambridge, to permit a dramatic increase in the institute’s data storage and handling capacity. The funding is the first step in developing the existing…
2009
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Lab Matters On June 26 2009 the joint international Unit for Virus and Host Cell Interactions (Unité Mixte Internationale) was formally established in Grenoble. The unit is run jointly by CNRS, the Grenoble outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Grenoble University Joseph…
2009
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Lab Matters Mice are one of biology’s most important model organisms, because 98% of their genes and many of their traits and diseases are similar to ours. Researchers at the Mouse Biology Unit of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) take advantage of these similarities and use mice to study…
2009
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Lab Matters Microscope designer Leica Microsystems and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) signed a corporate partnership agreement today whereby Leica Microsystems becomes a founder partner of the EMBL Advanced Training Centre scheduled to be completed in September 2009. Besides its financial…
2008
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Lab Matters The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, a global leader in life science research, drug discovery and cellular science, today announced that they have entered into a corporate partnership in support of EMBL’s Advanced Training Centre in…
2008
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Lab Matters Today at a meeting organised by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, scientists from around the globe announced the formation of the International Human Microbiome Consortium (IHMC), an effort that will enable researchers to characterise the relationship of the…
2008
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Lab Matters The Wellcome Trust has awarded £4.7 million (€5.8 million) to EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) to support the transfer of a large collection of information on the properties and activities of drugs and a large set of drug-like small molecules from the publicly listed…
2008
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Lab Matters In a contract signed today, the European Commission has awarded €4.5 million to a pan-European consortium to decide upon the best way to unite Europe’s biological data resources into a sustainable, integrative bioinformatics network for the life sciences. The European Life-science…
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Lab Matters Drawing on the expertise of multi-disciplinary research teams, the map developed by the 1000 Genomes Project will provide a view of biomedically relevant DNA variations at a resolution unmatched by current resources. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), working with long-term collaborator…
2008
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Lab Matters ArrayExpress, the publicly available database of transcriptomics data at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), has doubled in size in 2007, reaching the 100,000-hybridisation milestone. The database now holds snapshots of gene expression…
2007
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Lab Matters Today, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) announces Luxembourg as the new member of its international community. Accepted by EMBL’s council and ratified by the parliament of Luxembourg, the Grand-Duchy has officially joined the institute as the 20th member state. “EMBL is…
2007
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Lab Matters The European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) officially opens its new East Wing today with a reception for prominent guests. The East Wing will be jointly opened by Ian Pearson, Minister of State for Science and Innovation, UK, and Robert-Jan Smits,…
2007
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Lab Matters Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the University of Helsinki, Finland, the University of Oslo, Norway, and Umeå University, Sweden, officially launch their new Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine. The agreement will encourage scientific exchange and collaborations…
2007
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Lab Matters Three papers published by EMBL scientists and their collaborators will make it much easier to share and compare information from large-scale proteomics data. The papers are published in Nature Biotechnology on 8 and 26 August. As the quantity of available biological information and the use of…
2007
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Lab Matters Today, delegates representing the 19 member states of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) offered Australia associate membership in EMBL’s international community. The membership is planned to start officially in January 2008 and will initially last for seven years. “EMBL…
2007
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Lab Matters It was the world’s earliest public database of DNA and RNA sequences and remains Europe’s primary nucleotide sequence resource. The database is maintained by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton (UK) in collaboration with its US and Japanese counterparts GenBank and…
2007
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Lab Matters The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) has awarded 8.8 Million Euro to the Hamburg Outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) for the construction of an Integrated Research Facility for Structural Biology at the new PETRA-III storage ring of the German…
2007
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Lab Matters The European Commission has awarded 3.7 Million Euro under the European Union Framework 6 Programme over the next four years to a new Marie Curie Research Training Network, coordinated by Dr. Andreas Ladurner at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The long molecules of DNA that carry…
2007
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Lab Matters From today scientists will be able to access a vast collection of biomedical research and to submit their own published results for inclusion in a new online resource. Based on a model currently used by the US National Institute of Health, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) will provide free access to a…
2007
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Lab Matters Today, Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, received a statement of support for the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers from EIROforum. “The EIROforum partners warmly welcome this valuable initiative by…
2006
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Lab Matters Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) launches its new, faster and easier website with an exhaustive search engine at its centre. The web interface has been streamlined on the basis of user feedback from a recent extensive…
2006
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Lab Matters The BioModels Database, hosted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Cambridge, UK, has entered a formal data-exchange agreement with the Database of Quantitative Chemical Signalling (DOQCS) of the National Centre for…
2006
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Lab Matters Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) launches CiteXplore, a new freely accessible literature resource service. Biological researchers require two crucial sources of information: scientific literature published in peerreviewed…
2006
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Lab Matters Today, the German Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, breaks ground for the new training and conference centre for the life sciences that will be built on the EMBL campus in Heidelberg. The German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the Klaus Tschira…
2006
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Lab 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…
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Lab Matters Today EMBL scientists, EMBL’s commercial affiliate, EMBL Enterprise Management Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM) and EMBL’s venture vehicle, EMBL Ventures GmbH, announce the foundation of Elara Pharmaceuticals GmbH, a start-up company that will translate basic research findings into new…
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Lab 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…
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Lab Matters In the early days of X-ray crystallography obtaining a three-dimensional model of a protein required wire models, screws, bolts and years of tedious calculations by hand. Today macromolecular models are built by computers – thanks to sophisticated software and in particular a package called…
2006
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Lab 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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Lab Matters Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s (EMBL) European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB), the University of Cologne, Germany, and the European Patent Office launch FELICS (Free European Life-science Information and Computational Services).…
2006
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Lab Matters EMBOSS, the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite, has received a vital funding boost from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) that will guarantee its continued maintenance under an open source license for the next three years. This ends two years of…
2006
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Lab Matters Today three research organisations announce the merging of their expertise to fight cardiovascular diseases, which are among the most common health problems and causes of death in the world. The Magdi Yacoub Institute (MYI) at the UK’s Harefield Heart Science Centre, Imperial College London,…
2006
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Lab Matters Science is moving more rapidly than ever; one groundbreaking discovery chases the next at an incredible speed. School teachers have trouble keeping up with the pace, and many pupils call science classes “boring”. Today, Europe’s major research organisations launch Science in…
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Lab Matters On Friday, 13 January 2006, the new Carl-Ivar Brändén Building (CIBB) will be inaugurated on the Polygone Scientifique Campus in Grenoble, France. The CIBB will be operated as a collaboration between major international and national partners based in Grenoble and is a further step in the…
2006
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Lab Matters In the December 6 issue of Nature Biotechnology, scientists from 14 different organizations around the world, including the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, propose a new quality standard for biochemical models. MIRIAM [for Minimum information requested in the annotation of biochemical…
2005
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Lab Matters Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) opens a new highthroughput crystallization facility at its Outstation located on the campus of the German Synchrotron Radiation Facility (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany. The facility, made possible by major funds from the German Ministry for Science…
2005
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Lab Matters The Commission of the European Union has awarded EUR 9 million over five years for a new Network of Excellence that will make computational systems biology accessible to bench scientists throughout Europe and beyond. ENFIN, which stands for ‘Experimental Network for Functional…
2005
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Lab Matters The European Commission has selected the EBI to coordinate a project that will stimulate and explore synergies between bioinformatics (the science of storing, retrieving and analysing large amounts of biological information) and medical informatics (the science of processing, sharing and using…
2005
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Lab Matters The European Bioinformatics Institute and Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) – Ghent University have launched the PRoteomics IDEntifications database (PRIDE). PRIDE allows researchers who work in the field of proteomics – the large-scale study of proteins – to…
2005
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Lab Matters The executive teams of five major molecular interaction databases announced today the signing of an agreement to share curation efforts and exchange completed records through a mechanism known as the International Molecular Exchange (IMEx) consortium. IMEx will provide a network of stable,…
2005
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Lab Matters The world’s three leading public repositories for DNA and RNA sequence information have reached 100 gigabases (100,000,000,000 bases; the ‘letters’ of the genetic code) of sequence. Thanks to their data exchange policy, which has paved the way for the global exchange of many types…
2005
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Lab Matters The first rate research from the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) is now set to continue for the long-term. The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Medical Faculty of University of Heidelberg, who formed the joint venture in 2002, have announced their plans to initiate a…
2005
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Lab Matters A systematic search through human genes has begun at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Working within the MitoCheck consortium that includes 10 other institutes throughout Europe, the EMBL scientists will silence all human genes, one-by-one, to find those…
2005
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Lab 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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Lab 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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Lab Matters A novel high-tech microscope will be brought to the marketplace, giving laboratories everywhere fascinating new insights into living organisms. EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM), the commercial entity of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), announced today that it has signed a…
2005
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Lab Matters 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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Lab Matters 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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