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11 November 2024 Portrait photo of Jan Bláha.

We are EMBL: Jan Bláha on protein crystallisation inside cells

People & Perspectives Jan Bláha, postdoc at EMBL Hamburg, talks about the utility of in cellulo protein crystallisation in structural biology research, his sources of inspiration, and the values of collaboration, curiosity, and resilience.

2024

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31 October 2024 Woman with crossed arms stands in front of tree

Welcome: Isabella Graf

People & Perspectives Isabella Graf is EMBL’s newest group leader and the first theoretical biophysicist to join the Developmental Biology Unit.

2024

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25 September 2024 Headshot of male scientist with eyeglasses

The importance and limitations of organoids

People & Perspectives Cell biologist Hans Clevers will discuss organoids as 'avatars' for human organs in research and medicine at the 2024 Kafatos lecture.

2024

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5 September 2024 Male scientist standing in front of a set of stairs.

Promoting impact-driven science

People & Perspectives PROMETHEUS is an EMBL-born grassroots initiative to promote and optimise impact-driven science.

2024

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4 September 2024

What I’ve learned: Alvis Brazma

People & Perspectives EMBL-EBI alumnus Alvis Brazma reflects on how mathematics and mountaineering have shaped his life and why keeping things simple in bioinformatics is key.

2024

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23 August 2024

Welcome: David Ocaña

People & Perspectives EMBL-EBI’s new Head of Applications will use his expertise in cloud infrastructure and security to support the institute’s open data resources.

2024

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14 August 2024

Merging passion, collaboration, and serendipity

People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Thibaut Brunet, recipient of the 2024 John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, shares his scientific journey – from a childhood passion for nature to the discovery of a new species of choanoflagellate.

2024

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21 June 2024

Welcome: Mallory Freeberg

People & Perspectives The new Team Leader for Human Genomics at EMBL-EBI shares how curiosity and maths shaped her career and what it takes to be a community builder.

2024

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24 May 2024

Stephen Cusack: what I’ve learned

People & Perspectives Stephen Cusack, world-renowned structural biologist and former Head of EMBL Grenoble, reflects on his early influences, his achievements, and the lessons he’s learned as he embarks on his next adventure

2024

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16 May 2024

Welcome: Julio Saez-Rodriguez

People & Perspectives EMBL-EBI's new Head of Research shares his plans and priorities.

2024

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14 May 2024

Toby Gibson: what I’ve learned

People & Perspectives Toby Gibson reflects on 38 years at EMBL, the scientific tools he built along the way, and the state of science today.

2024

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8 March 2024 Collage of six images showing scientists and science professionals during the TREC expedition, with a banner saying “International Women’s Day 2024” and the TREC expedition logo.

Insights and wisdom from the women of TREC

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives On International Women’s Day 2024, we hear from some of the women who have been working tirelessly in the field and behind the scenes as part of the Traversing European Coastlines (TREC) expedition.

2024

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12 February 2024 Female scientist stands in front of white shelves filled with vials of fruit flies

Anne Ephrussi: what I’ve learned

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives After 32 years at EMBL – leading a developmental biology research group and later simultaneously serving as EMBL’s Dean for its PhD programme, Anne Ephrussi has retired, ready to start her life’s next chapter.

2024

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1 February 2024

We are EMBL: Renato Alves on Bio-IT and stargazing

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Renato Alves talks about his time at EMBL, the Bio-IT project, his wishes for EMBL in its anniversary year, and how a passion for night hikes and stargazing led to the creation of EMBL’s astronomy club.

2024

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Welcome: Kyle Morris

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Kyle Morris joins EMBL-EBI as Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) Team Leader.

2024

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23 January 2024 Collage of EMBL historical photos with a 50-year anniversary logo

Reflections for the future during EMBL’s 50th anniversary year

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL’s link to other sciences and its tradition of collaborative discovery carry on, providing the model and means to address big challenges, including climate change and biodiversity loss.

2024

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14 December 2023 Photo of Selina Storm standing in front of the PETRA III synchrotron storage ring.

We are EMBL: Selina Storm on PETRA IV and new perspectives for EMBL Hamburg

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL Hamburg is located at the PETRA III synchrotron, which in the future, will be upgraded to PETRA IV. Selina Storm is theEMBL@PETRA IV Programme Manager. Here, she speaks about her role and the benefits of PETRA IV for EMBL.

2023

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27 November 2023 A man and a woman looking at the camera, parts of a restaurant are visible in the background.

Exploring the universe: Roel Wijnaendts

People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Roel Wijnaendts looks back at a long career in academic research and entrepreneurship that has left an indelible mark in the fields of instrumentation and optics.

2023

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22 November 2023 Oliver Stegle passionately drawing work-related content with a green pen on a whiteboard. On the whiteboard, there are coordinates and equations, such as “n=2”.

How AI shapes the life sciences: an interview with Oliver Stegle

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL scientist Oliver Stegle explains how AI-based tools have the potential to transform our ability to better understand the complexity of life and how these tools will shape the future of life science exploration.

2023

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1 November 2023 Sihyun Sung is standing next to experimental equipment for time-resolved serial X-ray crystallography. The light in the room is pink.

We are EMBL: Sihyun Sung on time-resolved structural biology

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives In this interview, Sihyun Sung, Postdoctoral Fellow at EMBL Hamburg, talks about making molecular movies with time-resolved serial X-ray crystallography, his sources of inspiration, and the value of forging deeper connections with friends and colleagues.

2023

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6 October 2023

We are EMBL: Zuzana Koskova on her experience as a PhD student at EMBL Heidelberg

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Zuzana Koskova is a PhD student from Slovakia who, at the age of 19, left her country to pursue her career in biological sciences in Germany. In this interview, she talks about her interests, career aspirations, and recent participation at the Info Day held in Bratislava, where she had the…

2023

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Welcome: David Hulcoop

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives David Hulcoop discusses how his experience bridging organisational cultures will help address critical challenges in drug discovery and target selection at Open Targets.

2023

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15 September 2023 Group of scientists attending symposium staring upward to the photographer.

Celebrating Stephen Cusack’s contributions to science

People & Perspectives Researchers from across the globe have gathered in Grenoble to celebrate the remarkable lifelong scientific achievements of Stephen Cusack, the former head of EMBL Grenoble.

2023

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22 August 2023 Polaroid style shot of Sergiy Avilov, mentioning the years he was at EMBL

After EMBL: Sergiy Avilov

People & Perspectives Ukrainian scientist Sergiy Avilov uses the microscopy skills and scientific network he built at EMBL in his current role heading the Imaging Facility at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics.

2023

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Open data to power up the blue economy

People & Perspectives EMBL-EBI Senior Scientist Rob Finn explains why data coordination and sharing are fundamental for a sustainable blue economy.

2023

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8 August 2023 Clément Blanchet at the EMBL Hamburg’s P12 beamline’s experimental hutch.

Welcome: Clément Blanchet

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Clément Blanchet has been appointed to lead the team working on small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) at EMBL Hamburg. In this interview, he talks his ambitions for the future work of the SAXS Team, his passion for science, and a memorable ‘aha’ moment he had in his early career.

2023

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4 July 2023 Photos of the three scientists elected as EMBO members on green background.

EMBL scientists elected to EMBO Membership

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Three EMBL group leaders and six EMBL alumni were recognised for their contributions to the life sciences.

2023

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28 June 2023 Female scientist in white lab coat enjoying camaraderie of colleagues.

After EMBL: Urtė Neniškytė

People & Perspectives EMBL Rome alumna Urtė Neniškytė returned to her native Lithuania, helping establish the Vilnius University-EMBL Partnership Institute and advance genome-editing technologies there.

2023

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Welcome: Sihem Bennour

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Sihem Bennour, new head of HR, foresees a deeper culture of information sharing, listening, and problem solving with EMBL staff.

2023

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After EMBL: Heiko Runz and Laurence Ettwiller

People & Perspectives From biking together while at EMBL to assistant professorships at Heidelberg University, two academics soon formed a union that took them to the United States., into various industry positions, and now to a life with two young children.

2023

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20 April 2023 White woman with short red hair standing in garden in front of a tree. Picture of Angelika Thomasson. Credits: Marcos Lopez-Marrero/EMBL

We are EMBL: Angelika Thomasson on administrative support to EMBL staff

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Angelika Thomasson, administrative assistant at EMBL Grenoble, talks about her role in supporting her colleagues in organising events and travels, what she enjoys about EMBL, and which famous female scientist she would like to have coffee with.

2023

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17 April 2023 Photo of EMBL alumni in current lab in Spain

After EMBL: Thomas Graf

People & Perspectives Alumnus Thomas Graf reflects on his time at EMBL, offering an update on his whereabouts and advice for young scientists.

2023

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12 April 2023 Photo of Eduard Avetisyan smiling and standing next to the servers at EMBL Hamburg.

We are EMBL: Eduard Avetisyan on the role of IT in structural biology

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Eduard Avetisyan leads the EMBL Hamburg IT team. He joined EMBL after transitioning from particle physics research to IT. Besides providing standard IT user support, his team also enables smooth processing and computational analysis of structural biology data. Here, he talks about the joys and…

2023

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23 March 2023 Portrait of a person looking at the camera. In the background there are trees and a white building

Welcome: Alejandro Torres-Sánchez

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2023

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Welcome: Thomas Quail

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives New group leader Thomas Quail studies the fundamental processes that determine how proteins organise the genome inside a cell.

2023

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20 March 2023 Team leader Gergely Papp.

Welcome: Gergely Papp

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Together with his team, Gergely Papp pushes the frontiers of technology development in the field of structural biology.

2023

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17 March 2023 Liz Duke standing on the left side of the photo, with EMBL Hamburg's P14 beamline and a big screen on the right.

Molecules to Ecosystems: Liz Duke on X-ray imaging

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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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Welcome: Hanh Vu

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Group Leader Hanh Vu studies ‘immortal’ flatworms that can grow and de-grow to understand better factors that determine organisms’ sizes.

2023

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30 November 2022 Portrait of Talya Dayton propped up on a balcony rail

Welcome to EMBL: Talya Dayton

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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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21 November 2022 male scientist in green shirt and dark pants stands outside in front of tree

Welcome Jordi van Gestel

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Looking to understand microbial predator-prey relationships, EMBL’s newest group leader tackles a molecular ‘arms race’ in his lab.

2022

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Setting priorities for preprints and open science

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Newly appointed member of the ASAPbio Board of Directors, EMBL Group Leader Gautam Dey speaks about preprints, data management, and open science.

2022

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21 October 2022 A female scientist in a blue dress stands in front of blurred woodsy background

Welcome: Flora Vincent

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2022

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20 July 2022 A woman stands in front of shelving filled with notebook binders.

Welcome: Maria Papanikolaou

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2022

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22 June 2022 Edith Heard

The world needs science, and science needs women

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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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7 June 2022 Female scientist photographed in a garden

Welcome: Pascale Cossart

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2022

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Peter Harrison – Genome Analysis Team Leader

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Peter Harrison discusses the importance of data accessibility and his passion for biodiversity and agricultural genomics.

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27 April 2022 Kristina Djinović-Carugo sitting at her desk.

Meet the next Head of EMBL Grenoble

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2022

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30 March 2022 Man standing in front of a wall with scientific imagery including protein structures

Welcome: John Lees

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives John Lees joins EMBL-EBI as a Group Leader in Pathogen informatics and modelling.

2022

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23 February 2022 A male scientist in a white shirt stands at a walkway railing.

Welcome: Michael Dorrity

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Michael Dorrity, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, is studying how the environment influences early life stages in zebrafish.

2022

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14 January 2022 Woman standing next to a hedge

Welcome: Melissa Harrison

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2022

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The start of a journey

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2022

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Welcome: Niccolò Banterle

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2021

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25 November 2021 Female scientist in front of a background of green plants

Welcome: Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2021

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24 November 2021 A man standing in front of hedges

Welcome: Tudor Groza

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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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5 November 2021 A headshot photo of Ken Holmes from July 2021

Ken Holmes

People & Perspectives Ken Holmes, outstanding pioneer of structural biology and founder of EMBL´s Hamburg site, died on 2 November 2021 at the age of 87.

2021

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Welcome: Svetlana Dodonova

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2021

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29 September 2021 Female scientist working at a biosafety cabinet, wearing a yellow protective gown and black gloves.

Transferable skills

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2021

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20 August 2021 Liz Duke in front of the PETRA III synchrotron.

Welcome: Liz Duke

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives The new team leader at EMBL Hamburg talks about her plans to establish biological X-ray imaging and high-throughput tomography.

2021

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Supporting EMBL and fundamental research

People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Angus Lamond reflects on the process of translating the importance of fundamental research – to EMBL and wider society.

2021

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13 July 2021 From right to left, Ilaria Piazza and Ken Holmes’ portraits are side by side in circles on a greenish background

EMBL Alumni Awards 2021

People & Perspectives EMBL alumni Ilaria Piazza and Ken Holmes have been recognised for their outstanding contributions, and will receive their awards as part of the celebrations for EMBL World Alumni Day.

2021

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8 July 2021 Two men stand outside in front of a building, holding a document and looking at it.

A hidden medal

People & Perspectives We all like a story about rediscovering treasures, right? Well, that’s just what happened recently at EMBL Grenoble!

2021

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5 July 2021

Welcome: Sarah Dyer

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL welcomes Sarah Dyer, the new Non-Vertebrate Genomics Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.

2021

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22 June 2021 Woman stands at brown railing in front of trees

Welcome: Anna Erzberger

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Anna Erzberger, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, will provide unique perspective as a theoretical biological physicist.

2021

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17 June 2021 Three researchers surround microscopy equipment in a dark room with red lighting.

Illuminating protein complexes in cells

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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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4 June 2021 Man in white shirt and blue jeans standing on a terrace in front of trees, facing the camera.

The power of community

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL Director Matthias Hentze describes the Environmental Research Initiative: a community effort to solve global environmental challenges.

2021

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After the lecture: Zehra Sayers

People & Perspectives Zehra Sayers explains what makes the SESAME synchrotron special, why we should not fear failure, and why curiosity is her biggest driver.

2021

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7 April 2021 Man standing next to painting

Welcome: Matthew Hartley

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives The challenges and opportunities when setting up a global archive for bioimages

2021

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30 March 2021 Ana Boskovic sitting in her office

Welcome: Ana Boskovic

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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

2021

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11 March 2021 Man in black t-shirt and jeans wearing glasses sits in front of two computer screens.

From mRNA researcher to BioNTech manager

People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Pawel Masiewicz has transferred skills and experience gained at EMBL to oversee starting materials for mRNA vaccine development.

2021

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26 February 2021 Woman with long brown hair stands in front of snow scene with arms crossed in front of her.

Welcome: Sinem Saka

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2021

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19 February 2021 New group leader Gautam Dey looks smiling towards the camera,

Welcome to EMBL: Gautam Dey

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Gautam Dey is fascinated by the evolutionary origins of the nucleus, and is looking forward to making the most of EMBL's infrastructure.

2021

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27 January 2021 Nicoletta Petridou looks towards the camera smiling, whilst standing in a science laboratory

Welcome: Nicoletta Petridou

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2021

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18 January 2021 man wearing sweater and glasses stands in front of snow and glassy building

Welcome: Timo Zimmermann

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2021

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Welcome: Olivier Duss

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

2021

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25 November 2020 The conference key visual shows a variety of species engulfed by fire, reflecting the conference title, ‘Our House Is Burning: Scientific and Societal Responses to Mass Extinction’.

Science and society: global youth activism

People & Perspectives At EMBL’s Science and Society conference, Ugandan campaigner Vanessa Nakate spoke about the need to take action on climate change.

2020

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16 October 2020 Meytal Landau is standing next to a lab bench. On the bench, laboratory equipment is visible, such as pipettes, flasks, bottles with reagents, a calculator, and more.

Welcome: Meytal Landau

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives New associate group leader at EMBL Hamburg investigates the structure of functional amyloids in bacteria and in human disease

2020

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4 September 2020 Portrait picture of Erin Tranfield, member of the EMBL Alumni Association Board, against a blue-green background.

Supporting the alumni community

People & Perspectives Erin Tranfield recently joined the EMBL Alumni Association Board as one of 15 newly elected members. Here, she talks about her new role on the board and reflects on how a life-changing event made her refocus her perspective on work and life.

2020

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24 August 2020 Simone Mattei, the new team leader in electron microscopy service and technology development

Welcome: Simone Mattei

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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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20 August 2020 A portrait photo of Geetika Malhotra, new Head of Web Development at EMBL-EBI.

Welcome: Geetika Malhotra

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

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7 August 2020 Black and white photo of Phil Avner sitting in his office and looking at his smartphone. a large stack of papers on his desk

Arrivederci Phil!

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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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1 July 2020 New Informatics Science Director at Open Targets, Ellie McDonagh

Welcome: Ellie McDonagh

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Open Targets welcomes new Informatics Science Director

2020

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19 May 2020 EMBL group leader Georgia Rapti

Welcome: Georgia Rapti

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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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22 April 2020 Portrait photo of Brendan Rouse, EMBL's Environmental Officer

Welcome: Brendan Rouse

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

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31 March 2020 Portrait of Bastian Drees, Head of Library

Welcome: Bastian Drees

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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.

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Welcome: Lucia von Bredow

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL’s new Science and Society Manager shares her plans for fostering multidisciplinary dialogue

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19 February 2020 Claire Deo

Welcome: Claire Deo

People & Perspectives New group leader at EMBL Heidelberg employs synthetic chemistry to develop novel tools for biology

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27 January 2020 Maria Bernabeu

Welcome: Maria Bernabeu

People & Perspectives New group leader at EMBL Barcelona is investigating how malaria affects the human circulatory system

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21 January 2020 Kristina Haase

Welcome: Kristina Haase

People & Perspectives Kristina Haase brings an engineer’s perspective to vascular disease and regenerative medicine

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30 October 2019

Fallingwater filled with mice

People & Perspectives Nadia Rosenthal describes how she built EMBL Rome’s mouse house

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10 October 2019 Lars Steinmetz and Georgios Skiniotis

EMBL in the USA: future facing

People & Perspectives Scientists will discuss the challenges ahead for international science at the EMBL in the USA event.

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26 August 2019

From rodents to roadsters

People & Perspectives Klaus Rajewsky recalls the pioneering spirit of EMBL Rome’s first years

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13 August 2019

Have fun, be protected

People & Perspectives Working in a lab very often requires some kind of protection: gloves, safety goggles, lab coat, hearing protection. Sandra – now at BASF in Ludwigshafen – had fun getting ready for her work in the medicinal chemistry lab at EMBL! Here, she is about to grind potassium permanganate and copper…

2019

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2 August 2019 Eric Karsenti in Hamburg

We all come from the ocean

People & Perspectives Eric Karsenti's combined loves of biology and sailing set in motion the Tara Oceans expedition

2019

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30 July 2019

Swiss day!

People & Perspectives The 1700 people working at EMBL’s six sites come from more than 80 different countries. Many of them haven’t come straight from their home country to one of the EMBL sites but have also lived in other countries in between. While all of them are proud to work at EMBL they are also proud of…

2019

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29 July 2019 Dr Cristian D. Magnus

The challenge of diversity

People & Perspectives Dr Cristian D. Magnus discusses LGBTQ+ issues and diversity in science

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23 July 2019 Manfred Lautenschläger

The donor’s code

People & Perspectives The main funder of the EMBL Lautenschläger Summer School reflects on codes of conduct around giving

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22 July 2019 Michael Zimmermann in the ATC.

Welcome: Michael Zimmermann

People & Perspectives Michael Zimmermann's group will investigate how gut microbes affect the body’s response to drugs.

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5 July 2019 Alessandro Ori in the lab

Decoding ageing

People & Perspectives The naked mole-rat as a model organism in ageing research

2019

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1 July 2019 The dynamic process of cell division.

Drawing knowledge

People & Perspectives A conversation about art-science collaborations and the importance of drawing in biology.

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13 June 2019 Photo of James Sharpe

James Sharpe elected EMBO Member

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives The head of EMBL’s Barcelona site joins a prestigious group of more than 1800 scientists worldwide

2019

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18 March 2019 A smiling Santiago Rompani, new group leader at EMBL Rome, stands in front of a vine covered wall

Welcome: Santiago Rompani

People & Perspectives New EMBL group leader explores what neurobiology can teach us about what it means to be human

2019

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14 March 2019 Guest looking at a panel at the REMIX exhibition produced for the European Researchers’ Night 2018

Advancing science and new perspectives

People & Perspectives On 20 February, over 250 local supporters and friends met Edith Heard to celebrate a successful year

2019

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21 February 2019 Tanmay Bharat and Patrick Baeuerle, winners of the EMBL's 2019 alumni awards

2019 alumni awards

People & Perspectives Scientists honoured for contributions in cancer immunotherapy and structural biology

2019

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18 December 2018

Design thinking

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL’s Design Team Lead on translating scientific discoveries into visual designs

2018

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17 December 2018 Stephan Schiffels is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. PHOTO: MPI-SHH

Reconstructing the human past

People & Perspectives What genetics can tell us about the structure of ancient human populations

2018

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9 October 2018 Wendy Bickmore. PHOTO: Massimo Del Prete

EMBL in the UK: Wendy Bickmore

People & Perspectives Meet Wendy Bickmore, Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, who spoke at the EMBL in the UK event

2018

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27 August 2018 Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, US

The usefulness of useless knowledge

People & Perspectives Theoretical physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf discusses the importance of curiosity-based research

2018

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22 August 2018

Welcome: Jim Swoger

People & Perspectives New head of the Mesoscopic Imaging Facility at EMBL Barcelona will help scientists visualise nature

2018

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3 August 2018 Optical section of a ‘gastruloid’ – an embryonic organoid made from mouse embryonic stem cells and stained for E-Cadherin (red), marking cell outlines and nuclei (blue). IMAGE: Vikas Trivedi/EMBL

Welcome: Vikas Trivedi

People & Perspectives An engineer’s approach to understanding morphogenesis

2018

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2 August 2018 Humans of EMBL: Outreach

Humans of EMBL: Outreach

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Discover how EMBLers across all sites share their passion for science

2018

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9 July 2018 Miki Ebisuya at EMBL Barcelona

Welcome: Miki Ebisuya

People & Perspectives New group leader at EMBL Barcelona creates artificial biological systems to study animal development

2018

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27 June 2018 PHOTO: Photolab/EMBL

Powering up

People & Perspectives Alumni share how joining EMBL’s IT team was a career upgrade

2018

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19 June 2018 Kristina Havas-Cavalletti

EMBL in Italy: Kristina Havas-Cavalletti

People & Perspectives More than 80 attendees gathered at the EMBL in Italy event at the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) in Milan

2018

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4 June 2018 New EMBL group leader Simone Köhler.

Welcome: Simone Köhler

People & Perspectives Which of our genes will be passed on to our children? Simone Köhler wants to find out

2018

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24 May 2018 Daniel Elias Martin Herranz EMBL-EBI

PhD goals: why not start a company?

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL-EBI PhD student launches start-up focusing on epigenetics and wellbeing

2018

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14 May 2018 EMBL alumna Elisa Izaurralde.

Obituary: Elisa Izaurralde

People & Perspectives Elisa Izaurralde, EMBL alumna, has passed away

2018

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9 May 2018 Benito-Gutiérrez searching for cephalochordates on board the dhoni boat

Ocean origins

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL alumna, Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez, on how her research and career evolved after searching the seas

2018

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20 April 2018 Anna Kreshuk

Welcome: Anna Kreshuk

People & Perspectives New Heidelberg group leader creates tools to help biologists work faster and better

2018

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28 March 2018 Virginie Uhlmann on EPFL campus

Welcome: Virginie Uhlmann

People & Perspectives New EMBL-EBI Group Leader will make sense of bioimaging data

2018

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21 March 2018 Maria Garcia Alai at the Sample Preparation and Characterisation Facility at EMBL Hamburg. PHOTO: EMBL/Joanna Pieprzyk

Welcome: Maria Garcia Alai

People & Perspectives The new head of facility at EMBL Hamburg will help users solve protein puzzles

2018

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5 March 2018 Maria Leptin, EMBO Director and EMBL group leader

A chance to make scientists’ voices heard

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Maria Leptin reflects on how to create a research environment that serves the needs of the community

2018

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23 February 2018 Meet some of the Humans of EMBL

Humans of EMBL: Past lives

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Discover the past lives and journeys that brought people to EMBL

2018

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16 February 2018 New EMBL group leader Sara Cuylen-Häring will explore biophysical properties of chromosomes and other cellular assemblies.

Welcome: Sara Cuylen-Häring

People & Perspectives New EMBL group leader explores biophysical properties of chromosomes and other cellular assemblies

2018

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9 February 2018 Arnaud Krebs, EMBL’s new group leader studies how gene expression is controlled

Welcome: Arnaud Krebs

People & Perspectives EMBL’s new group leader studies how gene expression is controlled

2018

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15 January 2018 This mouse ovary and these immature eggs (in blue), can be used to study patterns of DNA methylation that affect only females.

Welcome: Matthieu Boulard

People & Perspectives New EMBL group leader investigates the mystery of heritable gene silencing

2018

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8 January 2018 A photo of new EMBL Heidelberg group leader Aissam Ikmi.

Welcome: Aissam Ikmi

People & Perspectives New group leader studies sea anemones to investigate why some animals regenerate better than others

2018

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22 December 2017 John Kendrew, c. 1978, visits the site of the EMBL main laboratory in Heidelberg. Photo taken by Frieda Glockner (EMBL Archive / DE 2324 P-GLO)

Molecular biology as a force for peace

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Historian Soraya de Chadarevian explores how EMBL’s first Director General shaped molecular biology

2017

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14 December 2017 Philipp Keller’s work imaged the early development of a zebrafish embryo using light sheet microscopy

A physical revolution

People & Perspectives EMBL physicist-turned-biologist alumni win 2017 Kendrew and Phillipson awards

2017

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5 December 2017 Lab manager Anna Cyrklaff takes a tray of fly specimens to be transferred into new vials

Behind the scenes in the Fly Room

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Curious about what goes on in EMBL’s Fly Room? Prepare to be a fly on the wall

2017

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4 December 2017 A photo of Eva Kowalinski

Welcome: Eva Kowalinski

People & Perspectives New group leader based in Grenoble aims to unveil the mechanisms of RNA editing

2017

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24 November 2017 Cryo-electron tomograms of intact cells reveal molecular landscapes.

Welcome: Julia Mahamid

People & Perspectives The Mahamid group studies meso-scale molecular assemblies in intact cells and model organisms at molecular resolution

2017

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23 November 2017 Floating approximately 400 km above the Earth, the International Space Station provides a platform for scientific research in space.

Science in space

People & Perspectives EMBL alumna Sigrid Reinsch trained as a cell biologist – now she helps run experiments in space

2017

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21 November 2017 Fotis was EMBL's third Director-General. PHOTO: EMBL

Obituary: Fotis Kafatos

People & Perspectives Former EMBL Director General Fotis Kafatos passes away

2017

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20 November 2017

#EMBLcurious

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Six curious questions and the EMBL community's answers. Check back each week for the next question

2017

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16 November 2017 Photo of Jacques Dubochet giving a talk

A curious case of serendipity

People & Perspectives Jacques Dubochet, Nobel laureate and former EMBL group leader, reflects on a key aha moment

2017

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25 October 2017 Midnight at Aurora Basin North in Antarctica. PHOTO: Simon Sheldon

Science from ice

People & Perspectives Working on scientific instruments has taken EMBL alumnus Simon Sheldon to the ends of the Earth

2017

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3 October 2017 The structure of the nuclear pore complex obtained by integrative modelling

Welcome: Jan Kosinski

People & Perspectives EMBL’s new group leader based in Hamburg aims to create models of infection cycles

2017

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29 September 2017 Photo of Andrew Leach, Head of Chemical Biology data services at EMBL-EBI

Welcome, Andrew Leach

People & Perspectives Q&A with EMBL-EBI's Head of Chemical Biology data services

2017

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7 September 2017 Thomas Schwarzl and Ina Huppertz in cool sunglasses at the Science Movie Night

Science + X: The science behind the Matrix movie

Lab MattersPeople & PerspectivesScience & Technology EMBL researchers separated facts from fiction at a Friends of EMBL Science Movie Night

2017

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25 August 2017

Opinion: Archives for Science

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Biologists Sydney Brenner and Richard J. Roberts addressed the importance of scientific archives

2017

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11 August 2017

Welcome: Justin Crocker

People & Perspectives Meet Justin Crocker, EMBL’s new group leader in gene regulation during evolution and development

2017

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9 August 2017 Photo of Evangelia Petsalaki by Mary Todd Bergman, EMBL-EBI

Welcome: Evangelia Petsalaki

People & Perspectives A new group at EMBL-EBI aims to decipher cell signalling networks

2017

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1 August 2017 EMBL-EBI group leader Zamin Iqbal

Welcome: Zamin Iqbal

People & Perspectives The Iqbal research group hopes to build a 'Google of bacteria' to help better interpret the genome

2017

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29 May 2017

Welcome: James Sharpe

People & Perspectives Meet the head of EMBL's new Barcelona site, James Sharpe

2017

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24 May 2017

Humans of EMBL: Senses

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives People across EMBL’s sites reflect on the ways they perceive their world

2017

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8 May 2017

Obituary: Riccardo Cortese

People & Perspectives The life science community is deeply saddened by the loss of EMBL alumnus Riccardo Cortese

2017

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5 May 2017

Welcome: Jamie Hackett

People & Perspectives Meet Monterotondo’s new group leader for epigenetic reprogramming and inheritance, Jamie Hackett

2017

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12 April 2017

Obituary: Konrad Müller

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Konrad Müller has sadly passed away

2017

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29 March 2017

Obituary: Anna Tramontano

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Anna Tramontano, bioinformatics pioneer and EMBL alumna, has passed away

2017

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29 March 2017

A tribute to Anna Tramontano

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Janet Thornton reflects on the contributions of EMBL alumna Anna Tramontano

2017

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24 March 2017

John Kendrew’s legacy

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives “Without John Kendrew there would have been no EMBL,” wrote Ken Holmes

2017

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21 March 2017

Welcome: Monika Lachner

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives 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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6 March 2017

Pathways: Life science investment

People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Joep Muijrers talks about making the transition from science into business

2017

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28 February 2017

SESAME: a light in the desert

People & Perspectives EMBL alumna Zehra Sayers key driver of the Middle East’s first synchrotron project

2017

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23 February 2017

Building labs with flies

People & Perspectives Flies can do a lot for science, inside and outside the lab. EMBL alumna Isabel Palacios explains how

2017

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31 January 2017 John Kendrew with model of myoglobin in progress. © MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Reflections by Sir John Kendrew

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives In this interview from the EMBL Archive, Sir John Kendrew reflects on his time leading 'the Lab'.

2017

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25 January 2017 Wojciech Galej, new group leader at EMBL

Welcome: Wojciech Galej

People & Perspectives New group leader Wojciech Galej investigates RNA-protein complexes involved in gene expression

2017

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20 December 2016

Opinion: Fail again, fail better

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Iain Mattaj on failure, adventure, determination and the Scientific Method

2016

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1 December 2016

Design for life

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL’s Petra Riedinger retires after 40 years producing posters, graphics, artwork and more

2016

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24 November 2016 SPIM image of Medaka juveniles. Photo: EMBL/Philipp Keller

Thinking in 3D

People & Perspectives Ernst Stelzer earns 2016 Lennart Philipson award for advances in light sheet microscopy

2016

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24 November 2016

Chromatin cartographer

People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Jop Kind reflects on the questions that led him to this year’s John Kendrew Award

2016

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10 November 2016

Review: Lab Girl

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Hope Jahren’s autobiography educates and delights

2016

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27 October 2016

Welcome to EMBL: Robert Prevedel

People & Perspectives Robert Prevedel develops deep-tissue microscopy for scientists to peer deep inside living organisms

2016

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17 October 2016

Opinion: Is your mind playing tricks on you?

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives We catch up with neuroscientist Craig Stark, speaker at the EMBL/EMBO Science and Society Conference

2016

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26 September 2016 Mikhail Savitski. PHOTO: Marietta Schupp/EMBL Photolab

Welcome to EMBL: Mikhail Savitski

People & Perspectives New head of Proteomics Core Facility also runs stability proteomics lab

2016

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21 September 2016

Powering proteomics progress

People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Angus Lamond is driving forward new ways to explore the proteome

2016

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20 September 2016 Inauguration of the Szilárd Library in the late 1970s, led by John Kendrew (right). PHOTO: EMBL

Szilárd Library: An open book

People & Perspectives Past meets present as Library head Ioanna Ydraiou interviews EMBL’s first librarian

2016

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13 September 2016

Opinion: 2006, a year of champagne

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Stephen Cusack looks back on the early days of his collaboration with Anacor developing anti-infectives

2016

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30 August 2016 Francesco Iorio, an EMBL-EBI/Sanger Interdisciplinary Postdoc and now a senior bioinformatician at EMBL-EBI, strives to be "a great dad, as well as a great researcher". PHOTO: Robert Slowley

Postdocs of EMBL

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Turning the spotlight on the diverse universe of EMBL’s 200-strong postdoc community

2016

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30 August 2016

Swimming against the tide

People & Perspectives "If I have an aim, I’ll find a solution" – meet EMBL alumnus Jochen Wittbrodt

2016

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30 August 2016 European Commissioner Carlos Moedas. PHOTO: European Commission

From potential to policy

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Integration, collaboration and openness on agenda for Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research

2016

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30 August 2016 Bruce Alberts, formerly President of the National Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of Science, and US Science Envoy; now a Chancellor’s Leadership Chair at the University of California. PHOTO: The University of California/Tom Kochel

Inspire change in science

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Bruce Alberts on fixing the broken academic career pipeline

2016

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30 August 2016

Pathways: Community management

People & Perspectives Scientific community manager, alumnus Aidan Budd, connects people with shared interests, values, goals

2016

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30 June 2016 European Union flag. PHOTO: MPD01605 (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Key facts about the impact of Brexit on EMBL

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives In a time of great uncertainty, key facts about EMBL's status, collaborations, funding and recruitment

2016

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29 June 2016 Alba Diz-Muñoz. PHOTO: Hugo Neves/EMBL Photolab

Welcome: Alba Diz-Muñoz

People & Perspectives New group leader combines physics and biology to answer the 'hows' of cell movement

2016

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20 May 2016 Hugo Sarmento aboard Tara. PHOTO: Tara Oceans/Hugo Sarmento

Supporting science at sea

People & Perspectives Dozens of postdocs boosted their careers with a voyage aboard the Tara Oceans research schooner

2016

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21 April 2016 Neuroscientist and stand-up comic Sophie Scott presented a EMBL Science and Society Forum lecture on laughter. PHOTO: University College London

Branches: Laughing matter

People & Perspectives Neuroscientist and comedian Sophie Scott explains the complexity and social importance of laughter

2016

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21 April 2016 Keith Williamson retires after 14 years at EMBL. PHOTO: EMBL/Udo Ringeisen

Admin ability

People & Perspectives EMBL's ninth administrative director Keith Williamson looks back at 14 years at the Laboratory

2016

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21 April 2016 An extract from Edmond Baudoin's original artwork – see the complete image. IMAGE: Edmond Baudoin / Cédric Villani / EMBL archive DE 2324 P-BAU -1

From the Archive: The Moon Dreamers

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Illustrator Edmond Baudoin donates an original artwork to the EMBL Archive

2016

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21 April 2016 Jozef Ševcik at the X13 beamline at the DORIS ring in Hamburg. PHOTO: Rostislav Skrabana

Slovakian synergies

People & Perspectives Meet a driving force behind collaborations with the Slovak Republic, alumnus Jozef Ševčik

2016

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21 April 2016 New Chair of the EMBL Alumni Association Gareth Griffiths. Photo: EMBL/Mehrnoosh Rayner

Close association

People & Perspectives Gareth Griffiths, new Chair of the Alumni Association, reveals his many perspectives of EMBL

2016

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14 April 2016

Taking science to new dimensions

People & Perspectives Alumna Angela Relogio tells us about her passion for science, communication and mentoring

2016

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7 April 2016

Welcome: Hiroki Asari

People & Perspectives Why does a cookie look different depending on how hungry you are? Neuroscientist Asari wants to find out

2016

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28 January 2016 Bernard Jacrot in the late 1960s. IMAGE: ILL

Obituary: Bernard Jacrot

People & Perspectives Former Head of EMBL Grenoble passed away on 21 January 2016 at the age of 89

2016

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25 January 2016 Kim Remans heads EMBL's Protein Expression and Purification Core Facility. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Marietta Schupp

Welcome: Kim Remans

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives "We’re open! We’re open to working with everybody, we’re open to new things."

2016

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13 January 2016 Vasily Sysoev, right, hosts Prakash Balasubramanian and Lars Steinmetz at Science Tonight.

Playing with science

People & Perspectives Scientist and showman: PhD student Vasily Sysoev shares his passion for outreach.

2016

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30 November 2015 Malte Paulsen. PHOTO: EMBL Photlab/Marietta Schupp

Welcome: Malte Paulsen

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives "There’s nothing nicer than seeing a user leave the facility happy"

2015

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25 November 2015

Humans of EMBL

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Compelling short stories that shine light on the life and work of EMBL staff.

2015

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25 November 2015 Roland Block, Head of Human Resources at EMBL. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Marietta Schupp

Walking the talk in HR

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Roland Block, EMBL's Head of HR, on emphasising the ‘human’ in human resources.

2015

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25 November 2015 Agustín Fuentes. PHOTO: Lawrence Smith/Fairfax media

Branches: What makes humans tick?

People & PerspectivesScience & Technology What really sets humans apart? Forming societies, teaching and compassion, says Agustin Fuentes.

2015

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25 November 2015 ILLUSTRATION: Aad Goudappel

Using humans as a model organism

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Ewan Birney on the risks, rewards and realities of studying humans as a model species.

2015

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25 November 2015 EMBL Heidelberg hosted a day's discussion on what makes us human. PHOTO: Jörg Langowski

Being human beings

People & Perspectives Highlights from the 'What makes us human?' symposium at EMBL Heidelberg.

2015

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25 November 2015 Reviews of two of the best popular science books of 2014, exploring the unreasonable rise of Homo sapiens.

Reviews: Homo sapiens

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Postdoc Thibaut Brunet reviews two popular science books that explore the rise of Homo sapiens.

2015

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25 November 2015 Question mark

Q&A: Biophysics

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives What does a physicist do in a biology lab?

2015

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24 November 2015 Sybrand van der Zwaag is scientific director of the Delft Centre for Materials in the Netherlands. PHOTO: Photo: Delft University of Technology

Pathways: Open letter to young scientists

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Sybrand van der Zwaag gives his five top tips for young researchers thinking about their next move.

2015

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1 October 2015

Behind the scenes: Event management

People & Perspectives Long-time events pro Antje Seeck gives us her take on how to organise a successful conference.

2015

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9 September 2015 Vinton Cerf, Google Chief Internet Evangelist, and a "fathers of the Internet".

From packets to planets

People & Perspectives Insights from the evangelical Vint Cerf, a “founding father of the Internet”, during a visit to EMBL.

2015

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7 September 2015 Janosch Hennig. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Marietta Schupp

Welcome: Janosch Hennig

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives “A structure alone is not so interesting, you need the biology too,” says new NMR-focused group leader

2015

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3 September 2015 Moritz Gerstung

Welcome: Moritz Gerstung

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives New group explores why patients with same cancer exhibit unique constellations of genetic mutations.

2015

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25 August 2015 Maja Köhn. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Marietta Schupp

Chemical bonds

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Maja Köhn’s lab is ideal to learn what life is like working at the interface of disciplines.

2015

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24 August 2015

Celebrating excellence

People & Perspectives EMBL rewards the special work of alumni through the John Kendrew and Lennart Philipson awards.

2015

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24 August 2015

Molecular momentum

People & Perspectives Andrew Miller, first head of EMBL Grenoble, reflects on four decades at the Outstation.

2015

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24 August 2015 Janet Thornton. Photo: Robert Slowley

Transitions

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Janet Thornton reflects on her time as Director of one of Europe’s fastest growing research institutes.

2015

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24 August 2015

Cellular synergy

People & Perspectives Alumnus Thomas Vaccari reflects on the first joint symposium with EMBL Monterotondo, in Milan.

2015

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24 August 2015

Stick out your tongue!

People & Perspectives Alumnus Luis Bejarano asked Spanish students to stick out their tongues to analyse their microbiome.

2015

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24 August 2015

EMBL Grenoble: Alumni stories

People & Perspectives Alumni Reuben Leberman, Jeremy Smith, Elena Seiradake, and Winfried Weissenhorn share their stories.

2015

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6 August 2015

Welcome: Theodore Alexandrov

People & Perspectives A mathematician who got ‘sucked in’ to biological problems, meet new team leader Theodore Alexandrov.

2015

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28 July 2015

Political science

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Alumnus Damian Brunner revisits EMBL in a very special capacity, as Swiss delegate on EMBL’s Council.

2015

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9 July 2015

The germ of a network biologist

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives “Interactions: that’s what I like the most in biology” – meet Lukáš Janošík, EUCYS 2014 prize winner.

2015

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9 July 2015 One from Many

One from Many

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Database administrator's photo essay reflects internationality and personality of the Genome Campus.

2015

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18 November 2014 Kyung-Min Noh. PHOTO: EMBL/M.SCHUPP

Welcome: Kyung-Min Noh

People & Perspectives The important thing is forming good biological questions, says new group leader in Genome Biology.

2014

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17 November 2014 Judith Zaugg. PHOTO: EMBL/M. SCHUPP

Welcome: Judith Zaugg

People & Perspectives Whether it’s information or people, the art of connecting is key to new group leader Judith Zaugg

2014

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