anniversary

Sparking the next 50 years of collaborative discovery

Connections EMBL's 50th anniversary symposium brought together its vibrant community, showcased its many scientific contributions, and drove discussion on the future of Europe's leading life sciences laboratory.

Celebrating 50 years of infinite curiosity

Lab Matters What makes EMBL unique? Among many things, it’s the infinite curiosity of its community.

Five decades of EMBL visits

ConnectionsLab Matters Structural biologist Shlomo Trachtenberg has made research trips to EMBL from Israel since the late 1970s and reflects on the boost EMBL’s technology provided his research, the ingredients for an ideal research institution, and his ongoing fascination with microscopes.

Save the date: 4-5 July 2024!

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

Five things you probably didn’t know about the Human Genome Project

Science & Technology Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first draft of the entire human genome.

Marking 40 years of the Szilárd Library

Lab Matters The Szilárd Library celebrates its 40th anniversary on 20 November 2019.

Fallingwater filled with mice

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

25 years of EMBL-EBI

Lab Matters EMBL-EBI celebrated its 25 anniversary on 1 September 2019

From rodents to roadsters

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

Buon compleanno! Celebrating 20 years of EMBL Rome

Friends old and new mark the occasion in style

Ten years of training at EMBL-EBI

Lab Matters International experts gather at EMBL-EBI to reflect on the future of bioinformatics training

10th PEPC course in Hamburg

Connections The PEPC course celebrated its 10th anniversary in Hamburg from the 12 – 20 September this year

Molecular momentum

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

From mountains to molecules

Staff, alumni, partners and more meet at EMBL Grenoble to celebrate Outstation's 40th anniversary.

History in the making

Lab Matters EMBL’s new Archivist will help chronicle the twists and turns, ups and downs of life at the Lab.

Grenoble anniversary symposium: join us!

EMBL Grenoble celebrates 40 years with a symposium for staff, alumni and facility users on 4–5 June.

40 questions, answered

Lab Matters Find answers to 40 of your questions about life, the Lab and everything!

Light years ahead

As EMBL Hamburg celebrates 40 years, we explore the past, present and future of crystallography.

Lighting the way

EMBL Hamburg celebrates four decades of vision, pioneering research and beamline services.

Successes, challenges and the future

It’s question time for Director General Iain Mattaj in this extract from the alumni reunion magazine.

A toast to EMBL

German Science Minister and other honoured guests celebrate 40 years of ‘Learning from life’.

Witness to history

EMBL Alumna Frieda Glöckner looks back more than four decades to where it all began.

Hamburg anniversary symposium: Preview

An interview with keynote speaker Michael Rossmann.

40 years learning from life

Celebrating 40 years of leading life science

"Thank you, EMBL, for changing my life" – reunion celebrates great science and great scientists

EMBanniversary AUSTRIA

Celebrating 50 years of EMBO, 40 years of EMBL and the success of molecular biology in Austria

Celebrating 20 years of bioinformatics

EMBL-EBI’s anniversary celebration: blue skies thinking, Robin Ince and a biology-themed cake

Buon Compleanno!

EMBL Monterotondo celebrates double anniversary with fun, fireworks, festa and familiar faces

Forty things that make EMBL – Part 1

Lab Matters As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL

In our DNA

Lab Matters To photographer Horst Hamann, it's the people, not the science, that make EMBL unique

Forty things that make EMBL – Part 2

Lab Matters As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL

Still growing at 40

Lab Matters Busy times for EMBL keep Director of International Relations Silke Schumacher on the move

Five for the future

Lab Matters Scientists from EMBL's five sites reflect on the opportunities and challenges that might lie ahead

Getting shirty

Staff and alumni around the world get active in EMBL running shirts to celebrate our anniversary

European centre of excellence for mouse biology celebrates its 10th anniversary

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…

The first public nucleotide sequence database turns 25

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…