Connections, Events The Barcelona Collaboratorium celebrated a milestone as it hosted the EMBO Practical Course ‘Computational modelling of multicellular systems'.
2023
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Connections, Events Scientists from the MELIS department at UPF and EMBL Barcelona have organised a symposium to discuss the work of the visionary Catalan scientist Pere Alberch, who passed away 25 years ago.
2023
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Alumni, Connections EMBL in Spain 2023 was held in Bilbao on Friday 9 October, hosted at the Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE).
2023
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Science, Science & Technology Researchers from the Ebisuya Group at EMBL Barcelona have used an unprecedented stem cell zoo to compare six different mammalian species and their developmental time.
2023
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Connections, Lab Matters EMBL researchers and collaborators have begun an impactful innovation-development journey, thanks to a European Commission ‘IMAGINE’ grant.
2023
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EMBLetc EMBL Barcelona researchers are studying how tissues develop in health and disease using organoids and 3D multicellular systems to mimic human organs and their functions.
2023
Lab Matters, People & 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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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.
2023
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EMBL Announcements, 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.
2023
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Lab Matters, Picture of the week, Science & Technology Zebrafish embryos during gastrulation, a very early stage of development, to study the effect of temperature on vertebrate embryo development.
2022
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Alumni More than a hundred scientists from across Spain and Europe met at the Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology (CABD) for the 2022 “EMBL in Spain” event.
2022
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Lab Matters, People & 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.
2022
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Science EMBL Barcelona researchers have developed a tool that can use light to control the shape of cells .
2022
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Connections, Lab Matters The institutes have launched a joint new initiative which aims to make biology as engineerable as an aeroplane or a bridge.
2022
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Science, Science & Technology EMBL researchers use a “fearless” computer reconstruction and a two-centuries-old mathematical approach to study limb bud growth.
2022
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Connections, 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.
2022
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EMBL Announcements, Lab Matters Cornelius Gross, Miki Ebisuya and Nassos Typas join EMBO, the prestigious organisation for the life sciences.
2022
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Connections, Events Researchers from EMBL and CSIC came together to discuss microbial communities, diversity, and behaviour, in the context of One Health.
2022
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Science, Science & Technology EMBL researchers revise the old problem of sintering droplets to understand the mechanical properties of tissues.
2022
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Science, Science & Technology Scientists at EMBL Barcelona have created for the first time a 3D in vitro model that recapitulates the periodic formation of human somites – structures that give rise to the spinal column.
2022
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Science, Science & Technology EMBL’s imaging technology helps researchers gain insights in the fungus’ journey from the lung to the brain.
2022
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EMBL Announcements, 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.
2022
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Lab Matters, Science & Technology A new model could serve as a platform to investigate critical placenta barrier phenomena, including defence against bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
2021
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Science, Science & Technology Some of the most amazing creatures live in the deep blue sea. The Mesoscopic Imaging Facility (MIF) at EMBL Barcelona was recently involved in studying one unique feature of the octopus: the ephemeral structures on the surface of their skin called Kölliker’s organs.
2021
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Science, Science & Technology MOrgAna is an open source, user-friendly, modular software that is able to analyse organoids with machine learning.
2021
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Science, Science & Technology In the Mesoscopic Imaging Facility (MIF) at EMBL Barcelona, researchers study the details of biological systems in the context of organs, body parts, or entire organisms. This image shows OPTiSPIM1, one of the custom light-sheet microscope setups available at the facility.
2021
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Picture of the week, Science & Technology The Bernabeu Group aims to increase our knowledge of cerebral malaria, using in vitro engineered networks of human blood vessels and brain cells.
2021
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Science, Science & Technology EMBL scientists support research on malaria by providing freely available data resources and using innovative experimental approaches. Our Course and Conference Office facilitates the exchange of knowledge in the field by hosting the annual BioMalPar conference.
2021
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EMBL Announcements, 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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Science, Science & Technology Members of the EMBL community are working to improve our understanding of the parasites that cause malaria and sleeping sickness
2020
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Picture of the week, Science & Technology To help understand cerebral malaria the Bernabeu group has created in vitro engineered networks of human blood vessels.
2020
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Connections, 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.
2020
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Science, Science & Technology The internal clock that governs the development of embryos ticks slower for humans than for mice. Differences in the speed of biochemical reactions underlie the differences between species in the tempo of development.
2020
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EMBL Announcements, 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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Science, Science & Technology Researchers from the Sharpe group at EMBL Barcelona have published a method to track the developmental history of a cell using the gene editing tool CRISPR–Cas9, but without the need to create transgenic organisms.
2020
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Science, Science & Technology EMBL scientists examine the molecular causes of a rare hereditary disease of the spine and ribs
2020
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Picture of the week, Science & Technology In the Trivedi Group at EMBL Barcelona, Krisztina Arató and Jia Le Lim study the early development of zebrafish embryos.
2020
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People & Perspectives, Science New group leader at EMBL Barcelona is investigating how malaria affects the human circulatory system
2020
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People & Perspectives, Science Kristina Haase brings an engineer’s perspective to vascular disease and regenerative medicine
2020
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EMBL Announcements, Events Highlights from the Tara stopovers in Rome, Marseille, and Barcelona
2019
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EMBL Announcements, Events EMBL joins Tara in Barcelona to promote science and interdisciplinarity
2019
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Alumni, People & Perspectives EMBL Barcelona will host the 2019 EMBL in Spain event
2019
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EMBL Announcements, Events When: Friday, 4 October at 16:30 – 18:00. Where: The press conference will be held on the Tara schooner at the Port Olímpic in Barcelona. What: A press conference on the new Tara mission on microplastics and Tara’s cooperation with EMBL.…
2019
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Events, Lab Matters Images by EMBL researchers are included in an art–science exhibition in a Barcelona Metro station.
2019
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Lab Matters, Picture of the week EMBL has six sites in Europe and the newest is EMBL Barcelona. It opened in October 2017 and is still growing. Eventually, it will be home to eight research groups, all of them working to discover how tissues and organs function and develop. EMBL Barcelona is located in the Barcelona Biomedical…
2019
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EMBL Announcements, Lab Matters EIPOD4 will prepare researchers for the increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific career paths
2019
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Lab Matters, People & Perspectives The head of EMBL’s Barcelona site joins a prestigious group of more than 1800 scientists worldwide
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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Events, Lab Matters EMBL got together with the global science festival Pint of Science to explain and celebrate science.
2019
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Science, Science & Technology Tara Ocean Foundation launches the exploration of 10 European rivers
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, People & Perspectives On January 1 2019, Edith Heard takes up the position of EMBL’s Director General
2019
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Science, Science & Technology Scientists build self-organising features into robot swarms to study shape formation
2018
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Connections, Events EMBL Barcelona invites locals to celebrate its Inauguration Symposium
2018
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People & Perspectives, Science New head of the Mesoscopic Imaging Facility at EMBL Barcelona will help scientists visualise nature
2018
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People & Perspectives, Science An engineer’s approach to understanding morphogenesis
2018
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Lab Matters, People & Perspectives Discover how EMBLers across all sites share their passion for science
2018
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People & Perspectives, Science New group leader at EMBL Barcelona creates artificial biological systems to study animal development
2018
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Science, Science & Technology EMBL scientists extend Turing’s theory to help understand how biological patterns are created
2018
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Science, Science & Technology Discover how EMBL scientists are using GPU computing to push biology forward
2018
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Events, Lab Matters EMBL Barcelona organises first school activity to coincide with the International Day of Women in Science
2018
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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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Connections, Events James Sharpe, Head of EMBL Barcelona, co-chairs the morphogenetic engineering-themed conference
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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People & Perspectives, Science Meet the head of EMBL's new Barcelona site, James Sharpe
2017
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EMBL Announcements, Lab Matters Inventor of OPT will be the first Head of EMBL’s new Barcelona site
2017
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EMBL Announcements, 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 Silke Schumacher explains how the new EMBL site in Barcelona came into being
2017
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