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9 September 2022 A female career advisor at computer participates in webinar

Insights into scientific careers

Lab Matters As the career landscape continues to change for PhDs and postdocs, the EMBL Fellows’ Career Service offers webinars that present professional options in and beyond academia.

2022

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4 March 2022 Colourful shapes are set against a black background and white grid, symbolic of aspects of infection biology.

A postdoc conference spotlighted in tweets

Lab Matters EMBL hosted a futuristic infection biology conference, but it offered even more: an opportunity for postdocs to share their work and network towards future research homes.

2022

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2 March 2022 woman stands in front of computer in workplace

Academia, industry, or somewhere else?

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.

2022

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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 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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1 September 2020 EMBL Fellow's Career Service

EMBL Fellows’ Career Service celebrates first birthday

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

2020

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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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25 November 2019 Phd student microscope

Careers after EMBL

Lab Matters For many students in the life sciences, finishing a PhD marks a professional crossroads

2019

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

EIPOD4: 2019 applications are open

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

2019

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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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28 November 2018 EIPOD postdocs work together as part of the Corporate Summer School.

Science in industry

Lab Matters EMBL postdocs discover industry-led research opportunities at the Corporate Summer School

2018

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26 November 2018 Sarah Butcher EMBL-EBI Technical Team Leader

Welcome: Sarah Butcher

Lab Matters Building bridges between scientists and software developers

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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4 October 2018 Lola Ledesma. PHOTO: Jose Antonio Pérez/CBMSO

EMBL in Spain: Lola Ledesma

Connections EMBL alumni and researchers working throughout Spain met in Madrid

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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24 July 2017 Map of Latin America

Bioinformatics in Latin America

ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL-EBI supports bioinformatics training and capacity in Latin America

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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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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29 September 2016

EMBL at NatureJobs careers fair

ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL recently attended the Naturejobs Career Expo, advising scientists about their career options

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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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

Pathways: Community management

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

2016

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26 August 2016 EMBL team leader Georg Zeller. PHOTO: EMBL/Marietta Schupp

Welcome: Georg Zeller

Science & Technology Team leader investigates how the gut microbiome could relate to human diseases

2016

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4 August 2016 45 pupils from Saarland, Germany visit EMBL-EBI

Just try!

Lab Matters German students visit EMBL-EBI on a tour to explore a new culture and different career paths

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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9 June 2016

Behind the scenes: Audiovisual

Lab Matters Meet the secret timekeepers of EMBL events: AV technicians Sean Nightingale and Jan Abda

2016

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27 May 2016 Italy-based alumni gathered for the ‘EMBL in Italy’ event on 27 May to learn about the focus of researchers at EMBL’s Monterotondo site. PHOTO: EMBL/Isabelle Kling

Italian interconnections

Connections Marco Tripoldi and Valeria Carola join colleagues and peers at gathering of Italy-based alumni

2016

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23 May 2016 UK-based EMBL alumni gather at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in May 2016. PHOTO: Robert Slowley

Making business in Britain

Connections Abel Ureta-Vidal and Louise Modis join colleagues and peers at gathering of UK-based alumni

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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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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8 March 2016 PHOTO: Pixabay (CC0 Public Domain)

Childcare at EMBL events

Lab Matters EMBL PlayLab now available at 22 conferences hosted in Heidelberg

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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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 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 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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24 November 2015 No coincidence: organisers of this year’s PhD Symposium gather at EMBL Heidelberg 22–24 October for Just by Chance? Randomness and variability shaping biology. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Marietta Shupp

EMBL in pictures

Lab Matters A snapshot of the many activities and events that took place in the world of EMBL this Autumn.

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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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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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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29 April 2015 Riccardo Cortese, former head of the Genome Biology Unit

Inside industry: Part I

Lab Matters Career insights from Riccardo Cortese, whose start-up is developing an Ebola vaccine candidate.

2015

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29 April 2015

Inside industry: Part II

Lab Matters Alumni in senior positions in industry share career challenges, highlights and EMBL’s continuing role.

2015

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29 April 2015

Pathways: In the prime of life

Lab Matters Karin Sasaki is helping bridge the gap between quantitative and life science at EMBL.

2015

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8 March 2015 Sex in Science Award 2015

Supporting women in science

Lab Matters Wellcome Genome Campus gives first Best Practice Award for Supporting Women in Science.

2015

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9 January 2015

Welcome: Marco Marcia

Science & Technology New group leader Marco Marcia aims to broaden horizons while mapping molecules.

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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1 July 2014

Pathways: Science writing

Lab Matters Scientist-turned-writer Lucas Brouwers follows his instincts to find interesting stories

2014

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1 July 2014

Resourceful alumni

Lab Matters Two EMBL alumni, each developing community-led tools to support life science research

2014

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