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EMBL’s new archivists highlight the importance of safeguarding past records to strengthen the organisation's institutional future. Together, they will focus on developing a sustainable record management framework while keeping records of valuable cultural and historical information.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2025
people-perspectives
Right from the early days of DNA sequencing, EMBL’s scientists have been instrumental in helping the world understand, decode, archive, and manipulate genomes at scale and across many branches of the evolutionary tree, a task they continue to excel at today.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
science-technology
As we mark EMBL’s 50th anniversary, we celebrate not only the groundbreaking research and discoveries that have emerged from this prestigious institution but also the rich history and profound impact of the EMBL Course and Conference Programme.
LAB MATTERS2024
lab-matters
EMBL celebrates 50 years of cutting-edge European research: founded in Heidelberg by the first ten member states, Europe's pioneering Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is now supported by 29 member states and stands for outstanding open research, scientific services for researchers, innovative…
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2024
embl-announcements
A special Coffee with EMBL session celebrated EMBL’s 50th anniversary by inviting alumni to reflect on the organisation’s first two decades.
LAB MATTERS2024
lab-matters
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
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
people-perspectives
Toby Gibson reflects on 38 years at EMBL, the scientific tools he built along the way, and the state of science today.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
people-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.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
A pivotal conversation 20 years ago led to the creation of the iconic 'double-helix building' that is EMBL's Advanced Training Centre.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2024
connectionslab-matters
Victor Armijo, a mechatronics engineer at EMBL Grenoble, talks about his dream job, highlighted in EMBL’s exhibition ‘The World of Molecular Biology’.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
lab-matterspeople-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.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
alumnipeople-perspectives
The EMBL agreement, which made reality the idea of creating a European laboratory for life sciences, was signed in 1973 and ratified in 1974. Fifty years later, we look back at this historic moment.
EMBLetc2023
On this date (15 November), 21 years ago, the EMBL, ESRF, ILL, and IBS directors signed a memorandum of understanding to create the Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) on the European Photon and Neutron (EPN) science campus in Grenoble.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
connectionslab-matters
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.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2023
embl-announcementsevents
EMBLetc., the online magazine of Europe’s life sciences laboratory, celebrates its 24th birthday with its 100th issue. We took a walk through the past issues of this dynamic publication, and here are 10 recurring themes that emerged.
EMBLetc2023
EMBL’s site by the sea completed its fifth year of operations. We look back at some key milestones and achievements since 2017.
LAB MATTERS2023
lab-matters
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2023, EMBL archivist Maria Papanikolaou discusses the traces left by the women in science who have passed through EMBL, irrevocably changing the organisation in small and big ways.
LAB MATTERS2023
lab-matters
EMBL’s new archive and records manager, Maria Papanikolaou, explains the dual role she and an additional colleague will have in the Office of Science Information Management.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
An alumnus reflects on the reptile database he started in 1996 while at EMBL. The database helps understand biodiversity issues.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
alumniscience-technology
Stories from EMBL’s past are captured via the EMBL Archive’s Oral Histories programme
LAB MATTERS2020
lab-matters
The Szilárd Library celebrates its 40th anniversary on 20 November 2019.
LAB MATTERS2019
lab-matters
Nadia Rosenthal describes how she built EMBL Rome’s mouse house
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2019
alumnipeople-perspectives
The EMBL Archive is open for business!
LAB MATTERS2018
lab-matters
A history of EMBL in six objects from the EMBL Archive
LAB MATTERS2018
lab-matters
“In testimony of my great thankfulness”
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2018
alumnipeople-perspectives
Historian Soraya de Chadarevian explores how EMBL’s first Director General shaped molecular biology
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
Biologists Sydney Brenner and Richard J. Roberts addressed the importance of scientific archives
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
Spanish government and EMBL sign agreement for new site
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
embl-announcementslab-matters
In this interview from the EMBL Archive, Sir John Kendrew reflects on his time leading 'the Lab'.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
EMBL’s Petra Riedinger retires after 40 years producing posters, graphics, artwork and more
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2016
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
Illustrator Edmond Baudoin donates an original artwork to the EMBL Archive
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2016
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
EMBL’s new Archivist will help chronicle the twists and turns, ups and downs of life at the Lab.
LAB MATTERS2015
lab-matters
New EMBL Archive will serve as a record of accomplishments, past, present and future
LAB MATTERS2014
alumnilab-matters
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