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The Paleocore project, led by the French marine institute Ifremer and part of the TREC expedition, aims to study marine sediments to understand the impact of major historical events on ecosystems.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
science-technology
In less than two years, the EMBL-led TREC expedition has demonstrated that large-scale international collaboration is essential for driving ground-breaking planetary and human health research with societal impact. Here, we summarise some aspects of the expedition in numbers.
CONNECTIONS2024
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EMBL-EBI data resources help advance biodiversity and climate change research by enabling scientists to study species interactions, evolutionary processes, ecosystem health, and more.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
science-technologytechnology-and-innovation
The TREC expedition concluded its sampling in Greece and strengthened scientific exchange and collaborative networks with their Greek partners during a political and scientific stakeholder event in Athens.
CONNECTIONS2024
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For almost two months, Italy was the stage for the TREC expedition, with a rich programme of events organised across the country attended by the public, scientists, schools, and high-level political stakeholders, including Minister of University and Research Anna Maria Bernini.
CONNECTIONS2024
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EMBL-EBI data resource helps scientists upcycle animal by-products.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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BIOcean5D is an EMBL-coordinated project co-funded by the European Union that unites 31 institutes to address pressing global challenges on marine biodiversity.
LAB MATTERS2024
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The second phase of the TREC expedition focuses on the Mediterranean coast, with Barcelona, Spain, hosting the first ‘superstop’ of 2024
CONNECTIONS2024
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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.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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The Traversing European Coastlines (TREC) expedition prepares to begin its next phase of sampling, with stops in Spain, Greece, Italy, and beyond.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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A $3.8 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will help researchers lay groundwork for the Biodiversity Cell Atlas.
2024
announcements
The new initiative brings together genomic data from various biodiversity projects to aid conservation and biodiversity efforts.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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An interdisciplinary collaboration between Hamburg scientists has yielded new insights into the structure and function of a heat-resistant enzyme from an exotic microbe. In this interview, EMBL Hamburg’s Matthias Wilmanns and TUHH’s Garo Antranikian discuss how their collaboration developed and…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
sciencescience-technology
The TREC expedition has come to the end of its first phase. The last superstop of 2023 was hosted by CIIMAR in Porto and, despite the adverse weather conditions, included many scientific and public engagement activities.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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With the new advanced mobile laboratory, EMBL is taking its service offerings to new heights, bringing cutting-edge life science technologies to the field in a way never seen before.
EMBLetc2023
A celebratory event at the Maritime Museum Bilbao marked the partnerships that make possible the TREC expedition on land and at sea along the European coast.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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EMBL-EBI Senior Scientist Rob Finn explains why data coordination and sharing are fundamental for a sustainable blue economy.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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EMBL’s newly deployed Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) is bringing cutting-edge technologies to the European coast to help researchers study ‘life in context’.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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The TREC expedition stop in Sopot offered an opportunity to create connections with Polish scientists and citizens around the topics of planetary biology and ocean science.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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TREC scientists, outreach specialists, and a crucial support team have been on the road, exploring life at European coasts.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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EMBL’s newest expedition attempts to answer some of the biggest questions in planetary biology, and will help scientists find solutions to pressing global concerns.
EMBLetc2023
EMBL’s planetary biology flagship TREC expedition has officially started. The new project applies EMBL's expertise and technologies in molecular and cellular biology to current environmental challenges, and connects with a wide range of research disciplines.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2023
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Using long-read sequencing and machine learning approaches, EMBL alumna Lara Urban is making a difference in the field of One Health.
2023
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An annual Corporate Partnership Programme meeting provided a forum for EMBL researchers and industry representatives to discuss mobile labs, planetary biology, and other areas of common interest.
CONNECTIONS2023
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EMBL is leading the TREC project: the first pan-European and cross-disciplinary effort to examine life in its natural context.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2023
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Funding awarded for developing tools to harness marine microbiome data for biotechnological applications and ecosystem services.
2023
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We look back through some of the 2022 highlights from the Darwin Tree of Life project.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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A recent EMBO|EMBL symposium provided a forum for discussing recent research on a range of issues for organisms as they cope with changing environments.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Our experts discuss the importance of open science for food security and preserving global biodiversity.
2022
perspectivesscience
Plankton parasites provide a zombie story perfect for Halloween. While invading single-celled plankton, these parasites devour the cell’s nucleus and hijack metabolism while the organism remains alive.
2022
science
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.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
EMBL-EBI’s MGnify data resource helps researchers find enzymes for novel applications.
2022
announcementsscience
The final pilot project in Iceland marked the countdown to the ‘Traversing European Coastlines’ (TREC) expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to changes in the environment.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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A closer look at how genome sequencing is helping us protect biodiversity and our latest public engagement activities
2022
announcements
The African BioGenome Project and EMBL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support each other in building genomics and bioinformatics capacity across Africa
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2022
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Joint workshop brings researchers together on site and virtually to discuss broad range of planetary biology topics.
CONNECTIONS2022
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Michael Dorrity, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, is studying how the environment influences early life stages in zebrafish.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg analysed a new global gene database to study how genes emerge and spread across various habitats on our planet. In the future, the group will expand the database and use it for studying microbial gene evolution and dispersal at a finer-grained scale.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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The two organisations have signed a memorandum of understanding to support scientific cooperation in the exploration of coastal and oceanic ecosystems.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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EMBL will host a conference to look at the state of the pandemic, lessons learned, and ways to improve pandemic preparedness. Here’s a sneak peek into what promises to be another interesting and informative EMBL conference.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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EMBL’s Melissa Graewert and colleagues are taking a structural biologist’s approach to better understanding nanoplastic particles.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Under the innovative Planetary Biology research theme, EMBL scientists aim to understand life in the context of its environment.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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EMBL and the Swedish Science for Life Laboratory sign agreement to advance science together.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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The EMBL-Tara Ocean Foundation collaboration will expand opportunities to jointly explore molecular connections between ocean and humankind.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2021
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Researchers have used a metagenomics approach to piece together the genomes of yeasts found in wild lichens.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Gautam Dey is fascinated by the evolutionary origins of the nucleus, and is looking forward to making the most of EMBL's infrastructure.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2021
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EMBL and EMBRC have signed a memorandum of understanding for increased scientific collaboration.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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