{"id":14559,"date":"2018-10-29T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=14559"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:20:44","slug":"embl-barcelona-inauguration-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/events\/embl-barcelona-inauguration-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Hola, Barcelona!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At EMBL Barcelona, biologists, physicists and computer scientists work together to understand and simulate the multi-scale connections between genes, cells and tissues. On 15 October, EMBL Barcelona hosted its Inauguration Symposium to officially introduce itself to the city. At this event, journalists, politicians and scientists got the chance to peek inside EMBL Barcelona\u2019s new lab spaces and meet the researchers. <a href=\"https:\/\/wyss.harvard.edu\/team\/executive-team\/donald-ingber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Ingber<\/a>, the founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, also gave a keynote lecture which inspired visitors and researchers alike. Among the most recent recruits to EMBL\u2019s sixth and newest site are <a href=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/welcome-jim-swoger\/\">Jim Swoger<\/a>, Head of the Mesoscopic Imaging Facility, and group leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/welcome-miki-ebisuya\/\">Miki Ebisuya<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/welcome-vikas-trivedi\/\">Vikas Trivedi<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_panel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_panel.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_panel-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Iain Mattaj speaks alongside the panel. PHOTO: Jordi Casa\u00f1as<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_panel02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_panel02.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_panel02-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Iain Mattaj speaks alongside the panel. PHOTO: Jordi Casa\u00f1as<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_D-Ingber.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_D-Ingber.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_D-Ingber-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Donald Ingber presents as keynote speaker. PHOTO: Jordi Casa\u00f1as<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_ebisuya.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_ebisuya.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_ebisuya-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Group leader, Miki Ebisuya. PHOTO: Jordi Casa\u00f1as<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_trivedi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_trivedi.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_trivedi-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Group leader, Vikas Trivedi. PHOTO: Jordi Casa\u00f1as<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_crowd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_crowd.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1810_update_BCN-inauguration-ceremony_crowd-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">The crowd at the Symposium. PHOTO: Jordi Casa\u00f1as<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMBL Barcelona invites locals to celebrate its Inauguration Symposium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":14578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17595,4],"tags":[497,92,696],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-14559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-connections","category-events","tag-barcelona","tag-event","tag-mesoscopy"],"acf":{"article_intro":"<p>EMBL Barcelona invites locals to celebrate its Inauguration Symposium<\/p>\n","related_links":[{"link_description":"","link_url":""},{"link_description":"","link_url":""},{"link_description":"","link_url":""},{"link_description":"","link_url":""}],"article_sources":false,"vf_locked":false,"featured":false,"color":"#007B53","show_featured_image":false,"field_target_display":"embl","field_article_language":{"value":"english","label":"English"},"source_article":false,"in_this_article":false,"press_contact":"None","article_translations":false,"languages":""},"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u00a1Hola, Barcelona! 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