{"id":4920,"date":"2015-08-24T17:37:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:17:46","slug":"1508-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/alumni\/1508-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni board meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\">Agenda items included approval of the fast growing number of members, a review of the new board (which takes office in January 2016), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embl.de\/aboutus\/alumni\/alumni-awards\/01_lpa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lennart Philipson Award <\/a>selection process, and recent and future alumni initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">One highlight of the meeting was the update by EMBL Director Matthias Hentze on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li class=\"p1\">EMBL scientific breakthroughs, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/1505-tara-oceans\/\">Tara Oceans odyssey &gt;<\/a><\/li><li class=\"p1\">news on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/lab-matters\/1507-ei3pod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EMBL infrastructure, training and integration in Europe &gt;<\/a><\/li><li class=\"p1\">the Laboratory\u2019s strategy and plans for the next six years.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis part alone, makes our visit to EMBL so valuable and inspiring.\u201d said outgoing Chair, Giulio Superti-Furga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMBL Alumni Association board meets for the last time in their current constellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17597],"tags":[80],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-embl-announcements","tag-alumni"],"acf":{"article_intro":"<p>The EMBL Alumni Association board met for their last meeting in their current constellation at EMBL Heidelberg on Lab Day on 10 July.<\/p>\n","related_links":[{"link_description":"EMBL Alumni Association board","link_url":"http:\/\/www.embl.de\/aboutus\/alumni\/about-us\/our-board\/index.html"}],"article_sources":false,"vf_locked":false,"featured":false,"color":"#007B53"},"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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