{"id":6938,"date":"2016-04-21T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2024-03-25T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T09:28:11","slug":"1604-alumni-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/alumni\/1604-alumni-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"p1 wp-block-heading\">Light sheets ahead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"vf-figure  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-inline-start  \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LPA-Ernst-Stelzerx150.jpg\" alt=\"Ernst Stelzer\" class=\"wp-image-6943\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Ernst Stelzer, former EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics Group Leader, has been selected as the 2016 Lennart Philipson Award winner. The award, which recognises outstanding contributions to translational research and innovation, was given to Ernst for the development and application of new light microscopy methods. Ernst is now Professor at the Goethe University in the Life Sciences Department and in the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, in Frankfurt. \u201cLight sheet-based fluorescence microscopy is the result of more than 25 years of hard work,\u201d Ernst says. \u201cAs a member of several Units, I saw the limits of \u2018flat biology\u2019, the challenges of studying specimens in 3D, and the necessity for time-lapse imaging. But, crucially, I also had the resources to tackle challenges in a biological manner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"vf-divider\"\/>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"p1 wp-block-heading\">Charting the way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"vf-figure  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-inline-start  \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JKA-Jop-Kindx150.jpg\" alt=\"Jop Kind\" class=\"wp-image-6944\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Former EMBL Genome Biology PhD student, Jop Kind, has been selected as this year\u2019s John Kendrew Young Scientist Award winner for pioneering postdoctoral work in establishing novel technologies to map chromatin domains in single cells. 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