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Its aim was to encourage former lab members to connect, collaborate and stay up-to-date with each other\u2019s scientific work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embl.de\/research\/units\/scb\/bork\/index.html\">Bork lab<\/a>\u2019s influence on the fields of structural and computational biology is far-reaching. Since leaving the lab, 38 PhD students or postdocs (almost 65% of the total) have gone on to senior positions as professors, group leaders, directors or managers in prominent academic and research organisations worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland Krause, now project manager at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg, and Jan Korbel, himself now a group leader at EMBL, have been the main organisers of the four Bork Group reunions: Heppenheim (2006), Barcelona (2012) and Heidelberg (2009 and 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meetings offer unique opportunities to collaborate on new projects. 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