EMBL Research Units

Research groups at EMBL are organised into nine units spanning six European sites.

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is made up of many independent groups of research scientists, who work on a wide range of biological topics. EMBL categorises these groups by area of scientific interest into nine research units. This structure helps EMBL scientists working on similar scientific questions to leverage common tools and experimental apparatus.

The Laboratory’s tightly-knit community also helps researchers to work together on themes of common interest, sharing ideas across research units in a cooperative and multidisciplinary research environment.

EMBL Barcelona

Tissue biology and disease modelling

Scientists at EMBL Barcelona use advanced technologies to observe, manipulate, and model how changes in genes percolate through cells, tissues, and organs, in health and disease.

EMBL-EBI Hinxton

Bioinformatics research

Researchers at EMBL-EBI make sense of vast, complex biological datasets produced using new and emerging technologies in molecular biology.

EMBL Grenoble

Structural biology

Activities at EMBL Grenoble focus on integrated structural biology research, and on developing state-of-the art instrumentation, methods and services.

EMBL Hamburg

Structural biology

Activities at EMBL Hamburg focus on state-of-the-art structural biology methods using synchrotron radiation, combining cutting-edge technology with an ambitious research programme for structures of multifunctional proteins and protein complexes of biomedical relevance.

EMBL Heidelberg

Cell biology and biophysics

Scientists in this unit use multidisciplinary approaches to investigate the molecular and biophysical mechanisms that enable cells to function.

Developmental biology

Research in the Developmental Biology Unit is focused on understanding the origin, development, and evolution of organisms and their communities.

Directors' research

This unit covers thematically distinct research groups, headed by EMBL and EMBO leadership.

Genome biology

Scientists in the Genome Biology Unit use and develop cutting-edge methods to study how information across different molecular layers (DNA, RNA, Proteins, metabolites) are regulated, processed, and utilised, and how their variation leads to different phenotypes, including disease.

Molecular systems biology

The Molecular Systems Biology Unit investigates molecular structure, organization and function at a systematic level in and across cells.

EMBL Rome

Epigenetics and neurobiology

At EMBL Rome, scientists explore the connections between genome, environment, and neural function.

See also

EMBL Faculty

Research groups at EMBL are organised into nine units spanning six European sites

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