EMBL celebrates 50 years of structural biology in France
We are collecting testimonials from French or France-based EMBL alumni, but we would love to hear more stories and memories from all EMBL Grenoble ‘family’ and friends!
We encourage you to share your thoughts and EMBL memories with us! Email us at events@embl.fr and check back periodically to see what others are saying.
“A place to experience and perform excellent science and collaborate with people from all over the world.”
— Mark Van Raaij, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología group leader (Cusack Group postdoctoral fellow, EMBL Grenoble, 1996-2000)
“50 years or almost! Congratulations! Keep on playing an important role in the Grenoble science landscape!”
— Winfried Weissenhorn, IBS Director (Group Leader, EMBL Grenoble, 1998-2006)
“EMBL mentors and colleagues showed me the level of excellence that I should aspire to in my career.”
— Mark Brooks, Evotec Project leader (Cusack Group postdoctoral fellow, EMBL Grenoble, 2001-2004)
“Happy birthday EMBL Grenoble! I have heard a lot about you, now I have seen it and it matches my expectations. Keep developing the game-changing technologies to look at structures, AI is a tool, in organismo veritas 🙂 And do more, much more, more diverse, bolder, risky, conceptional, and paradigm-shifting! That’s EMBL – to boldly go where no men have gone before!”
— Pavel Tomancak, MPI-CBG Senior Research Group Leader and chair of the EMBL Alumni Association (Ephrussi Group Predoctoral Fellow, EMBL Heidelberg, 1995-1999)
“All the best in the next few years! Greetings”
— Britta Schläger, Head of Kobris and member of the EMBL Alumni Association (Hentze Group Research Assistant, EMBL Heidelberg, 1989-1998)
“Congratulations on turning 50, EMBL Grenoble! For an EMBL Alumnus, EMBL sites are a home away from home, and Grenoble has been treating me very well. Thanks! See you again soon!”
— Thomas Vaccari, Associate Professor at the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Milan and member of the EMBL Alumni Association (Ephrussi Group Predoctoral Fellow, EMBL Heidelberg, 1999-2004)
“Congratulations on reaching 50 and for constantly updating and moving forward. Delighted to be back again.”
— Mark Green, member of the EMBL Alumni Association (EMBL-EBI Head of Administration, EMBL-EBI, 1997-2018)
“Very happy to be here once again in Grenoble at EMBL. Congrats on the 50th anniversary!”
— Isabel Chillon, CNRS researcher (Marcia group postdoctoral fellow, EMBL Grenoble, 2016-2021)
“50 years! Carry on in a changing world.”
— Wim Burmeister, Professor at Université Grenoble Alpes (Cusack Group Predoctoral Fellow, EMBL Grenoble, 1989-1992)
“Happy birthday EMBL Grenoble! I was so impressed by this futuristic campus, and I was lucky to be here, and lucky to be an EMBLer! All the best!”
— Sara Fahs, BioNTech Associate Director of Medicinal Chemistry and member of the EMBL Alumni Association (Koehn Group Predoctoral Fellow, EMBL Heidelberg, 2014-2018)
“50 years of EMBL Grenoble and I only made it here for the first time! I hope it is not the last. Such a beautiful and interesting place. Thanks for the celebration!”
— Johanna Höög, Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg and member of the EMBL Alumni Association (Antony Group Predoctoral Fellow, EMBL Heidelberg, 2003-2007)
“50 years of EMBL Grenoble. Stella science and stella scientific services and technologies. Well done and weiter so. May all your dreams come true, and you get the building and equipment deserving of your amazing contributions to European life sciences. My very best wishes.”
— Mehrnoosh Rayner, Head of EMBL Alumni Relations
“Congrats on EMBL Grenoble 50th! First visited in 2004 and wonderful to see the great developments. Many future successes!”
— Anne-Marie Glynn, Global Brain Health Institute Deputy Chief Operating Officer and member of the EMBL Alumni Association (Frangakis Group Predoctoral Fellow, EMBL Heidelberg, 2002-2008)
“50 years! Congratulations on this original achievement! Best wishes for the next half-century!”
— Carlo Petosa, IBS group leader (Mueller Group Staff Scientist, EMBL Grenoble, 1997-2008)
“Great people, great science, great memories!”
— Nikos Nikopoulos, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology postdoctoral fellow (Marquez Team trainee, 2017, Kowalinski Group master’s student, 2018, EMBL Grenoble)
“It is hard to imagine that it is already 50 years of EMBL Grenoble! Memories from my 10-year stay are so fresh and delightful that they appear all so young. Proud to be part of the illustrious journey of such a great institution. Thanks for everything EMBL has done for my career and that of my lab members. Wishing Grenoble lots of continuous success.”
— Ramesh Pillai, Professor at the University of Geneva and member of the EMBL Alumni Association (Group Leader, EMBL Grenoble, 2006-2016)
“Happy 50 years EMBL Grenoble! I have many fond memories of my time here and I am always happy to interact with the EMBL community! Congrats!”
— Juliette Devos, ILL Research Engineer (Panne Group postdoctoral fellow, EMBL Grenoble, 2008-2011)