Alumni Association
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31 December 2009
The next EMBL staff-alumni reunion will take place on Monday 8th March 2010 in the new Advanced Training Centre (ATC) at EMBL Heidelberg. The event will be followed by the ATC official Opening Ceremony on Tuesday 9th March 2010. All EMBL and EMBO staff, alumni, Council delegates and SAC members are invited.
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31 December 2009
We need your help to support our first ever fundraising campaign, which is dedicated to the continuation of the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award.
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14 December 2009
With Christmas just around the corner, we
spoke to some EMBL alumni who help
bring festive cheer to the dinner table...
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12 July 2009
One of the interesting career paths outlined
at the ‘Where next after EMBL’ event
was that of former EMBL predoc Pavel
Tomancak, now a group leader at theMPI
forMolecular Cell Biology and Genetics
(MPI-CBG) in Dresden
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11 July 2009
The 2nd Local Chapter meeting in Germany took place on the morning of the EMBL summer party on 11 July 2009.
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30 June 2009
EMBL Heidelberg said goodbye
to some very familiar faces on 30
June when EMBL’s obligation to
tender for cleaning services
meant that the Gegenbauer company’s
tenure at the lab ended.
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18 June 2009
An extremely well-attended part of EMBL’s labday was the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award Ceremony. Ken Holmes, former Head of Unit at EMBL Hamburg (1975-1977) and close friend and advisor to the late John Kendrew, presented the award to the winner, Julius Brennecke.
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13 June 2009
For the third year running, EMBL alumni in Greece met for a weekend break in Dilofo.
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11 May 2009
The Alumni Association held their thirteenth board meeting on 11 May 2009 at EMBL Heidelberg. This was the first meeting to be chaired by Giulio Superti-Furga, who made it all the sweeter with an original Sachertorte from Vienna!
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1 May 2009
Want to help school leavers in your country pursue a career in science? Want to provide an infrastructure to help teachers with science teaching? The EMBL European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS) has been helping alumni do just that.
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1 April 2009
To help track down its alumni and extend the community beyond the existing chapters, the Alumni Association has decided to employ the latest in Web 2.0 technology – the social networking sites.
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13 March 2009
There was much heartfelt handshaking and back-slapping at the official opening of the upgraded high-field NMR centre at EMBL Heidelberg on 13 March, as the tight and relatively small European NMR community came together for a day-long symposium.
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6 March 2009
EMBL alumni George Christophides and his colleagues at Imperial College London have made a major breakthrough in malaria research by discovering how mosquitoes' immune systems fight off the parasites.
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1 March 2009
Having left the bench, Britta Schläger is offering project management services to the research community
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1 February 2009
New applications have been entered into this pool, for access please register using the link above.
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1 January 2009
It's the end of an era whenever an EMBL legend departs. At the beginning of this year, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit group leader Gareth Griffiths left EMBL for the sunny climes of Oslo after an amazing 31 years.
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