Heidelberg, 31 December 2009 Support the John Kendrew Award We need your help to support our first ever fundraising campaign, which is dedicated to the continuation of the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award. more
Heidelberg, 14 December 2009 The spirit of Christmas With Christmas just around the corner, we spoke to some EMBL alumni who help bring festive cheer to the dinner table... more
Heidelberg, 10 December 2009 Albert: ‘a cherished colleague and friend’ On 10 December last year Albert Stegmüller, who worked at EMBL for 34 years, passed away at the age of 78. Here, Konrad Müller, Head of Personnel from 1975 until 1995, remembers him. more
Porto, 2 October 2009 5th Local Chapter meeting in Portugal Find out more about the event in Porto, and its organiser Paula Sampaio, Head of IBMC's Advanced Light Microscopy Facility. more
Porto, 2 September 2009 Paula Sampaio Can she fix it? Yes she can. Head of IBMC’s Advanced Light Microscopy Facility talks about her interest in technical equipment - microscopes in particular - and how she set up the microscopy unit at the IBMC. more
Heidelberg, 1 August 2009 Marc Hemberger, Björn Kindler and Daniel Browne show us where ITS @ Read about former EMBL IT members. more
Heidelberg, 12 July 2009 Pavel Tomancak: A model career 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 more
Heidelberg, 11 July 2009 Staff and alumni meet at the summer party to discuss “Where next after EMBL?” The 2nd Local Chapter meeting in Germany took place on the morning of the EMBL summer party on 11 July 2009. more
Heidelberg, 30 June 2009 Anni Stenzel leaves after 13 years at EMBL 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. more
Heidelberg, 18 June 2009 John Kendrew Award Ceremony & 2009 winner 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. more
Dilofo, 13 June 2009 3rd Local Chapter meeting in Greece For the third year running, EMBL alumni in Greece met for a weekend break in Dilofo. more
Heidelberg, 11 May 2009 13th Alumni Association Board meeting 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! more
Heidelberg, 1 May 2009 EMBL Alumni and ELLS collaborate 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. more
Heidelberg, 1 April 2009 Expanding the EMBL alumni communities 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. more
Heidelberg, 13 March 2009 NMR alumni celebrate opening of NMR centre at EMBL Heidelberg 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. more
London, 6 March 2009 Breakthrough discovery: blocking transmission of malaria from mosquitoes to humans 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. more
Heidelberg, 1 March 2009 Britta Schläger - offering project management services through kobris Having left the bench, Britta Schläger is offering project management services to the research community more
Heidelberg, 1 February 2009 EMBL International PhD Programme Shared Applicant Pool New applications have been entered into this pool, for access please register using the link above. more
Heidelberg, 1 January 2009 Gareth Griffiths: the man behind the EMBL parties 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. more