Alumni News - March 2009
NMR alumni celebrate opening of NMR centre at EMBL Heidelberg
Annalisa Pastore
Annalisa Pastore
Then: Group Leader, 1988-1997
Now: Group Leader, NIMR, London
When I first arrived at EMBL in 1988, I realised how many potential NMR projects were lying around – but with no spectrometer, I had to arrange NMR time downtown, in Milan and in Strasbourg through various friends and collaborations.
Eventually I asked explicitly whether we could purchase a spectrometer, and Heads of Unit Steve Fuller and Dietrich Suck were very supportive. I stood up in front of SAC to justify the decision – and finally NMR was going to be introduced at EMBL! DG Lennart Philipson appointed two more group leaders in addition to myself: Hartmut Oschkinat, another experimentalist, and Michael Nilges as a computational person. You can imagine that it’s very rewarding for me to see that they are already at the third generation of NMR groups at EMBL.
