The EMBL Alumni Association local chapters serve as important platforms for scientific exchange, in organising scientific meetings, seminars, expertise and resource sharing, and social gatherings. They can also provide a unified and powerful voice to local and national politicians and funding bodies, and help to further science in their regions.

Each chapter is headed by EMBL alumni who voluntarily coordinate activities and events in their area. The Austrian chapter, coordinated by Silke Pichler and Anne-Marie Frischauf (also EMBL Council’s Austrian Delegate), will have their next meeting in Salzburg at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on 25-27 September.