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Former Genome Biology Unit group leader Andreas Ladurner and colleagues, recently discovered the enzymes responsible for indicating when cell stress is over and when the cell machinery should come out of defence and repair mode to resume normal functions. They also found that the absence of one of…
Patricia Kahn, former EMBL staff scientist from the Structural and Computational Biology Unit, writes about her humbling and rewarding experience working as medical editor of Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “MSF is known for its medical work after natural disasters, in…
Emmanuel Lacroix works at the cross-section of science and industry, as Senior Director of Global Business Development for UCB, a Brussels-headquartered global biopharmaceutical company. With a PhD from EMBL’s Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Emmanuel began his career in the biopharma…
Since joining the laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) five years ago, former EMBL postdoc and Professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Claudia Bagni, has been appointed Director of the Neurogenetics Program at KU Leuven’s Center for Human Genetics…
In 1976, Talmon Arad joined the EMBL Structural and Computational Biology Unit as a Research Technician for Kevin Leonard, whose task it was to build an electron microscope lab. Talmon had a few years’ experience in this field, and was looking forward to what turned out to be an incredible…
Bartek Wilczynski, former Furlong Group postdoc and one of the 2011 EMBO Installation Grantees, tells Yvonne Kaul about his first year as Group Leader in Poland, at the Institute of Informatics in Warsaw University. How was the first year back in Poland?It was overwhelming. Senior colleagues had…
This year saw the highest number of superbly qualified John Kendrew Young Scientist Award candidates, making the job of the selection committee very challenging indeed! Nonetheless, the decision was unanimous with the selection of Katharina Ribbeck as the recipient of the Award. Katharina, former…
Patricia Rodriguez-Tomé, one of EMBL-EBI’s first recruits in 1994, is now a group leader at the CRS4 in south Sardinia, headed by EMBL-EBI’s first Director, Paolo Zanella. Patricia flew from Sardinia to Rome to meet EMBLers past and present at the staff-alumni gathering at EMBL Monterotondo.…
Matthias Mann met us at the EMBL get-together in Nice to talk about his contribution to the development of mass spectrometry and proteomics, and to the role of EMBL in his career. Tell us about your EMBL days: “I was a bit of an outsider as I came from instrumentation and physics when Wilhelm…
It was the call for a practical mind that attracted Alan Sawyer to EMBL Heidelberg back in 1990. Alan joined EMBL as a technical assistant to do the antibody work (mono- and polyclonal) for Thomas Kreis’ and Eric Karsenti’s groups. In reality he ended up working for the whole Cell Biology Unit…