EMBL in Italy: cutting-edge science from basic to applied research
The annual meeting organised by Italian EMBL alumni was held in Turin on 18-19 May, hosted by the University of Turin and the University of Piemonte Orientale (UPO)
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After EMBL: Heiko Runz and Laurence Ettwiller
From biking together while at EMBL to assistant professorships at Heidelberg University, two academics formed a union that took them to the United States, into various industry positions and to a life with two young children.
The story of Clustal: democratising sequence alignments
We caught up with 2023 Lennart Philipson Award winner Desmond Higgins for a chat about his time at EMBL, his research developing sequence alignment tools, and 20th-century bioinformatics.
EMBL alumnus: Alex Almeida on the unchartered gut microbiome and becoming a principal investigator
EMBL-EBI alumnus Alexandre Almeida shares how his time as a postdoc prepared him for running his own group studying the human gut microbiome
After EMBL: Thomas Graf
Alumnus Thomas Graf reflects on his time at EMBL, offering an update on his whereabouts and advice for young scientists.
EMBL Alumni Awards Announced for 2023
Two former EMBL scientists have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to the fields of science communication and multiple sequence alignment research, respectively
EMBL Alumni Relations: 2022 in review
As 2022 draws to a close, we thank our alumni for the many ways in which they have supported EMBL during the first year of our new Programme, Molecules to Ecosystems.
EMBL in Spain: from EvoDevo to Tissues
More than a hundred scientists from across Spain and Europe met at the Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology (CABD) for the 2022 ‘EMBL in Spain’ event
Inaugural Kafatos Lecture brings outstanding science to the global public
The public lecture by Denis Duboule has been streamed worldwide from the Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion, Greece.
Welcome: Maria Papanikolaou
EMBL’s new archive and record manager explains how communication and engagement are central to her dual role of preserving history and managing EMBL records