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Our mission is to train scientists. This blog is a platform for us to share updates on our annual programme, tips and tricks for scientists, new e-learning opportunities, and sometimes just something to make you smile.


The EMBL Course and Conference Office was established in 1983 to support EMBL scientists in the organisation of conferences, medium-sized workshops, practical courses, EMBL internal and one-off events. 

Biology outside the box: a snapshot of what’s happening beyond the known

Every year, first-year EMBL PhD students organise a three-day scientific symposium. Going 26 years strong, each iteration is a unique product of the diverse cast of students and the defining scientific focus of that time period. Quickly skimming through the gallery of past symposia would convince…


Sympo-celium: A fungal network of student organisers

Thoughts of a Symposium Organiser: 25th EMBL PhD Symposium Collective behaviour is everywhere we look. From the macroscale of worldwide shipping lanes to the ordered chaos of searching bees. Unfortunately, we are not bees. But, we, as an organising committee have tapped into a hive-mind mentality…

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