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.
We’d like to introduce you to Nico Claassens, one of the trainers of the course ‘Synthetic biology in action: beyond standard metabolism’. Nico himself was a participant of this long-standing course and has now joined as one of the trainers. We spoke to him about how his participation in 2015…
We sat down with Isidro Cortes Ciriano to discuss his involvement with the upcoming EMBL-EBI Cancer genomics course, and find out what training means to him. Cancer genomics | 20 – 24 June 2022 | Hinxton, UK Hi Isidro! Tell us a bit about yourself for those that don’t…
The Introduction to RNA-seq and Functional Interpretation course (21 – 25 February 2022) is now open for applications and we thought we would introduce you to one of the course trainers, Jonathan Manning. Jonathan is a Bioinformatician in the Gene Expression group. His role is to…
Meet Varsha Kale, a Bioinformatician in the Finn team: Microbiome Informatics at EMBL-EBI and one of the trainers at the EMBL Course: Metagenomics Bioinformatics (08 – 12 November 2021). We virtually sat down with Varsha and quizzed her on where she thinks the field of…
Our upcoming EMBL Conference: Chromatin and Epigenetics is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! Although this year’s conference will be very different in format (yup, you guessed right: virtual!), the topics to be discussed will be as exciting as always. We spoke to Asifa…
On the occasion of World Cancer Day (4 February), we meet two of the trainers of the virtual EMBL Course: Cancer Genomics (17 – 21 May 2021) – Tobias Rausch and Alexey Larionov. Tobias Rausch (TR) received his PhD in “Computational Biology and Scientific Computing” at the…
You may have heard the name CABANA floating around the EMBL training programme, but you may not know exactly what it is. Here we present a handy guide to the project, its origins and where it stands now almost three years on from its launch. CABANA is a capacity strengthening project for…
Ada Lovelace is often regarded as the first to recognise the full potential of computers and as one of the first computer programmers. In honour of Ada Lovelace Day 2021, we are resharing our blog piece from last year where we shone the spotlight on some of the remarkable women that we…
Meet Christina Ludwig (CL), Jeroen Krijgsveld (JK) and Mikhail Savitski (MS) – organisers of the virtual EMBO Practical Course: Quantitative Proteomics: Strategies and Tools to Probe Biology (3 – 7 May 2021). Since it first took place in 2016 it has grown in popularity and application…
Meet Dr. Paolo Ronchi, scientist in the Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF) at EMBL, which helps users answer their biological questions by developing strategies and workflows. Paolo first joined EMBL in 2008 as a PostDoc to study the biogenesis of the Golgi apparatus after removal…