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 know how much our course and conference participants love the postcards at the registration desk, so we have created a new batch. These will be available from October on for you to take as a souvenir or send to your loved ones. EMBL offers a postal service on-site, so you can even send them…
“Like punning, programming is a play on words.” Alan J. Perlis. You don’t have to be a programmer to have programming skills. Writing code is an essential part of being a programmer (duh!), but is also a vital component of being a scientific developer, software developer or computer…
Meet Dr. Imre Gaspar, Senior Research Assistant in the Kikuë Tachibana Group at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, Austria, which focuses on understanding how chromatin is spatially reorganised in totipotent cells. What is your research focus and why did you choose to become…
Meet Dr. Anna Kreshuk, a group leader in the EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics unit, whose group uses machine learning to develop automated methods to help biologists speed up image analysis. Anna joined EMBL in 2018 and has since been very active in building up training opportunities in her…
Rejection. We have all experienced it in one way or another. Scientists perhaps more than others – rejected papers, job applications, fellowships, grants or training applications. But what can we do when it happens again and again and again? In the EMBL Course and Conference Office we see it all…
Meet Katharina Danielski, Field Application Scientist at 10x Genomics, who is an organiser and trainer at the EMBL Course: Immune Profiling of Single Cells (10 – 13 February 2020). What is the greatest benefit of the course for the scientific community? It provides researchers with an…
Meet Dr. Anders Ståhlberg, Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden, and organiser of the EMBO Practical Course: Single-Cell Omics (15 – 21 November 2020) and EMBL Course: “Liquid Biopsies” (14 – 19…
Meet Dr. Andrew Filby, Director of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility at Newcastle University, which supports cutting-edge research through the provision of a comprehensive cytomics resource to both internal and external research groups, operating at the forefront of cytometric applications and…
Today we meet Toby Hodges from EMBL Heidelberg, who is an organiser and trainer at the upcoming EMBL Course: Computing Skills for Reproducible Research: Software Carpentry (16 – 18 October 2019). At EMBL, Toby supports EMBL’s bioinformaticians, providing training, advice, community building…
José Eduardo González-Pastor – one of the main organisers at the upcoming EMBO Practical Course: Microbial Metagenomics: A 3600 Approach (12 – 19 June 2019) – conducts his research on the mechanisms of adaptation of microorganisms to extreme conditions using metagenomic and…