Lab Matters As we mark EMBL’s 50th anniversary, we celebrate not only the groundbreaking research and discoveries that have emerged from this prestigious institution but also the rich history and profound impact of the EMBL Course and Conference Programme.
2024
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EMBL Announcements EMBL celebrates 50 years of cutting-edge European research: founded in Heidelberg by the first ten member states, Europe's pioneering Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is now supported by 29 member states and stands for outstanding open research, scientific services for researchers, innovative…
2024
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Lab Matters A special Coffee with EMBL session celebrated EMBL’s 50th anniversary by inviting alumni to reflect on the organisation’s first two decades.
2024
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People & Perspectives Stephen Cusack, world-renowned structural biologist and former Head of EMBL Grenoble, reflects on his early influences, his achievements, and the lessons he’s learned as he embarks on his next adventure
2024
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People & Perspectives Toby Gibson reflects on 38 years at EMBL, the scientific tools he built along the way, and the state of science today.
2024
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives After 32 years at EMBL – leading a developmental biology research group and later simultaneously serving as EMBL’s Dean for its PhD programme, Anne Ephrussi has retired, ready to start her life’s next chapter.
2024
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL’s link to other sciences and its tradition of collaborative discovery carry on, providing the model and means to address big challenges, including climate change and biodiversity loss.
2024
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ConnectionsLab Matters A pivotal conversation 20 years ago led to the creation of the iconic 'double-helix building' that is EMBL's Advanced Training Centre.
2024
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Victor Armijo, a mechatronics engineer at EMBL Grenoble, talks about his dream job, highlighted in EMBL’s exhibition ‘The World of Molecular Biology’.
2023
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People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Roel Wijnaendts looks back at a long career in academic research and entrepreneurship that has left an indelible mark in the fields of instrumentation and optics.
2023
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EMBLetc The EMBL agreement, which made reality the idea of creating a European laboratory for life sciences, was signed in 1973 and ratified in 1974. Fifty years later, we look back at this historic moment.
2023
ConnectionsLab Matters On this date (15 November), 21 years ago, the EMBL, ESRF, ILL, and IBS directors signed a memorandum of understanding to create the Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) on the European Photon and Neutron (EPN) science campus in Grenoble.
2023
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ConnectionsLab Matters Structural biologist Shlomo Trachtenberg has made research trips to EMBL from Israel since the late 1970s and reflects on the boost EMBL’s technology provided his research, the ingredients for an ideal research institution, and his ongoing fascination with microscopes.
2023
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EMBL Announcements EMBL will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024 with a dynamic scientific symposium. The event will share fundamental research that continues to open the way to scientific discoveries.
2023
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EMBLetc EMBLetc., the online magazine of Europe’s life sciences laboratory, celebrates its 24th birthday with its 100th issue. We took a walk through the past issues of this dynamic publication, and here are 10 recurring themes that emerged.
2023
Lab Matters EMBL’s site by the sea completed its fifth year of operations. We look back at some key milestones and achievements since 2017.
2023
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Lab Matters On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2023, EMBL archivist Maria Papanikolaou discusses the traces left by the women in science who have passed through EMBL, irrevocably changing the organisation in small and big ways.
2023
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL’s new archive and records manager, Maria Papanikolaou, explains the dual role she and an additional colleague will have in the Office of Science Information Management.
2022
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Science & Technology An alumnus reflects on the reptile database he started in 1996 while at EMBL. The database helps understand biodiversity issues.
2021
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Lab Matters Stories from EMBL’s past are captured via the EMBL Archive’s Oral Histories programme
2020
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Lab Matters The Szilárd Library celebrates its 40th anniversary on 20 November 2019.
2019
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People & Perspectives Nadia Rosenthal describes how she built EMBL Rome’s mouse house
2019
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Lab Matters The EMBL Archive is open for business!
2018
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Lab Matters A history of EMBL in six objects from the EMBL Archive
2018
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People & Perspectives “In testimony of my great thankfulness”
2018
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Historian Soraya de Chadarevian explores how EMBL’s first Director General shaped molecular biology
2017
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Biologists Sydney Brenner and Richard J. Roberts addressed the importance of scientific archives
2017
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Spanish government and EMBL sign agreement for new site
2017
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives In this interview from the EMBL Archive, Sir John Kendrew reflects on his time leading 'the Lab'.
2017
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL’s Petra Riedinger retires after 40 years producing posters, graphics, artwork and more
2016
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Illustrator Edmond Baudoin donates an original artwork to the EMBL Archive
2016
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Lab Matters EMBL’s new Archivist will help chronicle the twists and turns, ups and downs of life at the Lab.
2015
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Lab Matters New EMBL Archive will serve as a record of accomplishments, past, present and future
2014
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