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15 November 2024 Woman in red jacket outdoors with fall foliage behind her

The value of a scientific meet-up

Connections Yuvarani Masarapu, a junior bioinformatician and doctoral student at SciLifeLab in Stockholm, spent a week with EMBL collaborators, finding solutions to research challenges and expanding her scientific perspective.

2024

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4 November 2024 Around 40 international people of all ages posing together before a big mobile laboratory truck with logos of EMBL, TREC, and industry sponsors printed on its side.

TREC in numbers: the expedition’s impact so far

Connections In less than two years, the EMBL-led TREC expedition has demonstrated that large-scale international collaboration is essential for driving ground-breaking planetary and human health research with societal impact. Here, we summarise some aspects of the expedition in numbers.

2024

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30 September 2024 Group photo of the participants standing on wooden stairs with a wooden wall behind them.

Fostering Nordic collaborations in molecular medicine

Connections The 13th annual meeting of the Nordic EMBL partnership for molecular medicine took place on 16–19 September 2024 in Oslo and was hosted by the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM).

2024

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16 August 2024 Two trucks with EMBL and TREC logos drive along a road next to the seaside, in the background are hills and houses from the suburbs of Athens.

TREC expedition concludes sampling in Greece

Connections The TREC expedition concluded its sampling in Greece and strengthened scientific exchange and collaborative networks with their Greek partners during a political and scientific stakeholder event in Athens.

2024

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2 July 2024

Bulgaria becomes EMBL prospect member state

EMBL Announcements Bulgaria has become the latest EMBL prospect member state, starting a three-year process toward full membership. The prospect membership opens up new opportunities for mutual exchange and collaboration. Including Bulgaria, EMBL is now supported by 29 full member states, one associate member state,…

2024

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17 June 2024

TREC in Italy – sampling from coast to coast

Connections For almost two months, Italy was the stage for the TREC expedition, with a rich programme of events organised across the country attended by the public, scientists, schools, and high-level political stakeholders, including Minister of University and Research Anna Maria Bernini.

2024

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18 April 2024 Group picture with a truck-size laboratory on wheels in the background

TREC sets off along the Mediterranean coast

Connections The second phase of the TREC expedition focuses on the Mediterranean coast, with Barcelona, Spain, hosting the first ‘superstop’ of 2024

2024

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20 March 2024 4 people are standing in front of a man, Vladimir Benes, who speaks to them

Connecting shores and exploring new avenues for collaboration with Malta

Connections During a visit from high-level representatives of EMBL’s member state Malta, the honourable delegation allowed a peek behind the scenes of their scientific and institutional collaborations, and shared their memories and future aspirations for the partnership.

2024

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9 January 2024 Latvian flag comprised of deep red with a horizontal white stripe across the center

Latvia becomes EMBL’s 29th member state

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Latvia’s life sciences sector will benefit from expanded access to the leading European research, services, and training provided by EMBL.

2024

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17 November 2023

TREC – Towards the end of the first phase

ConnectionsLab Matters The TREC expedition has come to the end of its first phase. The last superstop of 2023 was hosted by CIIMAR in Porto and, despite the adverse weather conditions, included many scientific and public engagement activities.

2023

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15 November 2023 Group picture with mountain in the background

Looking back on 20 years of structural biology collaboration in Grenoble

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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31 October 2023

EMBL’s southern hemisphere connection

ConnectionsLab Matters Ian Smith, Chair of EMBL Australia´s Council, chats about the synergies between the organisations, opportunities for collaboration, and ideas for exciting new programmes arising out of a recent visit to EMBL Heidelberg.

2023

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21 September 2023 Group photo of the participants of the 12th annual meeting of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine in Espoo, Finland.

Forging collaborations across the Nordics

ConnectionsLab Matters The 12th annual meeting of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine took place in Espoo, Finland, between 11-14 September 2023.

2023

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28 June 2023 Serbian flag

Serbia becomes EMBL prospect member

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Starts three-year process toward full membership, opening up new opportunities for mutual exchange and collaboration.

2023

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29 May 2023 group photo of the workshop participants

EMBL and SciLifeLab cooperate on data science

ConnectionsLab Matters The third meeting between EMBL and SciLifeLab communities took place in Uppsala and focused on data science, aiming at further expanding the collaboration

2023

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26 May 2023 Female scientist in white lab coat is showing material in a petri dish to EC official in lab coat

Sharing knowledge, widening access across Europe

ConnectionsLab Matters European Commission and EMBL renew commitment, agree on new areas of cooperation, in new EC DG’s first infrastructure visit since appointment.

2023

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28 April 2023 two students wear virtual reality headsets

Building a broader European science community

ConnectionsLab Matters Croatian scientists and students from the Ruđer Bošković Institute and University of Zagreb visited EMBL to exchange ideas with researchers and public outreach experts on ways to increase interest, awareness, and involvement in science.

2023

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15 March 2023 Image of a group of people behind a large, black table with two cakes on it to celebrate EMBL Barcelona’s fifth anniversary

EMBL Barcelona: Five years down the road

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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20 February 2023 The Estonian flag

EMBL welcomes Estonia as full member

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The Baltic nation of Estonia has become a full member of EMBL, joining the organisation as its 28th member state.

2023

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7 February 2023 BII and EMBL logos are on a white band set against a wavy green background

Promoting European innovation in the life sciences

ConnectionsLab Matters One of EMBL’s core missions is the development and transfer of scientific know-how and technologies to academia, industry, and commercial entities to facilitate further research, innovations, and commercialisation for the benefit of society at large. Working across Europe, EMBL has partnerships…

2023

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18 November 2022 Group photo of speakers and organisers standing in front of a slide saying “Welcome to the DANEMO Symposium”.

Promoting EMBL opportunities for the Danish scientific community

Connections DANEMO is a communication platform and research support initiative launched by DANDRITE at Aarhus University. It aims to encourage scientists in Denmark to engage with EMBL and EMBO. The DANEMO symposium from 3-4 November in Aarhus focused on raising awareness of the new EMBL programme ‘Molecules…

2022

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17 November 2022 A graphic showing the logos of EMBL and the University of Malta

EMBL builds on links with Malta

Connections EMBL deepens scientific collaboration, opening the door for greater engagement and opportunities for Malta’s life science community

2022

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12 October 2022 A group photo taken at the EMBL Heidelberg site, showing members of EMBL and the Ruder Boskovic Institute

EMBL deepens ties with Croatia

Connections Visit of delegation from the Ruđer Bošković Institute to EMBL Heidelberg marks a new chapter in scientific and institutional cooperation

2022

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7 October 2022 A group of people at EMBL's partnership conference

The EMBL Connection

Connections EMBL's Partnership Conference highlights the value of its networks, bringing researchers together to build new scientific connections.

2022

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2 June 2022 BII and EMBL logos are on a white band set against a wavy green background

Teamed up to innovate

ConnectionsLab Matters A new formal collaboration agreement enables will help smooth the transition from fundamental science to innovation.

2022

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12 April 2022

EMBL consolidates ties with Sapienza University

ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL and the Sapienza University of Rome confirm their reciprocal interest in intensifying collaborations and launch new opportunities for exchange of expertise

2022

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17 March 2022 EMBL statement visual

EMBL’s statement on the invasion of Ukraine

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL condemns in the strongest terms the unjustified military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, with the support of Belarus, and the resulting loss of life and human suffering. We express our deepest sympathy to the Ukrainian people and to all the victims of this war.  As an…

2022

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23 February 2022 A photo of the campus of the Aarhus University buildings and green lawn.

Molecular medicine across borders

ConnectionsLab Matters The 11th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine meeting was hosted in virtual format by DANDRITE, the Danish node of the Partnership, from 31 January–2 February 2022. The programme included updates from all partnership nodes, discussions about opportunities for new collaborations,…

2022

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9 February 2022 The logos of EMBL and the Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre

EMBL and Latvia deepen collaboration

Connections Agreement signed with Latvia’s Biomedical Research and Study Centre will boost academic exchange and collaboration on some of the largest challenges facing human and planetary health.

2022

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27 January 2022 A headshot of Mark Daly with dark background behind him.

Fostering excellence, diversity, and mobility in the Nordic EMBL Partnership

ConnectionsLab Matters Ahead of the annual meeting of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, we spoke with its new Speaker, Mark Daly. Mark Daly, FIMM Director, recently accepted the post of Speaker of the Nordic EMBL Partnership. He explains his vision of the future cooperation between EMBL and the Nordics.

2022

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22 September 2021 Logos of EMBL and Helmholtz Association on white background, over a green-and-blue pattern in the background.

EMBL and Helmholtz Health join forces

ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL and Helmholtz Association have signed a memorandum of understanding. The expanded collaboration of both institutions will focus on research related to health.

2021

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5 May 2021 Woman sits at desk in office setting

After the lecture: Zehra Sayers

People & Perspectives Zehra Sayers explains what makes the SESAME synchrotron special, why we should not fear failure, and why curiosity is her biggest driver.

2021

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5 October 2020 EMBL and Vilnius University logos on a background of genomic data

New partnership in Lithuania

ConnectionsLab Matters On 8 September, EMBL and Vilnius University Life Sciences Center signed a framework agreement for the establishment of the VU LSC–EMBL Partnership for Genome Editing Technologies.

2020

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29 September 2020 Oliver Billker, Director of MIMS, is standing at the podium in front of a microphone. Behind him, a projected slide says “Welcome to Umeå University”.

The Nordic EMBL Partnership: supporting national research

Connections The partnership between EMBL and four Nordic research institutions aims to stimulate scientific exchange and inspire scientific collaborations. This year’s conference of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine included many talks by EMBL researchers and a presentation by EMBL’s…

2020

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7 September 2020 science diplomacy

Looking forward

ConnectionsLab Matters Two EMBL speakers gave presentations that looked toward the future and at ways to trailblaze on the endless frontier of science.

2020

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8 July 2020 The national flag of Latvia: A carmine field bisected by a narrow white stripe (one-fifth the width of the flag)

Latvia becomes EMBL prospect member state

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Latvia has joined EMBL as a prospect member, starting a three-year process toward full membership.

2020

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26 June 2020 Key visual for ‘Life Science Across the Globe’

Sharing our passion for science with the world

Lab Matters EMBL is joining the virtual seminar series ‘Life Science Across the Globe’ – a timely initiative to foster international scientific exchange across countries and continents, starting on 1 July.

2020

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24 January 2020

Hungarian Minister visits EMBL

Connections László Palkovics, Hungarian Minister for Innovation and Technology, visited EMBL Heidelberg

2020

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18 November 2019

Fostering links with Montenegro

Connections Two recent events have expanded EMBL’s collaboration with one of its newest member states

2019

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30 July 2019

Swiss day!

People & Perspectives The 1700 people working at EMBL’s six sites come from more than 80 different countries. Many of them haven’t come straight from their home country to one of the EMBL sites but have also lived in other countries in between. While all of them are proud to work at EMBL they are also proud of…

2019

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11 June 2019 Lithuanian flag

Sveika, Lietuva!

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Lithuania becomes EMBL’s 27th member state

2019

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29 September 2015 Lithuanian flag

Lithuania, new prospect member state

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Sveiki Lietuva! Lithuania becomes EMBL’s fourth prospect member state.

2015

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3 November 2014

Witamy! EMBL welcomes Poland as prospect member state

In a Statement of Intent signed this month, Poland becomes a prospect member state of EMBL, and the new partners agree to explore possibilities for long-term cooperation, with a view to the country becoming a full member state within three years. “Poland has a strong and active life science…

2014

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6 October 2014

Hungary joins EMBL as prospect member state

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) welcomes Hungary as its newest prospect member state. In a Statement of Intent signed this month, Hungary and EMBL agree to explore possibilities for long-term cooperation, with a view to the country becoming a full member state within three years.…

2014

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5 March 2013

Denmark joins the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine

ConnectionsLab Matters Today, the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine celebrates two important milestones: the renewal of the partnership agreement for an extended period of 10 years, and the expansion of the Nordic EMBL network with the official opening of the Danish Research Institute of Translational…

2013

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