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Beginning a PhD at warp speed
Kristaps Krims-Dāvis spent a month at EMBL Heidelberg getting a crash course in cutting-edge microscopy.
CONNECTIONS2024
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Kristaps Krims-Dāvis spent a month at EMBL Heidelberg getting a crash course in cutting-edge microscopy.
CONNECTIONS2024
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EMBL Fellows’ Career Service launches new online resources for early- career researchers at EMBL and beyond, aimed at providing comprehensive career guidance.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2024
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The programme will advance excellence in research infrastructure management and technology development.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2024
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Nicolas Foos, a postdoctoral fellow at EMBL Grenoble, talks about the implementation of a new method for in situ serial crystallography developed during his ARISE fellowship.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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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.
LAB MATTERS2024
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The ARISE summer school brought together fellows from across EMBL sites who are working on technology projects as part of EMBL’s Career Accelerator for Research Infrastructure Scientists (ARISE) programme.
CONNECTIONS2024
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Daniele Ancora is an ARISE fellow in the Light Imaging Facility at EMBL Rome. With a background in theoretical physics, he develops algorithms to improve image-based omics technologies. Learn about his interdisciplinary training and his little ‘obsessions’.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Starting in the 1980s, EMBL’s PhD programme has played a notable role in helping train some of the brightest scientific minds in Europe, as well as in building a thriving research community focused on collaboration and innovation.
LAB MATTERS2024
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Kim Gurwitz talks about her role as Scientific Training Lead at EMBL-EBI and how collaborative projects for bioinformatics training support researchers and service providers in making the most of publicly available data.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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At EMBL Rome, an immersive youth training programme is dedicated to, but also inspired by, alumnus Riccardo Cortese, thanks to private donors.
CONNECTIONS2024
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Team Leader Sameer Velankar on why accessible training is key for AlphaFold and AI tools more generally.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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The two institutions celebrated the renewal of the partnership agreement initiated in 1999 for the delivery of a doctoral degree and a joint training certificate during UGA’s Welcome Day for doctoral students.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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Sabrina Krueger, scientist-turned-training officer, shares her approach to this role and the need to be ‘true to yourself’.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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An upcoming EMBL-led infrastructure management training will help formalise information exchange in the Rhine-Neckar region to widen access to technology and scientific services for members of the Health + Life Science Alliance.
CONNECTIONS2023
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The first EMBO Practical Course on imaging-based spatial-omics was organised at EMBL Rome to explore the latest techniques to visualise RNA transcripts and proteins in their native tissues.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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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.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2023
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EMBL-EBI data resources are being used to deliver thousands of genetic diagnostics to patients every month.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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BioImage Archive Team Leader Matthew Hartley shares his experience and tips for people interested in managing a bioinformatics core facility.
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On Friday 21 April 2023, EMBL held a graduation ceremony to celebrate its newest group of PhDs who graduated during the last 12 months. The graduating class comprised 43 fellows representing 17 nationalities and all six EMBL sites.
LAB MATTERS2023
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Nikon Europe has intensified its engagement with EMBL's Corporate Partnership Programme to support young scientists.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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Europe’s life sciences laboratory EMBL on 5 April welcomed Council delegates Ivana Lagator and Lidija Vukcevic from the Montenegrin Ministry of Science and Technological Development, and University of Montenegro representative Professor Danilo Mrdak, to discuss expanding research and training…
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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Upcoming EMBO/EMBL symposium provides a forum to explore how organisms function together, and how they react or adapt to changes at different molecular levels.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Home to some of Europe’s most cutting-edge tools in molecular biology, EMBL has long shared its expertise and access to these tools through an extensive repertoire of courses, conferences, seminars, and other training. And now included in this mix is a job shadowing programme at EMBL Imaging…
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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The CABANA project was born out of a desire to strengthen bioinformatics capacity and accelerate data-driven biology in Latin America.
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EMBL reminds teachers of freely available educational resources and workshops just in time for school.
LAB MATTERS2022
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20 secondary school students from all over Italy participated in the fourth edition of Summer in Science at EMBL Rome.
LAB MATTERS2022
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The Scientific Visitor Programme shares EMBL tools and talent with outside researchers in collaborative, multidisciplinary environments.
LAB MATTERS2022
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The EMBL Lautenschläger summer school, held 4–15 Jul 2022, introduced students from a range of scientific backgrounds to interdisciplinary life science research.
LAB MATTERS2022
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Participating researchers will lead projects to develop novel technologies for better science.
LAB MATTERS2022
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Two days of events with institutes in the country add a new chapter to successful scientific collaboration
CONNECTIONS2022
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The African BioGenome Project and EMBL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support each other in building genomics and bioinformatics capacity across Africa
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2022
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Students from the Business Academy Aarhus visit EMBL Hamburg annually. Many of them return later as trainees to gain experience as lab technicians. EMBL Hamburg offers great opportunities to learn diverse techniques and work with various equipment. This experience helps them in their future jobs in…
LAB MATTERS2022
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EMBL’s first Imaging Centre Symposium will occur onsite at EMBL and include tours of the new Imaging Centre on 31 May, introducing participants to the facility and its staff and featuring talks on the rapid developments in imaging technologies that have led to notable biological and medical…
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2022
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The honour recognises distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2022
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After a two-year break, the summer school organised by Adamas Scienza and EMBL in collaboration with CNR is back. It will take place at the International Research Campus of Monterotondo (Rome) from 13 to 24 June 2022.
LAB MATTERS2022
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The new EMBL Imaging Centre held its first on-site training workshop, introducing undergraduate students to the basics of volume electron microscopy. This marks the first of many opportunities to aid capacity-building in imaging techniques in Europe.
LAB MATTERS2022
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EMBL announces details about its next programme, ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’. It will guide studying life across scales and in context with changing environments.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2022
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Correlative microscopy service enables PhD student from Switzerland to study structure and location of proteins cells use to communicate.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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EMBL's PhD and postdoc programmes evolve to the more multidisciplinary way of doing great molecular biology research.
LAB MATTERS2021
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Each year, EMBL Hamburg’s Svergun Group offers practical EMBO courses and lecture courses on biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The courses provide young scientists an opportunity to gain hands-on experience by measuring their own samples, and by exploring different aspects of SAXS…
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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This autumn, students begin their PhD in research groups across EMBL’s six sites.
LAB MATTERS2021
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EMBL's science education department makes the latest scientific research more accessible for teachers and students.
LAB MATTERS2021
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EMBL and the Swedish Science for Life Laboratory sign agreement to advance science together.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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EMBL’s sites in Grenoble, Hamburg, and Heidelberg form the newest Instruct Centre. The new centre offers users access to a broad range of state-of-the-art facilities.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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Facilitated by EMBL’s Scientific Visitor Programme in 2019, Silvia Dias Almeida spent a year in the Diz-Muñoz group, helping solidify her career plans and set her up for a competitive PhD programme in biomedical imaging.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2020
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Ever-evolving technology and related budgetary, regulatory, and management challenges prompted EMBL to establish its new ARISE fellowship programme, which begins accepting applicants in December.
LAB MATTERS2020
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ARISE fellowships to offer first-ever comprehensive training for bioscience infrastructure operations
LAB MATTERS2020
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The EMBL International PhD Programme is one of EMBL’s flagship training programmes. It forms part of our efforts to train and inspire talented scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders. Submission of applications for the current PhD student recruitment round is now possible.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2020
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Colder winter weather has finally arrived EMBL-EBI. It’s the first time the site has seen snow this winter.
LAB MATTERS2020
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Forty-seven PhD students from all of EMBL’s six sites were celebrated during EMBL’s 2019 Graduation Ceremony on Friday 13 December
LAB MATTERS2019
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Two recent events have expanded EMBL’s collaboration with one of its newest member states
CONNECTIONS2019
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The inaugural EMBL Lautenschläger Summer School ran from 15–26 July at EMBL Heidelberg.
LAB MATTERS2019
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Native Scientist’ organises multilingual science workshops for children of migrant communities.
LAB MATTERS2019
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EIPOD4 will prepare researchers for the increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific career paths
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2019
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The programme promotes education, collaboration and cutting-edge research
LAB MATTERS2019
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Joining forces to support early-career scientists
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2019
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Overwhelmed as a biologist getting to grips with computer programming? EMBLers are here to help!
LAB MATTERS2019
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Foundation stone ceremony for world-class high-resolution microscopy centre in Heidelberg
LAB MATTERS2019
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Joining forces to advance training in biomedical research and therapy
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2019
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What genetics can tell us about the structure of ancient human populations
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2018
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EMBL postdocs discover industry-led research opportunities at the Corporate Summer School
LAB MATTERS2018
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Meet the organisers of EMBO’s first course on molecular geobiology
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL and Promega collaborate to train young scientists
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2018
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The programme promotes education, collaboration and cutting-edge research
LAB MATTERS2018
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Roche and EMBL join forces
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2018
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EMBL experts outline the trends shaping scientific training in the coming years
2018
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Joining forces for single-cell research
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2018
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EMBL experts outline the trends shaping scientific training in the coming years
2018
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EMBL’s training programme launches its first e-learning courses: introductions to optogenetics and CLEM
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2018
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EMBL experts outline the trends shaping scientific training in the coming years
LAB MATTERS2017
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Aid for Labs is an EMBL-based charity aiming to provide scientific equipment to researchers in need
LAB MATTERS2017
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International experts gather at EMBL-EBI to reflect on the future of bioinformatics training
LAB MATTERS2017
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How the work of the Courses and Conferences team has changed over the years
LAB MATTERS2017
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School student Andrea Totaro and EMBL group leader Christophe Lancrin reflect
LAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL-EBI supports bioinformatics training and capacity in Latin America
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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Celebrating 40 years since the first EMBO electron microscopy training course
LAB MATTERS2017
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Call for applications for school students to join ‘Summer in Science’ in Monterotondo
LAB MATTERS2017
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New Master's programme for research infrastructure managers – set to launch autumn 2017
LAB MATTERS2017
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Helke Hillebrand on leaving EMBL after 9 years as Academic Coordinator and Dean of Graduate Studies
LAB MATTERS2017
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For the past two months EMBL Heidelberg has hosted around 60 first year PhD students from EMBL’s International PhD Programme (EIPP). From thousands of applicants, the students were selected from over 40 countries to work on their PhD research at one of EMBL’s five sites – Grenoble, Hamburg,…
LAB MATTERS2016
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The PEPC course celebrated its 10th anniversary in Hamburg from the 12 – 20 September this year
CONNECTIONS2016
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Ernst Stelzer earns 2016 Lennart Philipson award for advances in light sheet microscopy
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2016
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Check out the newly revealed programme for 2017
LAB MATTERS2016
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Rosemary Wilson talks about imposter syndrome and how to handle it
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2016
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Eberhard Bengsch explains why EMBL’s events programme attracts him time and again
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2016
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Unexpected adventures at EMBL LearningLAB focused on biodiversity
LAB MATTERS2016
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Scientific community manager, alumnus Aidan Budd, connects people with shared interests, values, goals
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2016
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Meet the secret timekeepers of EMBL events: AV technicians Sean Nightingale and Jan Abda
LAB MATTERS2016
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Upgrading your conference experience with the new EMBL Events app
LAB MATTERS2016
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EMBL PlayLab now available at 22 conferences hosted in Heidelberg
LAB MATTERS2016
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With 28 conferences and 57 courses, 2016 will be EMBL’s most eventful year to date.
CONNECTIONS2015
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Find out what’s in store at the 2016 Core Technologies for the Life Sciences meeting.
CONNECTIONS2015
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GOBLET initiative supports pan-African bioinformatics trainers in Cape Town.
CONNECTIONS2015
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Designer Aditya Kusuma Jati reveals what makes a good event poster.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2015
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The new Toolkit for Trainers, an online resource hosted at EMBL-EBI, helps biomedical science trainers create and explore new ways of teaching.
LAB MATTERS2015
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Sybrand van der Zwaag gives his five top tips for young researchers thinking about their next move.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2015
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From paper microscopes to zebrafish embryos, EMBL Science Days stand had something for everyone.
LAB MATTERS2015
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Hamburg researchers have a ball creating game to explain transporter protein mechanism.
LAB MATTERS2015
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Amidst the excitement of Nobel Week, behind the scenes of the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2015
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Long-time events pro Antje Seeck gives us her take on how to organise a successful conference.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2015
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EMBL-Wellcome Genome Campus events collaboration showcases open, application-based science.
CONNECTIONS2015
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Insights from organisers of upcoming EMBO|EMBL Aquatic Microeukaryotes symposium.
CONNECTIONS2015
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Highlights from EMBL-EBI’s Training Programme: Open Day, revamped webpages, free webinar series.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2015
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"It's like living a review!" Participants of recent super-resolution microscopy course share their highlights
CONNECTIONS2015
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EMBL Core Facilities collaborate with French research programme Signalife to revive training visit.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2015
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EI3POD: flagship interdisciplinary postdoc programme opens its doors to academia and industry.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2015
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“Interactions: that’s what I like the most in biology” – meet Lukáš Janošík, EUCYS 2014 prize winner.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2015
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Klaus Tschira, a tireless supporter of science, education and talent, died 31 March 2015.
LAB MATTERS2015
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First LearningLAB of 2015 makes science of protein structure crystal clear for 22 teachers.
2015
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EMBL Insight Lecture – Why do we do what we do? – now available to view online.
2015
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Meet Dean of Graduate Studies, Helke Hillebrand.
LAB MATTERS2015
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New Christian Boulin Fellowship: 15 awards of up to €1500 for visitors to EMBL’s Core Facilities.
LAB MATTERS2015
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New group leader Marco Marcia aims to broaden horizons while mapping molecules.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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EMBL-EBI supports Big Biology Day, inspiring 500 youngsters with jelly-baby DNA and golf-tee viruses.
2014
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Alumnus Jan Medenbach harnesses the shared experience of peers (and pioneers) at EMBL event.
LAB MATTERS2014
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Which courses and conferences will you attend in 2015? EMBL’s annual event calendar: out now!
2014
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Course attendees go hunting (protein) aliens in a quest for optimal SAXS data.
2014
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First series of training courses jointly organised by EMBL and Illumina is a resounding success.
2014
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How to make good quality samples for good quality structural biology experiments.
2014
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How the author of a prize-winning project on bee travel ended up at a stem cells and cancer conference
LAB MATTERS2014
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From anemones to starfish, sea creatures are helping understand development, evolution and more.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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PhD student Charles breeze found inspiration at this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting.
LAB MATTERS2014
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EMBL-EBI hosts successful first EMBO Practical Course in Genotype to Phenotype Mapping.
2014
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Andrew D Robertson, scientific coordinator of EICAT between 2011–12, died on 14 August 2014.
LAB MATTERS2014
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Tschira-Jugendakademie pupils get hands-on during day of DNA barcoding
LAB MATTERS2014
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PhD students reap rewards and rave reviews as Summer School of Science organisers
CONNECTIONS2014
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Busy times for EMBL keep Director of International Relations Silke Schumacher on the move
LAB MATTERS2014
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Today, the German Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, officially opens the new training and conference centre for the life sciences on the campus of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. “This new centre in Heidelberg will form a central European…
LAB MATTERS2010
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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, a global leader in life science research, drug discovery and cellular science, today announced that they have entered into a corporate partnership in support of EMBL’s Advanced Training Centre in…
LAB MATTERS2008
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The European Commission has awarded 3.7 Million Euro under the European Union Framework 6 Programme over the next four years to a new Marie Curie Research Training Network, coordinated by Dr. Andreas Ladurner at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The long molecules of DNA that carry…
LAB MATTERS2007
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Today, the German Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, breaks ground for the new training and conference centre for the life sciences that will be built on the EMBL campus in Heidelberg. The German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the Klaus Tschira…
LAB MATTERS2006
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