8 March 2024
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
On International Women’s Day 2024, we hear from some of the women who have been working tirelessly in the field and behind the scenes as part of the Traversing European Coastlines (TREC) expedition.
2024
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17 July 2023
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Rutuja Yelmar, predoctoral Fellow at EMBL Grenoble in the Kowalinski group, talks about her passion for research, daily inspiration, and the importance of collaboration in achieving her goals.
2023
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
15 May 2023
EMBLetc
In recognition of Janet Thornton’s retirement, we look back at some of her biggest accomplishments in shaping the field of bioinformatics.
27 March 2023
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Audrey Spielmann, Lab Support Manager, talks about her role in supporting the research done at EMBL Grenoble.
2023
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
21 March 2023
Using long-read sequencing and machine learning approaches, EMBL alumna Lara Urban is making a difference in the field of One Health.
17 March 2023
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Biological X-ray imaging is an emerging technology that uses X-rays to image tissues or even entire organisms. It will play an important role in EMBL Hamburg’s future service portfolio, and will allow studying life on multiple scales. Team Leader Liz Duke discusses her plans to establish X-ray…
2023
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
7 March 2023
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.
22 February 2023
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
2023
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13 February 2023
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Group Leader Hanh Vu studies ‘immortal’ flatworms that can grow and de-grow to understand better factors that determine organisms’ sizes.
2023
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
11 February 2023
Lab Matters
A recent student visitor shares her impressions from visiting EMBL’s Vincent group as we recognise International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
19 December 2022
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
The Director General of EMBL was elected by her peers to become a member of one of France’s oldest national science academies.
2022
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30 November 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
The new group leader in Barcelona aims to understand how cells behave in health and in disease, and approaches her favourite hobby, cooking, very similarly to her work in the lab.
2022
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
21 October 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
After a postdoc at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, Flora Vincent has joined EMBL’s Developmental Biology unit to further explore the world of phytoplankton.
2022
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
16 August 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Virginie Uhlmann, Research Group Leader at EMBL-EBI and one of the co-chairs of the Theory@EMBL transversal theme, chats about how this theme will open up new research avenues.
2022
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22 June 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
EMBL Director General Edith Heard joined other L’Oreal-UNESCO Laureates in Paris for a series of events celebrating these outstanding researchers and their contributions.
2022
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
8 June 2022
EMBL Announcements
Two former EMBL staff members have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to research in the fields of brain evolution and cancer.
2022
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7 June 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Pascale Cossart, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the biology of Listeria, brings four decades of expertise in intracellular bacterial parasitism to EMBL as a visiting scientist.
2022
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
21 May 2022
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected as a foreign member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of her academic excellence. Heard is among 15 new members of the Academy, which has been advancing basic research and interdisciplinarity for nearly 280 years.
2022
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17 May 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Janet Thornton, the inaugural winner of the FEBS Journal Open Science Award, explains the importance and impact of open science.
2022
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10 May 2022
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
EMBL’s Head of Genome Biology announced as Fellow of the Royal Society for her exceptional contributions to science.
2022
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4 May 2022
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
The honour recognises distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
2022
embl-announcementslab-matters
27 April 2022
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
Professor Kristina Djinović-Carugo has been appointed as the next head of EMBL Grenoble. She will join EMBL in July from the Max Perutz Laboratories at the University of Vienna, where she is currently Head of the Department of Structural and Computational Biology and full Professor of Structural…
2022
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27 April 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Slovenian structural biologist Kristina Djinović-Carugo will join EMBL in July as the new Head of EMBL Grenoble. We spoke to her about her background, research interests, and plans for EMBL Grenoble.
2022
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22 April 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
EMBO Director Fiona Watt discusses preprints, data sharing, and evaluation in light of EMBL’s new Open Science policy
2022
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
20 March 2022
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
Judith Zaugg, Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Over the next five years, the grant will enable her group to study cellular interactions in the human bone…
2022
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3 March 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
An exploration of what gender bias looks like in science and how organisations and individuals can address it
2022
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14 January 2022
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Melissa Harrison joins EMBL-EBI as the new Team Leader of Literature Services. We found out more about her plans for open access publishing and Europe PMC.
2022
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
10 January 2022
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
Kristina Haase, Group Leader at EMBL Barcelona, will receive €1.5 million over the next five years to develop her project on 3D vascularised in vitro cardiac tissues.
2022
embl-announcementslab-matters
9 December 2021
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
EMBL Senior Scientist and Head of the Genome Biology Unit is among the researchers honoured for outstanding work by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).
2021
embl-announcementslab-matters
25 November 2021
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva is one of EMBL’s newest group leaders and a computational biologist whose research group applies computational modelling to better understand the metabolism of gut bacteria and their potential to have far-reaching impacts on other organs.
2021
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28 October 2021
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Svetlana Dodonova is one of EMBL's newest group leaders, leading a team of researchers who will study how genetic material is organised inside cells using structural biology approaches.
2021
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
18 October 2021
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
Professor Edith Heard is among new members elected to US National Academy of Medicine
2021
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20 August 2021
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
The new team leader at EMBL Hamburg talks about her plans to establish biological X-ray imaging and high-throughput tomography.
2021
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
12 August 2021
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Her admission to the ‘Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine’ section recognises her outstanding professional contributions to science.
2021
embl-announcementslab-matters
13 July 2021
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has warmly welcomed Fiona Watt, who will become the new director of EMBO.
2021
embl-announcementslab-matters
13 July 2021
People & Perspectives
EMBL alumni Ilaria Piazza and Ken Holmes have been recognised for their outstanding contributions, and will receive their awards as part of the celebrations for EMBL World Alumni Day.
2021
alumnipeople-perspectives
5 July 2021
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
EMBL welcomes Sarah Dyer, the new Non-Vertebrate Genomics Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.
2021
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
30 June 2021
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has warmly welcomed the appointment of Professor Maria Leptin as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC)
2021
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22 June 2021
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
Anna Erzberger, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, will provide unique perspective as a theoretical biological physicist.
2021
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
5 May 2021
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
alumnipeople-perspectives
27 April 2021
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected into the US National Academy of Sciences, recognising her contributions to research.
2021
embl-announcementslab-matters
26 April 2021
ConnectionsLab Matters
Edith Heard has been appointed to a new World Health Organization advisory council.
2021
connectionslab-matters
21 April 2021
Lab Matters
In a talk on 29 April, Professor Jeanette Woolard will share her experience of creating a more positive research culture
30 March 2021
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
The new group leader at EMBL Rome will study how embryos can inherit non-genetic information from their parents that causes stable and heritable effects
2021
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
8 March 2021
Lab Matters
Tracey Brown from Sense about Science shares her thoughts on the need to empower women to share and access scientific information.
8 March 2021
Lab Matters
Members of EMBL’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee explain how EMBL is choosing to challenge through its LEAP mentoring programme.
3 March 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL invites Simon Gallow, an advocate at UN Women UK, to give a talk marking International Women’s Day.
26 February 2021
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
As one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, Sinem Saka will combine multiple technologies, such as microscopy and single-cell omics, to solve biological puzzles.
2021
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
23 February 2021
Lab Matters
Being a woman in science takes allies, not just great science. Here, EMBL’s L’Oréal–UNESCO Fellows talk about support networks.
22 February 2021
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
Anne Ephrussi has been awarded the German Feldberg Prize 2022 in recognition of her outstanding research.
2021
embl-announcementslab-matters
18 February 2021
Lab Matters
Professor Dame Janet Thornton discusses work–life balance, the support she has received during her career, and how organisations can help staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
11 February 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL Teen Maria-Theresa Licka shares how female scientists guided & inspired her to develop an app to ID vine disease.
9 February 2021
Lab Matters
Roshni Mooneeram discusses what Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is to her, and what the meaning of allyship is.
27 January 2021
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
New group leader Nicoletta Petridou explains her fascination with the complexity of early embryo development, and how the interdisciplinary nature of EMBL will aid her research.
2021
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
23 November 2020
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
EMBL’s Eileen Furlong, Chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee and Head of the Genome Biology Unit, responds to the recent Nature Comms paper on the potential effects of mentor–mentee relationships.
2020
embl-announcementslab-matters
16 October 2020
Lab Matters
A three-day virtual conference, ‘Gender Roles and their Impact in Academia’, explored how biology, social structures, and unconscious bias shape gender roles, and discussed ways to achieve equal opportunities for men and women in academia.
16 October 2020
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives
New associate group leader at EMBL Hamburg investigates the structure of functional amyloids in bacteria and in human disease
2020
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
17 September 2020
Lab Matters
The EMBL conference that explored direct and indirect impacts from the current pandemic on women in science allowed for information and story sharing both in the form of lectures but also via online platforms like Slack and social media that included Twitter.
26 August 2020
Science & Technology
More than 500 people have registered for an EMBL conference, "The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on women in science: Challenges and solutions." Scheduled for 9 September, the conference is free and open to all. Pre-registration is still available and required to attend.
2020
eventsscience-technology
13 February 2020
EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters
EMBL Director General recognised alongside four other exceptional women in the life sciences
2020
embl-announcementslab-matters
22 November 2018
Lab Matters
Nina Kathe, Winner of the EU Contest for Young Scientists visits EMBL
21 March 2018
People & Perspectives
The new head of facility at EMBL Hamburg will help users solve protein puzzles
2018
people-perspectivesscience
4 December 2017
People & Perspectives
New group leader based in Grenoble aims to unveil the mechanisms of RNA editing
2017
people-perspectivesscience
19 October 2017
Lab Matters
Women from academia, industry and politics met at EMBL to fuel career growth and opportunities
8 March 2017
Lab Matters
Ottoline Leyser on the fallacy of failure and the road to self-determination
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