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EMBL and @DeepMind have partnered – a breakthrough for science. Together, we're providing a treasure trove of protein structure predictions powered by #AlphaFold to herald a new era for #AI-enabled biology. embl.org/news/science/alphaf…
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#TBT in situ cryo-electron tomogram of the native Chlamydomonas Golgi Tomographic volume superimposed with the 3D segmentation. Published in @eLife by the @BriggsGroup, established @EMBL in 2006 before moving to @MRC_LMB in 2017. šŸ“¹ bit.ly/33Ee9Ik #throwbackthursday
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In recognition of Suzanne Eaton's contributions to science, her years at EMBL, and the tragic circumstances of her death, the EMBL flags will be flown at half-mast today. Suzanne's passion, leadership, mentorship & scientific acumen will be deeply missed. bit.ly/2ScDOmU
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Happy #DNA day. The structure of DNA was first published #OnThisDay in 1953. The famous X-ray diffraction pattern imaged by Rosalind Franklin's PhD student Raymond Gosling is nicknamed Photo 51 bit.ly/2HvtIrq šŸ“·: Raymond Gosling/King's College London
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ā€œI raise my hand for a better world. As a scientist, I have the privilege to pursue my dreams; as a woman, I have the duty to fight for others to be able to pursue theirs.ā€ – EMBL Director General Edith Heard #ChooseToChallenge
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DeepMind and EMBL-EBI have released the predicted structures of over 200 million proteins covering almost every organism that has had its genome sequenced. These are now openly available to the scientific community via the AlphaFold Database. embl.org/news/technology-and…
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Before a #fruitfly takes its first step, its cells have already travelled great distances to form future body patterns and structures. The coordinated movements of cell nuclei can be seen here, as the #embryo developed into larvae over 15h. šŸ”¬: Hufnagel lab
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Merry microscopic Christmas! Clumped up proteins from fruit flies glow in festive form. In this composition of Drosophila cells you can see the cytoskeleton protein tubulin (grey/red), DNA (blue/yellow) and an overexpressed protein tagged with GFP (green). šŸ“·: Catarina Carmo
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Applications for the EMBL International PhD Programme are open! šŸ‘€ The programme offers fully funded PhD positions at EMBL’s six sites across Europe šŸŒ Have a look at this opportunity to start your career in the life sciences here: embl.org/about/info/embl-int…
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Today, 18 teams made up of EMBL staff and visitors are climbing & descending the ATC helix a total of 58 times to simulate climbing Mont Blanc. The teams are raising money for charity.
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Superheroes of the life sciences. Model organisms have helped us understand the function of genes, proteins and metabolic pathways. #biology #research šŸ“· EMBL / Daniel Krüger
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#OnThisDay in 1852, Santiago Ramón y #Cajal was born, the father of modern neuroscience. He was also an artist, photographer, doctor, bodybuilder, chess player & publisher. Read more in this feature by the New York Times: nyti.ms/2vv1tEA #OTD šŸ“· and illustration by Cajal
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EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been appointed to a new high-level @WHO advisory council. The WHO Science Council will advise the international body on science, research, and innovation priorities. embl.org/news/lab-matters/wh…
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To start the year, EMBL welcomes Edith Heard as its new Director General: news.embl.de/lab-matters/edi… ā€œAs a deeply committed citizen of Europe, I will endeavour to promote the scientific excellence and service to the scientific community that characterise EMBL.ā€
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Our new EMBL Imaging Centre has been handed over to the science team: on time and on budget! We expect to open a first call for users in autumn 2021. embl.org/news/lab-matters/im…
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EMBL scientists often colour different kinds of eggs to the ones you might see this Easter. As this fertilised mouse egg cell divides & contracts, the cells that 'dance' their way to the centre develop into the embryo, the outer cells become the placenta. šŸ“· Jean-LĆ©on MaĆ®tre/EMBL
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Complete your PhD at one of EMBL’s six sites across Europe! The EMBL International PhD Programme is open for applications until 13 October 2020. #PhD #research Important information about applying can be found here: bit.ly/ApplyEMBLPhD
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The inside of a living cell can be extremely crowded - as you can see here. This cross-section of a high pressure frozen HeLa cell was acquired in a Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope. šŸ“ø: Anna Steyer / EMBL
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#OnThisDay in 1902 the #NobelLaureate Barbara McClintock was born. She was a pioneer in chromosome research earning the Nobel prize (1983) for her discovery of transposable elements in maize. Her research efforts extend far & wide. #OTD šŸ“ø@SmithsonianArch
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EMBL embarks on a new era of molecular biology. EMBL research will expand to study life in context – from molecules to ecosystems. Broad in scope, our next programme encompasses fundamental research, services & multidisciplinary collaboration. embl.org/news/lab-matters/a-…
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On this day, 50 years ago, EMBL was established! Today, we celebrate five decades of EMBL, fuelled by infinite curiosity. EMBL turns 50, and we’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to reaching this milestone! #EMBL50
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Join EMBL to complete your PhD at one of our six sites across Europe! The EMBL International PhD Programme is open for applications until 9 October 2023. #PhD #research Important information about the application process can be found here: embl.org/about/info/embl-int…
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Edith Heard, Director General of EMBL, in the New York Times Visionaries series: ā€œYou can define success by how much you’ve allowed a new generation of science to happen.ā€ nytimes.com/2019/09/05/scien…
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Sinem Saka, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, creates new tools & methods to find the solutions to biological puzzles. It’s next-level problem solving to unlock molecular information with cutting-edge technology. Welcome to EMBL, Sinem! embl.org/news/lab-matters/we…
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EMBL council selects Edith Heard to be next @embl Director General ow.ly/7eYz30cWpRv
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Julia Mahamid has been awarded the 2023 EMBO gold medal for research in structural biology, developing powerful techniques that visualise cellular machinery in situ. Congratulations! embo.org/press-releases/juli…
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Judith Zaugg, Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg, and at MMPU, has been awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant. She will receive €2M over the next 5 years to investigate interactions between leukemia cells and their niche within the human bone marrow. embl.org/news/lab-matters/ju… #ERCCoG
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The first snow has arrived! Many of our EMBL Heidelberg staff are still working from home and won't see their snow-covered site in-person today, so we are sharing these photos here for everyone's enjoyment. ā„ļø šŸ“øKinga Lubowiecka/EMBL
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This may look like another video of a dividing cell, but there's a catch. These chromosomes (red) are being pulled apart by the spindle (green), but it's not a cell, because there's no cell membrane. This technique was developed by Ivo Telley and colleagues at EMBL in 2013
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EMBL congratulates Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for the 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry for their research CRISPR–Cas9-mediated gene editing. @nobelprize #chemnobel
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Congratulations to Anne Ephrussi! Anne has been awarded the German Feldberg Prize 2022 for her research on how RNA molecules are transported and their translation regulated in animal development. embl.org/news/lab-matters/fe…
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The platypus has five pairs of sex chromosomes. One pair is similar to the single pair of sex-determination chromosomes found in humans, and another is similar to that found in birds. Read more #genome facts here: bit.ly/2JJdEHc šŸ‘Øā€šŸŽØ Spencer Phillips / EMBL-EBI
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EMBL is happy to celebrate International Day of LGBTQ+ people in STEM by raising the EMBL Progress Rainbow Flag. EMBL supports all diversity in STEM and encourages its LGBTQ+ group, its community and allies. #LGBTSTEMDay @embl
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The @EU_Commission has officially established @EuroBioImaging as an European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Euro-Bioimaging provides life scientists with #openaccess to a range of technologies & resources in biological and biomedical imaging: news.embl.de/lab-matters/eur…
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Anne Ephrussi retired from EMBL after a 32-year career doing key RNA research while leading a trailblazing postdoc programme. Looking back, she supplied a few stories & a lot of insights into what she’s learned along the way. Read about it here: embl.org/news/lab-matters/wh… #EMBL50
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Today on #internationalwomensday we want to express our thanks and support for all women worldwide. Here are some of the amazing women working at @embl #iwd2019 #WomenOfEMBL
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Scientists @emblebi analysed >4700 SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences & found that many of the most interesting changes reported so far are likely to be technical artefacts, rather than biological mutations. 🧬embl.org/news/science/distin…
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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. embl.org/news/lab-matters/st…
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Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! šŸ”Š At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! embl.org/about/info/embl-int…
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#OnThisDay in 1980, Christiane Niisslein-Volhard & Eric Wieschaus published work that would go on to revolutionise the field of developmental genetics. They were both awarded the @NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 for this work. @NatureNews #OTD #NobelPrize #Nobel
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Happy New Year! For EMBL, 2024 is an important milestone: our 50th anniversary! This year we’ll share stories from our past, and, importantly, report on our work that advances life sciences & continues to push the frontiers of molecular biology. Join us in celebrating #EMBL50!
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Congratulations to Dr Alexander Aulehla on his appointment as Head of EMBL’s Developmental Biology Unit. The unit aims to understand the general principles and mechanisms underlying the emergence of complexity in developing organisms. embl.org/news/lab-matters/ne…
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Welcome to EMBL, Gautam Dey! The new group leader is fascinated by the evolutionary origins of nuclear organisation & architecture, and is looking forward to making the most of EMBL’s interdisciplinary strengths. embl.org/news/lab-matters/we…
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EMBL Director General recognised alongside four other exceptional women in the life sciences, winning the L’OrĆ©al–UNESCO For Women in Science Award. šŸ‘©ā€šŸ”¬ news.embl.de/lab-matters/edi…
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Welcome to EMBL, Nicoletta Petridou! How do organisms take shape? The Petridou group is trying to better understand how complexity emerges during early embryo development in zebrafish. embl.org/news/lab-matters/we…
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Kristina Djinović-Carugo has been officially appointed as the next Head of EMBL Grenoble. The Slovenian structural biologist will take over leadership of the site from Stephen Cusack in July. embl.org/news/lab-matters/ne…
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EMBL congratulates David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper on the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry for their seminal discoveries and developments on protein structures. @nobelprize @demishassabis @GoogleDeepMind #chemnobel
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Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Celebrate #WomenInScience by taking a photo, tagging female colleagues & collaborators you admire & posting using #WomenOfEMBL šŸ’ššŸŽ‰
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We’re honoured to receive the German AI Prize 2023! From #AlphaFold to #Imaging, have a look at some of the ways in which we use and develop AI tools in the life sciences: embl.org/news/science/embl-r… #ArtificialIntelligence #KIPreis2023
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Congratulations to Gautam Dey, Svetlana Dodonova, and Michael Zimmermann, who have been awarded the ERC Starting Grant. They will receive €1.5 million each to pursue their research over the next five years. embl.org/news/lab-matters/de…
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Join EMBL to complete your PhD at one of our six sites across Europe! The EMBL International PhD Programme is open for applications until 4 October 2022. #PhD #research Important information about the application process can be found here: embl.org/about/info/embl-int…
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Join EMBL to complete your PhD at one of our six sites across Europe! The EMBL International PhD Programme is open for applications until 13 April 2021. #PhD #research Important information about the application process can be found here: bit.ly/ApplyEMBLPhD
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Today Fabiola Gianotti DG @CERN visited the EMBL Heidelberg site to meet with Edith Heard DG @EMBL. Pictured here with the "Science is for Everyone" sticker, celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScience #WomenOfEMBL #WomenOfCERN
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Today is #WorldBookDay! šŸ“— A shout-out to @wolfgangkhuber and Susan Holmes for writing their book 'Modern Statistics for Modern Biology', and making it freely available online for scientists & teachers worldwide: bit.ly/2tR9Cmf (for print: bit.ly/2HgKdtP)
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Do you have unused lab equipment? #AidforLabs recycles functional equipment and ships it to researchers in need bit.ly/2hffP8N
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EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected to the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences. The distinction recognises scientists around the world for contributions to scientific research. embl.org/news/lab-matters/em…
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Past, present, and future EMBLers: let's celebrate the #WomenOfEMBL we admire as part of International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Tomorrow, use #WomenOfEMBL & #WomenInScience to let us know who inspires you!
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The EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdocs programme is now open for applications! EIPOD4 offers talented early career researchers the possibility to engage in ambitious, interdisciplinary research projects, involving two or more EMBL group leaders. Learn more: embl.org/eipod
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Welcome to EMBL Rome, Ana Boskovic! The new group leader will study how embryos can inherit non-genetic information that causes stable and heritable effects – a process known as epigenetic inheritance. embl.org/news/lab-matters/we…
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AI-based protein structure prediction has been named 2021 'Breakthrough of the Year' by Science Magazine! The public #AlphaFold database hosted @emblebi together with @DeepMind already holds 800,000 structure predictions & keeps growing. embl.org/news/science/ai-pro…
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Only one week left to apply to our International PhD Programme! #PhD #research Join EMBL to complete your PhD at one of our six sites across Europe. All the relevant information can be found here: embl.org/about/info/embl-int…
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Drosophila embryo: a microtubule growth marker (EB1-EGFP) allows us to measure growth rate, alignment & organisation in living embryos, useful for learning about the regulation of essential processes for cell life. šŸŽ„ Dimitri Kromm & Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff/EMBL
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ERC has awarded its prestigious Synergy Grant to Vikas Trivedi @EMBLBarcelona and others @CRGenomica & @CNRS. With >€10 million for their 'Breakdance' project, the scientists will study underlying mechanisms that determine an animal's body plan. embl.org/news/lab-matters/vi…
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Congratulations to EMBL senior scientist & group leader Nassos Typas, who’s been awarded the @VAAM_Microbes Research Award for his innovative and creative research. embl.org/news/lab-matters/va…
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Art meets structural biology bit.ly/2LSuiSe
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10 years ago EMBL's Advanced Training Centre opened on our campus in Heidelberg. Even after a decade, the view of the futuristic ATC building fascinates us every day! Also see this time lapse of the construction process bit.ly/2tTeg35 #throwback #onthisday #architecture
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Hola #EMBLBarcelona! Today is the official inauguration of @embl Barcelona's site. Live stream: piped.video/watch?v=xNQhf8QX…
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Viruses don't discriminate, societies and systems do. Join prominent scientific leaders discussing the disproportionate impact of #COVID19 on women & single-parent scientists on 9 Sept 2020 at this EMBL Virtual Conference: #wiscovid19 #WomenInScience embl.org/events/covid19-wis/
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We’re excited to launch the Traversing European Coastlines expedition today. TREC is a pan-European, cross-disciplinary expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to the environment, on scales from molecules to communities. embl.org/news/lab-matters/tr… #EMBLtrec
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Congratulations to our Director General Edith Heard on receiving an Honorary Doctorate from @Cambridge_Uni! A recognition of Edith’s epigenetics & developmental biology work powered by her relentless curiosity to understand life at different levels, from molecules to ecosystems.
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We congratulate EMBL Director General Edith Heard on being elected a member of the Max Planck Society’s Senate. She joins the Senate alongside EMBL alumni & Nobel Laureates Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard @MPI_for_DB & Stefan W. Hell @mpi_bpc, & 9 others. embl.org/news/lab-matters/ed…
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First open user call for the EMBL Imaging Centre! EMBL’s new service facility for imaging is ready to offer external users high quality access and support. Researchers are encouraged to contact the EMBL IC team to discuss opportunities. embl.org/news/lab-matters/em…
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Congratulations to EMBL Group Leader and Senior Scientist Nassos Typas! He was awarded the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences 2022 from the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller. @TypasLab @EMBLHeidelberg @Fondation_BS
Le laurƩat du Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour les sciences du vivant 2022 est Athanasios Typas @TypasLab : piped.video/thlvWM7iiR0
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Every year, EMBO recognises outstanding researchers in the #lifesciences. Congratulations to EMBL's Alexander Aulehla & Paul Flicek for being elected as new @EMBO members by their peers! #EMBOMember #ScienceAward šŸŽ‰ embl.org/news/lab-matters/em…
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Jacques Dubochet donates Nobel medal to EMBL bit.ly/2BFyRNt
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In my first year at Cambridge, I also took biology as part of the Natural Sciences course – I'd never seen a cell before, I didn't know what a nucleus was, and I had a real ā€˜wow’ moment! Life is beautiful and striving to understand it, as a scientist, is an incredible privilege.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini, who started a new era in developmental biology, would have celebrated her 112th birthday today. Learn more about Rita's pioneering work & how passion, persistence, and creativity helped her overcome the obstacles on her path: embl.org/about/info/communic…
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EMBL group leaders Julia Mahamid, Anna Kreshuk & Jonas Ries have been awarded a @cziscience grant to advance what we can see inside cells. Their project aims to combine cryo-electron tomography, machine learning & super-resolution light microscopy. embl.org/news/lab-matters/il…
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Congratulations to EMBL Director General Edith Heard for being elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina! Heard is the 6th EMBL scientist to join the Leopoldina, the world’s oldest continuously existing scientific academy. embl.org/news/lab-matters/ed…
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The #AlphaFold database now contains thousands of protein structure predictions relevant for neglected tropical diseases, incl. leprosy, river blindness & Buruli ulcer. A data treasure trove for research on these overlooked medical conditions. #beatNTD alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/
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Time to go home: EMBL Picture of the Week The sun sets over the French alps at EMBL Grenoble marking the end of another day of research in the lab. šŸ‘‰šŸ¼ bit.ly/2Ambwyl šŸ“ø Zuzanna Kaczmarska / EMBL
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The central dogma of molecular biology: EMBL Pic of the Week Biological information flow – from DNA to mRNA to protein – depicted in a single structure. EMBL’s Mahamid group used cryo-electron tomography to determine the structure in bacterial cells. embl.org/news/picture-of-the…
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EMBL is delighted to welcome Estonia as its newest member! Estonia becomes EMBL’s 28th member state, joining a large & dynamic life-science community. We are committed to strengthening Europe’s life science community. Find out more: embl.org/news/lab-matters/em…
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Congratulations Alba Diz-MuƱoz! The EMBL Heidelberg group leader has been awarded the 2023 Biophysical Society Early Career Award in Mechanobiology.
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This time-lapse shows a crucial step in the early development of a fruit fly embryo. A furrow forms on its ventral side – & gastrulation begins. The embryo expresses a green fluorescent protein optogenetic module & a membrane marker, visible using confocal #microscopy šŸ”¬
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EMBL congratulates Svante PƤƤbo on the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. @nobelprize #mednobel
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Congratulations to Miki Ebisuya, group leader @EMBLBarcelona, on receiving an @ERC_research Consolidator Grant! Over the next five years, it will support Miki’s research on the biochemical mechanisms that determine how fast mammalian embryos develop. embl.org/news/lab-matters/eb…
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James Sharpe to be the first Head of #EMBLBarcelona news.embl.de/?p=10026
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Want to learn more about EMBL's unique post-doctoral programme? The EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoc programme will open for applications soon. Join us for a webinar on Friday 29 May (10:00 CEST) to learn more about this opportunity: embl.org/eipod4
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Scientists have conducted one of the largest #CRISPR screens of #cancer genes to date to prioritise therapeutic targets: ebi.ac.uk/about/news/press-r… They disrupted every gene in over 300 cancer models from 30 cancer types to uncover which genes are critical for cancer survival
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The TREC expedition is starting! EMBL researchers and partners are collecting the first samples in Roscoff, France to kick off the two-year mission! Want to keep up with the expedition? Follow us on @EMBLtrec. #EMBLtrec
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Antimicrobial resistance is a major emerging global threat, and novel drug combinations are a promising approach for countering it. In a new study, EMBL scientists have profiled 10,000+ drug combinations for their effect on key gram-positive bacteria. nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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The EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoc programme is now open for applications! This unique #postdoc programme, includes 3 yrs of funding, travel & accom support + training, public engagement, career development & mentoring opportunities. #EIPOD4 Apply now: embl.org/eipod4/
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Congratulations to Jamie Hackett on being awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant! His group at EMBL Rome will receive 2M over the next 5 years to investigate how chromatin modifications in specific contexts influence gene expression. embl.org/news/lab-matters/er…
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Congratulations to EMBL scientists Anna Kreshuk, Claire Deo, Robert Prevedel, and Christian Tischer on being recognised by the @ChanZuckerberg Initiative for their multidisciplinary & collaborative research advancing biological imaging technology! embl.org/news/lab-matters/ch…
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The first stages of mammalian life revolve around cell division. Here you see a live imaging series of the very early development of a mouse, showing cell membranes in blue and cell nuclei in red (cross sections in the bottom row). šŸ“·: Manuel Eguren, postdoc Ellenberg group
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Congratulations to EMBL group leader Julia Mahamid! Julia receives the German Society for Electron Microscopy’s Ernst Ruska Prize 2021, shared with David A. Muller @CornellEng, for advancing cellular electron tomography. Read more about Julia's work: embl.org/news/science/seeing…
Congratulations to this year's awardees: Ernst Ruska Prize 2021 for Dr. Julia Mahamid and Prof. David A. Muller Harald Rose Prize for Prof. Joachim Mayer. Find more information here: microscopy-conference.de/2/p…
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We're honoured to attend @COP26, making a case for how #molecularbiology can help in the fight against #climatechange and offer solutions for a Green Recovery: embl.org/topics/cop26/
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