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CATEGORIES OF STAFF
Staff members: Recruited internationally as well as
locally. Their tenure is, in general, limited to a
maximum of nine years. Open-ended contracts can only be awarded in
exceptional cases.
Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows:
They receive stipends either from EMBL or from
external institutions.
Supernumeraries: Employed for a limited time of a maximum of
one year. They are usually temporary replacements.
Ancillaries: Generally recruited from within the local labour market and
employed to support EMBL facilities, for
example housekeeping and cleaning services.
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Contents Facts and Figures 2009
3Personnel and Visitors3 Personnel 7 Visitors
9Finance9 Financial data10 Member states’ contributions11 External funding 11 Annual accounts 2009 11 Grants 2009
12EMBL Leadership12 EMBL Council and Finance Committee 13 Scientific Advisory Committee 13 Bioinformatics Advisory Committee 14 Hamburg Priorities Committee 14 EMBL Directorate 15 Heads of Units/Senior Scientists 15 Senior Scientists 16 Faculty and Joint Appointments
20 23 24EMBL International PhD Programme20 PhD Theses 2009
Events23 Types of events23 Events in 2009
Collaborations
19Intellectual Property Rights19 Granted patents in 2009
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Categories of Staff
Staff members: Recruited internationally as well as
locally. Their tenure is, in general, limited to a
maximum of nine years. Open-ended contracts can only be awarded in
exceptional cases.
Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows: They receive stipends
either from EMBL or from external institutions.
Supernumeraries: Employed for a limited time of a maximum of
one year. They are usually temporary replacements.
Ancillaries: Generally recruited from within the local labour market and
employed to support EMBL facilities, for
example housekeeping and cleaning services.
Personnel and Visitors
PersonnelOn 31 December 2009, 1529 people, including visitors, from more than 60 nations were employed by EMBL.
Charts 1-10: The research units, other research activities and scientific support services are represented by charts showing categories of staff divided into ‘Staff Member’, ‘Postdoctoral Fellows’, ‘Predoctoral Fellows’ and ‘Other’. ‘Other’ includes ‘Ancillaries’ and ‘Supernumeraries’.
Chart 11: Staff distribution in research.
Chart 12: Staff distribution in non-scientific areas.
Chart 13: Staff nationalities in research units.
Chart 14: Nationalities of all staff.
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Other research activities include Directors’ Research, BIOMALPAR, ANTIMAL and EICAT
Scientific support services include Core Facilities and Laboratory Animal Resources
Personnel and Visitors cont.
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Categories of Visitors
Visiting Scientists: Scientists who need training
or to work on collaborative projects with an EMBL faculty member in the
specialised groups of the Laboratory, who wish to use them to evaluate possibilities for their own institution, or to undertake a specific project.
Trainees: Undergraduates from universities or
professional schools who do scientific, technical or administrative training at
EMBL.
Diploma Students: Undergraduates from
universities or professional schools who write their
diploma/masters thesis or equivalent at EMBL.
Visiting PhD Students: PhD students who are
not members of the EMBL International PhD Programme. Registered
with an external institution, they spend less than half
of the duration of their PhD at EMBL in order to benefit
from technologies and methods for specific parts of
their thesis.
Visiting scholars: Senior scientists who wish to be associated with a specific
group or Unit or with EMBL as a whole for a period of
study, reflection, writing and exposure to ongoing
research.
VisitorsIn 2009, 434 visitors came to the nine research units, the Core Facilities and administration (Chart 1) at the five EMBL sites. Chart 2 displays the distribution of visitor types.
The large majority of visitors came from EMBL member states, followed by non-European countries (Chart 3).
Chart 4 shows the 2009 beamline users at EMBL Grenoble. Chart 5 shows the users of the EMBL Hamburg beamlines.
Personnel and Visitors cont.
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EMBL Grenoble collaborates with the ESRF to operate beamlines ID14-ID29. BM 14 is operated by a UK MRC–EMBL research consortium.
PX = protein crystallography SAXS = small angle X-ray scattering
Personnel and Visitors cont.
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Member states’ contributions
Finance cont.
In addition, one-off contributions were received as follows:
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External funding (grants)
Finance cont.
Annual accounts 2009Click here for a PDF of the complete accounts for 2009.
Grants 2009
Click here for pdfs of the EMBL grants (by funding body in 2009 (left) or by outstation (right)).
Other external funding
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EMBL Council and Finance Committee on 31 December 2009
EMBL Leadership
EMBL Council is composed of delegates from all member states
of the Laboratory. Each member state is represented by up to
two delegates, who may be accompanied by
advisers. EMBL Council meets regularly twice a
year and has occasional extraordinary meetings.
One of the main responsibilities of
EMBL Council is to ensure that the financial requirements set up on
the establishment of EMBL are met, and the
site agreements with host member states are observed. The Finance Committee assists the Council in the financial
management and governance of EMBL.
Austria • Annemarie Frischauf, Delegate, Vice-Chair of Council • Elisabeth Tischelmayer, Delegate
Belgium • Marc van Montagu, Observer • Véronique Feys, Observer
Croatia • Kresimir Pavelic, Delegate • Vinko Purgar, Adviser
Denmark • Edel Bregnbæk, Delegate • Jørgen Kjems, Delegate
Finland • Kalervo Hiltunen, Adviser • Riitta Mustonen, Delegate • Eero Vuorio, Delegate France • Frédéric Dardel, Delegate • Julien Galabru, Delegate
Germany • Oda Keppler, Delegate • Reinhard Lührmann, Delegate • Paula Heppner, Adviser
Greece • Charalambos Savakis, Delegate, Chair of Council
• Theodore Fotsis, Delegate
Iceland • Hjördis Hendriksdottir, Delegate • Eiríkur Steingrímsson, Delegate • Katrin Valgeirsdottir, Adviser
Ireland • Fergal Cullen, Delegate • Stephen Simpson, Delegate • Graham Love, Adviser
Israel • Mahmoud Taya, Delegate • Joel Sussman, Delegate
Italy • Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini, Delegate • Antonino Cianca, Adviser
Luxembourg • Josiane Entringer, Delegate
The Netherlands • Peter J. Weisbeek, Delegate • Jeannette Ridder-Numan, Delegate, Vice-Chair of Finance Committee
Norway • Anders Sundan, Delegate • Kjersti Sletholt, Delegate
Portugal • Maria José Almeida, Delegate (Finance Committee), Adviser (Council) • Maria Carmo-Fonseca, Delegate • Claúdio Sunkel, Delegate
Spain • Juan Modolell Mainou, Delegate, Vice-Chair of Council • Angela Nieto, Delegate • Luis E. Ruiz López de la Torre Ayllón, Delegate • Benjamin Sanchez Gimeno, Adviser
Sweden • Brita Beije, Delegate • Dick Heinegård, Delegate
Switzerland • Isabella Beretta, Delegate • Rolf Zeller, Delegate
United Kingdom • Mark Palmer, Delegate • Nigel Watts, Delegate, Chair of Finance Committee
Associate member: Australia • Katharine Campbell, Observer (primary delegate) • Richard Larkins, Observer
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Scientific Advisory Committee
The Scientific Advisory Committee gives advice to Council, in particular with regard to proposals from the Director General on the realisation of the programme of the Laboratory. It is composed of distinguished scientists in their own right, not as representatives of member states.
Bioinformatics Advisory Committee
The Bioinformatics Advisory Committee gives advice to EMBL-EBI on scientific strategy, future directions and proposals on the realisation of its programme. It is composed of distinguished scientists in their own right, not as representatives of member states. Membership of the Committee is drawn from experts in the field of bioinformatics and other relevant scientific disciplines. Some are also members of EMBL’s scientific advisory committee and data resources advisory boards.
EMBL Leadership cont.
Anna Tramontano (Chairman) University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Rob CookeGlaxoSmithkline (also on the SABs for the Macromolecular Structure Database (MSD) and Protein Information Management System (PIMS))
Roderic Guigó Centro de Regulación Genómica, Barcelona
Olli Kallioniemi VTT Medical Biotechnology, Turku, Finland
John Sulston Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Mathias Uhlén Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Martin VingronMax-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik (also Chairman of Array Express SAB)
Member Country Terms
Genevieve Almouzni Paris (FR) (2005-2007, 2008-2010)
Siv Andersson Uppsala (SE) (2007-2009)
Konrad Basler Zurich (CH) (2007-2009)
Roberto Di Lauro – Vice Chair
Napoli (IT) (2005-2007, 2008-2010)
Barry Dickson Vienna (AT) (2009-2011)
Herbert Jäckle Göttingen (DE) (2004-2006, 2007-2009)
Hiroaki Kitano Tokyo (JP) (2006-2008,2009-2011)
Werner Kühlbrandt – Chair
Frankfurt (DE) (2004-2006, 2007-2009)
Andrew Murray Harvard (US) (2008-2010)
Leena Peltonen Hinxton (UK) (2009-2011)
Helen Saibil London (UK) (2007-2009)
Sandra Schmid La Jolla (US) (2008-2010)
Titia Sixma Amsterdam (NL) (2007-2009)
Anna Tramontano Rome (IT) (2006-2008, 2009-2011)
Alfonso Valencia Madrid (ES) (2007-2009)
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Hamburg Priorities CommitteeThe Hamburg Priorities Committee evaluates project proposals for beamline access in macromolecular crystallography, small angle X-ray scattering and X-ray absorption spectroscopy.
EMBL DirectorateProf. Iain W. Mattaj, Director General
Dr. Bernd-Uwe Jahn, Administrative Director
Prof. Matthias Hentze, Associate Director
Dr. Christian Boulin, Coordinator of Core Facilities and Services
Dr. Silke Schumacher, Coordinator International Relations and Communications
EMBL Leadership cont.
Dino Moras IGBMC, Illkirch, France
Maria-Armenia Carrondo ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal
Bauke Dijkstra University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Ralf Ficner University of Göttingen, Germany
Mariusz Jaskolski Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
Andrew Leslie MRC Cambridge, United Kingdom
Poul Nissen University of Aarhus, Denmark
Gunter Schneider Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Ritva Serimaa Vikii Centre, University of Helsinki, Finland
Patrice Vachette University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Heads of Units/Senior Scientists
Heads of Units participate in the collegial leadership
of EMBL and play a critical role in the research
direction of their unit. They lead a research
group, mentor younger faculty members and
ensure the maintenance of world class standards
of research throughout their unit.
Senior Scientists are a select group, with important statutory
responsibilities for advising the Director General on
faculty appointments and promotions. They also
provide collective advice to the Director General
and the heads of units on matters with significant
impact on the scientific life of the Laboratory.
EMBL Leadership cont.
Peer Bork Joint Head of Unit Structural and Computational Biology
Christian Boulin Coordinator of Core Facilities and Services Scientific Services & Core Facilities
Graham Cameron Associate Director EMBL-EBI
Stephen Cusack Head of Unit EMBL Grenoble Genome Biology Unit
Jan Ellenberg Joint Head of Unit Cell Biology & Biophysics
Anne Ephrussi Head of Unit / EiCAT Coordinator Developmental Biology
Eileen Furlong Joint Head of Unit Genome Biology Unit
Matthias Hentze Associate Director of EMBL Directors’ Research Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit
Eric Karsenti Joint Head of Unit Cell Biology & Biophysics
Iain Mattaj Director General Directors’ Research
Christoph Müller Joint Head of Unit Structural and Computational Biology Genome Biology Unit
Nadia Rosenthal Head of Unit EMBL Monterotondo Developmental Biology
Lars Steinmetz Joint Head of Unit Genome Biology Unit
Janet Thornton Director EMBL-EBI
Matthias Wilmanns Head of Unit EMBL Hamburg
Rolf Apweiler EMBL-EBI
Detlev Arendt Developmental Biology
Ewan Birney EMBL-EBI Genome Biology
Alvis Brazma EMBL-EBI
Nick Goldman EMBL-EBI
Cornelius Gross EMBL Monterotondo Developmental Biology
Victor Lamzin EMBL Hamburg
Carsten Schultz Cell Biology & Biophysics
Senior Scientists
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Members of faculty are scientists who lead research groups or the
equivalent: Heads of Unit, group leaders, team
leaders and technical team leaders as well as
visiting scientists in a group leader position.
Many group leaders have joint appointments with other Units to promote
interdisciplinary research and to enhance exchange
of information, tools and techniques.
Faculty on 31 December 2009
EMBL Leadership cont.
Position Primary appointment Secondary appointment
Claude Antony Team Leader Core Facilities Cell Biology & Biophysics
Alexander Aulehla Group Leader Developmental Biology
Orsolya Barabas Group Leader Structural & Computational Biology
Imre Berger Group Leader Grenoble Genome Biology
Paul Bertone Group Leader EMBL-EBI Genome Biology, Developmental Biology
John Briggs Group Leader Structural & Computational Biology
Damian Brunner Group Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics Developmental Biology
Teresa Carlomagno Group Leader Structural & Computational Biology Genome Biology
Florent Cipriani Team Leader Grenoble
Guy Cochrane Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Stefano De Renzis Group Leader Developmental Biology
Anton Enright Group Leader EMBL-EBI
Stefan Fiedler Team Leader Hamburg
Paul Flicek Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Anne-Claude Gavin Group Leader Structural & Computational Biology Genome Biology
Toby Gibson Team Leader Structural & Computational Biology
Darren Gilmour Group Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics Developmental Biology
Christian Häring Group Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics
Darren Hart Team Leader Grenoble
Marcus Heisler Group Leader Developmental Biology
Paul Heppenstall Group Leader Monterotondo
Christoph Hermes Group Leader Hamburg
Henning Hermjakob Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Wolfgang Huber Group Leader Genome Biology EMBL-EBI
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EMBL Leadership cont.
Position Primary appointment Secondary appointment
Lars Hufnagel Group Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics Developmental Biology
Sarah Hunter Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Petteri Jokinen Technical Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Marko Kaksonen Group Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics
Paul Kersey Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Gerard Kleywegt Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Michael Knop Group Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics
Maja Köhn Group Leader Genome Biology
Jan Korbel Group Leader Genome Biology EMBL-EBI
Jeroen Krijgsveld Team Leader Genome Biology
Andreas Ladurner Group Leader Genome Biology Structural & Computational Biology
Nicolas Le Novère Group Leader EMBL-EBI Monterotondo
Edward Lemke Group Leader Structural & Computational Biology Cell Biology & Biophysics
Rodrigo Lopez Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Nicholas Luscombe Group Leader EMBL-EBI Genome Biology
José Antonio Márquez Team Leader Grenoble
Andrew McCarthy Team Leader Grenoble
Johanna McEntyre Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Rob Meijers Group Leader Hamburg
Wolfram Meyer-Klaucke Team Leader Hamburg
Liliana Minichiello Group Leader Monterotondo Developmental Biology
Juerg Müller Group Leader Genome Biology Developmental Biology
Jochen Müller-Dieckmann
Team Leader Hamburg
François Nédélec Group Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics Structural & Computational Biology
Claus Nerlov Group Leader Monterotondo Genome Biology
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EMBL Leadership cont.
Position Primary appointment Secondary appointment
Dónal O’Carroll Group Leader Monterotondo Developmental Biology, Genome Biology
Claire O’Donovan Technical Team Leader EMBL-EBI
John Overington Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Daniel Panne Group Leader Grenoble Genome Biology
Rainer Pepperkok Team Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics Core Facilities
Francesca Peri Group Leader Developmental Biology
Ramesh Pillai Group Leader Grenoble Genome Biology
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Group Leader EMBL-EBI
Peter Rice Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Ugis Sarkans Technical Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Christiane Schaffitzel Team Leader Grenoble
Klaus Scheffzek Team Leader Structural & Computational Biology Developmental Biology
Reinhard Schneider Team Leader Structural & Computational Biology
Thomas Schneider Group Leader Hamburg
François Spitz Group Leader Developmental Biology Monterotondo
Christoph Steinbeck Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Ernst Stelzer Group Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics
Peter Stoehr Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Thomas Surrey Group Leader Cell Biology & Biophysics
Dmitri Svergun Group Leader Hamburg
Mathias Treier Group Leader Developmental Biology Monterotondo
Paul Tucker Group Leader Hamburg
Weimin Zhu Technical Team Leader EMBL-EBI
Intellectual Property
CATEGORIES OF STAFF
Staff members: Recruited internationally as well as
locally. Their tenure is, in general, limited to a
maximum of nine years. Open-ended contracts can only be awarded in
exceptional cases.
Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows:
They receive stipends either from EMBL or from
external institutions.
Supernumeraries: Employed for a limited time of a maximum of
one year. They are usually temporary replacements.
Ancillaries: Generally recruited from within the local labour market and
employed to support EMBL facilities, for
example housekeeping and cleaning services.
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In 2009, 37 invention disclosures were submitted as follows: Cell Biology and Cell Biophysics (7), Developmental Biology (6), Genome Biology (5), Structural and Computational Biology (11), Core Facilities (3), Additional Research Activities (2), Interdisciplinary (3).
8 patent applications were applied for in 2009 with the following breakdown according to Research Programmes: Cell Biology and Cell Biophysics (2), Structural and Computational Biology (2), Genome Biology (1), Interdisciplinary (3).
Additionally, 2 software inventions were protected by copyrights during 2009.
10 patents were granted during the period.
Granted patents in 2009Patent number Title Granting date Inventors
CN ZL00812739,5Methods and compositions for directed cloning and subcloning using homologous recombination
18.03.2009 Francis Stewart, Youming Zhang, Joep Pieter Muyers
AU 2003227873 Method for producing monoclonal antibodies 26.03.2009 Alan Sawyer, Wilhelm Ansorge, Frederico De Masi, Heike Wilhelm
JP 4312981Methods and compositions for directed cloning and subcloning using homologous recombination
22.05.2009 Francis Stewart, Youming Zhang, Joep Pieter Muyers
IN 235338Methods and compositions for directed cloning and subcloning using homologous recombination
30.06.2009 Francis Stewart, Youming Zhang, Joep Pieter Muyers
US 7,554,725Microscope with a viewing direction perpendicular to the illumination direction
30.06.2009Ernst Stelzer, Jan Huisken, Steffen Lindeck, Sebastian Enders, James Swoger
KR 10-0909681 RNA interference mediating small RNA molecules 21.07.2009Thomas Tuschl, Sayda Elbashir, Winfried Lendeckel, Matthias Wilm, Reinhard Lührmann
CN 01820900.9 RNA interference mediating small RNA molecules 05.08.2009Thomas Tuschl, Sayda Elbashir, Winfried Lendeckel, Matthias Wilm, Reinhard Lührmann
EP 1 291 420 Novel DNA cloning method 25.11.2009 Francis Stewart, Youming Zhang, Frank Buchholz
JP 4429736 Method for producing monoclonal antibodies 25.12.2009 Alan Sawyer, Wilhelm Ansorge, Frederico De Masi, Heike Wilhelm
SG 130419 Method for determining protein solubility 31.12.2009 Darren Hart
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EMBL International PhD Programme
PhD theses 2009Founded in 1983, the EMBL International PhD Programme has established itself as a reference in international graduate education in the life sciences and is a centrepiece of EMBL’s training activities. In 2009, the student body comprised 192 students from 34 countries.
In 2009, the following students defended their theses:
Boris Bryk TOR signaling: from FRET probes development to function of MAP4K3 in Drosophila Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Gülcin Cakan AkdoganFGF signaling couples morphogenesis to collective cell migration in the zebrafish posterior lateral line primordium
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Catarina Machado de Oliveira Catela
Signaling the heart: novel roles for the P13-kinase and FGF cascades in cardiac development
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Iryna Charapitsa Zhloba Biochemical and functional characterization of the novel Non Specific Lethal complex Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Claudia Chica Eliciting information from protein sequences: a lesson from linear motif conservation Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Foteini Christodoulou Animal microRNAs and the evolution of tissue identity University of Crete and EMBL
Marcello ClericiStructural insights on the interaction of Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay proteins UPF1 and UPF2
University of Grenoble and EMBL
Amanda Cobos Correa Design, synthesis and application of fluorescent tools to study MMP12 activity Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Anne DueStructural, functional and evolutionary insights into the promiscuous enzyme Phosphoribosyl Isomerase A
University of Copenhagen
Elisa Dultz Nuclear pore complex assembly in interphase and mitosis Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Malgorzata Duszczyk Structural studies on Xist RNA in X-inactivation University of Nijmegen and EMBL
Tobias Eisenberger Proteomic and genomic analysis of Sall4 function Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Shih-Jung Fan Drosophila Ge-1 is an essential P-body component involved in oskar mRNA localization Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Tiago FerreiraSerotonin 1A receptor functions during development to refine the dendritic arbor of principal hippocampal neurons
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Konrad FoerstnerComputational analysis of metagenomic data: delineation of compositional features and screens for desirable enzymes
Würzburg University
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EMBL International PhD Programme cont.
Adriana GambardellaA CREB-C/EBPb cascade induce M2 macrophage-specific gene expression and promotes resolution of inflammation
University of Milano and EMBL
Christian Hentrich The role of antagonistic mitotic kinesins in microtubule self-organization Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Abdullah KahramanThe geometry and physicochemistry of protein binding sites and ligands and their detection in electron density maps
University of Cambridge
Rozina Kardakaris Macrophage and endothelial-specific Role of p38a MAPK in atherosclerosis Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Aynur Kaya Copur Analysis of force generation and MT re-organization during dorsal closure Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Philipp KellerIn toto reconstruction of zebrafish embryonic development by scanned light sheet microscopy and analysis of the evolution of mutational robustness in the yeast genome architecture
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Nicola Kerrison Transcriptome analysis of longevity in mice University of Cambridge
Uros Krzic Multiple-view microscopy with light-sheet based fluorescence microscope Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg
Michael KuhnIntegrating chemical and protein interactions: From interaction networks to human phenotypes
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Styliani Lamprinaki Studying splicing and the formation of mRNPs Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Esther LenherrExploring the main architecture and the catalytic mechanisms of neurofibromin, the vacuolar transporter chaperone protein Vtc4p and the plant glutamate cysteine ligase
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Ya-Hsin LiuA systematic analysis of Tinman function reveals Eya and JAK-STAT signaling as essential regulators of muscle development
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Eugenio Mancera Ramos High-resolution mapping of meiotic recombination in the yeast genome Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Elena ManciniHematopoietic stem cells and their transcription factor network: regulation in normal and aberrant hematopoiesis
University of Milano and EMBL
Alison Meynert Function and evolution of regulatory elements in vertebrates University of Cambridge
Michael MüllerIntegrated analysis of proteomics data to assess and improve the scope of mass spectrometry based genome annotation
University of Cambridge
Gabriele MusumeciTrkB receptor: differential modulation of fear learning through different phosphorylation sites. An insight in the different roles played by the PLCg and Shc docking sites on TrkB and a proteomic approach
University of Milano and EMBL
Kevin NagelAutomatic functional annotation of predicted active sites: combining PDB and literature mining
University of Cambridge
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EMBL International PhD Programme cont.
Agnieszka NowakStructural studies of D. melanogaster Nurf55 protein: histone chaperone and subunit of the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2
University of Grenoble and EMBL
Evangelos PafilisWeb-based named entity recognition and data integration to accelerate molecular biology research
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Fabio Pardi Algorithms on phylogenetic trees University of Cambridge
Georgios Pavlopoulos Data integration and visualization techniques in systems biology Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Evangelia Petsalaki Prediction of peptide-protein interactions and their structures Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Christian Poulsen CFP-10/ESAT-6 complex WXG100 proteins Type VII and VIIb secretion systems University of Aarhus
Sergey PrykhozhijThe role of Sonic Hedgehog in regulating proliferation, cell survival, and cell-cycle exit in the zebrafish fin buds and neural-plate derived tissues
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee A computational study of bacterial gene regulation and adaptation on a genomic scale University of Cambridge
Julianna SolomonsStructural and functional studies of AMSH, implicated in the Endosomal Sorting Pathway and Enveloped Virus Budding
University of Grenoble and EMBL
Melanie Stefan On the function of calcium-regulated allosteric devices in synaptic plasticity University of Cambridge
Carolina TängemoDevelopment and application of an approach to study Golgi complex de novo biogenesis in mammalian cells after complete organelle removal
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Lieve Temmerman Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 isoforms in the central nervous system KU Leuven and EMBL
Dominic TölleInvestigating the functional consequences of glutamate receptor diffusion using single-particle modelling approaches
University of Cambridge
Guillaume Valentin Chemokine receptors orchestrate collective cell migration in the zebrafish lateral line University of Montpellier 2
Raquel Vidal Matos Biochemical characterization of the Drosophila polycomb protein DSFMBT Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Holger von MoellerStructural and biochemical studies of the DEAD-box Helicase Dbp5 and nucleoporin Nup214 Involved in mRNA export
Ludwig-Maximilians Universiät München and EMBL
Rudolf Walczak The role of MEL-28 in nuclear pore complex formation Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Emine Sevil Yavuz Interplay between the transmembrane nucleoporin Pom121 and the Ran GTPase system Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and EMBL
Hayretin YumerefendiStructural characterisation of human kinases using a library-based construct screening approach
University of Grenoble and EMBL
Daniel Zerbino Assembling and comparing genomes using de Bruijn graphs University of Cambridge
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Types of eventsEMBL’s conferences and workshops combine talks with scientific poster sessions to facilitate knowledge exchange. Conferences attract around 300 participants, while workshops cater for about 120.
Courses focus on practical experiments combined with talks on a specific scientific topic. Due to their hands-on nature, they have 15-20 participants.
EMBL-EBI offers modular training to its database users.
Other events which attract outside participants include Science and Society lectures and symposia, LearningLABs for teachers organised by the European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS) and outreach events organised by the Office of Information and Public Affairs (OIPA; visits from schools, Girls’ Day, etc).
Events in 2009
The number of courses and conferences at the five EMBL sites in 2009 were as follows:
EMBL Heidelberg: 28 (2,341 participants)
EMBL-EBI: 27
EMBL Grenoble: 1
EMBL Hamburg: 3
EMBL Monterotondo: 1
For a wider audience including members of the public, teachers and students, the following events took place in 2009:
Science and Society: 14 (12 lectures, one conference, one symposium)
ELLS: 5 (ca.100 participants)
Other (outreach events organised by OIPA, school visits etc): 18 (ca. 350 participants)
Events
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External collaborations are joint research projects between EMBL group leaders or group members and at least one external institution or collaborator. They offer the opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary research and to benefit from a broad spectrum of scientific know-how and technical expertise.
In 2009, there were 795 ongoing collaborations at EMBL, 84 of which led to publications. Click here for a PDF of these publications.
Collaborations
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External collaborations leading to 83 publications in 2009
Antony Team
• Spindle organisation in budding yeast T. Tomoyuki Tanaka, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
• Xenopus spindle reconstruction by electron tomography R. Heald, University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Berger Group
• Membrane Protein Translocation and Folding I. Collinson, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Cipriani Team
• Crystal dehydration M. Bowler, ESRF Grenoble, France M. Walsh, MRC, London, United Kingdom
Cusack Group
• Influenza virus polymerase R. Ruigrok, IVMS, Grenoble, France J. Ortin, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Electron Microscopy Core Facility
• Denge virus replication and assembly sites R. Bartenschlager, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Ephrussi Group
• J. Kraus and Chr. Nüsslein-Volhard, Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie Tübingen, Germany
Gibson Team
• Gene Expression in Cancer K. O. Greulich, Jena, Germany
• Ataxia protein architecture A. Pastore, NIMR Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom
• ELM - The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Resource R. Aasland, Bergen University, Bergen, Norway