EMBO celebrates its 60th anniversary! Browse through the history and achievements of an organization that today comprises more than 2,000 leading life scientists promoting excellence in the
#LifeSciences
in Europe and beyond
A fund has been established in Suzanne Eaton's memory, with the desire to honour her as a scientist, mentor, and friend.
The Suzanne Eaton Memorial Fund will support young scientists in exploring topics outside their core area to further their research.
We're excited to announce that 27 life scientists have been selected as this year's EMBO Young Investigators
@EMBO_YIP
.
Congratulations!
More information:
“I hope to use my EMBO membership to organize cross-disciplinary events, build further collaborations, and spread the word about the work we are doing,” says new
#EMBO
Member
@OdedRechavi
.
Read about his work
@TelAvivUni
:
EMBO announces the election of 69 new members and associate members who join the EMBO community of more than 2,000 leading life scientists in Europe and beyond
52 Members and 11 Associate Members have been newly elected and join the community of the EMBO Membership. They boast a large range of accomplishments, with candidates elected based on scientific excellence and pioneering research. Read more at
We're sad to hear of the passing of Sydney Brenner, one of the founding
#EMBOMembers
.
"Of course in the early days we knew everyone already, because the whole of molecular biology began as a very tiny, worldwide group."
from 'EMBO in perspective'
Congratulations to EMBO Associate Member Katalin Karikó
@kkariko
on being awarded, together with Drew Weissman, the
@NobelPrize
for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Calling for
#solidarity
, EMBO is launching a list of
#lifescientists
across Europe and beyond who are able to offer assistance to researchers displaced from
#Ukraine
. Consider adding yourself to the list.
EMBO launches the New Venture Fellowships. In memory of Suzanne Eaton, these fellowships will help early career life scientists explore topics outside their current area to pursue a new research direction: . Apply by 1 June:
Flexible
#childcare
grants are now available at the 90+ scientific meetings EMBO supports each year.
They can be used for:
>babysitter
>childcare facility
>accompanying carer
>child travel ...
More information:
26 scientists have been selected to join the EMBO Young Investigator Programme
@embo_yip
, an initiative that supports excellent young group leaders in the early stages of their independent careers
EMBO has set up a platform to share offers of support from scientists, for scientists affected by the
#earthquake
in Türkiye and Syria. Please consider adding your offer of help:
#EarthquakeTurkeySyria
#LifeSciences
EMBO announces an update of its programme fostering excellent postdoctoral researchers on their path to an independent research position. The updated EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme replaces fellows’ stipends with two-year salaried contracts from their host organisations...
“I feel very proud that I become an
#EMBO
Member. For me it is a recognition of my basic research and its repercussions outside of my field,” says new EMBO Member Francisco Mojica. Read about his
#CRISPR
discovery & research
@UA_Universidad
:
#EMBOMembers
EMBO welcomes 26 new Young Investigators! These young group leaders join the active
@EMBO_YIP
programme where funding, training and networking opportunities are available. See anybody you know? Join us in saying “congratulations”
Anne Ephrussi wins the
@FEBSnews
| EMBO Women in Science Award 2024. Congratulations! Today, on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we recognize her achievements with this award.
#WomenInScience
#IDWGIS
#11Feb
@embl
Announcing the new EMBO Core Facility Fellowships!
This new scheme will support international training exchanges between scientists and technicians working at core research facilities:
“It’s a big honour to become an
#EMBO
Member, and it also means that the research we are doing in the lab is internationally recognized,” says new EMBO Member Gaia Pigino
@GaiaPigino
. Read about her research on
#cilia
@humantechnopole
:
#EMBOMembers
EMBO is delighted to announce 11 winners of the 2023 Installation Grants, which provide multi-year funding for principal investigators to establish and grow their research groups in participating countries.
#funding
#LifeSciences
EMBO announces 24 life scientists as the newest members of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. The programme supports young group leaders who have an excellent track record of scientific achievements.
EMBO is pleased to announce that eight scientists have been awarded Installation Grants. The 2020 grantees will establish laboratories in Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Turkey.
Congratulations!
Eight life scientists in India, Singapore, and Taiwan join the EMBO Global Investigator Network. Congratulations and welcome!
Read more:
#LifeSciences
#ScienceIsGlobal
Extended scooping protection:
@ReviewCommons
will require manuscripts to be posted on a preprint server before transfer to a journal. In return 17 partner journals offer scooping protection from the date of posting the preprint. Details at the new RC blog
“Plants are often overlooked, but we all heavily depend on them, and there are still a lot of things we do not know about how they work or sense their surroundings,” says
@JSC_Cellsensing
, new
#EMBO_YIP
. Get to know more about her work
@unil
:
Statement on resignation of Mauro Ferrari from the
@ERC_Research
Presidency
The ERC is playing a decisive role in accelerating research on SARS-CoV-2. The flexibility of the funds allocated by the ERC and the outstanding...
Read the full statement:
We're happy to announce this grant from HHMI (
@HHMINEWS
) to EMBO for the continued operation and development of
@ReviewCommons
. The grant secures the ongoing ability of Review Commons to operate at no cost to authors and promote preprint peer-review
Congratulations and a warm welcome to the six new EMBO Installation Grantees! They will establish their labs in the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, and Turkey. Read more:
#LifeSciences
#ResearchFunding
“Switches between fields sometimes happen completely by serendipity,” says structural biologist Julia Mahamid, who receives the EMBO Gold Medal 2023. Read the full interview:
#LifeSciences
@EMBLHeidelberg
@embl
Congratulations to the first 9 EMBO Global Investigators!
We're pleased to announce these life scientists joining the Global Investigator Network.
Read more:
@EMBO_YIP
Elly Tanaka from
@IMPvienna
received the 2020 FEBS|EMBO
#WomeninScience
Award for outstanding scientific contributions, but also for inspiring female scientists:
Who would you nominate for the 2021 award? Let us know by 15 October:
Our call for applications to the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is now open!
Apply by 1 April or help us spread the word to life scientists who have been a group leader between 1 and 4 years.
@EMBO_YIP
It's our pleasure to announce Madan Babu
@MRC_LMB
as the new Chief Editor of
@MolSystBiol
!
“I am delighted to take up this post at a journal that so strongly and successfully represents the systems biology community."
Read the announcement:
@EMBOPress
Together with
@ASCBiology
, we announce Cell Bio Virtual 2020, an online ASCB/EMBO meeting. Abstract submission is open for those intending to give talks. We hope the virtual event will enable even more scientists around the globe to participate:
Sarah-Maria Fendt
@FendtLab
: “The award highlights that our research on metabolism and metastasis formation is important. I hope that junior female researchers will look at this award and say, ‘this is what I can achieve.’”
@CMN_VIB
@KU_Leuven
“Most of my group are focused on basic research, but at the same time genome editing presents an opportunity to make our science directly applicable to society,” says
@Debojyoti_C
, one of the 30 new
@EMBO_YIP
. Get to know more about his work
@IGIBSocial
:
“Becoming an EMBO Associate Member is a great recognition of the work my group is doing: I am deeply honoured,” says new
#EMBO
Associate Member Keiko Sugimoto
@K_Sugimoto_Lab
.
Read about her work
@riken_en
:
From now on, EMBO provides Acknowledgements of Excellence to all applicants for EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships who met the funding criteria, irrespective of an award.
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022
#NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
“There was so much not yet discovered, which allows you to explore.” Andrea Ablasser
@EPFL_en
, winner of the EMBO Gold Medal 2021, talks about her research:
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2019
#NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
Are you a young scientist and plan to enter a new research field? You can now apply for the
#EMBO
New Venture Fellowship!
Next application deadline: 7 November 2022.
#funding
#lifesciences
Open call for applications
@EMBO_YIP
! Are you a group leader in the life sciences in the early stages of establishing an independent lab? Apply now to become an EMBO Young Investigator or Installation Grantee:
“Being part of the
@EMBO_YIP
puts me amongst a network of scientists, provides opportunities for mentorship and collaborations, and facilitates access to some of the best research infrastructures for me and my team.”
Elif Nur Fırat-Karalar
@kocuniversity
Today
@EMBO
and
@EMBOPress
are making their journals’ finances public.
We want to provide transparency and clarity about what it costs to publish articles in high quality, selective journals.
Read the whole statement:
#OpenAccess
#OpenAccessWeek
#PlanS
EMBO adds activities to its programmes and launches new funding schemes for researchers in or going to one of nine countries. Read more at
#ResearchFunding
@EMBO_YIP
@EMBOFellows
EMBL Director General Edith Heard and EMBO Director Maria Leptin respond to the current proposal on the Multiannual Financial Framework, expressing their concern over proposed cuts to the Horizon Europe programme.
Read the open letter here:
EMBO Solidarity Grants supporting life scientists displaced by armed conflicts are stipends for researchers to start, continue or finish their PhD thesis; for post-doctoral researchers; and for research stays in the participating countries.
#Ukraine
️
EMBO Director Fiona M. Watt, elected in 2019, is among the newly inducted international
@theNASciences
members. The US National Academy of Sciences recognises distinguished achievements in research.
Fiona M. Watt of
@EMBO
has made important discoveries about tissue stem cells, with applications for healing wounds and inflammatory skin disorders.
Watch the livestream of her induction to the National Academy of Sciences:
#NAS159
Call for applications: The EMBO Lab
#Sustainability
Award recognizes new and significant contributions to the development of sustainable wet and dry labs with a focus on their environmental impact. Apply by 15 March.
Seeing is believing: Ahead of her talk at
#CellBio2022
, read the interview with
@priscaliberali
, winner of the EMBO Gold Medal. The molecular cell biologist talks about her research, inspiration and work-life balance
"It's an incredibly exciting time where we are integrating data and building detailed atlases of individual organs," says Sarah Teichmann
@teichlab
,
@FEBSnews
| EMBO
#WomenInScience
Awardee 2023, about her research
@sangerinstitute
.
Read the interview:
ICYMI, we updated the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Fellows’ stipends are replaced with two-year salaried contracts from their host organizations.
Leadership training and networking opportunities are still included.
More information:
@EMBOFellows
The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports will switch from encouraging to applying
#OpenAccess
to all published papers. Papers published in
@EMBOPress
journals will include source data and data availability sections. Data and
#preprint
-citation will be encouraged.
Babysitter, creche, bringing a childminder, flying in grandparents to your home.... if you and your partner would like to attend the same EMBO-funded meeting, our flexible
#childcare
#grants
have got you covered.
Find out more here:
Head to room 253B at
#cellbio2023
for the EMBO Gold Medal presentation to, and lecture from, Julia Mahamid, described by
@mpgpresident
as "the star of in situ structural biology in her generation"
"I like working on hard, intellectually interesting problems and developing the methods to solve them."
An interview with Elly Tanaka, this year's winner of the FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Award:
Prize for publication of negative findings in neuroscience launched by ECNP Great contribution to encouraging reporting of negative results by the whole scientific community