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appendixdelegates and advisors from the EMBC member states 62council & committee members 2004 66council & committee members 2005 68new members elected in 2004 70advisory editorial board 2004 78long-term fellowship awards 2004 80long-term fellowships: statistics 92long-term fellowships 2004: geographical distribution 94short-term fellowship awards 2004 96short-term fellowships: statistics 108short-term fellowships 2004: geographical distribution 110young investigators selected in 2004 112EMBO/HHMI scientists selected in 2004 112young investigator application and selection statistics 114young investigator lectures 2004 116courses 2004 118workshops 2004 120conferences 2004 122plenary lectures 2004 124world programme fellowships 2004 126statistics on women 127scale of contributions from the EMBC member states 128staff in heidelberg 130
events in 2005practical courses 2005 134lecture courses and workshops 2005 136conferences and symposia 2005 138other EMBO events 2005 139
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introductionpreface by Frank Gannon 4preface by Susan Gasser 6preface by Marja Makarow 8
EMBO & EMBC: past & presenttimeline & brief history 12aims of EMBO | EMBC | EMBL 14summary of EMBO actions 2004 18summary of EMBC actions 2004 24
joint EMBO & EMBC activitiesfellowship programme 30fellows network 32courses and workshops programme 34young investigator programme 36electronic information programme 38
EMBO additional activitiesThe EMBO Journal 42EMBO reports 44science & society programme 46gold medal 48award for communication in the life sciences 49plenary lectures 50sectoral meetings 51world activities 52women in the life sciences 54communications 56european life sciences forum 58
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table of contentsEMBO | EMBC
tigator Programme have also becomerecognised and appreciated parts of the or-ganisation’s scope. In addition, the engage-ment of the editorial staff of The EMBOJournal and EMBO reports should be notedand is well reflected, not only in the qualityof these publications, but also in their out-of-hours input to the journals.
The fruit of EMBO’s labour may give usgood reason to be satisfied, but we remainfar from complacent. In 2004, EMBO saw aneed to bring more exposure and structureto the emerging field of systems biology.This will result in the 2005 launch, togetherwith Nature Publishing Group (NPG), of thenew open-access, electronic journal –Molecular Systems Biology.
Further reflection on the needs of Euro-pean science led to a decision to build upona fruitful collaboration with the HowardHughes Medical Institute. Discussions with-in the EMBC are now well advanced towardsstarting a programme to support StrategicDevelopment Installation Grants. The aim ofthese grants will be to encourage scientiststo start their laboratories in European coun-tries that are at a relatively early stage ofscientific development.
Finally, in order to benefit more from thecollective wisdom of our members and the
valuable data accumulated annually throughfellowship applications, requests for sup-port of courses and workshops and thethemes of journal submissions, EMBO willestablish a more structured form of policyinput in 2005 to provide strategic advice togovernments throughout Europe. This pro-cess will complement our ongoing efforts tobring about the establishment of a Euro-pean Research Council.
The continuing emergence of new activi-ties at EMBO is driven by the needs of Euro-pean science and motivated by a realisationthat EMBO and EMBC have important rolesto play in achieving a stronger science basefor Europe. This is only possible through thededicated input of EMBO members (particu-larly those on EMBO committees), EMBCdelegates and EMBO staff. Together withthem, I look forward to another significantyear for EMBO in 2005 and am grateful to allwho have worked with EMBO and EMBCover the last forty years to transform theambitious aspirations of EMBO into realisticgoals and significant achievements.
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2004 was a time for reflection on the devel-opment of EMBO and the EMBC. There weresignificant anniversaries for both organisa-tions and the joint celebration of EMBO’s40th, EMBC’s 35th and EMBL’s 30th birth-days was also a symbolically importantevent. Marking the tremendous impact ofthe organisations, both independently andcollectively, on the transformation of molec-ular biology in Europe, the event also gavethose associated with the organisations thechance to reflect on their development.
In my remarks at the anniversary meet-ing, I focused more on individuals than orga-nisations. I strongly believe that the motorfor organisational growth lies with thosewho contribute their energy and vision tothe entity whose reputation they create.Today we still depend very much on individ-uals and their efforts in 2004 have resultedin a very successful year for both EMBO andthe EMBC.
At the beginning of 2004, the value of thiskind of personal input was clearly demon-strated. EMBC discussions on the new finan-cial framework for EMBO activities had stal-led and it took the efforts of many fromEMBO and EMBC to bring the talks to an ac-ceptable solution. The subsequent agree-ment was an increase in the EMBC budget
of 5% per annum for the next six years.Although this is less than seemed justifiedby the needs of EMBO’s programmes or, in-deed, the willingness of a majority of themember states, on reflection, it is a very sat-isfactory outcome. This increase in fundingwill ensure that EMBO actions supported bythe EMBC remain on a solid financial basisfor many years to come.
At times of budgetary uncertainties,EMBO activities come under very close scru-tiny. Analysis this year at both EMBC andEMBO Council level, although challengingand time-consuming, was ultimately a re-warding and reassuring process. The finalassessment of our actions brought bothpositive commentary and constructive sug-gestions for improvement.
The contribution of the managers andstaff at EMBO during this phase and in thedevelopment of EMBO programmes has tobe highlighted. Today, EMBO has perhapstwo distinguishing features – firstly thestrength of its networks of members, younginvestigators and fellows and secondly theprofessionalism and commitment of thestaff at the EMBO headquarters. Throughtheir efforts, EMBO programmes continue togrow in impact and reputation. More recentventures such as the EMBO Young Inves-
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EMBO & EMBC 2004preface
www.embo.org
Frank Gannon
Executive Director
European Molecular Biology
Organization (EMBO)
and Secretary General
European Molecular Biology
Conference (EMBC)
to the journal; he has been instrumental toits success. The EMBO Council and theEMBO Publication Committee agreed unani-mously that Pernille Rørth of EMBL shouldbe appointed as the new Executive Editorwith the aim of having a leading scientistworking closely with the in-house editorialstaff. This should ensure strong scientificinput into the decision-making process. Theparticipation of the Advisory Editorial Boardin the review process is also highly valued.
In addition, a new layer of four externalsenior editors has been incorporated intothe editorial structure of The EMBO Journalwith the aim of broadening the journal’sreach even further. The EMBO Journal hasalways been deeply rooted in the scientificcommunity and it is hoped that the newsenior editors will attract further high quali-ty papers and identify novel, ground-break-ing ideas in submitted manuscripts.The sen-ior scientists accepting this position areDavid Baulcombe, Ari Helenius, Tim Huntand Tony Hunter.The senior editors will meetwith the editorial staff at least once per yearto help guide The EMBO Journal in its deci-sions.
Another electronic direction that willbear fruit in the coming months is the E-BioSci project, guided by EMBO manager,
Les Grivell, who has also been an importantcontributor to the start-up of MolecularSystems Biology. E-BioSci aims to improveelectronic data searches of published litera-ture and other data storage sites. It will betested in the coming year to determine howit can help molecular biologists deal with anever-expanding digital database of informa-tion.
Besides expansion into electronic areas,continued efforts are being made to expandEMBO’s activities in central and easternEuropean countries. Last but certainly notleast, the European Research Council (ERC)moves ever closer on the horizon promisingto be a significant new source of funding forresearch in Europe. These are projects inwhich EMBO has played a major role, con-tributing on many levels – above all by pro-viding a standard for efficient, science-based management.
We thank the entire EMBO staff in Hei-delberg for their continued dedication tomaking EMBO the success that it is today.I further thank all the EMBO members whogenerously contribute their time and judge-ment to help shape the ever-evolving EMBOprogramme, as we continue to promotemolecular biology throughout Europe andthe rest of the world.
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As I look back over last year’s activities andforward to the next, I am struck by EMBO’sincreasing involvement in the world of elec-tronic publishing, data management andelectronic information. This is an evolutionthat many would claim inevitable, yet eachstep must be taken with care to ensure qual-ity and avoid unwelcome results. Reversalsin evolutions of this kind are often extreme-ly hard to achieve.
The most notable addition to EMBO’scurrent activities is Europe’s first electronicjournal on systems biology, Molecular Sys-tems Biology. The journal will be launchedby EMBO and Nature Publishing Group (NPG)in March 2005 appearing in electronic ver-sion only. This represents a first step forEMBO and NPG into open-access or author-pays publishing. For EMBO, this is an excit-ing new expansion into a field that is cur-rently blossoming worldwide and providesan opportunity to represent and structure aresearch area well suited to the electronicpublication mode.
What is the goal of Molecular SystemsBiology? Over the last few years, EMBO hasdiscussed the possibility of converting TheEMBO Journal to open access. However, it isstill unclear whether this will be the idealpublishing paradigm and it seemed unwise
to test the water with our flagship publica-tion. We had also discussed the option of expanding EMBO’s publishing efforts intothemes that are less widely represented inThe EMBO Journal. However, we wanted toavoid the proliferation of specialised EMBO“offspring”. It was under this backdrop andin the hope that Europe might take the leadin systems biology, that Molecular SystemsBiology was conceived.
In some ways, systems biology was anobvious choice for an electronic publishingventure, as it relies heavily on computation-al and high-throughput technologies. Thenew journal will publish full-length paperswith a focus on systematic or large-scaleanalyses that aim to integrate and modelmolecular and cellular phenomena. Guidingthe journal are five stellar editors (RuediAebersold, Peer Bork, George Church, LeroyHood and Edison Liu), supported by an on-site editor at the EMBO office. MolecularSystems Biology represents a major effort,but EMBO is confident that the paradigm isappropriate and the moment is ripe.
There are also changes at The EMBOJournal. Iain Mattaj will take over as DirectorGeneral of EMBL and step down as Exe-cutive Editor of The EMBO Journal. We aregreatly indebted to Iain for his commitment
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EMBO & EMBC 2004preface
www.embo.org
Susan Gasser
Chair of the EMBO Council
a model for molecular biology laboratoriesworldwide. Viewed together, it is clear thatEMBC, EMBO and EMBL have raised thequality of European research to a new level.
Today EMBC has grown to encompass24 member states and continues to pro-mote a strong transnational approach tothe life sciences – on a minimal budget and with the leanest of administrations.Governed by the nominated delegates ofnational governments, EMBC is consciousof its responsibility to European science.The organisation’s political mandate andlong-standing experience make it wellplaced to contribute decisively to sciencepolicy and develop programmes that accu-rately reflect the needs of European science.
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2004 marked the 35th anniversary of theEMBC. Established in 1969 as an intergov-ernmental organisation of fourteen memberstates, EMBC was born of the foresight andvision of a small group of scientists, whohad founded EMBO five years earlier. Byengaging European member states in secur-ing public funding for EMBO’s core activi-ties, this pioneering group laid the ground-work for a successful partnership that hasbeen supporting European science for al-most four decades.
Looking back at EMBC’s history andfounding goals gives rise to some interest-ing comparisons with today’s EuropeanResearch Area and the discussions sur-rounding the establishment of a EuropeanResearch Council (ERC) – the potential newfunding instrument of the European Com-mission to support investigator-driven basicresearch. The original motivation to createthe EMBC came from the realisation thatEurope was lagging behind the UnitedStates in science and that “brain drain” wasflowing increasingly away from Europe to-wards the US. These same arguments areused today to promote the ERC.
Comparisons can also be drawn be-tween the purpose of the EMBC and theERC. Like the ERC, EMBC’s foremost aim
was, and still is, to promote basic researchin Europe – in the case of the EMBC, in thearea of molecular biology. The EMBC andEMBO programme initially consisted of train-ing courses and long-term fellowships witha focus on young scientists. These activitiesand the overall concept of the EMBC/EMBOpartnership was very much ahead of its timeand a forerunner for the vision scientistshold today of a European Research Council.In this respect, EMBC and EMBO were al-ready delivering on the goals of the Euro-pean Research Area in the domain of mole-cular biology decades before CommissionerPhilippe Busquin launched the idea of acommon market for research.
This long-standing partnership betweenEMBC and EMBO has had a fundamentalimpact on the development of molecularbiology. Together the organisations haveraised a new generation of molecular biolo-gists making first-class training and interna-tional mobility an integral element of theirresearch careers. The establishment of theEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory(EMBL) in 1974, as a special project of theEMBC, was also a significant turning pointfor molecular biology. EMBL later becamean independent intergovernmental organi-sation in its own right and now represents
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EMBO & EMBC 2004preface
www.embo.org/embc
Marja Makarow
President
European Molecular Biology
Conference (EMBC)
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past & presentEMBO & EMBC
timeline & brief history
aims EMBO | EMBC | EMBL
EMBO actions in 2004
EMBC actions in 2004
EMBO’s aim is to promote biosciences throughout Europe.
It has done this very successfully over a period of 40 years.
The origins of EMBO date back to 1963,when a group of leading European biolo-gists got together in Ravello, Italy to discussproposals by John Kendrew and ConradWaddington to establish an organisation andlaboratory for co-operation in molecular bi-ology. Both proposals were endorsed at thismeeting and later, in July 1964, the EuropeanMolecular Biology Organization (EMBO) wasofficially born.
The Ravello meeting laid down two initialgoals for EMBO – creation of a central mole-cular biology laboratory and the establish-ment of networking activities to enhance in-teractions between European laboratories.Two committees were set up – the Labora-tory Committee and the Federal Organisa-tion Committee. The work of the LaboratoryCommittee led to the subsequent estab-lishment of the European Molecular BiologyLaboratory (EMBL). The concepts draftedby the Federal Organisation Committee be-came the motor for EMBO’s fellowships,courses and workshops.The Ravello meetingalso saw the election of Max Perutz as thefirst EMBO chairman and John Kendrew asSecretary General.
On July 12, 1964, thanks to the efforts ofEduard Kellenberger, one of EMBO’s found-ing members, EMBO was officially incorpo-
rated as an association under Swiss law.Start-up funding for the organisation wasgenerously provided by the VolkswagenFoundation and EMBO was able to initiate itsnetworking activities providing the first fel-lowships and electing 200 biologists as itsfirst members.
The EMBO Council worked hard to se-cure long-term funding for EMBO activitiesand in 1969, the governments of 14 memberstates came together to establish the Euro-pean Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC).The EMBC adopted the activities initiatedwith the Volkswagen funding and these be-came known as the EMBC General Pro-gramme. Soon after its foundation, the EMBCalso accepted EMBO’s proposal to establisha European laboratory and in 1974, a subsetof ten member states formed the EMBL asan independent intergovernmental organi-sation.
Today the EMBC has grown to 24 mem-ber states including most of the EuropeanUnion (EU) countries and some neighbour-ing countries. Evidence of how EMBO hasthrived since its foundation can be found inthe chapters of this annual report and isclearly demonstrated in the esteem in whichthe organisation is held today by scientistsworldwide.
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timeline & brief historyEMBO
www.embo.org/about embo/history.html
40 years of EMBO
Max Perutz, the first
EMBO chairman
John Kendrew,
EMBO’s first
Secretary General
Eduard Kellenberger,
one of EMBO’s
founding members
actions to determine the potential benefitof adding them to the overall programme ofEMBC/EMBO activities. The funding of EMBOactivities outside the EMBC General Pro-gramme comes predominantly from EMBO’sscientific publications. Support is also pro-cured in the form of grants, particularly fromthe European Union or occasionally throughcollaborations with international organisa-tions.
The full range of EMBO programmes andactivities is presented throughout the pagesof this annual report.
EMBCThe European Molecular Biology Confer-ence (EMBC) is an intergovernmental orga-nisation made up of 24 member states. TheEMBC was founded in 1969 to support andfinance the actions of EMBO and to givemember states more structured access tothe expertise of EMBO members. The orga-nisation was formally ratified in 1970. TheEMBC promotes a strong pan-Europeanapproach to research. Member states in-clude most European Union (EU) countriesas well as some neighbouring countries.
Today, EMBC supports a wide range ofEMBO activities as part of its General Pro-gramme. Fellowships, practical courses and
workshops constitute the main actions ofthe EMBC. More recently, the Young Investi-gator Progamme, the Electronic InformationProgramme and the Science & Society Pro-gramme have been added to the EMBC Gen-eral Programme.
EMBC and EMBO operate very much inharmony and are driven by a common com-mitment to quality research at the pan-European level. The actions of both organi-sations are characterised by selection onthe grounds of quality and a strong co-operation with the scientific community.EMBC has decision-making power over thefunding and development of all EMBO activ-ities associated with the EMBC General Pro-gramme, while EMBO has full responsibilityfor the delivery of these activities. The ac-tions of EMBO are monitored and the over-all programme is decided by the EMBCmember states when they meet annually inconference.
EMBLThe creation of a central molecular biologylaboratory was one of the founding goals ofEMBO. Early efforts by the EMBO Counciland an EMBC special project resulted in theestablishment of the European MolecularBiology Laboratory (EMBL). In 1974, the
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EMBOThe European Molecular Biology Organiza-tion (EMBO) promotes biosciences inEurope. The organisation supports transna-tional mobility, training and exchange at allstages of the scientific career through anumber of programmes and initiatives.
EMBO’s activities fall into two differentcategories: those that make up the GeneralProgramme funded by the European Mole-cular Biology Conference (EMBC) and thosethat EMBO has initiated and developed in-dependently. The EMBC General Programmeincludes well-known activities such as theprovision of fellowships for long-term andshort-term laboratory visits, the funding ofpractical courses and workshops and activ-ities highlighting young independent re-searchers of high quality.
The General Programme supported byEMBC encompasses some newer actionssuch as science and society activities, whichfoster an open dialogue between scientistsand non-scientists and an electronic infor-mation platform providing online searchesof scientific literature and general web pres-entation of life sciences information. EMBOsupports the scientific community throughthe publication of two scientific journalsand in March 2005 will launch a new elec-
tronic, open-access publication, MolecularSystems Biology.
EMBO elects new members annually onthe basis of proven excellence in research.Today, EMBO has more than 1100 membersin Europe and over 60 associate membersworldwide – providing a dedicated focalpoint for the vast network of molecular bio-logy. The EMBO membership includes someof the leading researchers in Europe,amongst them 38 Nobel Prize winners.EMBO members provide valuable input toEMBO in all of its activities via various com-mittees.
EMBO activities are delivered by a dedi-cated team of managers and administra-tors based at the EMBO headquarters inHeidelberg, Germany. The EMBO Council isalso intensely engaged in EMBO actions andcontributes decisively to the direction ofthe organisation by providing input on sci-entific standards and policy. The Councilregularly examines the range of EMBO ac-tivities, monitoring their effectiveness andmaking recommendations for changes.
In recent years, EMBO has also pursueda strategy of analysing European scienceand developing new activities to meet theneeds of the molecular biology community.EMBO identifies and pilots these new
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EMBO | EMBC | EMBLaims
www.embo.org
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EMBL became an independent entity sup-ported by a subset of EMBC member states.Today 18 EMBC member states are alsomember states of EMBL.
EMBL has five core missions: to conductbasic research in molecular biology; toprovide essential services to scientists in its member states; to provide high-level training to staff, students and visitors; todevelop new instrumentation for biologi-cal research; and to transfer the benefitsof new discoveries and technologies to
society. Today these core functions arecombined with significant outreach activi-ties in the areas of science and society andtraining for science teachers.
The EMBL is independent from the EMBCand EMBO, but all three act in a mutuallysupportive manner, both at a strategic andpractical level. Full details of EMBL activi-ties can be found on the laboratory’s web-site at www.embl.org or in the EMBL AnnualReport.
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EMBO | EMBC | EMBLaims
www.embo.org
Aerial view of EMBO and
EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany.
The EMBC administration is
also located in the EMBO
building.
EMBC member states
The following states make up the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC):
1970 Austria 1970 France 1970 Israel 1997 Slovenia
1970 Belgium 1969 Germany 1972 Italy 1970 Spain
1998 Croatia 1972 Greece 1970 The Netherlands 1969 Sweden
1994 Czech Republic 1992 Hungary 1970 Norway 1969 Switzerland
1970 Denmark 1978 Iceland 1999 Poland 1993 Turkey
1977 Finland 1974 Ireland 1994 Portugal 1970 United Kingdom
(year of ratification)
Special provision is also made for applications involving Cyprus. Applications from Luxembourg and Estonia
have been accepted and are awaiting formal ratification.
2004 impact factors of 10.456 for TheEMBO Journal and 7.390 for EMBOreports.
‹› In 2004, discussions within the EMBOCouncil on the funding of EMBO pro-grammes were held in parallel with talkswithin the EMBC. After the EMBC reach-ed an agreement (see p. 24), the EMBOCouncil met in a special session to put inplace a three-year programme of fund-ing with the aim of providing long-termstability for EMBO actions. During thisprocess, the EMBO Council also reor-ganised some of the existing EMBO pro-grammes and activities. Details of thesechanges are presented below:
i) The EMBO Restart fellowships, whichwere designed to facilitate the re-entryof parents into the research world, werediscontinued. EMBO funding was insuffi-cient to support this activity and EMBCfunding was not available. However, thebenefit of this kind of targeted supportfor researchers with childcare commit-ments was recognised and the eligibilitycriteria for the Restart fellowships wereintegrated into the EMBO long-term fel-lowship scheme (see p. 31 and 54).
ii) With the integration of the Restartfellowships into the EMBO FellowshipProgramme, the EMBO Council decidedthat it was misleading to have a specificEMBO “Women’s Programme”. Activitiesrelated to women in science are alreadya component of all EMBO programmes.The commitment of EMBO towards pro-moting women in the life sciences is notdiminished by this decision and activi-ties supporting women in research willcontinue to be highlighted on the EMBOwebsite, at committee meetings (partic-ularly in the Science & Society Com-mittee) and in other external EMBOactivities.
iii) In a similar context, the EMBO Coun-cil also looked at the EMBO World Pro-gramme. The decision was made to inte-grate the programme’s internationalactions into other mainstream EMBOprogrammes such that EMBO’s commit-ment to supporting activities outside Europe is reflected across the organisa-tion’s existing scope (see p. 31 and 53).International courses and workshopswere integrated into the EMBO Coursesand Workshops Programme and the eli-gibility criteria for the former World
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The specific activities of EMBO’s program-mes in 2004 are presented in the corre-sponding sections of this report. In additionto those activities, the following eventswere of particular importance for EMBO in2004:
‹› Following a series of discussions in2004, EMBO decided to launch a newjournal in partnership with Nature Pub-lishing Group (NPG). The new online pub-lication, Molecular Systems Biology, willgo live in March 2005 and cover theemerging area of systems biology, whichis continually growing in importance.This topic is currently not widely repre-sented in the papers submitted to TheEMBO Journal and EMBO reports andEMBO anticipates no competition be-tween Molecular Systems Biology andits current journals.
Molecular Systems Biology will bepublished solely electronically. This is anexperiment, which EMBO and NPG feelis timely and allows for some innovativenew features such as a discussion forumon published papers, where readers canenhance papers by entering moderatedcomments. Molecular Systems Biologywill operate an open-access, author-paysbusiness model, which again is a new
direction for EMBO and NPG. This novelapproach is in keeping with current pub-lishing trends and particularly appropri-ate for a field where dynamic data shar-ing is so important. The new journal willbe supported by a group of internationaland expert senior editors and advisoryeditors.
‹› The EMBO Journal saw some organi-sational changes in 2004. Iain Mattajretired from his position as ExecutiveEditor to concentrate on his new role asEMBL Director-General from May 2005.Iain was replaced by Pernille Rørth,senior EMBL developmental biologist andEMBO member. The editorial processwas further consolidated by the appoint-ment of a new group of senior editors:David Baulcombe, Ari Helenius, Tim Huntand Tony Hunter. In this way, EMBO andthe scientific community continue tomaintain full editorial control over thecontent of The EMBO Journal, as with itsother journals, EMBO reports and Mole-cular Systems Biology.
2004 marked the first year that TheEMBO Journal was published by NPG.The transition was smooth and the qual-ity of both journals is demonstrated in
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EMBO actions 2004summary
www.embo.org
Chairs of EMBO committees in 2004
Roberto SitiaScience & SocietyCommittee
Pascale CossartCourse Committee
Cesare MontecuccoMembership & PublicationCommittee
Daniela RhodesFellowship Committee
Jean-David RochaixYoung Investigator Committee
Glauco Tocchini-ValentiniElectronic InformationCommittee
Bärbel Traut-Laur and Bernhard Huber
are responsible for EMBO finances.
2004 and 2005). Susan Gasser was re-elected as Chair and Erik Boye waselected as Vice-Chair. Ingrid Grummtand Carlos-Martinez-A. were re-electedto the EMBO Council and Daniel Louvardwas elected as a new member. RobertoDi Lauro and Anton Berns were co-optedto the EMBO Council for the period of2005–2007. A number of changes toEMBO committees were also agreedupon during 2005 and are listed on p. 67and 69.
‹› In 2004, the EMBO Council reflectedon changes to the scope of EMBO’s acti-vities. The decision was made to reorga-nise the EMBO Membership & Publica-tion Committee. From 2005, there willbe a separate Membership Committeeand the Publication Committee’s respon-sibilities will be fused with the ElectronicInformation Committee. Membership ofthe 2005 committees is outlined on p. 69.
‹› The EMBO statutes, rules and proce-dures were analysed during 2004 andendorsed by the EMBO Council, subjectto an input of legal advice on their accu-racy.
These revised statutes will be submittedfor vote to the EMBO members in 2005.
‹› EMBO was very active during 2004 onthe topic of the European ResearchCouncil (ERC). The organisation’s involve-ment in the establishment of the Euro-pean Life Sciences Forum (ELSF) hasproven to be very timely with ELSF tak-ing the lead in many important actionson the ERC in 2004. One specific activitywas the broadening of the ELSF conceptto establish a new platform comprisingrepresentatives from all scientific areas.The new multi-disciplinary platform iscalled the Initiative for Science in Eu-rope (ISE). Through ELSF, the ISE grouporganised two meetings in 2004 andacted as a useful sounding board for dis-cussion on the ERC. ISE also prepared awell-publicised letter, which was signedby 52 different European organisationsthereby confirming the commitment ofthe scientific community towards thegeneral concepts that have been agreedupon for the ERC. The letter was pub-lished in Science in August 2004 (“Crea-ting a European Research Council” – Vol.305, Issue 5685, 776–777, 6 August 2004).
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Programme fellowships became part ofthe EMBO short-term fellowship scheme.These activities and other interactionswith countries outside Europe will nowbe called EMBO World Activities andcontinue to be highlighted on the EMBOwebsite.
‹› In 2004, minor changes were madeto the voting procedure for the EMBOmembership election. The aim was to di-minish the perceived tendency of mem-bers to vote in a nationally biased man-ner. Changes included the removal ofnominated scientists’ countries of resi-dence from ballot papers and the in-clusion of a question indicating whethermembers are voting for a scientistbased in their own country. As with thestandard voting procedure, the collec-tion of data was fully anonymous andhad no influence on the ranking of mem-bers’ votes.
Subsequent analysis of the datashowed that the impact of national vot-ing was minimal and that the electionoutcome would have remained virtuallyunchanged if national voting had beenexcluded. As a result of this election andthe co-option proposals of further first-
class scientists by the EMBO Member-ship & Publication Committee, thirty-seven new members and three newassociate members were elected to theEMBO membership.
‹› The annual EMBO Members Work-shop took place in October 2004 inVienna, Austria. This is a unique meetingthat brings together leading scientistsfrom all corners of the molecular biologycommunity. Presentations were madeby the EMBO members elected in 2003and covered the broad range of topicsthey represent. The meeting was verywell received by participants and alsoprovided an opportunity for discussionon different aspects of EMBO policy andcurrent science and society issues. Thenext EMBO Members Workshop will takeplace in October 2005 in Warsaw, Poland.EMBO Members Workshops are open toall interested scientists and offer an ex-cellent opportunity to learn about pro-gress in the diverse areas of molecularbiology.
‹› EMBO members elected 2005 EMBOCouncil in 2004 (see p. 66 and 68 fordetails of the EMBO Council members in
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www.embo.org
Claudia Hagedorn is
the administrator for
the EMBO Membership
and EMBO Council.
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‹› EMBO organises annual sectoral meet-ings focusing on topics that EMBO feelsrequire special attention. In 2004, thesectoral meeting was held in Rome, Italyand looked at the topic of bioinformaticsand computational biology. In additionto presenting up-to-date perspectives onresearch, the meeting gave participantsthe opportunity to provide input to EMBOon how the organisation could furtherimpact and support the bioinformaticscommunity. 2004 also saw the first fol-low-up sectoral meeting on molecularmedicine. The theme was molecular bio-logy and leukaemia with a particularfocus on Ras-, Raf- and Myc-signalling.
‹› EMBO continued its discussions atthe EMBO Council and Committee levelon its potential role as an advisory bodyto external parties, in particular to theEMBC. The commitment of EMBO to thisgoal was strengthened during 2004 andsome specific actions are under discus-sion for a more structured launch of thisproject in 2005.
‹› 2004 was the 40th anniversary of theformal founding of EMBO. This was cele-
brated on two occasions – jointly withEMBC (founded 35 years ago) and EMBL(established 30 years ago) at a specialevent in November and by EMBO itselfat a historical 40th anniversary meetingin Heidelberg in June. A booklet to high-light the 40 years of EMBO’s existencewas published in conjunction with thismeeting and contains many interestingrecollections from members throughoutthe years.
‹› The 2004 winner of the annual EMBOGold Medal was María Blasco, Directorof the Molecular Oncology Programmeat the Spanish National Cancer Centre(CNIO) in Madrid, Spain. Maria receivedthe award in recognition of her landmarkwork in the area of telomeres (see p. 48).
‹› In 2004, the EMBO members werepolled for their opinions on a variety ofEMBO actions. 15% of the EMBO member-ship participated in the survey and theresults demonstrated a high degree ofsatisfaction with the majority of EMBO’sactivities. The outcome also revealed aneed for greater publicity of some ofEMBO’s newer actions.
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www.embo.org
“40 years of success”
This booklet was published
in 2004 to accompany
EMBO’s 40th anniversary.
It highlights important
milestones in the history
of EMBO and EMBC, and
features many interesting
recollections from EMBO
members throughout
the years.
To obtain a copy, e-mail
or download the PDF version
at www.embo.org/publications/
archive.html.EMBO’s first Executive Director, Raymond Appleyard (left) and Eduard Kellenberger, one of EMBO’s
founding members. This photo was taken during the 40th anniversary meeting in Heidelberg in June 2004.
Eduard Kellenberger sadly passed away in December 2004.
incorporate the conditions of the formerRestart fellowships. Provision is nowmade for candidates with childcare com-mitments to work part-time and extendthe duration of their fellowship up to amaximum period of three years. In cer-tain circumstances, eligible candidatesare also not required to move countriesto qualify for a fellowship (see p. 55).
‹› Following an assessment of the ac-cumulated liability of the EMBC in termsof employer contributions to pension andend-of-contract commitments, the sumof 387,000 Euro was placed in a pensionaccount. The EMBC will add to thisamount on an annual basis.
‹› A quality audit was performed on theEMBO Courses and Workshops Pro-gramme to determine its impact on Euro-pean research. The outcome was posi-tive and favourably received by theEMBC delegates. The full report is avail-able on the EMBO website (see p. 34).
‹› At each of the EMBC meetings in2004, attention was given to the topic ofthe European Research Council (ERC).While the EMBC has not taken any for-
mal action in this area, it organised adiscussion meeting on the ERC in con-junction with an EMBC Strategic Work-ing Party meeting in Paris in September2004. The EMBC also encouraged EMBOto continue with its efforts to co-ordi-nate an international view of the ERCproposal specifically referring to co-operating with the European ScienceFoundation (ESF) and the EUROHORCS(European Heads of Research Councils).
‹› The EMBC discussed the method usedto calculate the scale of member statecontributions. A decision was reached tomake no change in the current proce-dure, which is based on net nationalincome at factor cost (see p.128).
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Three sessions of the EMBC were convenedduring 2004. The first of these was anextraordinary meeting to finalise an agree-ment on the EMBC’s financial support ofEMBO activities. Two formal sessions of theEMBC were held in June and November2004. The EMBC Strategic Working Partyalso met on two occasions in 2004 andthere was one meeting of the FinancialAdvisory Group. In addition, a special meet-ing was organised to discuss actions thatcould be taken to support EMBC memberstates, which are currently developing theirscience bases. The results of these meet-ings (unless covered elsewhere in thisreport) are summarised below.
‹› The EMBC officers for 2004 were:Secretary GeneralFrank GannonPresidentMarja Makarow (Finland)Vice PresidentsReinhard Lührmann (Germany)Peter Weisbeek (Netherlands)Chair of Financial Advisory GroupDavid Smith (United Kingdom)Vice-Chair of Financial Advisory GroupBrita Beije (Sweden)
‹› At an extraordinary meeting of theEMBC in January 2004, the delegatesunanimously supported a six-year indi-cative scheme that determines the max-imum funds to be paid annually by theEMBC member states. The main focus ofthe scheme was the provision of a 5%per annum increase for each of the sixyears in addition to the annually calcu-lated cost variation index (approximate-ly equivalent to inflation).
At the two formal sessions of the EMBC, anumber of important decisions were made:
‹› The eligibility criteria for EMBO short-term fellowships were altered such thatscientists worldwide can apply for sup-port to visit a European laboratory. Can-didates from EMBC member states canalso apply for funding to visit a labora-tory outside Europe. Special selectionconditions were associated with thischanged rule. The new criteria representan integration of the former EMBO WorldProgramme fellowships (see p. 53).
The eligibility criteria of EMBO long-term fellowships were also changed tofacilitate higher participation of parents(particularly mothers). The new criteria
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EMBC actions 2004summary
www.embo.org/embc
Gitta Bourke is the
administrator for the EMBC.
‹› The EMBC officers for 2005 were elected as follows:Secretary GeneralFrank GannonPresidentMarja Makarow (Finland)Vice PresidentsKresimir Paveliç (Croatia))Peter Weisbeek (Netherlands)Chair of Financial Advisory GroupBrita Beije (Sweden)Vice-Chair of Financial Advisory GroupMaria José Almeida (Portugal)
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‹› The EMBC discussed possible actionsto strengthen science in some of itsmember states. Different options wereconsidered and the decision was madeto initiate a funding scheme to encour-age scientists to start up laboratories inone of these countries. The working titlefor the new grants will be EMBO Strat-egic Development Installation Grants.Further discussions are planned to de-termine whether the programme, havingbeen endorsed in principle, can alsoattract financial support from the mem-ber states.
‹› EMBO’s interaction with the EMBC, informal terms, is as an executor of theEMBC General Programme. In practice,however, EMBO has also been a sourceof new ideas and concepts over theyears. Many of these are pre-testedusing limited EMBO resources and afterconsideration frequently implementedby the EMBC. In 2003 and 2004 discus-sions on formalising or extending theEMBO/EMBC relationship concluded withEMBO being invited to provide advice onstrategic policy matters to the EMBC onan annual basis. As an initial request, the
EMBC asked EMBO to put forward a listof leading EMBO scientists to the groupresponsible for proposing members ofthe European Research Council senateto the European Commission.
‹› The Articles of the EMBC make provi-sion for entering into formal agreementswith external organisations or countries.In 2004, a government representativefrom the Republic of South Africa attend-ed an EMBC meeting and discussions onformalising an agreement were initi-ated. In the process, there was a broaderdiscussion on the criteria that should beused for entering into such agreements.This discussion recognised that eachpotential co-operating country presentsa different scenario and that the EMBCStrategic Working Party should considereach country on a case-by-case basis.
‹› The EMBC also fulfilled a number offinancial duties including acceptance ofthe accounts for 2003, agreement on abudget for 2005 and endorsement of a2004 cost variation index based on thechanges in cost of living in the differentmember states.
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EMBC actions 2004summary
www.embo.org/embc
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courses and workshops programme
young investigator programme
electronic information programme
five committee members was introducedwith the aim of pre-selecting approximately50% of applicants to be interviewed andevaluated by EMBO members or young in-vestigators. This change in the evaluationprocedure resulted in a significantly lowernumber of interview requests – decreas-ing the workload for the individual commit-tee members and ensuring that applicantswith a chance of scoring well were fullyassessed.
2004 also saw a new co-operation be-tween EMBO and the Marie Curie Fellow-ship Scheme of the European Commission.Applicants who are successful in both pro-grammes can now carry out both fellow-ships over a combined period of three years.
EMBO short-term fellowshipsEMBO short-term fellowships support col-laborative research visits of up to threemonths in EMBC member states and non-member states. These visits allow scien-tists to complement their research at homewith new techniques unavailable in theirhome environment. Short-term fellowshipsalso encourage continued collaboration be-tween home laboratories and receivinginstitutes beyond the duration of the fel-lowship.
The demand for short-term fellowships alsoremained high this year with the schemeattracting over 300 applications – an in-crease on the application rate in 2003.EMBO short-term fellowship applicationsare evaluated by two expert referees fromeither the EMBO membership or the cur-rent group of EMBO young investigators. In2004, 167 applications were selected forfunding corresponding to a success rate of55%. A full list of successful applicants andrelated statistics is available on pages96–111.
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EMBO long-term fellowshipsEMBO long-term fellowships support ad-vanced research and training, awardingfunds to post-doctoral scientists for researchvisits to laboratories in an EMBC or non-EMBC member state for a period of up totwo years. Currently EMBO awards an aver-age of 160 long-term fellowships annually.
EMBO long-term fellowships experiencedanother record level of applications in 2004,with over 1100 applications logged. This illus-trates the continued high demand for post-doctoral training in the life sciences – theapplication rate for long-term fellowshipshas almost doubled since 2001. Despite thisdramatic increase in applications, fundingof the EMBO Fellowship Programme hasremained fairly constant. This resulted in adrop in the success rate to just under 15%in 2004, in comparison with 20–25% in pre-vious years. However, 2004 also saw anagreement by the EMBC to increase the
programme’s budget year-on-year until2009. This means that an increase in thenumber of fellowships awarded will be pos-sible in coming years.
In 2004, the EMBO Fellowship Commit-tee selected 163 applications for funding.120 of these fellows moved to a laboratoryin a different EMBC member state, whilethe remaining successful applicants tookup post-doctoral posts in laboratories in theUSA, Canada and Australia. A full list of suc-cessful applicants and related statistics isavailable on pages 80–95.
Following input from the EMBO Council,the Fellowship Committee discussedchanges in the evaluation process for long-term fellowships in 2004. As a result, theFellowship Committee was expanded to 15 members to cope with the high numbersof proposals and to ensure a continued fairand expert assessment of candidates. Inaddition a pre-screening of applications by
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fellowship programmeEMBO
www.embo.org/fellowships
EMBO fellowships
applications and awards
in 2004
long-term fellowships
applications 1137
awards 163
short-term fellowships
applications 301
awards 167
CONTACT
Jan TaplickProgramme Manager
Liselott AhlgrenLong-term fellowships Administrator
Agnès Visser-de MatteïsLaura CortesiShort-term fellowships Administrators
The EMBO Fellowship Programme supports international mobility and exchangein the biosciences. Renowned for its attention to scientific excellence, the pro-gramme has funded thousands of talented young scientists since its establish-ment in the 1960s. EMBO fellowships faciliate movement throughout the EMBCmember states and also between non-member states and member states – fund-ing research visits of varying durations and encouraging co-operation betweenscientists within Europe and beyond.
Liselott Ahlgren (left), Agnès Visser-de Matteïs and
Jan Taplick take care of the EMBO fellowships.
Laura Cortesi (below left) joined the team in 2004.
Changes to fellowship
application conditions
In July 2004, the eligibility
criteria for fellowship appli-
cations were enhanced to support
applicants with childcare commitments
and promote international collaboration.
Long-term fellowships
The new rules represent an
integration of the former Restart
fellowships (see p. 55).
‹› Under certain conditions, candi-
dates with childcare commitments
can now apply for a fellowship
within their current country of
residence
‹› Applicants with childcare obliga-
tions can now apply to carry out
their fellowship on a part-time
basis over a period of three years.
Short-term fellowships
The new rules represent an integra-
tion of the former World Programme
fellowships (see p. 52–53)
‹› Candidates from non-EMBC
member states can now apply
to take up fellowships in EMBC
member states and vice versa.
!N.B.
first North American meetingOne new development in 2004 had its rootsin communications with the fellows net-work. In November 2004, EMBO organisedthe first meeting of fellows who are cur-rently in the USA or Canada. The aim was tokeep fellows in North America up to datewith developments in Europe.
The meeting took place on November19–21 at Rockefeller University in New Yorkand was hosted by the university’s presi-dent and EMBO Council member, Sir PaulNurse. Talks were delivered by EMBO younginvestigators and representatives of fund-ing organisations from both Europe and theUnited States. The meeting met with enthu-siastic feedback from participants and simi-lar reunions are planned for the future.
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The majority of EMBO long-term fellowscontinue in science after completing theirfellowship, often establishing their ownresearch group. Through the fellows net-work, EMBO maintains contact with theyoung researchers providing them with up-dates on recent developments within theorganisation and information on opportuni-ties in European science.
annual fellows meetingA popular feature of the network is theannual fellows meeting, which has beentaking place in Heidelberg since 1997. Threeyears after starting their fellowship, fellowsare invited to attend and present theresults of their research projects. Sessionsare chaired by EMBO members, who offerinformation and advice based on their ownexperiences of the scientific career. Thethree-day meeting also features special lec-tures on science in industry and talks oncareer opportunities. In addition to gainingimportant career information, fellows alsohave the opportunity to build up longer-
term collaborations and friendships withother fellows.
The success of the annual fellows meet-ing is reflected in the fact that many partic-ipants return to subsequent meetings. ForEMBO, these meetings are an importantsource of feedback on the Fellowship Pro-gramme and working conditions for fellowsin different countries. In 2004, the EMBO fel-lows meeting and subsequent media work-shop took place at the EMBL in Heidelbergon June 10 –14.
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fellows networkEMBO
www.embo.org/communities/fellowsnet
guest speakers
Matt Cotton, Axxima Pharmaceuticals AG, Munich, D
Seema Sharma, Science’s Next Wave, Cambridge, UK
Sabine Rehberger-Schneider, EMBO, Heidelberg, D
scientific autobiographies – EMBO members
Christine Clayton, Heidelberg, D
Varda Rotter, Rehovot, IL
Ivan Dikic, Frankfurt, D
William Rutherford, Gif-sur-Yvette, F
Luis Serrano, Heidelberg, D
keynote lecture
Sir Paul Nurse, New York, USA
funding opportunity talks
Marina Koch-Krumrei, DFG
Joan Schwartz, NIH
Georges Bingen, European Commission
Frank Gannon, EMBO
Torsten Wiesel, HFSPO
special talk
Emilie Marcus, Cell Press, USA
The fellows network helps EMBO to keep in touch with its fellows after theycomplete their long-term fellowship. The aim is to provide a common focal pointfor these promising young scientists as they progress throughout their careers– thereby fostering a sense of community and collaboration.
CONTACT
Jan TaplickProgramme Manager
Liselotte AhlgrenLong-term fellowshipsAdministrator
Agnès Visser-de MatteïsShort-term fellowshipsAdministrator
scientific talks –
EMBO young investigators
Isabelle Mansuy, Zürich, Switzerland
Anne Spang, Tübingen, Germany
Andrea Musacchio, Milan, Italy
Philippe Pierre, Marseille, France
Tom Tuschl, New York, USA
session chairs – EMBO members
Daniela Rhodes, Cambridge, UK
Antonio Coutinho, Oeiras, Portugal
Giora Simchen, Jerusalem, Israel
Participants of
the EMBO Fellows Meeting
in Heidelberg, June 2004
the opportunity to establish new contactsand help to foster collaborative networksthroughout Europe. In 2004, EMBO confer-ences attracted 1,400 participants.
EMBC auditIn 2004, a review of the Courses andWorkshop Programme was undertaken atthe request of the EMBC as part of its ongo-ing assessment of EMBO activities. The auditconsidered the actions of the programmebetween 1999 and 2003 and entailed aparticularly detailed analysis of EMBO meet-ings that took place in 1999 and 2002. Thefindings of the audit were documented in areport, which was approved by the EMBC atits annual meeting in Rome in June 2004.The conclusions of the report were verypositive and underlined the impact of the
programme on the training, developmentand interaction of Europe’s scientists atall stages of the scientific career (availableon the EMBO website at www.embo.org/publications/archive.html).
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In 2004, EMBO supported a total of 51 meet-ings throughout the EMBC member states –20 practical courses, 2 lecture courses, 21workshops and 8 conferences. Over 4,000participants and invited speakers attendedthese events, helping to promote knowl-edge exchange and broaden the network ofscientific interaction throughout Europe.
practical coursesEMBO practical courses act as an early cat-alyst for transferring cutting-edge tech-niques to a number of European laborato-ries. Up to 20 young scientists participate inthese courses learning new methods assoon as they are identified. Some 370 par-ticipants from all over Europe attendedEMBO practical courses in 2004.
lecture coursesThese courses cater specifically for studentsat the early stages of their careers. Design-ed for approximately 100 participants, each
course comprises a series of expert lec-tures providing up-to-date information ondevelopments in a range of diverse topics.Lecture courses are often held in new EMBCmember states or member countries thatare developing their science bases – provid-ing a valuable boost to the local scientificcommunities. Approximately 100 studentsattended EMBO lecture courses in 2004.
workshopsEMBO workshops bring together up to 120scientists from multi-disciplinary fields toengage in high-level discussions and ex-change results on a topic of common inter-est. Over 1,800 scientists took part in EMBOworkshops in 2004.
conferencesThese larger-type workshops focus on top-ics of major importance to the scientificcommunity in Europe. Catering for over 120participants, they provide scientists with
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courses & workshops programmeEMBO
www.embo.org/courses workshops
CONTACT
Mary Gannon Programme Manager
Kathy OswaldAdministrator
Felise FortmannAdministrator (as of 2005)
The EMBO Courses and Workshops Programme has been facilitating scientifictraining and exchange throughout Europe since the founding years of EMBO.Every year the programme provides funds for an average of 20 practical courses,3 lecture courses, 20 workshops and 5 conferences covering a wide range of top-ics in molecular biology. The bi-annual closing dates for applications are February 1and August 1.
Kathy Oswald and Mary Gannon organise
the Courses and Workshops Programme and
the World Activities (see p. 52).
‹›‹›‹› Creating awareness for the activi-ties of the Young Investigator Programmeand the status of the individual scientiststhrough sponsorship of special young in-vestigator lectures at scientific events,publication of a brochure highlighting thescientists’ research and an invitation towrite reviews for EMBO reports.
‹›‹›‹› Organising an annual EMBO YoungInvestigator Symposium for the scientificcommunity to facilitate interactive discus-sion of techniques or methods identified byEMBO young investigators. The 2004 sym-posium focused on chemical approaches tothe study of biology attracting over 200 par-ticipants and speakers from Europe and theUnited States. A special issue of ChemBio-Chem, a European journal of chemical biol-ogy, highlights a number of contributions tothe symposium (Volume 6, Issue 1, 2005).
‹›‹›‹› Supporting the young investiga-tors’ laboratories through annual PhD cours-es for their students and laboratory manage-ment courses for the young investigatorsthemselves.
Since the inception of the Young Investi-gator Programme in 2000, five young inves-tigators have been elected to the EMBOmembership — Jürgen Knoblich and Jan-Michael Peters in 2002, Barry Dickson andMichael Glotzer in 2003 and Jan Löwe in2004.
support of central EuropeIn recent years, EMBO has established a co-operation with the Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute (HHMI) in support of scientists fromCentral Europe. A scheme launched in 2002provided additional funds to selected scien-tists in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungaryand Poland in conjunction with the EMBOYoung Investigator Programme.
EMBO and HHMI also support the scien-tific community in Central Europe by organ-ising an annual meeting in a Central Euro-pean country. In 2004 the meeting tookplace in Prague and was attended by 100scientists from all over Central Europe. Themeeting also saw a decision by EMBO andHHMI to offer a new grants scheme toattract leading young scientists to CentralEurope. The EMBO/HHMI Startup Grants willbe launched at the next EMBO/HHMI meet-ing in Budapest, Hungary in February 2005.
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Since the launch of the EMBO Young Inves-tigator Programme, 148 scientists have beenselected from over 1,000 applicants in Eu-rope. Membership of the three-year pro-gramme entitles young investigators to arange of academic and practical support aswell as a financial award made available bythe individual EMBC member states. For sci-entists from regions where funding is morelimited, EMBO also offers the possibility oftop-up funds.
promoting young investigators The EMBO Young Investigator Programmeoffers its members valuable support on anumber of levels. A growing number of ac-tivities are offered, many of which havebeen developed in line with the specificneeds of the young investigator member-ship. These activities are designed to put aspotlight on the young scientists and en-hance their prominence in the scientificcommunity by:
‹›‹›‹› Facilitating networking amongstthe young investigators via an annual meet-ing and interaction with the EMBO mem-bership through a mentorship programmeand the annual EMBO Members Workshop.The programme also provides financial sup-port of joint group meetings and other col-laborations. Joint publications in major sci-entific journals often result from thesecollaborative actions.
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young investigator programmeEMBO
www.embo.org/yip
CONTACT
Gerlind WallonProgramme Manager
Kim PiggottAdministrator
The EMBO Young Investigator Programme has been identifying and supportingoutstanding young life scientists in Europe since 2000. The programme targetsresearchers who are within three years of having established their first inde-pendent laboratories in an EMBC member state. The aim of the programme is togive these promising young scientists an added advantage in the early years oftheir independent careers – drawing attention to the quality of their researchand enhancing their standing in the scientific community.
Kim Piggott and Gerlind
Wallon look after the EMBO
young investigators and
activities supporting
women in the life sciences
(see p. 54).
The 2nd symposium
organised by the Young
Investigator Programme
attracted more than
200 participants.
E-BioSci partners
EMBO (co-ordination)
CINES France
CSIC Spain
DIMDI Germany
EBI-EMBL United Kingdom
EDINA United Kingdom
ingenta plc United Kingdom
INIST France
ORIEL partners
EMBO (co-ordination)
EUR The Netherlands
CINES France
CNR-IBC Italy
CNR-ITB Italy
CSIC Spain
EBI-EMBL United Kingdom
ICGEB Italy
IGH France
ingenta plc United Kingdom
INRIA France
LIRMM France
University of Montpellier France
University of Oxford United Kingdom
Life Sciences Mobility PortalThe Life Sciences Mobility Portal is a one-stop online service that provides informa-tion on transnational career and training op-portunities in the life sciences. The portalhas been online since February 2004 and isopen to all scientists, irrespective of their lo-cation or organisational affiliation. The proj-ect is funded by the EC and linked to theEC’s own Researcher’s Mobility Portal andScience magazine’s Science Next Wave site.In addition to the extensive online inform-ation on the mobility of researchers, the LifeSciences Mobility Portal also provides a personal consultancy service with individ-ual advice on finding transnational fundingsources. So far, the user statistics show anaverage of 2,000 users per month. The ma-jority of visits come from Western Europewith a strongly increasing tendency fromEastern and Central European countries.
http://mobility.embo.org
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E-BioSciE-BioSci is a unique literature and genesearch engine that integrates and inter-relates research literature in the life sci-ences with data from different molecularand genomic databases.
Developed by EMBO in collaboration witha number of other European organisations(see table opposite) and funded by the Euro-pean Community (EC), E-BioSci is a web-based platform that enables users to accessand navigate a range of geographically dis-tributed molecular biology informationresources. 2004 saw the launch of two newprototypes. The latest version, which hasbeen available since November 2004 andincludes improved cross-query and naviga-tion functionality, is now undergoing inten-sive testing. The platform receives approxi-mately 1,000 hits per day and has a globaluser base of approximately 15,000.
www.e-biosci.org
ORIELThe ORIEL project also pools the resourcesof a network of European institutions (seetable opposite). Funded by the EC, the proj-ect focuses on information management inthe life sciences and aims to provideresearch communities with the tools toaccess and navigate large, complex digitaldatasets. Technology developed within theproject is being applied within E-BioSci.ORIEL also offers stand-alone tools releasedunder Open Source licences to encouragerapid adoption by user communities.
This year’s joint ORIEL/E-BioSci AnnualWorkshop focused on web services in thelife sciences and brought together a num-ber of experts working in this area. Themeeting, which was held on October 12–15,2004 at the Wellcome Trust’s ConferenceCentre on the Hinxton Genome Campus,was well attended and generated somelively discussions.www.oriel.org
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electronic information programmeEMBO
www.embo.org/eip
CONTACT
Les GrivellProgramme Manager
Ole HansenTechnical Officer
Anne SellerAdministrator
Scientists use the web to read literature and find other information relevant totheir research. The Electronic Information Programme consists of three proj-ects that aim to ease the process of accessing and interlinking digital informa-tion. The programme also provides technical support for other EMBO web-based activities.
CONTACT
Sabine Rehberger-SchneiderLife Sciences Mobility Consultant
Laura CortesiData Manager
Les Grivell (seated),
Anne Seller and
Ole Hansen (right) are
EMBO’s contacts for the
Electronic Information
Programme.
Sabine Rehberger-Schneider
(right) and Laura Cortesi (left) are
responsible for the Life Sciences
Mobility Portal.
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webaddress
EMBO additional activities
The EMBO Journal
EMBO reports
science & society programme
EMBO gold medal
EMBO award for communication in the life sciences
plenary lectures
sectoral meetings
world activities
women in the life sciences
EMBO communications
european life sciences forum
EMBO’s activities fall into two categories: those that are part of the
General Programme, supported by the EMBC, and those initiated and
developed by EMBO as an independent organisation. These additional
activities are funded mainly by the profits from EMBO’s journals.
shop. Approximately 10% of the AdvisoryEditorial Board attended along with TheEMBO Journal and EMBO reports editors,EMBO Executive Director Frank Gannon(Associate Editor of The EMBO Journal andSenior Editor of EMBO reports) and repre-sentatives of NPG. The meeting served asan opportunity to assess the running of TheEMBO Journal, its current performance andpotential improvements. Discussions provedvery fruitful and the decision was made tocontinue to hold regular Advisory EditorialBoard meetings in the future.
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January 2004 saw The EMBO Journal changepublishers from Oxford University Press toNature Publishing Group (NPG). This movehas had no impact on the journal’s editorialprocess or decision-making regarding sub-mitted articles. It did, however, present theopportunity to make some alterations tothe design and organisation of the print andonline versions of the journal.
One notable change was the assign-ment of individual manuscripts to some ofthe journal’s eighteen subject categories,which together represent the full scope ofthe journal. This increases the visibility ofindividual articles and allows readers topinpoint articles relevant to their researchmore quickly and easily. A further opportu-nity for article exposure came with the high-lighting of The EMBO Journal articles onother high-traffic NPG web pages.
submission and editorial processThe number of manuscripts submitted toThe EMBO Journal continued to increase in2004 by approximately 7.5%, while the per-
centage of acceptance decreased slightly(from 18.1% in 2003 to an estimated 17.2%in 2004). Approximately 55% of submissionsare selected for peer review by the editors,who meet daily with the Executive Editor todiscuss new manuscripts. The AdvisoryEditorial Board is also consulted when re-quired. The decision on whether to publishpeer-reviewed manuscripts is based oncommentary from expert referees.
In 2004, the first preparations weremade for a transfer from the current manu-script-tracking system to a web-based sys-tem. The main aim is to enable online submission of manuscripts and referee re-ports. The new database, which is due to belaunched in 2005, will also help The EMBOJournal staff to track manuscripts, authorsand referees more efficiently.
advisory editorial boardIn October 2004, the first meeting of thejoint Advisory Editorial Board of The EMBOJournal and EMBO reports was held inVienna, following the EMBO Members Work-
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The EMBO Journaljournals
www.embojournal.org
EDITORS & CONTACT
Iain MattajExecutive Editor
Frank GannonAssociate Editor
Susan GasserEditor-in-Chief
Valerie FerrierConnie M. LeeAstrid LunkesVolker WiersdorffEditors
Claire Johnstone Sophia KatsogiannosSara QuirkKaren ThompsonEditorial Assistants
The EMBO Journal is a high-quality print and online publication that covers allareas of molecular biology. In its 22 years of existence, The EMBO Journal hasestablished itself as one of the leading molecular biology journals worldwidewith a current impact factor of 10.456.
Astrid Lunkes, Volker Wiersdorff, Valerie Ferrier and
Connie Lee at one of their daily editors’ meetings
(from left to right).
Sara Quirk (left), Claire Johnstone (back), Sophia
Katsogiannos (front) and Karen Thompson (right)
are the editorial assistants for The EMBO Journal.
Scope of The EMBO Journal
The EMBO Journal’s 18 subject categories represent the scope of the journal.
‹› Structural Biology ‹› Development
‹› Membranes & Transport ‹› Differentiation & Death
‹› Cell & Tissue Architecture ‹› Cellular Metabolism
‹› Signal Transduction ‹› Neuroscience
‹› Chromatin & Transcription ‹› Immunology
‹› RNA ‹› Plant Biology
‹› Proteins ‹› Microbiology & Pathogens
‹› Cell Cycle ‹› Molecular Biology of Disease
‹› Genome Stability & Dynamics ‹› Genomic & Computational Biology
Iain Mattaj retired as Executive
Editor of The EMBO Journal in
December 2004. Iain will be
replaced by EMBL Senior
Scientist and EMBO member,
Pernille Rørth.
also those interested in the current dialogueon the relationship between science andsociety.
The Science & Society section featuresessays and articles on topics beyond therealms of pure scientific research. The arti-cles provide commentary and analysis onthe impact of politics, industry, finance andsociety on the environment in which scien-tific research is carried out – as well as con-sidering the consequences of biologicalresearch for society. Article formats include:
‹› Editorials – insights from the editors‹› Correspondence – response and
commentary ‹› Book reviews – critiques of current
publications‹› Viewpoints – expert opinions‹› Analysis – journalistic perspectives‹› Interviews – with those shaping science
The Reviews section distils the vast amountof scientific information presented in theliterature into concise articles that can beeasily digested by the general reader. Thesearticles are written by leading experts inthe field and presented in four formats:
‹› Reviews – concise updates on rapidly changing research areas
‹› Concepts – reviews with an eye to the future
‹› Meeting reports – the latest develop-ments from recent conferences
‹› Literature reports – highlights of important papers
Scientific Reports are sharply focused pri-mary research papers that provide majornew insights into a particular aspect of mole-cular biology. Rapid, high-quality peer-reviewof these articles by experts throughout theworld keeps a broad readership abreast ofthe latest developments.
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Launched in July 2000, EMBO reports hasrapidly become recognised as a unique andvaluable contribution to the scientific litera-ture. Its current impact factor is 7.390 reflect-ing the high quality of the journal’s content.Since January 2003, EMBO reports has beenpublished by Nature Publishing Group (NPG),which has increased the visibility of the journal. Articles are highlighted across theNature subject areas, are featured regularlyin both the weekly Research and Reviewsupdates and the AfCS-Nature Signaling Gate-way, and are also included in web focuseson various topics.
2004 highlightsThe highlights in 2004 for EMBO reportswere the publication of a dedicated reviewseries on molecular medicine in the July toOctober issues and a Science & SocietySpecial Issue on “Risk: challenges, researchand social implications”, published in Oct-ober. 2004 also saw a continued increase insubmissions for the journal’s ScientificReports section. This was due in part to the
possibility of e-mail submission as opposedto hard copy. In 2004, preparations weremade to switch EMBO reports to a web-based manuscript-handling system. This willhappen in 2005 and enable online handlingand submission of articles and refereereports.
On the editorial side, the first meeting ofthe joint Advisory Editorial Board of TheEMBO Journal and EMBO reports took placein Vienna, in October 2004. The meeting pro-vided an opportunity to discuss the currentstatistics and future policies of the journals.Meetings of the Advisory Editorial Boardwill continue to take place regularly in thefuture.
scope and contentEMBO reports complements its sister publi-cation, The EMBO Journal, by providing avariety of short formats to cover topicsrelated to molecular biology. Divided intothree sections, the journal is designed toinform not only the molecular biologist, but
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EMBO reportsjournals
www.emboreports.org
EDITORS & CONTACT
Frank GannonSenior Editor
Susan GasserEditor-in-Chief
Christine M. BlaumuellerScience Editor,Scientific Reports
Susan R. OwensScience Editor, Reviews
Holger BreithauptNews Editor
Caroline HadleyAssistant Editor
Uta MackensenGraphics Editor
Caroline SimpsonEditorial Assistant
EMBO reports is a print and online journal dedicated to the rapid publication ofsharply focused short papers and review articles in all areas of molecular biol-ogy. The journal also features commentaries on the social impact of advances inthe life sciences and the influence of society on science.
The editorial team in Heidelberg
(from left to right): Christine Blaumueller,
Holger Breithaupt, Susan Owens,
Caroline Hadley and Caroline Simpson
ported a workshop in the Ukraine and col-laboration between EMBO and the Euro-pean Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)resulted in further workshops in Portugal.EMBO offers a DVD and guide for organisersof similar events.
EMBO also supports science educatorsthrough its annual international practicalworkshop for teachers. The third workshoptook place in May 2004 in Heidelberg, Ger-many. EMBO again played host to 120 of themost motivated teachers in Europe, wholearnt new techniques in biology throughpractical experiments and lectures.
EMBO/EMBL Joint Science & SocietyConferenceEvery year EMBO and EMBL organise a JointScience & Society Conference to facilitatediscussion between scientists and non-sci-entists on topics of major social signifi-cance. The 2004 conference looked at timeand ageing. From theories on why mildstress can be good for you to doubts aboutthe caloric restriction model of life exten-sion in humans, the event presented a fas-cinating variety of opinions on the potentialof living longer. Over 200 participants fromaround 20 countries took part in presenta-tions and discussions.
Communication skills for scientists The Science & Society Programme is en-gaged in a number of activities promotingeffective communication skills. Participantswere certainly not silent at a science andsociety special session at the EMBO Mem-bers Workshop in Vienna, Austria. Organisedas an interactive communication trainingsession, EMBO members benefited greatlyfrom the experience. The annual EMBOScience Writing Prize was also awarded atthe Members Workshop. The winning essayby Matthew Bottomley took an entertaininglook at the importance of bacterial quorumsensing in pathogenicitiy.
Young scientists were also coached incommunication skills at EMBO’s annualMedia Workshop, organised in 2004 in con-junction with Bernard Dixon OBE. Film foot-age of the workshop has been made into amedia skills training DVD, which is availablefrom EMBO on request.
A new activity in 2004 recognised thatcommunication ideas are plentiful amongscientists and often only need an initial in-jection of cash to get off them the ground.EMBO launched the Small Grants Scheme,inviting enquiries from life scientists withan interesting communications concept todevelop.
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Rewarding science communicators 2004 could be described as the Europeanyear of science communication. Increasinginterest in this area led the European Com-mission to launch the Descartes Prize forScience Communication. This initiative putsinto competition the winners of other com-munication prizes, among them the EMBOAward for Communication in the Life
Sciences, which is present-ed annually to a practisinglife scientist in Europe forsignificant contributions topublic engagement in sci-ence. EMBO proposed threeof its previous winners forthe Descartes prize, all ofwhom reached the final.Peter Csermely, EMBO win-ner in 2003, won one of thefive categories for his Net-work of Youth Excellenceproject.
The 2004 winner of the EMBO Award forCommunication was Fran Balkwill, who washonoured for her outstanding contributionto science communication for children. Thefull-time professor of cancer biology haswritten 13 children’s science books (see p.49). EMBO has nominated Fran Balkwill forthe 2005 Descartes Prize for ScienceCommunication.
Educational resources for teachersCommunication with teachers remains an-other major success area of the Science &Society Programme. In 2004, the last in aseries of nine international practical work-shops took place throughout Europe. Theworkshops were co-ordinated by EMBO aspart of its EC project, Continuing Educationfor European Biology Teachers (CeeBT).Around 750 teachers were touched bythese workshops, bringing EMBO’s educa-tion network to over 1,000 teachers in morethan 20 countries. In 2004, EMBO also sup-
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science & society programmeEMBO
www.embo.org/scisoc
The Science & Society Programme has the overall aim of making science andscientists more accessible to society. The programme supports scientists in theircommunication with non-scientists, focusing on specific groups such as teach-ers and the media. Furthermore, it stimulates open dialogue on issues of intensesocial interest, promoting the development and communication of modern biology.
2004 highlights
‹› 3rd international practical work-shop for biology teachers
www.embo.org/scisoc/teachers04.html
‹› Teachers workshops and educational resources
www.embo.org/scisoc/education.html
‹› 4th EMBO media workshopwww.embo.org/scisoc/media04.html
‹› Science writing prizewww.embo.org/scisoc/writing_prize.html
‹› Special science & society sessionat EMBO Members Workshop
www.embo.org/scisoc/special_sessions.html
‹› Award for communication in the life sciences
www.embo.org/awards/communications.html
‹› 5th EMBO/EMBL joint conferenceon science & society
www.embl.org/aboutus/sciencesociety/index.html
CONTACT
Andrew MooreProgramme Manager
Alessandra BendiscioliAdministrator
Sandra Bendiscioli
and Andrew Moore run
the Science & Society
Programme.
The winner in 2004 was Fran Balkwill,Professor of Cancer Biology at the Barts &The London, Queen Mary’s Medical Schoolin London, UK. Fran received the award inrecognition of her outstanding contributionto science communication for children andher remarkable ability to combine theseefforts with a full-time and highly success-ful research career.
A way with wordsSince 1990, Fran Balkwill has written 13acclaimed children’s books, using punchynarrative and imaginative illustrations toexplain the workings of the human body,stem cells, viruses and cancer. Fran’s latesttwo books, although equally entertaining,have a more profound goal. Staying Alive:Fighting HIV/AIDS and the upcoming revis-ed edition, You, Me & HIV, are aimed ateducating children at risk of contracting HIVin sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2002, 19,000 copies of Staying Alive:Fighting HIV/AIDS were distributed free of
charge throughout South Africa and in2005, the second edition will reach 100,000more children and educators in sub-Saharan Africa.
Centre of the CellSince 2001, Frances Balkwill has also beenthe driving force behind a major scienceeducation project in London’s East End.Due to open in April 2006, the Centre of theCell will be the first science education cen-tre to be housed within a medical schoolwith working research laboratories. The aimis to draw children into the exciting worldof biomedical research through interactiveexhibits and hands-on activities.
The Award for Communication medaland a prize of 5,000 Euro were presented toFran Balkwill on November 5, 2004 at theEMBL/EMBO Science & Society Conference.Winners of the EMBO Award are also pro-posed for the European Commission’sDescartes Prize for Science Communica-tion.
49www.embo.org/awards/communications04.html
The 2004 winner of the EMBO Gold Medalwas María Blasco, Director of the Molec-ular Oncology Programme at the SpanishNational Cancer Center (CNIO) in Madrid.María was honoured in recognition of herlandmark work in the area of telomeres.The scientist’s research has had a ground-
breaking impact on cancer research andreceived wide recognition in the field.
The EMBO Gold Medal was presented toMaría Blasco on October 15, 2004 at theAustrian Ministry of Science in Vienna aspart of the EMBO Members Meeting.
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gold medalEMBO
www.embo.org/awards/medal04.html
award for communication in the life sciences
The EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences is presented annuallyto a practising life scientist in Europe who has made significant contributionsto public engagement in science. The award highlights the exceptional effortsmade by some scientists to combine science communication activities with afull-time research career.
The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually to an outstanding young scientistfor exceptional research carried out within Europe. The prize highlights the stan-dards being reached in molecular biology in Europe – bringing the very bestyoung scientists to the attention of a global audience.
The EMBO Gold Medal awards roll includes
many distinguished scientists:
1986 John Tooze (Heidelberg, D)
1987 Barbara Pearse (Cambridge, UK)
1988 Antonio Lanzavecchia (Basel, CH)
1989 Hugh Pelham (Camridge, UK)
1990 Erwin Wagner (Vienna, A)
1991 Patrick Stragier (Paris, F)
1992 Carl-Hendrik Heldin (Uppsala, S)
1993 Jim Smith (London, Uk)
1994 Paolo Sassone-Corsi (Strasbourg, F)
1995 Richard Treisman (London, UK)
1996 Enrico Coen (Norwich, UK)
1997 Dirk Görlich (Heidelberg, D)
1998 Adriano Aguzzi (Zurich, CH)
1999 Konrad Basler (Zurich, CH)
2000 Christof Niehrs (Heidelberg, D) and
Daniel St. Johnston (Cambridge, UK)
2001 Matthew Freeman (Cambridge, UK)
2002 Amanda Fisher (London, UK)
2003 Anthony Hyman (Dresden, D)
2004 María Blasco (Madrid, E)
2004 sectoral meetingThe 2004 sectoral meeting focused on thetimely topic of bioinformatics and compu-tational biology. Held at the AccademiaNazionale dei Lincei in Rome, Italy andorganised locally by EMBO member, AnnaTramontano, the meeting attracted 49 EMBOmembers and approximately 120 local sci-entists with an interest in bioinformatics.The programme featured a number of first-rate scientific sessions on computationalgenomics, structural studies, cell biologyand molecular medicine – all providing up-to-date perspectives and insights on thetopic.
Participants also had the opportunity tohear about EMBO’s activities and the orga-nisation’s impact on the community of computational biology and bioinformatics.EMBO’s most recent initiative in this area isa new electronic journal dedicated to sys-tems biology and synthetic biology. Mole-cular Systems Biology will be launched
jointly by EMBO and Nature Publishing Group(NPG) in March 2005.
The 2004 meeting concluded with a pre-sentation on the BioSapiens Network of Ex-cellence, a virtual institute for genome anno-tation funded by the European Union (EU).This was followed by round-table discus-sions on the relationship between compu-tational and experimental science. The out-come of these discussions has led EMBO toconsider possible follow-up actions thatwould address the interface between thecomputational and experimental sectors andbring benefit to both communities in Europe.
follow-up meetings2004 also saw the first follow-up to asectoral meeting. The molecular medicinetheme of the 2003 meeting was continuedin November 2004 with a disease-targetedmeeting focusing on molecular biology andleukaemia. Similar follow-up meetings onother diseases are planned for future years.
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In 2004, EMBO sponsored a total of 31 ple-nary lectures. 22 EMBO members deliveredlectures at European events in twelve ofthe EMBC member states. Nine EMBO mem-bers brought “The EMBO Lecture” to inter-
national meetings in six different countriesas far afield as India and Argentina. Seepage 124 for full details of EMBO lectures in2004.
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plenary lecturesEMBO
www.embo.org/lectures.html
sectoral meetings
CONTACT
Mary GannonProgramme Manager
Kathy OswaldAdministrator
Felise FortmannAdministrator (as of 2005)
CONTACT
EMBO sectoral meetings ensure strong contacts between EMBO and its mem-bers in the various areas of molecular biology. This enables EMBO to respond tothe different needs and trends in these specific sectors. Since the initiative waslaunched in 1999, EMBO has organised sectoral meetings in the areas of neuro-biology, plant biology, microbiology, immunology and molecular medicine.
EMBO has been sponsoring plenary lectures by EMBO members at major inter-national scientific meetings since 1999. The programme has a dual purpose – to give EMBO members the opportunity to intensify exchange and collaborationwith scientists from associated fields and to bring EMBO activities to the atten-tion of a wider scientific audience.
22 lectures in Europe 9 lectures outside Europe
‹› Czech Republic ‹› Norway ‹› Argentina
‹› Denmark ‹› Poland ‹› Australia
‹› France ‹› Portugal ‹› Chile
‹› Germany ‹› Spain ‹› India
‹› Hungary ‹› Switzerland ‹› Thailand
‹› Iceland ‹› United Kingdom ‹› USA
‹› Italy
In 2004,
EMBO members
delivered plenary
lectures at major
scientific meetings
in the following
countries
(full details p. 124)
EMBO courses and workshops were inte-grated into the EMBO Courses and Work-shops Programme (see p. 119,121,125).
Screening serviceIn 2003, EMBO entered into a co-operationwith the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)to offer a screening service for Chinesepost-doctoral applicants wishing to visit aEuropean laboratory. In 2004, an initial pilotscheme was set up. Its success was de-pendent on the interest and involvement ofgroup leaders in European host laborato-ries. Unfortunately this proved to be muchless widespread than expected. As an alter-native, EMBO will set up the service via aweb-based data bank, where interestedpost-docs from outside Europe can deposittheir scientific details. The information post-ed will be available to the European scientif-ic community. This approach will be moni-tored for six to nine months to determine itseffectiveness.
Mobility informationThrough services such as the EMBO LifeSciences Mobility Portal, part of the EMBOElectronic Information Programme, EMBO isable to provide information on Europeanfunding sources and grant application pro-
cedures to interested scientists from out-side of Europe (see p. 39).
International co-operationIn 2004, EMBO continued to engage in valu-able interactions with international scientif-ic organisations. In co-operation with theHuman Frontier Science Program (HFSP),the Wellcome Trust and the Third WorldAcademy of Sciences (TWAS), EMBO co-ordinated a project to examine educationalopportunities, research accomplishmentsand science policy in a selection of resource-constrained countries.
A background report was prepared atEMBO and presented at a meeting in Trieste,Italy in November 2003.The meeting broughttogether representatives of major interna-tional funding organisations to discuss pos-sibilities for support of life sciences educa-tion and research in developing nations. Theconclusions of the meeting are laid out in areport called “Promoting life science re-search and training in developing countries:a need for concerted action” (available on the EMBO website at www.embo.org/publications/archive.html).
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international training and collaborationEMBO World Activities offer opportunitiesfor scientific exchange and training world-wide, acting as a catalyst for lasting interna-tional collaborations. This is made possiblethrough EMBO training and fellowship op-portunities.
In 2004, eight fellowships were awardedto researchers outside Europe. During visitsto European laboratories of a three to ninemonth duration, scientists had the opportu-nity to collaborate on common researchtopics and learn new techniques. On returnto their home laboratories, researcherswere able to share these new techniqueswith their groups and embark on longer-term collaborations with the host laborato-ries. Fellowship recipients are listed on page 126.
These fellowships were offered underthe EMBO World Programme until July 2004,when they were integrated into the EMBOshort-term fellowship scheme (see side bar
opposite). The new eligibility criteria allowfor greater mobility between EMBC andnon-EMBC member states.
courses and workshopsBuilding on the impact of EMBO courses andworkshops in Europe, nine practical coursesoutside Europe were supported by theEMBO World Programme in 2004. Thesecourses brought together students from dif-ferent continents to interact and learn newmethods. Seven of the courses were jointlyfunded with other international organisa-tions – ICRO, UNESCO, CAS, and A-IMBN.
Three international EMBO workshops en-abled scientists from different countries toengage in high-level discussions, exchangeresults and forge new collaborations. Two ofthe workshops were funded jointly with theCAS and the Wellcome Trust.
EMBO also sponsored nine plenary lec-tures outside Europe in 2004 with the aim ofraising the profile of European science inter-nationally. In July 2004, all international
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world activitiesEMBO
www.embo.org/world
CONTACT
Mary GannonManager
Kathy OswaldAdministrator
Felise FortmannAdministrator (as of 2005)
In recent years, EMBO has made concerted efforts to widen its reach beyondEurope. EMBO World Activities have become an integral part of many EMBO pro-grammes with the aim of attracting applicants from outside Europe and pro-moting international collaboration. In 2004, EMBO World Activities continued togain momentum, particularly within the developing world.
New fellowship
application conditions
encourage international
collaboration
The fellowships formerly offered
under the EMBO World Programme
were integrated into the short-term
fellowship scheme in 2004.
The aim is to attract applicants from
outside Europe and encourage inter-
national mobility and collaboration.
‹› Candidates from non-EMBC
member states can now apply
to take up fellowships in EMBC
member states. The same is
true for applicants from EMBC
member states wishing to
collaborate with a laboratory
in a non-member state.
!N.B.
women and men in its membership, fellow-ships, courses and workshops (see p.127for the 2004 statistics).
EMBO committees are made aware ofthe participation of male and female scien-tists in EMBO activities through an annualreport provided to each programme. Theissue of gender balance and possible ac-
tions are discussed in the EMBO Science &Society Committee. In 2004, EMBO contin-ued to evaluate the selection proceduresand success rates of its programmes. Theaim is to ensure that there are no factorsthat could potentially deter talented scien-tists of either gender from participating inor benefiting from EMBO opportunities.
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family-friendly research conditionsEMBO is committed to fostering family-friendly conditions in research. In 2002 and2003, EMBO offered Restart fellowships toencourage scientists who had taken a ca-reer break for childcare reasons to re-enterscience. In July 2004, the positive impactof this initiative led to the integration ofthe Restart eligibility criteria into the EMBOlong-term fellowship scheme (see side baropposite).
The new long-term fellowship condi-tions bring greater flexibility to candidateswith childcare obligations. Scientists whohave interrupted their careers for at leastone year to care for their children can nowapply to take up a fellowship within their
current country of residence. A new part-time option has also been introduced,whereby applicants with childcare commit-ments can apply to carry out their two-yearfellowship over a period of up to threeyears.gender balance in the life sciencesEMBO is acutely aware of the low represen-tation of women in senior positions in sci-ence. Although both genders are equallyrepresented at graduate level, women leavescience in disproportionately higher num-bers during the later stages of the academiccareer. This is a matter of great concern toEMBO. In order to analyse the impact of thissituation on its own activities, the organisa-tion actively monitors the participation of
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women in the life sciencesEMBO
www.embo.org/gender
EMBO promotes the highest standards of research throughout its member statesat all stages of the scientific career. In recent years, EMBO has made efforts toassess and act on imbalances or uncertainties in the life sciences career path –examining the potential differences and difficulties for particular groups inclu-ing researchers with childcare commitments and female scientists.
New fellowship conditions to support candidates with childcare commitments
In July 2004, the eligibility criteria for long-term fellowships were enhanced to cater for
applicants with childcare commitments. The changes are intended to foster family-friendly
conditions in research and help scientists return to the bench after a career break for
childcare. The new criteria represent an integration of the former Restart fellowships:
CONTACT
Gerlind WallonManager
Kim PiggottAdministrator
!N.B.
‹› The mobility requirement was
waived for candidates wishing to return
to research after taking a recent career
break for childcare reasons. Eligible
applicants can now apply for a fellow-
ship within their current country of
residence.
‹› Applicants with childcare commitments
now have the flexibility to apply to carry
out their fellowship on a part-time basis
over a period of three years.
This development is in line with the 2003
extension of support for fellows taking
maternity or paternity leave.
keeping the EMBO communityinformedIn 2004, EMBO carried out a survey of itsmembership. The overall results were posi-tive revealing a high degree of satisfactionwith EMBO’s activities. At the same time,the survey identified a need for improveddissemination of information amongst theEMBO members. To this end and followingdiscussions with the EMBO Council, thecommunications office launched EMBOencounters, a new quarterly news publica-tion.
EMBOencounters provides a forum forinformation exchange – not only betweenEMBO and its network of scientists but alsobetween the scientists themselves. A vari-ety of features bring readers the latest newsfrom EMBO and also highlight the activitiesand achievements of EMBO members, younginvestigators and fellows. EMBOencountersalso serves as an excellent resource for thewider scientific community and the generalpublic.
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communicationsEMBO
www.embo.org/about embo/news.html
getting the message across2004 saw EMBO develop a consistent de-sign concept for its communications mate-rials. The aim is to increase the clarity anddistinctiveness with which the organisationpresents information on its activities. Thebrochures, posters, flyers and calendarsproduced in 2004 demonstrate this coher-ent design concept, providing clear andconsistent information on EMBO activitiesand events. Many of these can be down-loaded from the EMBO website:www.embo.org/publications/archive.html
In 2004, the communications office alsoconsolidated its advertising efforts – devel-oping an advertising plan and increasingthe quantity and range of adverts appear-ing across EMBO’s journals and other majorscientific publications. EMBO also exhibitedat major European scientific meetings (ELSOand the FEBS Congress) providing the sci-entific community with an opportunity tospeak directly with EMBO staff and find outmore about EMBO opportunities.
talking to journalistsThe EMBO communications office maintainsregular contact with the European press –issuing press releases on EMBO events,awards and activities, fielding enquiries fromthe media and hosting journalists at EMBOevents. In 2004, the winners of the EMBOGold Medal (see p. 48) and the EMBO Awardfor Communication in the Life Sciences (seep. 49) attracted strong media interest. The2004 EMBO members meeting in Vienna,Austria was also covered in the Austrianpress.
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The EMBO communications office serves as an information resource for the scientific community, the media and the general public. A number of targetedactivities also support an active communication channel between the organisa-tion and its broad network of members, young investigators and fellows.
CONTACT
Lindsay JohnsonCommunications Officer
Uta MackensenGraphic Designer
Lynne TurnbullAdministrator
EMBOencounters features the latest news from
EMBO and the EMBO Community of members,
young investigators and fellows. It is available
online at www.embo.org/about_embo/news.html
Lynne Turnbull,
Lindsay Johnson and
Uta Mackensen
are responsible for
the preparation of all
EMBO information
materials.
sations and published in Science in August2004 (“Creating a European ResearchCouncil” – Vol. 305, Issue 5685, 776–777,6 August 2004).
founding goals of ISE The Paris conference also marked the offi-cial launch of ISE as an independent andinformal multi-disciplinary platform of orga-nisations committed to the scientific andtechnological development of Europe. ISE’sprimary objective is the establishment ofthe ERC. Its broader aim, however, is to pro-vide a common forum to promote inde-pendent scientific advice in European pol-icy-making and stimulate the involvementof scientists in the design and implementa-tion of European science and technologypolicy. ISE membership now comprises morethan 35 European organisations with astrong representation from the life sciencesand biomedical research communities.
The collective efforts of organisationslike ELSF and ISE have had an importantimpact on the ERC debate. What initiallystarted as a pipe dream of the scientificcommunity is now closer to reality thanever. The creation of an ERC has the sup-port of the majority of the European Union(EU) member states and the European Com-
mission has suggested it as one of the axesof its next Framework Programme (FP7),due to start in January 2007.
However, much work still lies ahead –notably to ensure that the ERC becomesmore than a mere funding body and re-ceives appropriate funding. Equally impor-tant will be the safeguarding of the ERC’sautonomy from political intervention andthe recognition of the role scientists haveto play in its design, implementation anddelivery. In this way, the work of ELSF andISE is far from over and both organisationswill continue to monitor and actively ac-company the developments on the ERC.
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Since 2003, ELSF has been a prominentplayer in the debate on the establishmentof a European Research Council (ERC). Theidea behind the ERC is the creation of anew instrument to foster and fund basicresearch in all scientific disciplines on aEuropean level. ELSF has been very activeover the past two years – collecting andpromoting scientists’ opinions and expec-tations of the ERC and lobbying policy-mak-ers through conferences, publications andother targeted activities.
Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE)In November 2003, ELSF and its foundingmembers recognised the need to join forceswith representatives from organisationsactive in other scientific disciplines. To thisend, a multi-disciplinary group came to-gether to form the Initiative for Science inEurope (ISE), under the chairmanship ofJosé Mariano Gago – the then former Portu-
guese Minister of Science and Technologyand one of the initiators of the LisbonAgenda. The founding members of the ISEgroup are representatives from ELSF, Euro-science, the European Science Foundation(ESF), the European Physical Society (EPS),the European University Association (EUA)and the Group of European Nobel Laure-ates. The executive secretariat of ISE is runby ELSF and consequently the life sciencesmaintain a leading role in the campaign.
In 2004, the ISE group organised twoconferences on the ERC – the first at theEuropean Parliament in Brussels in Febru-ary and the second, in October, at UNESCOin Paris. The aim of these conferences wasto maintain momentum in the ERC debateand provide a forum to further identify anddiscuss the positions of the scientific com-munity. ISE also drafted an appeal support-ing the creation of an ERC, which wasendorsed by 52 European scientific organi-
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european life sciences forumELSF
www.elsf.org
CONTACT
Luc van DyckExecutive Co-ordinator
The European Life Sciences Forum (ELSF) is a platform of organisations repre-senting the life sciences in Europe. The organisation was founded in 2000 byEMBO, the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), the EuropeanMolecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the European Life Scientist Organi-zation (ELSO). The mission of ELSF is to increase the visibility and impact of theresearch community in public and policy-making arenas with the aim ofadvancing research and strengthening the scientific voice in European society.
Luc van Dyck is the
Executive Co-ordinator of
the European Life Sciences
Forum (ELSF).
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delegates and advisers from the EMBC member states
council members & committees 2004
council members & committees 2005
new members 2004
advisory editorial board 2004
long-term fellowship awards 2004
long-term fellowships: statistics & geographical distribution
short-term fellowship awards 2004
short-term fellowships: statistics & geographical distribution
young investigators selected 2004
EMBO/HHMI scientists selected 2004
young investigators selected 2001, 2002 & 2003
young investigator statistics
young investigator lectures 2004
courses, lectures, workshops, conferences 2004
plenary lectures 2004
world programme fellowships 2004
participation of women in EMBO activities
scale of contributions from EMBC member states
EMBO staff in heidelberg
AUSTRIA
Prof. Annemarie Frischauf Dept. of Molecular BiologyUniversity of SalzburgHellbrunnerstrasse 34A-5020 Salzburgtel +43 1 662 8044 5779 fax +43 1 662 8044 144 [email protected]
Mag. Elisabeth Tischelmayer Federal Ministry for Science,Education and CultureBM:BWK Referat VI/1 Rosengasse 2–6A-1014 Viennatel +43 1 53120 7120 fax +43 1 53120 81 7120 [email protected]
BELGIUM
Ms. Nicole Henry Belgian Science Policy OfficeRue de la Science 8B-1040 Brusselstel +32 2 238 3507 fax +32 2 230 5912 [email protected]
Prof. Marc van Montagu Laboratory of GeneticsRijksuniversiteitK.L. Ledeganckstraat 35 B-9000 Genttel +32 9 264 87 27 fax +32 9 264 87 95 [email protected]
CROATIA
Dr. Kresimir Pavelic Rudjer Boskovic InstituteDivision of Molecular MedicineBijenicka c. 54POB 180HR-10002 Zagrebtel +385 1 468 0094 fax +385 1 456 1010 [email protected]
CZECH REPUBLIC
Ms. Jana Bystrická Ministry of Education,Youth and SportsKarmelitská 7CZ-118 12 Prague 1tel +420 2 66 106 662 fax +420 2 66 106 668 [email protected]
Ms. Irena Krumlova Institute of Chemical TechnologyDept. of BiochemistryTechnická 3 CZ-166 28 Prague 6tel +420 2 24 355 166 fax +420 2 24 355 167 [email protected]
Prof. Václav Paces Institute of Molecular GeneticsAcademy of Sciences Flemingovo 2 CZ-16637 Praguetel +420 2 20 183 541 fax +420 2 24 311 019 [email protected]
DENMARK
Prof. Julio E. Celis Institute of Cancer Biologyand Danish Centre for Translational Breast CancerResearchStrandboulevarden 49DK-2100 Copenhagen Øtel +45 3525 7363 fax +45 3525 7375 [email protected]
Ms. Mette Müller Danish Research AgencyArtillevej 88DK-2300 Copenhagen Stel +45 3544 6346fax +45 3257 [email protected]
FINLAND
Dr. Arja Kallio Research Council forBiosciences and EnvironmentAcademy of FinlandVilhonvuorenkatu 6FIN-00500 Helsinkitel +358 9 774 88336 fax +358 9 774 88395 [email protected]
Prof. Marja Makarow P.O. Box 33University of Helsinki Yliopistokatu 4 FIN-00014 Helsinki tel +358 9 191 21744 fax +358 9 191 23008 [email protected]
Prof. Eero Vuorio University of Turku Kiinamyllynkatu 10FIN-20014 Turkutel +358 2 333 6100 fax +358 2 333 5011 [email protected]
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Prof. Bernard Ehresmann UPR 9002, CNRSInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC)15 rue DescartesF-67084 Strasbourg Cédextel +33 3 88 41 70 56 fax +33 3 88 60 22 18 [email protected]
Dr. Jean-Pierre Lafont Research Directorate Ministry for Research 1 rue DescartesF-75231 Paris Cédex 05tel +33 1 55 55 99 15 fax +33 1 55 55 97 67 [email protected]
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Dr. Christian Alecke Federal Ministry of Educationand Research (BMBF) Referat 613Heinemannstrasse 2 D-53175 Bonntel +49 188 8 57 3659 fax +49 188 8 57 83659 [email protected]
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Prof. Reinhard Lührmann Max Planck Institute forBiophysical Chemistry Cellular Biochemistry Dept.Am Faßberg 11D-37070 Göttingen tel +49 551 201 1405 fax +49 551 201 1197 [email protected]
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Prof. Theodore Fotsis Laboratory of Biological ChemistryFaculty of MedicineUniversity of Ioannina GR-45110 Ioanninatel +30 26510 97560 fax +30 26510 97868 [email protected]
Prof. Charalambos Savakis Faculty of MedicineUniversity of Crete and Institute of Molecular Biologyand BiotechnologyFORTH, Vassilika VoutonGR-71110 Heraklion, Cretetel +30 2810 391114/391088 fax +30 2810 391950 [email protected]
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Ms. Klara Papp Hungarian Academy of SciencesOffice for International Co-operationNádor u. 7 H-1051 Budapest tel +36 1 327 3000/2538 fax +36 1 327 3000/2539 [email protected]
Prof. Làszlò Patthy Institute of EnzymologyBiological Research CentreKarolina út 29H-1113 Budapesttel +36 1 209 3537 fax +36 1 466 5465 [email protected]
Dr. Janos Pusztai Hungarian Academy of SciencesOffice for International Co-operationNádor u. 7 H-1051 Budapesttel +36 1 327 3000/2536 fax +36 1 411 6370 [email protected]
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Dr. Eiríkur Steingrímsson Dept. of Biochemistry andMolecular Biology Faculty of MedicineUniversity of IcelandVatnsmyrarvegur 16IS-101 Reykjaviktel +354 525 4270 fax +354 525 4886 [email protected]
IRELAND
Dr. Lucy Cusack Science and TechnologyDivisionForfásWilton Park HouseWilton PlaceIRL-Dublin 2tel +353 1 607 3080 fax +353 1 607 3260 [email protected]
Ms. Helen Dixon Office of Science and TechnologyDept. of Enterprise,Trade and EmploymentKildare StreetIRL-Dublin 2tel +353 1 631 2236 fax +353 1 631 2812 [email protected]
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Prof. Marvin Edelman Dept. of Plant GeneticsWeizmann Institute IL-76100 Rehovottel +972 8 934 3301/39 fax +972 8 946 9124 [email protected]
Dr. Mahmoud Taya Ministry of Science andTechnologyLife Sciences DivisionHaqirya Hamizrahit, Bldg 3P.O. Box 49100IL-91490 Jerusalemtel +972 2 541 1126 fax +972 2 532 2124 [email protected]
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Dr. Aniello Izzo Treasury Ministry State Budget Office – I.G.A.E.Uff. XVia XX Settembre no 97 I-00187 Rometel +39 06 476 13512 fax +39 06 481 4724 [email protected]
Prof. Glauco Tocchini-Valentini IBC – Institute of Cell Biology, CNRCampus A. Buzzati-TraversoVia E. Ramarini 32I-00016 Monterotondo Scalo(RM)tel +39 06 9060317 fax +39 06 90091261 [email protected]
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Dr. Brita Beije Swedish Research CouncilNatural and EngineeringSciencesRegeringsgatan 56S-103 78 Stockholmtel +46 8 546 44 249 fax +46 8 546 44 144 [email protected]
Prof. Marianne Sommarin Dept. of Plant BiochemistryLund UniversityChemical CenterGetingevägen 60S-222 41 Lundtel +46 46 222 77 92 fax +46 46 222 41 16 [email protected]
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Dr. Isabella Beretta State Secretariat forEducation and ResearchMultilateral Research Co-operationHallwylstrasse 4CH-3003 Berntel +41 31 322 8417 fax +41 31 322 7854 [email protected]
TURKEY
Prof. M. Beyazit CirakogluTÜBITAK Marmara ResearchCentreGenetic Engineering andBiotechnology ResearchInstituteTR-41470 Gebze Kocaeli tel +90 262 641 2300/4000/ 4001fax +90 262 646 [email protected]
UNITED KINGDOM
Dr. Diana Dunstan Director of ResearchManagementMedical Research Council20 Park CrescentUK-London W1B 1ALtel +44 207 636 5422 fax +44 207 637 6021 [email protected]
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Ms. Louise Perbal Ministry of Education,Culture and Science IPC 4100Rijnstraat 50NL-2515 XP Den Haagtel +31 70 412 3405 fax +31 70 412 2525 [email protected]
Prof. Peter J. Weisbeek University of UtrechtDept. of Molecular GeneticsPadualaan 8NL-3584 CH Utrechttel +31 30 253 3580 fax +31 30 251 3655 [email protected]
NORWAY
Dr. Berit Johne Research Council of NorwayP.O. Box 2700 Stensberggata 26 N-0131 Oslotel +47 22 03 7422 fax +47 22 03 7362 [email protected]
Prof. Aurora Martinez Dept. of BiomedicineUniversity of BergenJonas Lies vei 91N-5009 Bergentel +47 55 58 6427 fax +47 55 58 6300 [email protected]
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Prof. Andrzej Jerzmanovski Laboratory of Plant Molecular BiologyWarsaw UniversityInstitute of Biochemistry and BiophysicsPolish Academy of Sciences Pawinskiego 5aPL-02-106 Warsaw tel +48 22 659 6072/5704 fax +48 22 658 4636 [email protected]
Ms. Maria Klimkiewicz Ministry for ScientificResearch and Information TechnologyDept. of International Co-operationWspolna 1/3 PL-00-529 Warsawtel +48 22 628 3289 fax +48 22 628 3534 [email protected]
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Ms. Maria Jose Almeida Office for InternationalRelations in Science and Higher Education(GRICES)Av. 5 de Outubro, 85, 5°P-1050-050 Lisbontel +351 21 782 8300 fax +351 21 797 1687 [email protected]
Prof. Maria do Carmo-Fonseca University of LisbonInstitute of MolecularMedicineAv. Prof. Egas Moniz P-1649-028 Lisbon Codestel +351 21 799 94111 fax +351 21 799 9412 [email protected]
Dr. Claudio Sunkel Institute for Molecular andCell Biology (IBMC)Molecular GeneticsLaboratory Rua do Campo AlegreP-4150 Portotel +351 2 607 9157fax +351 2 609 [email protected]
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Prof. Franc Gubensek Dept. of BiochemistryJ. Stefan Institute Jamova 39 SI-1000 Ljubljanatel +386 1 477 3250 fax +386 1 257 3594 [email protected]
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Ms. Cristina Espa Felip International Organisationsand ProgrammesMinistry of Education andScienceJosé Abascal 4.2°E-28003 Madridtel +34 91 594 8618 fax +34 91 594 8643 [email protected]
Prof. Esteban Manrique Reol International Organisationsand ProgrammesMinistry of Education andScienceJosé Abascal 4.2°E-28003 Madridtel +34 91 594 8608 fax +34 91 594 8643 [email protected]
Prof. Juan Modolell Centre of Molecular Biology(CBM)Universidad AutónomaCantoblanco E-28049 Madridtel +34 91 497 5072 fax +34 91 497 5073 [email protected]
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course committee2003 Pico Caroni2004 Miquel Coll2000 Pascale Cossart
(Chair)2002 Jonathan Howard2002 Philip Ingham2004 Howard Jacobs2003 Batsheva Kerem2001 Anna Tramontano2001 Joel Vandekerckhove2003 Peter Weisbeek
science & society committee2003 Lauri Aaltonen2001 Victor de Lorenzo2004 Dénes Dudits2001 Matthew Freeman2004 Benjamin Geiger2003 Matthias Hentze2001 Mary Osborn 2002 Roberto Sitia
(Chair)2002 Mary Weiss
fellowship committee2004 Peter Becker2000 Francesco Blasi 2001 August Boeck2002 John Diffley2004 Bauke Dijkstra2004 Nicolas Glaichenhaus2000 Crisanto Gutierrez
fellowship committee (cont.)2004 Leszek Kaczmarek2003 Angela Krämer2004 Wilhelm Krek2004 Montserrat Pages2004 Anthony Pugsley2000 Daniela Rhodes
(Chair)2001 Varda Rotter2004 Angela Santoni
membership & publication committee2003 Andres Aguilera2002 Ruth Arnon2004 Thierry Boon2003 Ari Helenius2004 Andrzej Legocki2002 Maria Leptin1999 Cesare Montecucco
(Chair)2003 Dino Moras2002 Hans Wolf-Watz
electronic information committee2001 Graham Cameron2000 Sigrun Eckelmann2002 Gerard Giroud2000 Jacques Haiech2000 Carlos Martinez-Alonso2002 Annette Thomas2000 Glauco Tocchini-Valentini
(Chair) 2003 Eric Westhof
young investigator committee2004 Martino Bolognesi 2000 Doreen Cantrell2003 S. Dusko Ehrlich2003 Jiri Forejt2002 Regine Kahmann2004 Hans Krokan 2004 Doron Lancet 2000 Iain Mattaj2003 Gines Morata2000 Jean-David Rochaix
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external auditors Isabel Cabaço AntunesMaria da Luz Faria
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years(s) elected name country2001, 2004 Erik Boye N-Oslo2003 Margaret Buckingham F-Paris2000, 2002 Antonio Coutinho (Vice-Chair) P-Oeiras 2000, 2003 Susan Gasser (Chair) CH-Geneva2002 Ingrid Grummt D-Heidelberg2004 Tim Hunt UK-London2002 Carlos Martinez-A. E-Madrid1999, 2002 Cesare Montecucco I-Padova2001, 2004 Sean Munro UK-Cambridge2000, 2003 Paul Nurse USA-New York1999, 2002 André Sentenac F-Gif-sur-Yvette2000, 2003 Giora Simchen IL-Jerusalem2004 Kai Simons D-Dresden2004 Gunnar von Heijne S-Stockholm2003 Maciej Zylicz PL-Warsaw
ex officioChristiane Nüsslein-Volhard Secretary General of EMBOMarja Makarow President of EMBCFrank Gannon Secretary General of EMBCFotis Kafatos Director General of EMBLCarl-Henrik Heldin Chair of EMBL SACDaniela Rhodes Chair of EMBO Fellowship CommitteePascale Cossart Chair of EMBO Course CommitteeCesare Montecucco Chair of Membership & Publication CommitteeRoberto Sitia Chair of Science & Society CommitteeJean-David Rochaix Chair of EMBO Young Investigator Programme CommitteeGlauco Tocchini-Valentini Chair of Electronic Information Committee
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fellowship committee2005 Robin Allshire2004 Peter Becker2002 John Diffley2004 Bauke Dijkstra2004 Nicolas Glaichenhaus2004 Leszek Kaczmarek2005 Jürgen Knoblich2003 Angela Krämer2004 Wilhelm Krek2004 Montserrat Pages2004 Anthony Pugsley2000 Daniela Rhodes (Chair)2001 Varda Rotter2004 Angela Santoni
science & society committee2003 Lauri Aaltonen2005 Andrea Barta 2005 Wendy Bickmore2004 Dénes Dudits2004 Benjamin Geiger2005 Ernst Hafen2003 Matthias Hentze2001 Mary Osborn 2002 Roberto Sitia (Chair)2005 Claudio Sunkel
young investigator committee2005 Michael Bevan2005 Thomas Boehm2004 Martino Bolognesi2003 S. Dusko Ehrlich2003 Jiri Forejt2005 Elisa Izaurralde2002 Regine Kahmann (Chair)2004 Hans Krokan2004 Doron Lancet2003 Gines Morata
membershipcommittee2005 Ueli Aebi2003 Andres Aguilera2002 Ruth Arnon2005 Carl-Henrik Heldin2004 Andrzej Legocki2002 Maria Leptin (Chair)2005 Antonio Malgaroli2005 Paolo Sassone-Corsi2005 Veronica van Heyningen 2002 Hans Wolf-Watz
publications & electronic information committee2004 Thierry Boon2001 Graham Cameron2005 Gianni Cesareni2003 Ari Helenius2003 Dino Moras2005 Erich Nigg2005 Václav Paces2005 Leena Peltonen2003 Eric Westhof (Chair)
EMBO members who act as auditors:internal auditors Diter von WettsteinDavid J. McConnell
external auditors Isabel Cabaço AntunesMaria da Luz Faria
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ex officioChristiane Nüsslein-Volhard Secretary General of EMBOMarja Makarow President of EMBCFrank Gannon Secretary General of EMBCFotis Kafatos/Iain Mattaj Director General of EMBLRonald Plasterk Chair of EMBL SACDaniela Rhodes Chair of EMBO Fellowship CommitteePico Caroni Chair of EMBO Course CommitteeMaria Leptin Chair of Membership CommitteeRoberto Sitia Chair of Science & Society CommitteeRegine Kahmann Chair of EMBO Young Investigator Programme CommitteeEric Westhof Chair of Publications & Electronic Information Committee
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Bart de Strooper Laboratory for Neuronal Cell Biology and GeneTransfer, Center for Human GeneticsLeuven, Belgium
NeurobiologyCell biology
Hugues De Thé CNRS, UMR 7151Hôpital St. LouisParis, France
Cancer biologyCell biology
Ivan Dikic Institute of Biochemistry IIGoethe University Medical SchoolFrankfurt, Germany
Cancer biologyCell biology
Jeff Errington Sir William Dunn School of PathologyUniversity of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom
Cell biologyMicrobiology
Marco Foiani F.I.R.C. Institute of Molecular OncologyMilan, Italy
Cancer biologyGenome structure
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Siv G.E. Andersson Dept. of Molecular EvolutionEvolutionary Biology CenterUppsala, Sweden
Genome structureMicrobiology
Yehudit Bergman Hubert Humphrey Center for ExperimentalMedicine and Cancer ResearchHebrew University Medical SchoolJerusalem, Israel
Developmental biologyImmunology
Christer Betsholtz Laboratory of Vascular BiologyDept. of Medical Biochemistry and BiophysicsKarolinska InstituteStockholm, Sweden
Developmental biologyCell biology
Michael Brunner Biochemie-Zentrum HeidelbergHeidelberg, Germany
Cell biologyGenetics
Graham Cameron European Bioinformatics InstituteEMBL OutstationCambridge, United Kingdom
Structural biologyGenome structure
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Jan Löwe Laboratory of Molecular BiologyMedical Research Council Cambridge, United Kingdom
Structural biologyCell biology
Paolo Lusso Laboratory of Human VirologyDIBIT–San Raffaele Scientific InstituteMilan, Italy
VirologyImmunology
Andrew J. McMichael Weatherall Institute of Molecular MedicineJohn Radcliffe HospitalOxford, United Kingdom
VirologyImmunology
Abraham Minsky Dept. of Organic ChemistryWeizmann Institute of ScienceRehovot, Israel
Structural biologyMicrobiology
Sergio Moreno Cancer Research Institute–CSICSalamanca UniversitySalamanca, Spain
Cell biologyGenetics
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Hans Hengartner Institute of Experimental ImmunologyUniversity Hospital ZurichZurich, Switzerland
VirologyImmunology
Jonathon Howard Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and GeneticsDresden, Germany
Structural biologyCell biology
Laurence Daniel Hurst Dept. of Biology and BiochemistryUniversity of BathBath, United Kingdom
Genome structureGenetics
Mariusz Jaskólski Center for Biocrystallographic ResearchPolish Academy of SciencesPoland
Structural biology
Klas Kärre Microbiology and Tumor Biology CenterKarolinska InstituteStockholm, Sweden
Cancer biologyImmunology
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Marina V. Rodnina Institute of Physical BiochemistryWitten/Herdecke University Witten, Germany
Structural biologyMicrobiology
Pernille Rørth Developmental Biology ProgrammeEMBLHeidelberg, Germany
Developmental biologyCell biology
Titia K. Sixma Division of Molecular CarcinogenesisNetherlands Cancer InstituteAmsterdam, Netherlands
Cancer biologyStructural biology
Kirsten Skarstad Dept. of Cell BiologyInstitute for Cancer ResearchOslo, Norway
Cell biologyMicrobiology
Austin G. Smith Institute for Stem Cell ResearchUniversity of EdinburghEdinburgh, United Kingdom
Developmental biologyCell biology
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Klaus-Armin Nave Dept. of NeurogeneticsMax-Planck-Institute of Experimental MedicineGöttingen, Germany
Neurobiology
Alain Nicolas Institute CurieCNRS, UMR 7147 Paris, France
Genome structureGenetics
Thomas Nyström Dept. of Cell and Molecular BiologyGöteborg UniversityGöteborg, Sweden
Cell biologyMicrobiology
Stephen G. Oliver Faculty of Life SciencesUniversity of ManchesterManchester, United Kingdom
Genome structureGenetics
Hans-Georg Rammensee Department of ImmunologyUniversity of TübingenTübingen, Germany
Cell biologyImmunology
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Ashok Venkitaraman Cancer Research UK Dept. of Oncology andMRC Cancer Cell UnitCambridge, United Kingdom
Cancer biologyCell biology
Karen Vousden Beatson Institute for Cancer ResearchGlasgow, United Kingdom
Cancer biologyCell biology
Nancy Kleckner Dept. of Molecular and Cellular BiologyHarvard UniversityCambridge, MA, United States
GeneticsMicrobiology
Dieter Söll Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and BiochemistryYale UniversityNew Haven, CT, United States
Genome structureMicrobiology
Peter Walter Howard Hughes Medical InstituteDept. of Biochemistry and BiophysicsUniversity of CaliforniaSan Francisco, CA, United States
Structural biologyCell biology
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Eiríkur Steingrímsson Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of IcelandReykjavik, Iceland
Developmental biologyGenetics
Iannis Talianidis Institute of Molecular Biology and BiotechnologyFoundation for Research and TechnologyCrete, Greece
Cell biology
Dimitris Thanos Institute of Molecular Biology and GeneticsBiomedical Sciences Research CenterAthens, Greece
Cell biologyGenome structure
Juan Valcárcel Gene Regulation ProgrammeCentre de Regulació GenòmicoBarcelona, Spain
Cancer biologyGenome structure
Maarten van Lohuizen Division of Molecular GeneticsNetherlands Cancer InstituteAmsterdam, Netherlands
Developmental biologyCancer biology
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J Herbert Jäckle
Richard J. Jackson
Stephen P. Jackson
Reinhard Jahn
Stefan Jentsch
Thomas J. Jentsch
Josef Jiricny
K Regine Kahmann
Eric Karsenti
Rolf Kemler
Guido Kroemer
Robb Krumlauf
Werner Kühlbrandt
L Michel Lazdunski
Tomas Lindahl
Reinhard Lührmann
M Bernard Malissen
Christopher J. Marshall
Carlos Martínez-A.
Marjori A. Matzke
Edwin Milgron
Cesare Montecucco
Dino Moras
Jorge Moscat
Sean Munro
N Kiyoshi Nagai
Michael S. Neuberger
Walter Neupert
O Moshe Oren
Michael J. Owen
P Peter J. Parker
Hugh R.B. Pelham
Nikolaus Pfanner
Olaf Pongs
R Martin C. Raff
Tom A. Rapoport
Daniela Rhodes
Howard Riezman
Jean-David Rochaix
Bernard C. Rossier
S Helen R. Saibil
Philippe J. Sansonetti
Georg E. Schulz
Bertrand Séraphin
David J. Sherratt
Ben-Zion Shilo
Roberto Sitia
James C. Smith
Daniel St. Johnston
T David Tollervey
Richard Treisman
W Stephen C. West
Alfred Wittinghofer
Dieter H. Wolf
Hans Wolf-Watz
Y Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Z Marino Zerial
Maciej Zylicz
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Kari Alitalo
Geneviève Almouzni
Frances M. Ashcroft
B Andrea Ballabio
Mariano Barbacid
Yves-Alain Barde
Jiri Bartek
David C. Baulcombe
Peter B. Becker
Jean D. Beggs
Anton J. Berns
Michael J. Berridge
Heinrich Betz
Mariann Bienz
August Böck
Johannes L. Bos
Chris Bowler
Erik Boye
Bernd Bukau
Meinrad Busslinger
C Michel Caboche
Iain D. Campbell
Doreen A. Cantrell
Gennaro Ciliberto
Pascale Cossart
D Pietro V. De Camilli
Bauke W. Dijkstra
Marcel Dorée
Giulio Draetta
Raymond A. Dwek
E Gerard I. Evan
F Alain Fischer
G Henrik Garoff
Susan M. Gasser
Benjamin Geiger
Frank G. Grosveld
Jean Gruenberg
Ingrid Grummt
H Ernst Hafen
Alan Hall
F. Ulrich Hartl
Carl-Henrik Heldin
Ari Helenius
Matthias W. Hentze
Christopher F. Higgins
Jonathan Hodgkin
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
Barbara Hohn
Tim Hunt
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research interestMechanisms of nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD) inmetazoansSpecification of pan-neuronal and subtype-specific features of a single interneuron in C. elegansAnalysis of Holliday junction processing in DNA repair-deficientcellsRegulation of the vesiculationprocess from Golgi membranesCharacterisation of a gene required for normal fertilisation inArabidopsisCharacterisation of a progenitorpool at the adult zebrafish midbrain–hindbrain boundary Implications of Rho GTPases in neuronal migrationDevelopmental control of apopto-sis and cell cycle exit by salvador,hippo and wartsRole of IRES in translation controlduring angiogenesis
Role of calcium in exocytosismechanismsCharacterisation of native chromatin fragments
Role of ribosome in folding of nascent peptide chains
Role of C. elegans protein phos-phatase 2A in the establishment of embryonic cell polarity Analysis of Rho GTPase signallingpathways in tumour cell movementThe evolution of neuronal connec-tivity in the fly sensory systemInvestigating crosstalk between the septation initiation network,the contractile actomyosin ring andpolarized growth in fission yeastRegulation of actin dynamics byEps8 proteinsStudy of neuroligins in mice as animal model for autism
home laboratoryEMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Institute of Developmental Biology, Marseille, France
University Blaise Pascal,Aubiere, France
UCSD, La Jolla, USA
UC-Davis, USA
IDG, Neuherberg, Germany
IGBMC, Strasbourg, France
ISDBC, Nice, France
F. Hoffmann-La Roche,Basel, Switzerland
INSERM, Paris, France
Institute of Human Genetics,CNRS UPR1142,Montpellier, FranceLaboratory of Molecular Genetics,Bordeaux, FranceCurie Institute, CNRS UMR144,Paris, France
CRBM, CNRS, Montpellier,FranceHHMI, Madison, USA
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
LEBS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
nameBehm-Ansmant,Isabelle
Bertrand,Vincent
Bleuyard,Jean-Yves
Bossard,CarineCapron,Arnaud
Chapouton,Prisca
Collin,LudovicColombani,Julien
Conte,Caroline
Darios,FrédéricDejardin,Jerome
Dos Reis,Suzana
Fievet,Bruno
Gadéa,GillesGompel,NicolasHachet,Olivier
Hertzog,MaudJamain,Stephane
nationality French
French
French
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French
French
French
French
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French
French
French
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French
French
French
host laboratoryEMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Columbia University,New York, USA
Cancer Research UK,South Mimms, UK
UCSD, La Jolla, USA
UC-Davis, USA
IDG, Neuherberg, Germany
MRC, London, UK
Cancer Research UK,London Research Institute, UK
INSERM U589,Toulouse, France
MRC, Cambridge, UK
Massachusetts GeneralHospital, Boston, USA
Biomedical Institute, Uppsala,Sweden
University of Cambridge, UK
Institute of Cancer Research,London, UKUniversity of Cambridge, UK
ISREC, Epalinges, Switzerland
FIRC Institute of MolecularOncology, Milan, ItalyMPI for Experimental Medicine,Göttingen, Germany
research interestDNA damage repair: Analysis of thefunctional role of the MRE11 com-plex during Adenovirus infectionDevelopment of techniques for the complete characterisation ofproteinsCharacterisation of the substratespecificity and the cellular functionof the SCF (Pof3)
Structural and functional basis forcoupling of ligand activation tochannel opening in the nicotinicacetylcholine receptor
Identification of novel factorsinvolved in non-homologous endjoining in human cellsRole of Notch Signalling in pluripo-tent stem cells of the mammaliangermlineComputational studies of proteindynamics and conformationalaveraging
Investigating transcriptional complexes and epigenetic changesat Notch target gene promoters
Cross-kingdom investigation of the mammalian retroviral silencingsuppressor Tas to identify con-served RNA silencing componentsQM/MM studies of solution-phaseand enzymatic reactionsStructure and dynamics in nativeand non-native states of proteins
Carbon partitioning and transport in plants
home laboratorySalk Institute of BiologicalStudies, La Jolla, USA
Uppsala University, Sweden
Cancer Research UK,London Research Institute, UK
HHMI, Columbia University,New York, USA
Rudjer Boskovic Institute,Zagreb, Croatia
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
ETH Hönggerberg,Zurich, Switzerland
University of Cambridge, UK
Institute of Molecular Biology,Copenhagen, Denmark
Chemical Centre,Lund, SwedenUniversity of Cambridge, UK
John Innes Centre,Norwich, UK
nameHetzer-Egger,Claudia
Köcher,Thomas
Mamnun,Yasmine Melanie
Ulens,Chris
Ahel,Ivan
Grskovic,Marica
Zagrovic,Bojan
Krejci,Alena
Brodersen,Peter
Jensen,KasperLindorff-Larsen,Kresten
Niittyla,Totte
nationality Austrian
Austrian
Austrian
Belgian
Croatian
Croatian
Croatian
Czech
Danish
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Danish
Finnish
host laboratorySalk Institute of BiologicalStudies, La Jolla, USA
Uppsala University, Sweden
Cancer Research UK,London Research Institute, UK
NKI, Amsterdam,The Netherlands
London Research Institute,South Mimms, UK
UCSF, San Francisco, USA
ETH Hönggerberg,Zurich, Switzerland
University of Cambridge, UK
Institut de la BiologieMoléculaire des Plantes duCNRS, Strasbourg, France
Yale University,New Haven, USAInstitute of Molecular Biology,Copenhagen, Denmark
Carnegie Institution ofWashington, Palo Alto, USA
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research interestRegulation of polyglutamine aggregation in a yeast model ofHuntington’s Disease: Influence ofageing and screen for new modulatorsProteinaceous and lipidic minimalrequirements for membrane fissionin vitro and in vivoGenomic architecture and evolu-tion in structured populations
Role of lipid microdomains in sorting and retrograde transport inspinal cord motor neuronsIdentification of physiological and physiopathological roles of Vav proteins in the cardiovascular systemBiochemical and biophysical analy-ses of the RNAi enzyme complexassembly and mode of actionMicrocompartmentation of signalling from G protein-coupledreceptorsCrystallographic studies ofriboswitches: RNA elements thatregulate gene expression.The PKB/Akt and DNA-PK connection in cellular responses to DNA damageComputer simulations of size control mechanisms during the cell cycle of S. pombeFunctional analysis of TRPM8,a new target in prostate cancerStudying FGF receptor signallingduring limb morphogenesis
Functional analysis of URI, a novelcomponent of the TOR signallingpathwayDeciphering receptor-like protein(RLP) function(s) in plant innateimmunity
home laboratoryCellular Genetics andBiochemistry Institute,Bordeaux, France
Institut Curie, Paris, France
Research Institute onDevelopment,Montpellier, FranceIGMM, Montpellier, France
Thorax Institute, INSERM U533,Nantes, France
Institute of FunctionalExploration of Genomes,Toulouse, FranceHHMI – UCSD, La Jolla, USA
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Friedrich Miescher Institute forBiomedical Research,Basel, SwiterlandInterdisciplinary Center forScientific Computing (IWR),Heidelberg, GermanyUniversity of Lille,Villeneuve d’Ascq, FranceInstitute of Genetics andMolecular Biology,Ilkirch, FranceETH Honggerberg,Zurich, Switzerland
University of Basel, Switzerland
nameRipaud,Leslie
Roux,Aurélien
Roze,Denis
Salinas,Sara
Sauzeau,Vincent
Seitz,Hervé
Terrillon,Sonia
Thore,Stephane
Tintignac,Lionel
Tournier,Alexander
van den Abeele,FabienVermot,Julien
Yart,Armelle
Zipfel,Cyril
nationality French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
host laboratoryMPI for Biochemistry,Martinsried, Germany
Yale School of Medicine,New Haven, USA
Institute of Cell, Animal andPopulation Biology,Edinburgh, UKCancer Research UK,London Research Institute, UK
Cancer Research Institute,Salamanca, Spain
University of MassachusettsMedical School, Worcester, USA
HHMI – UCSD, La Jolla, USA
Institute for Molecular Biologyand Biophysics,Zurich, SwitzerlandFriedrich Miescher Institute forBiomedical Research,Basel, SwitzerlandCancer Research UK,London, UK
Campus Gasthuisberg,Leuven, BelgiumCalifornia Institute ofTechnology, Pasadena, USA
ETH Honggerberg,Zurich, Switzerland
John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
research interestDistinctive features of Trk neuro-trophin transactivation by G protein-coupled receptorsComparative mapping of mimicrygenes in Heliconius butterfliesStudy of an ABC transporterinvolved in iron uptake inPseudomonas aeruginosaBacterial homologues of mammalian cocaine-sensitive neurotransmitter transporters:Structural and functional dynamicsMolecular links between the actincytoskeleton and the endocyticmachineryCellular and molecular analysis of the mechanisms involved inhierarchical choices in synapticspecificityRoles of cadherin-dependentcell–cell contacts in the control ofneural stem cell behaviourEctopic aire-expression and its rolein T-cell toleranceIn vivo structure/function relation-ships of the adapter protein: ADAP
A novel genetic screen to identifynew components of the Drosophilacircadian clockStudy of the molecular con-nections between caspase-8 and lymphocyte activationNuclear reorganisation of Hox clusters upon activation in ES cellsand in mouse embryosSearch for new intracellular components in the Toll pathwayand their involvement in innateimmune responses in DrosophilaMechanisms of early to late endosome transport. Role of sorting nexinsMolecular basis for tumour cellmigration across the endothelialbarrier
home laboratoryCentre Paul Broca,INSERM U573, Paris, France
University College London, UK
Biozentrum, University ofBasel, Switzerland
Laboratory of FunctionalGenomics, Montpellier, France
University of California,Berkeley, USA
Ecole Normale Supérieure,Paris, France
Institut du Fer à Moulin,Paris, France
Joslin Diabetes Center,Boston, USAINSERM U429, Paris, France
HHMI, Waltham, USA
IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, France
Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
IBMC, Strasbourg, France
University of Geneva,Switzerland
Cancer and ImmunologyInstitute of Marseille,INSERM U119, France
nameJeanneteau,Freddy
Joron,MathieuJournet,Laure
Kniazeff,Julie
Le Clainche,Christophe
Maro,Géraldine
Marthiens,Veronique
Martinic,MarianneMénasché,Gaël
Menet,Jerome
Michallet,Marie-Cecile
Morey,Celine
Pelte,Nadège
Pons,Véronique
Reymond,Nicolas
nationality French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
host laboratorySkirball Institute ofBiomolecular Medicine,New York, USAInstitute of Biology,Leiden, The NetherlandsESBS, Illkirch, France
The Panum Institute,Copenhagen, Denmark
University of California,Berkeley, USA
Stanford University, USA
University of Cambridge, UK
Joslin Diabetes Center,Boston, USAAbranson Family CancerResearch Institute,Philadelphia, USAHHMI, Waltham, USA
University of Lausanne,Epalinges, Switzerland
Western General Hospital,Edinburgh, UK
DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
University of Geneva,Switzerland
Ludwig Institute for CancerResearch, London, UK
country
Greece
85
countryGermany
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research interestAnalyses of the exosome and Rrp6p complexes in S. cerevisiaeNovel molecular and functionalaspects of membrane proteinmethylation – the model of plantaquaporins Regulation of cell adhesion, polar-ity and proliferation in mammalianepithelial cells by proteins of thecrumbs and discs large groupFunctional analysis of a novel family of sphingomyelin synthase-related proteinsFunctional reconstitution and characterisation of the mito-chondrial presequence proteintranslocase (TIM23/PAM Complex)Evolution of melanin patterning inDrosophila wingsMechanisms of CD4+ T cell help forcytotoxic CD8+ T cell
Expression and function of themicroRNA 2/13 gene family
Regulation of CIITA and MHC class II expression in thymic epithelial cellsDeciphering the molecular mechanisms through which thetumour suppressor LKB1 controlscellular polarityDeciphering gene regulatory pathways in the mechanosensorysystem in C. elegansStructural and biochemical studiesof brain specific non-messengerRNAs and their interaction with thetranslational machineryNeural circuitry of nociception inthe skin and visceraMechanisms of interneuron diversification in the mammalianspinal cord
home laboratoryMPI of Biophysical Chemistry,Göttingen, Germany
Institute of Botany,Darmstadt, Germany
MPI for Biochemistry,Martinsried, Germany
University of Hamburg,Germany
University of Groningen,The Netherlands
Umeå Centre for MolecularPathogenesis, Umeå, SwedenNetherlands Cancer Institute,Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Institute of Molecular Biology &Biotechnology,Heraklion, Crete, GreeceUniversity of Calgary,Alberta, Canada
IMBB, FORTH, Greece
IMBB, FORTH, Greece
University of Ioannina, Greece
IMBB, FORTH, Greece
Columbia University,New York, USA
nameSchneider,Claudia
Siefritz,Franka
Stucke,Volker Matthias
Ternes,Philipp
van der Laan,Martin
Werner,ThomasWolkers,Monika
Boutla,Alexandra
Eystathioy,Theophany
Hatzis,Pantelis
Topalidou,Irini
Tzakos,Andreas
Vrontou,SophiaZagoraiou,Laskaro
nationality German
German
German
German
German
German
German
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
host laboratoryUniversity of Edinburgh, UK
UMR Plant MolecularPhysiology and Biochemistry,Montpellier, France
University College London, UK
Utrecht University,The Netherlands
University of Freiburg, Germany
University of Wisconsin,Madison, USALa Jolla Institute for Allergy andImmunolgy, San Diego, USA
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
CMU, Switzerland
Royal Dutch Academy ofSciences,Utrecht, The Netherlands
Columbia University,New York, USA
MRC, Cambridge, UK
California Institute ofTechnology, Pasadena, USAColumbia University,New York, USA
research interestThe dynamics and evolution ofDrosophila transcription factorsand their regulatory interactionsIn vitro and in vivo analysis of retrograde MHC class II traffickingin dendritic cellsAssembly of the iron reducing machinery in Shewanella oneidensisMolecular interactions in type III secretionMolecular and functional analysisof period and cryptochrome complexes in the mammalian circadian clockCharacterisation of the nicotinicacid receptor: Desensitisationmechanisms and endogenous ligand searchSignal-mediated alternative splicing in Drosophila
Epigenome and RNAi
Insulin-induced changes in the phosphorylation pattern of the proteomeRegulation of cullin-based E3 ligases by the ubiquitin-like protein Nedd8/Rub1pBiosynthesis of iron-sulfur clustersin proteins: Biochemical and structural characterisation of thescaffold proteinsControl of CPEB mRNA translationin neurons by microRNAsDeterminants of target specificityof cytidine deaminases
Identification and characterisationof the sAPP receptor(s)
Signalling from the endocytic platform: Dissecting function ofAPPL proteins and their associatedsignalling pathways in vertebratedevelopment
home laboratoryMPI for Biophysical Chemistry,Göttingen, Germany
Institute du Fer à Moulin, Paris,France
University of Heidelberg,Germany
University of Freiburg, Germany
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Institute of Pharmacology,Heidelberg, Germany
Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland
Cancer Research UK,London, UKInstitute of PhysiologicalChemistry,Halle/Saale, GermanyInstitute of Biochemistry,Zurich, Switzerland
Institute of Microbiology,Braunschweig, Germany
University of MassachusettsMedical School, Worcester, USAInstitute of ExperimentalImmunology,Zurich, SwitzerlandBZH, Heidelberg, Germany
IGBMC, Strasbourg, France
nameAdryan,Boris
Alberts,Philipp
Dietrich,Lars
Eisner,GottfriedGatfield,David
Gille,Andreas
Hartmann,Britta
Hornig,NadineKrueger,Marcus
Kurz,Thimo
Layer,Gunhild
Nottrott,StephanieProbst,Hans Christian
Reinhard,Constanze
Schenck,Annette
nationality German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
host laboratoryMRC, Cambridge, UK
Yale University School ofMedicine, New Haven, USA
California Institute ofTechnology, Pasadena, USA
Biozentrum, University ofBasel, SwitzerlandScience III, University ofGeneva, Switzerland
Institute of Pharmacology,Heidelberg, Germany
ICREA Centre of GenomicRegulation (CGR),Barcelona, SpainIGB-CNR, Naples, Italy
CEBI, University of SouthernDenmark – Odense University,DenmarkInstitute of Biochemistry,Zurich, Switzerland
Biological Redox Centre,Grenoble, France
University of MassachusettsMedical School, Worcester, USAMRC, Cambridge, UK
Human Genetics/Laboratory for Neurobiology and GeneTransfer, Leuven, BelgiumMPI of Molecular Cell Biologyand Genetics,Dresden, Germany
countryItaly
TheNetherlands
Portugal
Spain
87
countryHungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
86
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research interestPre-synaptic terminal dynamics inthe adult primary somatosensorycortex in vivoThe perception of temperature inthe Drosophila brainLong-term changes in behaviour and synaptic plasticity followingsilencing of specific neuronal populations during development
Genetic analysis of RNA interfer-ence induced heterochromatinassembly in S. pombe using aninducible systemLarge-scale identification of targetsfor SUMO protein modification inplant innate immunityStructural and biochemical studiesof U2 snRNP components presentat the catalytic centre of thespliceosome
Role of Ca2+ in the cross-talkbetween the cell cycle and polarization in the Fucus zygoteActivity-dependent mechanismscontrolling GABAergic neurondevelopment during functional circuitry formationIdentification and characterisationof new genes required for dorsalclosure in D. melanogaster
Replication stalling and chromo-somal instability: The role of theBRCA2 breast cancer susceptibilityproteinCharacterisation of post-transcriptional regulation of theArabidopsis thaliana bZIP ABI5The role of PI3K isoforms in VEGF-receptor signalling andangiogenesishnRNP A1: Nucleo-cytoplasmicshuttling and cellular functions following stress signalling
home laboratoryFriedrich Miescher Institute forBiomedical Research, Basel,SwitzerlandWenner-Gren Institute,Stockholm University, SwedenEMBL, Monterotondo, Italy
University of Edinburgh, UK
Sainsbury Laboratory,Norwich, UK
Leiden University,The Netherlands
Biological Station of Roscoff,France
COSI, University of Torino,Orbassano, Italy
Skirball Institute, New York, USA
IRNAS, Seville, Spain
INIA, Madrid, Spain
Ludwig Institute for CancerResearch, London, UK
Western General Hospital,Edinburgh, UK
nameDe Paola,Vincenzo
Gallio,MarcoMaggi,Laura
Simmer,Femke
van den Burg,Harrold Alfred
van Roon,Anne-Marie M.
Coelho,Susana
Santos Da Silva,Jorge Pedro
Santos,Ana
Bernal,Juan A.
Catalá,Rafael
Graupera Garcia-Mila, Maria
Guil,Sonia
nationalityItalian
Italian
Italian
Dutch
Dutch
Dutch
Portuguese
Portuguese
Portuguese
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
host laboratoryCold Spring Harbor Laboratory,USA
University of California, SanDiego, La Jolla, USAEMBL, Monterotondo, Italy
University of Edinburgh, UK
Swammerdam Institute for LifeSciences, University ofAmsterdam, The NetherlandsMRC Laboratory of MolecularBiology, Cambridge, UK
Biological Station of Roscoff,France
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,USA
Gulbenkian Insitute of Science,Oeiras, Portugal
Hutchison/MRC ResearchCentre, Cambridge, UK
Rockefeller University,New York, USA
Ludwig Institute for CancerResearch, London, UK
Western General Hospital,Edinburgh, UK
research interestEvolution of gene dispensabilityand genetic interactions in metabolic network of yeastSpatial and temporal dynamics of cohesin loading and release invertebrate cells
In vivo functional analysis of theimportance of the aquaporin 4gene for astrocyte migration,in vitro and in vivo knockdown of genes important for astrocytefunction Rad26/CSB-mediated displace-ment of RNA polymerase II stalledat a DNA lesion
GABAergic interneurones: Mole-cular and cellular determinantsin cortical network oscillatorybehaviour
Identifying miRNA targets in C. ele-gans using biotinylated miRNAsNovel NMR methodologies forstudy of membrane proteinsNoise buffering in microbial development: Temporal variationsin the Bacillus subtilis sporulationprocessDissecting the roles of Tbx5 in vertebrate forelimb developmentThe molecular basis for structuralchanges during immunologicalsynapse formationEpigenetic regulation of transposable elements Chromatin remodelling during plant photomorphogenesisDevelopment of mass spectro-metry approaches for the analysisof RNA polymerase transcriptioncomplexesCharacterisation of the lymphaticvascular system in the zebrafishDanio rerio
home laboratoryEotvos Lorand University,Budapest, Hungary
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Yale University,New Haven, USA
Institute of Biotechnology,San Antonio, USA
University of Leeds, UK
Hadassah Medical School,Jerusalem, IsraelWeizmann Institute of Science,Rehovot, IsraelWeizmann Institute of Science,Rehovot, Israel
The Hebrew University,Jerusalem, IsraelCornell University, Ithaca, USA
University of Georgia, Athens,USATel Aviv University, Israel
University of Cambridge, UK
Hadassah Medical School,Jerusalem, Israel
nameCsaba,Pal
Lenart,Peter
Petersen,Petur
Sigurdsson,Stefan
Cunningham,Mark
Argaman,LironChill,JordanEldar,Avigdor
Hasson,PelegIlani,Tal
Kashkush,KhalilRon,MilySharon,Michal
Yaniv,Karina
nationality Hungarian
Hungarian
Icelandic
Icelandic
Irish
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
host laboratoryUniversity of Oxford, UK
IMP, Vienna, Austria
Centre for Molecular Biologyand Neuroscience,Oslo, Norway
London Research Institute,South Mimms, UK
University of Heidelberg,Germany
Hubrecht Laboratory,Utrecht, The NetherlandsNIH, Bethesda, USA
California Institute ofTechnology, Pasadena, USA
National Institute for MedicalResearch, London, UKCornell University,Ithaca, USA
University of Georgia,Athens, USAZoological Station, Naples, Italy
University of Cambridge, UK
NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, USA
country
UnitedKingdom
othernationalities
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countrySpain cont.
Sweden
Switzerland
88
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research interestIdentification and characterisationof oct4 expression determinantsPlasmacytoid versus conventionaldendritic cells: Induction of type Iinterferon by Toll-like receptor ligandsA chromosome conformationanalysis of the X inactivation centre in mouseIntegration of multiple extracellularcues in epithelial cell guidanceIdentification and characterisationof Parkin ubiquitin ligase complex(PUBLIC) in human brain
Is there a role for thrombospondinin critical period plasticity?The infection pathway of HIVobserved using single virus tracingDe novo DNA methylation and RNA silencingRole of epigenetic modifications in DNA repair, cell cycle and oncogenic transformationRegulation of de novo methylationand transposon silencing in germcellsModification-specific proteomics:Determining protein glycosylationheterogeneity and its effect on protein interactionsA transgenic RNAi screen to iden-tify novel factors affecting wiringspecificity in the Drosophila olfac-tory systemAntigen presentation in a complexviral infection
Role of FoxG1 in glioma tumorigenesisElucidating the molecular mechanisms of Epac signalling andregulationStructural basis for Herpesvirusentry: HSV-1 gD/Nectin-1αcomplex
home laboratoryISREC, Epalinges, Switzerland
Cancer Research UK,London Research Institute, UK
University of Zurich,Switzerland
Wenner Gren Institute,Stockholm University, SwedenCenter for NeurologicalDiseases, Boston, USA
Stanford University MedicalSchool, Stanford, USAUniversity of Oxford, UK
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
International Agency forResearch on Cancer,Lyon, FranceColumbia University,New York, USA
Macquarie University,Sydney, Australia
University of Sheffield, UK
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,Parkville, Australia
Weill Medical College of CornellUniversity, New York, USAUniversity of Texas, Dallas, USA
IRBM P. Angeletti, Pomezia, Italy
nameKaeser,MatthiasLeibundGut-Landmann,Salomé
Page,Damian
Senti,Kirsten-AndréWeihofen,Andreas
Allen,NicolaBriggs,JohnHenderson,IanLoizou,Joanna
Ooi,Steen
Selby,David
Shivdasani,Anish
Smith,Christopher
Darken,RachelHarper,Shannon
Luftig,Micah
nationality Swiss
Swiss
Swiss
Swiss
Swiss
British
British
British
British
British
British
British
British
American
American
American
host laboratoryThe Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA
Cancer Research UK,London Research Institute, UK
Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Wenner Gren Institute,Stockholm University, SwedenCenter for NeurologicDiseases, Boston, USA
Stanford University MedicalSchool, USALMU of Munich, Germany
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
International Agency forResearch on Cancer,Lyon, FranceColumbia University,New York, USA
University of SouthernDenmark, Odense, Denmark
IMBA, Vienna, Austria
University of Cambridge, UK
Vall d’Hebron ResearchInstitute, Barcelona, SpainUniversity Medical Center,Utrecht, The Netherlands
IRBM P. Angeletti, Pomezia, Italy
research interestAnalysis of early events in the DNAdamage response
Functional genomics relating to the biosynthesis of trypanosomeglycoconjugatesNMR cross-correlation and 13Cdirect detection to address signaltransduction in CutA1 proteinsStructure-based prediction of the energetics of protein-nucleicacid complexesFunctional characterisation of anovel C-type lectin receptor differ-entially expressed in CD8α+ dendritic cells
Glutamate signalling in dopaminergic cells:A trigger for drug addiction?Role of programmed cell deathduring neurulation and in the pathogenesis of neural tubedefectsGenetic analysis of retrograde signalling in Chlamydomonasusing FLPs (FLU-like proteins)Regulation of gene expression and function in neuronal andhematopoietic stem cellsStructural and molecular studies of the intracellular chloride channel(CLIC) familyStructural studies of the RNA poly-merase II transcription machinery:Mechanism of start-site selection
A forward genetic screen to identify genes that regulate musclestem cell biology in zebrafish (Danio rerio)The role of the Rdp1 complex inRNAi-mediated heterochromatinassembly and its possible link tononsense surveillanceMechanism of chaperone-assistedco-translational protein folding
home laboratoryUniversity of Seville, Spain
MSI/WTB Complex, School ofLife Sciences, University ofDundee, UKUniversity of Valencia, Burjasot,Valencia, Spain
University of Basel, Switzerland
Hospital de La Princesa,Madrid, Spain
DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
Karolinska Institute,Stockholm, Sweden
Arrhenius Laboratories,Stockholm University, Sweden
Lund Stem Cell Center,Lund, Sweden
Imperial College London, UK
Karolinska Institute,Huddinge, Sweden
Institute of Zoology,Zurich, Switzerland
Institute of Cell Biology,Bern, Switzerland
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
nameHuertas,Pablo
Izquierdo,Luis
Jiménez,Beatriz
Sánchez,Ignacio Enrique
Sancho Madrid,David
Engblom,David
Gustavsson,Peter
Heddad Masson,Mounia
Holm,Pontus
Jormakka,Mika
Spåhr,Henrik
Berset,Thomas
Bühler,Marc
Fiaux,Jocelyne
nationalitySpanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Swedish
Swedish
Swedish
Swedish
Swedish
Swedish
Swiss
Swiss
Swiss
host laboratoryThe Wellcome Trust/CancerResearch UK, Gurdon Institute,Cambridge, UKUniversity of Dundee, UK
University of Florence,Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Cancer Research UK,London, UK
DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
University College London, UK
University of Geneva,Switzerland
Institute of Stem Cell Research,Neuherberg/Munich, Germany
University of New South Wales,Sydney, Australia
Stanford University,San Francisco, USA
Victor Chang Cardiac ResearchInstitute, Sydney, Australia
Department of Cell Biology,Boston, USA
University of Heidelberg,Germany
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research interestRole of HCF-1 in cell-cycle progres-sion through association with E2Ftranscriptional regulatorsAnalysing different mechanisms ofcyclin A and B destruction
Genetic analysis of the FLRT familyof transmembrane proteins puta-tive co-receptors of fibroblastgrowth factor receptorsNop15p: A link between ribosome biosynthesis and cellcycle progression in S. cerevisiae?Mechanisms of neuronal differentiation The oxidative stress proteome ofplant mitochondria: Identifying proteins sensitive to the productsof lipid peroxidationRole of early endosomes in synaptic vesicle cyclingThe role of TIP48 and TIP49 in vivo:C/EBPα connection and mousemodelsHoxd13 as a model of trinucleotiderepeat expansion diseasesStructure–function analysis ofcomplexes of Nab2 and Sus1important in co-ordinating thegene expression machinery
home laboratoryCold Spring Harbor Laboratory,USA
Okinawa Institute of Scienceand Technology,Gushikawa, Okinawa, JapanChiba University,Chuo-ku, Japan
Institute of BiophysicalChemistry, Paris, France
COSI, University of Torino,Orbassano, ItalyThe University of WesternAustralia, Perth, Australia
University of Colorado HealthSciences Center, Denver, USAEMBL, Monterotondo, Italy
MDC for Molecular Medicine,Berlin, GermanyOsaka University,Osaka, Japan
nameTyagi,Shweta
Mochida,Satoru
Yamagishi,Satoru
El Hage,Aziz
Calderon de Anda,FroylanTaylor,Staffan
Rizzoli,SilvioBereshchenko,Oksana
Soshnikova,NataliaLee,Soo Jae
nationality Indian
Japanese
Japanese
Lebanese
Mexican
New Zealander
Romanian
Russian
Russian
South Korean
host laboratoryUniversity of Lausanne,Switzerland
Cancer Research UK, Herts, UK
MPI of Neurobiology,Martinsried, Germany
Institute of Cell and MolecularBiology, Edinburgh, UK
COSI, University of Torino,Orbassano, ItalyUniversity of Oxford, UK
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry,Göttingen, GermanyEMBL, Monterotondo, Italy
University of Geneva,SwitzerlandMRC, Cambridge, UK
research interestElucidating a novel signalling pathway implicated in Vav1 arginine methylation: Role in T-cellexpansion and differentiationA screen for Dpp/TGF-ß andWg/Wnt targets involved in cellmigrationAntigen presentation and T cell-mediated immunity:Membrane trafficking during cross-presentationStructural studies of the type IIIsecretion system of ShigellaflexneriThe role of DNA methylation-dependent chromatin remodellingin activity-regulated neuronal geneexpressionProteomics of mitotic kinases inthe flyUnderstanding the function of ras-associating domain-containingproteins in processes related tocancerNovel epigenetic mechanismsinvolved in imprinted gene regula-tionInvestigating the role of the extracellular signal regulatedkinase (ERK) pathway in the cellular and behavioral responsesto drugs of abuseStructural studies of translation initiation in eukaryotesEvaluating the activity-dependenceof synapse elimination at an identi-fied central synapseIntegrin-dependent signallingevents in Schwann cells involved inaxonal sorting and myelinationAnalysing the functions of AP-1 inliver carcinogenesisStructural analysis of HIV/EIAV-encoded transcriptional activatorTat in complex with cyclin T1 andTAR-RNA
home laboratoryUCSD, La Jolla, USA
Columbia University,New York, USA
Curie Institute, INSERM U.365,Paris, France
University of Sydney, Australia
Babraham Institute,Cambridge, UK
The Rockefeller University,New York, USAMcGill University,Montreal, Canada
McGill University,Montreal, Canada
University of Michigan,Ann Arbor, USA
Yale University,New Haven, USAUniversity College London, UK
University of Edinburgh, UK
IMP, Vienna, Austria
Aventis Pharma Deutschland,Frankfurt, Germany
nameSchurter,Brandon
Shaye,Daniel
Savina,Ariel Edgardo
Deane,Janet
Tkachev,Dmitri
Archambault,VincentDubé,Nadia
Lucifero,Diana
Samaha,Anne-Noël
Schmeing,Thomas MartinWatt,Alanna
Court,Felipe
Hui,LijianAnand,Kanchan
nationality American
American
Argentinian
Australian
Belarusian
Canadian
Canadian
Canadian
Canadian
Canadian
Canadian
Chilean
Chinese
Indian
host laboratoryPasteur Institute, Paris, France
IBMB, Barcelona, Spain
Curie Institute, INSERM U365,Paris, France
University of Oxford, UK
University of Heidelberg,Germany
University of Cambridge, UK
University Medical CenterUtrecht, The Netherlands
The Babraham Institute,Cambridge, UK
University Pierre and MarieCurie, Paris, France
MRC, Cambridge, UK
University College London, UK
San Raffaele Scientific Institute,Milan, Italy
IMP, Vienna, Austria
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
year appl. awards success rate %
1977 236 94 40
1978 235 101 43
1979 254 101 40
1980 242 108 45
1981 274 111 41
1982 276 91 33
1983 294 103 35
1984 305 112 37
1985 340 92 27
1986 333 90 27
1987 383 120 31
1988 455 141 31
1989 460 118 26
1990 526 123 23
1991 571 139 24
1992 626 142 23
1993 739 199 27
1994 806 176 22
1995 877 147 17
1996 898 160 18
1997 831 185 22
1998 790 144 18
1999 830 170 20
2000 707 155 22
2001 645 147 23
2002 789 178 22
2003 1080 164 15
2004 1137 163 15
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country from applications % of total awards % of total success rate %
Austria 67 1.54 19 2.35 28
Belgium 71 1.63 10 1.24 14
Croatia 20 0.46 4 0.50 20
Czech Republic 37 0.85 7 0.87 19
Denmark 53 1.22 11 1.36 21
Finland 49 1.13 10 1.24 20
France 909 20.90 172 21.31 19
Germany 489 11.24 116 14.37 24
Greece 92 2.12 25 3.10 27
Hungary 50 1.15 11 1.36 22
Iceland 10 0.23 2 0.25 20
Ireland 47 1.08 6 0.74 13
Israel 231 5.31 39 4.83 17
Italy 294 6.76 43 5.33 15
Netherlands 159 3.66 44 5.45 28
Norway 10 0.23 1 0.12 10
Poland 38 0.87 6 0.74 16
Portugal 58 1.33 19 2.35 33
Slovenia 5 0.11 0 0 –
Spain 513 11.80 81 10.04 16
Sweden 184 4.23 25 3.10 14
Switzerland 75 1.72 26 3.22 35
Turkey 26 0.60 1 0.12 4
United Kingdom 250 5.75 30 3.72 12
Eastern Europe 110 2.53 9 1.12 8
USA/Canada 186 4.28 41 5.08 22
others 316 7.27 49 6.07 16
total 4349 100 807 100 19
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awards
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countryDenmark
Finland
France
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research interestIn vivo studies of retroviral RNAdimerisation by real-time singleRNA molecule detectionInvestigation of the dynamicassembly of the androgen receptortranscription complex in responseto DNA damage by ChIP assays
Isolation and culturing of neonatalmouse cardiomyocytes for study-ing palladin and myotilin in normaland diseased cells
Elucidation of the mechanisms bywhich NK cells influence CD4 T-celldifferentiation in mice infected with the intracellular parasiteLeishmania majorEffect of yeast RNA polymerase IImutants on transcription coupledrepairIdentification and characterisationof Brucella secreted effectors regulated by a quorum sensingtranscriptional regulatorCharacterisation of VGLUT3,an atypical vesicular glutamate transporterEffect of an ectopic expression ofthe nerve growth factor receptorTrkA on the plasticity and survivalof adult rat striatal neuronsThe functional significance of factor I mutations in patients withAtypical Haemolytic Uraemic SyndromeMolecular basis of the geneticassociation of a SNP in an intron-splicing site of the CHRNA1autoantigen gene, in autoimmuneMyasthenia gravisA microscopic model descriptionof Listeria monocytogenes motilityIdentification of new proteins implicated in the signalling pathway of NK2 receptor by atranslocation assay
home laboratoryUniversity of Aarhus, Denmark
Institute of Cancer Research,Sutton, UK
University of Helsinki, Finland
Institute of Molecular andCellular Pharmacology,Valbonnes, France
Joliot-Curie,Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Faculty Notre Dame de la Paix,Namur, Belgium
INSERM U513, Créteil, France
University Hospital Centre,Nantes, France
European Hospital GeorgesPompidou, Paris, France
Necker Hospital, Paris, France
University Paris 7 - DenisDiderot, Paris, FranceCNRS, Illkirch, France
name Rasmussen,Søren
Schroeder Mantoni,Tine
Palokangas,Veera
Bajenoff,Marc
Beckoüet,Frèdèric
Bonnot,Sophie
Bournaud,Margot
Brachet,Philippe
Frémeaux-Bacchi,Véronique
Giraud,Matthieu
Gregoire,GuillaumeLecat,Sandra
nationalityDanish
Danish
Finnish
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
host laboratoryCNRS, Montpellier, France
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
King’s College, London, UK
NIAID, Bethesda, USA
Medical School CardiffUniversity, UK
University of theMediterranean, Marseille,France
MPI for Experimental Medicine,Göttingen, Germany
University of Patras, Greece
University of Newcastle, UK
ICGEB, Trieste, Italy
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
countryAustria
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
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research interestTranslation of leaderless mRNA by protein-deficient ribosomes:A glimpse of the pastLoss of JunB turns cdk6 from a tumour suppressor to a tumourpromoterAnalysis of virus-receptor inter-actions with NMR techniques
Ligand screening of natural plant compounds as selectiveestrogen/orphan receptor modifiers and exploration of their(non)genomic hormone activitiesAnalysis of adhesion and invasivegrowth of C. albicans mutants in areconstituted human tissue-culturesystemInducible insertion of modified precursors in the cell wall of rod-shaped and spherical lacticacid bacteria: A fluorescent studyGC-MS metabolic profiling of xylem extracts from Arabidopsisplants with altered monolignolbiosynthesis
Role of ASAP1 in the EGF receptorrecycling
Cell biology of Fransicella tularen-sis in macrophagesPhysical mapping of the 3B chromosomes from hexaploidbread wheatSpliceosomal snRNP dynamics
The expression profiling of “embryonic” genes duringXenopus laevis development by real-time PCR analysis
home laboratoryInstitute for Microbiology andGenetics, Vienna, Austria
Medical University of Vienna,Austria
Institute of Biochemistry,Vienna, Austria
University of Gent, Belgium
Flemish Institute forBiotechnology, Leuven, Belgium
Catholic University of Louvain,Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Flanders Interuniversity,Gent, Belgium
University of Split, Croatia
Charles University,Hradec Kralove, Czech RepublicInstitute of ExperimentalBotany,Olomouc, Czech RepublicCharles University, Prague,Czech Republic
Institute of Molecular GeneticsAV CR, Prague, Czech Republic
nameMoll,Isabella
Ott,René Georg
Wruss,Jürgen
De Naeyer,An
De Rop,Larissa
Deghorain,Marie
Morreel,Kris
Terzic,Janos
Andelova,HanaBartos,Jan
Cvackova,Zuzana
Sindelka,Radek
nationality Austrian
Austrian
Austrian
Belgian
Belgian
Belgian
Belgian
Croatian
Czech
Czech
Czech
Czech
host laboratoryMPI for Molecular Genetics,Berlin, Germany
CNIO, Madrid, Spain
University of Lübeck, Germany
Karolinska Institute,Stockholm, Sweden
Fraunhofer Institute, IGB,Stuttgart, Germany
University of Oxford, UK
MPI for Molecular PlantPhysiology, Golm, Germany
Goethe University MedicalSchool, Frankfurt, Germany
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
UMR INRA-UBP,Clermont-Ferrand, France
MPI of Molecular Cell Biologyand Genetics,Dresden, GermanyChalmers University ofTechnology, Göteborg, Sweden
countryGreece
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research interestFunctional characterisation of neural and glial TAG-1 in myelinated fibersMolecular and physiological analy-sis of carbonic anhydrase isoformsin Lotus janponicus root noodlesTranscriptional profiling ofDrosophila conditional lethal insertion mutantsConditional inactivation of the cell cycle inhibitor Geminin:Electroporation of ES cells with aGeminin-LoxP construct, selectionof positive clones and blastocystinjectionsProteomics of GLUT4 and associ-ated proteins: Identification ofGLUT4 phosphorylation sites and characterisation of proteinsassociated with GLUT4 by massspectrometryOligomerisation state and structure-function relationships of the inner nuclear membraneprotein LBRCell signalling in Dictyosteliumdevelopment and differentiationSubcellular localisation of the Arabidopsis TRH1 K+ transporterand quantitative gene expressionanalysis in root hair defectivemutantsClarification of the function ofBM88, a neurogenic molecule, bythe generation of knockout miceDifferentiation of GABAAreceptor function and pharma-cology between dorsal and ventral hippocampusMapping the contact interface ofHIV gp120 V3 and CD4+ T-cell CCR5 N-terminal peptides throughNMR spectroscopy: Implications forHIV inhibitor designFerritin-dependent neurodegener-ation in D. melanogasterInvestigating the role of RAD51 paralogues in telomere mainte-nance
home laboratoryIMBB, Heraklion, Greece
Agricultural University ofAthens, Greece
IMBB FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
University of Patras, Greece
Autonomous University ofMadrid, Spain
University of Ioannina, Greece
Mycology ReferenceLaboratory, Athens, GreeceAgricultural University ofAthens, Greece
Hellenic Pasteur Institute,Athens, Greece
University of Patras, Greece
University of Patras, Greece
BSRC “Alexander Fleming”,Vari, GreeceClare Hall Laboratories,South Mimms, UK
name Bessa,Maria
Emmanouil,Flemetakis
Kiupakis,Alexandros
Kotantaki,Panorea
Lalioti,Vassiliki
Liokatis,Stamatios
Papavasileiou,DimitrisRigas,Stamatis
Sergaki,Maria Christina
Sotirou,Evangelos
Spyroulias,Georgios
Stylianos,KosmidisTarsounas,Madalena
nationality Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek
host laboratoryInstitut du Fer à Moulin,Paris, France
MPI for Molecular PlantPhysiology, Golm, Germany
University of Cambridge, UK
National Institute for MedicalResearch, London, UK
Gent University, Belgium
University of Basel, Switzerland
MRC, Cambridge, UK
University of Freiburg, Germany
NIMR, London, UK
Lund University, Sweden
University of Florence, Italy
Regensburg University,GermanyCNIO, Madrid, Spain
countryFrance cont.
Germany
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research interestStudy of a kinetochore componentin S. cerevisiae, its mutation effectin mitotic spindle and in SPB maturationMapping of phosphorylation sites in E. coli RNAse E by the bacteriophage T7 protein kinase
In vivo characterisation of protein–protein interactionsbetween the AP-1 transcriptionactivator proteins c-Fos and c-Junwith fluorescence resonanceenergy transfer (FRET)Functional characterisation of theyeast ABC transporter Pdr5p byrational mutagenesis and in vivolabellingPyrene G-actin polymerizationinduced by pure Golgi membranesGeneration of mice deficient forZFP36L2/Tis11DDevelopment of a real-time-PCR-based assay for quantitative detection of lactobacilli as a toolfor the analysis of biocoenosis offermentative bacteria within grass silagesTelomere-binding proteins and the G-quadruplex structure in themacronucleus of Stylonychia lemnaeCharacterisation of replication andbudding sites of LaCrosse bunya-virus by immuno-electronmicro-scopy and in-situ-hybridisationLocalisation and regulation ofTRPM6Do the microphthalmia-associatedtranscription factor (MITF) and β-catenin interact on Mitf targetpromotersIdentification and characterisationof protein complexes associatedwith IRSp53Effects of the receptor tyrosinekinase alk on vertebrate myotubeformation
home laboratoryInstitute Curie, Paris, France
IBCG, Toulouse, France
DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
Johann W. Goethe University ,Frankfurt, Germany
University of Barcelona, Spain
Charité, Berlin, Germany
Insitute for AgricultureTechnique Bornim e.V,Potsdam, Germany
University of Witten/Herdecke,Germany
University of Freiburg, Germany
Philipps-University,Marburg, GermanyUniversity of Iceland,Reykjavik, Iceland
GBF, Braunschweig, Germany
Philipps-University,Marburg, Germany
name Romao,Maryse
Toesca,Isabelle
Baudendistel,Nina
Ernst,Robert
Fritz,StefanGrütz,GeraldKlocke,Michael
Paeschke,Katrin
Reichelt,Mike
Sassen,Martin ChristianSchepsky,Alexander
Steffen,Anika
Stute,Christiana
nationality French
French
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
German
host laboratoryEMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
University of Cambridge, UK
Research Center for MolecularMedicine, Debrecen, Hungary
Medical University,Vienna, Austria
CNRS, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
MRC, Cambridge, UK
Teagasc Crops ResearchCentre Oak Park,Carlow, Ireland
MRC, Cambridge, UK
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Aarhus University, Denmark
Marie Curie Research Institute,Oxted, UK
FIRC Institute of MolecularOncology, Milan, Italy
Umea University, Sweden
country
Italy
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research interestInvolvement of nitric oxide in thecaspase-dependent terminal differentiation of human epidermalkeratinocytesThe role of lamina-associated pro-teins in nuclear lamin assembly
Identifying gene variants predisposing to multiple sclerosisRole of leptin in the mammary gland: Analysis of theleptin-activated JAK/STAT pathwayCharacterisation of epigeneticmodification in tumour suppressorgenesStudy of the functional role of IF1,the mitochondrial ATPase inhibitorprotein, in physiological and pathological conditionsAnalysis by FRET and FRAP of protein-protein interactions anddynamics involving mammaliancleavage factor I (CFlm)Functional screening of nef allelesderived from vertically infectedchildren with different modality ofdisease progressionMass spectrometric analyses ofpost-translational modification ofhypoxiainducible factor 1Cell wall characterisation of Ara-bidopsis thaliana plants expressinga fungal polygalacturonaseStoichiometry of nAchR α3β4
Functional characterisation ofATHB-1, a transcription factorrelated to plant responses to abiotic stressesStructural characterisation of thefunctional hetero-conformationalMad2 oligomerisationIn vitro reconstitution of repressedchromatin in yeastAnalysis of the transposition activity of bari1 transposon in heterologous cellular systems
home laboratoryTel Aviv University, Israel
Hebrew University,Jerusalem, Israel
University of Milan, Italy
University of Turin, Italy
Laboratory of MolecularOncology, Palermo, Italy
ICSI, Ferrara, Italy
University of Milan Bicocca,Italy
University of Rome “TorVergata”, Italy
IRCC, Turin, Italy
University of Rome “LaSapienza”, Italy
University of Florence, Italy
INRAN, Rome, Italy
European Institute of Oncology,Milan, Italy
University of Geneva,SwitzerlandUniversity of Bari, Italy
name Weil,Miguel
Wiesel,Naama
Asselta,RosannaBaratta,Mario
Cammareri,Patrizia
Campanella,Michelangelo
Cardinale,Stefano
Casartelli,Nicoletta
Conrotto,Paolo
Galletti,Roberta
Hofmann,GiovannaLucchetti,Sabrina
Mapelli,Marina
Martino,FabrizioMassimilianoMarsano, René
nationality Israeli
Israeli
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
host laboratoryUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata,Italy
DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
University of Helsinki, Finland
Institute for BiomedicalResearch, Frankfurt, Germany
CNIO, Madrid, Spain
University College London, UK
University of Dundee, UK
University of Heidelberg,Germany
Ludwig Institute for CancerResearch, Uppsala, Sweden
INRA, Versailles, France
University College London, UK
INIA, Madrid, Spain
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
MRC, Cambridge, UK
MDC for Molecular Medicine,Berlin, Germany
countryGreece cont.
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
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research interestMechanisms of disruption of intracellular calcium levels by theHCV NS5A protein
Structural biology insights intomechanism and evolution of catalysis by dUTPaseDetailed characterisation ofDrosophila dUTPase by advancedNMR techniqueInsulin resistance, cardiovascularrisk. Studies on genetically modified mouse modelsStructural flexibility of in vitroreconstituted LHCIIMAPKs in Arabidopsis flagellin signalling
Computational modelling of DNAreplication control in the fissionyeast cell cycle
Cross-talk between signalling pathways in hES cells
Determination of transcription factor target genes involved inneural developmentLineage relations of radial glia andtheir progeny in the developing rat spinal cord
Analysing the molecular function of Axin and Dsh in the β-catenindegradation complexGenomic location of the RFC-likecomplexes in the yeast S. cere-visiae, and their role in DNA repli-cationThe effect of inhibition of NF-κB activity on pancreatic isletssurvival following transplantationFinding the mammalian target ofnewly discovered EHEC toxins bytwo-hybrid systemHalofuginone, a collagen type Iinhibitor, affects hepatic stellatecell survival and proliferation
home laboratoryHellenic Pasteur Institute,Athens, Greece
Institute of Enzymology,Budapest, Hungary
Eötvös Loránd University,Budapest, Hungary
University of Cambridge, UK
Hungarian Academy ofSciences, Szeged, HungaryBudapest University ofTechnology,HungaryBudapest University ofTechnology, Hungary
Ludwig Institute for CancerResearch, Uppsala, Sweden
IMBB, Heraklion, Greece
Biosciences Institute,Cork, Ireland
Sackler School of Medicine,Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Hadassah University Hospital,Jerusalem, Israel
The Hebrew University Facultyof Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine,Haifa, Israel
nameKalamvoki,Maria
Barabás,Orsolya
Gáspári,Zoltán
Kis,Adrienn
Kiss,AnettMeszaros,Tamas
Novák,Béla
Valdimarsdottir,Gudrun
Fullard,John
McMahon,Siobhan
Arbesfeld,Rina
Ben-Aroya,Shay
Eldor,Roy
Simovitch,Michal
Spira,Gadi
nationalityGreek
Hungarian
Hungarian
Hungarian
Hungarian
Hungarian
Hungarian
Icelandic
Irish
Irish
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
Israeli
host laboratoryUniversity of Ferrara, Italy
EMBL, Hamburg, Germany
University of Helsinki, Finland
Lausanne University,Switzerland
Johannes Gutenberg Universityof Mainz, GermanyUniversity of London, London,UK
Cancer Research UK, London,UK
Ubrecht Laboratory NIOB,The Netherlands
Fred Hutchinson CancerResearch Center, Seattle, USA
Columbia University College ofPhysicians & Surgeons,New York, USA
MRC, Cambridge, UK
Institute Curie, Paris, France
Hospital Cochin-Saint-Vincentde Paul, Paris, France
Imperial College, London, UK
Southampton General Hospital,UK
country
Poland
Slovenia
Spain
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research interestTranscriptional analysis of the earlyleaf senescence mutant old9Elucidation of the crystal structureof the main proteinase oftoroviruses
Inhibition of amyloidogenic aggregates by small molecules
Detection and assessment of minimal residual disease in ALLpatientsMolecular organisation of polyeneantibiotic Amphotericin B in lipidmembranes: A research by LinearDichroism in Infrared Spectroscopy A hybrid quantum mechanics–molecular mechanics approach tothe study of bleomycin activityDevelopment of a new protocol forthe efficient optimization of pro-tein–protein encounter complexes20S proteasome function and composition in chemosensitiveand resistant melanomasPurification of proteins binding to the 3’ ends of mitochondrial transcriptsFunctional genomics analysis of Drosophila innate immuneresponse
Cellular studies of toxic phospholipases A2Molecular mechanisms of thecAMP-dependent activation ofmammalian lanosterol 14a-demethylase gene CYP51Isolation of host cell proteaseinvolved in processing of C. difficile toxin B (TcdB)
Role of LAT as a platform for intracellular signalling
Determinants of KcsA stability inlipid membranes
home laboratoryUniversity of Groningen,Haren, The NetherandsUtrecht University,The Netherlands
Warsaw University, Poland
Polish Academy of Sciences,Poznan, Poland
Agricultural University,Lublin, Poland
Leiden University,The Netherlands
Jagiellonian University,Kraków, Poland
Centre of BiostructuralResearch, Warsaw, Poland
Insitute of Molecular Biology,Poznan, Poland
Marie Curie-SklodowskaUniversity, Lublin, Poland
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana,SloveniaUniversity of Ljubljana,Ljubljana, Slovenia
University of Ljubljana,Ljubljana, Slovenia
University of Murcia, Spain
Universidad Miguel Hernandez,Alicante, Spain
name Schippers,JosSmits,Saskia
Banachewicz,Wiktor
Dawidowska,Malgorzata
Gagos,Mariusz
Karawajczyk,Anna
Król,Marcin
Mlynarczuk-Bialy,Izabela Dominika
Raczynska,Katarzyna
Wojda,Iwona
Pungercar,JozeRozman,Damjana
Rupnik,Maja
Aguado,Enrique
Barrera Olivares,Francisco
nationalityDutch
Dutch
Polish
Polish
Polish
Polish
Polish
Polish
Polish
Polish
Slovenian
Slovenian
Slovenian
Spanish
Spanish
host laboratoryUniversity of Warwick, UK
University of Lubeck, Germany
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
University Medical CenterRotterdam, The Netherlands
ITC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Federal Polytechnic School ofLausanne, Switzerland
Cancer Research UK,London, UK
Charite Medical School,Berlin, Germany
CNRS, Strasbourg, France
CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
University of Milan, Italy
IGBMC, Strasbourg, France
Insitute for MedicalMicrobiology and Hygiene,Mainz, Germany
Immunology Centre ofMarseille-Luminy, INSERM-CNRS, Marseille, FranceUtrecht University,The Netherlands
countryItaly cont.
TheNetherlands
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research interestComputational genomics analysisof the gene duplication process inthe urochordate Ciona intestinalisApplication of new refoldingmethodologies to human andmouse neurotrophineInfluence of an imprinted YACtransgene on expression of genesflanking its integration siteHigh-resolution structural andreplicative analysis of the commonfragile site FRA6E, in normal andtumoural samples, by molecularcombingProtein folding kinetics investi-gated by molecular dynamics simulations of reversible foldingand experimentsAlpha-synuclein involvement inplasticity of the nervous systemStructural biology of polyketideantibiotic crystallisation withrobotic technologyIsolation and characterisation ofgenes involved in adaptations tofree-living and symbiotic lifestylesof polynucleobacter bacteriaHow the suppression of Frataxinextends C. elegans lifespanHow does β-defensin-like antimi-crobial peptide hepcidin modulatethe expression of iron metabolismgenes?Analysis of the role of Pbx1 in theproliferation and terminal differen-tiation of chondrocyte precursorsusing micromass mesenchymecultures from Pbx1–/– mutant mice
Genetically modified Lactococcuslactis secreting IL-10;a therapeutic approach for inflammatory bowel diseaseThe role of Epac/Rap signalling inendothelial cell-cell adhesion
home laboratoryStazione Zoologica A. Dohrn,Napoli, Italy
SISSA/ISAS, Trieste, Italy
Second University of Naples,Italy
University of Padova, Italy
University of Zurich,Switzerland
University of Cambridge, UK
University of Rome “LaSapienza”, Italy
University of Pisa, Italy
University of Rome “TorVergata”, Rome, ItalyBurlo Garofolo IRCCS, Trieste,Italy
University of Modena, Italy
Academic Medical Centre,Amsterdam, The Netherlands
University Medical CentreUtrecht, The Netherlands
name Matassi,Giorgio
Paoletti,Francesca
Riccio,Andrea
Russo,Antonella
Settanni,Giovanni
Spillantini,Maria GraziaVallone,Beatrice
Vannini,Claudia
Ventura,NatasciaVerga Falzacappa,Maria Vittoria
Zappavigna,Vincenzo
Huibregtse,Inge
Kooistra,Matthijs
nationalityItalian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Italian
Dutch
Dutch
host laboratoryUniversity of Cambridge, UK
Institute of Biotechnology,Halle, Germany
The Babraham Institute,Cambridge, UK
Institute Pasteur, Paris France
MRC Centre for ProteinEngineering, Cambridge, UK
University of Florence, Italy
University of Cambridge, UK
Technical University Munich,Germany
University of Colorado,Boulder, USAEMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Institute of Genetic Medicine,New York, USA
Gent University, Belgium
FIRC Institute of MolecularOncology, Milan, Italy
country
Sweden
Switzerland
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research interestRetinal ganglion cell axonal regeneration promoted by olfac-tory ensheathing glia: Determiningthe implication of BDNF throughthe employment of cellular popula-tions derived from the transgenicmice trkB shc/shc and trkB plcy/plcyImporting glutaredoxin 2 of S. cerevisiae into mitochondria:Mechanism and regulationFluorescence studies on micro-heterogeneity in biological systemsSearching the nuclear import routeof the major parvovirus minutevirus of mice capsid protein
The apical localisation of GLUT2 in intestinal absorbing cells:Respective roles of dietary sugarand insulinReciprocal regulation beween NOand HIF-1a activity in different celltypesStudy of the inner ear expressionpattern of the DFNA44 gene andprotein
DNA-binding properties of homeodomain proteins studied by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
In vivo detection of prion proteinRNA partners by CLIPFunctional role of epithelium penetrating dendrites of mucosaldendritic cellsCloning and characterisation of target vaccine antigens for thetreatment of invasive aspergillosisShining light on the photoreceptorsynapse: Enhancer trap screen inzebrafish
home laboratoryUAM, Madrid, Spain
University of Cordoba, Spain
University Miguel Hernandez,Elche, SpainCSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain
University of Salamanca, Spain
Health Institute Carlos III,Madrid, Spain
Hospital Ramón y Cajal,Madrid, Spain
Karolinska Institute,Stockholm, Sweden
University of Padova, Italy
CERVI IFR, INSERM 74,Lyon, France
SIAF, Davos Platz, Switzerland
University of Zurich,Switzerland
namePastrana Izquierdo,Erika
Porras Millán,Pablo
Poveda Larrosa,Jose AntonioRiolobos,Laura
Rodriguez Romero,Marta
Zeini Moreno,Miriam
Modamio Høybjør,Silvia
Wennmalm,Stefan
Cereghetti,Grazia MariaEberhard,Alexandra
Flückinger,Sabine
Lesslauer,Annegret
nationalitySpanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Swedish
Swiss
Swiss
Swiss
Swiss
host laboratoryEMBL, Monterotondo, Italy
Freiburg University, Germany
IST, Lisbon, Portugal
Institute of Medical Virology,Giessen, Germany
INSERM, Paris, France
University of Kaiserslautern,Germany
University of Sussex,Brighton, UK
University of Basel,Switzerland
University Hospital Zurich,SwitzerlandThe Weizmann Insitute ofSciences, Rehovot, Israel
University of Perugia, Italy
Sars International Center forMarine Molecular Biology,Bergen, Norway
countrySpain cont.
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research interestBiological functions of kidins220, anovel neuronal protein, only knownsubstrate of protein kinase DCloning of a gene responsible for a fungal autoregulatorOrigin choice in S. cerevisiae rDNA.Involvement of silencing machineryand gene expressionOptical projection tomography ofarabidopsis axillary meristemsControl of gene expression by theyeast MAPK Hog1Isolation and differentiation ofstem cellsRole of LXR in leukocyte extravasationPackaging of human genomiclocus of frataxin in a herpesvirus-based amplicon vectorRole of PKCε in IFN-γ mediatedinflammatory response Construction and characterisationof truncated mutants derived froma codon-optimized EHBsAG-S geneAnalysis of the contribution of theS. pombe multi KH-domain proteinvig to heterochromatin structureand functionFGF signalling role in chick retinaneurogenesisSearch for peptide inhibitors of HIVgp41-mediated membrane-fusion
Role of Emp24 complex in cargorecruitment into COPI vesciclesderived from Golgi compartmentIn situ analysis of dock2- and PI3Kg-deficient lymphocytes bymulti-photon intravital microscopy In vitro transfection of molecularclones into culture systems forobtaining a steady source of retro-virus particles associated with respiratory neoplasm of smallruminants
home laboratoryInstitute of BiomedicalResearch “Alberto Sols”,Madrid, SpainUniversity of the BasqueCountry, San Sebastian, SpainCancer Research Centre,Salamanca, Spain
UAM, Madrid, Spain
UPF, Barcelona, Spain
University Complutense ofMadrid, SpainScientific Park Barcelona, Spain
UAM, Madrid, Spain
Health Institute Carlos III,Madrid, SpainUniversity of Barcelona, Spain
Institute of Molecular Biology,Barcelona, Spain
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Miguel Hernandez University,Alicante, Spain
University of Seville, Spain
CNB, Madrid, Spain
University of Zaragoza, Spain
name Cabrera-Poch,Noemi
Cordobés,ShandraCordón Preciado,Violeta
Cubas Dominguez,Pilarde Nadal,EulàliaDel Carmen SanzMiguel, MariaFernandez Valledor,AnnabelGiménez-Cassina,Alfredo
Gonzalez Traves,FranciscaHerraezHernandez, Elsa
Marsellach-Castellvi,Francesc Xavier
Martinez-Morales,Juan-RamonMoreno Raja,Miguel
Muñiz,Manuel
Nombela-Arrieta,César
Ortín Pérez,Aurora
nationalitySpanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
host laboratoryErasmus Medical Centre,Rotterdam, The Netherlands
MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology,Marburg, GermanyIGH, Montpellier, France
John Innes Centre,Norwich, UKInsitute of Biochemistry,Zurich, SwitzerlandThe Salk Institute for BiologicalStudies, La Jolla, USAKarolinska Institute,Stockholm, SwedenUniversity of Oxford, UK
London Research Institute, UK
University of Heidelberg,Germany
University of Edinburgh, UK
Cajal Institute, CSIC,Madrid, SpainGeorg Speyer Haus Institute forBiomedical Research,Frankfurt, GermanyMax Plank Society, Tübingen,Germany
CBR, Boston, USA
Moredun Research Institute,Penicuik, UK
country
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research interestMolecular quantification of mycorrhizal fungiTranscriptional control of Na/I symporter geneMeasurement of the mobilities of the p24 family members using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS)Analysis of the processing of Tat-dependent substrates by Bacillussubtilis signal peptidasesPartition of the linear plasmid pro-phage N15: The role of multiplicityand dispersion of centromeresStudy of Rop GTPases and syntaxinin regulation of membrane fusionin root of Medicago truncatulaStudy of specificity and of RNA-protein interactions: Effect ofmutations in the ribosomal proteinL1 on its target sites on rRNA andmRNACrystallisation of site-specific nickase BspD6I
Genome-wide mapping of in vivoDNA targets of the DrosophilaSuppressor of Under-Replication(SuUR) proteinCloning of genes of novel esterasefrom wood-degrading fungusSchizophyllum communeStudy of N-acylethanolaminesbinding with serum albuminDesign and programming ofmicroarray/LS-MS/MS integrativesoftware packageFunctional analysis of the interac-tion between ribosomal S6 kinaseand CoA synthase: Implication inenergy metabolismAdenovirus structural genomics
host laboratoryUniversity of Tartu, Estonia
Bilkent University,Ankara, TurkeyUniversity of Saarland,Saarbruecken, Germany
University of Jena, Germany
RAS, Moscow, Russia
RAS, Moscow, Russia
RAS, Moscow, Russia
RAS, Moscow, Russia
RAS, Moscow, Russia
Slovak Academy of Science,Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Palladin Institute ofBiochemistry, Kyiv, UkraineInstitute of Molecular Biologyand Genetics, Kyiv, Ukraine
Laboratory of Cell GrowthRegulation, Kyiv, Ukraine
Institute of Molecular Biologyand Genetics, Kyiv, Ukraine
name Öpik,MaarjaAl-Otaibi,HaniPark,Yungki
Pop,Ovidiu Ioan
Dorokhov,Boris
Fedorova,Elena
Nikonova,Ekaterina
Perevyazova,Tatiana
Pindyurin,Alexey
Spániková,Silvia
Artamonov,MykhayloIvakhno,Sergii
Nemazanyy,Ivan
Rodnin,MykolaVolodimirovitch
nationalityEstonian
Jordanian
Korean
Romanian
Russian
Russian
Russian
Russian
Russian
Slovak
Ukrainian
Ukrainian
Ukrainian
Ukrainian
host laboratoryScottish Crop ResearchInstitute, Dundee, UKStazione Zoologica AntonDohrn, Naples, ItalyGoteborg University, Sweden
GBB, Groningen,The Netherlands
CNRS, Toulouse, France
Wageningen University,The Netherlands
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Max Plank Research Unit forStructural Molecular Biology,Hamburg, GermanyEMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Utrecht University,The Netherlands
MPI for Molecular Physiology,Dortmund, GermanyGraz University of Technology,Austria
Royal Free and UniversityCollege Medical School,London, UK
Institute of Structural BiologyJean Pierre Ebel, Grenoble,France
countryTurkey
United Kingdom
other nationalities
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research interestCharacterisation of yellow rustresistance in wheat as NBS-LRRusing an expressed, DNA markersystemAllopolyploidy induced genomeevolution in the wheat (Aegilops-triticum) group
Interaction of the interferon-inducible p47 resistance GTPaseswith membrane phospholipidsCellular phenotype and viral genotype in Burkitt’s lymphocyteSpecific activity of Colicin E3,a ribosomal RNaseEpigenetics of placental-specificimprintingProlyl 4-hydroxylase assembly and function:A nematode model systemRegulation of psd-95 mRNA by the Fragile X mental retardationproteinCPEB-mediated RNA localisation in spindlesChemotaxis in extreme halophilicmicroorganismsCrystallisation of the s32-DnaKcomplexCloning of the dihydrofolate synthase gene from PneumocystisjiroveciiRole of calmodulin in regulation offusion between synaptic vesiclesand the plasma membraneBiomembrane force probe investi-gation of transmembrane peptidesincorporated in biomembranesIdentification of HK022 integrasevariants performing IHF-independ-ent attP-attB integrative recombi-nationEffect of BMP-4 and Noggin onembryonic muscle stem cells in amammalian modelIdentification of ion channels of the parasite Leishmania
host laboratoryBogzici University,Bebek, Turkey
Trakya University,Tekirdag, Turkey
University of Cologne, Germany
University of Birmingham, UK
University of York, UK
Imperial College, London, UK
University of Glasgow, UK
University of Edinburgh, UK
UPF, Barcelona, Spain
Institute of Biological Sciences,Mar del Plata, ArgentinaCentre for Molecular Biology,Heidelberg, GermanyCSIRO, Victoria, Australia
Institute of Biophysics and CellEngineering, Minsk, Belarus
Utrecht University,The Netherlands
Sofia University, Bulgaria
Technical University,Dresden, Germany
Ciudad University,Bogota, Colombia
nameTufan,Halle Ann
Tuna,Metin
Howard,Jonathan
Kelly,GemmaLancaster,LornaMonk,DavidWinter,Alan
Dickson,Kirsten
Eliscovich,CarolinaHerrera Seitz,KarinaRodriguez,FernandaMacreadie,Ian
Fedorovich,Sergei
Ganchev,Dragomir N.
Pantchev,Ivelin Yordanov
Vichev,Konstantin
Lagos Martinez,Luisa
nationalityTurkish
Turkish
British
British
British
British
British
American
Argentinian
Argentinian
Argentinian
Australian
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Bulgarian
Bulgarian
Colombian
host laboratoryJohn Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
The Weizmann Institute ofScience, Rehovot, Israel
MRC, Cambridge, UK
Karolinska Institute,Stockholm, SwedenUniversity of Witten/Herdecke,GermanyCNRS, Montpellier, France
Biocenter Oulu, Finland
University of Rome, Italy
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
MPI of Biochemistry,Martinsried, GermanyThe Rockefeller University,New York, USAUniversity Hospital ofLausanne, Switzerland
INSERM UMR 641,Marseille, France
Univeristy of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Royal Veterinary College,London, UK
CNR, Genova, Italy
year appl. awards success rate %
1977 294 213 72
1978 349 244 70
1979 344 243 71
1980 357 242 68
1981 339 235 69
1982 321 213 66
1983 335 223 67
1984 320 226 71
1985 304 221 73
1986 309 215 70
1987 301 212 70
1988 351 211 60
1989 331 199 60
1990 346 211 61
1991 344 194 56
1992 351 213 61
1993 376 209 55
1994 369 203 55
1995 325 187 57
1996 316 180 57
1997 339 188 55
1998 279 143 51
1999 230 138 60
2000 274 176 64
2001 233 124 53
2002 252 170 67
2003 289 138 48
2004 301 167 55
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Country from applications % of total awards % of total success rate %
Austria 11 0.70 8 0.88 73
Belgium 32 2.03 19 2.08 59
Croatia 15 0.95 10 1.10 67
Czech Rep. 40 2.53 23 2.52 58
Denmark 22 1.39 12 1.32 55
Finland 12 0.76 9 0.99 75
France 133 8.42 78 8.55 59
Germany 116 7.35 63 6.91 54
Greece 69 4.37 44 4.82 64
Hungary 40 2.53 24 2.63 60
Iceland 6 0.38 3 0.33 50
Ireland 16 1.01 9 0.99 56
Israel 66 4.18 49 5.37 74
Italy 245 15.52 133 14.58 54
Netherlands 40 2.53 26 2.85 65
Norway 8 0.51 5 0.55 63
Poland 49 3.10 22 2.41 45
Portugal 29 1.84 15 1.64 52
Slovenia 19 1.20 11 1.21 58
Spain 240 15.20 147 16.12 61
Sweden 23 1.46 16 1.75 70
Switzerland 18 1.14 7 0.77 39
Turkey 34 2.15 11 1.21 32
UK 59 3.74 37 4.06 63
Eastern Europe 153 9.69 78 8.55 51
others 84 5.32 53 5.81 63
total 1579 100.00 912 100.00 58
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A Adams, RalfAllain, FredericAlon, UriAntonny, BrunoArber, SilviaArkowitz, RobertArribas, JoaquinAshe, HilaryAverof, Michalis
B Barkai, NaamaBarr, FrancisBarral, YvesBeja, OdedBerger, FredericBertrand, EdouardBlazquez, MiguelBriscoe, JamesBujnicki, Janusz
C Casares, FernandoChristoforidis, SavvasCollinson, IanConradt, BarbaraCosma, Maria PiaCramer, PatrickCurrie, Peter
D Davis, Danielde Gier, Jan-WillemDelledonne, MassimoDessen, AndreaDickson, BarryDominguez, MariaDonaldson, Anne
F Fankhauser, ChristianFernandez-Chacon, Rafael
G Glotzer, MichaelGönczy, PierreGonzalez-Reyes, Acaimo
H Hajnal, AlexHassan, BassemHaucke, VolkerHelariutta, YkäHelms,VolkhardHidalgo, AliciaHirst, JudyHolstege, FrankHopfner, Karl Peter
J Jansen, RalfJensen, Torben Heick
K Khakh, BaljitKnoblich, JürgenKonieczny, IgorKunji, Edmund
L Lappalainen, PekkaLecuit, ThomasLemaitre, BrunoLogan, MalcolmLöwe, JanLygerou, Zoi
M Malnasi Csizmadia, AndrasMansuy, IsabelleManzanares, MiguelMarin, OscarMartin-Bermudo, Maria D.Mattevi, AndreaMehlen, PatrickMeier, Pascal Mosialos, GeorgeMota, MariaMusacchio, Andrea
N Nagy, LaszloNehrbass, UlfNeuhauss, StephanNichols, BenjaminNissen, PoulNoselli, Stephane
O Otzen, DanielOwen, DavidOwen-Hughes,Tom
P Palková, ZdenaPellizzoni, LivioPeracchi, AlessioPerrakis, AnastassisPeters, Jan-MichaelPhilpott, DanaPierre, PhilippePosas, Francesc
R Radtke, FreddyReich , ZivRobinson, RobertRodriguez, Ivan
S Salecker, IrisSantos, ManuelSaudou, FrédéricSchärer, Orlando D.Schedl, AndreasSchleper, ChristaSchlötterer, ChristianSchneitz, KaySchwappach, BlancheSpang, AnneStock, DanielaSuomalainen-Wartiovaara,Szabò, Ildikò
T Tamagnone, LucaTanaka, TomoyukiTavernarakis, NektariosTeichmann, SarahTelford, MaximilianTherond, PascalTrouche, DidierTrumpp, AndreasTuschl, Thomas
U Uhlmann, FrankUlrich, HelleUngermann, Christian
V van Aalten, Daanvan den Ackerveken, Guidovan der Goot, Gisouvan Steensel, BasVinkemeier, Uwe
W Wimmer, Ernst A.Z Zernicka-Goetz, Magdalena
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name nationality institute research interestAgami, Reuven Dutch/Israeli NKI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands DNA damage checkpointBatista, Facundo Argentinian Cancer Research UK, London, UK B-cell activation and fateBaum, Buzz British Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Genetics of the actin cytoskeleton
London, UKBehrens, Axel German Cancer Research UK, London, UK MAP kinase signallingBertolotti, Anne French Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France Pathological protein misfoldingBochtler, Matthias* German IIMCB, Warsaw, Poland Peptidases, proteases and protein
degradationElena, Santiago Spanish CSIC-UPV, Valencia, Spain Experimental viral evolutionFriml, Jiri Czech ZMBP, University of Tübingen, Germany Auxin transportLabib, Karim British Cancer Research UK, Manchester, UK Cell cycle regulationLevashina, Elena Russian IBMC, Strasbourg, France Vector-pathogen interactions in malariaLeys, David Belgian University of Leicester, UK Molecules at metabolic crossroadsMitchell, Kevin Irish Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Genetics of axon guidanceMøller, Simon Geir Norwegian University of Leicester, UK Plastids in embryogenesisPoirazi, Panayiota Cypriot IMBB, Heraklion, Greece Computational modelling of the brainSpahn, Christian German Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany Macromolecular machinesSträßer, Katja German Gene Center, University of Munich, Germany Nuclear mRNA exportStumpf, Michael German Imperial College London, UK Evolution of complex diseaseVoinnet, Olivier French IBMP, Strasbourg, France RNA silencing in plants and animalsWutz, Anton Austrian IMP, Vienna, Austria X-chromosome inactivationZeeman, Samuel British University of Bern, Switzerland Sugar export in plants* EMBO/HHMI young investigator
EMBO/HHMI scientists selected in 2004
Mocsai, Attila Hungarian Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary Signalling in osteoclasts
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average general statistics
age 34.8 for all young investigators
post-doctoral years 4.7 selected 2000 – 2004
total number of publications 20.0
last author 3.0
first author 9.1
no. % of total pre- and/or post-doctorate
USA 83 68.0 spent in the USA
no. % of total post-doctoral fellowships
EMBO 43 35.2 were received from the following
HFSP 29 23.8 international agencies
EU TMR 17 13.9
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country appl. awards appl. awards appl. awards appl. awards appl. awards
Austria 9 5 3 0 1 0 0 0 3 1
Belgium 8 0 2 0 3 0 2 1 1 0
Croatia 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Czech Republic 2 0 0 1 6 0 14 0 4 0
Denmark 5 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0
Finland 9 2 1 0 4 1 3 0 9 0
France 72 5 17 4 26 4 26 2 17 3
Germany 52 7 22 4 17 4 15 3 30 3
Greece 8 2 1 2 4 1 3 0 4 1
Hungary 2 1 1 0 6 0 7 1 5 0
Iceland 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Ireland 6 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
Israel 13 2 7 1 4 0 5 1 5 0
Italy 22 1 6 3 14 3 11 1 14 0
Netherlands 10 2 6 2 3 0 4 0 3 1
Norway 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
Poland 13 1 2 0 8 1 6 0 8 1
Portugal 9 1 6 1 2 0 2 1 3 0
Slovenia 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Spain 40 4 26 1 18 2 26 2 21 1
Sweden 23 1 3 0 15 0 7 1 8 0
Switzerland 21 6 11 3 12 3 5 1 8 1
Turkey 8 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0
United Kingdom 75 14 30 1 23 4 21 5 20 7
others 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
total 415 55 150 23 169 23 163 21 172 20
female 94 12 44 4 45 4 47 7 38 4
male 321 43 106 19 124 19 116 14 134 16
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September 4–8
September 26 –October 1September 27–29
September 30 –October 3October 13
October 16–19
November 2
November 10–13
November 14–20
November 14–20
F – Nice
USA – Woods Hole, MA
UK – Birmingham
ES – Salamanca
CZ – Brno
D – Heidelberg
I – Pavia
D – Heidelberg
Bermuda – Southampton
Bermuda – Southampton
Volker Haucke
Frank Uhlmann
Frederic Saudou
Frank Uhlmann
Janusz Bujnicki
Bas van Steensel
Maria Pia Cosma
David Owen
Helle Ulrich
Karl-Peter Hopfner
ELSO 2004: Mini-symposium on SignalRecognition in Membrane Traffic8th Workshop on Site-specific Recombination and TranspositionBSDB Autumn Meeting:Genesis of the Nervous SystemEMBO Workshop on Cell Growth andthe Cell CycleBioinformatics II – Methods,Technology and Software2nd EMBL/EMBO Symposium onFunctional Genomics: Exploring theEdges of OmicsSeminar: Enhancing Effect of SUMF1,the Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency Gene,on Sulfatase ActivitiesEMBO Conference on Structures in BiologyASM Conference on DNA Repair &Mutagenesis: From Molecular Structure to Biological ConsequencesASM Conference on DNA Repair &Mutagenesis: From Molecular Structure to Biological Consequences
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January 11–16January 13
April 17–20
April 22
April 22–24
April 22–24
April 22–25May 23–27
May 26–30
June 12–16
June 27–July 2
July 10–15
July 24–29
July 25–29
August 26–31
September 2–4
September 4–7
September 4–7September 4–7September 4–7September 4–7
USA – Snowbird, UTD – Heidelberg
D – Heidelberg
D – Hamburg
D – Heidelberg
D – Heidelberg
USA – Burlington, VTUSA – New Orleans, LA
F – Ile Les Embiez
FIN – Helsinki
USA – New London, NH
USA – Snowmass, CO
USA – Tucson, AZ
UK – St. Andrews
H – Budapest
P – Azores
F – Nice
F – NiceF – NiceF – NiceF – Nice
George MosialosTomoyuki Tanaka
Andreas Trumpp
Andrea Mattevi
Christa Schleper
Oded Beja
Michael GlotzerChrista Schleper
Philippe Pierre
Yves Barral
Andrea Dessen
Bruno Antonny
Christian Ungermann
Andrea Mattevi
Andrea Mattevi
Zdena Palkova
AndrasMalnasi CsizmadiaBlanche SchwappachFrank UhlmannThomas LecuitYves Barral
FIMSA: NF-kB: Biology and PathologyEMBL Seminar: Bi-orienting Chromosomes on the Mitotic SpindleEMBO/SALK/EMBL Conference:Oncogenes and Growth ControlEMBL Seminar:Enzymes Acting on Biogenic AminesEMBO/EMBL Conference in Molecular MicrobiologyEMBO/EMBL Conference in Molecular MicrobiologyASCB Summer Meeting on CytokinesisASM Annual Meeting: Microbial Population Genomics and EcologyENII-EMBO Workshop on Mechanisms of ImmunityJoint FEBS/EMBO Conference:Cytoskeletal DynamicsGordon Conference on Bacterial Cell SurfacesFASEB Summer Research Conference:Regulation and Biological Function ofSmall GTPasesFASEB Summer Research Conference:Protein Lipidation, Signalling and Membrane Domains11th Amine Oxidase Workshop –Amine Oxidases:Function and Dysfunction22nd European CrystallographicMeeting22nd Small Meeting on Yeast Transportand Energetics (SMYTE)ELSO 2004
ELSO 2004ELSO 2004ELSO 2004ELSO 2004
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October 29 –November 5November 8–13
March 14–21
April 4–18
June 7–18
August 23 –September 3
August 25 – September 7September 12–19
September 13–24
September 13–26
November 1–5
July 14–19
September 20–24
D – Hamburg (EMBL)
NL – Amsterdam
Japan, Tokyo
Brazil, Ribeirao Preto
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Argentina, Mendoza
China, Beijing
India, Bangalore
China, Shanghai
China, Wuhan
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
F – Bordeaux
UK – Cambridge
Solution scattering from biological macromoleculesSerial analysis of gene expression
Microarray technologies:Applications in biomedical research (A-IMBN/EMBO Course)Electrophysiological concepts andtechniques for studying cells(ICRO/UNESCO/EMBO Course)Molecular motors and the cytoskeleton(ICRO/UNESCO/EMBO Course)
Phagocytosis andintracellular microorganisms (AMSUD-Pasteur/EMBO Course)Plant reproduction
Functional imaging in cell and developmental biology (NCBS/EMBO Course)
Methods for protein simulation and drug design (CAS/EMBO Course)Proteomics and human diseases(CAS/EMBO/Tongji Course)Advanced methods in reconstructingmolecular phylogenetic relationships
Receptor mechanisms and signal transduction3D structure databases – uses for biological problem solving
D. SvergunR. WillumeitF. Baas et al.
W. Ansorgeet al.
W. Stühmeret al.
L.C. CameronE. Carafoli et al.M.I. Colomboet al.
W-C. Yanget al.P. BastiaensR. PepperkokK. VijayRaghavanet al.F. Meyeret al.
W. Henniget al.J. McInerneyet al.
I. Krameret al.K. HenrickJ. Thornton et al.
practical courses 2004Europe/EMBC
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courses 2004EMBO
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March 22 – April 7
May 3–8
May 9–13
May 10–14
May 25 – June 1
May 29 – June 5
June 6–18
June 7–12
June 7–15
July 11–17
July 12–24
July 18–25
August 11–18
August 15–20
September 5–14
September 11–19
September 12–22
October 11–17
P – Oeiras
F – Grenoble (EMBL)
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
NL – Delft
NL – Amsterdam
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
DK – Copenhagen
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
S – Uppsala
UK – Canterbury
UK – Sheffield
F – Paris
D – Hamburg (EMBL)
I – Il Ciocco, Lucca
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
HR – Zagreb
F – Paris
D – Munich
Plant development:The molecular and cellular basisStructural characterisation of macromolecular complexes:Modern techniques and strategiesGene quantification by real-time qRT-PCRDigital image microscopy
Automated macromolecular structure solutionMicroarray technology:Genome – proteome – functionMolecular genetics with the fissionyeast Schizosaccharomyces pombeMicroinjection, transfection and detection of probes in cellsAdvanced techniques in molecular medicine(Joint EU/EMBO Course)Transient kinetics applied to biological macromoleculesAnimal models for development and diseaseBiomolecular simulation
Protein expression, purification andcrystallisation (PEPC4)Multidimensional NMR in structural biologyCryo-electron microscopy and 3 D image analysisAnatomy and embryology of the mouseElectron microscopy and stereology in cell biology(Joint FEBS/EMBO Course)Multi-photon imaging of living cells and tissues
J. A. FeijóM. OliveiraC.W. Mülleret al.
V. Beneset al.I.T. Young et al.A. Perrakiset al.W. Ansorgeet al.R. EgelO. NielsenW. Ansorgeet al.U. Landegrenet al.
M.A. Geeveset al.P.I. InghamV.T. CunliffeM. NilgesR. WadeP. Tuckeret al.R. Kaptein et al.A. Hoengeret al.A. Marusicet al.I. Fernandezet al.
W. DenkA. Konnerth
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October 7–10
October 15–19
October 16–21
October 25–27
November 16–20
June 28 – July 2
November 30 –December 8December 16–18
D – Elmau
A – Vienna
E – San Feliu de Guixols
E – Madrid
IL – Kibbutz Ein Gedi
China – Shanghai
South Africa – Cape Town
India – Hyderabad
Nuclear organisation – from basic science to application
Frontiers of molecular biology(EMBO Members Workshop)Spatial and temporal dynamics of the endomembrane system(Joint FEBS/EMBO Workshop)Interpreting hedgehog-gli signalling(Joint Juan March/EMBO Workshop)Pathogenesis of amoebiasis:From genomics to disease
Cell signalling and development(CAS/EMBO Workshop)
AIDS and TB: The way ahead(Wellcome Trust/EMBO Workshop)Cell interactions in development and disease
H.J. LippsS. Gasseret al.R. Schroederet al.D. HoldenH. Stenmark
I. GuerreroA. Ruiz i AltabaD. Mirelmanet al.
P. InghamK. Liaoet al.S. Gordon et al.S. CohenL.S. Shashidharaet al.
workshops 2004Europe/EMBC
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workshops 2004EMBO
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January 13–18
March 27–31
March 28 – April 1
April 3–7
May 24–28
May 26–28
May 26–30
June 20–26
June 21–24
June 26–30
July 7–9
September 11–15
September 20–23
September 25–29
September 25–29
September 30 –October 3
A – Goldegg
F – Carry le Rouet
E – Granada
UK – Cambridge
F – Seillac
S – Gothenburg
F – Ile des Embiez (Var)
GR – Kolymbari, Crete
IRL – Galway
F – Roscoff
P – Lisbon
I – Siena
I – Capri
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
CH – Gwatt
E – Salamanca
Protein sorting in the secretory pathwayEpithelial polarity in development and disease(Joint CNRS/EMBO Workshop)A critical assessment of text miningmethods in molecular biology (Joint E-BioSci/EMBO Workshop)Telomeres and genome stability(Joint 58th Harden conference/EMBO Workshop)Recombination mechanisms:40th Anniversary meeting of the Holliday modelAdvanced light microscopy:4th International ELMI meetingMechanisms of immunity(Joint ENII/EMBO Workshop)Molecular and developmental biologyof Drosophila:14th International EMBO WorkshopMechanisms of genomic integrity(Joint SFI/EMBO Workshop) Molecular mechanisms of transposition, its regulation and evolutionAFM applications in biology(Joint FEBS/EMBO Workshop)Lymphocyte antigen receptor andcoreceptor signallingCalcium signalling and disease
Cell biology of virus infections
The Hsp90 chaperone machine
Cell growth and the cell cycle:XIII European cell cycle conference
S. Toozeet al.T. Lecuitet al.
A. Valenciaet al.
D. Rhodeset al.
A. NicolasS. West
T. Nilssonet al.P. Ricciardi Castagnoliet al.T. Kaufmanet al.
N. Lowndeset al.A. BuchetonD. Finnegan
L.V. Melo et al.C.T. Baldari et al.E. Carafoliet al.J. Krijnse Lockeret al.D. PicardJ. BuchnerS. Morenoet al.
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conferences 2004EMBO
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April 17–20
April 22–26
June 12–16
September 6–10
September 15–18
October 16–19
November 10–13
December 4–8
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
FIN – Helsinki
UK – Cirencester
D – Hamburg (EMBL)
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
I – Gaeta
Oncogenes and growth control(Joint EMBL/SALK/EMBO Conference)Molecular microbiology: Exploringprokaryotic diversity(Joint EMBL/EMBO Conference)Cytoskeletal dynamics: From cell biol-ogy to development and disease(Joint FEBS/EMBO Conference)The ubiquitin proteasome system inhealth and disease(Joint 59th Harden/EMBO Conference)Structural biology at cross-roads:From biological molecules to biological systems(Joint EMBL/EMBO Conference)Functional genomics conference II:Exploring the edges of “omics”(Joint EMBL/EMBO Conference)Structures in biology(Joint EMBL/EMBO Conference)6th Community-wide experiment onthe critical assessment of techniquesfor protein structure prediction
A. Nebredaet al.V. de Lorenzoet al.
O. CarpénP. Lappalainen
R.J. MayerC. Gordon
M. Wilmannset al.
E. FurlongN. Barkaiet al.D. Sucket al.A. Tramontanoet al.
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October 10–14
October 25–27
December 2–4
December 2–4
February 23–24
March 24–26 July 18–23
October 25–27
November 8–9
November 21–26
November 22–26
December 1–3
December 5–8
I – Ischia
DK – Fyn
P – Vilamoura
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
India – Hyderabad
Australia – Hunter ValleyUSA – New Hampshire
Argentina – Buenos Aires
India – Bangalore
Australia – Sydney
Thailand – Bangkok
Chile – Valparaiso
Argentina – Misiones
Jonathan Jones
David Baulcombe
Elisa Izaurralde
Jonas Frisén
Robin Lovell-Badge
Claudio SternMarjori Matzke
Pere Puigdomènech
Harald Zur Hausen
Matthias Mann
Robert Huber
Pascale Cossart
Christopher Lamb
2nd EPSO Conference – Interactions in Plant Biology:Cells, Plants and Communities33rd Annual Meeting of the Danish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology14th National Congress ofBiochemistry5th International EMBL PhD StudentsSymposium
8th ADNAT Convention:Symposium on Comparative andFunctional GenomicsThe Hunter Cellular Biology MeetingGordon Research Conference:Plant Molecular BiologyBuenos Aires Plant Biology LecturesSeries 2004NCBS International Workshop onCervical Cancer 2nd Australian Health and Medical Research Congress17th FAOBMB Symposium / 2nd IUBMB Special Meeting / A-IMBN MeetingXXVI Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society for MicrobiologyXL National Meeting of the Argentine Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SAIB)
plenary lectures 2004Europe/EMBC
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plenary lectures 2004EMBO
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January 15–18
March 3–5
March 11–14
March 24–28
April 3
April 3
May 8–13
May 14–15
May 21–27
May 29 – June 3
June 26 – July 1July 18–22 August 23–27
August 25–28
August 31 – September 3
September 30 –October 3October 3–7
October 6–10
N – Lillehammer
D – Cologne
I – Milan
CH – St Moritz
IS – Reykjavík
IS – Reykjavík
E – San Feliu de Guixols
D – Heidelberg
HR – Cavtat
E – San Feliu de Guixols
PL – WarsawUK – GlasgowPL – Krakow
H – Budapest
CZ – Olomouc
I – Riva del Garda
H – Budapest
F – Roscoff
John Diffley
David Sherratt
Anton Berns
Charles Weissmann
Davor Soltor
Jan Hoeijmakers
Denis Bray
Alfred Wittinghofer
Tony Hunter
Nick Proudfoot
Iain MattajChristopher DobsonDénes Dudits
Yossih Shiloh
Walter Neupert
Ueli Schibler
Michael Neuberger
Andres Aguilera
Norwegian Biochemical Society Annual MeetingCologne Spring Meeting Cell Dynamics – Subcellular andCellular Movements1st IEO-IFOM Meeting on Cancer ResearchInternational Winter Meeting of the Swiss Society of NeuropathologyMolecular Biology:Future Prospects Symposium in Honour of Dr Gudmundur EggertssonMolecular Biology:Future Prospects Symposium in Honour of Dr Gudmundur EggertssonESF-EURESCO EuroConference:Bacterial Neural NetworksEMBL Symposium on Lipid Binding Domains and SignallingDubrovnik Conference on Cellular Signalling 2004ESF-EURESCO Conference:Gene Transcription in Yeast29th FEBS CongressBioScience 200414th Congress of the Federation ofEuropean Societies of Plant BiologyEuropean Radiation Research 2004:33rd Annual Meeting of the EuropeanSociety for Radiation Biology Bi-annual meeting of the Czech andSlovak Society for Biochemistry andMolecular Biology6th FISV Meeting
1st International Conference on Basic and Clinical ImmunogenomicsJacques Monod Conference:Biological Responses to DNA Damage
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research interestRoles of activin and follistatin in skin morphogenesis and wound repairEvolutionary relationships amongstrains of Mycobacterium bovis:New tools to study the nature andpattern of bovine tuberculosisAnalysis of transgenic plantsexpressing the water-stressinducible gene Asr1 in sense and antisense orientationsAnalysis of stress-induced changes in gene expression profilein animals with active and passivebehavioural coping:Implications for animal modelsStructural and functional studies ofglycogen synthaseEstablishing novel diagnostic testfor Thalassemia patients
Molecular mechanisms by whichcis- and trans-acting factors regu-late alternative RNA processing
home laboratoryInstitute of Highly PureBiopreparations,St. Petersburg, RussiaBiotechnology Institute,Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Buenos Aires,Argentina
Russian Academy of MedicalSciences, Moscow, Russia
Autonomous NationalUniversity of Mexico, MexicoUniversity of Social Welfare &Rehabilitation, Tehran, Iran
University of Rajshahi,Bangladesh
nameAntsiferova,Maria
Caimi,Karina
Frankel,Nicolas
Gorenkova,Natalia
Lara-Gonzalez,Samuel Moghimi,Babak
Rahman,Habibur
home countryRussia
Argentina
Argentina
Russia
Mexico
Iran
Bangladesh
host laboratoryInstitute of Cell Biology,Zurich, Switzerland
Veterinary Laboratories Agency,Surrey, UK
MPI, Golm, Germany
Central Institute of MentalHealth, Mannheim, Germany
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Erasmus University MedicalCenter,Rotterdam, The NetherlandsUniversity of Leicester, UK
total number of EMBO members women % year EMBO membership
1191 13.7 2004
female participants % female speakers % EMBO courses & workshops
practical courses 56 27
workshops 40 25
lecture courses 50.5 29
conferences 40.5 21
applications awards success rate % EMBO long-term fellowships
female applicants 533 (46.9%) 65 (39.9%) 12.2 (statistics for 2004)
male applicants 604 (53.1%) 98 (60.1%) 16.2
total 1137 (100.0%) 163 (100.0%) 14.3
applications awards success rate % EMBO short-term fellowships
female applicants 161 (53.7%) 84 (52.2%) 52.2 (statistics for 2004)
male applicants 140 (46.3%) 83 (47.8%) 59.3
total 301 (100.0%) 167 (55.5%) 55.5
applications awards success rate % EMBO young investigators
female applicants 269 (25.2%) 32 (22.5%) 11.9 (2000–2004 general statistics)
male applicants 800 (74.8%) 110 (77.5%) 13.8
total 1069 (100.0%) 142 (13.3%) 13.3
applications awards success rate % EMBO young investigators
female applicants 38 (22.1%) 4 (20.0%) 10.5 (statistics for 2004)
male applicants 134 (77.9%) 16 (80.0%) 11.9
total 172 (100.0%) 20 ( 11.6%) 11.6
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Frank Gannon Senior Editor [email protected] EMBO reportsChristine Blaumueller Science Editor [email protected] Breithaupt News Editor [email protected] Hadley Assistant Editor [email protected] Owens Science Editor [email protected] Mackensen Graphics Editor [email protected] Simpson Editorial Assistant [email protected]
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Lindsay Johnson** Communications Officer [email protected] Communications Patricia Codyre*** Communications Officer (Web) [email protected] and WebUta Mackensen Graphic Designer [email protected] Peerenboom* Communications OfficerLynne Turnbull Administrator [email protected]
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executive director’s Frank Gannon EMBO Executive Director [email protected] EMBC Secretary General
Eilish Craddock Personal Secretary to [email protected] Gannon
Kerstin Hiester Administrator [email protected] Kokkosalo** Administrator [email protected]
EMBC Gitta Bourke Administrator [email protected]
EMBO council and Claudia Hagedorn Administrator [email protected]
electronic information Les Grivell Programme Manager [email protected] Ole Hansen Technical Officer [email protected]
Anne Seller Administrator [email protected] Rehberger-Schneider Mobility Consultant [email protected]
fellowship programme Jan Taplick Programme Manager [email protected] Ahlgren Administrator [email protected]ès Visser-de Matteïs Administrator [email protected] Cortesi Assistant [email protected] Dinsi-Yararli*** Administrator [email protected]
courses and workshops Mary Gannon Programme Manager [email protected] and Kathy Oswald Administrator [email protected] activities Laura Gordon* Student Trainee
Felise Fortmann*** Administrator [email protected]
science and society Andrew Moore Programme Manager [email protected] Alessandra Bendiscioli Administrator [email protected]
young investigator Gerlind Wallon Programme Manager [email protected] Kim Piggott Administrator [email protected] women in the life sciences
finances Bernhard Huber Financial Manager [email protected]ärbel Traut-Laur Administrator [email protected]
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Eilish Craddock, (left) PersonalSecretary to Frank Gannon, andPirkko Kokkosalo work in theExecutive Director’s office.
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September 7–14
October 23–28
January 10–21
January 17–28
February 26 – March 2
March 24 – April 2
October 9–21
October 11–23
October 16–29
November 18–30
November 20–26
CH – Basel
F – Gif-sur-Yvette
Ghana – Accra
Singapore
Costa Rica – San Jose
Tunisia – Sfax
India – New Delhi
Chile – Santiago
Uruguay – Montevideo
South Africa – Cape Town
Mexico – Mexico DF
Structure determination of biologicalmacromolecules by solution NMR(Joint Biozentrum/EMBO Course)Combination of electron microscopyand X-ray crystallography in structuredetermination
RNAi and reverse genetics in trypanosomes (Joint TDR/EMBO Course)Advanced optical methods in cell and developmental biology (Joint BMRC/EMBO Course)Structural and evolutionary genomics.Genome and RNA: Expression andfunctions(Joint ICRO/UNESCO/EMBO Course)Bioinformatics and genome data analysis(Joint Institut Pasteur Paris/ICGEB/ICRO/UNESCO/IUBMB/EMBO Course)Malaria functional genomics (Joint TDR/HHMI/EMBO Course)Genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics(Joint ICRO/UNESCO/EMBO Course)Calcium signalling, with special attention to cell motility and the cytoskeleton(Joint ICRO/UNESCO/EMBO Course)Functional microscopy of hostpathogen interactionsMicroarray technology: Production and applications
S. Grzesieket al.
J. Navazaet al.
C. Claytonet al.
S. AhmedE. Stelzeret al.G. Bernardiet al.
H. AyadiA. RebaiF. Tekaia
B. Crabbet al.J.E. Allende et al.
J.R. Soteloet al.
G. Griffithset al.L.M. Teranet al.
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practical courses 2005EMBO
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February 14–19
March 13–20
March 30 – April 9
April 4–9
May 28 – June 2
June 9–17
June 13–19
June 15–21
June 14–19
June 15–22
June 20–25
June 21–30
July 4–13
August 1–11
August 21–27
August 22 –September 2
September 4–14
September 4–15
I – Milan
I – Monterotondo (EMBL)
UK – Plymouth
UK – Hinxton (EMBL-EBI)
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
P – Oeiras
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
F – Grenoble (EMBL)
D – Hamburg (EMBL)
S – Uppsala
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
CZ – Ceske Budejovice
F – Marseille
N – Bergen
FIN – Helsinki
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
UK – London
D – Dresden
Functional genomics:Making sense out of transcriptomesFrom mice to cells
Optical techniques for cell physiologyand developmental biologyAnalysis and informatics of microarray dataQuantification of gene expression byreal-time qRT-PCRLight microscopy in living cells
Microinjection and detection of probes in cellsExploiting anomalous scattering in macromolecular structure determination (Joint ESRF/EMBL/EMBO Course)BioXAS on metalloproteins and organism tissueAdvanced techniques in molecular medicine (Joint EU/EMBO Course)Microarray technology:From production to systems biologyElectron microscopy and stereology in cell biologyHigh-throughput methods for protein production and crystallisationEnhancer detection, gene trapping andTILLING in zebrafishSNP genotyping and haploblock analysisMethods in cell biology:From single molecule to complex systems analysisImage processing for cryo-electron microscopyEndocytosis and signalling during development
P. Ricciardi-Castagnoliet al.L. Minichielloet al.W.B. Amoset al.A. Brazmaet al.V. Beneset al.N. MorenoG. CoxR. Pepperkoket al.W. Shepardet al.
W. Meyer-KlauckeS. ManganiU. Landegrenet al.
C. Schwageret al.J. Nebesarovaet al.C. Cambillauet al.T. Beckeret al.L. Peltonenet al.D. BrunnerT. Surrey
E. OrlovaH. SaibilM. Gonzalezet al.
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July 24–31
August 28 –September 1September 13–18
September 17–22
September 18–22
September 24–29
September 23–27
September 25–30
September 29 –October 3October 14–18
November 4–7
November 30 –December 2
November 30 –December 4December 14–17
GR – Kolymbari, Crete
CH – Arolla
E – Madrid
E – San Feliu de Guixols
UK – Cambridge
F – Fontevraud
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
CH – Ascona
I – Rome
PL – Warsaw
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
South Africa – Cape Town
India – Coorg
India – Hyderabad
Molecular and population biology ofmosquitoes and other disease vectorsRegulation of mRNA turnover
Chromosome dynamics and recombination in meiosisMembrane dynamics in endocytosis(Joint FEBS/ESF/EMBO Workshop) Cytoskeletal molecular motors(Joint 61st Harden conference/EMBO Workshop)The molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying skeletal muscle formation and repair (Joint FEBS/EMBO Workshop)Centrosomes and spindle pole bodies
The assembly and function of neuronal circuitsChromosome structural elements:From DNA sequence to functionFrontiers of molecular biology (EMBO Members Workshop)Principles of self-organisation in living matter
Innate immunity in the lung(Joint Novartis Foundation/MedicalResearch Council/EMBO Workshop)Molecular physiology of intracellular calcium signallingUpstream and downstream of Hox genes
K. Louiset al.C. Moroniet al.J.L. Santoset al.M.S. RobinsonH. RiezmanJ. Kendrick JonesR. CrossF. BussM. BuckinghamJ. MelkiL. Schaeffer
M. Knopet al.P. Caroniet al.F. Ascenzioni et al.M. Zyliczet al.P. Bastiaenset al.
S. GordonG. Brown
R. Padinjatet al.R.K. MishraF. Karch
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lecture courses and workshops 2005EMBO
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May 31 – June 6
June 20 – July 1
August 15–26
September 5–15
September 17–23
January 13–15
March 16–20
March 17–19
April 11–16
April 21–24
May 22–26
May 23–25
May 26–29
May 28 – June 2
I – Erice, Sicily
F – Cargèse, Corsica
GR – Spetses
GR – Spetses
F – Bischoffsheim
F – Marseille
F – Cargèse, Corsica
UK – Oxford
I – Siena
I – Rome
IL – Kfar Blum, UpperGalileeE – Madrid
I – Candiolo (Torino)
PL – Zakopane
Channels and transporters
Cellular and molecular biology of membranes (Joint FEBS/EMBO Course)Molecular mechanisms in signal transduction and cancer (Joint FEBS/EMBO Course)Protein misfolding, protein modification and age-related diseases (Joint FEBS/EMBO Course)Mouse models for human disease
The road ahead: Future directions infundamental and clinical immunologyMeiotic divisions and checkpoints
mRNA 3’ Ends:Interconnections with transcription,translation and mRNA turnoverStructural basis of papovavirus biology
Notch signalling in development andcancer RNA control of neuronal function
Plant stem cells: Independent inven-tions and conserved mechanisms(Joint Juan March/EMBO Workshop)Invasive growth:A genetic program for stem cells,cancer, and cancer stem cellsBiology of molecular chaperones.Heat shock proteins in molecular medicine: Misfolding diseases and cancer (Joint FEBS/EMBO Workshop)
L. DeFeliceB. KannerA.P. Pugsleyet al.
J.L. Boset al.
A. Fershtet al.
J. AuwerxP. Chambonet al.
E. Vivieret al.C. Jessuset al.N.J. ProudfootJ.L. Manley
P. Amatiet al.I. Screpantiet al.J. Yisraeliet al.C. Gutiérrezet al.
P.M. Comoglioet al.
M. ZyliczF.U. Hartl
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young investigatorprogramme 2005
science & societyprogramme 2005
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June 17–21
January 27–29
January 20–22
February 7–9
April 15–16
April 22–23
June 22–23
June 24–26
September 4–11
May 13–14
June 18
October 17
October 28–29
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
D – Heidelberg
D – Heidelberg
H – Budapest
D – Heidelberg
D – Heidelberg
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
PL – Warsaw
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
Fellows Meeting
Laboratory Management Course(Course1, Part I)Laboratory Management Course(Course2, Part I)EMBO/HHMI Meeting
Laboratory Management Course (Course1, Part II)Laboratory Management Course (Course2, Part II)Young Investigator Meeting
3rd Symposium: Quantitative Biology
Young Investigator PhD Course
4th International Teachers Workshop
Media Workshop
Special Session on Science & Societyduring the EMBO Members Workshop‘Frontiers of molecular biology’6th EMBO/EMBL Conference onScience and Society:Science and security
J. TaplickA. Visser-de Matteïs
G. WallonK. PiggottG. WallonK. PiggottG. WallonK. PiggottB. VertessyG. WallonK. PiggottG. WallonK. PiggottG. WallonK. PiggottG. WallonP. BastiaensB. SchwappachK. PiggottG. WallonK. Piggott
A. MooreS. BendiscioliA. MooreS. BendiscioliA. MooreS. Bendiscioli
A. MooreS. BendiscioliH. Stefánsson
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conferences and symposia 2005EMBO
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May 19–22
July 5–10
July 10–14
August 3–8
August 27–31
September 13–18
September 24–28
September 29 –October 1
October 8–13
October 29 –November 3
November 12–17
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
CH – Arolla
UK – Cambridge
I – Il Ciocco, Lucca
F – Marseille
D – Heidelberg (EMBL)
F – La Grande Motte
I – Lake Garda
E – San Feliu de Guixols
E – San Feliu de Guixols
E – San Feliu de Guixols
Chromatin and epigenetics.Alan Wolffe EMBO Conference (Joint EU/EMBO Conference)Helicases and NTP driven nucleic acidmachines: structure, function and rolesin human disease(Joint SNSF/EMBO Conference)The biology of phosphatases
Ciliate molecular biology (Joint FASEB/EMBO Conference)
PSEUDOMONAS 2005:A multidisciplinary exploration of current Pseudomonas research (Joint FEMS/EMBO Conference)Protein synthesis and translational controlNuclear structure and dynamics
Nuclear receptors:From chromatin to disease
Three-dimensional sensory and motorspace: Probabilistic mechanisms oflearning and development in sensori-motor systemsProbing the molecular basis of proteinfunction through chemistry:Scope of chemical protein synthesisComparative genomics of eukaryoticmicroorganisms: Eukaryotic genomeevolution, approaches with yeasts and fungi
G. Almouzni et al.
P. LinderS. Kowalczykowski
D. Alexanderet al.T. ClarkC. MiceliJ. van HoutenA. Fillouxet al.
M. Hentzeet al.G. Cavalliet al.J. Schwabeet al.
D. Wolpert et al.
M. Engelhardet al.
J.-L. Soucietet al.
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