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excellence in life sciences
CONTACT EMBO & EMBC
Eilish Craddock Personal Assistant to the EMBO Director+49 6221 8891 102
Maria LeptinEMBO Director
Administration & Finance Bernhard HuberHead+49 6221 8891 113
EMBCEMBO Council & CommitteesGitta Bourke Administrator+49 6221 8891 117
EMBO Courses & WorkshopsEMBO Keynote LecturesEMBO Global ExchangeAnne-Marie GlynnProgramme Manager+49 6221 8891 104
EMBO Science PolicyMichele GarfinkelProgramme Manager+49 6221 8891 552
EMBO Scientific PublicationsBernd PulvererHead+49 6221 8891 501
EMBO Public Relations & CommunicationsBarry Whyte Head+49 6221 8891 108
Information Support & ResourcesVolker WiersdorffHead+49 6221 8891 118
Complete list of EMBO staff in Heidelberg on pages 106–107.
EMBO FellowshipsAndrea Hutterer Programme Manager+49 6221 8891 122
EMBO Young InvestigatorsEMBO Installation GrantsEMBO Women in ScienceGerlind WallonProgramme ManagerDeputy Director+49 6221 8891 112
EMBO Scientific PublicationsThomas LembergerDeputy Head+49 6221 8891 404
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
New EMBO Members & Young Investigators
EMBO Science Policy
EMBO Gold Medal
EMBO Global Activities
EMBO Courses & Workshops
FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award
FEBS–EMBO 2014 Conference
EMBO Press
The �rst �ve Advanced Fellows are selected (page 56). 247 Long-Term and 284 Short-Term Fellowships are awarded. The Fellows’ Meeting is held in Heidelberg in June 2014. In Novem-ber, the US Fellows’ Meeting is held at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, United States.
EMBO enlarges its membership on the occasion of its 50th anniversary and elects 106 new members (page 20). Twenty-seven Young Investigators (page 84) and eight InstallationGrantees (page 89) join the EMBO community.
EMBO Science Policy and EMBO Press receive a grant from the Fondation Brocher for a workshop on the genomics of cognition to be held in December 2015. The programme holds two workshops in 2014, one on the use of quotas in academic hiring (funded by Bosch Stiftung); the other on uses of non-anonymized human genome sequence in research (funded by ESF).
Sophie Martin receives the 2014 EMBO Gold Medal (page 101).
Cooperation agreement between EMBO, EMBC and the Government of the Republic of Singapore is extended until end of 2015. India requests to become an EMBC Associate Member State.
More than 11,000 participants from 105 countries attend 96 scienti�c events; 313 participants attend 19 EMBO Laboratory Management Courses.
French biologist Pascale Cossart receives the 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award.
The FEBS–EMBO 2014 Conference celebrates the 50th anniversa-ries of FEBS and EMBO and the centennial of the French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SFBBM).
EMBO Press launches a referee cross-commenting platform, Expanded View �gures, author checklists and image integrity screening services across its journals; manuscript transfers to EMBOreports are increased. The SourceData project is developing tools to search and re-use published data with a grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation.
HIGHLIGHTS 2014
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EMBO facts & figures 2014
EMBO promotes excellence in life sciences in Europe by recognizing and fostering talented scientists.
Since 1964, leading scientists are elected annually to become EMBO Members based on proven excellence in research. Members number more than 1700 today. 79 scientists from the EMBO membership have received the Nobel Prize.
EMBO funding, training and networking activities attract thousands of scientists every year, promoting collaboration in all areas of life science research.
Four peer-reviewed journals span a broad spectrum of the life sciences and reflect how research is shaping the world.
The European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), founded in 1969, is the intergovernmental funding body for EMBO comprising 27 member states including most of the European Union and some of the neighbouring countries.
Both EMBO and EMBC are driven by a common commitment to research at the European level. Their joint activities are characterized by quality and encouragement of co-operation within the scientific community.
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EMBO actions in 2014 6–7
EMBC actions in 2014 8–9
facts & figures 2014 EMBC Member States 12–17 Delegates and Advisers 12–16 Financial contributions 17
EMBO Council & Committees 18–19 EMBO Council 2014 18 EMBO Committees 2014 19
EMBO Membership 20–25 EMBO Members 2014 20–24 EMBO Associate Members 2014 25
EMBO Scientific Publications 26–29 Advisory Editorial Boards & Senior Editors of The EMBO Journal 26 EMBO reports 27 Molecular Systems Biology 28 EMBO Molecular Medicine 29
EMBO Fellowships 30–83 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 30–55 Statistics 30–31 Awards 2014 32–52 Geographical distribution 2014 54–55 EMBO Advanced Fellowships 56 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 57–83 Statistics 57 Awards 2014 58–80 Geographical distribution 2014 82–83
EMBO Young Investigators 84–88 Young Investigators 2014 84 Young Investigators 2000–2013 85 Applications and awards 2005 –2014 86 Lectures 2014 87–88
EMBO Installation Grants 89 Installation Grantees 2014 89
EMBO Courses & Workshops 90–96 Practical Courses 2014 90–91 Workshops 2014 91–92 Conferences 2014 92–93 Symposia 2014 93–94 EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses 2014 94 Global Exchange Lecture Courses 2014 94 Laboratory Management Courses 2014 95–96
EMBO Women in Science 98–100 Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics 98–100
EMBO Gold Medal 101 Gold Medalists 1986 –2014 101
EMBO Keynote Lectures 102–104 Keynote Lectures 2014 102–104
EMBO Staff in Heidelberg 106–107
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4 Preface | Maria Leptin EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org
2014 was an eventful year for EMBO as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of our or-ganization. EMBO was official-ly founded on 12 July 1964. It has since helped to establish a community of outstanding sci-entists who have made signifi-cant contributions to advance the life sciences in Europe and other parts of the world.
Our 50th anniversary year included activities and events that featured some of EMBO’s many achievements. One of the
highlights was a science and policy meeting held in Heidelberg in July as part of the celebrations. The meeting included talks from Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of Research and Innovation at the European Commission, invited scientific speakers, and a panel discussion featuring the opinions of sci-ence ministers from Europe.
In 2014, 106 scientists were welcomed to the EMBO mem-bership in recognition of their outstanding achievements in the life sciences. The 106 new members included 50 scientists who have made exceptional contributions to neuroscience, ecology and evolution, disciplines that were selected as part of the stra-tegic expansion of the EMBO membership for the anniversary year. A special membership meeting in October was the ideal opportunity to welcome all recently elected members to the organization. The EMBO Membership currently includes more than 1700 life scientists in the international community.
27 young scientists were selected as EMBO Young Investigators in 2014. The scientists join a network of 342
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Young Investigators who represent some of the best group leaders contributing to European research. The programme re-ceived 202 applications in 2014. Thirteen per cent of the can-didates who applied were selected and the new investigators originated from 11 countries.
EMBO also supports scientists who wish to set up labora-tories in countries looking to improve their research capacity. In 2014, eight researchers received Installation Grants for this purpose. The grants are helping the scientists to relocate and set up laboratories in the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. 72 researchers have been funded by EMBO Installation Grants since the start of the programme in 2006.
247 Long-Term Fellowships and 284 Short-Term Fellowships were awarded in 2014. EMBO Long-Term Fellowships provide financial support for postdoctoral research in leading laborato-ries in Europe and around the world. Short-Term Fellowships, which support three-month visits to laboratories in Europe and elsewhere in the world, allow young scientists to gain experi-ence in some of the latest scientific technologies.
Our Courses & Workshops continue to be popular amongst the scientific community. In 2014, 96 EMBO Courses & Workshops were held and attracted more than 11,000 partici-pants. The events took place in 23 different countries.
EMBO’s Laboratory Management Courses, which provide training for postdoctoral researchers and group leaders, are in strong demand. 19 courses were held in 2014 and we continue to look for ways to expand their reach.
As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, EMBO played a major role in organizing The FEBS-EMBO Conference 2014* in Paris, France, on 30 August to 4 September. The meeting, which was organized with FEBS and the French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, brought together many leading researchers to discuss the latest scientific findings in
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the life sciences. More than 2500 participants attended the event. On the opening day, William Whelan, the first Secretary General of FEBS, revealed the early history and development of FEBS. Gottfried Schatz, former Secretary General of EMBO, de-scribed how the activities of EMBO had grown over the years. The meeting also included opening lectures from Catherine Dulac from Harvard University and Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Dulac’s talk focused on how the mouse brain is geared for so-cial interaction. Pääbo’s lecture addressed the origins and evo-lution of humans.
Later in the year, we had a further confirmation of the value of our efforts to widen our membership when we witnessed the award of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to no less than three EMBO Members active in neuroscience. The 2014 recipients were Professor John O’Keefe, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University College London, Edvard Moser, Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and May-Britt Moser, Director of the Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The prize was awarded for work that elucidat-ed how the brains of larger organisms create maps of the space surrounding them and how these organisms can navigate their way through a complex environment.
The EMBO Science Policy Programme has made further progress to advance science policies that will help to strength-en the global research community. A European Science Foundation-funded workshop on the use of non-anonymized human genome sequence was held at the end of the year and the official report on the workshop was published recently.1In collaboration with Thomas Lemberger, Deputy Head of
Scientific Publications, a grant was received from the Brocher Foundation to support a workshop on the genomics of cogni-tion in December 2015. Work continues to help develop the next version of Epigeum, an online training course for research ethics. Few organizations have solutions in place to help im-prove how scientists are trained in ethics. Epigeum has been well received by the scientific community and has the potential for wider development and use.
In July 2014, EMBO’s SourceData project received a three-year, € 420,000 grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation to sup-port its work to improve access to the data in published scien-tific articles. Efficient access to primary research data could significantly speed up science. The SourceData team is devel-oping tools to make the data in scientific publications easier to find and to allow scientists to use the data to their full potential.
In November, the EMBC approved the Indicative Scheme for 2015-2019, a 2.5% increase versus the approved budget for 2014. I would like to thank all members of the EMBC for their renewed commitment to the activities of EMBO. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who con-tributed to the success of EMBO in our anniversary year and I look forward to many more achievements in the years to come.
Sincerely
*Administrated by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH1 www.embo.org/documents/science_policy/non-anonymized_human%20genome_sequence_ESF_EMBO_2014_workshop_report.pdf
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The EMBO Council met in April 2014. Major decisions are listed below along with other important EMBO actions not described elsewhere in this report.
EMBO actions 2014
➔➔ EMBO OFFICERS & COUNCIL 2014Paul Nurse EMBO SECRETARY GENERAL
Detlef Weigel CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL
Richard Treisman VICE CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL
Geneviève AlmouzniPascale CossartVictor de LorenzoCaroline DeanRoberto di LauroDenis DubouleAnne EphrussiRegine KahmannLeszek KaczmarekMart SaarmaPaul Schulze-LefertDimitris ThanosVeronica van HeyningenMEMBERS OF EMBO COUNCIL
➔➔ See page 18 for a detailed list of the 2014 EMBO Council
Council and membership elections➔❚ Detlef Weigel was re-elected Chair of EMBO Council for 2015, Geneviève Almouzni was elected Vice Chair of EMBO Council for 2015. ➔❚ Caroline Dean and Denis Duboule were re-elected to Council by the membership for the period 2015 –2017. Jürgen Knoblich (AT), Carl-Henrik Heldin (SE) and Karen Vousden (UK) were newly elected for the same period. Leszek Kaczmarek was selected to replace Roberto di Lauro for the year 2015.➔❚ On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, EMBO expanded the scope of its membership by electing 50 researchers working in the fields of neuroscience and ecology & evolution. In total, 106 outstanding researchers in the life sciences were elected to the EMBO Membership. One hundred of the scientists reside in Europe and neighbouring countries; six Associate Members were elected from China, Japan and the United States. The EMBO Membership currently comprises more than 1700 life scientists. More information is listed on pages 20 –25.
Financial matters➔❚ The EMBO Council approved the accounts for 2013 and the preliminary budget for the EMBO activities for 2015. This funding comes from income generated by the EMBO publications and supplements the EMBC financing of the EMBO Programmes and activities. It is also used to pilot EMBO activities that are not part of the EMBC General Programme.➔❚ Since 2009, the EMBO and EMBC accounts have been audited by KPMG (Switzerland). This audit is carried out in addition to the standard auditing by a national audit court from one of the EMBC Member States (currently Netherlands).
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EMBO actions 2014
➔➔ EMBO COMMITTEE CHAIRS 2014Jane Langdale EMBO Membership Committee
Sarah Bray EMBO Fellowship Committee
Frank Uhlmann EMBO Course Committee
Gisou van der Goot EMBO Young Investigator Committee
Reinhard Jahn EMBO Publications Advisory Board
➔➔ See page 19 for a complete list of the 2014 committee members.
➔➔ EMBO Council Administrator Gitta Bourke [email protected] T +49 6221 8891 117 F +49 6221 8891 202
Awards➔❚ Sophie Martin of the University Lausanne, Switzerland, was the winner of the 2014 EMBO Gold Medal. The award acknowledged her work on molecular events that define the organization and development of the cell (see page 101).➔❚ EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announced Pascale Cossart, of the Institute Pasteur in Paris, France, as the winner of the 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award.➔❚ EMBO Members John O’Keefe, Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Meetings and training➔❚ EMBO, EMBL and EMBC organized a joint Anniversary Science and Policy Meeting in Heidelberg on 2 and 3 July 2014. The event marked the 50th anniversary of EMBO, the 45th anniversary of EMBC and the 40th anniversary of EMBL. ➔❚ The FEBS-EMBO 2014 Conference was held in Paris, France from 30 August to 4 September.➔❚ New EMBO Members elected in 2014 were welcomed to the organization during the Anniversary Members’ Meeting held from 29 to 31 October 2014 in Heidelberg.➔❚ EMBO and EMBL held six joint EMBO | EMBL Symposia in the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in 2014. ➔❚ EMBO continues to participate in the activities and meetings of the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE).➔❚ The EMBO Director and EMBO managers were engaged in a variety of other meetings and collaborations – in particular with the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), the European Science Foundation (ESF), the European Research Council (ERC) and the various programmes of the European Commission (EC). ➔❚ EMBO provided management training for postdoctoral researchers and group leaders by organizing 19 Laboratory Management Courses.
Other EMBO activities
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EMBC actions 2014
➔➔ EMBC OFFICERS 2014Toivo Maimets ESTONIA PRESIDENT
Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS
Angela Nieto SPAIN VICE-PRESIDENTS
Patrick Cramer GERMANY SECRETARY GENERAL
Kalervo Hiltunen FINLAND FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR
Hemma Bauer AUSTRIA FINANCE COMMITTEE VICE CHAIR
➔➔ STRATEGIC WORKING PARTy 2014Ahmet Ademoğlu TURKEY
Lucia Banci ITALY Hemma Bauer AUSTRIA Patrick Cramer GERMANY Josiane Entringer LUXEMBOURG
Jean-Michel Heard FRANCE Kalervo Hiltunen FINLAND Toivo Maimets ESTONIA CHAIR
Angela Nieto SPAIN Mark Palmer UNITED KINGDOM
Jeannette Ridder-Numan NETHERLANDS
Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS
Volker Wiesenthal GERMANY
➔➔ See pages 12 – 16 for a list of all EMBC Delegates
The EMBC Delegates met in formal session in June and November 2014. The EMBC Finance Committee met in June 2014 and the EMBC Strategic Working Party met in June and November 2014; the decisions and actions resulting from these meetings are listed below.
Financial matters➔❚ EMBC noted the reports of the external auditors and accepted the accounts for 2013. ➔❚ EMBC approved the Indicative Scheme for the period 2015 – 2019 and the budget for 2015.
EMBC decisions and actions ➔❚ EMBC heard a detailed report from EMBO on the delivery of the EMBC General Programme. ➔❚ EMBC agreed unanimously to accept Malta’s application for EMBC membership. Following ratification of the EMBC Agreement, Malta will become the 28th EMBC Member State.➔❚ EMBC agreed to prolong the cooperation agreement with Singapore for a further 14 months until 31 December 2015. ➔❚ EMBC agreed to accept India’s application for EMBC Associate Membership.
Election of officers for 2014 ➔❚ Gerrit van Meer (Netherlands) was elected President of EMBC for 2015. Fabio Iannaccone (Italy) and Charalambos Savakis (Greece) were elected Vice-Presidents for 2015. ➔❚ Patrick Cramer (Germany) was re-elected Secretary General of EMBC for 2015.
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EMBC actions 2014
➔➔ FINANCE COMMITTEE
PERMANENT MEMBERS
France GermanyItaly Spain United Kingdom
ELECTED MEMBERS
Austria Belgium Finland Greece Ireland Netherlands Sweden
➔➔ For the scale of contributions by the individual EMBC Member States, see page 17.
➔➔ EMBC Administrator Gitta Bourke [email protected] T +49 6221 8891 117 F +49 6221 8891 202
➔➔ EMBC MEMBER STATES
The following countries are member states of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC):
➔❚ Austria ➔❚ Belgium➔❚ Croatia➔❚ Czech Republic➔❚ Denmark➔❚ Estonia➔❚ Finland➔❚ France➔❚ Germany
➔❚ Greece➔❚ Hungary➔❚ Iceland➔❚ Ireland➔❚ Israel➔❚ Italy➔❚ Luxembourg➔❚ Netherlands➔❚ Norway
➔❚ Poland➔❚ Portugal➔❚ Slovak Republic➔❚ Slovenia➔❚ Spain➔❚ Sweden➔❚ Switzerland➔❚ Turkey➔❚ United Kingdom
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EMBC Member States 12–17
EMBO Council & Committees 18–19
EMBO Membership 20–25
EMBO Scientific Publications 26–29
EMBO Fellowships 30–83
EMBO Young Investigators 84–88
EMBO Installation Grants 89
EMBO Courses & Workshops 90–96
EMBO Women in Science 98–100
EMBO Gold Medal 101
EMBO Keynote Lectures 102–104
EMBO staff in Heidelberg 106–107
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EMBC Delegates & [email protected]
AUSTRIA
Dr. Hemma BauerAustrian Ministry of Science, Research and Economy Unit V/3c – Life Sciences Rosengasse 2–6AT-1014 ViennaT +43 1 53120 [email protected]
Prof. Veronika SexlInstitute for Pharmacology and ToxicologyChair of InstituteVeterinärplatz 1AT-1210 ViennaT +43 (1) [email protected]
BELGIUM
Dr. François GuissartBelgian Federal Science Policy OfficeAvenue Louise 231BE-1050 BrusselsT +32 2 238 34 [email protected]
Mr Vincent MeunierBelgian Federal Science Policy OfficeAvenue Louise 231BE-1050 BrusselsT +32 2 238 34 [email protected]
Prof. Marc van MontaguInstitute of Plant Biotechnology Outreach (IPBO)IIC UGent/VIBTechnologiepark 3BE-9052 Ghent-ZwijnaardeT +32 9 264 87 [email protected]
CROATIA
Dr. Lovorka Baraç LaucExecutive DirectorThe National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development Ilica 24HR-10000 ZagrebT +385 51 228 [email protected]
Prof. Kresimir PaveliçUniversity of RijekaDept. of BiotechnologyRadmile Matej i 2HR-51000 RijekaT +385 51 584 [email protected]
CzECH REPUBLIC
Ms Jana BystrickáMinistry of Education, Youth and SportsDept. of International CooperationKarmelitska 7CZ-118 12 PragueT +420 234 811 [email protected]
Dr. zdena PalkovaDept. of Genetics and MicrobiologyCharles UniversityVinicná 5CZ-12844 Prague 2T +420 2 2195 [email protected]
Prof. Toivo Maimets EMBC President
Prof. Patrick Cramer EMBC Secretary General
Gitta Bourke EMBC Administrator
embc.embo.org
A President, two Vice Presidents and a Secretary General lead the EMBC, the intergovernmental funding body of EMBO. The governments of the member states nominate EMBC Delegates. Typically each member state appoints one delegate from a relevant ministry and one scientific adviser.
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DENMARK
Mr Troels Tvedegaard RasmussenDanish Agency for Science, Technology and InnovationBredgade 40DK-1260 – Copenhagen KT +45 7231 [email protected]
Prof. Jesper Velgaard OlsenThe Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein ResearchPanum InstituttetBlegdamsvej 3DK-2200 København NT +45 [email protected]
ESTONIA
Prof. Toivo MaimetsDept. of Cell BiologyInstitute of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of TartuRiia 23b–135EE-51010 TartuT +372 737 [email protected]
Dr. Toivo RäimMinistry of Education and ResearchTallinn OfficeTõnismägi 11EE-15192 TallinnT +372 735 [email protected]
FINLAND
Prof. Kalervo HiltunenFaculty of Biochemistry and Mol. MedicineUniversity of OuluAapisti e 7 BFI-90220 OuluT +358 294 [email protected]
Dr. Jarmo WahlforsDirector, Health Research UnitAcademy of FinlandHakaniemenranta 6, PO Box 131 FI-00531 HelsinkiT +358 29 533 [email protected]
FRANCE
Dr. Vincent GeliInstitut Jean Paoli et Irène CalmettesCentre regional de lutte contre le cancer27, boulevard Lei RoureFR-13273 Marseille cedex 09T +33 4 91 75 84 [email protected]
Dr. Jean-Michel HeardDirection générale pour la Recherche et l’InnovationMinistère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche1, rue DescartesFR-75231 Paris Cedex 5T +33 1 55 55 90 [email protected]
Dr. Thierry MeinnelAVIESANInstitut des Sciences du VégétalBât 23, 1 avenue de la TerrasseFR-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedexT +33 1 69 82 36 [email protected]
GERMANY
Prof. Patrick CramerMPI for Biophysical ChemistryDept. Molecular BiologyFeodor-Lynen-Str. 25DE-37077 GoettingenT +49 89 [email protected]
Dr. Jan GrapentinBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungKapelle-Ufer 1DE-10117 Berlin T +49 30 18 57 [email protected]
Dr. Volker WiesenthalBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungReferat 613Kapelle-Ufer 1DE-10117 BerlinT +49 3018 57 [email protected]
GREECE
Dr. Nikos PrekasMinistry of Education and Religious Affairs,Sport and CultureGSRTInternational Organisations Division14–18 Mesogeion AvenueGR-115 10 AthensT +30 210 [email protected]
Prof. Charalambos SavakisInstitute of Cell & Developmental BiologyBSRC Alexander Fleming34 Alexander Fleming StreetGR-16672 VariT +30 210 8976 [email protected]
HUNGARY
Ms Katalin HajósDeputy HeadHungarian Academy of SciencesDept. for International RelationsNádor utca 7HU-1051 BudapestT +36 1 411 [email protected]
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Prof. Làszlò PatthyInstitute of EnzymologyBiological Research CentreKarolina ut 29HU-1113 BudapestT +36 1 209 [email protected]
ICELAND
Dr. Eiríkur SteingrímssonDept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty of MedicineUniversity of IcelandVatnsmyrarvegur 16IS-101 ReykjavikT +354 525 [email protected]
IRELAND
Dr. Marion BolandScience Foundation IrelandWilton Park HouseWilton PlaceIE-Dublin 2T +353 1 607 [email protected]
Mr Brian DaltonOffice of Science, Technology & InnovationDept. of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation23 Kildare StreetIE-Dublin 2T +353 1 631 [email protected]
ISRAEL
Dr. Yossi KalifaDirector of Life SciencesMinistry of Science, Technology and SpaceHaqirya Hamizrahit, Bldg 3P.O. Box 49100IL-91490 JerusalemT +972 2 [email protected]
Prof. Joel SussmanDept. of Structural BiologyThe Israel Structural Proteomics CenterWeizmann Institute of ScienceIL-76100 RehovotT +972 8 [email protected]
ITALY
Prof. Lucia BanciCERM – Centro di Ricerca di Risonanze MagneticheUniversità di FirenzeVia Luigi Sacconi 6IT-50019 Sesto FiorentinoT +39 055 [email protected]
Mr Fabio IannacconeMinistero dell’Economia e delle FinanzeRagioneria Generale dello StatoI.G.A.E. Uff. IXVia XX Settembre no 97IT-00187 RomaT +39 06 476 [email protected]
LUxEMBOURG
Ms Josiane EntringerDeputy DirectorMinistry of Higher Education and Research20, Montée de la PetrusseLU-2327 LuxembourgT +352 247 [email protected]
NETHERLANDS
Dr. Jeannette Ridder-NumanMinistry of Education, Culture and ScienceIPC 4100Rijnstraat 50NL-2515 XP Den HaagT +31 70 412 [email protected]@minocw.nl
Prof. Gerrit van MeerBureau Faculteit BètawetenschappenBudapestlaan 6 - kamer 001ANL-3584 CH UtrechtT +31 30 253 [email protected]
NORWAY
Prof. Oddmund BakkeUniversity of OsloDept. of Molecular BiosciencesKristine Bonnevies husBlindernveien 31NO-0371 OsloT +47 22855787 +47 [email protected]
Dr. Jacob E. WangResearch Council of NorwayDrammensveien 288NO-0283 OsloT +47 22 03 73 [email protected]
POLAND
Prof. Leszek KaczmarekDept. of Molecular and Cellular NeurobiologyNencki InstitutePasteura 3PL-02-093 WarsawT +48 22 [email protected]
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Ms Maria KlimkiewiczDepartment of International Cooperation20 Hoza St.PL-00-529 WarsawT +48 22 5017 [email protected]
PORTUGAL
Prof. Maria Carmo-FonsecaFaculdade de MedicinaInstituto de Medicina MolecularAv. Prof. Egas MonizPT-1649-028 Lisboa CodesT +351 21 799 94 [email protected]
Mr Luís Filipe MotaDepartment of International Relations Foundation for Science & Technology (FCT)Ministry of Education & Science Av. D. Carlos I, 126-7°PT-1249-074 LisbonT +351 21391 15 [email protected]
Prof. Cláudio SunkelInstitute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC)University of PortoRua do Campo Alegre 823PT-4150-180 PortoT +351 22 607 49 [email protected]
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Ms Anna JuríkováDepartment of International Cooperation in Research & DevelopmentMinistry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak RepublicStromová 1 SK-813 30 BratislavaT +421 2 [email protected]
Dr. Silvia PastorekováInstitute of VirologySlovak Academy of SciencesDubravska cesta 9SK-845 05 BratislavaT +421 2 59 30 24 [email protected]
Prof. Ján TurnaSlovak Centre of Scientific and Technical InformationLamacska cesta 8/ASK-811 04 BratislavaT +421 2 69 25 31 [email protected]
SLOVENIA
Dr. Tomaz BohDirectorate of ScienceMinistry of Education, Science & SportMasarykova 16SI-1000 LjubljanaT [email protected]@gov.si
Mr Andrej OgrajensekScience DivisionScience Directorate Ministry of Education, Science and Sports Masarykova 16SI-1000 LjubljanaT +386 1 478 46 [email protected]
Prof. Boris TurkDept. of Biochemistry andMolecular and Structural BiologyJ. Stefan Institute Jamova 39SI-1000 LjubljanaT +386 1 477 37 [email protected]
SPAIN
Dr. Cristina BauluzSubdirección General de Relaciones InternacionalesSecretaría General de Ciencia Tecnología e InnovaciónC/Albacete, 5-P5N D10ES-28027 MadridT +34 91 603 88 [email protected]
Prof. M. Angela NietoHead of Developmental NeurobiologyInstitute of Neurosciences CSIC-UMHAvda. Ramon y Cajal s/nES-03550 San Juan de AlicanteT +34 965 [email protected]
SWEDEN
Prof. Stefan HohmannDept. of Chemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of GothenburgMedicinaregatan 9CSE-405 30 GothenburgT +46 31 [email protected]
Dr. Maria ThuvesonSwedish Research CouncilVästra Järnvägsgatan 3SE-101 38 StockholmT +46 8 546 44 [email protected]
SWITzERLAND
Dr. Isabella BerettaState Secretariat for Education, Research & Innovation SERIInternational Research & Innovation ProgrammesEinsteinstrasse 2CH-3003 BerneT +41 58 462 84 [email protected]
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Prof. Damian BrunnerInstitute of Mol. Life SciencesUniversity of ZurichBuilding/Room: Y55-L-66Winterthurerstrasse 190CH-8057 ZurichT +41 44 635 [email protected]
TURKEY
Prof. Ahmet AdemogluBiomedical Engineering InstituteBogazici UniversityBebekTR-34342 IstanbulT +90 212 259 64 [email protected]
UNITED KINGDOM
Mr Bruce MintyMedical Research Council (MRC) 14th FloorOne Kemble StreetGB-London WC2B 4ANT +44 1793 [email protected]
Dr. Mark PalmerMedical Research Council14th Floor, One Kemble StreetGB-London WC2B 4ANT +44 20 7395 [email protected]
Mr Tim WillisBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) North Star AvenuePolaris HouseGB-Swindon SN2 1UHT +44 1793 [email protected]
17EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBC Member States financial contributions
EMBC Member States financial contributions
EMBC Member State 2014% of total
contributionsAustria 2.05Belgium 2.53Croatia 0.32Czech Republic 0.92Denmark 1.61Estonia 0.11Finland 1.29France 14.88Germany 18.69Greece 1.71Hungary 0.64Iceland 0.07Ireland 1.16Israel 0.97Italy 11.23Luxembourg 0.21Netherlands 4.27Norway 2.17Poland 2.42Portugal 1.14Slovak Republic 0.43Slovenia 0.25Spain 7.79Sweden 2.48Switzerland 2.59Turkey 3.44United Kingdom 14.60Total 100.00
18 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Council 2014
EMBO Council
EMBO Council members Elected term(s) of office Name Country – Town2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Geneviève Almouzni FR-Paris2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015 Pascale Cossart FR-Paris2012 – 2014 Caroline Dean UK-Norwich2014 – 2016 Victor de Lorenzo ES-Madrid2013 – 2015 Roberto di Lauro IT-Napoli2012 – 2014 Denis Duboule CH-Geneva2013 – 2015 Anne Ephrussi DE-Heidelberg2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2014 Leszek Kaczmarek PL-Warsaw2014 – 2016 Regine Kahmann DE-Marburg2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Mart Saarma FI-Helsinki2013 – 2015 Paul Schulze-Lefert DE-Koeln2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Dimitris Thanos GR-Athens2010 – 2011, 2012 – 2014 Richard Treisman VICE CHAIR UK-London2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015 Detlef Weigel CHAIR DE-Tuebingen2010, 2011 – 2013, 2014 Veronica van Heyningen UK-Edinburgh
Ex officio Council members Maria Leptin Director, EMBOPaul Nurse Secretary General, EMBO
Observers Toivo Maimets President, EMBCPatrick Cramer Secretary General, EMBCIain Mattaj Director General, EMBLJane Langdale CHAIR EMBO Membership CommitteeGisou van der Goot CHAIR EMBO Young Investigator CommitteeFrank Uhlmann CHAIR EMBO Course CommitteeSarah Bray CHAIR EMBO Fellowship CommitteeReinhard Jahn CHAIR EMBL SAC
The EMBO Council is the governing body of EMBO, responsible for ensuring the development of the organization. It consists of 15 members, who serve for a period of three years and who may be re-elected for one additional term of office.
2014 www.embo.org/about-embo/council
EMBO Council members are elected for a three-year term of office and may be re-elected for one additional term of office.
19EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Committees 2014
[email protected] www.embo.org/about-embo/committees#publications
EMBO CommitteesMembers serve on committees to guide core EMBO programmes, activities and publications. The EMBO Council appoints members to serve on committees for a four-year term; committee chairs are appointed for three years and may serve on the committee beyond the usual four years.
Course Committee 2009 Frank Uhlmann UK CHAIR2012 Frédéric Allain CH2014 Nils Brose DE2012 Søren Brunak DK2014 Javier Cáceres UK2013 Christian Lehner CH2012 Paul Schulze-Lefert DE2013 Anne Spang CH2014 Janet Thornton UK2011 Isabelle Vernos ES2014 Arturo Zychlinsky DE
Fellowship Committee2012 Sarah Bray UK CHAIR2013 Andres Aguilera ES2012 Anna Akhmanova NL2010 Cecilia Maria Arraiano PT2013 Claudia Bagni BE2012 Naama Barkai IL2010 Yinon Ben-Neriah IL2013 József Burgyán HU2013 Michael Boutros DE2013 Elena Conti DE2012 Liam Dolan UK2013 Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna IT2013 Santiago F. Elena ES2014 Eric Miska UK2011 Thomas Nystroem SE2013 Luca Scorrano CH2012 Brigitta Stockinger UK2011 Nektarios Tavernarakis GR2014 Antoine Triller FR2013 Pierre Vanderhaeghen BE
young Investigator Committee2011 Gisou van der Goot CH CHAIR2011 Bruno Amati IT2013 Christer Betsholtz SE2011 Anne Ferguson-Smith UK2012 Michael Hall CH2011 Yrjö Helariutta FI2012 Robert Kaptein NL2014 Karim Labib UK2013 Dietmar Schmucker BE2013 Maria Sibilia AT
Membership Committee2009 Jane Langdale UK CHAIR2013 Ewan Birney UK2011 Irene Bozzoni IT2012 Nils Brose DE2014 Tim Clausen AT2013 Maria Pia Cosma ES2012 Carlos Dotti BE2011 Andreas Engel NL2014 Urs Greber CH2011 Gillian M. Griffiths UK2014 Edith Heard FR2011 Francesc Posas ES2013 Jacques Pouysségur FR2011 Catherine Rabouille NL2012 Hans-Georg Rammensee DE2014 Philippe J. Sansonetti FR2013 Michel O. Steinmetz CH2013 Giulio Superti-Furga AT2012 Olivier Voinnet CH2014 Kenneth H. Wolfe IE
EMBO | EMBL Symposia Committee*2010 Maria Leptin DE CHAIR2008 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL CHAIR2008 Anne Ephrussi DE, EMBL2013 Anne-Claude Gavin DE, EMBL2008 Darren Gilmour DE, EMBL**
2011 Michael O. Hengartner CH2008 Matthias W. Hentze DE, EMBL2013 Jan Korbel DE, EMBL**
2011 Frauke Melchior DE2013 Ramesh Pillai FR, EMBL**
2014 Frank Uhlmann UK
Science Policy Advisory Group*2012 Geneviève Almouzni FR2012 Ioannis Economidis BE**
2013 Anne Ephrussi DE2012 Toivo Maimets EE**
2012 Claudio Sunkel PT2012 Richard Treisman UK
Publications Advisory Board*2010 Reinhard Jahn DE Chair2010 Peer Bork DE, EMBL2013 Pietro De Camilli US2009 Ivan Dikic DE2014 Ari Helenius (2014)2011 Robert Kiley UK**
2010 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL2014 Jo McEntyre UK2014 Tom Misteli USA2013 Frank Uhlmann UK
Ex-officioStefanie DimmelerThomas LembergerMaria LeptinBernd Pulverer
FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Committee2013 Cecilia Arraiano PT2011 Johanna Ivaska FI2013 Ingrid Grummt DE2012 Oscar Marin ES2014 Sean Munro UK2013 Maciej Zylicz PL2013 Anna Tramontano IT2014 Gerrit van Meer NL
Internal Auditor (EMBL)Tomasz Smolarek
External Auditors Central Audit Service Netherlands
EMBO AuditKPMG
* Committee includes EMBO Members and** external advisers
2014
20 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Members elected in 2014
EMBO Members [email protected] www.embo.org/members
Name Institute Research interestRalf Adams MPI für Molekulare Biomedizin | Münster, Germany and
University of Münster, GermanyMolecular regulation of angiogenesis
Margarida Amaral University | Lisbon, Portugal Membrane traffic of disease-related proteins
Michalis Averof École Normale Supérieure | Lyon, France Comparative developmental biology
Ian T. Baldwin Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie | Jena, Germany The function of plant genes in nature
Nicholas H. Barton Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST) | Klosterneuburg, Austria
Theoretical evolutionary genetics
Malcolm J. Bennett University | Nottingham, United Kingdom Adaptive responses during root development
Per-Olof Berggren Karolinska University Hospital | Stockholm, Sweden Pancreatic islet cell signal-transduction
Anna Bigas Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM) | Barcelona, Spain
Stem cell specification and leukemia development
Antje Boëtius Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeres-forschung | Bremerhaven, Germany and Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie | Bremen, Germany
Marine microbiology and deep sea life
Sebastian Bonhoeffer ETH Zurich, Switzerland Evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases
Déborah Bourc'his Institut Curie | Paris, France Epigenetic control of mammalian reproduction
Philippe Bousso Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Dynamics of immune responses during cancer and infection
Ineke Braakman Utrecht University, Netherlands Membrane glycoprotein folding and chaperone action
Paul Brakefield University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Trinity College | Cambridge, United Kingdom
Evolution of adaptive radiations in butterflies
Michael Brecht Humboldt University | Berlin, Germany Neuro-behavior
Julius Brennecke IMBA | Vienna, Austria Small RNA mediated genome defense in Drosophila
Thijn R. Brummelkamp Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience | Amsterdam, Netherlands and CeMM | Vienna, Austria
Experimental biomedical genetics
Scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the life sciences are nominated and elected annually by the membership. More than 1700 of Europe’s leading life scientists are EMBO Members. The membership actively guides the implementation of the many EMBO initiatives offered to scientists by serving on the EMBO Council, Committees and Advisory Editorial Boards.
21EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Members elected in 2014
Name Institute Research interestOliver Brüstle Universität | Bonn, Germany Neural stem cells for disease modeling and
repair
Johannes Buchner Technical University of Munich | Garching, Germany Molecular chaperones and protein folding
Carmen Buchrieser Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Bacterial evolution & host pathogen interactions
Ian Chambers MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine | Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Transcriptional control of pluripotent cell states
Brian Charlesworth University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evolutionary genetics and genomics
Deborah Charlesworth University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evolution of sex chromosomes in non-model systems
Emmanuelle Charpentier Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung | Braunschweig, Germany and Umeå University, Sweden
Regulatory RNAs and proteins in infection biology
Philippe Chavrier Institut Curie | Paris, France Cell biology of tumor cell invasion
Daniel Choquet Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (IINS) | Bordeaux, France
Glutamate receptor traffic and synaptic plasticity
Rui M. Costa Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown | Lisbon, Portugal
Neurobiology of action
Stanislas Dehaene CEA / Saclay | Gif-sur-Yvette, France and Collège de France | Paris, France
Neuroimaging of human cognitive architectures
Winfried Denk MPI für Neurobiologie | Martinsried, Germany and HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus | Ashburn, United States
Watching the brain and tracing its wires
Emmanouil Dermitzakis University of Geneva, Switzerland Cellular genetics and genomics
Raymond Dolan University College London, United Kingdom Decision making in health and disease
Peter Donnelly Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics | Oxford, United Kingdom and University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Genomic discovery in health and disease
Yadin Dudai Weizmann Institute of Science | Rehovot, Israel and New York University, United States
Brain mechanisms of episodic memory
Dieter Ebert University of Basel, Switzerland Host-symbiont co-evolution & local adaptation
Hans Ellegren Uppsala University, Sweden Avian evolutionary genomics
Barry J. Everitt University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Neural and psychological basis of drug addiction
Tamás F. Freund Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Functional architecture of cortical microcircuits
Rainer Friedrich Friedrich Miescher Institute | Basel, Switzerland Neuronal circuits and computations
Karl J. Friston University College London, United Kingdom The anatomy of inference in the brain
Uta Frith University College London, United Kingdom Mechanisms in social cognition
22 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Members elected in 2014
Name Institute Research interestAnne-Claude Gavin European Molecular Biology Laboratory | Heidelberg,
GermanyBiochemical and chemical approaches to biomolecular networks
Sten Grillner Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden Networks in motion – from ion channels to behaviour
Ilkka Hanski University of Helsinki, Finland Metapopulation biology and biodiversity research
Volker Haucke Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) | Berlin, Germany and Freie Universität | Berlin, Germany
Endocytosis and endosomal membrane dynamics
Albert J.R. Heck Utrecht University, Netherlands Mass spectroscopy for proteomics & structural biology
Peter Hegemann Humboldt University | Berlin, Germany Structure and function of sensory photoreceptors
Carsten Janke Institut Curie | Orsay, France Mechanisms and functions of microtubule diversity
Jukka Jernvall University of Helsinki, Finland Mammalian evo-devo
Mike Jetten Radboud University | Nijmegen, Netherlands and Delft University of Technology | Delft, Netherlands
Anaerobic microbiology
Henrik Kaessmann University | Lausanne, Switzerland and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | Lausanne, Switzerland
Functional evolution of mammalian genomes
John Kendrick-Jones MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cellular functions of myosins in health and disease
René F. Ketting Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) | Mainz, Germany Small RNA mediated regulation of gene expression
Ole Kiehn Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden Neural circuits controlling movements
David Komander MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, United Kingdom
Specificity in the ubiquitin system
Loeske E.B. Kruuk University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Australian National University | Canberra, Australia
Life history evolution in natural populations
Gilles Laurent MPI für Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Cortical architecture and function
zoi Lygerou University | Patras, Greece Control over DNA replication in eukaryotic cells
Troy W. Margrie MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) | London, United Kingdom and University College London, United Kingdom
Function and connectivity of neuronal circuits
Michela Matteoli Istituto Clinico Humanitas | Rozzano, Italy and CNR Institute of Neuroscience | Milano, Italy
Synaptic protein networks in brain diseases
Robert M. May University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ecosystem dynamics, biodiversity and conservation
Gil McVean Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics | Oxford, United Kingdom
The causes and consequences of genetic variation
23EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Members elected in 2014
Name Institute Research interestPascal Meier Institute of Cancer Research | London, United Kingdom Cell death and inflammation in cancer
Randolf Menzel Freie Universität | Berlin, Germany Learning, memory, navigation and communication
Hannah Monyer Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, Germany
GABAergic interneurons and neuronal coding
Richard G.M. Morris University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Instituto de Neurociencias | Alicante, Spain
Neurobiology of learning and memory
J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia | Norwich, United Kingdom Bacterial metabolism of atmospheric trace gases
Marco Muzi-Falconi Università degli Studi | Milano, Italy Maintenance of genome integrity in eukaryotes
Stéphane Noselli Institut de Biologie Valrose | Nice, France L/R asymmetry and morphogenesis in Drosophila
John O'Keefe University College London, United Kingdom Hippocampus: spatial navigation and memory
Isabelle Olivieri Université II | Montpellier, France Population genetics, phylogenetics, evolution
Christine A. Orengo University College London, United Kingdom Classifying and predicting protein functions
Julian Parkhill Sanger Institute | Cambridge, United Kingdom Bacterial genomics and evolution
Josephine Pemberton University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evolutionary genetics of natural populations
Antoine Peters Friedrich Miescher Institute | Basel, Switzerland Chromatin, epigenetics and the mammalian life cycle
Lluis Quintana-Murci Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Human genome diversity and adaptation to pathogens
Giacomo Rizzolatti Universita | Parma, Italy Cognitive functions of the motor system
Sabrina Sabatini Università 'La Sapienza' | Roma, Italy How to maintain continuous root growth
Erik Sahai Cancer Research UK London Research Institute | London, United Kingdom
Cancer invasion and the tumour microenvironment
Vincent Savolainen Imperial College | London, United Kingdom Biodiversity genomics
Christopher Schofield University of Oxford, United Kingdom Regulation of protein biosynthesis by oxygen
Wolfram Schultz University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Neuroscience of reward and decision making
Erin M. Schuman MPI für Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Cell biology of neuronal synapses
Peter Schuster University | Vienna, Austria and Santa Fe Institute | Santa Fe, United States
Molecular evolution of asexual species
Giorgio Scita IFOM – European Institute of Oncology | Milano, Italy and Università degli Studi | Milano, Italy
Mechanisms of tumor cell migration and invasion
Idan Segev The Hebrew University | Jerusalem, Israel Computations in neurons and neuronal networks
Michael Sieweke Centre d'Immunologie | Marseille, France and Max-Delbrück-Centrum | Berlin, Germany
Stem cell and macrophage biology
24 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Members elected in 2014
Name Institute Research interestWolf Singer MPI für Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Analysis of network dynamics
Michael Sixt Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST) | Klosterneuburg, Austria
Morphodynamics of immune cells
Peter Somogyi University of Oxford, United Kingdom Network dynamics of the brain – the chronocircuit
Haim Sompolinsky The Hebrew University | Jerusalem, Israel and Harvard University | Cambridge, United States
Computational principles of brain function
Christian Spahn Charité - Universitätsmedizin | Berlin, Germany Structure and function of macromolecular machines
Karen Steel King's College | London, United Kingdom Genetics and pathology of deafness
Christoph M. Tang University of Oxford, United Kingdom Bacterial pathogenesis and vaccine development
Daniel Vaulot Station Biologique | Roscoff, France Diversity and ecology of eukaryotic phytoplankton
Scott Waddell University of Oxford, United Kingdom Memory, motivation and neural transposition
Andreas Wagner University of Zurich, Switzerland and Santa Fe Institute | Santa Fe, United States
Evolutionary adaptation and innovation in molecular systems
E. Gerhart H. Wagner Uppsala University, Sweden and SciLifeLab | Uppsala, Sweden
Regulatory RNA in bacteria: mechanisms and biology
Markus Wahl Freie Universität | Berlin, Germany Mechanisms of molecular ribonucleoprotein machines
Nina Wedell University of Exeter, United Kingdom Sex, conflict and selfish genes
Stuart A. West University of Oxford, United Kingdom Social evolution
25EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Associate Members elected in 2014
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Sandra L. Schmid University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, United States
Mechanisms regulating clathrin-mediated endocytosis
David L. Spector Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States Nuclear organization and gene expression
xiaodong Wang National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS) | Beijing, China
Biochemical pathways of cell death in mammals
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32 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectLercher, Lukas
Austrian University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Carlomagno, Teresa
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
The molecular mechanism of nucleosome assembly by histone chaperones
Gehart, Helmuth
Austrian Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France
Clevers, Hans C. Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Time-resolved transcriptional profiling of enteroendocrine fate determination in the intestine
Walzthöni, Thomas
Austrian Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Gaul, Ulrike Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Dissecting the Drosophila core promoter
Hellerschmied-Jelinek, Doris
Austrian Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
Crews, Craig Yale University, New Haven, United States
Analysis of Golgi stress response and quality control system
Claeys, Hannes
Belgian Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium
Jackson, David Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
The effects of drought on maize inflorescence development
Vos, Melissa
Belgian Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Klein, Christine Institute of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Germany
The implication of lipids in Parkinson's disease
Kass Youssef, Khalil
Belgian Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Molecular Human Biology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Nieto, Angela M. Institute of Neuroscience, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain
Cancer cell plasticity and heterogeneity in tumor progression: Defining functional programs of EMT factors in breast cancer models
Van Den Ameele, Jelle
Belgian Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Molecular Human Biology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Brand, Andrea Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Metabolic reprogramming during neurogenesis: Roles for the Notch pathway
Vanwalleghem, Gilles
Belgian Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Gosselies, Belgium
Scott, Ethan The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Functional links among cerebellum, optic tectum and thalamus and their implication in sensory integration
De Vadder, Filipe
Belgian French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Lyon, France
Backhed, Fredrik University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Gut microbiota influence on central regulation of energy homeostasis
MacVicar, Thomas
British University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Langer, Thomas CECAD Research Center, Cologne, Germany
The mitochondrial response to stress: Mitochondrial dynamics regulation by OMA1 activation and OPA1 processing
Dorrell, Richard
British University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Bowler, Chris Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Evolution and functional significance of connected chloroplast and mitochondrial electron transport pathways in diatom algae
33EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectRudd, Sean
British University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Helleday, Thomas Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Role of Y-family polymerases in oxidised dNTP pool-induced genome instability
Rousseau, Adrien
British Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France
Bertolotti, Anne Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Identification of proteins rescuing proteasome defects as a strategy to clear misfolded proteins
Razzell, William
British University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Zallen, Jennifer Rockefeller Research Laboratories, New York, United States
The role of tension in Hippo pathway signaling
Thompson, Andrew
British University of York, United Kingdom
Paulson, James The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, United States
Hemagglutinin specificity as a risk factor in the emergence of new pandemic influenza
Harris, Clifford
British University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jacobsen, Steven E.
University of California Los Angeles, United States
Dissecting mechanisms of DNA methylation control using CRISPR-dCas9 targeting
Ward, Michelle
British Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, United Kingdom
Gilad, Yoav University of Chicago, United States
A comparative study of the effects of hypoxia on cardiomyocytes in primates
Reynell, Clare
British University College London, United Kingdom
Robitaille, Richard University of Montreal, Canada
Investigation into the role of astrocytes in defining neuronal plasticity in the barrel cortex
Erceg, Jelena
Croatian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Wu, Ting Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Dynamics of allele-specific (homolog-specific) chromosome organization during Drosophila embryogenesis
Slyskova, Jana
Czech Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Vermeulen, Wim Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Genome-wide screening for synthetic lethal genes in colorectal cancer
zimmermann, Michal
Czech The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Durocher, Daniel Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Unraveling the molecular networks of DNA double strand break repair pathway choice
Simicek, Michal
Czech Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Komander, David Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Functional characterization of ubiquitin linkage-specific ovarian tumor deubiquitinases
Storm, Nadia
Danish Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
Cuervo, Ana Maria Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States
The role of chaperone-mediated autophagy in tau proteotoxicity
Gregersen, Lea Haarup
Danish Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Svejstrup, Jesper Q.
Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom
Elucidating the functional role of novel factors involved in the transcription-related DNA damage response
34 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectPeuscher, Marieke
Dutch The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
West, Stephen C. Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom
Structural and biochemical characterization of pre-recombination complexes
Stadhouders, Ralph
Dutch Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Graf, Thomas Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
The dynamics of the mammalian epigenome during transcription factor-induced cell fate conversion
Schmidt, Ewoud
Dutch University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Polleux, Franck Columbia University, New York, United States
Shaping the human brain: The role of SRGAP2C in the evolution of cortical networks
Verweij, Frederik
Dutch Cancer Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Raposo, Graça Curie Institute, Paris, France
Revealing the physiology of exosome secretion in vivo by a 4D-imaging approach
Bronkhorst, Walter
Dutch Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Ketting, René F. Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Epigenetic silencing events during germline development in vertebrates
Van Galen, Peter
Dutch The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bernstein, Bradley Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States
Targeting epigenetically heterogeneous acute myeloid leukemia cells
Vos, Seychelle
Dutch University of California Berkeley, United States
Cramer, Patrick Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Determining the molecular architecture of mammalian RNA polymerase II-P-TEFb in complex with HIV Tat-Tar
Putker, Marrit
Dutch University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
O'Neill, John Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Out of sync: Unravelling the reciprocal regulation of the metabolic circadian rhythm and tumour cell metabolism
Schoof, Erwin
Dutch Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Dick, John Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
Global characterization of the quantitative proteome landscapes underlying human hematopoietic and leukemic stem cell lineage commitment
Van Der Goot, Annemieke
Dutch University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
Kopito, Ron Stanford University, United States
The role of N-glycans and ER lectins in protein triage in the early secretory pathway
Velema, Willem
Dutch University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Kool, Eric T. Stanford University, United States
A sensor for a DNA-repair enzyme as a molecular diagnostic tool to guide cancer treatment
Feng, Qian
Dutch Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Kornmann, Benoit Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
When mitochondria are under pressure
35EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectWeijts, Bart
Dutch Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Traver, David University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Deciphering the role of Notch signalling in the formation of hematopoietic stem cells and initiation of leukemia
Van Den Elzen, Antonia
Dutch Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France
Giraldez, Antonio Yale University, New Haven, United States
Identification of factors promoting survival of anoxic conditions in zebrafish embryos
Blot, Antonin
French Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Hofer, Sonja Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
How higher-order thalamocortical pathways influence sensory processing in primary visual cortex
Tsai, Feng-Ching
French FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bassereau, Patricia
Curie Institute, Paris, France
Membrane-ezrin-actin interactions mediated by ezrin binding proteins and I-BAR domain proteins in reconstituted systems
Wartel, Morgane
French National Center for Scientific Research, Marseille, France
Typas, Athanasios European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Deciphering the molecular machinery governing peptidoglycan biogenesis in bacteria using global and targeted molecular approaches
Brunet, Yannick
French Institute of Microbiology of the Mediterranean, Marseille, France
Rudner, David Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Coordinating cell wall synthesis and hydrolysis during bacterial growth
Bonnay, François
French University of Strasbourg, France
Knoblich, Jürgen Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
Characterization of metabolic factors required for tumor maintenance in Drosophila
Bianchi, Julie
French University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Wiman, Klas Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Generation of a panel of novel cellular models to investigate p53 mutation heterogeneity and oncogenic properties
Monniaux, Marie
French Laboratory of Cellular Plant Physiology, Grenoble, France
Hay, Angela Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Genetic and developmental determinants of petal number variation between Arabidopsis thaliana and Cardamine hirsuta
Bonnet, Jacques
French Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France
Müller, Jürg Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Quantitative analyses of the dynamics of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 during fly embryogenesis
Tamoutounour, Samira
French Center of Immunology of Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France
Belkaid, Yasmine National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, United States
Role of microbiota in the epigenetic regulation of macrophages and dendritic cells and consequences for skin homeostasis
Pouchelon, Gabrielle
French University of Geneva, Switzerland
Fishell, Gordon New York University Langone Medical Center, United States
The activity-dependent regulation of cortical interneuron cell death during development
Lecland, Nicolas
French Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
Merdes, Andreas Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
The role of microtubules in skin barrier function
36 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectIvanovitch, Kenzo
French University College London, United Kingdom
Torres, Miguel Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
Cellular basis of early heart morphogenesis in mouse
Eskandarian, Haig Alexander
French Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
McKinney, John Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
Characterizing bacterial phenotypic heterogeneity using atomic force microscopy coupled with fluorescence microscopy in real-time
Plucain, Jessica
French University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Velicer, Gregory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Genetic and physiological bases of the evolution of kin discrimination in Myxococcus xanthus
Barbet-Massin, Emeline
French École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
Reif, Bernd Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
Structure and dynamics of ribosome associated factors and nascent chains by solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Eckersley-Maslin, Melanie
French Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
Reik, Wolf The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Novel screen for epigenetic regulators of totipotency
Broutier, Laura
French Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
Huch, Meritxell Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Human "mini-liver" stem cell culture systems: From mechanisms behind liver cancer origin and recurrence to new therapeutic treatments
Roques, Magali
French University of Montpellier 2, France
Tewari, Rita The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Centrins and cell division in the malaria parasite
Jacquemet, Guillaume
French University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Ivaska, Johanna Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland
Targeting invasive filopodia during cancer cell invasion
Montellier, Emilie
French Albert Bonniot Institute, La Tronche, France
Sassone-Corsi, Paolo
University of California Irvine, United States
Circadian transcriptional reprogramming in development of cancer
Paque, Sébastien
French University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
Weijers, Dolf Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Unraveling the action mechanism of the auxin response transcription factors
Sayou, Camille
French University of Grenoble, France
Tollervey, David Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Characterizing the lncRNA-mRNA interactome
Garreau De Loubresse, Nicolas
French Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France
Yin, Peng Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, United States
Engineering DNA frameworks for cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography
Wild, Michael
German Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Strasbourg, France
Laux, Thomas Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany
Stem cell regulation in the shoot meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana: The role of the spatial restriction of the F-box protein LEAF CURLING RESPONSIVENESS (LCR) by the micro RNA394
37EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectKinkelin, Kerstin
German Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Diffley, John F.X. Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom
Mechanism of MCM2-7 double-hexamer formation during initiation of DNA replication in budding yeast
Knoche, Elena
German Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany
Louis, Matthieu Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Processing of naturalistic stimuli by the peripheral olfactory system of the Drosophila larva
Bocklisch, Christina
German University of Geneva, Switzerland
Larkum, Matthew Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany
Synaptic plasticity mechanisms underlying memory consolidation
Soyk, Sebastian
German Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Lippman, Zachary Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
Identification and molecular characterization of novel factors regulating meristem maturation and branching in tomato
Erdel, Fabian
German German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Greene, Eric Columbia University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, United States
Dissecting the formation of histone methylation domains on chromatin curtains
Hasenfuss, Sebastian
German Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Spiegelman, Bruce M.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States
Molecular mechanisms linking cholesterol metabolism to skeletal muscle function
Waszak, Sebastian
German Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
Korbel, Jan European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Integrative analysis of germline and somatic genetic variation in 2000 cancer patients
Linneweber, Gerit
German University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hassan, Bassem Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal connectivity – The synaptic code for variability and stereotypy
Kassube, Susanne
German Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkeley, United States
Thomä, Nicolas Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Molecular architecture and mechanism of the Fanconi anemia core complex
Herhaus, Lina
German University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Dikic, Ivan Goethe University School of Medicine, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The role of linear ubiquitin signalling in tumour-stromal crosstalk
Kohl, Johannes
German Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dulac, Catherine Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Neural circuits underlying parental behavior
Kretzschmar, Kai
German King's College London, United Kingdom
Clevers, Hans C. Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Modelling cancer immunomodulation in epithelial organoid cultures
38 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectHeinrich, Stephanie
German Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany
Weis, Karsten Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Quantitative single molecule analysis of mRNA transport dynamics
Hondele, Maria
German Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Weis, Karsten Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Visualizing post-transcriptional control of mRNA turnover and P-body formation by light microscopy and X-ray crystallography
Kummer, Eva
German Center for Molecular Biology, University Heidelberg, Germany
Ban, Nenad Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
A structural approach to determine the function of mitochondrial IF2 in mRNA binding and start codon recognition during translation initiation
Mehnert, Martin
German Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Aebersold, Ruedi Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Modular proteome organization and the genotype-phenotype transition: Cancer mutations that alter the composition and function of kinase complexes
Renkawitz, Jörg
German Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Sixt, Michael Institute of Science and Technology, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Molecular and system level view of immune cell migration
Milles, Sigrid
German European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Blackledge, Martin
Institute of Structural Biology, Grenoble, France
Plasticity of intrinsically disordered paramyxoviral phosphoproteins: A multi-scale study of disorder in measles virus
Rognoni, Emanuel
German Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Watt, Fiona King's College London, United Kingdom
Analysis of dermal fibroblast subpopulations in different tumor in response to aberrant epidermal Wnt-signaling
Sievers, Cem
German Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
Bernstein, Bradley Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States
Identifying regulatory circuits determining glioblastoma subtypes and intratumor heterogeneity
Link, Jana
German University of Würzburg, Germany
Jantsch, Verena Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria
The role of LEM-domain proteins in DNA damage repair
Hausmann, Jens
German The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vestweber, Dietmar
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
Crossing barriers: The role of autotaxin in leukocyte extravasation
Wilfling, Florian
German Yale University, New Haven, United States
Jentsch, Stefan Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Identification and characterization of yeast ubiquitin-Atg8 adaptors
39EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectBoland, Andreas
German Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Barford, David Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Molecular basis for securin and cyclin ubiquitination by the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C)
Tischer, Thomas
German University of Constance, Germany
Schuh, Melina Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Functional analysis of a new phosphatase required for meiotic resumption in mouse oocytes
Muerdter, Felix
German Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
Stark, Alexander Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
A functional map of enhancer dependencies on transcriptional cofactors
Jäger, Natalie
German German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Snyder, Michael Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
Large-scale drug response phenotyping using the 1000 Genomes Project cell lines
Mayer, Christian T.
German Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany
Nussenzweig, Michel
The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Genome-wide analysis of DNA damage in germinal center B cells in vivo
Stauch, Benjamin
German European Molecular Biology Laboratory – European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Cherezov, Vadim The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, United States
Development of photoinducible chemical switches for the time-resolved structural investigation of protein conformational changes upon ligand binding using X-ray free-electron laser radiation
Barakat, Stefan
German Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Chambers, Ian The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Causes and consequences of pluripotency gene regulatory network component heterogeneity
Posor, York
German Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany
Vanhaesebroeck, Bart
University College London, United Kingdom
Characterisation of the signalling and physiological roles of the class II PI3K isoforms, with focus on PI3K- C2α
Daubner, Gerrit
German Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Alessi, Dario University of Dundee, United Kingdom
A simplified system to study regulation of the WNK-signalling pathway
Brandt, Benjamin
German University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Hothorn, Michael University of Geneva, Switzerland
Molecular insights into plant stem cell maintenance by peptide hormone receptor kinases
Erdmann, Susanne
German University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Cavicchioli, Ricardo
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Influence of virus-host interaction on microbial community dynamics of a hypersaline system in Antarctica
Schulz, Daniel
German Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Bodenmiller, Bernd
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Macrophages gone wrong – Targeted signaling network modulation to reprogram tumor-associated-macrophages to fight cancer
40 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectBanisch, Torsten
German Center for Molecular Biology of Inflammation, Münster, Germany
Gilboa, Lilach Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Uncovering somatic control of germ line stem cell biology
Gruhn, Wolfram Herbert
German Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Surani, M. Azim Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mechanistic analysis of Blimp1 and Prdm14 in epigenetic gene regulation
Kara, Eleanna
Greek University College London, United Kingdom
Hyman, Bradley Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Assessment of the prionoid hypothesis as a substrate for the propagation of α-synuclein pathology
Karakasilioti, Ismene
Greek Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Greece
Brüning, Jens C. Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
The aging hypothalamus: A role for DNA damage responses in metabolic disease
Konstantinides, Nikolaos
Greek Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Greece
Desplan, Claude New York University, United States
A machine-learning computational model of the development of Drosophila motion and color vision processing centers
Velimezi, Georgia
Greek National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Loizou, Joanna Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Characterization of the ATM signaling pathway in response to replication stress
Kyritsis, Nikolaos
Greek Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Beattie, Michael University of California San Francisco, United States
The role of inflammation in central nervous system injuries: From zebrafish to mammals
Doumpas, Nikolaos
Greek German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Basler, Konrad University of Zurich, Switzerland
TCF independent outputs of Wnt signaling
Symmons, Orsolya
Hungarian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Yvert, Gael École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
Human genetics at the single-cell level: Studying the determinants of cell-to-cell heterogeneity
Toth-Petroczy, Agnes
Hungarian Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Marks, Debora S Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Alternative protein conformations determined by evolutionary couplings from genomic sequencing
Banreti, Agnes
Hungarian Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Meier, Pascal The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of apoptosis-induced compensatory proliferation (AiP)
Doherty, Aoife
Irish National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
De Magalhães, João Pedro
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Identification of genetic and molecular mechanisms that impact age-related cancer susceptibility and progression
Marianovich, Maria
Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Frenette, Paul Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States
Elucidating mechanisms controlling ageing of the haematopoietic stem cell niche
41EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectLivneh, Yoav
Israeli The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Lowell, Bradford Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, United States
A neural circuit for hunger-induced changes in the representation of food-related cues
Nachmani, Daphna
Israeli The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Pandolfi, Pier Paolo
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, United States
RBPs control of the tumor repressor gene PTEN and of PTEN-ceRNA crosstalk
Baruch, Moshe
Israeli The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Marban, Eduardo Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, United States
Exploring the therapeutic effect of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) exosomes and design of these exosomes for intravenous administration
Hagai, Tzachi
Israeli University of California San Francisco, United States
Teichmann, Sarah A.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory – European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Evolution of transcriptional regulation in innate immunity
Resnik, Jennifer
Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Polley, Daniel Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Homeostatic modifications in GABA-inhibitory circuits enable sound processing after auditory nerve degeneration
Rahamin, Inbal
Israeli The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Lee, Richard Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, United States
GDF11 as a novel treatment for ischemic heart disease
Kopper, Oded
Israeli The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Clevers, Hans C. Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Fallopian tube stem cells and their role in ovarian cancer initiation
Noor, Elad
Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Sauer, Uwe Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
The thermodynamic underpinnings of enzyme-enzyme interactions and substrate channeling
Shahar, Or
Israeli The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Schuman, Erin Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Synaptic activity effects on local protein synthesis and spreading in high resolution
Sharon, Eilon
Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Pritchard, Jonathan
Stanford University, United States
Uncovering the effects of thousands of human polymorphisms on transcription factor binding and disease
Yaffe, Eitan
Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Relman, David Stanford University, United States
Modeling phage-host interactions in the human gut using chromosome conformation capture
Fluman, Nir
Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
von Heijne, Gunnar
Stockholm University, Sweden
Topology rearrangements in membrane protein maturation
42 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectHoch, Eitan
Israeli Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Altshuler, David The Broad Institute, Cambridge, United States
The role of orphan transporter SLC16A11 in lipid metabolism and link to type 2 diabetes
Mansour, Abed AlFatah
Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Gage, Fred The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, United States
Decoding the molecular landscape of aging during adult neurogenesis
Burstein, David
Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Banfield, Jillian University of California Berkeley, United States
Expanding the known protein universe through metagenomic analysis of uncharted branches of the tree of life
Ben-David, Eyal
Israeli The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Kruglyak, Leonid University of California Los Angeles, United States
Systematic dissection of the role of genetic variation in variable expressivity
Melamed, Ze'Ev
Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Cleveland, Don University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Genome editing of neurons derived from patient fibroblasts as a model for studying ALS pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches
Gilad, Ariel
Israeli Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Helmchen, Fritjof University of Zurich, Switzerland
Behavior-dependent interactions in the mouse cortex
ziv, Omer
Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Miska, Eric Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mobile RNA in nematodes and mammals: Biology and new insights into RNA delivery
Orbach, Ron
Israeli The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Howard, Jonathon Yale University, New Haven, United States
Reassembly of axonemal tubulins
Abu-Remaileh, Monther
Israeli* The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Sabatini, David Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States
Dietary control of the intestinal stem cell niche
Mugoni, Vera
Italian University of Turin, Italy Pandolfi, Pier Paolo
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, United States
Characterization of the transcriptional rewiring for leukemia resistance to targeting the mutant IDH2R140Q
Silva, Bianca A
Italian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Monterotondo, Italy
Gräff, Johannes Brain Mind Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
Analysis of the molecular mechanisms at the basis of remote fear memory extinction
Biffi, Giulia
Italian Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, United Kingdom
Tuveson, David Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
pH regulation in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and its microenvironment
Olivieri, Daniel
Italian University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
Betschinger, Joerg Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Understanding the establishment of the ground pluripotency cell state
*permanent resident of Israel
43EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectMarcon, Luciano
Italian Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Müller, Patrick Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany
The molecular basis of a vertebrate reaction-diffusion patterning system
Piazza, Ilaria
Italian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Picotti, Paola Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
An integrative technology to study protein-small molecule interactions and their contribution to protein function
Perrera, Valentina
Italian Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Colot, Vincent Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Investigating RNA methylation in A. thaliana as part of the adaptive response to stress
Santoro, Federica
Italian Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Chien, Kenneth R. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Unraveling human cardiogenesis by transcriptional profiling and cell-fate mapping of human cardiovascular progenitors
Panigada, Davide
Italian University of Milan, Italy Liakopoulos, Dimitris
Macromolecular Biochemistry Research Center, Montpellier, France
Investigation of SUMO-dependent ubiquitylation in spindle function
Caizzi, Livia
Italian Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Cramer, Patrick Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Basis for co-transcriptional pre-mRNA splicing
Alfieri, Claudio
Italian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Barford, David Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Biochemical and structural analysis of the mechanisms of human anaphase-promoting complex inhibition by the mitotic checkpoint complex
Racioppi, Claudia
Italian Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
Christiaen, Lionel New York University, United States
Chromatin accessibility and cis-regulatory dynamics underlying heart vs pharyngeal muscle specification in Ciona intestinalis
Mainardi, Sara
Italian Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Bernards, René The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Finding genetic dependencies in colon cancer using 3D organoid culture models
Piccolo, Francesco
Italian Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, London, United Kingdom
Heintz, Nathaniel The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Understanding the epigenetic mechanisms that are governed by 5hmC in the brain
Marchesi, Arin
Italian International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Scheuring, Simon University of Aix-Marseille, France
ICaRO - Ion channels and receptors operation
Antonica, Francesco
Italian Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Zernicka-Goetz, Magdalena
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Regulation of size in the implanting mouse embryo
44 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectBaldini, Francesco
Italian University of Perugia, Terni, Italy
Ferguson, Heather University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
The role of insulin cascades in regulating the host-species dependent fitness and parasite transmission ability of malaria mosquitoes
Linster, Martin
Luxembourger Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Smith, Gavin Jd National University of Singapore, Singapore
Global circulation patterns and phenotypic characterization of human parainfluenza viruses
Stanek, Jan
Polish University of Warsaw, Poland
Pintacuda, Guido Institute of Analytical Sciences, Villeurbanne, France
Structure of a large non-crystalline multiprotein assembly by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance
Szymborska, Anna
Polish European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Gerhardt, Holger Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
The role of Notch signaling and junction remodeling in control of blood vessel diameter
zientara-Rytter, Katarzyna
Polish Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Subramani, Suresh
University of California San Diego, United States
In the search for the therapeutic targets - Identification and characterization of the specific pexophagy proteins in yeast and mammals
Pinheiro, Ines
Portuguese Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Heard, Edith Curie Institute, Paris, France
Dissecting the role of chromatin modifications in X chromosome inactivation
Correia, Ana Luisa
Portuguese Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
Bentires-Alj, Mohamed
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Regulation of dormant breast cancer cell awakening by adipocytes
Campinho, Pedro
Portuguese Institute of Science and Technology, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Vermot, Julien Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France
Mechanics of vascular tissue homeostasis and morphogenesis in response to flow forces
Beira, Jorge
Portuguese Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, University College London, United Kingdom
Paro, Renato Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
Interplay between signalling and chromatin during regeneration and tumourigenesis
Dias-Ferreira, Eduardo
Portuguese Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
Maimon, Gaby The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Dissecting stored variables underlying reinforcement learning in Drosophila
Coelho, Dina
Portuguese Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, Oeiras, Portugal
Moreno, Eduardo University of Bern, Switzerland
Molecular and genetic mechanisms of neuronal selection
45EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectMatos, Marco
Portuguese University of Coimbra, Portugal
Robitaille, Richard University of Montreal, Canada
Adenosine-mediated regulation of hippocampal inhibitory synaptic transmission and its relevance for learning and memory processes – contribution of the astrocytic network
zmajkovicova, Katarina
Slovak Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria
Wymann, Matthias
University of Basel, Switzerland
PI3K and DNA repair – point of convergence?
Rozbesky, Daniel
Slovak Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Jones, Yvonne Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Molecular basis of semaphorin and plexin function in nervous system development
Garcia Gomez, Sara
Spanish Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Boulton, Simon Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom
Molecular mechanisms of the non-homologous end-joining repair pathway in response to double strand break
Vilarrasa-Blasi, Josep
Spanish Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Dinneny, José Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States
Identification and characterization of water sensing mechanisms in plants
Balsa, Eduardo
Spanish La Princesa University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Puigserver, Pere Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States
Regulation of melanoma metastasis by the metabolic regulator PGC1α
Eguren, Manuel
Spanish Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Ellenberg, Jan European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Defining the mechanism of actin-mediated spindle position sensing in mouse oocytes
Leyva-Díaz, Eduardo
Spanish Institute of Neuroscience, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain
Hobert, Oliver Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
Defining the regulatory logic of pan-neuronal gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans
González Rosa, Juan Manuel
Spanish Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
Burns, Caroline Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States
Genetic determinants of pharyngeal arch artery establishment
Perez-Escudero, Alfonso
Spanish Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain
Gore, Jeff Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Does critical slowing down predict death of a complex organism?
Reines, Maria Del Mar
Spanish Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Madrid, Spain
Meyer, Thomas F. Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
Use of a novel human gastric primary culture model to explore the mechanisms of gastric cancerogenesis
46 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectLuxan, Guillermo
Spanish Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
Adams, Ralf Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
Endothelial cell subtypes in bone angiogenesis and osteogenesis
Foronda, Miguel
Spanish Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Kaji, Keisuke Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
A dual gRNA method for systematic, genetic interrogation of the non-coding genome in pluripotency
Marques, Maria Angeles
Spanish University of Valencia, Spain
Pollard, Steven Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Transcriptional regulation of glioma stem cell quiescence and activation: A key role for the FOX, SOX and NFI families of transcription factors
Castellano Pozo, Maikel
Spanish Andalusian Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine Centre, Seville, Spain
Martinez Perez, Enrique
Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Cohesin dynamics during C. elegans meiotic prophase
Herrera, Salvador
Spanish Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Bach, Erika A. New York University School of Medicine, United States
Characterizing the mechanisms that control stem cell behavior during aging
Nadal, Mariona
Spanish Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Steinmetz, Lars Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
Mitochondrial to nuclear gene transfer via synthetic evolution
Moral Quiros, Pedro
Spanish University of Oviedo, Spain
Auwerx, Johan Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
Mapping the mitochondrial unfolded protein response through genetic and integrative systems biology approaches
Babiano, Reyes
Spanish University of Seville, Spain Lingner, Joachim Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
Elucidation of the telomeric chromatin structure in Coats plus/Dyskeratosis congenita cellular models
Millán zambrano, Gonzalo
Spanish Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Spain
Kouzarides, Tony Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Functional analysis of the role of histone H3K37 monomethylation in DNA replication
Cardozo Ruiz, Marcos Julián
Spanish Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Becker, Catherina The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Role of dopamine during spinal cord development and regeneration
De Mendoza, Alex
Spanish Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain
Lister, Ryan The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
Functional evolution of cytosine methylation in animal development and the origins of the vertebrate methylome
Garcia Doval, Carmela
Spanish Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain
Jinek, Martin University of Zurich, Switzerland
Structural and biochemical studies of type I-D CRISPR systems
Sebe-Pedros, Arnau
Spanish Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Tanay, Amos Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Cell type diversity in early metazoans and the origin of complex genome regulatory architectures
47EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectSabelström, Hanna
Swedish Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Persson, Anders University of California San Francisco, United States
Subpial zone astrocytes as the origin of cortical astrocytomas
Åkerblom, Malin
Swedish Lund University, Sweden McManus, Michael
University of California San Francisco, United States
A new technology for deep brain mapping
Schweizer, Fabian
Swiss University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Goossens, Alain Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium
Deciphering the terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus by transcriptional modulation
Mattle, Daniel
Swiss Aarhus University, Denmark
Standfuss, Jörg Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
Molecular mechanisms of night blindness investigated by time-resolved femtosecond crystallography
Barandun, Jonas
Swiss Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Klinge, Sebastian The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Structural and functional studies of the eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis complex UtpB
Dogan, Sukru Anil
Turkish University of Cologne, Germany
Zeviani, Massimo Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Transgenic and adeno-associated virus-driven expression of potentially therapeutic xenogenes, AOX and Ndi1, in oxidative phosphorylation-defective mouse models
Uslu, Veli Vural
Turkish European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Hell, Ruediger Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg, Germany
Investigating the sulfate sensing and signaling cascades in plants
Demir, Kubilay
Turkish German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Beachy, Philip A. Stanford University, United States
Novel proteins involved in the mechanisms of hedgehog signal transduction by smoothened in the sensory organelle primary cilium
Fisek, Mehmet
Turkish Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Häusser, Michael The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, United Kingdom
Neuronal and dendritic recruitment on neocortical area borders
Hallacli, Erinc
Turkish Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Lindquist, Susan Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States
Investigation of eIF4G as a Parkinson's disease gene in S.cerevisiae
48 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectClancy, Kelly
American University of California Berkeley, United States
Mrsic-Flogel, Thomas
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
The influence of hemispheric activity dynamics on visual processing and visually guided behaviors
New, Aaron
American Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Lehner, Benjamin Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Mapping and understanding the impact of natural genetic variation on the inter-individual variability of a phenotypic trait in yeast
Clark, Andrew
American Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, United Kingdom
Vignjevic, Danijela Curie Institute, Paris, France
Regulation of collective cell migration during tumor invasion
Wan, William
American Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
Briggs, John European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Determining the structure of viral membrane proteins in situ
Sulima, Sergey
American University of Maryland, College Park, United States
De Keersmaecker, Kim
Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Oncogenic mechanisms of the ribosomal protein L10 R98S mutation in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Palaniappan, Krishnan
American University of California Berkeley, United States
Aebersold, Ruedi Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Structural characterization of cancer-associated mixed lineage leukemia interactomes by quantitative mass spectrometry
Webster, Brian
American Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, United States
Dreux, Marlene International Center for Infectiology Research, Lyon, France
Eating inflammation: Defining the interplay between autophagy and the antiviral and inflammatory responses in dengue infection
Haas, Joel
American University of California San Francisco, United States
Staels, Bart Pasteur Institute, Lille, France
Establishing and testing a transcriptional network describing gene interactions in resolution of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Kato, Saul
American Columbia University, New York, United States
Zimmer, Manuel Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
From a connectome to functional neural maps of the C. elegans nervous system
Pernas, Lena
American Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
Scorrano, Luca University of Padua, Italy Attacking mitochondrial retrograde signaling to alter the natural history of autosomal dominant optic atrophy
Flatt, Justin
American Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
Greber, Urs University of Zurich, Switzerland
Revealing how adenoviruses dock and deliver at the nuclear pore complex
Beckwith, Esteban
Argentinian Leloir Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gilestro, Giorgio Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Searching for the genetic support for information flow behind sleep
49EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectSelkrig, Joel
Australian Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Typas, Athanasios European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Dissecting the Salmonella-host interaction by quantitative proteomics
Radzisheuskaya, Aliaksandra
Belarusian Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, United Kingdom
Helin, Kristian University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Identification and characterization of novel essential regulators of acute myeloid leukemia
Pencheva, Nora
Bulgarian The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Bernards, René The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Identification of mesenchymal genes that drive glioblastoma brain invasion
Wamsteeker Cusulin, Jaclyn
Canadian University of Calgary, Canada
Lüthi, Andreas Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Investigation of the neural circuit-basis for biasing of fear learning by stress
Quazi, Faraz
Canadian University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Stoffel, Markus Institute of Molecular Health Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Coordination of apoptotic pathways in pancreatic beta-islet cells: Role of putative transcription factor JAZF1 and type-2 diabetes mellitus
Yang, Yu Hsuan Carol
Canadian University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Stainier, Didier Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
The role of autonomic innervation in endocrine pancreas development and glucose homeostasis
David, Daryl Jason
Canadian University of Toronto, Canada
Cossart, Pascale Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Characterization of novel virulence factors of Listeria
Wideman, Jeremy
Canadian University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Richards, Thomas University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Comparative genomics of diatoms and Bolidophyceae: Insight into the evolution of one of Earth's most productive phototrophs
Winter, Deborah
Canadian Duke University, Durham, United States
Amit, Ido Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Deciphering epigenomic and transcriptional regulatory networks in the mammalian immune system: The role of chromatin dynamics in macrophage heterogeneity
Barriga, Elias
Chilean Andrés Bello National University, Santiago, Chile
Charras, Guillaume
University College London, United Kingdom
Biomechanical analysis of directional collective migration in vivo
Sun, Mai
Chinese Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Hentze, Matthias W.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Analysis of the role of RNA in the function of the TORC1 pathway
Huang, Hongling
Chinese University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Carmeliet, Peter Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Glutaminase 1: A key enzyme in endothelial cell glutamine metabolism and a potential target for novel anti-angiogenic strategies
50 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Projectxie, Meng
Chinese McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Chagin, Andrei Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Endochondral bone formation as a mechanism coupling body size and environment: Exploring potential role of the mTOR signalling pathway
Lu, Yu-Xuan
Chinese Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Partridge, Linda Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
The relationship between histone methylation and insulin pathway in ageing
Qiu, Jian
Chinese Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
Gönczy, Pierre Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
Dissecting the assembly of protein complexes governing spindle positioning
zhou, Feng
Chinese Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Geldner, Niko University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Endodermal barrier compartmentalizes the immune and stress response in Arabidopsis roots
zhou, Wenkun
Chinese Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Scheres, Ben J.G. Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Safeguarding the root stem cell niche in response to genotoxic stress
Antoniou, Anna
Cypriot University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Schratt, Gerhard Philipp University Marburg, Germany
Investigating the dynamic localization of microRNA effector complexes at intracellular membranes in neurons during synaptic plasticity and dendritogenesis
Borkar, Aditi
Indian University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Geyer, Matthias Center of Advanced European Studies and Research, Bonn, Germany
Structural studies of the HIV-1 transactivation complex
Vijayan, Vinoy
Indian Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States
Verstreken, Patrik Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic maintenance and rejuvenation
Singh, Deepankar Pratap
Indian Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Peters, Antoine Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Identification and functional characterization of the potential key regulators of zygotic genome activation in the mouse
Sharma, Sunny
Indian Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Lafontaine, Denis Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Gosselies, Belgium
Global analysis of human ribosomal RNA modification and characterization of human rRNA base methyl transferases in ribosome biogenesis and function
Rangaraju, Vidhya
Indian Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States
Schuman, Erin Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Mitochondrial dynamics and local protein synthesis in dendrites
Soni, Kartik
Indian Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India
Tajbakhsh, Shahragim
Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Static and dynamic imaging of clonally marked mouse muscle stem cells in distinct physiological states
51EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectRadhakrishnan, Sabarinathan
Indian University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lopez-Bigas, Nuria
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Computational identification of driver mutations in non-coding regulatory regions of cancer genomes
Gupta, Rajat
Indian Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Choudhary, Chunaram
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Systematic investigation of USP1 deubiquitylase targets and their functions
Mukherjee, Budhaditya
Indian Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
Soldati-Favre, Dominique
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dissection of aspartic protease(s) implicated in the processing and export of Toxoplasma gondii effector molecules that subvert host cellular functions
Goyal, Parveen
Indian Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Friemann, Rosmarie
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Structural and functional characterization of tripartitie ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporters involved in sialic acid uptake in bacterial pathogens
Kumar, Pradeep
Indian Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Parekh, Anant University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Role of calcium (Ca2+) channels in regulating leptin secretion from adipocytes
Muliyil, Sonia
Indian Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Freeman, Matthew
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Dissecting the molecular and functional role of iRhoms in protein quality control in the Drosophila nervous system
Yamashita, Yui
Japanese Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Beckmann, Roland
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Structural analysis of nascent peptide-mediated ribosome stalling as an intracellular nutrient sensing mechanism in plants
zelezniak, Aleksej
Lithuanian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Ralser, Markus Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
Genetic regulatory basis of cross-species metabolism variation
Yanez Cuna, J. Omar
Mexican Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
van Steensel, Bas The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Understanding the principles of lamina-associated domains
Fica, Sebastian
Romanian The University of Chicago, United States
Nagai, Kiyoshi Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Defining the structural mechanisms for cooperation between RNA and proteins in promoting and active configuration of the RNA catalytic core of the spliceosome
Psakhye, Ivan
Russian Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Branzei, Dana FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
Roles of SUMO in the DNA replication stress response
Romanov, Roman
Russian Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Harkany, Tibor Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Molecular control of stress responses and network wiring of stress neurons by secretagogin
52 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectVjestica, Aleksandar
Serbian National University of Singapore, Singapore
Martin, Sophie G. University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Exploring the transcription-dependent and independent pheromone-signaling regulation of morphogenetic transitions in fission yeast
Balchin, David
South African University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Hartl, F. Ulrich Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Elucidating the mechanism of protein folding by the eukaryotic chaperonin TRiC/CCT
Lee, Yong Woo
South Korean Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Azzalin, Claus Maria
Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Telomeric RNA:DNA hybrids in human cells: Regulation and impact on telomere stability
Choi, Jeongmin
South Korean University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
Paszkowski, Uta University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Identification of INHOSPITABLE (IHO)-interacting proteins during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice
Lee, Cheng-Ruei
Taiwanese Duke University, Durham, United States
Nordborg, Magnus
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria
Genetic architecture of complex traits across different geographical and genetic scales in Arabidopsis
Tu, Hsiung-Lin
Taiwanese University of California Berkeley, United States
Tay, Savas Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
Probing cell-to-cell variability using single cell analysis: Correlate receptor level activation and downstream cellular response in NFκB signaling
53EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
54 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 2014: Geographical distribution
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56 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Advanced Fellowships ➔➔
EMBO Advanced Fellowships, launched in 2014, offer an additional two years of funding for EMBO Long-Term Fellows who demonstrate exceptional progress during their postdoctoral work. The fellowship allows the awardees to complete their postdoctoral research in the host laboratory and to establish their own line of research.
EMBO Advanced Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader ProjectLin, Suewei
Taiwanese Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Waddell, Scott Thirst-control of naïve and learned behaviors in Drosophila
Santiago Cuellar, Julia
Spanish University of Geneva, Switzerland Hothorn, Michael Mechanistic insights on LRR- receptor ligand-sensing and activation by association with co-receptor proteins
Sarek, Grzegorz
Polish Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom
Boulton, Simon Molecular mechanisms of RTEL1-TRF2 interplay at telomeres
Schwefel, David
German Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
Taylor, Ian Decoding the Vpx/Vpr system
Wong, Emily
Australian European Molecular Biology Laboratory – European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Flicek, Paul Dissection of cis and trans influence on transcription factor binding and chromatin state in mammals
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships: StatisticsApplications and awards 1977– 2014Year Applications Awards Success rate % 2014 548 284 522013 560 280 502012 585 312 532011 506 281 552010 421 219 522009 495 255 522008 395 213 542007 409 211 522006 393 194 492005 383 201 522004 301 167 552003 289 138 482002 252 170 672001 233 124 532000 274 176 641999 230 138 601998 279 143 511997 339 188 551996 316 180 571995 325 187 571994 369 203 551993 376 209 551992 351 213 611991 344 194 561990 346 211 611989 331 199 601988 351 211 601987 301 212 701986 309 215 701985 304 221 731984 320 226 711983 335 223 671982 321 213 661981 339 235 691980 357 242 681979 344 243 711978 349 244 701977 294 213 72
Applications and awards 2000 – 2014Country from* Applications % of total Awards % of total Success rate %Austria 75 1 39 1 52Belgium 107 2 76 2 71Croatia 52 1 24 1 46Czech Republic 102 2 61 2 60Denmark 34 1 20 1 59Estonia 9 <1 6 <1 67Finland 45 1 24 1 53France 295 5 187 6 63Germany 400 7 245 8 61Greece 189 3 111 3 59Hungary 134 2 76 2 57Iceland 16 <1 11 <1 69Ireland 60 1 37 1 62Israel 189 3 125 4 66Italy 885 15 460 14 52Luxembourg 2 <1 2 <1 100Netherlands 177 3 111 3 63Norway 16 <1 8 <1 50Poland 224 4 112 3 50Portugal 166 3 90 3 54Slovak Republic 18 <1 11 <1 61Slovenia 55 1 29 1 53Spain 1062 18 561 17 53Sweden 55 1 37 1 67Switzerland 68 1 43 1 63Turkey 134 2 51 2 38United Kingdom 207 3 130 4 63Eastern Europe 363 6 163 5 45Others 905 15 375 12 41Total 6044 100 3225 100 53
* “Country from” refers to nationality
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships ➔➔
58 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectAmbroggio, Ernesto
Argentinian Curie Institute, Paris, France
Bassereau, Patricia
University of Cordoba, Argentina
The interplay between transmembrane domain geometry and membrane curvature as sorting determinants of membrane proteins
Asencion Diez, Matias
Argentinian John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
Bornemann, Stephen
National University of Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
Characterization of enzymes involved in the metabolism of trehalose 6-phosphate and GDP-glucose in actinobacteria
Astiz, Mariana
Argentinian University of Lübeck, Germany
Oster, Henrik National Scientific and Technical Research Council, La Plata, Argentina
Impact of early-life events on the circadian system
Bussi, Claudio
Argentinian The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ktistakis, Nicholas T.
University of Cordoba, Argentina
The role of autophagy in the regulation of microglial cell activation and inflammation
Carlotto, Nicolás
Argentinian Institute of Plant Sciences, Paris, France
Crespi, Martin University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Study of gene expression regulation mediated by non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana: Identification of the DEVH-box RNA helicase ISE2 target RNAs
Delgui, Laura Ruth
Argentinian University of Paris-Sud, France
Esclatine, Audrey Institute of Histology and Embriology of Mendoza, Argentina
Role of Toll-like Receptor-2 in autophagic pathway induction after human cytomegalovirus infection
Franchini, Gisela R
Argentinian University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Smith, Brian O. National University of La Plata, Argentina
Structure refinement and ligand binding analysis of apo-ABA-1A of the parasite Ascaris suum employing NMR
Jaworski, Felipe Martin
Argentinian Aston Medical School – Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Ahmed, Asif University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
The effect of heme oxygenase-1 on prostate cancer neovascularization through modulation of the glycan-galectin axis
López, María Florencia
Argentinian Zaidín Experimental Station, Granada, Spain
Delgado Igeño, María Jesús
Institute of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, La Plata, Argentina
Establishment of the role of ntrBC and ntrYX in nitrate assimilation and denitrification in B. japonicum
Muñoz, Manuel
Argentinian FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
Foiani, Marco University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
ATR-mediated regulation of alternative splicing in skin cells
Naum-Ongania, Gabriela
Argentinian University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Bickmore, Wendy University Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Effect of nuclear architecture in Hox gene activation
Revuelta, Maria Victoria
Argentinian Wageningen University, The Netherlands
van Kan, Jan National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina
The role of aspartic proteinases in the plant-pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea: integration of in silico predictions with molecular and physiological data
Rípodas, Carolina
Argentinian The Laboratory of Plant Microbe Interactions, Castanet Tolosan, France
Niebel, Andreas National University of La Plata, Argentina
Study of the role of the NF-Y transcription factor in the efficient nodulation
59EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectSánchez, María Florencia
Argentinian Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, Tübingen, Germany
García Sáez, Ana Medical Research Institute Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra, Cordoba, Argentina
Effects of the topological distribution of the ligand in the cell death triggered by Fas Receptor in immortalized cells
Weiner, Andrea Maria Julia
Argentinian University of Bath, United Kingdom
Kelsh, Robert University of Rosario, Argentina
Gene expression regulation during melanophore differentiation: Sox10, Mitfa and miRNAs roles
Berry, Scott
Australian Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Buehler, Marc John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
Biochemical characterisation of RNA-binding by Arabidopsis thaliana protein like heterochromatin protein 1
Brugger, Christiane
Austrian St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, United States
Partridge, Janet University of Geneva, Switzerland
Functional analysis of the fission yeast histone deacetylase Clr3
Ilicic, Tomislav
Austrian Columbia University, New York, United States
Pe'er, Dana Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Computational approaches to classifying CD4+ T cell subtypes from single cell RNA-sequencing data
Prattes, Michael
Austrian Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Zhang, Xiaodong University of Graz, Austria Crystallization of the Drg1-diazaborine complex
Reichel, Marlene
Austrian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Hentze, Matthias The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Plant mRNA interactome
Schmidt, Thomas
Austrian Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine,University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Simister, Philip University of Salzburg, Austria
Functional analysis of the activity of recombinant HtrA
Schroeder, Sabrina
Austrian Free University of Berlin, Germany
Sigrist, Stephan University of Graz, Austria Spermidine mimics the metabolic effects of caloric restriction
Taschner, Michael
Austrian University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Pedersen, Lotte Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Functional dissection of the intraflagellar transport (IFT) process using structure-based mutants
Blomme, Jonas
Belgian The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Millar, Harvey Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium
Functional characterisation of SWIB-5, a potential new regulator of mitochondrial gene expression
De Bock, Katrien
Belgian Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Aragones, Julian Catholic Univesity of Leuven, Belgium
Oxygen sensing HIF pathways in obesity
Derzelle, Alessandro
Belgian University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States
Katju, Vaishali University of Namur, Belgium
Study of copy number variation in an ancient asexual
Duchou, Jolien
Belgian University of Barcelona, Spain
Ciruela, Francisco Ghent University, Belgium Investigation of D2-typeR-µOR heterodimerization by Proximity Ligation Assay and Time-resolved Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
60 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectDumetz, Franck
Belgian Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
Clos, Joachim Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium
Isolation, modification and characterisation of Leishmania donovani field-isolate episomes
Heyndrickx, Ken
Belgian Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Weigel, Detlef Ghent University, Belgium Genomic variation of experimentally determined transcription factor binding sites based on single nucleotide polymorphisms
Maes, Hannelore
Belgian Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Soengas, Maria Catholic Univesity of Leuven, Belgium
The importance of lysosomal function for tumor-driven lymphangiogenesis
Mizuno, Carolina Megumi
Brazilian University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
López-García, Purificación
University of Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Spain
Shedding light into deep sea viruses using metagenomics
Creasey, Rhiannon
British Tel Aviv University, Israel Gazit, Ehud The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Nanomechanical properties of novel diphenylalanine constructs
Ding, James
British University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Ospelt, Caroline University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Perturbation studies of rheumatoid arthritis associated long non-coding RNA lnc-RBPJ-1
Krasovec, Rok
British Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Ackermann, Martin
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Heterogeneity in confinement-induced quorum-sensing among individual Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells
Law, Ah-Lai
British Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Cao, Yihai King's College London, United Kingdom
Analysis of the role of lamellipodin in metastasis in vivo
Lewis, Amy
British National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy
Colombo, Mario Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Targeting histone deacetylase (HDAC) for rational drug design: establishing the role of specific HDAC isoforms in inflammation and repair in a mouse model of colitis
Martinez, Pierre
British Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Szállási, Zoltán Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Development of new SNP array methods for cancer evolution studies
McCluskey, Kaley
British University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Ha, Taekjip University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Unfolding the lysine riboswitch with optical force and FRET
Murdoch, Sarah
British Bielefeld University, Germany
Niehaus, Karsten University of Dundee, United Kingdom
A metabolomics-based approach for predicting antibiotic resistance in airway infections associated with cystic fibrosis
zhao, Buyun
British Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Schoofs, Liliane Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Elucidating the neural basis of arousal in C. elegans
Hanna, Courtney
Canadian University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States
Owens, Gary The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Epigenetic dynamics in oogenesis
61EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectFu, Yu
Chinese Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Colot, Vincent Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Epigenomic analyses of different stem cell niches in Arabidopsis thaliana
Li, Kun
Chinese Friedrich Miescher Institutefor Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Roska, Botond Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Circuit mechanism of seasonal affective disorder
Díaz, Fernando
Columbian Institute of Population Genetics, Vienna, Austria
Schlötterer, Christian
University of Valle, Cali, Columbia
Reverse thermal selection in Drosophila melanogaster
Bilandzija, Helena
Croatian Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Rink, Jochen Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Evolutionary mechanisms of pigment loss in cave planaria
Tokic, Silvija
Croatian Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Vesalius Research Center, Leuven, Belgium
Carmeliet, Peter Medical University of Graz, Austria
Metabolism of primary placental endothelial cells in gestational diabetes mellitus
Lamazares-Arcia, Emilio
Cuban Zaragoza University, Spain Sancho Sanz, Javier
University of Concepción, Chili
Stabilization of apoflavodoxin of Anabaena PCC 7119 using accumulation of mutations on the triple mutant base on rational strategies
Pavelka, Antonin
Czech International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland
Bujnicki, Janusz M. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Protein-RNA complex prediction by integration of evolutionary information
Senigl, Filip
Czech Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, United States
Schatz, David Institute of Molecular Genetics,Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Identification and characterization of non-immunoglobulin DIVAC enhancers
Singh, Khushwant
Czech The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Dixelius, Christina Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Secreted proteins and studies of the Plasmodiophora brassicae-Arabidopsis responses
Symonová, Radka
Czech The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway
Praebel, Kim Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics,Academy of Science of Czech Republic, Libechov, Czech Republic
Cytogenetic background of iterative evolution in incipient salmonid species
Jones, Sarah Elizabeth
Danish Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany
Einsle, Oliver Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Crystallization of human tryptophan hydroxylase isoform 1
Kidmose, Rune
Danish Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg, France
Klaholz, Bruno Aarhus University, Denmark
Structural characterization of the 80S ribosome from C. elegans by cryo-EM
62 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectWewer Albrechtsen, Nicolai
Danish Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Mann, Matthias Universtiy of Copenhagen, Denmark
Assessment of gut hormones in the gut-brain axis of obesity and type 2 diabetes
Bakker, Gert-Jan
Dutch Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
Strömblad, Staffan
Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Multi-scale analysis of plasticity of tumor cell invasion in 3D environments
Molenhuis, Remco
Dutch Tel Aviv University, Israel Iraqi, Fuad A. University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Identifying molecular networks for autism spectrum disorder core behavioral phenotypes
Muggen, Alice
Dutch Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Jumaa, Hassan Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
B cell receptor signaling in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Ottema, Sophie
Dutch Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal
Maiato, Helder Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Role of the MT plus-end tracking protein CLASP2 in ES cell mitosis
Reinink, Peter
Dutch Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Moody, Branch Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Isolation and identification of CD1 presented lipid antigens and associated T cells
Stroo, Esther
Dutch Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
Ebbinghaus, Simon
University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
Visualizing the role of SERF in aggregation initiation in living cells
van 't Veer, Inge Leonie
Dutch Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Vollmer, Waldemar
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Kinetic characterization of protein-protein and protein-substrate interactions of PBP1b and improvement of the glycosyl transferase assay
van den Bosch, Martijn
Dutch National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, United States
Young, Marian Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
WISP1 as downstream mediator of canonical Wnt signaling in the development of osteoarthritis
van der Knaap, Noortje
Dutch Max Planck lnstitute forNeurological Research, Cologne, Germany
Hoehn, Mathias Donders Institute of Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
The risk of antidepressants for the developing brain
Mahfouz, Ahmed
Egyptian University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Eichler, Evan Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Prioritizing genes harboring de novo missense mutations using an integrative network-based approach
Besnard, Fabrice
French University of Edingurgh, United Kingdom
Blaxter, Mark Institute of Biology of Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Assembly and annotation of the genome of the nematode Oscheius tipulae
63EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectBreton, Amandine
French Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Grosveld, Frank King's College London, United Kingdom
Identification and characterization of non-coding transcripts as potential regulators of c-MYB
Duplouy, Anne
French Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Miller, Wolfgang University of Helsinki, Finland
Following endosymbionts of a parasitoid wasp in its butterfly host
Labouesse, Marie
French University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Guidotti, Alessandro
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
An epigenetic signature regulating corticolimbic expression of RELN and GAD67 in a neurodevelopmental mouse model of schizophrenia
Michaud, Morgane
French National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, United States
Prinz, William Laboratory of Cellular Plant Physiology, Grenoble, France
Transfer of galactolipids from chloroplast to mitochondria
Roland, Benjamin
French Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States
Franks, Kevin Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Paris, France
Characterization of the cell-type bases of olfactory cortex activity
Texier, Pauline
French La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, Melbourne, Australia
Dougan, David Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
Regulation of toxin-antitoxin-chaperone system by proteases
Vieyres, Gabrielle
French Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Yale, New Haven, United States
Lindenbach, Brett Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany
Trafficking and function of ABHD5 during hepatitis C virus assembly in live infected cells
Weisbrod, David
French University of Milan, Italy DiFrancesco, Dario
Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
Identification of a putative Ca2+-activated K+ channel IKCa (SK4) in mouse sinoatrial node cells and its potential role in pacemaker activity
Ballweg, Stephanie
German University of Pittsburgh, United States
Brodsky, Jeffrey L. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Analysis of intra-membrane sensing by the OLE pathway in vitro
Baumgarten, Thomas
German University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Slotboom, Dirk-Jan
Stockholm University, Sweden
Characterizing the effect of membrane lipid composition on the activity of the E. coli glutamate transporter GltP
Benn, Andreas
German Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Zwijsen, An Free University of Berlin, Germany
BMP-dependent SMAD versus non-SMAD signalling in sprouting angiogenesis
Billmann, Maximilian
German University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Myers, Chad German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Analysis of the dynamic genetic interaction landscape of Wnt signaling
Brand, Almut
German Institute of Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice, France
Pouyssegur, Jacques
University Hospital Regensburg, Germany
Generation and characterization of the immunomodulatory effects of MCT1 and Basigin KO in murine B16.SIY melanoma cells
64 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectBröhl, Dominique
German Kyoto University, Japan Kageyama, Ryoichiro
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Analysis of Hes1 expression in muscle satellite cells on a single-cell level
Colinas, Maite
German Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Weber, Andreas University of Geneva, Switzerland
The impact of vitamin B6 deficiency on photorespiration
Dahlhoff, Maik
German Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Yarden, Yosef Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Investigation of ERBB2 and ERBB3 in the human epidermis of the skin
Deditius, Julia Andrea
German University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Pilizota, Teuta Helmholtz Centre of Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
The effect of the virulence master regulator HilD on flagellar rotation and proton motive force
Della Corte, Dennis
German Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
Levitt, Michael Jülich Research Center, Germany
Evaluation of mutants in computational protein design
Floris, Dorothea Lilli
German Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, United States
Mostofsky, Stewart
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Functional lateralization of motor circuit connectivity and motor performance in children with autism
Füchtbauer, Winnie Sophie
German University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Schornack, Sebastian
Aarhus University, Denmark
Involvement of Lotus LysM containing proteins in the plant-pathogen interaction with Phytophthora palmivora
Grosswendt, Stefanie
German Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, United States
Singer, Robert H. Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Transcriptome-wide identification of RNA:RNA Interactions
Haneklaus, Moritz
German The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Masters, Seth Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
NLRP3 regulation by miRNA-223, post-translational modification and novel binding partners
Heusel, Moritz
German University College London, United Kingdom
Mercer, Jason Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Assessing protein interaction dynamics during poxvirus infection by SEC-SWATH- and AP-MS
Hirschberg, Stefan
German The Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, France
Kremer, Eric J. University of Bristol, United Kingdom
A pharmacogenetic strategy to target noradrenergic endogenous analgesic circuits in vivo
Krampen, Lea
German Stockholm University, Sweden
de Gier, Jan Willem
Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Tübingen, Germany
Characterizing the mechanism of SRP-targeting-avoidance of transmembrane domain-containing substrates of bacterial type III secretion systems
Kuhn, Maike
German University of Luxembourg, Belval, Luxembourg
Hiller, Karsten Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany
Influence of bacterial and viral respiratory pathogens on macrophage metabolism using stable isotope labeled tracer molecules
65EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectSchaedler, Theresia
German University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Waterham, Hans R.
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
Mechanism of fatty acid transport by peroxisomal ABC proteins
van den Boom, Johannes
German The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Funabiki, Hironori University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
The role of p97 in the segregation of Ku80 from DNA double strand breaks
Vögtle, Friederike-Nora
German Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Graz, Austria
Madeo, Frank Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany
Stress-induced re-translocation of the novel mitochondrial protein Pho88
Widderich, Nils
German Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Rudner, David Philipp University of Marburg, Germany
Spore formation at high salinity in Bacillus subtilis
zeymer, Cathleen
German University College London, United Kingdom
Hansen, D. Flemming
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Side-chain dynamics of key catalytic residues probed along the phosphoryl transfer reaction trajectory: What can we learn about the nature of the transition state?
zocher, Sara
German Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States
Song, Hongjun Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Germany
Analyzing the influence of an enriched environment on the DNA methylation landscape in the adult mouse dentate gyrus
Afratis, Nikolaos
Greek University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Couchman, John R. University of Patras, Greece
The role of cross-talk between estrogen receptor and EGFR/IGFR/syndecans on hormone-dependent breast cancer cells
Havaki, Sophia
Greek University of Zurich, Switzerland
Lopes, Massimo National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Sustained expression of p21WAF1 in a p53 defective function environment triggers replication stress leading to oncogenic activity
Tavoulari, Sotiria
Greek University of Geneva, Switzerland
Martinou, Jean-Claude
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Structural analysis of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier
Adler, Nikoletta
Hungarian University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Shusta, Eric Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Derivation of BBB endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells for progression of novel dynamic in vitro human BBB model
Kremlitzka, Mariann
Hungarian University of Lübeck, Germany
Köhl, Jörg Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
The impact of intracellular C3a/C3aR interactions on human B cell functions under steady state and inflammatory conditions
Szikora, Szilárd
Hungarian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Lénárt, Péter Institute of Genetics, Szeged, Hungary
Investigating the mechanism of sarcomeric actin filament assembly with super-resolution microscopy
Heidarsson, Pétur
Icelandic University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Clarke, Jane University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Calcium-dependence of folding and misfolding pathways in a neuronal calcium sensor
Lemarquis, Andri Leo
Icelandic Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Toes, Rene University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
Role of B regulatory cells and spontaneous autoantibody production in the pathogenesis of IgA deficiency
66 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectBhan, Arunoday
Indian Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Niehrs, Christof University of Texas, Arlington, United States
Investigation of estradiol mediated demethylation of the CpG islands in the promoter of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), HOTAIR via GADD45a
Garge, Sneha
Indian University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Diggle, Steve Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India
The effect of biogeography on the efficiency of quorum quenching biocontrol on phytopathogens
Kamble, Avinash
Indian Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Aharoni, Asaph University of Pune, India Functional analysis of the tomato glycoalkaloid metabolism genes and promoters in response to fungal pathogens
Kumaragurubaran, Rathnakumar
Indian German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Augustin, Hellmut Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Elucidating the role of angiopoietin-2 in thrombin-induced vascular leakage
Palle, Pushpalatha
Indian Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Kuchroo, Vijay Technical University Munich, Germany
Reconstruction of an unbiased mechanistic model that describes how salt influences the differentiation of naive T cells into Th17 cells in EAE model
Sonawane, Avinash
Indian Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Maeurer, Markus KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India
Studies on T-cell responses of novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine molecules and immunomodulatory glycopeptides in preclinical model
Sreenivasa Gopalan, Vishaka Datta
Indian Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Semsey, Szabolcs The National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
A theoretical and experimental evaluation of the E. coli galactose regulatory network
Surana, Sunaina
Indian Curie Institute, Paris, France
Perez, Franck The National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Tissue-specific targeting of L-DNA based nanostructures in vivo using recombinant antibodies
Venkannagari, Harikanth
Indian Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Aachen University, Germany
Lüscher, Bernhard University of Oulu, Finland
Development of chemical probes to study the cellular roles of ARTD10
Ghorbani, Sarieh
Iranian Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Simon, Rüdiger Ghent University, Belgium Intracellular localization of AtSBT6.1 and AtSerpin1
Gilgunn, Sarah
Irish Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Conroy, Paul Dublin City University, Ireland
Investigation of the key interactions between novel avian recombinant antibody fragments and the free prostate specific antigen (fPSA)
O'Leary, Cian
Irish University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Unger, Ronald E. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
The development of advanced respiratory co-culture in vitro models using a novel bi-layered collagen-GAG scaffold for applications in respiratory drug development and nanotoxicology
67EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectO'Neill, Hugh
Irish Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States
Walsh, Conor J. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Development of a pro-angiogenic, biomaterial liner embedded in an external direct cardiac compression device to regenerate the damaged myocardium after heart failure
Williams, Tom
Irish Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Roger, Andrew J. Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Investigating genomic and metabolic innovation across a rooted archaeal tree
Cohen, Meital
Israeli Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Loewer, Alexander Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Monitoring the endogenous dynamics of the E2F circuitry in single living cells
Frumkin, Idan
Israeli Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Church, George M. The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Re-coding the Escherichia coli genome to explore the evolution of the translation machinery
Mamrut, Shimrat
Israeli Paris Sorbonne University, France
Berrih-Aknin, Sonia
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
DNA methylation and gene expression profiling of monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for myasthenia gravis
Shahar, Tal
Israeli Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Canada
Dick, John Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Leukemia heterogeneity and chemoresistance - Identifying cancer stem cell subpopulations in acute myeloid leukemia
Arcella, Annalisa
Italian Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Bathe, Mark Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
Designing self-assembled DNA origami force-sensors
Asperti, Michela
Italian Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Meyron-Holtz, Esther
University of Brescia, Italy Roles of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in the regulation of liver hepcidin expression
Astro, Veronica
Italian Max Planck Institute of Molecular CellBiology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Zerial, Marino San Raffaele Research Institute, Milan, Italy
Elucidating the mechanisms of ERC1a/liprin-alpha1 complex mediated cell polarization and migration: a novel role in integrin endocytosis?
Bertolini, Jessica Armida
Italian Center of Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain
Bovolenta, Paola University of Milan, Italy Functional characterization of regulatory sequences targeted by the transcription factor SOX2, identified by studies of long-range chromatin interactions in brain-derived neural stem/precursor cells
Bonaiuti, Paolo
Italian Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Knop, Michael FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
In vivo measurement of Spindle Assembly Checkpoint signal and response
Bruzzone, Maria Jessica
Italian University of Regensburg, Germany
Griesenbeck, Joachim
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Compositional and structural studies of nuclease hypersensitive fragile nucleosomes
Candotti, Michela
Italian University of Zurich, Switzerland
Schuler, Ben Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
A disordered protein in a cell-like environment: alteration of its structure and dynamic explored quantitatively by single-molecule FRET and MD simulation
68 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectCarroni, Marta
Italian Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Bukau, Bernd University of London, United Kingdom
Disaggregation of alpha-synuclein amyloid fibers human molecular chaperones
Esposito, Rosaria
Italian Villefranche-sur-mer Developmental Biology Laboratory, France
Hudson, Clare Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn', Naples, Italy
Transcriptional regulation and gene function of Gsx, a gene expressed in the photoreceptor cell lineage in Ciona intestinalis
Franciosini, Anna
Italian RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Japan
Sugimoto, Keiko Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Role of the SCFCFK1 ubiquitin ligase in the promotion of cell size in Arabidopsis thaliana
Fusco, Giuliana
Italian University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Veglia, Gianluigi University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Unveiling the structure and dynamics of alpha-synuclein bound to lipid vesicles
Gandini, Francesca
Italian Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
Parson, Walther University of Pavia, Italy Ancient and recent migrations to Africa from the Middle East
Gatto, Alberto
Italian Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Barton, Paul J. R. Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
Unravelling alternative splicing role and regulation in human heart failure
La Rosa, Ruggero
Italian Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Bundy, Jake Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain
Metabolic profiling to unravel the role of the Crc global regulator in optimizing the metabolism in Pseudomonas putida
Leanza, Luigi
Italian University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Gulbins, Erich University of Padova, Italy In vivo effects of new inhibitors of a mitochondrial potassium channel in a melanoma mouse model
Legnini, Ivano
Italian Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Rajewsky, Nikolaus
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Identification and study of circular RNAs involved in muscle differentiation and disease
Loda, Agnese
Italian Curie Institute, Paris, France
Heard, Edith Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Xist RNA-mediated silencing of X-linked and autosomal genes: does genomic position matter?
Loffreda, Alessia
Italian Stockholm University, Sweden
Visa, Neus University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Investigating the role of paraspeckles in the cellular response to DNA damage (DDR)
Luchinat, Enrico
Italian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Neveu, Pierre University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Protein overexpression and isotopic labeling in cultured embryonic stem cells for in-cell NMR
Mariotti, Marco
Italian University College Cork, Ireland
Atkins, John F. Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Characterization of the residue inserted by translational readthrough in the hymenoptera SPS1-rt gene
Maschietto, Valentina
Italian University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Tulln, Austria
Rainer, Schuhmacher
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Piacenza, Italy
Metabolomic study of pathways conferring resistance against mycotoxigenic fungi in maize
Mascia, Tiziana
Italian University College Dublin, Ireland
Doohan, Fiona University of Bari, Italy RNA interference in Phytophthora infestans against TMV infection (RIPAT)
69EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectMasuzzo, Paola
Italian Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Geiger, Benjamin Ghent University, Belgium Advancing cell migration research via bioinformatics
Moretto, Edoardo
Italian Interdisciplinary Institute for Neurosciences, University of Bordeaux, France
Choquet, Daniel Institute of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy
Tetraspanin 5 enriched microdomain provides a platform for dendritic spine formation
Nascimbeni, Anna
Italian Paris Descartes University, France
Codogno, Patrice University of Padova, Italy Role of ER-plasma membrane contact sites in mammalian autophagosome biogenesis
Pasini, Martina
Italian University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Overton, Tim University of Barcelona, Spain
E. coli engineering for recombinant protein secretion and flow-cytometry analysis for physiological characterization
Pisano, Annalinda
Italian University of Helsinki, Finland
Hämäläinen, Riikka
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Evaluating the rescuing effects of the carboxy-terminal domain of human mitochondrial leucyl-tRNA synthetase on iPCSs-derived neurons carrying the 3243A>G mutation in the MTTL1 gene
Raggi, Sara
Italian Jean-Pierre Bourgin Institute, Versailles, France
Mouille, Grégory Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Molecular mechanisms of plant response to pectin damage
Saponaro, Federica
Italian Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
Pellegata, Natalia University of Pisa, Italy Evaluation of the efficacy of novel drugs against gonadotroph pituitary adenomas
Scarpa, Elena
Italian Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
Theveneau, Eric University College London, Kingdom
Differences between cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion forces lead to a contact inhibition of locomotion response
Sisalli, Maria Jose
Italian University College London, United Kingdom
Duchen, Michael University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria interactions and Ca2+ crosstalk in in vitro model of Parkinson's disease
Stefanelli, Gilda
Italian University of Victoria, Canada
Ausió, Juan University of Insubria, Busto Arsizio, Italy
Characterization of a novel phosphorylation site of MeCP2 that might be involved in neuronal morphogenesis and chromatin related functions
Tebaldi, Toma
Italian Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sanguinetti, Guido
Centre for Integrative Biology, Trento, Italy
Development of an algorithm for the identification and prioritization of post-transcriptional interactions (RNA-proteins and RNA-RNA) from data generated by the CLIP-seq family of techniques
Tomasello, Ugo
Italian Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Germany
Calegari, Federico Neuroscience Institute, San Juan de Alicante, Spain
Role of miRNAs in cerebral cortex folding
70 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectTruini, Anna
Italian University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
Beer, David George
National Cancer Research Institute, University Hospital San Martino, Genova, Italy
Identification and heterogeneity of metastasis-selected gene alterations in lung cancer
Vassalli, Quirino Attilio
Italian University of Bath, United Kingdom
Kelsh, Robert Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn', Naples, Italy
Gene regulatory networks controlling chordate photoreceptor cell development
Tanaka, Kentaro
Japanese University of Oklahoma, United States
Masly, John P. Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Comparative analysis of development of male terminal structures between Drosophila species
Corral Lugo, Andrés
Mexican Hiroshima University, Japan
Kato, Junichi Zaidín Experimental Station, Granada, Spain
Functional annotation of chemoreceptors by high-throughput chemotaxis assay screening
Gomez, Georgina
Mexican University of Bern, Switzerland
Meister, Peter Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology, Seville, Spain
Functional role of MEL-28/ELYS in nuclear organization
Cunnington, Emelyne
New Zealander
Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Teusink, Bas Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
Selection for yield in yeast to investigate the nature of the Crabtree-effect
North, Rachel
New Zealander
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Friemann, Rosmarie
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Sialic acid import and degradation by a clinically important human pathogen
Soreng, Kristiane
Norwegian Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, United Kingdom
Tooze, Sharon University of Oslo, Norway Phosphoinositide-binding proteins in autophagy: Characterization of the PX-BAR protein SNX18 in autophagy
Adamczuk, Marcin
Polish Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Charette, Steve University of Warsaw, Poland
Role of mobile genetic elements in the genomic plasticity and loss of virulence in Aeromonas salmonicida, the etiologic agent of furunculosis, which is an important disease for farmed fish
Drebert, Zuzanna
Polish The Queen’s Medical Research Institute,University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hadoke, Patrick Ghent University, Belgium Role of glucocorticoids and selective glucocorticoid receptor modulators in angiogenesis
Dyla, Mateusz
Polish Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States
Blanchard, Scott C. Aarhus University, Denmark
Single-molecule studies of a bacterial homologue of SERCA
Gacek, Katarzyna
Polish The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Batley, Jacqueline Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute – National Research Institute, Poznan, Poland
Genome-wide association study in regulation of fatty acid composition in Brassica napus
Janiszewska Likus, Joanna
Polish King’s College London, United Kingdom
Tavassoli, Mahvash
Institute of Human Genetics, Poznan, Poland
Functional analyses of miR-1246 and miR-1290 involvement in pathogenesis of head and neck cancers
71EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectJurkowska, Renata
Polish The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Reik, Wolf Stuttgart University, Germany
Controlling the methylation writers - regulation of the Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b DNA methyltransferases by posttranslational modifications
Kania, Elzbieta
Polish The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Ryan, Kevin Mossakowski Medical Research Centre,Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland
Investigation of autophagy in verapamil-induced cell death
Makala, Ewa
Polish Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Tollervey, David Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics,Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Studies of direct interaction between the negative regulator of RNA polymerase III - Maf1 and tRNAs
Ostrowska, Kinga
Polish Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Ghigo, Jean-Marc University of Lodz, Poland Mechanisms of induction of persistence by nutrient stress and SOS response in bacterial biofilms
Rysnik, Oliwia
Polish University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Baeten, Dominique
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Investigating aberrant HLA-B27 expression in an HLA-B27 transgenic rat arthritis model and in human spondyloarthritis synovium
Stolarczyk, Marta
Polish McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Lukács, Gergely L. Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Is ROS a link between ADAM17 activity and CFTR deficiency?
zapisek, Bartosz
Polish The French National Centre for Scientific Research, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Bonnefoy, Nathalie
University of Warsaw, Poland
Characterization of the ppr10 gene from Schizosaccharomyces pombe
zwirowski, Szymon
Polish Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Bukau, Bernd University of Gdansk, Poland
Characterization of bacterial and yeast small heat shock protein substrate complexes
Bordeira-Carriço, Renata
Portuguese University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain
Gómez-Skarmeta, Jose Luis
IBMC-INEB Associated Laboratory, University of Porto, Portugal
Genome-wide analysis of the pancreatic regulatory landscapes in zebrafish
Carvalhal, Sara
Portuguese University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
Hübner, Angela University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Study of ALADIN meiotic function in female mouse oocytes
Lince-Faria, Mariana
Portuguese European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Pepperkok, Rainer Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal
New microtubule regulators involved in centriole biogenesis
Matos, Andreia
Portuguese Tübingen University, Germany
Ragni, Laura New University of Lisbon, Oeiras, Portugal
Effects of thermospermine on the secondary growth of the Arabidopsis hypocotyl
Moscoso, Joana
Portuguese Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Jung, Kirsten Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Understanding how c-di-AMP impacts potassium transport across the membrane in Staphylococcus aureus
72 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectPaquete, Catarina
Portuguese Boston University, United States
Elliott, Sean New University of Lisbon, Oeiras, Portugal
Elucidation of the catalytic properties of redox enzymes that belongs to the octaheme cytochrome c family
Rosario, Ana
Portuguese Columbia University, New York, United States
Mancia, Filippo Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, Oeiras, Portugal
Structure determination of phosphatidylinositol synthase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (PIPSMt) and human (PIPSh)
Salgado, Marco
Portuguese Biochemistry and Plant Molecular Physiology, French National Center for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France
Zimmermann, Sabine
Stockholm University, Sweden
What are the carbon sources supplied to Frankia in actinorhizal nodules?
Vaz, Filipa
Portuguese University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Ligoxygakis, Petros
New University of Lisbon, Oeiras, Portugal
Determination of the ability of Staphylococcus aureus mutants lacking peptidoglycan binding proteins to cause disease in the Drosophila infection model
Bakalenko, Nadezhda
Russian University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Akam, Michael Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Federation
Antisense Hox transcripts of annelids Alitta virens and Platynereis dumerilii
Korobeinikova, Anna
Russian Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
Piendl, Wolfgang Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russian Federation
Studying the role of essential ribosomal protein L5 and its structural elements in the formation of the functionally active bacterial ribosome
Lapin, Dmitry
Russian Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Toulouse, France
Deslandes, Laurent
Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Investigating a regulator of immune receptor-chromatin association
Mayorova, Tatiana
Russian Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Elphick, Maurice R.
Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Developmental analysis of neuropeptide expression in the starfish Asterias rubens
Melnikov, Sergey
Russian The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Rout, Michael Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France
Dual role of protein extensions in eukaryotic ribosomes: systematic identification of factors that bind and guide ribosomal proteins towards the ribosome assembly site
Pyatrikas, Darya
Russian University of Milan, Italy Costa, Alex Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Irkutsk, Russian Federation
Plant mitochondria in regulation of calcium homeostasis in Arabidopsis cells during heat shock
Sluchanko, Nikolai
Russian Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Strelkov, Sergei V. A. N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Atomic structure of the complex of human HspB6 with the universal adapter protein 14-3-3
73EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectSyutkin, Alexey
Russian Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany
Albers, Sonja-Verena
Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russian Federation
Investigation of environmental effects on the assembly and function of Haloarcula marismortui motility apparatus
Ulanova, Lilia
Russian Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Levraud, Jean-Pierre
University of Oslo, Norway Investigation of the role of leukocytes in Francisella infection using a zebrafish model
Gak, Igor
Serbian Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
Gerlich, Daniel Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Visualizing restriction point control in live cells
Wong, Mei Mei Jaslyn Elizabeth
Singaporean The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, United Kingdom
Zipfel, Cyril Aarhus University, Denmark
Identification of protein interaction partners of nod factor receptors in Lotus japonicus through proteomic approaches
Konte, Tilen
Slovenian Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
Terpitz, Ulrich University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Physiological role of rhodopsins from selected halotolerant and halophilic fungi
Hockman, Dorit
South African California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Bronner, Marianne
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine,University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Deciphering neural crest development in the lamprey
Heo, Jungok
South Korean North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States
Sozzani, Rosangela
University of Helsinki, Finland
High resolution map of phloem gene expression
Acebes Huerta, Andrea
Spanish University of Messina, Italy
Ferlazzo, Guido University Institute of Oncology of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
NK/DC cells interplay in the immunosurveillance against cancer cell DNA ploidy
Alvarez, Alejandro
Spanish University of Toulouse, France
Legube, Gaelle University of Seville, Spain Genome-wide map of TOP2-induced DNA break hotspots
Arechederra, Maria
Spanish Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille-Luminy, France
Maina, Flavio Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Analysis of C3G function in HGF/Met induced migration and invasion of hepatocarcinoma cells
Arjona Madueño, Francisco Jesús
Spanish University College London Medical School, United Kingdom
Kleta, Robert Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Functionomics of the membrane transporter SLC41A1: a new molecular player involved in renal Mg2+ reabsorption?
Baison-Olmo, Fernando
Spanish University of Geneva, Switzerland
Soldati, Thierry University of Seville, Spain Dictyostelium discoideum as host model for Salmonella enterica
Bajic, Djordje
Spanish Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
Papp, Balázs Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain
Decoding the global gene expression reprogramming in genetically perturbed yeasts
Barcena-Fernandez, Clea
Spanish The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
Zhang, Feng University of Oviedo, Spain
CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing for the generation of new models of aging and cancer
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectBernal, Patricia
Spanish Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Filloux, Alain Zaidín Experimental Station, Granada, Spain
First steps toward the biochemical and structural characterisation of a novel type VI secretion system effector-immunity pair
Bidart, Gonzalo
Spanish Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Willemsen, Linette
Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, Valencia, Spain
Immunomodulatory properties of human milk-like oligosaccharides synthesized using the transglycosylation activity of glycosidases isolated from lactic acid bacteria
Blasco Moreno, Bernat
Spanish Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
Leidel, Sebastian Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Dissecting the role of the exonuclease Xrn1p in cellular translational control
Brunet Galmés, Isabel
Spanish University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Christie-Oleza, Joseph
University of Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
Proteomic insights into naphthalene degradation by Pseudomonas
Caballero Bermejo, Montaña
Spanish University of Osnabrück, Germany
Brandt, Ronald University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain
Tau phosphorylation at threonine-50 and threonine-69: Physiological consequences
Casado, Victoria
Spanish Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Rocks, Oliver Institute of Biology and Molecular Genetics, Valladolid, Spain
Beta2-chimaerin in breast cancer: roles in cytoskeletal dynamics, cell adhesions and spatio-temporal control of Rac during these processes
Catalan, Pablo
Spanish University of Zurich, Switzerland
Wagner, Andreas Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganés, Spain
Evolutionary consequences of the coupling of levels in the genotype-phenotype map
Cortiguera, María Gabriela
Spanish University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Wagner, Simon University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Effects of the histone deacetylase inhibitor romidepsin in lymphoma B-cells and Bcl6 regulation
Cruz Martinez, Pablo
Spanish Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Franklin, Robin University of Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain
Study of mesenchymal stem cell-mediated activation of signaling pathways in neural stem progenitor cells
del Peso Santos, Teresa
Spanish European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Benes, Vladimir Umea University, Sweden Deciphering temperature and metabolic dependent regulation of biofilm development in Vibrio cholerae
Domínguez Sánchez, María
Spanish Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bartek, Jiri University of Seville, Spain Novel CtIP Interactors that control its repair function
Duran-Frigola, Miquel
Spanish Tel Aviv University, Israel Ruppin, Eytan Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
Rational polypharmacology through genome-scale metabolic networks
Escribano, Oscar
Spanish University of California, San Francisco, United States
McManus, Michael
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Role of non-coding RNAs in the beta cell hyperplasia observed in the mouse model of type 2 diabetes iLIRKO (inducible Liver Insulin Receptor KnockOut)
75EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectEscudero Paniagua, Antonio
Spanish Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Williams, David S. University of Salamanca, Spain
CRB2 silencing in an in vivo model
Fernández López, Cristina
Spanish Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Glaser, Philippe Biological Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Conjugative transfer of a streptococcal integrative and mobilizable element
Flores, Gema
Spanish University of Reading, United Kingdom
Gibson, Glenn Institute of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition, Madrid, Spain
Human gut microbiota effects on anthocyanins encapsulated with cyclodextrins
Floristán Muruzábal, Alfredo
Spanish New York University Langone Medical Center, United States
Hernando-Monge, Eva M.
Institute of Biomedical Research 'Alberto Sols', Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Analysis of Lysyl Oxidase-Like 3 (LOXL3) and microRNAs (miRNAs) relationship in metastatic melanoma
Fructuoso, Marta
Spanish Paris Diderot University, France
Janel, Nathalie Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
The role of Dyrk1A on homeostatic regulation of feeding behavior in a Down syndrome mouse model
Garanto, Alejandro
Spanish University of Iowa, United States
Tucker, Budd A. Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Antisense oligonucleotide based therapy for CEP290-associated LCA in iPSC-derived photoreceptors
García Hernández, Violeta
Spanish University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Sanchez, Jean-Charles
University of Salamanca, Spain
Proteomic analysis of the soluble fraction of the pancreas during the early phase of acute pancreatitis employing a TMT labeling approach. Effect of the inhibition of MAPKs and type IV phosphodiesterase
García Linares, Sara
Spanish Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Slotte, J. Peter Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Molecular dissection of the membrane requirements for actinoporins optimum functionality
García-Fontana, Cristina
Spanish The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Hai-Chua, Nam University of Granada, Spain
Characterization of plant-microorganism interaction at transcriptomic level as a biotechnological tool
Getino, María
Spanish University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
Jiménez, Jose I. University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Bacteriophages as evolvable conjugation inhibitors
Gómez Climent, María Ángeles
Spanish Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Germany
Hasan, Mazahir T. University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain
Regulation of fear memory and active coping by the motivational circuit
Gonzalez Carracedo, Mario
Spanish Wageningen University, The Netherlands
van Kan, Jan University of La Laguna, Spain
Role of highly O-glycosylated proteins in the virulence of Botrytis cinerea
González-Prieto, Coral
Spanish German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Schmidt, Manfred University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Characterization of the integration pattern obtained after genetic modification of human cells with a conjugative relaxase by nrLAM-PCR and next-generation sequencing
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectGuijas, Carlos
Spanish University of Colorado, Aurora, United States
Murphy, Robert C. University of Valladolid, Spain
Identification of molecular species of triglycerides and diglycerides in plasma from patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
Hernández-Varas, Pablo
Spanish ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain
Lakadamyali, Melike
Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
Dissecting cell-matrix adhesion complex anatomy by super-resolution microscopy
Herrero del Rio, Mª del Rocío
Spanish Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Arenzana-Seisdedos, Fernando
University of Jaen, Spain Innate immunity genes and resistance to HIV-1 infection
Izquierdo, Helena
Spanish Curie Institute, Paris, France
Manel, Nicolas Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
Role of mitochondrial functions in HIV infection and immunity
Juarez Vicente, Francisco de Paula
Spanish Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Melchior, Frauke Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seville, Spain
Analysis of SUMOylation during neuronal differentiation
Labrador Garrido, Adahir
Spanish University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Knowles, Tuomas P.
Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seville, Spain
Kinetic analysis of the aggregation mechanism of alpha-synuclein in the presence of nanobodies
Lobato Márquez, Damián
Spanish Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
McKinney, John Biological Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Single cell-based analysis to study how toxin-antitoxin systems of the pathogen Salmonella enterica contribute to persistence during infection of the eukaryotic cell
Lombana Sacristán, Laura
Spanish Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry – Therapeutical Life Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz , Germany
Schneider, Dirk Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Use of the gallex system to check the interaction of hepatitis c virus envelope glycoproteins at the plasmatic membrane
Lopez Fabuel, Irene
Spanish Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Murphy, Michael P.
Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics, Salamanca, Spain
Understanding the molecular mechanism responsible for the different mitochondrial complex I assembly in neurons and astrocytes and its bioenergetics consequences
López-Escardó, David
Spanish University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
López-García, Purificación
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain
Diversity and distribution of two deep-branching enigmatic protist groups prior to the metazoan radiation, Filasterea and Corallochytrea
Maeso, Ignacio
Spanish Oceanographic Observatory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
Escrivá, Héctor University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain
Functional survey of developmental regulatory landscapes in the amphioxus genome
77EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectMarcos Ramiro, Beatriz
Spanish King’s College London, United Kingdom
Cox, Susan Center of Molecular Biology 'Severo Ochoa', Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Study of the dynamics of Rho GTPases during endothelial barrier recovery using advanced imaging techniques
Mas Lladó, Maria
Spanish University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Christie-Oleza, Joseph
University of Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
Proteogenomics analysis of diesel tolerance and degradation in nine marine Roseobacter isolates from the coast of Mallorca
Matheu, Ander
Spanish San Francisco University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lima Ribeiro, Marcelo
Health Research Biodonostia Institute, San Sebastian, Spain
Role of SOX9 in gastric cancer
Maycas Cepeda, Marta
Spanish Indiana UniversityMedical Center, Indianapolis, United States
Bellido, Teresita Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Study of mechanical loading alone and in combination with parathyroid hormone related protein (PTHrP) to reverse the alterations of bone micro-architecture in diabetic mice
Mercader, Josep M
Spanish The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
Altshuler, David Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Characterisation of genetic mosaicism in type 2 diabetes patients: causal mechanism and diagnosis
Miralles-Duran, Alejandro
Spanish Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Fisher, Reinhard University of Seville, Spain Localization and interaction by fluorescence of the photoreceptor protein WcoB with other proteins from Phycomyces blakesleeanus using Aspergillus nidulans as a model
Moreno Amatria, Esther
Spanish Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Birchall, James C. University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Leishmania vaccination using microneedles and DNA nucleosomal histones
Núñez-Gómez, Elena
Spanish University College London, United Kingdom
Greenwood, John University of Salamanca, Spain
Role of LRG1 in modulating endoglin-mediated endothelial cell signaling and function
Oriola, David
Spanish University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Gadélha, Hermes University of Barcelona, Spain
Active fluctuations in sperm flagella
Palomino, Martina
Spanish Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe, Germany
Luy, Burkhard Príncipe Felipe Research Center, Valencia, Spain
Optimization of a new fast bidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance experiment for the analysis of biological samples
Peralta López, Marina
Spanish Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg, France
Vermot, Julien Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
Identifying mechanotransduction pathways triggering epicardial development in zebrafish embryos
Perez-Benavente, Beatriz
Spanish The Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, France
Piechaczyk, Marc University of Valencia, Spain
Identification of new transcriptional targets of JunB involved in cell proliferation
Perez-Carro, Raquel
Spanish Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Cremers, Frans P. M.
Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Next-generation sequencing in inherited retinal dystrophies: Searching for novel causative variants in 700 uncharacterized Spanish families
78 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectPozo Guisado, Eulalia
Spanish University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Alessi, Dario R. University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
Determination of ORAI1 phosphorylation sites
Pun, Andrés
Spanish Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States
Koch, Walter J. Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
Gene therapy for Beta3-adrenoreceptor overexpression in cardiomyocytes with rAAV9
Rodríguez Herrán, Alexandra
Spanish University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Laparra Llopis, José Moises
University of Leon, Spain Evaluation of the immunomodulatory features within the gut-liver axis of two Lactobacilli with probiotic potential
Rodríguez Navarro, Sarai
Spanish University of Bern, Switzerland
Dufour, Jean-François
Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
Does physical exercise decrease the risk of HCC? Use of an orthotopic syngeneic MH rat model
Roldán López, Nuria
Spanish Abo Academi University, Turku, Finland
Slotte, J. Peter Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Understanding pulmonary surfactant protein SP-C/cholesterol interactions: Effect of SP-C on cholestatrienol distribution in lung surfactant membranes
Ruano Gallego, David
Spanish Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Frankel, Gad Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain
Arming commensal E. coli to fight bacterial pathogens
Rueda Carrasco, Javier
Spanish German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany
Heneka, Michael Center of Molecular Biology 'Severo Ochoa', Autonomous University of Madrid , Spain
Elucidating the role of Sfrp1 in brain inflammation
Sanchez Alcudia, Rocio
Spanish University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Rivolta, Carlo Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Whole genome sequencing in retinitis pigmentosa: searching for pathogenic DNA variants in 11 Spanish families
Santos zas, Icía
Spanish The Institute of Myology, Paris, France
Mouly, Vincent University Clinical Hospital of Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Validation of the myogenic action of the obestatin/GPR39 system in human for the treatment of myopathies
Sastre-Moreno, Guillermo
Spanish National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
Holt, Ian J. Center of Molecular Biology 'Severo Ochoa', Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Role of PrimPol in tolerating oxidative damage in mitochondria
Vargas, Javier
Spanish Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Koster, Bram Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain
Novel methods for automatic image quality assessment for high-throughput cryo electron microscopy
Yeramian, Andree
Spanish Norwegian Radium Hospital,Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Lyng, Heidi Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida, Spain
Signaling pathways and miRNA patterns involved in endometrial cancer resistance to therapy
zubeldia Plazaola, Arantzazu
Spanish Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
LaBarge, Mark Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
Role of the microenvironment in the heterogeneity and evolution of breast cancer
79EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectCornille, Amandine
Swedish South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Huang, Huirun Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Testing experimental local adaptation in the worldwide annual polyploid shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
Grimsholm, Ola
Swedish Bambino Gesú Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
Carsetti, Rita University of Gothenburg, Sweden
B-cell tolerance mechanisms in primary immunodeficiencies
Geiger, Roger
Swiss Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Mann, Matthias Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Proteome and secretome atlas of human immune cells
Ben Farhat, Khaoula
Tunisian Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Italy
Garlanda, Cecilia Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunisia
Susceptibility to aspergillosis and PTX3 deficiency
Girgin Ersoy, Zeynep
Turkish University of Helsinki, Finland
Saris, Per Gebze Institute of Technology, Kocaeli, Turkey
The effect of multiple copies of fhuR and rpiA genes of Lactococcus lactis on nisin biosynthesis
Saglar, Emel
Turkish Aarhus University, Denmark
Fenton, Robert A. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Functional analysis of aquaporin-2 gene mutation that cause nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
Tyutyunnykova, Anna
Ukrainan National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Dresden, Germany
Dubrovska, Anna The Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Phospholipase C epsilon as a potential biomarker for the head and neck cancer
Rosconi, Federico
Uruguayan University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Grant, Andrew Clemente Estable Biological Research Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay
High-throughput transposon mutagenesis studies in plant growth promoting bacteria
Katz, Shauna
US-American National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
Guillemot, Francois
Institute of Neurobiology, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Deciphering an evolutionarily conserved mechanism of microRNA regulation in adult neural stem cells
Klosowiak, Julian
US-American Curie Institute, Paris, France
Houdusse-Juille, Anne
Northwestern University, Chicago, United States
Structure and function of the mitochondrial protein Miro
Lawrence, Stacey
US-American Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Simon, Rüdiger Yale University, New Haven, United States
Microscopic analysis of G(beta gamma) heterodimer interaction with FLS2 and BAK1 receptor complexes
Minikel, Eric
US-American University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Aguzzi, Adriano Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States
Genome-wide CRISPR screen for loss-of-function mutations that reduce prion protein expression
Ruff, Emily
US-American Institute Jacques Monod, University of Paris, France
Strick, Térence University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
Single-molecule investigation of the initial steps of transcription initiation by DNA nanomanipulation
80 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
ERS | EMBO joint fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectHilvering, Bart
Dutch University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Pavord, Ian University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells and severe non-atopic, eosinophilic asthma
Tischler, Verena
German University of Cologne, Germany
Thomas, Roman University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Modulators of oncogenic signaling in lung cancer – understanding the mechanisms of resistance in settings of precision therapy
81EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
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Austria 1 2 2 1 1 7Belgium 1 1 1 1 4Croatia 0Czech Republic 0Denmark 1 1 1 1 1 1 6Estonia 0Finland 1 2 1 4France 1 3 1 4 1 1 2 12 1 2 2 5 35Germany 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 5 3 1 1 1 12 3 4 2 2 3 48Greece 0Hungary 1 1Iceland 0Ireland 1 1 2Israel 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7Italy 1 1 1 1 1 2 7Luxembourg 1 1Netherlands 1 4 1 3 2 11Norway 1 1 2Poland 1 1Portugal 1 1Slovak Republic 0Slovenia 0Spain 3 1 1 1 2 8Sweden 1 1 1 1 1 2 7Switzerland 1 8 4 1 1 15Turkey 0UK 2 1 3 2 3 3 2 1 3 1 19 1 2 8 51EMBL 1 1 1 1 1 5Eastern Europe 0USA/Canada 1 1 1 1 3 9 2 2 2 5 1 2 11 2 8 51Others 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 10Total 4 10 1 4 7 0 3 6 23 2 2 1 5 5 23 0 14 2 8 6 0 1 76 6 6 2 26 7 5 29 284
* “From” refers to home laboratory (see list on pages 58 – 80)
84 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Young Investigators
EMBO Young Investigators 2014Name Nationality Institute Research interest CountryGad Asher Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Mammalian circadian clocks IL
Petr Broz Swiss Biocentre, University of Basel Inflammasome complexes CH
Felipe Cortés Ledesma Spanish Andalusian Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine Centre, Seville
Repair of blocked DNA breaks ES
Filippo Del Bene Italian Institut Curie, Paris Neural circuit formation and function FR
Mads Gyrd-Hansen Danish University of Oxford Ubiquitin signalling UK
Mario Halic Croatian University of Munich (LMU) Small RNA mediated heterochromatin formation
DE
Sebastian Hiller German Biocentre, University of Basel Outer membrane protein biogenesis CH
Michael Hothorn German University of Geneva Membrane signalling in plants CH
Jan Huisken German MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Imaging developmental processes DE
Claudine Kraft Swiss Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Regulation and signalling in autophagy AT
François Leulier French Institute of Functional Genomics in Lyon (IGFL) Host/microbiota interactions FR
Hai-Kun Liu Chinese German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Central nervous system stem cells DE
Massimiliano Mazzone
Italian Vesalius Research Center, VIB & KU Leuven Macrophages in ischemia and cancer BE
Yuki Nakamura Japanese Academia Sinica, Taipei Lipid diversity in plant development TW
Lionel Navarro French Institute of Biology of the ENS (IBENS), Paris Small RNAs and innate immunity FR
Caren Norden German MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Retinal morphogenesis DE
Diego Pasini Italian European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan Epigenetics in differentiation and cancer IT
Lori Passmore British MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Macromolecular machines for RNA synthesis UK
Michael Potente German MPI for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim Angiogenesis and metabolism DE
Halyna Shcherbata Ukrainian MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Solingen miRNAs in cell differentiation and maintenance DE
Maria Teresa Teixeira Portuguese Institut de Biologie, Paris Telomere biology FR
Kristin Tessmar-Raible German Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Circalunar clocks AT
Ines Thiele German University of Luxembourg Modelling of human metabolism LU
Steven West British University of Edinburgh Nuclear pre-mRNA processing UK
Thomas Wollert German MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried Molecular mechanism of autophaghy DE
Philip zegerman British Wellcome Trust / CRUK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge Regulation of genome replication UK
Johannes zuber German Research Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Cancer drug target identification with RNAi AT
Gerlind Wallon Programme Manager
EMBO young InvestigatorsLaunched in 2000, the programme has supported 342 scientists in 19 EMBC Member States. Researchers from Singapore and Taiwan have joined the programme due to cooperation agreements signed in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The EMBO Young Investigators benefit from training opportunities designed to raise their profile, widen their networks and support their research groups.
[email protected] www.embo.org/funding-awards/young-investigators
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EMBO Young Investigators 2000 – 2013
Adams, RalfAgami, ReuvenAhel, IvanAllain, FrédéricAlon, UriAmit, IdoAntonny, BrunoArber, SilviaArkowitz, RobertArribas, JoaquinAshe, HilaryAverof, MichalisAzzalin, Claus Maria
Barkai, NaamaBarr, FrancisBarral, YvesBarre, François-XavierBasto, RenataBatista, FacundoBaum, BuzzBehrens, AxelBeja, OdedBellaiche, YohannsBen-Yehuda, SigalBenton, RichardBerezikov, EugeneBerger, FrédéricBertolotti, AnneBertrand, EdouardBettencourt-Dias, MónicaBlanpain, CédricBlázquez, MiguelBochtler, MatthiasBoulton, SimonBousso, PhilippeBoutros, MichaelBriscoe, JamesBühler, MarcBujnicki, JanuszBumann, Dirk
Carballido-López, RutCarleton, AlanCarroll, JasonCarter, AndrewCarvalho, PedroCasares, FernandoCavaillé, Jérôme
Chin, JasonChiti, FabrizioChoudhary, ChunaramChristoforidis, SavvasClausen, TimCollinson, IanConradt, BarbaraCorona, DavideCosma, Maria PiaCostanzo, VincenzoCowling, VictoriaCramer, PatrickCurrie, Peter
d’Adda di Fagagna, FabrizioDaumke, OliverDavis, Danielde Gier, Jan-WillemDel Pozo, Miguel A.Delledonne, MassimoDessen, AndreaDickson, BarryDominguez, MariaDonaldson, AnneDrew, DavidDutzler, Raimund
Einsle, OliverElena, SantiagoElf, JohanEtienne-Manneville, Sandrine
Fankhauser, ChristianFernández-Capetillo, ÓscarFernández-Chacón, RafaelFischer, AndréFriml, JiriFuks, François
Garel, SoniaGarinis, GeorgeGeldner, NikoGerhardt, HolgerGerlich, Daniel WolframGil, Jesus
Ginhoux, FlorentGlotzer, MichaelGönczy, PierreGonzález-Reyes, AcaimoGotta, MonicaGrill, StephanGroth, AnjaGrunwald Kadow, Ilona
Hajkova, PetraHajnal, AlexHanna, JacobHardingham, GilesHarkany, TiborHassan, BassemHaucke, VolkerHelariutta, YkäHelms, VolkhardHidalgo, AliciaHirst, JudyHoffmann, EvaHolstege, FrankHoogenraad, CasperHopfner, Karl-PeterHoppe, ThorstenHummel, Thomas
Ivaska, Johanna
Jacobs, JacquelineJanke, CarstenJansen, RalfJarriault, SophieJefferis, GregoryJensen, KimJensen, Torben HeickJessberger, SebastianJovine, Luca
Kaessmann, HenrikKaufmann, KerstinKeays, DavidKetting, RenéKhakh, BaljitKlaholz, BrunoKlose, RobertKnoblich, JürgenKöhler, ClaudiaKomander, David
Kondrashov, FyodorKonieczny, IgorKunji, Edmund
Labib, KarimLakadamyali, MelikeLängst, GernotLappalainen, PekkaLecuit, ThomasLehner, BenLemaitre, BrunoLevashina, Elena A.Leys, DavidLogan, DarrenLogan, MalcolmLohmann, JanLopes, MassimoLópez-Bendito, GuillerminaLorentzen, EsbenLovering, AndrewLöwe, JanLüdde, TomLuke, BrianLygerou, Zoi
Madan Babu, M.Mailand, NielsMakinen, TaijaMalnasi Csizmadia, AndrasMansuy, IsabelleManzanares, MiguelMarin, OscarMarine, Jean-ChristopheMarques-Bonet, TomasMarston, AdeleMartens, SaschaMartin-Bermudo, Maria DoloresMartín-Serrano, JuanMartin, SophieMartinez, JavierMás, PalomaMathieu, OlivierMattevi, AndreaMehlen, PatrickMeier, PascalMeraldi, Patrick
Miguel-Aliaga, IreneMilán, MarcoMilo, RonMiska, EricMitchell, KevinMoller, Simon GeirMorillon, AntoninMosialos, GeorgeMota, MariaMusacchio, Andrea
Nagy, LaszloNehrbass, UlfNeuhauss, StephanNichols, BenjaminNissen, PoulNollen, EllenNoselli, Stéphane
Odom, DuncanOldroyd, GilesOtzen, DanielOwen-Hughes, TomOwen, DavidOxenius, Annette
Palková, ZdenaPalmer, RuthPasero, PhilippePeeper, DanielPellizzoni, LivioPeracchi, AlessioPerrakis, AnastassisPeters, AntoinePeters, Jan-MichaelPetronczki, MarkPhilpott, DanaPierre, PhilippePilpel, YitzhakPoirazi, PanayiotaPolo, SimonaPosas, FrancescPrud’homme, Benjamin
Radtke, FreddyRalser, MarkusReddy, AkhileshReich, ZivRescigno, MariaReversade, BrunoRicci, RomeoRichards, Thomas
Rico, BeatrizRizzoli, SilvioRobinson, RobertRodriguez, IvanRoska, BotondRouse, John
Sablina, AnnaSahai, ErikSalecker, IrisSandberg, RickardSantos, ManuelSaudou, FrédéricSchärer, Orlando D.Schedl, AndreasSchleper, ChristaSchlötterer, ChristianSchneitz, KaySchnittger, ArpSchnorrer, FrankSchratt, GerhardSchübeler, DirkSchuh, MelinaSchuldiner, MayaSchulze, AlmutSchwappach, BlancheScorrano, LucaSegal, EranSelbach, MatthiasSeoane, JoanSilva-Santos, BrunoSimons, MikaelSo, EricSorek, RotemSourjik, VictorSoutoglou, EviSpahn, ChristianSpang, AnneSprecher, SimonStancheva, IrinaStark, AlexanderStock, DanielaSträßer, KatjaStrick, TerenceStumpf, MichaelSuomalainen-Wartiovaara, AnuSzabò, Ildikò
Taipale, JussiTamagnone, Luca
Tanaka, TomoyukiTanay, AmosTapon, NicolasTarsounas, MadalenaTavernarakis, NektariosTeichmann, SarahTeleman, AurelioTelford, MaximilianTherond, PascalThery, ManuelThompson, BarryTolar, PavelTorres-Padilla, Maria-ElenaTrouche, DidierTrumpp, AndreasTsiantis, MiltosTuschl, Thomas
Uhlmann, FrankUlrich, HelleUngermann, Christian
van Aalten, DaanVan den Ackerveken, Guidovan der Goot, Gisouvan Steensel, BasVeening, Jan-WillemVeldhoen, MarcVendruscolo, MicheleVermot, JulienVerstrepen, KevinVinkemeier, UweViola, AntonellaVoinnet, Olivier
Walden, HelenWalther, TobiasWilson, DanielWimmer, Ernst A.Wutz, Anton
Yanai, Itai
Zarivach, RazZeeman, SamuelZernicka-Goetz, MagdalenaZimmermann, Pascale
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EMBO Young Investigators: statisticsApplications and awards 2005 – 2014
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Country Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw.
Austria 3 1 3 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 3 1 8 3Belgium 3 0 6 2 6 1 2 0 6 1 3 1 3 0 3 0 5 1 9 1Croatia 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0Czech Republic 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0Denmark 1 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 5 1 1 0 4 3 2 0Estonia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0Finland 2 0 5 2 8 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 9 0 3 0France 14 2 16 4 8 3 11 1 11 0 12 0 23 4 21 3 29 3 20 4Germany 23 4 27 2 19 3 21 1 17 2 22 7 19 3 16 1 17 2 31 7Greece 6 0 4 0 4 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 0Hungary 1 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0Iceland 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Ireland 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0Israel 3 1 5 1 2 1 4 0 6 1 7 1 4 1 10 4 8 1 7 1Italy 14 1 11 3 10 1 4 0 15 1 12 1 11 0 8 0 7 0 10 1Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1The Netherlands 5 1 8 0 5 1 7 0 7 1 7 1 6 1 13 1 11 1 7 0Norway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 2 0Poland 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Portugal 4 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 5 1 3 0 3 0 19 0 9 0Slovak Republic 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0Slovenia 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Spain 17 1 16 0 18 3 12 1 8 0 14 3 27 0 23 1 28 3 21 1Sweden 3 1 10 0 14 1 3 0 3 1 4 0 8 1 7 1 6 1 11 0Switzerland 8 3 5 2 4 0 5 2 11 6 11 1 11 3 10 2 7 1 10 3Turkey 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 1 0United Kingdom 13 2 22 5 26 3 32 7 24 3 32 5 34 8 22 5 29 5 33 4Singapore 4 1 1 1 3Taiwan 1 0 4 1Others 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2Total 128 17 153 21 132 18 116 12 123 17 137 21 164 22 160 22 192 23 202 27
Female 32 2 32 6 37 3 32 2 34 4 39 3 57 8 57 8 59 5 64 7Male 96 15 121 15 95 15 84 10 89 13 98 18 107 14 103 14 133 18 138 20
87EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Young Investigators
EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2014Young Investigator Conference Location DateFyodor Kondrashov Population Genetics Group 47 GB-Bath 7 – 10 January
Sascha Martens EMBO Workshop: Protein and Lipid Function in Secretion and Endocytosis
AT-Goldegg 14 – 19 January
Marc Veldhoen Keystone Symposia: Emerging Cytokine Networks CA-Vancouver 17 – 22 January
Sebastian Jessberger Adult Neurogenesis: From stem cells to therapies IN-Mumbai 6 – 8 February
Melike Lakadamyali 58th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting US-San Francisco 15 – 19 February
Markus Ralser Keystone Symposium: Omics Meets Cell Biology: Applications to Human Health and Disease
US-Taos 18 – 23 February
Jacqueline Jacobs & Madalena Tarsounas
Abcam Meeting: Maintenance of Genome Stability KN-St. Kitts 3 – 6 March
Sascha Martens Gordon Research Conference: Autophagy in Stress, Development and Disease
IT-Lucca (Barga) 16 – 21 March
Massimo Lopes Gordon Conference: DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer US-Ventura 16 – 21 March
Markus Ralser Biochemical Society Focused Meeting: Redox regulation in health and disease
GB-Edinburgh 19 – 21 March
Beatriz Rico EMBO Workshop: Mechanisms of neuronal remodelling IL-Ein-Gedi 22 – 26 March
Sebastian Jessberger Keystone Symposia: Adult neurogenesis SE-Stockholm 12 – 17 May
Daniel Wilson EMBO Workshop | Recoding: Reprogramming Genetic Decoding
IE-Killarney 13 – 18 May
Anja Groth EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course on Nuclear Proteomics GR-Kos 18 – 23 May
Eva Hoffmann 2014 Meiosis Gordon Conference US-New London 1 – 6 June
Pedro Carvalho EMBO Workshop: Cellular Imaging of Lipids IT-Vico Equense 2 – 6 June
Robert Klose & Kevin Verstrepen Society for molecular biology and evolution annual meeting US-Puerto Rico 8 – 12 June
Anja Groth Gordon Research Conference: Chromatin structure and function
US-Waltham 8 – 13 June
Pavel Tolar FASEB Science Research conference on Immunoreceptors US-Steamboat Springs 15 – 20 June
Bruno Reversade ISSCR 12th Annual Meeting CA-Vancouver 18 – 21 June
Rut Carballido-López Gordon Research Conference: Bacterial Cell Surfaces US-West Dover 22 – 27 June
Irene Miguel-Aliaga EMBO Conference: The Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila
GR-Kolymbari 22 – 28 June
Kim Jensen 3rd Midnight Sun Symposium: LRIG Proteins and the Regulation of Growth Factor Signaling
SE-Abisko 26 – 29 June
Anja Groth Gordon Research Conference: Genomic Instability CN-Hong Kong 6 – 11 July
88 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Young Investigators
EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2014Young Investigator Conference Location DateMaya Schuldiner Gordon Research Conference: Thiol-Based Redox
Regulation and Signaling ES-Girona 20 – 25 July
Niko Geldner Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress in Plants
US-Newry 3 – 8 August
Sophie Martin Gordon Research Conference: Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton
US-Andover 10 – 15 August
Sonia Garel Gordon Research Conference: Neural Development US-Newport 10 – 15 August
Petra Hajkova 14th FEBS Young Scientist Forum FR-Paris 27 – 30 August
Sophie Jarriault EMBO Conference: The Molecular and cellular basis of regeneration and tissue repair
ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols 6 – 10 September
Raz zarivach 4th International Meeting on Magnetotactic Bacteria BR-Rio de Janeiro 15 – 18 September
Tomas Marques-Bonet & Benjamin Prud'homme
The Genome: Structure, Expression and Evolution IT-Naples 22 – 24 September
Niko Geldner 9th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting 2014 DE-Heidelberg 24 – 26 September
Renata Basto & Manuel Thery EMBO conference: Centrosome and Spindle Pole Bodies PT-Lisbon 30 Sep – 3 October
Marc Bühler IMB Conference ‘Nuclear RNA in Gene Regulation & Chromatin Structure’
DE-Mainz 9 – 12 October
Ben Lehner X meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD)
ES-Madrid 13 – 15 October
Jacqueline Jacobs & Daniel Wilson 15th IUBMB – 24th FAOBMB – TSBMB International Conference Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Transition from Basic to Translational
TW-Taipei 21 – 26 October
Sascha Martens Jacques Monod Conference: Molecular basis for membrane remodelling and organization
FR-Roscoff 15 – 19 November
89EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Installation Grants
EMBO Installation Grant Recipients 2014Name Nationality Moving from Moving to Research interestNuno Barbosa-Morais Portuguese University of Toronto, CA Institute of Molecular Medicine,
Lisbon, PTCancer transcriptomes and metastasis
Tolga Çukur Turkish University of California, Berkeley, US
Bilkent University, Ankara, TR Investigation of the visual system
Ana Domingos Portuguese The Rockefeller University, New York, US
Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, PT
Neurobiological control of obesity
Peter Lukavsky Austrian Stanford University, US CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
Molecular basis of aberrant splicing
Günes Özhan Turkish University of Technology Dresden, DE
Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (iBG), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TR
Wnt/β-catenin signalling
Pavel Plevka Czech Purdue University, Indiana, US CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
Structural studies of Picornaviruses
Piotr Setny Polish Technical University of Munich, DE
Centre for New Technologies, University of Warsaw, PL
Hydration effects in proteins
Gerhard Wingender German La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, US
Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (iBG), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TR
Invariant Natural Killer T cells in allergy
Gerlind Wallon Programme Manager
EMBO Installation GrantsEMBO Installation Grants, launched in 2006, strengthen science by funding researchers to relocate and establish laboratories in one of the participating member states of, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Portugal, and Turkey. Awardees are closely integrated into the Young Investigator network, helping them to build reputations in the European scientific community.
[email protected] www.embo.org/funding-awards/installation-grants
90 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Courses & Workshops
EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014Title Organizer Location Dates
Practical CoursesEMBC Member States
Metabolomics bioinformatics for life scientists R. Salek UK-Cambridge 17 – 21 March
Advanced optical microscopy B. Amos UK-Plymouth 2 – 12 April
Computational structural biology G. Battle UK-Hinxton 7 – 11 April
Computational molecular evolution A. Stamatakis GR-Heraklion 5 – 14 May
Bioinformatics and genomes analyses F. Tekaia GR-Athens 5 – 17 May
The structural characterization of macromolecular complexes
C. Petosa FR-Grenoble 2 – 7 June
Non-coding RNAs: From discovery to function V. Benes IE-Galway 7 – 13 June
Molecular genetics with fission yeast B. Arcangioli FR-Paris 30 June – 11 July
3D Developmental imaging G. Martins PT-Oeiras 4 – 12 July
Correlative light electron microscopy P. Verkade UK-Bristol 6 – 11 July
Solution and solid-state NMR of paramagnetic molecules
P. Turano IT-Sesto Fiorentino 13 – 19 July
Biomolecular simulation M. Nilges FR-Paris 20 – 27 July
Genotype to phenotype mapping of complex traits
L. Emery UK-Hinxton 28 July – 1 August
Multidimensional NMR in structural biology C. Griesinger DE-Joachimsthal 10 – 15 August
Light sheet microscopy P. Tomancak DE-Dresden 18 – 29 August
Cryo-electron microscopy and 3D image processing
J. Briggs DE-Heidelberg 31 August – 9 September
Ubiquitin and related modifiers K. Hofmann IT-Alghero 6 – 13 September
Protein expression, purification, and characterization (PEPC9)
R. Meijers DE-Hamburg 8 – 16 September
Microscopy, modelling and biophysical methods
F. Nedelec DE-Heidelberg 8 – 20 September
Anne-Marie Glynn Programme Manager
EMBO Courses & WorkshopsThe EMBO Courses & Workshops Programme funds high-quality meetings and provides scientists at all career stages with networking and training opportunities. The selection processes ensure that only the best and most diverse life science meetings are funded.
[email protected] www.embo.org/funding-awards/courses-workshops
91EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses & Workshops
EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014Title Organizer Location Dates
Practical CoursesEMBC Member States (cont.)
Single-cell gene expression analysis J. Dreyer-Lamm DE-Heidelberg 19 – 25 September
Targeted proteomics: Experimental design and data analysis
E. Sabidó ES-Barcelona 28 September – 3 October
Non-coding RNA in infection J. Vogel DE-Würzburg 12 – 18 October
Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data G. Rustici UK-Hinxton 20 – 25 October
High-throughput microscopy for systems biology
R. Pepperkok DE-Heidelberg 20 – 26 October
Solution scattering from biological macromolecules
D. Svergun DE-Hamburg 27 October – 3 November
Biomolecular interaction analysis: From molecules to cells
F. Silva PT-Porto 24 – 28 November
Practical Courses Non-EMBC Member States
Computational biology: Genomes to systems P. Bork CL-Puerto Varas 3 – 9 April
Computational analysis of protein-protein interactions: From sequences to networks
N. Mulder ZA-Cape Town 28 September – 3 October
Workshops EMBC Member States
Protein and lipid function in secretion and endocytosis
S. Tooze AT-Goldegg am See 14 – 19 January
Signalling to and from endomembranes H. Farhan DE-Hegne 15 – 19 March
Mechanisms of neuronal remodelling O. Schuldiner IL-Ein Gedi 22 – 26 March
Stalked alpha-Proteobacteria and relatives: From genes to structure
P. Viollier DE-Ebsdorfergrund 30 March – 3 April
Recoding: Reprogramming genetic decoding J.F. Atkins IE-Killarney 13 – 18 May
Glycobiology and glycochemistry: Applications to human health and disease
P. Videira PT-Lisbon 26 – 30 May
Magnetic resonance for cellular structural biology
R. Pierattelli IT-Principina Terra 1 – 6 June
Histone variants M.E. Torres Padilla FR-Strasbourg 2 – 4 June
Cellular imaging of lipids G. D'Angelo IT-Vico Equense 2 – 6 June
Simultaneous profiling of RNA and protein using proximity ligation assay
S. Bustin UK-Chelmsford 7 – 7 July
Intercellular communication in plant development and disease
M. Heinlein FR-Bischoffsheim 24 – 29 August
Advances in protein – protein interaction analysis and modulation
X. Morelli FR-Hyères 9 – 12 September
92 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Courses & Workshops
EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014Title Organizer Location Dates
Workshops EMBC Member States(cont.)
Unraveling biological secrets by single-cell expression profiling
J. Dreyer-Lamm DE-Heidelberg 25 – 26 September
Decoding neural circuit structure and function A. Celik TR-Istanbul 26 – 28 September
Development and regeneration of the spinal cord
E. Martí Gorostiza ES-Sitges 1 – 4 October
Cancer stem cells 20 years later: Achievements, controversies, emerging concepts and technologies
G. Morrone IT-Catanzaro 3 – 6 October
Human RNA viruses A. Marcello TR-Istanbul 6 – 8 October
Translational advances in cancer cell signalling and metabolism
A. Carracedo ES-Bilbao 7 – 9 October
Non-coding RNAs in genome expression, maintenance and stability
A. Morillon FR-Cargèse 7 – 10 October
Epigenetic plasticity: Implications in neural (dys)function
J. Marques PT-Braga 22 – 25 October
A systems-level view of cytoskeletal function B. Geiger SE-Stockholm 27 – 31 October
Workshops Non-EMBC Member States
Current advances in membrane trafficking: Implications for polarity and diseases
M.P. Marzolo CL-Puerto Natales 9 – 14 September
Wnt signalling: Stem cells, development and disease
E. Vincan AU-Broome 6 – 9 October
Cell plasticity and nuclear dynamics C. Stewart SG-Singapore 12 – 15 October
Stem cells and epigenetics in cancer E. So CN-Hong Kong 16 – 18 October
Upstream and downstream of Hox genes R. Mishra IN-Hyderabad 14 – 17 December
Conferences and Conference Series EMBC Member States
The mighty Daphnia: Past, present and future L. Mirbahai UK-Birmingham 19 – 22 January
Visualizing biological data (VIZBI 2014) S. ODonoghue DE-Heidelberg 5 – 7 March
Human evolution in the genomic era: origins, populations and phenotypes
C. Batini UK-Leicester 1 – 4 April
Telomeres, telomerase and disease P. Baumann BE-Brussels 30 April – 4 May
Molecular biology of muscle development and regeneration
I. Bozzoni IT-Acaya 14 – 18 May
Lymphocyte signalling C.T. Baldari IT-Bertinoro 17 – 21 May
Cellular signalling and cancer therapy I. Dikic HR-Cavtat 23 – 27 May
Microtubules: Structure, regulation and functions
C. Janke DE-Heidelberg 28 – 31 May
93EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses & Workshops
EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014Title Organizer Location Dates
Conferences and Conference Series EMBC Member States(cont.)
Enzyme mechanisms by biological systems N. Scrutton UK-Manchester 1 – 4 June
Gene transcription in yeast: From regulatory networks to mechanisms
D.M. Shore ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols
14 – 19 June
The molecular and developmental biology of Drosophila
A. Ephrussi GR-Kolymbari 22 – 28 June
Microbiology after the genomics revolution (Genomes 2014)
C. Buchrieser FR-Paris 24 – 27 June
Viruses of microbes: Structure and function, from molecules to communities
J. Klumpp CH-Zurich 14 – 18 July
Chemical biology E. Lemke DE-Heidelberg 20 – 23 August
Brain development and disorders Y. Ben-Ari FR-La Ciotat 5 – 8 September
The molecular and cellular basis of regeneration and tissue repair
E. Salo ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols
6 – 10 September
Interdisciplinary plant development O. Leyser UK-Cambridge 21 – 24 September
Innate lymphoid cells G. Eberl FR-Paris 29 September – 1 October
Centrosomes and spindle pole bodies M. Bettencourt-Dias PT-Lisbon 30 September – 3 October
Stem cells in cancer and regenerative medicine C. Nerlov DE-Heidelberg 9 – 12 October
Experimental approaches to evolution and ecology using yeast and other model systems
L. Steinmetz DE-Heidelberg 12 – 15 October
The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) as a hub for organelle communication
M. Schuldiner ES-Girona 26 – 31 October
From functional genomics to systems biology E. Furlong DE-Heidelberg 8 – 11 November
Conferences and Conference Series Non-EMBC Member States
Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins: At the crossroads from chromatin to protein
F. Pelisch AR-Buenos Aires 19 – 24 October
ESF | EMBO Symposia Cell polarity and membrane trafficking D. St. Johnston PL-Pułtusk 10 – 15 May
Biology of plastids: Towards a blueprint for synthetic organelles
A. Weber PL-Pułtusk 21 – 26 June
Synthetic biology of antibiotic production E. Takano ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols
30 August – 4 September
Long regulatory RNAs A. Werner PL-Pułtusk 13 – 18 September
94 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Courses & Workshops
EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014Title Organizer Location Dates
ESF | EMBO Symposia(cont.)
Flies, worms and robots: Combining perspectives on minibrains and behaviour
M. Louis ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols
8 – 13 November
EMBO | EMBL Symposia
Translating diabetes J.C. Brüning DE-Heidelberg 30 April – 3 May
Tumour microenvironment and signalling A.J. Berns DE-Heidelberg 7 – 10 May
Molecular machines: Lessons from integrating structure, biophysics and chemistry
T. Carlomagno DE-Heidelberg 18 – 21 May
Epithelia: The building blocks of multicellularity H.C. Clevers DE-Heidelberg 27 – 30 August
The complex life of mRNA A. Ephrussi DE-Heidelberg 5 – 8 October
Frontiers in metabolism: From molecular physiology to systems medicine
J. Auwerx DE-Heidelberg 17 – 20 November
EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses
Biophysics of channels and transporters F.M. Ashcroft IT-Erice 11 – 17 May
Nuclear proteomics A. Imhof GR-Kos 17 – 22 May
EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Courses Non-EMBC Member States
Structural and biophysical methods for biological macromolecules in solution
D. Svergun BR-São Paulo 19 – 26 January
Biology of bacterial non-coding RNAs C. Valverde AR-Bernal 4 – 9 March
High-throughput next generation sequencing applied to infectious diseases
F. Guerfali TN-Tunis 15 – 25 September
Biochemistry and molecular biology: Bench to bedside approaches
L.C. Cameron BR-Cuiabá/Poconé 27 October – 7 November
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EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014Title Organizer Location Dates
Laboratory Management Courses 2014Title Organizer Location Dates
Laboratory Management Courses***
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
28–30 January
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for independent group leaders)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
3–6 February
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
18–20 February
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for independent group leaders)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
10–13 March
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
25–27 March
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
1–3 April
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
28–30 April
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for independent group leaders)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
5–8 May
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
20–22 May
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
9–11 June
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
16–18 June
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for independent group leaders)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
14-17 July
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for independent group leaders)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
6-9 October
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
4–6 November
EMBO Laboratory Management Course: Female Leaders in Science(for independent group leaders)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
5–7 November
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for independent group leaders)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
10–13 November
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for independent group leaders)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
17–20 November
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EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014Title Organizer Location Dates
Laboratory Management Courses 2014Title Organizer Location Dates
Laboratory Management Courses***(cont.)
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for independent group leaders)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
24–27 November
EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)
A. GlynnM. Cairns
DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)
2–4 December
***administered by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH
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98 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Women in Science
Gerlind Wallon Manager
Participation of women in EMBO activities: StatisticsEMBO Courses & Workshops 2010 – 2014 (including EMBO | EMBL Symposia, EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses, EMBO Conference Series, EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Courses, EMBO Practical Courses, EMBO Workshops, ESF | EMBO Symposia)Year % women % female speakers2011 49 272012 47 292013 46 302014 49 32
EMBO Women in ScienceEMBO monitors gender balance in all of its activities and develops initiatives to counteract imbalances and to raise awareness of issues facing female scientists as their careers advance. An annual award highlights major contributions of female researchers to the life sciences.
EMBO Membership (including Associate Members)Year Total number of members % Women2002 1126 132003 1162 132004 1191 142005 1223 142006 1271 142007 1305 142008 1357 142009 1413 152010 1461 152011 1492 152012 1532 162013 1567 162014 1657 17
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Participation of women in EMBO activities: StatisticsEMBO Short-Term Fellowships
Applications % Awards % Success rate %2010 Female applicants 230 55 126 58 55
Male applicants 191 45 93 42 49Overall 421 219 52
2011 Female applicants 267 53 152 54 57Male applicants 239 47 129 46 54Overall 506 281 55
2012 Female applicants 317 54 165 53 52Male applicants 268 46 147 47 55Overall 585 312 53
2013 Female applicants 340 61 172 61 51Male applicants 220 39 108 39 49Overall 560 280 50
2014 Female applicants 322 59 167 59 52Male applicants 226 41 117 41 52Overall 548 284 52
2010 – 2014 Female applicants 1476 56 782 57 53Male applicants 1144 44 594 43 52Overall 2620 1376 53
Participation of women in EMBO activities: StatisticsEMBO Long-Term Fellowships
Applications % Awards % Success rate %2010 Female applicants 802 48 123 45 15
Male applicants 866 52 152 55 18Overall 1668 275 17
2011 Female applicants 748 46 103 38 14Male applicants 885 54 165 62 19Overall 1633 268 16
2012 Female applicants 739 48 115 47 16Male applicants 816 52 132 53 16Overall 1555 247 16
2013 Female applicants 793 48 77 42 10Male applicants 852 52 108 58 13Overall 1645 185 11
2014 Female applicants 742 45 86 35 12 Male applicants 906 55 161 65 18
Overall 1648 247 152010 – 2014 Female applicants 3824 47 504 41 13
Male applicants 4325 53 718 59 17Overall 8149 1222 15
100 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Women in Science
Participation of women in EMBO activities: StatisticsEMBO Young Investigator Programme
Applications % Awards % Success rate %2010 Female applicants 39 28 3 14 8
Male applicants 98 72 18 86 18Overall 137 21 15
2011 Female applicants 57 35 8 36 14Male applicants 107 65 14 64 13Overall 164 22 13
2012 Female applicants 57 36 8 36 14Male applicants 103 64 14 64 14Overall 160 22 14
2013 Female applicants 59 31 5 22 8Male applicants 133 69 18 78 14Overall 192 23 12
2014 Female applicants 64 32 7 26 11Male applicants 138 68 20 74 14Overall 202 27 13
2010 – 2014 Female applicants 276 32 31 27 11Male applicants 579 68 84 73 15Overall 855 115 13
Participation of women in EMBO activities: StatisticsEMBO Installation Grants
Applications % Awards % Success rate %2010 Female applicants 11 32 3 43 27
Male applicants 23 68 4 57 17Overall 34 7 21
2011 Female applicants 8 30 3 43 38Male applicants 19 70 4 57 21Overall 27 7 26
2012 Female applicants 11 28 1 10 9Male applicants 29 73 9 90 31Overall 40 10 25
2013 Female applicants 20 31 2 33 10Male applicants 45 69 4 67 9Overall 65 6 9
2014 Female applicants 27 39 2 25 7Male applicants 42 61 6 75 14Overall 69 8 12
2010 – 2014 Female applicants 77 33 11 29 14Male applicants 158 67 27 71 17Overall 235 38 16
101EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Gold Medal
1986 John Tooze Heidelberg, DE
1987 Barbara Pearse Cambridge, UK
1988 Antonio Lanzavecchia Basel, CH
1989 Hugh Pelham Cambridge, UK
1990 Erwin Wagner Vienna, AT
1991 Patrick Stragier Paris, FR
1992 Carl-Henrik Heldin Uppsala, SE
1993 Jim Smith London, UK
1994 Paolo Sassone-Corsi Strasbourg, FR
1995 Richard Treisman London, UK
1996 Enrico Coen Norwich, UK
1997 Dirk Görlich Heidelberg, DE
1998 Adriano Aguzzi Zurich, CH
1999 Konrad Basler Zurich, CH
2000 Christof Niehrs Heidelberg, DE
Daniel St. Johnston Cambridge, UK
2001 Matthew Freeman Cambridge, UK
2002 Amanda Fisher London, UK
2003 Anthony Hyman Dresden, DE
2004 María Blasco Madrid, ES
2005 Dario Alessi Dundee, UK
2006 Frank Uhlmann London, UK
2007 Jan Löwe Cambridge, UK
2008 James Briscoe London, UK
2009 Olivier Voinnet Strasbourg, FR
2010 Jason W. Chin London, UK
2011 Simon Boulton London, UK
2012 Jirí Friml Ghent, BE
2013 Thijn Brummelkamp Amsterdam, NL
2014 Sophie Martin Lausanne, CH
EMBO Gold Medalists 1986 – 2014
The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually to young scientists for outstanding contributions to the life sciences in Europe.
EMBO Gold [email protected] www.embo.org/funding-awards/gold-medal
102 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Keynote Lectures
Anne-Marie Glynn Manager
EMBO Keynote Lectures 2014Name Lecture Title Location Date
Keynote LecturesEMBC Member States
Gunnar von Heijne Meeting of the Italian Bioinformatics Society (BITS2014)
IT-Rome 26 – 28 February
Nicholas Talbot European Conference of Fungal Genetics (ECFG12)
ES-Seville 23 – 27 March
Søren Brunak Integrative and Computational Biology Joint Symposium – V IMPPC Annual Conference and 4DCellFate Workshop
ES-Barcelona 27 – 28 March
Ada Yonath Structure and Dynamics of Biological Macromolecules
IT-Rome 8 – 9 April
Roger Patient 7th Swiss Zebrafish Meeting CH-Geneva 24 – 25 April
Poul Nissen Biophysics of Channels and Transporters IT-Erice 11 – 17 May
Malcom F. White CRISPR 2014 DE-Berlin 14 – 16 May
Angus I. Lamond EMBO | FEBS Lecture Course on Nuclear Proteomics
GR-Kos 17 – 21 May
Urs Jenal Young Microbiologists Symposium on Microbe Signalling, Organisation and Pathogenesis
UK-Dundee 2 – 3 June
Luca Scorrano Euromit 2014, the International Meeting on Mitochondrial Pathology
FI-Tampere 15 – 19 June
Nils-Göran Larsson Euromit 2014, the International Meeting on Mitochondrial Pathology
FI-Tampere 15 – 19 June
Susumu Tonegawa International Workshop on Dendrites (Dendrites 2014)
GR-Heraklion (Crete) 1 – 4 July
Douglas Hanahan The 23rd Biennial Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research: From Basic Research to Personalised Cancer Treatment
DE-Munich 5 – 8 July
Stephen C. Harrison Early Events in Virus Infection CH-Ascona 25 – 28 August
Howard Riezman Lipids as molecular switches GR-Spetses Island 25 – 30 August
EMBO Keynote LecturesEvery year, EMBO Members are funded to present keynote lectures at international scientific meetings. Keynote lectures raise awareness of EMBO activities, support members in their collaborations with scientists from associated fields and promote European science worldwide.
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EMBO Keynote Lectures 2014Name Lecture Title Location Date
Keynote LecturesEMBC Member States(cont.)
Yosef Yarden BioNetVisA workshop From biological network reconstruction to data visualization and analysis in molecular biology and medicine
FR-Strasbourg 7 – 7 September
Ray Dixon XI European Nitrogen Fixation Congress ES-Costa Adeje 7 – 10 September
Nobutaka Hirokawa 18th International Microscopy Congress (IMC 2014)
CZ-Prague 7 – 12 September
Richard Henderson Crossing Frontiers in the Life Sciences AT-Vienna 11 – 12 September
Douglas R. Higgs Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Medicine: Bridging research and the clinic
GR-Athens 11 – 15 September
Marat Yusupov 25th tRNA Conference 2014 GR-Kyllini 21 – 25 September
Gary Felsenfeld The genome: structure, expression and evolution
IT-Naples 22 – 24 September
Huanming Yang The genome: structure, expression and evolution
IT-Naples 22 – 24 September
Satyajit Mayor 1st International Meeting 'Building the Cell'
FR-PARIS 24 – 26 September
Caroline Dean 9th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting 2014 DE-Heidelberg 24 – 26 September
Giacomo Cavalli FISV 2014 XIII Congress IT-Pisa 24 – 27 September
Ruth Lehmann Nuclear RNA in Gene Regulation & Chromatin Structure
DE-Mainz 9 – 12 October
Alexander Levitzki iMed Conference 6.0. – Lisbon 2014 PT-Lisbon 10 – 12 October
Denis Duboule X Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology
ES-Madrid 13 – 15 October
Jason W. Chin Inspired by Biology: Exploring Nature's Toolbox
DE-Heidelberg 23 – 25 October
Konrad Sandhoff 360-degree Lysosome; from structure to genomics, from function to disease
TR-Aydın 23 – 27 October
Camilla Sjögren RNA meets DNA: on the road to genome instability
ES-Baeza 3 – 5 November
Ronald M. Evans CNIC Conference – Energy homeostasis and metabolic disease
ES-Madrid 7 – 8 November
Reinhard Jahn Conférence Jacques Monod: Molecular basis for membrane remodelling and organization
FR-Roscoff 15 – 19 November
Bernard Dujon XVIII Congress of the Portuguese Biochemical Society
PT-Coimbra 17 – 20 December
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EMBO Keynote Lectures 2014Name Lecture Title Location Date
Keynote LecturesNon-EMBC Member States
Gideon J. Davies 27th International Carbohydrate Symposium
IN-Bangalore 12 – 17 January
Ivan Dikic CANCERCON 2014 – International Conference on Cancer Biology: Molecular Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutics
IN-Chennai 30 January – 2 February
Jan Löwe 39th Lorne Conference for Protein Structure and Function
AU-Lorne 9 – 13 February
Gillian Griffiths Young Investigator Meeting 2014 IN-Hyderabad 9 – 13 February
Wendy Bickmore 2014 Lorne Genome Conference AU-Lorne 16 – 18 February
Wolfgang Baumeister The 2nd i-MANI Symposium and Workshop TW-Tainan 3 – 6 March
Josef Penninger Future of Experimental Medicine Conference – Inflammation in Disease and Ageing
AU-Manly 16 – 19 March
Freddy Radtke The 14th Hunter Meeting, incorporating the 7th Pre-Conference Imaging Workshop
AU-Pokolbin 25 – 28 March
Colin Goding 24th South African Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SASBMB) Congress
ZA-Rawsonville 6 – 9 July
Alain Nicolas FASEB Summer Research Conference 'Dynamic DNA Structures in Biology'
US-Itasca 20 – 25 July
Hans C. Clevers Wnt signalling: Stem cells, development and disease
AU-Broome 6 – 9 October
Aaron Ciechanover Ubiquitin & UBLs at the Crossroads from Chromatin to Protein
AR-Buenos Aires 19 – 24 October
Dominique Ferrandon 2014 SAIB Annual Meeting: Study of resilience, a second dimension of host defense, in intestinal infections of the genetic model organism Drosophila melanogaster
AR-Rosario 11 – 14 November
Thomas Lecuit The 7th Australian Developmental Biology Workshop
AU-Brisbane 12 – 15 November
Arturo zychlinsky LXII Annual Meeting of the Argentinean Society of Immunology
AR-Mar del Plata 19 – 22 November
Yann Barrandon 16th A-IMBN Annual Conference PH-Manila 1 – 2 December
Ashok Venkitaraman 2nd Meeting on Chromosome Stability IN-Bangalore 14 – 18 December
Global Exchange Lecture SeriesNon-EMBC Member States
Scott Waddell EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series TW-Taipei 3 – 4 November
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106 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO staff in Heidelberg
EMBO staff in Heidelberg as of February 2015
Director Maria Leptin EMBO Director [email protected]
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Science Policy [email protected]
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CONTACT EMBO & EMBC
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EMBCEMBO Council & CommitteesGitta Bourke Administrator+49 6221 8891 117
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The �rst �ve Advanced Fellows are selected (page 56). 247 Long-Term and 284 Short-Term Fellowships are awarded. The Fellows’ Meeting is held in Heidelberg in June 2014. In Novem-ber, the US Fellows’ Meeting is held at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, United States.
EMBO enlarges its membership on the occasion of its 50th anniversary and elects 106 new members (page 20). Twenty-seven Young Investigators (page 84) and eight InstallationGrantees (page 89) join the EMBO community.
EMBO Science Policy and EMBO Press receive a grant from the Fondation Brocher for a workshop on the genomics of cognition to be held in December 2015. The programme holds two workshops in 2014, one on the use of quotas in academic hiring (funded by Bosch Stiftung); the other on uses of non-anonymized human genome sequence in research (funded by ESF).
Sophie Martin receives the 2014 EMBO Gold Medal (page 101).
Cooperation agreement between EMBO, EMBC and the Government of the Republic of Singapore is extended until end of 2015. India requests to become an EMBC Associate Member State.
More than 11,000 participants from 105 countries attend 96 scienti�c events; 313 participants attend 19 EMBO Laboratory Management Courses.
French biologist Pascale Cossart receives the 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award.
The FEBS–EMBO 2014 Conference celebrates the 50th anniversa-ries of FEBS and EMBO and the centennial of the French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SFBBM).
EMBO Press launches a referee cross-commenting platform, Expanded View �gures, author checklists and image integrity screening services across its journals; manuscript transfers to EMBOreports are increased. The SourceData project is developing tools to search and re-use published data with a grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation.
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