EMBO celebrates 50 years

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) is an organization that ‘promotes excellence in the life sciences’ in Europe and beyond. With more than 1500 members (leaders in their respective fields), it is a driving force in European science. Since its inception in 1964, EMBO has played an active role in promoting research in the life sciences, organising meetings and workshops, publishing several important journals in the molecular biology arena, supporting young researchers and influencing science policy in Europe. Many European (and non-European) scientists have benefited hugely from EMBO’s activities over the years – including several of us here at The Company of Biologists! 

To mark the occasion of EMBO’s 50th anniversary, we have highlighted below some of the past Node posts that  have a connection with EMBO- either highlighting the annual EMBO meetings, reporting form a workshop, or interviewing an award winner or EMBO director. For a great overview of why EMBO was first formed and its history in the last 50 years, do read this great article in Nature. Happy birthday EMBO!

EMBO on the Node:

– Last year we interviewed EMBO’s current director, the developmental biologist Maria Leptin. In this interview she discussed her career and her vision for EMBO.

– Alexis Webb attended an EMBO course on lab management and considered the importance of postdocs acquiring the soft skills necessary to successfully run a lab.

– Alfonso Martinez-Arias shared his thoughts on the EMBO workshop ‘Morphogen Gradients’, and on the brave new world of quantitative developmental biology.

– Eva Amsen, the previous Node community manager, attended the EMBO meeting in 2012. She posted a day by day report (read the posts from day 1, 2, 3 &4). Eva also interviewed the winner of the EMBO Gold Medal 2012, the plant developmental biologist Jiří Friml and keynote speaker Linda Partridge.

– Natascha Bushati attended the EMBO meeting in 2011. There she had the opportunity to discuss the field with Eric Wieschaus and Marcos González-Gaitán, attend the career day and report from the talk sessions (here and here).

– In 2011 Ana Tavares was part of the committee organising the EMBO workshop on Biophysical Mechanisms of Development. They organised a science art competition entitled ‘The Physics of Life’ ,  and Ana’s post gave an overview of the competition (including a link to the competition’s beautiful image gallery!).

(1 votes)

Loading...