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2014
EMBO
facts & figures
HIGHLIGHTS 2014
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
FEBS
EMBO
Paris 2014
hosted by SFBBM
The first five 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 November, the US Fellows’ Meeting is held at the Salk Institute in La
Jolla, United States.
New EMBO Members &
Young Investigators
EMBO enlarges its membership on the occasion of its 50th
anniversary and elects 106 new members (page 20). Twentyseven Young Investigators (page 84) and eight Installation
Grantees (page 89) join the EMBO community.
EMBO Science Policy
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).
EMBO Gold Medal
Sophie Martin receives the 2014 EMBO Gold Medal (page 101).
EMBO Global Activities
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.
EMBO Courses & Workshops
More than 11,000 participants from 105 countries attend 96
scientific events; 313 participants attend 19 EMBO Laboratory
Management Courses.
FEBS | EMBO Women in
Science Award
French biologist Pascale Cossart receives the 2014 FEBS | EMBO
Women in Science Award.
FEBS–EMBO 2014 Conference
The FEBS–EMBO 2014 Conference celebrates the 50th anniversaries of FEBS and EMBO and the centennial of the French Society
for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SFBBM).
EMBO Press
CONTACT EMBO & EMBC
EMBO Press launches a referee cross-commenting platform,
Expanded View figures, 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.
EMBO Young Investigators
EMBO Installation Grants
EMBO Women in Science
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Programme Manager
Deputy Director
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EMBO Scientific Publications
Bernd Pulverer
Head
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EMBO Fellowships
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Programme Manager
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EMBO Scientific Publications
Thomas Lemberger
Deputy Head
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Administration & Finance
Bernhard Huber
Head
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EMBO Courses & Workshops
EMBO Keynote Lectures
EMBO Global Exchange
Anne-Marie Glynn
Programme Manager
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EMBO Public Relations
& Communications
Barry Whyte
Head
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EMBC
EMBO Council & Committees
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Administrator
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EMBO Science Policy
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Programme Manager
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Information Support
& Resources
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Head
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EMBO Director
Eilish Craddock
Personal Assistant to
the EMBO Director
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Complete list of EMBO staff in Heidelberg on pages 106–107.
EMBO
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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
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EMBO Fellowships
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Statistics
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Awards 2014
32–52
Geographical distribution 2014
54–55
EMBO Advanced Fellowships
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
Statistics
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EMBC Member States
12–17
Awards 2014
58–80
Delegates and Advisers
12–16
Geographical distribution 2014
82–83
Financial contributions
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Young Investigators 2014
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84–88
EMBO Council 2014
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Young Investigators 2000–2013
EMBO Committees 2014
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Applications and awards 2005 –2014
EMBO Membership
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Lectures 2014
EMBO Members 2014
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EMBO Installation Grants
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Practical Courses 2014
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Workshops 2014
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EMBO reports27
Conferences 2014
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Molecular Systems Biology28
Symposia 2014
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EMBO Molecular Medicine29
EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses 2014
Global Exchange Lecture Courses 2014
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Laboratory Management Courses 2014
95–96
Advisory Editorial Boards & Senior Editors of
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EMBO Women in Science
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preface
2014 was an eventful year
for EMBO as we celebrated
the 50th anniversary of our organization. EMBO was officially founded on 12 July 1964. It
has since helped to establish a
community of outstanding scientists who have made significant contributions to advance
the life sciences in Europe and
other parts of the world.
Our 50th anniversary year
Maria Leptin
included activities and events
EMBO Director
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 science ministers from Europe.
In 2014, 106 scientists were welcomed to the EMBO membership 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 strategic 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 received 202 applications in 2014. Thirteen per cent of the candidates who applied were selected and the new investigators
originated from 11 countries.
EMBO also supports scientists who wish to set up laboratories 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 laboratories 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 experience 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 participants. 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, described 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 social interaction. Pääbo’s lecture addressed the origins and evolution 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 elucidated 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 strengthen 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
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Scientific Publications, a grant was received from the Brocher
Foundation to support a workshop on the genomics of cognition 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 improve 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 threeyear, € 420,000 grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation to support its work to improve access to the data in published scientific articles. Efficient access to primary research data could
significantly speed up science. The SourceData team is developing 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 contributed 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 GmbH
1
www.embo.org/documents/science_policy/non-anonymized_
human%20genome_sequence_ESF_EMBO_2014_workshop_report.pdf
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EMBO actions 2014
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 OFFICERS & COUNCIL 2014
Paul Nurse
EMBO SECRETARY GENERAL
Detlef Weigel
CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL
Richard Treisman
VICE CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL
Geneviève Almouzni
Pascale Cossart
Victor de Lorenzo
Caroline Dean
Roberto di Lauro
Denis Duboule
Anne Ephrussi
Regine Kahmann
Leszek Kaczmarek
Mart Saarma
Paul Schulze-Lefert
Dimitris Thanos
Veronica van Heyningen
MEMBERS OF EMBO COUNCIL
➔➔ See page 18 for a detailed list
of the 2014 EMBO Council
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EMBO actions 2014
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
Other EMBO activities
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.
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➔➔EMBO Committee Chairs 2014
Jane 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
gitta.bourke@embo.org
T +49 6221 8891 117
F +49 6221 8891 202
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EMBC actions 2014
➔➔EMBC OFFICERS 2014
Toivo Maimets ESTONIA
PRESIDENT
Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS
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.
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 2014
Ahmet 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
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 VicePresidents for 2015.
❚❚Patrick Cramer (Germany) was re-elected Secretary General of EMBC
for 2015.
Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS
Volker Wiesenthal GERMANY
➔➔ See pages 12 – 16 for a list of
all EMBC Delegates
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EMBC actions 2014
➔➔EMBC Member States
➔➔Finance Committee
The following countries are member states of the European Molecular Biology
Conference (EMBC):
PERMANENT MEMBERS
❚❚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
France
Germany
Italy
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
gitta.bourke@embo.org
T +49 6221 8891 117
F +49 6221 8891 202
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facts & figures 2014
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
EMBO Courses & Workshops
EMBO Women in Science
EMBO Gold Medal
89
90–96
98–100
101
EMBO Keynote Lectures
102–104
EMBO staff in Heidelberg
106–107
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EMBC Delegates & Advisers
embc.embo.org
embc@embo.org
A President, two Vice Presidents and a Secretary General lead the EMBC, the intergovernmental
Prof. Toivo Maimets
EMBC President
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. Prof. Patrick Cramer
EMBC Secretary General
Gitta Bourke
EMBC Administrator
Austria
Dr. Hemma Bauer
Austrian Ministry of Science, Research
and Economy
Unit V/3c – Life Sciences
Rosengasse 2–6
AT-1014 Vienna
T +43 1 53120 6213
hemma.bauer@bmwf.gv.at
Prof. Veronika Sexl
Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology
Chair of Institute
Veterinärplatz 1
AT-1210 Vienna
T +43 (1) 25077-2910
Veronika.Sexl@vetmeduni.ac.at
Belgium
Dr. François Guissart
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
Avenue Louise 231
BE-1050 Brussels
T +32 2 238 34 86
Francois.Guissart@belspo.be
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Mr Vincent Meunier
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
Avenue Louise 231
BE-1050 Brussels
T +32 2 238 34 63
vincent.meunier@belspo.be
Prof. Marc van Montagu
Institute of Plant Biotechnology Outreach (IPBO)
IIC UGent/VIB
Technologiepark 3
BE-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde
T +32 9 264 87 27
Marc.VanMontagu@UGent.be
Croatia
Dr. Lovorka Baraç Lauc
Executive Director
The National Foundation for Science, Higher
Education and Technological Development
Ilica 24
HR-10000 Zagreb
T +385 51 228 692
lblauc@hrzz.hr
Prof. Kresimir Paveliç
University of Rijeka
Dept. of Biotechnology
Radmile Matej i 2
HR-51000 Rijeka
T +385 51 584 550
pavelic@biotech.uniri.hr
Czech Republic
Ms Jana Bystrická
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Dept. of International Cooperation
Karmelitska 7
CZ-118 12 Prague
T +420 234 811 242
Jana.Bystricka@msmt.cz
Dr. Zdena Palkova
Dept. of Genetics and Microbiology
Charles University
Vinicná 5
CZ-12844 Prague 2
T +420 2 2195 1721
zdenap@natur.cuni.cz
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Denmark
Mr Troels Tvedegaard Rasmussen
Danish Agency for Science, Technology and
Innovation
Bredgade 40
DK-1260 – Copenhagen K
T +45 7231 8296
trra@fi.dk
Prof. Jesper Velgaard Olsen
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center
for Protein Research
Panum Instituttet
Blegdamsvej 3
DK-2200 København N
T +45 35325022
jesper.olsen@cpr.ku.dk
Estonia
Prof. Toivo Maimets
Dept. of Cell Biology
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of Tartu
Riia 23b–135
EE-51010 Tartu
T +372 737 5028
toivo.maimets@ut.ee
Dr. Toivo Räim
Ministry of Education and Research
Tallinn Office
Tõnismägi 11
EE-15192 Tallinn
T +372 735 0125
toivo.raim@hm.ee
Finland
Prof. Kalervo Hiltunen
Faculty of Biochemistry and Mol. Medicine
University of Oulu
Aapisti e 7 B
FI-90220 Oulu
T +358 294 481150
kalervo.hiltunen@oulu.fi
Dr. Jarmo Wahlfors
Director, Health Research Unit
Academy of Finland
Hakaniemenranta 6, PO Box 131
FI-00531 Helsinki
T +358 29 533 5126
Jarmo.Wahlfors@aka.fi
France
Dr. Vincent Geli
Institut Jean Paoli et Irène Calmettes
Centre regional de
lutte contre le cancer
27, boulevard Lei Roure
FR-13273 Marseille cedex 09
T +33 4 91 75 84 03
geli@ifr88.cnrs-mrs.fr
Dr. Jan Grapentin
Bundesministerium für
Bildung und Forschung
Kapelle-Ufer 1
DE-10117 Berlin
T +49 30 18 57 5439
Jan.Grapentin@bmbf.bund.de
Dr. Volker Wiesenthal
Bundesministerium für
Bildung und Forschung
Referat 613
Kapelle-Ufer 1
DE-10117 Berlin
T +49 3018 57 5098
Volker.Wiesenthal@bmbf.bund.de
Greece
Dr. Jean-Michel Heard
Direction générale pour la Recherche et
l’Innovation
Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de
la Recherche
1, rue Descartes
FR-75231 Paris Cedex 5
T +33 1 55 55 90 30
jean-michel.heard@recherche.gouv.fr
Dr. Nikos Prekas
Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs,
Sport and Culture
GSRT
International Organisations Division
14–18 Mesogeion Avenue
GR-115 10 Athens
T +30 210 7458115
n.prekas@gsrt.gr
Dr. Thierry Meinnel
AVIESAN
Institut des Sciences du Végétal
Bât 23, 1 avenue de la Terrasse
FR-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex
T +33 1 69 82 36 12
thierry.meinnel@isv.cnrs-gif.fr
Prof. Charalambos Savakis
Institute of Cell & Developmental Biology
BSRC Alexander Fleming
34 Alexander Fleming Street
GR-16672 Vari
T +30 210 8976 404
savakis@fleming.gr
Germany
Hungary
Prof. Patrick Cramer
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry
Dept. Molecular Biology
Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25
DE-37077 Goettingen
T +49 89 218076965
patrick.cramer@mpibpc.mpg.de
Ms Katalin Hajós
Deputy Head
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Dept. for International Relations
Nádor utca 7
HU-1051 Budapest
T +36 1 411 6158
khajos@office.mta.hu
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Prof. Làszlò Patthy
Institute of Enzymology
Biological Research Centre
Karolina ut 29
HU-1113 Budapest
T +36 1 209 3537
patthy@enzim.hu
Iceland
Dr. Eiríkur Steingrímsson
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Faculty of Medicine
University of Iceland
Vatnsmyrarvegur 16
IS-101 Reykjavik
T +354 525 4270
eirikurs@hi.is
Israel
Netherlands
Dr. Yossi Kalifa
Director of Life Sciences
Ministry of Science, Technology and Space
Haqirya Hamizrahit, Bldg 3
P.O. Box 49100
IL-91490 Jerusalem
T +972 2 5411126
yossik@most.gov.il
Dr. Jeannette Ridder-Numan
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
IPC 4100
Rijnstraat 50
NL-2515 XP Den Haag
T +31 70 412 3662
j.w.a.ridder@minocw.nl
l.perbal@minocw.nl
Prof. Joel Sussman
Dept. of Structural Biology
The Israel Structural Proteomics Center
Weizmann Institute of Science
IL-76100 Rehovot
T +972 8 9344531
joel.sussman@weizmann.ac.il
Prof. Gerrit van Meer
Bureau Faculteit Bètawetenschappen
Budapestlaan 6 - kamer 001A
NL-3584 CH Utrecht
T +31 30 253 4628
g.vanmeer@uu.nl
Italy
Ireland
Dr. Marion Boland
Science Foundation Ireland
Wilton Park House
Wilton Place
IE-Dublin 2
T +353 1 607 3284
Marion.boland@sfi.ie
Mr Brian Dalton
Office of Science, Technology & Innovation
Dept. of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation
23 Kildare Street
IE-Dublin 2
T +353 1 631 2197
Brian.Dalton@djei.ie
Prof. Lucia Banci
CERM – Centro di Ricerca di Risonanze
Magnetiche
Università di Firenze
Via Luigi Sacconi 6
IT-50019 Sesto Fiorentino
T +39 055 4574263
banci@cerm.unifi.it
Mr Fabio Iannaccone
Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze
Ragioneria Generale dello Stato
I.G.A.E. Uff. IX
Via XX Settembre no 97
IT-00187 Roma
T +39 06 476 13656
fabio.iannaccone@tesoro.it
Luxembourg
Ms Josiane Entringer
Deputy Director
Ministry of Higher Education and Research
20, Montée de la Petrusse
LU-2327 Luxembourg
T +352 247 85217
josiane.entringer@mesr.etat.lu
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Norway
Prof. Oddmund Bakke
University of Oslo
Dept. of Molecular Biosciences
Kristine Bonnevies hus
Blindernveien 31
NO-0371 Oslo
T +47 22855787 +47 22854594
oddmund.bakke@imbv.uio.no
Dr. Jacob E. Wang
Research Council of Norway
Drammensveien 288
NO-0283 Oslo
T +47 22 03 73 25
jew@rcn.no
Poland
Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology
Nencki Institute
Pasteura 3
PL-02-093 Warsaw
T +48 22 6503001
l.kaczmarek@nencki.gov.pl
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Ms Maria Klimkiewicz
Department of International Cooperation
20 Hoza St.
PL-00-529 Warsaw
T +48 22 5017 852
maria.klimkiewicz@mnisw.gov.pl
Portugal
Prof. Maria Carmo-Fonseca
Faculdade de Medicina
Instituto de Medicina Molecular
Av. Prof. Egas Moniz
PT-1649-028 Lisboa Codes
T +351 21 799 94 11
carmo.fonseca@fm.ul.pt
Mr Luís Filipe Mota
Department of International Relations
Foundation for Science & Technology (FCT)
Ministry of Education & Science
Av. D. Carlos I, 126-7°
PT-1249-074 Lisbon
T +351 21391 15 29
luis.mota@fct.pt
Prof. Cláudio Sunkel
Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC)
University of Porto
Rua do Campo Alegre 823
PT-4150-180 Porto
T +351 22 607 49 00
cesunkel@ibmc.up.pt
Slovak Republic
Ms Anna Juríková
Department of International Cooperation in
Research & Development
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and
Sports of the Slovak Republic
Stromová 1
SK-813 30 Bratislava
T +421 2 59374717
anna.jurikova@minedu.sk
Dr. Silvia Pastoreková
Institute of Virology
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dubravska cesta 9
SK-845 05 Bratislava
T +421 2 59 30 24 04
virusipa@savba.sk
Prof. Ján Turna
Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical
Information
Lamacska cesta 8/A
SK-811 04 Bratislava
T +421 2 69 25 31 02
turna@cvtisr.sk
Slovenia
Dr. Tomaz Boh
Directorate of Science
Ministry of Education, Science & Sport
Masarykova 16
SI-1000 Ljubljana
T +38614784699
tomaz.boh@gov.si
tatjana.svajger@gov.si
Mr Andrej Ograjensek
Science Division
Science Directorate
Ministry of Education, Science and Sports
Masarykova 16
SI-1000 Ljubljana
T +386 1 478 46 34
Andrej.Ograjensek@gov.si
Prof. Boris Turk
Dept. of Biochemistry and
Molecular and Structural Biology
J. Stefan Institute
Jamova 39
SI-1000 Ljubljana
T +386 1 477 37 72
boris.turk@ijs.si
Spain
Dr. Cristina Bauluz
Subdirección General de Relaciones
Internacionales
Secretaría General de Ciencia Tecnología e
Innovación
C/Albacete, 5-P5N D10
ES-28027 Madrid
T +34 91 603 88 67
cristina.bauluz@mineco.es
Prof. M. Angela Nieto
Head of Developmental Neurobiology
Institute of Neurosciences CSIC-UMH
Avda. Ramon y Cajal s/n
ES-03550 San Juan de Alicante
T +34 965 919243
anieto@umh.es
Sweden
Prof. Stefan Hohmann
Dept. of Chemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Gothenburg
Medicinaregatan 9C
SE-405 30 Gothenburg
T +46 31 3608488
stefan.hohmann@gu.se
Dr. Maria Thuveson
Swedish Research Council
Västra Järnvägsgatan 3
SE-101 38 Stockholm
T +46 8 546 44 193
maria.thuveson@vr.se
Switzerland
Dr. Isabella Beretta
State Secretariat for Education, Research &
Innovation SERI
International Research & Innovation Programmes
Einsteinstrasse 2
CH-3003 Berne
T +41 58 462 84 17
isabella.Beretta@sbfi.admin.ch
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Prof. Damian Brunner
Institute of Mol. Life Sciences
University of Zurich
Building/Room: Y55-L-66
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich
T +41 44 635 4457
damian.brunner@imls.uzh.ch
Turkey
Prof. Ahmet Ademoglu
Biomedical Engineering Institute
Bogazici University
Bebek
TR-34342 Istanbul
T +90 212 259 64 18
ademoglu@boun.edu.tr
United Kingdom
Mr Bruce Minty
Medical Research Council (MRC)
14th Floor
One Kemble Street
GB-London WC2B 4AN
T +44 1793 416200
bruce.minty@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Dr. Mark Palmer
Medical Research Council
14th Floor, One Kemble Street
GB-London WC2B 4AN
T +44 20 7395 2209
mark.palmer@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Mr Tim Willis
Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
North Star Avenue
Polaris House
GB-Swindon SN2 1UH
T +44 1793 413247
Tim.Willis@bbsrc.ac.uk
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EMBC Member States
financial contributions
embc@embo.org
EMBC Member State
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
Total
2014
% of total
contributions
2.05
2.53
0.32
0.92
1.61
0.11
1.29
14.88
18.69
1.71
0.64
0.07
1.16
0.97
11.23
0.21
4.27
2.17
2.42
1.14
0.43
0.25
7.79
2.48
2.59
3.44
14.60
100.00
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EMBO Council
embo@embo.org
www.embo.org/about-embo/council
2014
EMBO Council members
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. Elected term(s) of office
2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016
2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015
2012 – 2014
2014 – 2016
2013 – 2015
2012 – 2014
2013 – 2015
2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2014
2014 – 2016
2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016
2013 – 2015
2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016
2010 – 2011, 2012 – 2014
2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015
2010, 2011 – 2013, 2014
Name
Geneviève Almouzni
Pascale Cossart
Caroline Dean
Victor de Lorenzo
Roberto di Lauro
Denis Duboule
Anne Ephrussi
Leszek Kaczmarek
Regine Kahmann
Mart Saarma
Paul Schulze-Lefert
Dimitris Thanos
Richard Treisman Vice Chair
Detlef Weigel Chair
Veronica van Heyningen
Country – Town
FR-Paris
FR-Paris
UK-Norwich
ES-Madrid
IT-Napoli
CH-Geneva
DE-Heidelberg
PL-Warsaw
DE-Marburg
FI-Helsinki
DE-Koeln
GR-Athens
UK-London
DE-Tuebingen
UK-Edinburgh
EMBO Council members are elected for a three-year term of office and may be re-elected for one additional term of office.
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Ex officio Council members
Maria Leptin
Paul Nurse
Director, EMBO
Secretary General, EMBO
Observers
Toivo Maimets
Patrick Cramer
Iain Mattaj
Jane Langdale
Gisou van der Goot
Frank Uhlmann
Sarah Bray
Reinhard Jahn
President, EMBC
Secretary General, EMBC
Director General, EMBL
Chair EMBO Membership Committee
Chair EMBO Young Investigator Committee
Chair EMBO Course Committee
Chair EMBO Fellowship Committee
Chair EMBL SAC
EMBO
Council 2014
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EMBO Committees
embo@embo.org
www.embo.org/about-embo/committees#publications
2014
Members 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 Chair
2012 Frédéric Allain CH
2014 Nils Brose DE
2012 Søren Brunak DK
2014 Javier Cáceres UK
2013 Christian Lehner CH
2012 Paul Schulze-Lefert DE
2013 Anne Spang CH
2014 Janet Thornton UK
2011 Isabelle Vernos ES
2014 Arturo Zychlinsky DE
Fellowship Committee
2012 Sarah Bray UK Chair
2013 Andres Aguilera ES
2012 Anna Akhmanova NL
2010 Cecilia Maria Arraiano PT
2013 Claudia Bagni BE
2012 Naama Barkai IL
2010 Yinon Ben-Neriah IL
2013 József Burgyán HU
2013 Michael Boutros DE
2013 Elena Conti DE
2012 Liam Dolan UK
2013 Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna IT
2013 Santiago F. Elena ES
2014 Eric Miska UK
2011 Thomas Nystroem SE
2013 Luca Scorrano CH
2012 Brigitta Stockinger UK
2011 Nektarios Tavernarakis GR
2014 Antoine Triller FR
2013 Pierre Vanderhaeghen BE
Young Investigator Committee
2011 Gisou van der Goot CH Chair
2011 Bruno Amati IT
2013 Christer Betsholtz SE
2011 Anne Ferguson-Smith UK
2012 Michael Hall CH
2011 Yrjö Helariutta FI
2012 Robert Kaptein NL
2014 Karim Labib UK
2013 Dietmar Schmucker BE
2013 Maria Sibilia AT
Membership Committee
2009 Jane Langdale UK Chair
2013 Ewan Birney UK
2011 Irene Bozzoni IT
2012 Nils Brose DE
2014 Tim Clausen AT
2013 Maria Pia Cosma ES
2012 Carlos Dotti BE
2011 Andreas Engel NL
2014 Urs Greber CH
2011 Gillian M. Griffiths UK
2014 Edith Heard FR
2011 Francesc Posas ES
2013 Jacques Pouysségur FR
2011 Catherine Rabouille NL
2012 Hans-Georg Rammensee DE
2014 Philippe J. Sansonetti FR
2013 Michel O. Steinmetz CH
2013 Giulio Superti-Furga AT
2012 Olivier Voinnet CH
2014 Kenneth H. Wolfe IE
EMBO | EMBL Symposia
Committee*
2010 Maria Leptin DE Chair
2008 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL Chair
2008 Anne Ephrussi DE, EMBL
2013 Anne-Claude Gavin DE, EMBL
2008 Darren Gilmour DE, EMBL**
2011 Michael O. Hengartner CH
2008 Matthias W. Hentze DE, EMBL
2013 Jan Korbel DE, EMBL**
2011 Frauke Melchior DE
2013 Ramesh Pillai FR, EMBL**
2014 Frank Uhlmann UK
FEBS | EMBO Women in Science
Committee
2013 Cecilia Arraiano PT
2011 Johanna Ivaska FI
2013 Ingrid Grummt DE
2012 Oscar Marin ES
2014 Sean Munro UK
2013 Maciej Zylicz PL
2013 Anna Tramontano IT
2014 Gerrit van Meer NL
Science Policy Advisory Group*
2012 Geneviève Almouzni FR
2012 Ioannis Economidis BE**
2013 Anne Ephrussi DE
2012 Toivo Maimets EE**
2012 Claudio Sunkel PT
2012 Richard Treisman UK
External Auditors
Central Audit Service Netherlands
Publications Advisory Board*
2010 Reinhard Jahn DE Chair
2010 Peer Bork DE, EMBL
2013 Pietro De Camilli US
2009 Ivan Dikic DE
2014 Ari Helenius (2014)
2011 Robert Kiley UK**
2010 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL
2014 Jo McEntyre UK
2014 Tom Misteli USA
2013 Frank Uhlmann UK
* Committee includes
EMBO Members and
** external advisers
Internal Auditor (EMBL)
Tomasz Smolarek
EMBO Audit
KPMG
Ex-officio
Stefanie Dimmeler
Thomas Lemberger
Maria Leptin
Bernd Pulverer
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EMBO Members 2014
membership@embo.org
www.embo.org/members
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.
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Name
Ralf Adams
Institute
MPI für Molekulare Biomedizin | Münster, Germany and
University of Münster, Germany
Research interest
Molecular 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 Meeresforschung | Bremerhaven, Germany and Max-PlanckInstitut 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,
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Experimental biomedical genetics
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Oliver Brüstle
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Universität | Bonn, Germany
Research interest
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
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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
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Rainer Friedrich
Friedrich Miescher Institute | Basel, Switzerland
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Karl J. Friston
University College London, United Kingdom
The anatomy of inference in the brain
Uta Frith
University College London, United Kingdom
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Anne-Claude Gavin
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory | Heidelberg,
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Biochemical and chemical approaches to
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Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden
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Ilkka Hanski
University of Helsinki, Finland
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Volker Haucke
Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) |
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Albert J.R. Heck
Utrecht University, Netherlands
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Peter Hegemann
Humboldt University | Berlin, Germany
Structure and function of sensory
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Carsten Janke
Institut Curie | Orsay, France
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Jukka Jernvall
University of Helsinki, Finland
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René F. Ketting
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Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge,
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Loeske E.B. Kruuk
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University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Charité - Universitätsmedizin | Berlin, Germany
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Karen Steel
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Xiaodong Wang
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Yoshinori Watanabe
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EMBO Long-Term Fellowships: Statistics
Applications and awards 1977– 2014
Year
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
30
Applications
1648
1645
1555
1633
1668
1332
1218
1288
1232
1236
1137
1080
790
645
707
830
790
831
898
877
806
739
626
EMBO
Long-Term Fellowships
Awards
247
185
247
268
275
258
215
212
222
198
163
164
178
147
155
170
144
185
160
147
176
199
142
Success rate %
15
11
16
16
16
19
18
16
18
16
14
15
22
23
22
20
18
22
18
17
22
27
23
Year
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
Applications
571
526
460
455
383
333
340
305
294
276
274
242
254
235
236
Awards
139
123
118
141
120
90
92
112
103
91
111
108
101
101
94
Success rate %
24
23
26
31
31
27
27
37
35
33
41
45
40
43
40
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EMBO Long-Term Fellowships: Statistics
Applications and awards 2000 – 2014
Country from
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
Eastern Europe
USA/Canada
Others
Total
Applications
257
304
103
164
122
29
193
3068
2037
351
220
19
163
1041
1306
3
672
31
336
475
47
52
2419
596
278
150
773
406
808
2391
18814
% of total
1
2
1
1
1
<1
1
16
11
2
1
<1
1
6
7
<1
4
<1
2
3
<1
<1
13
3
1
1
4
2
4
13
100
Awards
72
54
17
25
25
1
30
478
527
74
28
3
17
206
194
3
143
4
55
93
6
2
249
77
73
20
121
49
177
311
3134
% of total
2
2
1
1
1
<1
1
15
17
2
1
<1
1
7
6
<1
5
<1
2
3
<1
<1
8
2
2
1
4
2
6
10
100
Success rate %
28
18
17
15
20
3
16
16
26
21
13
16
10
20
15
100
21
13
16
20
13
4
10
13
26
13
16
12
22
13
17
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Lercher,
Austrian
University of Oxford,
Carlomagno,
European Molecular
Lukas
United Kingdom
Teresa
Biology Laboratory,
Heidelberg, Germany
32
Project
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
HellerschmiedJelinek,
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
The implication of lipids in Parkinson's
Molecular Neurogenetics, disease
University of Lübeck,
Germany
Kass Youssef,
Khalil
Belgian
Institute of
Nieto, Angela M.
Interdisciplinary Research
in Molecular Human
Biology, Free University of
Brussels, Belgium
Institute of Neuroscience, Cancer cell plasticity and heterogeneity
Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain in tumor progression: Defining functional
programs of EMT factors in breast cancer
models
Van Den Ameele,
Jelle
Belgian
Institute of
Brand, Andrea
Interdisciplinary Research
in Molecular Human
Biology, Free University of
Brussels, Belgium
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
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 Backhed, Fredrik
and Medical Research,
Lyon, France
University of Gothenburg, Gut microbiota influence on central
Sweden
regulation of energy homeostasis
MacVicar,
Thomas
British
University of Bristol,
United Kingdom
Langer, Thomas
CECAD Research Center,
Cologne, Germany
Dorrell,
Richard
British
University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Bowler, Chris
Institute of Biology of
Evolution and functional significance of
École Normale Supérieure, connected chloroplast and mitochondrial
Paris, France
electron transport pathways in diatom algae
EMBO
Long-Term Fellowships
Scott, Ethan
The mitochondrial response to stress:
Mitochondrial dynamics regulation by OMA1
activation and OPA1 processing
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Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Rudd,
British
University of Sussex,
Helleday, Thomas Karolinska Institutet,
Sean
Brighton, United Kingdom
Stockholm, Sweden
Project
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 Identification of proteins rescuing
Laboratory of Molecular
proteasome defects as a strategy to clear
Biology, Cambridge,
misfolded proteins
United Kingdom
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
Dissecting mechanisms of DNA methylation
Los Angeles, United States control using CRISPR-dCas9 targeting
Ward,
Michelle
British
Cancer Research UK
Cambridge Institute,
United Kingdom
Gilad, Yoav
University of Chicago,
United States
Reynell,
Clare
British
University College London, Robitaille, Richard University of Montreal,
United Kingdom
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 (homologspecific) 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, Durocher, Daniel
New York, United States
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum
Unraveling the molecular networks of DNA
Research Institute, Mount double strand break repair pathway choice
Sinai Hospital, Toronto,
Canada
Simicek,
Michal
Czech
Flanders Interuniversity
Institute for
Biotechnology, Catholic
University of Leuven,
Belgium
Komander, David
Medical Research Council Functional characterization of ubiquitin
Laboratory of Molecular
linkage-specific ovarian tumor
Biology, Cambridge,
deubiquitinases
United Kingdom
Storm,
Nadia
Danish
Max Planck Institute
for Biology of Ageing,
Cologne, Germany
Cuervo, Ana Maria Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, New York,
United States
Gregersen,
Lea Haarup
Danish
Max Delbrück Center
for Molecular Medicine,
Berlin, Germany
Svejstrup,
Jesper Q.
A comparative study of the effects of hypoxia
on cardiomyocytes in primates
The role of chaperone-mediated autophagy
in tau proteotoxicity
Cancer Research UK,
Elucidating the functional role of novel
London Research Institute, factors involved in the transcription-related
South Mimms, United
DNA damage response
Kingdom
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Project
Peuscher,
Dutch
The Netherlands Cancer
West, Stephen C. Cancer Research UK,
Structural and biochemical characterization
Marieke
Institute, Amsterdam,
London Research Institute, of pre-recombination complexes
The Netherlands
South Mimms,
United Kingdom
34
Stadhouders,
Ralph
Dutch
Erasmus University
Medical Center,
Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
Schmidt,
Ewoud
Dutch
University Medical Center Polleux, Franck
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Columbia University, New Shaping the human brain: The role of
York, United States
SRGAP2C in the evolution of cortical
networks
Verweij,
Frederik
Dutch
Cancer Center
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Curie Institute, Paris,
France
Revealing the physiology of exosome
secretion in vivo by a 4D-imaging approach
Bronkhorst,
Walter
Dutch
Ketting, René F.
Radboud University
Nijmegen Medical Centre,
The Netherlands
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
Targeting epigenetically heterogeneous
Hospital, Harvard
acute myeloid leukemia cells
Medical School and Broad
Institute, Boston,
United States
Vos,
Seychelle
Dutch
University of California
Berkeley, United States
Cramer, Patrick
Putker,
Marrit
Dutch
University Medical Center O'Neill, John
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Medical Research Council Out of sync: Unravelling the reciprocal
Laboratory of Molecular
regulation of the metabolic circadian rhythm
Biology, Cambridge,
and tumour cell metabolism
United Kingdom
Schoof,
Erwin
Dutch
Technical University
of Denmark, Lyngby,
Denmark
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 Kopito, Ron
Groningen,
The Netherlands
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
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Graf, Thomas
Raposo, Graça
Dick, John
Centre for Genomic
Regulation, Barcelona,
Spain
Max Planck Institute for
Biophysical Chemistry,
Göttingen, Germany
The dynamics of the mammalian epigenome
during transcription factor-induced cell fate
conversion
Determining the molecular architecture of
mammalian RNA polymerase II-P-TEFb in
complex with HIV Tat-Tar
When mitochondria are under pressure
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Name
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Group leader
Host laboratory
Weijts,
Dutch
Utrecht University,
Traver, David
University of California
Bart
The Netherlands
San Diego, La Jolla,
United States
Project
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
Yale University, New
Haven, United States
Identification of factors promoting survival
of anoxic conditions in zebrafish embryos
Blot,
Antonin
French
Institute of Biology of
Hofer, Sonja
École Normale Supérieure,
Paris, France
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,
Wiman, Klas
Brighton, United Kingdom
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
Quantitative analyses of the dynamics of
Biochemistry, Martinsried, Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 during fly
Germany
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
Giraldez, Antonio
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Group leader
Host laboratory
Ivanovitch,
French
University College London, Torres, Miguel
Spanish National Centre
Kenzo
United Kingdom
for Cardiovascular
Research, Madrid, Spain
36
Project
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, Reif, Bernd
Lyon, France
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 Weijers, Dolf
Verne, Amiens, France
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 Characterizing the lncRNA-mRNA
Cell Biology, University of interactome
Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
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
EMBO
Long-Term Fellowships
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Kinkelin,
German
Ludwig Maximilian
Diffley, John F.X.
Cancer Research UK,
Kerstin
University Munich,
London Research Institute,
Germany
South Mimms,
United Kingdom
Project
Mechanism of MCM2-7 double-hexamer
formation during initiation of DNA
replication in budding yeast
Knoche,
Elena
German
Charité-University
Louis, Matthieu
Medicine Berlin, Germany
Bocklisch,
Christina
German
University of Geneva,
Switzerland
Larkum, Matthew Charité-University
Synaptic plasticity mechanisms underlying
Medicine Berlin, Germany 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 The role of linear ubiquitin signalling in
of Medicine, Frankfurt am tumour-stromal crosstalk
Main, Germany
Kohl,
Johannes
German
Medical Research Council Dulac, Catherine
Laboratory of Molecular
Biology, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Harvard University,
Cambridge, United States
Neural circuits underlying parental behavior
Kretzschmar,
Kai
German
King's College London,
United Kingdom
Hubrecht Institute,
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Modelling cancer immunomodulation in
epithelial organoid cultures
Clevers, Hans C.
Centre for Genomic
Regulation, Barcelona,
Spain
Processing of naturalistic stimuli by the
peripheral olfactory system of the Drosophila
larva
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Heinrich,
German
Friedrich Miescher
Weis, Karsten
Institute of Biochemistry,
Stephanie
Laboratory of the Max
Swiss Federal Institute
Planck Society, Tübingen,
of Technology Zurich,
Germany
Switzerland
38
Project
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
Sixt, Michael
Biochemistry, Martinsried,
Germany
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
Institute of Structural
Biology, Grenoble, France
Plasticity of intrinsically disordered
paramyxoviral phosphoproteins: A multiscale study of disorder in measles virus
Rognoni,
Emanuel
German
Max Planck Institute of
Watt, Fiona
Biochemistry, Martinsried,
Germany
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
Identifying regulatory circuits determining
Hospital, Harvard
glioblastoma subtypes and intratumor
Medical School and Broad heterogeneity
Institute, Boston,
United States
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
Identification and characterization of yeast
Biochemistry, Martinsried, ubiquitin-Atg8 adaptors
Germany
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Long-Term Fellowships
Blackledge,
Martin
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Group leader
Host laboratory
Boland,
German
Max Planck Institute for
Barford, David
Medical Research Council
Andreas
Developmental Biology,
Laboratory of Molecular
Tübingen, Germany
Biology, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Project
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 Functional analysis of a new phosphatase
Laboratory of Molecular
required for meiotic resumption in mouse
Biology, Cambridge,
oocytes
United Kingdom
Muerdter,
Felix
German
Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, United States
Stark, Alexander
Research Institute of
Molecular Pathology,
Vienna, Austria
Jäger,
Natalie
German
German Cancer Research
Center, Heidelberg,
Germany
Snyder, Michael
Stanford University School Large-scale drug response phenotyping
of Medicine, United States using the 1000 Genomes Project cell lines
Mayer,
Christian T.
German
Institute of Infection
Immunology, TWINCORE,
Hannover, Germany
Nussenzweig,
Michel
The Rockefeller University, Genome-wide analysis of DNA damage in
New York, United States
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, Characterisation of the signalling and
United Kingdom
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, Cavicchioli,
Denmark
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
University of Zurich,
Switzerland
Macrophages gone wrong – Targeted
signaling network modulation to reprogram
tumor-associated-macrophages to fight
cancer
Bodenmiller,
Bernd
A functional map of enhancer dependencies
on transcriptional cofactors
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Banisch,
German
Center for Molecular
Gilboa, Lilach
Weizmann Institute of
Torsten
Biology of Inflammation,
Science, Rehovot, Israel
Münster, Germany
Project
Uncovering somatic control of germ line
stem cell biology
Gruhn,
Wolfram Herbert
German
Institute of Molecular
Biology, Mainz, Germany
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, Hyman, Bradley
United Kingdom
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 Loizou, Joanna
University of Athens,
Greece
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, Human genetics at the single-cell level:
Lyon, France
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 apoptosisinduced compensatory proliferation (AiP)
Doherty,
Aoife
Irish
National University of
De Magalhães,
Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland 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
Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, New York,
United States
Elucidating mechanisms controlling ageing
of the haematopoietic stem cell niche
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Surani, M. Azim
Frenette, Paul
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Livneh,
Israeli
The Hebrew University of Lowell, Bradford
Beth Israel Deaconess
Yoav
Jerusalem, Israel
Medical Center, Boston,
United States
Project
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 GABAinhibitory circuits enable sound processing
after auditory nerve degeneration
Rahamin,
Inbal
Israeli
The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel
Lee, Richard
Harvard University,
GDF11 as a novel treatment for ischemic
Brigham and Women's
heart disease
Hospital, Harvard Medical
School, Cambridge,
United States
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
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EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals
Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Hoch,
Israeli
Ben Gurion University of
Altshuler, David
The Broad Institute,
Eitan
the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Cambridge, United States
Israel
Project
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
Decoding the molecular landscape of aging
Biological Studies, La Jolla, during adult neurogenesis
United States
Burstein,
David
Israeli
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Banfield, Jillian
University of California
Berkeley, United States
Ben-David,
Eyal
Israeli
The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel
Kruglyak, Leonid
University of California
Systematic dissection of the role of genetic
Los Angeles, United States 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
Abu-Remaileh,
Monther
Israeli*
The Hebrew University
Sabatini, David
Hadassah Medical School,
Jerusalem, Israel
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 Betschinger, Joerg Friedrich Miescher
Groningen,
Institute for Biomedical
Research, Basel,
The Netherlands
Switzerland
Expanding the known protein universe
through metagenomic analysis of uncharted
branches of the tree of life
Reassembly of axonemal tubulins
Understanding the establishment of the
ground pluripotency cell state
*permanent resident of Israel
42
EMBO
Long-Term Fellowships
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Marcon,
Italian
Centre for Genomic
Müller, Patrick
Friedrich Miescher
Luciano
Regulation, Barcelona,
Laboratory of the Max
Spain
Planck Society, Tübingen,
Germany
Project
The molecular basis of a vertebrate reactiondiffusion patterning system
Piazza,
Ilaria
Italian
European Molecular
Biology Laboratory,
Heidelberg, Germany
Picotti, Paola
Institute of Biochemistry,
Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology Zurich,
Switzerland
Perrera,
Valentina
Italian
Max Planck Institute
of Immunobiology and
Epigenetics, Freiburg im
Breisgau, Germany
Colot, Vincent
Institute of Biology of
Investigating RNA methylation in A. thaliana
École Normale Supérieure, as part of the adaptive response to stress
Paris, France
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 Heintz, Nathaniel The Rockefeller University, Understanding the epigenetic mechanisms
Clinical Sciences Centre,
New York, United States
that are governed by 5hmC in the brain
London, United Kingdom
Marchesi,
Arin
Italian
International School for
Advanced Studies, Trieste,
Italy
Scheuring, Simon
University of AixMarseille, 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
An integrative technology to study proteinsmall molecule interactions and their
contribution to protein function
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43
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals
Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Baldini,
Italian
University of Perugia,
Ferguson, Heather University of Glasgow,
Francesco
Terni, Italy
United Kingdom
44
Project
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 Paro, Renato
National Institute for
Medical Research,
University College London,
United Kingdom
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, Dissecting stored variables underlying
New York, United States
reinforcement learning in Drosophila
Coelho,
Dina
Portuguese
Institute of Chemical and
Biological Technology,
Oeiras, Portugal
Moreno, Eduardo
University of Bern,
Switzerland
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Molecular and genetic mechanisms of
neuronal selection
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Matos,
Portuguese
University of Coimbra,
Robitaille, Richard University of Montreal,
Marco
Portugal
Canada
Zmajkovicova,
Katarina
Slovak
Max F. Perutz
Laboratories, Vienna,
Austria
Rozbesky,
Daniel
Slovak
Garcia Gomez,
Sara
Wymann,
Matthias
Project
Adenosine-mediated regulation of
hippocampal inhibitory synaptic
transmission and its relevance for learning
and memory processes – contribution of the
astrocytic network
University of Basel,
Switzerland
PI3K and DNA repair – point of convergence?
Charles University, Prague, Jones, Yvonne
Czech Republic
Wellcome Trust Centre
for Human Genetics,
University of Oxford,
United Kingdom
Molecular basis of semaphorin and plexin
function in nervous system development
Spanish
Autonomous University of Boulton, Simon
Madrid, Spain
Cancer Research UK,
Molecular mechanisms of the nonLondon Research Institute, homologous end-joining repair pathway in
South Mimms,
response to double strand break
United Kingdom
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, Hobert, Oliver
Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain
Howard Hughes Medical Defining the regulatory logic of panInstitute, Columbia
neuronal gene expression in Caenorhabditis
University Medical Center, elegans
New York, United States
González Rosa,
Juan Manuel
Spanish
Spanish National Centre
for Cardiovascular
Research, Madrid, Spain
Burns, Caroline
Massachusetts General
Genetic determinants of pharyngeal arch
Hospital, Harvard
artery establishment
Medical School and Broad
Institute, Boston,
United States
Perez-Escudero,
Alfonso
Spanish
Cajal Institute, Madrid,
Spain
Gore, Jeff
Massachusetts Institute
Does critical slowing down predict death of a
of Technology, Cambridge, complex organism?
United States
Reines,
Maria Del Mar
Spanish
Centro de Investigaciones Meyer, Thomas F.
Biológicas, Madrid, Spain
Max Planck Institute for
Infection Biology, Berlin,
Germany
Use of a novel human gastric primary culture
model to explore the mechanisms of gastric
cancerogenesis
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Luxan,
Spanish
Spanish National Centre
Adams, Ralf
Max Planck Institute for
Guillermo
for Cardiovascular
Molecular Biomedicine,
Research, Madrid, Spain
Münster, Germany
46
Project
Endothelial cell subtypes in bone
angiogenesis and osteogenesis
Foronda,
Miguel
Spanish
Spanish National Cancer
Research Centre, Madrid,
Spain
Kaji, Keisuke
Medical Research Council A dual gRNA method for systematic, genetic
Centre for Regenerative
interrogation of the non-coding genome in
Medicine, Edinburgh,
pluripotency
United Kingdom
Marques,
Maria Angeles
Spanish
University of Valencia,
Spain
Pollard, Steven
Medical Research Council
Centre for Regenerative
Medicine, Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
Castellano Pozo,
Maikel
Spanish
Andalusian Molecular
Biology and Regenerative
Medicine Centre, Seville,
Spain
Martinez Perez,
Enrique
Medical Research Council Cohesin dynamics during C. elegans meiotic
prophase
Clinical Sciences Centre,
Imperial College London,
United Kingdom
Herrera,
Salvador
Spanish
Autonomous University of Bach, Erika A.
Madrid, Spain
New York University
School of Medicine,
United States
Nadal,
Mariona
Spanish
Pompeu Fabra University,
Barcelona, Spain
Steinmetz, Lars
Stanford University School Mitochondrial to nuclear gene transfer via
of Medicine, United States 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 Kouzarides, Tony
Seville, Spain
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 Becker, Catherina
Madrid, Spain
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
The University of Western Functional evolution of cytosine methylation
Australia, Crawley,
in animal development and the origins of the
Australia
vertebrate methylome
Garcia Doval,
Carmela
Spanish
Spanish National Centre
Jinek, Martin
for Biotechnology, Madrid,
Spain
University of Zurich,
Switzerland
Structural and biochemical studies of type
I-D CRISPR systems
Sebe-Pedros,
Arnau
Spanish
Pompeu Fabra University,
Barcelona, Spain
Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot, Israel
Cell type diversity in early metazoans and
the origin of complex genome regulatory
architectures
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Lister, Ryan
Tanay, Amos
Transcriptional regulation of glioma stem
cell quiescence and activation: A key
role for the FOX, SOX and NFI families of
transcription factors
Characterizing the mechanisms that control
stem cell behavior during aging
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Name
Nationality Home laboratory
Group leader
Host laboratory
Sabelström,
Swedish
Karolinska Institutet,
Persson, Anders
University of California
Hanna
Stockholm, Sweden
San Francisco,
United States
Project
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, Structural and functional studies of the
New York, United States
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 virusdriven 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
Neuronal and dendritic recruitment on
for Biomedical Research, neocortical area borders
University College London,
United Kingdom
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
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48
Name
Clancy,
Kelly
Nationality
American
Home laboratory
University of California
Berkeley, United States
New,
Aaron
American
Flanders Interuniversity
Lehner, Benjamin
Institute for Biotechnology,
Catholic University of
Leuven, Belgium
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,
De Keersmaecker,
College Park, United States 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
Institute of Molecular
Systems Biology, Swiss
Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich,
Switzerland
Structural characterization of cancerassociated mixed lineage leukemia
interactomes by quantitative mass
spectrometry
Webster,
Brian
American
Gladstone Institute of
Dreux, Marlene
Virology and Immunology,
San Francisco,
United States
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 Scorrano, Luca
of Medicine, United States
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
EMBO
Long-Term Fellowships
Group leader
Mrsic-Flogel,
Thomas
Aebersold, Ruedi
Host laboratory
Biozentrum, University of
Basel, Switzerland
Project
The influence of hemispheric activity
dynamics on visual processing and visually
guided behaviors
Centre for Genomic
Regulation, Barcelona,
Spain
Mapping and understanding the impact
of natural genetic variation on the interindividual variability of a phenotypic trait
in yeast
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EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals
Name
Selkrig,
Joel
Nationality
Australian
Home laboratory
Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore
Group leader
Typas, Athanasios
Host laboratory
European Molecular
Biology Laboratory,
Heidelberg, Germany
Project
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, Identification and characterization of
Denmark
novel essential regulators of acute myeloid
leukemia
Pencheva,
Nora
Bulgarian
The Rockefeller University, Bernards, René
New York, United States
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
The role of autonomic innervation in
Max Planck Institute for
Heart and Lung Research, endocrine pancreas development and
Bad Nauheim, Germany
glucose homeostasis
David,
Daryl Jason
Canadian
University of Toronto,
Canada
Cossart, Pascale
Pasteur Institute, Paris,
France
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, Biomechanical analysis of directional
United Kingdom
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
Characterization of novel virulence factors
of Listeria
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49
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals
50
Name
Xie,
Meng
Nationality
Chinese
Home laboratory
McGill University,
Montreal, Canada
Group leader
Chagin, Andrei
Host laboratory
Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden
Lu,
Yu-Xuan
Chinese
Sun Yat-sen University,
Guangzhou, China
Partridge, Linda
Max Planck Institute for
The relationship between histone
Biology of Ageing, Cologne, methylation and insulin pathway in ageing
Germany
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
Peters, Antoine
École Normale Supérieure,
Paris, France
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
EMBO
Long-Term Fellowships
Project
Endochondral bone formation as a
mechanism coupling body size and
environment: Exploring potential role of the
mTOR signalling pathway
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EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals
Name
Radhakrishnan,
Sabarinathan
Nationality
Indian
Home laboratory
Group leader
University of Copenhagen, Lopez-Bigas,
Denmark
Nuria
Host laboratory
Pompeu Fabra University,
Barcelona, Spain
Gupta,
Rajat
Indian
Max Planck Institute of
Choudhary,
Biochemistry, Martinsried, Chunaram
Germany
University of Copenhagen, Systematic investigation of USP1
Denmark
deubiquitylase targets and their functions
Mukherjee,
Budhaditya
Indian
Indian Institute of
Soldati-Favre,
Chemical Biology, Kolkata, Dominique
India
University of Geneva,
Switzerland
Goyal,
Parveen
Indian
Free University of Brussels, Friemann,
Belgium
Rosmarie
University of Gothenburg, Structural and functional characterization
Sweden
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 peptidemediated ribosome stalling as an
intracellular nutrient sensing mechanism
in plants
Zelezniak,
Aleksej
Lithuanian
European Molecular
Biology Laboratory,
Heidelberg, Germany
Ralser, Markus
Medical Research Council Genetic regulatory basis of cross-species
National Institute for
metabolism variation
Medical Research, London,
United Kingdom
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 laminaassociated 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
Branzei, Dana
Max Planck Institute of
Biochemistry, Martinsried,
Germany
FIRC Institute of
Molecular Oncology,
Milan, Italy
Roles of SUMO in the DNA replication stress
response
Romanov,
Roman
Russian
Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden
Medical University of
Vienna, Austria
Molecular control of stress responses
and network wiring of stress neurons by
secretagogin
Harkany, Tibor
Project
Computational identification of driver
mutations in non-coding regulatory regions
of cancer genomes
Dissection of aspartic protease(s) implicated
in the processing and export of Toxoplasma
gondii effector molecules that subvert host
cellular functions
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51
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals
52
Name
Vjestica,
Aleksandar
Nationality
Serbian
Balchin,
David
Group leader
Martin, Sophie G.
Host laboratory
University of Lausanne,
Switzerland
South African University of the
Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South
Africa
Hartl, F. Ulrich
Max Planck Institute of
Elucidating the mechanism of protein
Biochemistry, Martinsried, folding by the eukaryotic chaperonin TRiC/
Germany
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
Genetic architecture of complex traits across
Gregor Mendel Institute
of Molecular Plant Biology, different geographical and genetic scales in
Vienna, Austria
Arabidopsis
Tu,
Hsiung-Lin
Taiwanese
University of California
Berkeley, United States
Tay, Savas
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich, Basel,
Switzerland
EMBO
Long-Term Fellowships
Home laboratory
National University of
Singapore, Singapore
Project
Exploring the transcription-dependent
and independent pheromone-signaling
regulation of morphogenetic transitions in
fission yeast
Probing cell-to-cell variability using
single cell analysis: Correlate receptor
level activation and downstream cellular
response in NFκB signaling
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53
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 2014: Geographical distribution
Croatia
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
2
1
1
1
9
8
1
1
3
11 15
2
1
2
7
27
1
1
16
37
1
1
1
3
1
3
9
36
2
1
3
4
1
1
4
2
0
Estonia
Finland
1
France
1
1
1
Germany
4
1
4
3
2
2
1
4
15
2
1
3
15
2
3
7
7
3
21
Hungary
12
1
1
1
1
2
1
16 46 130
2
4
8
5
Greece
50 157
3
3
1
2
1
1
Iceland
1
Ireland
1
Israel
1
3
Italy
2
1
3
1
4
6
1
1
6
2
2
3
9
1
2
7
13
2
1
10
31
1
1
1
12
61
1
1
3
0
Luxembourg
The Netherlands
1
1
1
1
Norway
2
Poland
1
Portugal
1
1
5
7
3
2
1
11
1
1
1
1
2
7
4
2
7
1
2
5
20
0
Slovak Republic
0
Slovenia
Spain
1
Sweden
2
1
1
3
1
1
UK
3
6
2
EMBL
1
Switzerland
2
7
5
5
6
1
9
3
2
6
3
1
2
18
64
1
4
20
65
4
14 30 133
1
1
3
2
3
18 24 74 315
1
2
5
2
1
2
2
4
2
14 12
2
2
4
8
5
1
5
5
15
1
4
27 31
2
4
7
22
16
8
9
1
42
2
1
1
3
2
2
Turkey
3
1
2
2
3
1
2
1
1
3
1
2
2
USA/Canada
Total
54
2
6
21
3
450
0
Eastern Europe
Others
Total
2
1
Czech Republic
Denmark
Eastern European
nationalities
US-American/
Canadian
Other nationalities
1
British
1
Turkish
1
Swiss
1
Swedish
Spanish
1
Slovenian
Portuguese
1
Slovak
Polish
3
Norwegian
1
1
Dutch
1
5
Luxembourgian
6
1
Italian
2
2
Israeli
1
Irish
Greek
Icelandic
German
Hungarian
French
Estonian
Danish
Czech
1
1
Finnish
1
Belgium
Croatian
Belgian
Austrian
Destination
Austria
Nationality
Applications
8
11
3
2
4
1
9
11
7
3
1
23 31
87 39
11 10
EMBO
Long-Term Fellowships
4
4
1
14 186 156 16 17
1
8
72 23
1
4
28
1
2
15 97 116 2
71
7
13
3
79 14
9
0
36 51 12
1
6
4
26
4
1
45
2 218 25 14 15 47 47 81 325 1648
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EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 2014: Geographical distribution
1
1
1
1
1
8
1
3
6
0
Croatia
0
Czech Republic
Denmark
1
1
2
0
Estonia
Finland
1
1
France
Germany
Total
Eastern European
nationalities
US-American/
Canadian
Other nationalities
British
Turkish
Swiss
Swedish
Spanish
Slovenian
Slovak
Portuguese
Polish
Norwegian
Dutch
Luxembourgian
Italian
Israeli
Irish
1
Icelandic
3
Hungarian
Greek
1
Belgium
German
French
Finnish
Estonian
Danish
Czech
Croatian
Belgian
Austrian
Destination
Austria
Nationality
Awards
1
1
2
1
3
5
1
1
1
3
1
1
2
2
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
4
1
17
1
5
28
Greece
0
Hungary
0
Iceland
0
0
Ireland
Israel
1
1
Italy
1
1
3
1
2
0
Luxembourg
The Netherlands
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
9
Norway
0
Poland
0
Portugal
0
Slovak Republic
0
0
Slovenia
Spain
1
Sweden
1
1
1
1
1
Switzerland
3
7
4
8
1
1
5
8
1
1
1
2
3
1
1
3
2
1
2
7
1
5
6
37
2
1
5
41
1
2
8
1
3
1
3
1
6
1
0
Turkey
UK
EMBL
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
0
Eastern Europe
USA/Canada
1
1
4
6
Others
Total
6
1
1
1
1
1
3
2
1
3
1
6
3
15
4
1
0
0
23 38
7
1
2
3
7
7
1
0
1
22 17
1
2
1
2
5
2
3
5
9
68
4
1
14
0
2
0
21
8
17 29 247
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55
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 2014
56
Name
Lin,
Suewei
Nationality
Taiwanese
Host laboratory
Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour,
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Group leader
Waddell, Scott
Project
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
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships ➔➔
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships: Statistics
Applications and awards 1977– 2014
Applications and awards 2000 – 2014
Year
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
Country from*
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
Eastern Europe
Others
Total
Applications
548
560
585
506
421
495
395
409
393
383
301
289
252
233
274
230
279
339
316
325
369
376
351
344
346
331
351
301
309
304
320
335
321
339
357
344
349
294
Awards
284
280
312
281
219
255
213
211
194
201
167
138
170
124
176
138
143
188
180
187
203
209
213
194
211
199
211
212
215
221
226
223
213
235
242
243
244
213
Success rate %
52
50
53
55
52
52
54
52
49
52
55
48
67
53
64
60
51
55
57
57
55
55
61
56
61
60
60
70
70
73
71
67
66
69
68
71
70
72
Applications % of total
75
1
107
2
52
1
102
2
34
1
9
<1
45
1
295
5
400
7
189
3
134
2
16
<1
60
1
189
3
885
15
2
<1
177
3
16
<1
224
4
166
3
18
<1
55
1
1062
18
55
1
68
1
134
2
207
3
363
6
905
15
6044
100
Awards % of total Success rate %
39
1
52
76
2
71
24
1
46
61
2
60
20
1
59
6
<1
67
24
1
53
187
6
63
245
8
61
111
3
59
76
2
57
11
<1
69
37
1
62
125
4
66
460
14
52
2
<1
100
111
3
63
8
<1
50
112
3
50
90
3
54
11
<1
61
29
1
53
561
17
53
37
1
67
43
1
63
51
2
38
130
4
63
163
5
45
375
12
41
3225
100
53
* “Country from” refers to nationality
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57
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
58
Name
Ambroggio,
Ernesto
Nationality
Argentinian
Host laboratory
Curie Institute, Paris,
France
Asencion Diez,
Matias
Argentinian
Astiz,
Mariana
Home laboratory
University of Cordoba,
Argentina
Project
The interplay between transmembrane
domain geometry and membrane curvature
as sorting determinants of membrane
proteins
John Innes Centre,
Bornemann,
Norwich, United Kingdom Stephen
National University
of Litoral, Santa Fe,
Argentina
Characterization of enzymes involved in the
metabolism of trehalose 6-phosphate and
GDP-glucose in actinobacteria
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, Crespi, Martin
Paris, France
University of Buenos Aires, Study of gene expression regulation
Argentina
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, The effect of heme oxygenase-1 on prostate
Argentina
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 Establishment of the role of ntrBC and ntrYX
and Molecular Biology, La in nitrate assimilation and denitrification in
Plata, Argentina
B. japonicum
Muñoz,
Manuel
Argentinian
FIRC Institute of
Molecular Oncology,
Milan, Italy
Foiani, Marco
University of Buenos Aires, ATR-mediated regulation of alternative
Argentina
splicing in skin cells
Naum-Ongania,
Gabriela
Argentinian
University of Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
Bickmore, Wendy
University Arturo
Jauretche, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Revuelta,
Maria Victoria
Argentinian
Wageningen University,
The Netherlands
van Kan, Jan
National University of Mar The role of aspartic proteinases in the
del Plata, Argentina
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
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Group leader
Bassereau,
Patricia
Effect of nuclear architecture in Hox gene
activation
Study of the role of the NF-Y transcription
factor in the efficient nodulation
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Sánchez,
María Florencia
Nationality
Argentinian
Host laboratory
Interfaculty Institute of
Biochemistry, Tübingen,
Germany
Group leader
García Sáez, Ana
Home laboratory
Project
Medical Research
Effects of the topological distribution of
Institute Mercedes y
the ligand in the cell death triggered by Fas
Martín Ferreyra, Cordoba, Receptor in immortalized cells
Argentina
Weiner,
Andrea Maria Julia
Argentinian
University of Bath,
United Kingdom
Kelsh, Robert
University of Rosario,
Argentina
Berry,
Scott
Australian
Friedrich Miescher
Institute for Biomedical
Research, Basel,
Switzerland
Buehler, Marc
John Innes Centre,
Biochemical characterisation of RNANorwich, United Kingdom 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 Pe'er, Dana
York, United States
Wellcome Trust Sanger
Institute, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Computational approaches to classifying
CD4+ T cell subtypes from single cell RNAsequencing 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, Pedersen, Lotte
Denmark
Max Planck Institute of
Functional dissection of the intraflagellar
Biochemistry, Martinsried, transport (IFT) process using structure-based
Germany
mutants
Blomme,
Jonas
Belgian
The University of Western
Australia, Perth, Australia
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 Aragones, Julian
Madrid, Spain
Catholic Univesity of
Leuven, Belgium
Oxygen sensing HIF pathways in obesity
Derzelle,
Alessandro
Belgian
University of New Mexico, Katju, Vaishali
Albuquerque,
United States
University of Namur,
Belgium
Study of copy number variation in an ancient
asexual
Duchou,
Jolien
Belgian
University of Barcelona,
Spain
Millar, Harvey
Gene expression regulation during
melanophore differentiation: Sox10, Mitfa
and miRNAs roles
Ciruela, Francisco Ghent University, Belgium Investigation of D2-typeR-µOR
heterodimerization by Proximity Ligation
Assay and Time-resolved Fluorescence
Resonance Energy Transfer
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59
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
60
Name
Dumetz,
Franck
Nationality
Belgian
Host laboratory
Bernhard Nocht Institute
for Tropical Medicine,
Hamburg, Germany
Group leader
Clos, Joachim
Home laboratory
Institute of Tropical
Medicine, Antwerpen,
Belgium
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, Ospelt, Caroline
Switzerland
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, Colombo, Mario
Milan, Italy
Blizard Institute, Queen
Targeting histone deacetylase (HDAC) for
Mary University of London, rational drug design: establishing the role of
United Kingdom
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 Elucidating the neural basis of arousal in C.
Laboratory of Molecular
elegans
Biology, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Hanna,
Courtney
Canadian
University of Virginia,
Charlottesville,
United States
Owens, Gary
The Babraham Institute,
Cambridge,
United Kingdom
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Project
Isolation, modification and characterisation
of Leishmania donovani field-isolate
episomes
Epigenetic dynamics in oogenesis
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Fu,
Yu
Nationality
Chinese
Host laboratory
Group leader
Institute of Biology of
Colot, Vincent
École Normale Supérieure,
Paris, France
Home laboratory
Project
Heinrich Heine University Epigenomic analyses of different stem cell
Düsseldorf, Germany
niches in Arabidopsis thaliana
Li,
Kun
Chinese
Friedrich Miescher
Institutefor Biomedical
Research, Basel,
Switzerland
Roska, Botond
Institute of Neuroscience, Circuit mechanism of seasonal affective
Chinese Academy of
disorder
Sciences, Shanghai, China
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, Metabolism of primary placental endothelial
Austria
cells in gestational diabetes mellitus
Lamazares-Arcia,
Emilio
Cuban
Zaragoza University, Spain Sancho Sanz,
Javier
Pavelka,
Antonin
Czech
International Institute
Bujnicki, Janusz M. Masaryk University, Brno,
of Molecular and Cell
Czech Republic
Biology in Warsaw, Poland
Protein-RNA complex prediction by
integration of evolutionary information
Senigl,
Filip
Czech
Yale University School
of Medicine, New Haven,
United States
Schatz, David
Identification and characterization of nonimmunoglobulin DIVAC enhancers
Singh,
Khushwant
Czech
The Swedish University
of Agricultural Sciences,
Uppsala, Sweden
Dixelius, Christina Czech University of Life
Sciences, Prague, Czech
Republic
Symonová,
Radka
Czech
The Arctic University of
Norway, Tromso, Norway
Praebel, Kim
Institute of Animal
Cytogenetic background of iterative
Physiology and
evolution in incipient salmonid species
Genetics,Academy of
Science of Czech Republic,
Libechov, Czech Republic
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 Klaholz, Bruno
Molecular and Cellular
Biology, Strasbourg, France
Aarhus University,
Denmark
Structural characterization of the 80S
ribosome from C. elegans by cryo-EM
University of Concepción,
Chili
Institute of Molecular
Genetics,Academy of
Sciences of the Czech
Republic, Prague, Czech
Republic
Stabilization of apoflavodoxin of Anabaena
PCC 7119 using accumulation of mutations
on the triple mutant base on rational
strategies
Secreted proteins and studies of the
Plasmodiophora brassicae-Arabidopsis
responses
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61
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
62
Name
Wewer
Albrechtsen,
Nicolai
Nationality
Danish
Host laboratory
Group leader
Max Planck Institute of
Mann, Matthias
Biochemistry, Martinsried,
Germany
Home laboratory
Project
Universtiy of Copenhagen, Assessment of gut hormones in the gut-brain
Denmark
axis of obesity and type 2 diabetes
Bakker,
Gert-Jan
Dutch
Karolinska Institutet,
Huddinge, Sweden
Strömblad,
Staffan
Radboud University
Multi-scale analysis of plasticity of tumor
Medical Centre, Nijmegen, cell invasion in 3D environments
The Netherlands
Molenhuis,
Remco
Dutch
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Iraqi, Fuad A.
University Medical Center Identifying molecular networks for
Utrecht, The Netherlands 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
Moody, Branch
Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Harvard Medical
School, Boston,
United States
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 Visualizing the role of SERF in aggregation
Groningen,
initiation in living cells
The Netherlands
van 't Veer,
Inge Leonie
Dutch
Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
United Kingdom
Vollmer,
Waldemar
Utrecht University,
The Netherlands
van den Bosch,
Martijn
Dutch
National Institutes of
Health Clinical Center,
Bethesda, United States
Young, Marian
Radboud University
WISP1 as downstream mediator of
Medical Center, Nijmegen, canonical Wnt signaling in the development
The Netherlands
of osteoarthritis
van der Knaap,
Noortje
Dutch
Max Planck lnstitute
Hoehn, Mathias
forNeurological Research,
Cologne, Germany
Donders Institute of Brain The risk of antidepressants for the
Cognition and Behaviour, developing brain
Radboud University
Medical Center, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
Mahfouz,
Ahmed
Egyptian
University of Washington, Eichler, Evan
Seattle, United States
Delft University of
Technology,
The Netherlands
Besnard,
Fabrice
French
University of Edingurgh,
United Kingdom
Institute of Biology of
Assembly and annotation of the genome of
Ecole Normale Supérieure, the nematode Oscheius tipulae
Paris, France
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Blaxter, Mark
Kinetic characterization of protein-protein
and protein-substrate interactions of PBP1b
and improvement of the glycosyl transferase
assay
Prioritizing genes harboring de novo
missense mutations using an integrative
network-based approach
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Breton,
Amandine
Nationality
French
Host laboratory
Erasmus University
Medical Center,
Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
Group leader
Grosveld, Frank
Home laboratory
King's College London,
United Kingdom
Project
Identification and characterization of noncoding 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
Characterization of the cell-type bases of
Interdisciplinary Research olfactory cortex activity
in Biology, Paris, France
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
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63
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
64
Name
Bröhl,
Dominique
Nationality
German
Host laboratory
Kyoto University, Japan
Colinas,
Maite
German
Dahlhoff,
Maik
Home laboratory
Max Delbrück Center
for Molecular Medicine,
Berlin, Germany
Project
Analysis of Hes1 expression in muscle
satellite cells on a single-cell level
Heinrich Heine University Weber, Andreas
Düsseldorf, Germany
University of Geneva,
Switzerland
The impact of vitamin B6 deficiency on
photorespiration
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, Mostofsky,
Baltimore, United States
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, posttranslational modification and novel binding
partners
Heusel,
Moritz
German
University College London, Mercer, Jason
United Kingdom
Institute of Molecular
Systems Biology, Swiss
Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich,
Switzerland
Assessing protein interaction dynamics
during poxvirus infection by SEC-SWATHand AP-MS
Hirschberg,
Stefan
German
The Institute of Molecular Kremer, Eric J.
Genetics of Montpellier,
France
University of Bristol,
United Kingdom
A pharmacogenetic strategy to target
noradrenergic endogenous analgesic circuits
in vivo
Krampen,
Lea
German
Stockholm University,
Sweden
Institute of Medical
Characterizing the mechanism of SRPMicrobiology and Hygiene, targeting-avoidance of transmembrane
Tübingen, Germany
domain-containing substrates of bacterial
type III secretion systems
Kuhn,
Maike
German
University of Luxembourg, Hiller, Karsten
Belval, Luxembourg
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Group leader
Kageyama,
Ryoichiro
de Gier, Jan
Willem
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
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Schaedler,
Theresia
Nationality
German
Host laboratory
University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Group leader
Waterham,
Hans R.
van den Boom,
Johannes
German
The Rockefeller University, Funabiki, Hironori University of DuisburgNew York, United States
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, Hansen, D.
United Kingdom
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
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, Couchman, John R. University of Patras,
Denmark
Greece
Havaki,
Sophia
Greek
University of Zurich,
Switzerland
Lopes, Massimo
National and Kapodistrian Sustained expression of p21WAF1 in a p53
University of Athens,
defective function environment triggers
Greece
replication stress leading to oncogenic
activity
Tavoulari,
Sotiria
Greek
University of Geneva,
Switzerland
Martinou,
Jean-Claude
Medical Research Council Structural analysis of the mitochondrial
Laboratory of Molecular
pyruvate carrier
Biology, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Adler,
Nikoletta
Hungarian
University of WisconsinMadison, 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 superresolution microscopy
Heidarsson,
Pétur
Icelandic
University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Clarke, Jane
University of Copenhagen, Calcium-dependence of folding and
Denmark
misfolding pathways in a neuronal calcium
sensor
Lemarquis,
Andri Leo
Icelandic
Leiden University Medical Toes, Rene
Center, The Netherlands
Song, Hongjun
Home laboratory
Rothamsted Research,
Harpenden,
United Kingdom
University of Iceland,
Reykjavík, Iceland
Project
Mechanism of fatty acid transport by
peroxisomal ABC proteins
The role of cross-talk between estrogen
receptor and EGFR/IGFR/syndecans on
hormone-dependent breast cancer cells
Role of B regulatory cells and spontaneous
autoantibody production in the
pathogenesis of IgA deficiency
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65
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
66
Name
Bhan,
Arunoday
Nationality
Indian
Host laboratory
Institute of Molecular
Biology, Mainz, Germany
Garge,
Sneha
Indian
Kamble,
Avinash
Indian
Home laboratory
University of Texas,
Arlington, United States
Project
Investigation of estradiol mediated
demethylation of the CpG islands in the
promoter of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA),
HOTAIR via GADD45a
University of Nottingham, Diggle, Steve
United Kingdom
Maharaja Sayajirao
University of Baroda,
Vadodara, India
The effect of biogeography on the efficiency
of quorum quenching biocontrol on
phytopathogens
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, Indian
Rathnakumar
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,
Semsey, Szabolcs
University of Copenhagen,
Denmark
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
Ghorbani,
Sarieh
Iranian
Heinrich Heine University Simon, Rüdiger
Düsseldorf, Germany
Ghent University, Belgium Intracellular localization of AtSBT6.1 and
AtSerpin1
Gilgunn,
Sarah
Irish
Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia
Dublin City University,
Ireland
O'Leary,
Cian
Irish
University Medical Center, Unger, Ronald E.
Johannes Gutenberg
University, Mainz,
Germany
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Group leader
Niehrs, Christof
Conroy, Paul
Development of chemical probes to study
the cellular roles of ARTD10
Investigation of the key interactions
between novel avian recombinant antibody
fragments and the free prostate specific
antigen (fPSA)
Royal College of Surgeons The development of advanced respiratory
in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland co-culture in vitro models using a novel
bi-layered collagen-GAG scaffold for
applications in respiratory drug development
and nanotoxicology
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
O'Neill,
Hugh
Nationality
Irish
Host laboratory
Harvard School of
Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Cambridge,
United States
Group leader
Walsh, Conor J.
Home laboratory
Royal College of Surgeons
in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Project
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 Monitoring the endogenous dynamics of the
Gan, Israel
E2F circuitry in single living cells
Frumkin,
Idan
Israeli
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, United States
Church, George M. The Weizmann Institute
Re-coding the Escherichia coli genome to
of Science, Rehovot, Israel explore the evolution of the translation
machinery
Mamrut,
Shimrat
Israeli
Paris Sorbonne University, Berrih-Aknin,
France
Sonia
Technion – Israel Institute DNA methylation and gene expression
of Technology, Haifa, Israel profiling of monozygotic twins concordant
and discordant for myasthenia gravis
Shahar,
Tal
Israeli
Princess Margaret Cancer
Center, Toronto, Canada
Rambam Health Care
Campus, Haifa, Israel
Leukemia heterogeneity and
chemoresistance - Identifying cancer
stem cell subpopulations in acute myeloid
leukemia
Arcella,
Annalisa
Italian
Massachusetts Institute
Bathe, Mark
of Technology, Cambridge,
United States
Institute for Research in
Biomedicine, Barcelona,
Spain
Designing self-assembled DNA origami
force-sensors
Asperti,
Michela
Italian
Technion – Israel Institute Meyron-Holtz,
of Technology, Haifa, Israel 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/liprinalpha1 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 longrange chromatin interactions in brainderived 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 singlemolecule FRET and MD simulation
Dick, John
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
68
Name
Carroni,
Marta
Nationality
Italian
Host laboratory
Center for Molecular
Biology, University of
Heidelberg, Germany
Group leader
Bukau, Bernd
Home laboratory
University of London,
United Kingdom
Esposito,
Rosaria
Italian
Villefranche-sur-mer
Developmental Biology
Laboratory, France
Hudson, Clare
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Transcriptional regulation and gene function
Dohrn', Naples, Italy
of Gsx, a gene expressed in the photoreceptor
cell lineage in Ciona intestinalis
Franciosini,
Anna
Italian
RIKEN Center for
Sugimoto, Keiko
Sustainable Resource
Science, Yokohama, Japan
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 Metabolic profiling to unravel the role of
for Biotechnology, Madrid, the Crc global regulator in optimizing the
Spain
metabolism in Pseudomonas putida
Leanza,
Luigi
Italian
University of DuisburgEssen, 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 MilanoBicocca, 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, Doohan, Fiona
Ireland
University of Bari, Italy
RNA interference in Phytophthora infestans
against TMV infection (RIPAT)
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Project
Disaggregation of alpha-synuclein amyloid
fibers human molecular chaperones
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Masuzzo,
Paola
Nationality
Italian
Host laboratory
Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot, Israel
Group leader
Geiger, Benjamin
Home laboratory
Project
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, Tetraspanin 5 enriched microdomain
Milan, Italy
provides a platform for dendritic spine
formation
Nascimbeni,
Anna
Italian
Paris Descartes University, Codogno, Patrice
France
University of Padova, Italy Role of ER-plasma membrane contact sites
in mammalian autophagosome biogenesis
Pasini,
Martina
Italian
University of Birmingham, Overton, Tim
United Kingdom
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, Pellegata, Natalia University of Pisa, Italy
German Research Center
for Environmental Health,
Munich, Germany
Scarpa,
Elena
Italian
Paul Sabatier University,
Toulouse, France
Sisalli,
Maria Jose
Italian
University College London, Duchen, Michael
United Kingdom
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 posttranscriptional 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
Theveneau, Eric
Evaluation of the efficacy of novel drugs
against gonadotroph pituitary adenomas
University College London, Differences between cell-cell and cell-matrix
Kingdom
adhesion forces lead to a contact inhibition
of locomotion response
Role of miRNAs in cerebral cortex folding
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
70
Name
Truini,
Anna
Nationality
Italian
Host laboratory
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, United States
Group leader
Beer, David
George
Home laboratory
National Cancer Research
Institute, University
Hospital San Martino,
Genova, Italy
Vassalli,
Quirino Attilio
Italian
University of Bath,
United Kingdom
Kelsh, Robert
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Gene regulatory networks controlling
Dohrn', Naples, Italy
chordate photoreceptor cell development
Tanaka,
Kentaro
Japanese
University of Oklahoma,
United States
Masly, John P.
Oxford Brookes University, Comparative analysis of development of
United Kingdom
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, Friemann,
Sweden
Rosmarie
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch,
New Zealand
Sialic acid import and degradation by a
clinically important human pathogen
Soreng,
Kristiane
Norwegian
Cancer Research UK,
Tooze, Sharon
London Research Institute,
United Kingdom
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
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
Gacek,
Katarzyna
Polish
The University of
Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia
Batley, Jacqueline
Plant Breeding and
Genome-wide association study in
Acclimatization Institute – regulation of fatty acid composition in
National Research
Brassica napus
Institute, Poznan, Poland
Janiszewska Likus,
Joanna
Polish
King’s College London,
United Kingdom
Tavassoli,
Mahvash
Institute of Human
Genetics, Poznan, Poland
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Project
Identification and heterogeneity of
metastasis-selected gene alterations in lung
cancer
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
Single-molecule studies of a bacterial
homologue of SERCA
Functional analyses of miR-1246 and miR1290 involvement in pathogenesis of head
and neck cancers
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Jurkowska,
Renata
Nationality
Polish
Host laboratory
The Babraham Institute,
Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Kania,
Elzbieta
Polish
Makala,
Ewa
Group leader
Reik, Wolf
Home laboratory
Stuttgart University,
Germany
Project
Controlling the methylation writers regulation of the Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b DNA
methyltransferases by posttranslational
modifications
The Beatson Institute for Ryan, Kevin
Cancer Research, Glasgow,
United Kingdom
Mossakowski Medical
Research Centre,Polish
Academy of Science,
Warsaw, Poland
Investigation of autophagy in verapamilinduced cell death
Polish
Wellcome Trust Centre for Tollervey, David
Cell Biology, University of
Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
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, IBMC-INEB Associated
Jose Luis
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
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
University of Dundee,
United Kingdom
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71
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
72
Name
Paquete,
Catarina
Nationality
Portuguese
Host laboratory
Boston University,
United States
Group leader
Elliott, Sean
Home laboratory
New University of Lisbon,
Oeiras, Portugal
Project
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 PlantMicrobe 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, Rout, Michael
New York, United States
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
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Syutkin,
Alexey
Nationality
Russian
Host laboratory
Albert Ludwig University
Freiburg, Germany
Group leader
Albers,
Sonja-Verena
Home laboratory
Institute of Protein
Research, Russian
Academy of Sciences,
Pushchino, Russian
Federation
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, Zipfel, Cyril
Norwich, United Kingdom
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 MarseilleLuminy, France
Maina, Flavio
Complutense University
of Madrid, Spain
Arjona Madueño,
Francisco Jesús
Spanish
University College London Kleta, Robert
Medical School,
United Kingdom
Radboud University
Functionomics of the membrane transporter
Medical Center, Nijmegen, SLC41A1: a new molecular player involved in
The Netherlands
renal Mg2+ reabsorption?
Baison-Olmo,
Fernando
Spanish
University of Geneva,
Switzerland
University of Seville, Spain Dictyostelium discoideum as host model for
Salmonella enterica
Bajic,
Djordje
Spanish
Biological Research Center, Papp, Balázs
Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
Spanish National Centre
Decoding the global gene expression
for Biotechnology, Madrid, reprogramming in genetically perturbed
Spain
yeasts
BarcenaFernandez,
Clea
Spanish
The Broad Institute of MIT Zhang, Feng
and Harvard, Cambridge,
United States
University of Oviedo,
Spain
Soldati, Thierry
Project
Investigation of environmental effects on
the assembly and function of Haloarcula
marismortui motility apparatus
Analysis of C3G function in HGF/Met induced
migration and invasion of hepatocarcinoma
cells
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 2014
74
Name
Bernal,
Patricia
Nationality
Spanish
Host laboratory
Imperial College London,
United Kingdom
Group leader
Filloux, Alain
Home laboratory
Zaidín Experimental
Station, Granada, Spain
Bidart,
Gonzalo
Spanish
Utrecht University,
The Netherlands
Willemsen,
Linette
Institute of Agrochemistry Immunomodulatory properties of human
and Food Technology,
milk-like oligosaccharides synthesized
Valencia, Spain
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,
Christie-Oleza,
Coventry, United Kingdom Joseph
University of Balearic
Islands, Palma, Spain
Proteomic insights into naphthalene
degradation by Pseudomonas
Caballero Bermejo, Spanish
Montaña
University of Osnabrück,
Germany
Brandt, Ronald
University of Extremadura, Tau phosphorylation at threonine-50 and
Caceres, Spain
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,
Wagner, Simon
Leicester, United Kingdom
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)
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Project
First steps toward the biochemical and
structural characterisation of a novel type VI
secretion system effector-immunity pair
EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Nationality
Escudero Paniagua, Spanish
Antonio
Host laboratory
Group leader
Home laboratory
Jules Stein Eye Institute,
Williams, David S. University of Salamanca,
University of California,
Spain
Los Angeles, United States
Project
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, Human gut microbiota effects on
Technology and Nutrition, anthocyanins encapsulated with
Madrid, Spain
cyclodextrins
Floristán
Muruzábal,
Alfredo
Spanish
New York University
Langone Medical Center,
United States
Hernando-Monge, Institute of Biomedical
Analysis of Lysyl Oxidase-Like 3 (LOXL3)
Eva M.
Research 'Alberto Sols',
and microRNAs (miRNAs) relationship in
Autonomous University of metastatic melanoma
Madrid, Spain
Fructuoso,
Marta
Spanish
Paris Diderot University,
France
Janel, Nathalie
Centre for Genomic
Regulation, Barcelona,
Spain
Garanto,
Alejandro
Spanish
University of Iowa,
United States
Tucker, Budd A.
Radboud University
Antisense oligonucleotide based therapy
Medical Centre, Nijmegen, for CEP290-associated LCA in iPSC-derived
photoreceptors
The Netherlands
The role of Dyrk1A on homeostatic regulation
of feeding behavior in a Down syndrome
mouse model
García Hernández, Spanish
Violeta
University Medical Center, Sanchez,
Geneva, Switzerland
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
Complutense University
of Madrid, Spain
Molecular dissection of the membrane
requirements for actinoporins optimum
functionality
García-Fontana,
Cristina
Spanish
The Rockefeller University, Hai-Chua, Nam
New York, United States
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
University of Cantabria,
Santander, Spain
Bacteriophages as evolvable conjugation
inhibitors
Gómez Climent,
María Ángeles
Spanish
Charité – University
Hasan, Mazahir T. University Pablo de
Medicine Berlin, Germany
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
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
Slotte, J. Peter
Jiménez, Jose I.
University of La Laguna,
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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75
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
76
Name
Guijas,
Carlos
Nationality
Spanish
Host laboratory
University of Colorado,
Aurora, United States
Hernández-Varas,
Pablo
Spanish
ICFO-Institute of Photonic Lakadamyali,
Sciences, Castelldefels,
Melike
Spain
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
ArenzanaSeisdedos,
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, Spanish
Laura
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 Murphy,
Laboratory of Molecular
Michael P.
Biology, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
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 deepbranching enigmatic protist groups prior
to the metazoan radiation, Filasterea and
Corallochytrea
Maeso,
Ignacio
Spanish
Oceanographic
Observatory in Banyulssur-Mer, France
Escrivá, Héctor
University Pablo de
Olavide, Seville, Spain
Functional survey of developmental
regulatory landscapes in the amphioxus
genome
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Group leader
Home laboratory
Murphy, Robert C. University of Valladolid,
Spain
Project
Identification of molecular species of
triglycerides and diglycerides in plasma from
patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Marcos Ramiro,
Beatriz
Nationality
Spanish
Host laboratory
King’s College London,
United Kingdom
Mas Lladó,
Maria
Spanish
Matheu,
Ander
Group leader
Cox, Susan
Home laboratory
Center of Molecular
Biology 'Severo Ochoa',
Autonomous University of
Madrid, Spain
Project
Study of the dynamics of Rho GTPases during
endothelial barrier recovery using advanced
imaging techniques
University of Warwick,
Christie-Oleza,
Coventry, United Kingdom Joseph
University of Balearic
Islands, Palma, Spain
Proteogenomics analysis of diesel tolerance
and degradation in nine marine Roseobacter
isolates from the coast of Mallorca
Spanish
San Francisco University,
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Health Research
Role of SOX9 in gastric cancer
Biodonostia Institute, San
Sebastian, Spain
Maycas Cepeda,
Marta
Spanish
Indiana UniversityMedical Bellido, Teresita
Center, Indianapolis,
United States
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 Altshuler, David
and Harvard, Cambridge,
United States
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, Greenwood, John
United Kingdom
University of Salamanca,
Spain
Role of LRG1 in modulating endoglinmediated 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 Piechaczyk, Marc
Genetics of Montpellier,
France
University of Valencia,
Spain
Identification of new transcriptional targets
of JunB involved in cell proliferation
Perez-Carro,
Raquel
Spanish
Radboud University
Cremers,
Nijmegen Medical Centre, Frans P. M.
The Netherlands
Jiménez Díaz Foundation
University Hospital,
Madrid, Spain
Next-generation sequencing in inherited
retinal dystrophies: Searching for novel
causative variants in 700 uncharacterized
Spanish families
Lima Ribeiro,
Marcelo
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77
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
78
Name
Pozo Guisado,
Eulalia
Nationality
Spanish
Host laboratory
University of Dundee,
United Kingdom
Pun,
Andrés
Spanish
Temple University School Koch, Walter J.
of Medicine, Philadelphia,
United States
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, Laparra Llopis,
Johannes Gutenberg
José Moises
University, Mainz,
Germany
University of Leon, Spain
Evaluation of the immunomodulatory
features within the gut-liver axis of two
Lactobacilli with probiotic potential
Rodríguez Navarro, Spanish
Sarai
University of Bern,
Switzerland
Dufour,
Jean-François
Vall d'Hebron Research
Does physical exercise decrease the risk of
Institute, Barcelona, Spain 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
Ruano Gallego,
David
Spanish
Imperial College London,
United Kingdom
Frankel, Gad
Spanish National Centre Arming commensal E. coli to fight bacterial
for Biotechnology, Madrid, pathogens
Spain
Rueda Carrasco,
Javier
Spanish
German Center for
Neurodegenerative
Diseases, Bonn, Germany
Heneka, Michael
Elucidating the role of Sfrp1 in brain
Center of Molecular
inflammation
Biology 'Severo Ochoa',
Autonomous University of
Madrid , Spain
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
Holt, Ian J.
Medical Research, London,
United Kingdom
Center of Molecular
Role of PrimPol in tolerating oxidative
Biology 'Severo Ochoa',
damage in mitochondria
Autonomous University of
Madrid, Spain
Vargas,
Javier
Spanish
Leiden University Medical Koster, Bram
Center, The Netherlands
Spanish National Centre
Novel methods for automatic image quality
for Biotechnology, Madrid, assessment for high-throughput cryo
Spain
electron microscopy
Yeramian,
Andree
Spanish
Norwegian Radium
Hospital,Oslo University
Hospital, Norway
Lyng, Heidi
Biomedical Research
Institute of Lleida, Spain
Zubeldia Plazaola,
Arantzazu
Spanish
Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory,
Berkeley, United States
LaBarge, Mark
Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Role of the microenvironment in the
Spain
heterogeneity and evolution of breast cancer
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
Group leader
Alessi, Dario R.
Home laboratory
Project
University of Extremadura, Determination of ORAI1 phosphorylation
Badajoz, Spain
sites
Understanding pulmonary surfactant
protein SP-C/cholesterol interactions: Effect
of SP-C on cholestatrienol distribution in
lung surfactant membranes
Signaling pathways and miRNA patterns
involved in endometrial cancer resistance
to therapy
EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014
Name
Cornille,
Amandine
Nationality
Swedish
Host laboratory
Group leader
South China Botanical
Huang, Huirun
Garden, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Guangzhou,
China
Home laboratory
Uppsala University,
Uppsala, Sweden
Grimsholm,
Ola
Swedish
Bambino Gesú Children's
Hospital, Rome, Italy
University of Gothenburg, B-cell tolerance mechanisms in primary
Sweden
immunodeficiencies
Geiger,
Roger
Swiss
Max Planck Institute of
Mann, Matthias
Biochemistry, Martinsried,
Germany
Institute for Research in
Biomedicine, Bellinzona,
Switzerland
Proteome and secretome atlas of human
immune cells
Ben Farhat,
Khaoula
Tunisian
Humanitas Clinical and
Garlanda, Cecilia
Research Center, Rozzano,
Italy
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 Phospholipase C epsilon as a potential
biomarker for the head and neck cancer
Biology and Genetics
of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv,
Ukraine
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
Guillemot,
Medical Research, London, Francois
United Kingdom
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
Northwestern University,
Chicago, United States
Structure and function of the mitochondrial
protein Miro
Lawrence,
Stacey
US-American Heinrich Heine University Simon, Rüdiger
Düsseldorf, Germany
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, Aguzzi, Adriano
Switzerland
Harvard Medical School
and Broad Institute,
Boston, United States
Genome-wide CRISPR screen for loss-offunction mutations that reduce prion protein
expression
Ruff,
Emily
US-American Institute Jacques Monod, Strick, Térence
University of Paris, France
University of Wisconsin,
Madison, United States
Single-molecule investigation of the initial
steps of transcription initiation by DNA
nanomanipulation
Carsetti, Rita
Houdusse-Juille,
Anne
Project
Testing experimental local adaptation in
the worldwide annual polyploid shepherd's
purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
79
ERS | EMBO joint fellowships awarded in 2014
80
Name
Hilvering,
Bart
Nationality
Dutch
Host laboratory
University of Oxford,
United Kingdom
Group leader
Pavord, Ian
Home laboratory
Project
University Medical Center Group 2 innate lymphoid cells and severe
Utrecht, The Netherlands non-atopic, eosinophilic asthma
Tischler,
Verena
German
University of Cologne,
Germany
Thomas, Roman
University Hospital Zurich, Modulators of oncogenic signaling in lung
Switzerland
cancer – understanding the mechanisms of
resistance in settings of precision therapy
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 2014: Geographical distribution
2
8
1
2
12
1
1
2
1
5
20
1
1
1
1
1
Czech Republic
Denmark
2
Estonia
1
1
3
1
1
3
2
1
1
Finland
1
France
1
Germany
4
3
1
1
2
2
3
2
1
3
2
2
6
1
2
6
3
1
2
3
1
1
5
2
1
1
15
1
1
2
2
2
11
52
2
4
5
4
12
87
1
2
4
1
3
5
22
3
0
Greece
Hungary
1
0
Iceland
Ireland
1
Israel
1
1
Italy
1
Luxembourg
1
Netherlands
1
Norway
1
Poland
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
4
3
1
5
2
1
1
1
1
1
4
12
2
1
8
23
3
4
1
2
4
18
1
Portugal
1
1
1
2
5
1
1
0
Slovenia
Spain
3
Sweden
1
1
1
1
1
Switzerland
1
3
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
10
Turkey
2
2
3
2
4
1
EMBL
4
1
2
8
1
2
1
5
1
4
36
3
2
3
1
1
USA/Canada
1
16
31
4
17
3
21
1
2
18
96
1
7
0
Eastern Europe
Total
1
2
1
UK
6
1
Slovak Republic
Others
Total
Turkey
Switzerland
Sweden
Spain
Slovenia
Slovak Republic
Portugal
Poland
Norway
Netherlands
2
USA/Canada
Croatia
1
Others
2
2
Luxembourg
Italy
Israel
Ireland
Iceland
Hungary
Greece
2
1
Eastern Europe
1
UK
1
Belgium
Germany
France
Finland
Estonia
Denmark
Czech Republic
Croatia
Belgium
To
Austria
Austria
From*
Applications
3
4
1
2
6
8
2
1
11 14
1
0
6
3
11
2
4
8
33
4
3
12
1
2
2
8
2
1
1
8
9
50
7
1
1
0
19
3
1
2
13 18
2
22
2
4
1
1 133 10
1
8
8
9
31 20 10 102 548
2
1
89
2
20
* “From” refers to home laboratory (see list on pages 58 – 80)
82
EMBO
Short-Term Fellowships
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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 2014: Geographical distribution
Total
1
1
1
Others
1
2
USA/Canada
Turkey
Switzerland
Sweden
Spain
Slovenia
Slovak Republic
Portugal
Poland
Norway
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Eastern Europe
2
Italy
Israel
Ireland
Iceland
Hungary
Greece
Germany
France
Finland
Estonia
Denmark
Czech Republic
Croatia
Belgium
1
1
UK
Belgium
Austria
To
Austria
From*
Awards
1
7
4
0
Croatia
0
Czech Republic
Denmark
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
0
Estonia
Finland
1
France
Germany
1
1
3
1
3
2
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
5
3
1
2
1
12
1
1
1
12
4
2
3
4
2
2
5
35
2
3
48
0
Greece
Hungary
1
1
0
Iceland
Ireland
1
Israel
1
1
2
1
1
Italy
1
1
1
Luxembourg
1
1
1
1
4
1
3
1
1
7
2
7
2
11
1
1
Netherlands
1
Norway
1
Poland
1
2
1
1
Portugal
1
1
0
Slovak Republic
0
Slovenia
Spain
3
1
Sweden
1
1
Switzerland
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
8
4
1
2
7
15
8
51
1
5
0
2
1
3
2
3
3
EMBL
1
2
1
3
1
1
19
1
1
2
1
0
Eastern Europe
USA/Canada
1
Others
Total
8
1
Turkey
UK
6
1
1
4
7
1
1
4
10
1
0
3
3
9
1
1
6
23
2
2
2
5
23
2
2
2
1
5
5
1
1
2
11
1
0
14
2
8
6
0
1
2
2
1
76
6
51
8
10
6
2
26
7
5
29 284
* “From” refers to home laboratory (see list on pages 58 – 80)
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Launched 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.
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Name
Gad Asher
Nationality Institute
Israeli
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
Research interest
Mammalian circadian clocks
Country
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
EMBO
Young Investigators
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EMBO Young Investigators 2000 – 2013
Adams, Ralf
Agami, Reuven
Ahel, Ivan
Allain, Frédéric
Alon, Uri
Amit, Ido
Antonny, Bruno
Arber, Silvia
Arkowitz, Robert
Arribas, Joaquin
Ashe, Hilary
Averof, Michalis
Azzalin, Claus
Maria
Barkai, Naama
Barr, Francis
Barral, Yves
Barre,
François-Xavier
Basto, Renata
Batista, Facundo
Baum, Buzz
Behrens, Axel
Beja, Oded
Bellaiche, Yohanns
Ben-Yehuda, Sigal
Benton, Richard
Berezikov, Eugene
Berger, Frédéric
Bertolotti, Anne
Bertrand, Edouard
Bettencourt-Dias,
Mónica
Blanpain, Cédric
Blázquez, Miguel
Bochtler, Matthias
Boulton, Simon
Bousso, Philippe
Boutros, Michael
Briscoe, James
Bühler, Marc
Bujnicki, Janusz
Bumann, Dirk
Carballido-López,
Rut
Carleton, Alan
Carroll, Jason
Carter, Andrew
Carvalho, Pedro
Casares, Fernando
Cavaillé, Jérôme
Chin, Jason
Chiti, Fabrizio
Choudhary,
Chunaram
Christoforidis,
Savvas
Clausen, Tim
Collinson, Ian
Conradt, Barbara
Corona, Davide
Cosma, Maria Pia
Costanzo, Vincenzo
Cowling, Victoria
Cramer, Patrick
Currie, Peter
d’Adda di Fagagna,
Fabrizio
Daumke, Oliver
Davis, Daniel
de Gier, Jan-Willem
Del Pozo, Miguel A.
Delledonne,
Massimo
Dessen, Andrea
Dickson, Barry
Dominguez, Maria
Donaldson, Anne
Drew, David
Dutzler, Raimund
Einsle, Oliver
Elena, Santiago
Elf, Johan
EtienneManneville,
Sandrine
Fankhauser,
Christian
FernándezCapetillo, Óscar
Fernández-Chacón,
Rafael
Fischer, André
Friml, Jiri
Fuks, François
Garel, Sonia
Garinis, George
Geldner, Niko
Gerhardt, Holger
Gerlich, Daniel
Wolfram
Gil, Jesus
Ginhoux, Florent
Glotzer, Michael
Gönczy, Pierre
González-Reyes,
Acaimo
Gotta, Monica
Grill, Stephan
Groth, Anja
Grunwald Kadow,
Ilona
Hajkova, Petra
Hajnal, Alex
Hanna, Jacob
Hardingham, Giles
Harkany, Tibor
Hassan, Bassem
Haucke, Volker
Helariutta, Ykä
Helms, Volkhard
Hidalgo, Alicia
Hirst, Judy
Hoffmann, Eva
Holstege, Frank
Hoogenraad,
Casper
Hopfner, Karl-Peter
Hoppe, Thorsten
Hummel, Thomas
Ivaska, Johanna
Jacobs, Jacqueline
Janke, Carsten
Jansen, Ralf
Jarriault, Sophie
Jefferis, Gregory
Jensen, Kim
Jensen, Torben
Heick
Jessberger,
Sebastian
Jovine, Luca
Kaessmann, Henrik
Kaufmann, Kerstin
Keays, David
Ketting, René
Khakh, Baljit
Klaholz, Bruno
Klose, Robert
Knoblich, Jürgen
Köhler, Claudia
Komander, David
Kondrashov, Fyodor
Konieczny, Igor
Kunji, Edmund
Labib, Karim
Lakadamyali,
Melike
Längst, Gernot
Lappalainen, Pekka
Lecuit, Thomas
Lehner, Ben
Lemaitre, Bruno
Levashina, Elena A.
Leys, David
Logan, Darren
Logan, Malcolm
Lohmann, Jan
Lopes, Massimo
López-Bendito,
Guillermina
Lorentzen, Esben
Lovering, Andrew
Löwe, Jan
Lüdde, Tom
Luke, Brian
Lygerou, Zoi
Madan Babu, M.
Mailand, Niels
Makinen, Taija
Malnasi Csizmadia,
Andras
Mansuy, Isabelle
Manzanares,
Miguel
Marin, Oscar
Marine,
Jean-Christophe
Marques-Bonet,
Tomas
Marston, Adele
Martens, Sascha
Martin-Bermudo,
Maria Dolores
Martín-Serrano,
Juan
Martin, Sophie
Martinez, Javier
Más, Paloma
Mathieu, Olivier
Mattevi, Andrea
Mehlen, Patrick
Meier, Pascal
Meraldi, Patrick
Miguel-Aliaga,
Irene
Milán, Marco
Milo, Ron
Miska, Eric
Mitchell, Kevin
Moller, Simon Geir
Morillon, Antonin
Mosialos, George
Mota, Maria
Musacchio, Andrea
Nagy, Laszlo
Nehrbass, Ulf
Neuhauss, Stephan
Nichols, Benjamin
Nissen, Poul
Nollen, Ellen
Noselli, Stéphane
Odom, Duncan
Oldroyd, Giles
Otzen, Daniel
Owen-Hughes, Tom
Owen, David
Oxenius, Annette
Palková, Zdena
Palmer, Ruth
Pasero, Philippe
Peeper, Daniel
Pellizzoni, Livio
Peracchi, Alessio
Perrakis, Anastassis
Peters, Antoine
Peters, Jan-Michael
Petronczki, Mark
Philpott, Dana
Pierre, Philippe
Pilpel, Yitzhak
Poirazi, Panayiota
Polo, Simona
Posas, Francesc
Prud’homme,
Benjamin
Radtke, Freddy
Ralser, Markus
Reddy, Akhilesh
Reich, Ziv
Rescigno, Maria
Reversade, Bruno
Ricci, Romeo
Richards, Thomas
Rico, Beatriz
Rizzoli, Silvio
Robinson, Robert
Rodriguez, Ivan
Roska, Botond
Rouse, John
Sablina, Anna
Sahai, Erik
Salecker, Iris
Sandberg, Rickard
Santos, Manuel
Saudou, Frédéric
Schärer, Orlando D.
Schedl, Andreas
Schleper, Christa
Schlötterer,
Christian
Schneitz, Kay
Schnittger, Arp
Schnorrer, Frank
Schratt, Gerhard
Schübeler, Dirk
Schuh, Melina
Schuldiner, Maya
Schulze, Almut
Schwappach,
Blanche
Scorrano, Luca
Segal, Eran
Selbach, Matthias
Seoane, Joan
Silva-Santos, Bruno
Simons, Mikael
So, Eric
Sorek, Rotem
Sourjik, Victor
Soutoglou, Evi
Spahn, Christian
Spang, Anne
Sprecher, Simon
Stancheva, Irina
Stark, Alexander
Stock, Daniela
Sträßer, Katja
Strick, Terence
Stumpf, Michael
SuomalainenWartiovaara, Anu
Szabò, Ildikò
Taipale, Jussi
Tamagnone, Luca
Tanaka, Tomoyuki
Tanay, Amos
Tapon, Nicolas
Tarsounas,
Madalena
Tavernarakis,
Nektarios
Teichmann, Sarah
Teleman, Aurelio
Telford, Maximilian
Therond, Pascal
Thery, Manuel
Thompson, Barry
Tolar, Pavel
Torres-Padilla,
Maria-Elena
Trouche, Didier
Trumpp, Andreas
Tsiantis, Miltos
Tuschl, Thomas
Uhlmann, Frank
Ulrich, Helle
Ungermann,
Christian
van Aalten, Daan
Van den
Ackerveken, Guido
van der Goot, Gisou
van Steensel, Bas
Veening,
Jan-Willem
Veldhoen, Marc
Vendruscolo,
Michele
Vermot, Julien
Verstrepen, Kevin
Vinkemeier, Uwe
Viola, Antonella
Voinnet, Olivier
Walden, Helen
Walther, Tobias
Wilson, Daniel
Wimmer, Ernst A.
Wutz, Anton
Yanai, Itai
Zarivach, Raz
Zeeman, Samuel
Zernicka-Goetz,
Magdalena
Zimmermann,
Pascale
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EMBO Young Investigators: statistics
Applications and awards 2005 – 2014
2005
Country
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Luxembourg
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
Singapore
Taiwan
Others
Total
Female
Male
86
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Appl.
Aw.
Appl.
Aw.
Appl.
Aw.
Appl.
Aw.
Appl.
Aw.
Appl.
Aw.
Appl.
Aw.
Appl.
Aw.
Appl.
Aw.
Appl.
Aw.
3
3
1
2
1
0
2
14
23
6
1
0
1
3
14
0
5
0
2
4
0
2
17
3
8
0
13
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
3
0
2
3
6
0
2
3
0
5
16
27
4
3
1
2
5
11
0
8
0
0
2
1
1
16
10
5
0
22
0
2
0
0
0
0
2
4
2
0
0
0
0
1
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
5
2
6
0
0
2
0
8
8
19
4
0
1
0
2
10
0
5
0
0
1
0
0
18
14
4
2
26
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
3
3
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
0
0
3
1
2
0
1
1
0
2
11
21
2
3
0
0
4
4
0
7
0
1
1
0
0
12
3
5
3
32
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
0
7
2
6
0
1
0
0
2
11
17
2
1
1
1
6
15
0
7
0
1
2
0
1
8
3
11
1
24
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
6
0
3
1
3
0
0
2
0
1
12
22
2
0
0
2
7
12
0
7
0
0
5
0
0
14
4
11
0
32
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
3
0
1
0
5
0
3
0
0
5
1
2
23
19
1
0
1
2
4
11
0
6
1
0
3
1
0
27
8
11
1
34
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
4
3
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
0
8
2
3
1
0
1
1
4
21
16
1
1
0
1
10
8
0
13
3
0
3
0
0
23
7
10
4
22
4
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
1
0
0
0
4
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
2
0
5
1
0
17
0
153
0
21
0
132
0
18
0
116
0
12
0
123
0
17
0
137
0
21
0
164
0
22
1
160
0
22
1
1
0
0
3
0
0
3
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
1
0
5
1
0
0
23
8
9
0
3
2
0
3
20
31
2
0
0
2
7
10
1
7
2
0
9
1
0
21
11
10
1
33
3
4
2
202
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
4
7
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
3
0
4
0
128
3
5
1
1
4
0
9
29
17
0
1
0
0
8
7
0
11
2
0
19
0
0
28
6
7
0
29
1
1
3
192
27
32
96
2
15
32
121
6
15
37
95
3
15
32
84
2
10
34
89
4
13
39
98
3
18
57
107
8
14
57
103
8
14
59
133
5
18
64
138
7
20
EMBO
Young Investigators
1
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EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2014
Young Investigator
Fyodor Kondrashov
Conference
Population Genetics Group 47
Location
GB-Bath
Date
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
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Young Investigator
Maya Schuldiner
Conference
Gordon Research Conference: Thiol-Based Redox
Regulation and Signaling
Location
ES-Girona
Date
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
EMBO
Young Investigators
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EMBO Installation Grants
www.embo.org/funding-awards/installation-grants
yip@embo.org
EMBO Installation Grants, launched in 2006, strengthen science by funding researchers to
Gerlind Wallon
Programme Manager
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.
EMBO Installation Grant Recipients 2014
Name
Nuno Barbosa-Morais
Nationality
Portuguese
Moving from
University of Toronto, CA
Moving to
Institute of Molecular Medicine,
Lisbon, PT
Research interest
Cancer 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
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EMBO Courses & Workshops
www.embo.org/funding-awards/courses-workshops
courses_workshops@embo.org
The EMBO Courses & Workshops Programme funds high-quality meetings and provides scientists
Anne-Marie Glynn
Programme Manager
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.
EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014
Practical Courses
EMBC Member States
90
Title
Metabolomics bioinformatics for life scientists
Organizer
R. Salek
Location
UK-Cambridge
Dates
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
EMBO
Courses & Workshops
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EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014
Title
Single-cell gene expression analysis
Organizer
J. Dreyer-Lamm
Location
DE-Heidelberg
Dates
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
Practical Courses
EMBC Member States
(cont.)
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Workshops
EMBC Member States
(cont.)
Workshops
Non-EMBC Member
States
Conferences and
Conference Series
EMBC Member States
92
Title
Unraveling biological secrets by single-cell
expression profiling
Organizer
J. Dreyer-Lamm
Location
DE-Heidelberg
Dates
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
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
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
EMBO
Courses & Workshops
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EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014
Title
Enzyme mechanisms by biological systems
Organizer
N. Scrutton
Location
UK-Manchester
Dates
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
Conferences and
Conference Series
EMBC Member States
(cont.)
EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses & Workshops
93
EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014
Title
Flies, worms and robots: Combining
perspectives on minibrains and behaviour
Organizer
M. Louis
Location
ES-Sant Feliu de
Guixols
Dates
8 – 13 November
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
ESF | EMBO Symposia
(cont.)
EMBO | EMBL
Symposia
94
EMBO
Courses & Workshops
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EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014
Title
Organizer
Location
Dates
Title
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
Organizer
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
Location
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
Dates
28–30 January
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for independent group leaders)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
3–6 February
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
18–20 February
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for independent group leaders)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
10–13 March
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
25–27 March
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
1–3 April
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
28–30 April
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for independent group leaders)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
5–8 May
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
20–22 May
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
9–11 June
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
16–18 June
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for independent group leaders)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
14-17 July
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for independent group leaders)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
6-9 October
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
4–6 November
EMBO Laboratory Management Course: Female
Leaders in Science
(for independent group leaders)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
5–7 November
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for independent group leaders)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
10–13 November
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for independent group leaders)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
17–20 November
Laboratory Management Courses 2014
Laboratory
Management
Courses***
EMBO
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95
EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014
Title
Organizer
Location
Dates
Title
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for independent group leaders)
Organizer
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
Location
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
Dates
24–27 November
EMBO Laboratory Management Course
(for postdocs)
A. Glynn
M. Cairns
DE-Leimen
(near Heidelberg)
2–4 December
Laboratory Management Courses 2014
Laboratory
Management
Courses***
(cont.)
***administered by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH
96
EMBO
Laboratory Management Courses
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EMBO
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97
EMBO Women in Science
www.embo.org/science-policy/women-in-science
women@embo.org
EMBO monitors gender balance in all of its activities and develops initiatives to counteract
Gerlind Wallon
Manager
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.
Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics
EMBO Membership (including Associate Members)
EMBO 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
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Year
2011
2012
2013
2014
98
% women
49
47
46
49
EMBO
Women in Science
% female speakers
27
29
30
32
Total number of members
1126
1162
1191
1223
1271
1305
1357
1413
1461
1492
1532
1567
1657
% Women
13
13
14
14
14
14
14
15
15
15
16
16
17
EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org
Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics
EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
Applications
%
Awards
%
Success rate %
2010
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
230
191
421
55
45
126
93
219
58
42
55
49
52
2011
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
267
239
506
53
47
152
129
281
54
46
57
54
55
2012
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
317
268
585
54
46
165
147
312
53
47
52
55
53
2013
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
340
220
560
61
39
172
108
280
61
39
51
49
50
2014
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
322
226
548
59
41
167
117
284
59
41
52
52
52
2010 – 2014
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
1476
1144
2620
56
44
782
594
1376
57
43
53
52
53
Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics
EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
Applications
%
Awards
%
Success rate %
2010
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
802
866
1668
48
52
123
152
275
45
55
15
18
17
2011
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
748
885
1633
46
54
103
165
268
38
62
14
19
16
2012
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
739
816
1555
48
52
115
132
247
47
53
16
16
16
2013
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
793
852
1645
48
52
77
108
185
42
58
10
13
11
2014
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
742
906
1648
45
55
86
161
247
35
65
12
18
15
2010 – 2014
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
3824
4325
8149
47
53
504
718
1222
41
59
13
17
15
EMBO
facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Women in Science
99
Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics
EMBO Young Investigator Programme
Applications
%
Awards
%
Success rate %
2010
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
39
98
137
28
72
3
18
21
14
86
8
18
15
2011
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
57
107
164
35
65
8
14
22
36
64
14
13
13
2012
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
57
103
160
36
64
8
14
22
36
64
14
14
14
2013
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
59
133
192
31
69
5
18
23
22
78
8
14
12
2014
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
64
138
202
32
68
7
20
27
26
74
11
14
13
2010 – 2014
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
276
579
855
32
68
31
84
115
27
73
11
15
13
Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics
EMBO Installation Grants
100
Applications
%
Awards
%
Success rate %
2010
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
11
23
34
32
68
3
4
7
43
57
27
17
21
2011
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
8
19
27
30
70
3
4
7
43
57
38
21
26
2012
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
11
29
40
28
73
1
9
10
10
90
9
31
25
2013
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
20
45
65
31
69
2
4
6
33
67
10
9
9
2014
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
27
42
69
39
61
2
6
8
25
75
7
14
12
2010 – 2014
Female applicants
Male applicants
Overall
77
158
235
33
67
11
27
38
29
71
14
17
16
EMBO
Women in Science
EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org
EMBO Gold Medal
www.embo.org/funding-awards/gold-medal
embo@embo.org
The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually to young scientists for outstanding contributions to
the life sciences in Europe.
EMBO Gold Medalists 1986 – 2014
1986
John Tooze Heidelberg, DE
1998
Adriano Aguzzi Zurich, CH
2009
Olivier Voinnet Strasbourg, FR
1987
Barbara Pearse Cambridge, UK
1999
Konrad Basler Zurich, CH
2010
Jason W. Chin London, UK
1988
Antonio Lanzavecchia Basel, CH
2000
Christof Niehrs Heidelberg, DE
2011
Simon Boulton London, UK
1989
Hugh Pelham Cambridge, UK
Daniel St. Johnston Cambridge, UK
2012
Jiří Friml Ghent, BE
1990
Erwin Wagner Vienna, AT
2001
Matthew Freeman Cambridge, UK
2013
Thijn Brummelkamp Amsterdam, NL
1991
Patrick Stragier Paris, FR
2002
Amanda Fisher London, UK
2014
Sophie Martin Lausanne, CH
1992
Carl-Henrik Heldin Uppsala, SE
2003
Anthony Hyman Dresden, DE
1993
Jim Smith London, UK
2004
María Blasco Madrid, ES
1994
Paolo Sassone-Corsi Strasbourg, FR
2005
Dario Alessi Dundee, UK
1995
Richard Treisman London, UK
2006
Frank Uhlmann London, UK
1996
Enrico Coen Norwich, UK
2007
Jan Löwe Cambridge, UK
1997
Dirk Görlich Heidelberg, DE
2008
James Briscoe London, UK
EMBO
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101
EMBO Keynote Lectures
www.embo.org/funding-awards/lecture-grants
courses_workshops@embo.org
Every year, EMBO Members are funded to present keynote lectures at international scientific
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Manager
meetings. Keynote lectures raise awareness of EMBO activities, support members in their
collaborations with scientists from associated fields and promote European science worldwide.
EMBO Keynote Lectures 2014
Keynote Lectures
EMBC Member States
102
EMBO
Keynote Lectures
Name
Gunnar von Heijne
Lecture Title
Meeting of the Italian Bioinformatics
Society (BITS2014)
Location
IT-Rome
Date
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
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Keynote Lectures
EMBC Member States
(cont.)
Name
Yosef Yarden
Lecture Title
BioNetVisA workshop From biological
network reconstruction to data
visualization and analysis in molecular
biology and medicine
Location
FR-Strasbourg
Date
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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Name
Gideon J. Davies
Lecture Title
27th International Carbohydrate
Symposium
Location
IN-Bangalore
Date
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
Scott Waddell
EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series
TW-Taipei
3 – 4 November
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EMBO enlarges its membership on the occasion of its 50th
anniversary and elects 106 new members (page 20). Twentyseven Young Investigators (page 84) and eight Installation
Grantees (page 89) join the EMBO community.
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Cooperation agreement between EMBO, EMBC and the
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State.
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