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CONTACT EMBO & EMBC

Eilish Craddock Personal Assistant to the EMBO Director+49 6221 8891 102

Maria LeptinEMBO Director

Administration & Finance Bernhard HuberHead+49 6221 8891 113

EMBCEMBO Council & CommitteesGitta Bourke Administrator+49 6221 8891 117

EMBO Courses & WorkshopsEMBO Keynote LecturesEMBO Global ExchangeAnne-Marie GlynnProgramme Manager+49 6221 8891 104

EMBO Science PolicyMichele GarfinkelProgramme Manager+49 6221 8891 552

EMBO Scientific PublicationsBernd PulvererHead+49 6221 8891 501

EMBO Public Relations & CommunicationsBarry Whyte Head+49 6221 8891 108

Information Support & ResourcesVolker WiersdorffHead+49 6221 8891 118

Complete list of EMBO staff in Heidelberg on pages 106–107.

EMBO FellowshipsAndrea Hutterer Programme Manager+49 6221 8891 122

EMBO Young InvestigatorsEMBO Installation GrantsEMBO Women in ScienceGerlind WallonProgramme ManagerDeputy Director+49 6221 8891 112

EMBO Scientific PublicationsThomas LembergerDeputy Head+49 6221 8891 404

EMBO Long-Term Fellowships

New EMBO Members & Young Investigators

EMBO Science Policy

EMBO Gold Medal

EMBO Global Activities

EMBO Courses & Workshops

FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award

FEBS–EMBO 2014 Conference

EMBO Press

The �rst �ve Advanced Fellows are selected (page 56). 247 Long-Term and 284 Short-Term Fellowships are awarded. The Fellows’ Meeting is held in Heidelberg in June 2014. In Novem-ber, the US Fellows’ Meeting is held at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, United States.

EMBO enlarges its membership on the occasion of its 50th anniversary and elects 106 new members (page 20). Twenty-seven Young Investigators (page 84) and eight InstallationGrantees (page 89) join the EMBO community.

EMBO Science Policy and EMBO Press receive a grant from the Fondation Brocher for a workshop on the genomics of cognition to be held in December 2015. The programme holds two workshops in 2014, one on the use of quotas in academic hiring (funded by Bosch Stiftung); the other on uses of non-anonymized human genome sequence in research (funded by ESF).

Sophie Martin receives the 2014 EMBO Gold Medal (page 101).

Cooperation agreement between EMBO, EMBC and the Government of the Republic of Singapore is extended until end of 2015. India requests to become an EMBC Associate Member State.

More than 11,000 participants from 105 countries attend 96 scienti�c events; 313 participants attend 19 EMBO Laboratory Management Courses.

French biologist Pascale Cossart receives the 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award.

The FEBS–EMBO 2014 Conference celebrates the 50th anniversa-ries of FEBS and EMBO and the centennial of the French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SFBBM).

EMBO Press launches a referee cross-commenting platform, Expanded View �gures, author checklists and image integrity screening services across its journals; manuscript transfers to EMBOreports are increased. The SourceData project is developing tools to search and re-use published data with a grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation.

HIGHLIGHTS 2014

Paris 2014 hosted by SFBBM

EMBOFEBS

EMBO facts & figures 2014

EMBO promotes excellence in life sciences in Europe by recognizing and fostering talented scientists.

Since 1964, leading scientists are elected annually to become EMBO Members based on proven excellence in research. Members number more than 1700 today. 79 scientists from the EMBO membership have received the Nobel Prize.

EMBO funding, training and networking activities attract thousands of scientists every year, promoting collaboration in all areas of life science research.

Four peer-reviewed journals span a broad spectrum of the life sciences and reflect how research is shaping the world.

The European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), founded in 1969, is the intergovernmental funding body for EMBO comprising 27 member states including most of the European Union and some of the neighbouring countries.

Both EMBO and EMBC are driven by a common commitment to research at the European level. Their joint activities are characterized by quality and encouragement of co-operation within the scientific community.

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EMBO actions in 2014 6–7

EMBC actions in 2014 8–9

facts & figures 2014 EMBC Member States 12–17 Delegates and Advisers 12–16 Financial contributions 17

EMBO Council & Committees 18–19 EMBO Council 2014 18 EMBO Committees 2014 19

EMBO Membership 20–25 EMBO Members 2014 20–24 EMBO Associate Members 2014 25

EMBO Scientific Publications 26–29 Advisory Editorial Boards & Senior Editors of The EMBO Journal 26 EMBO reports 27 Molecular Systems Biology 28 EMBO Molecular Medicine 29

EMBO Fellowships 30–83 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 30–55 Statistics 30–31 Awards 2014 32–52 Geographical distribution 2014 54–55 EMBO Advanced Fellowships 56 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 57–83 Statistics 57 Awards 2014 58–80 Geographical distribution 2014 82–83

EMBO Young Investigators 84–88 Young Investigators 2014 84 Young Investigators 2000–2013 85 Applications and awards 2005 –2014 86 Lectures 2014 87–88

EMBO Installation Grants 89 Installation Grantees 2014 89

EMBO Courses & Workshops 90–96 Practical Courses 2014 90–91 Workshops 2014 91–92 Conferences 2014 92–93 Symposia 2014 93–94 EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses 2014 94 Global Exchange Lecture Courses 2014 94 Laboratory Management Courses 2014 95–96

EMBO Women in Science 98–100 Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics 98–100

EMBO Gold Medal 101 Gold Medalists 1986 –2014 101

EMBO Keynote Lectures 102–104 Keynote Lectures 2014 102–104

EMBO Staff in Heidelberg 106–107

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2014 was an eventful year for EMBO as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of our or-ganization. EMBO was official-ly founded on 12 July 1964. It has since helped to establish a community of outstanding sci-entists who have made signifi-cant contributions to advance the life sciences in Europe and other parts of the world.

Our 50th anniversary year included activities and events that featured some of EMBO’s many achievements. One of the

highlights was a science and policy meeting held in Heidelberg in July as part of the celebrations. The meeting included talks from Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of Research and Innovation at the European Commission, invited scientific speakers, and a panel discussion featuring the opinions of sci-ence ministers from Europe.

In 2014, 106 scientists were welcomed to the EMBO mem-bership in recognition of their outstanding achievements in the life sciences. The 106 new members included 50 scientists who have made exceptional contributions to neuroscience, ecology and evolution, disciplines that were selected as part of the stra-tegic expansion of the EMBO membership for the anniversary year. A special membership meeting in October was the ideal opportunity to welcome all recently elected members to the organization. The EMBO Membership currently includes more than 1700 life scientists in the international community.

27 young scientists were selected as EMBO Young Investigators in 2014. The scientists join a network of 342

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Young Investigators who represent some of the best group leaders contributing to European research. The programme re-ceived 202 applications in 2014. Thirteen per cent of the can-didates who applied were selected and the new investigators originated from 11 countries.

EMBO also supports scientists who wish to set up labora-tories in countries looking to improve their research capacity. In 2014, eight researchers received Installation Grants for this purpose. The grants are helping the scientists to relocate and set up laboratories in the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. 72 researchers have been funded by EMBO Installation Grants since the start of the programme in 2006.

247 Long-Term Fellowships and 284 Short-Term Fellowships were awarded in 2014. EMBO Long-Term Fellowships provide financial support for postdoctoral research in leading laborato-ries in Europe and around the world. Short-Term Fellowships, which support three-month visits to laboratories in Europe and elsewhere in the world, allow young scientists to gain experi-ence in some of the latest scientific technologies.

Our Courses & Workshops continue to be popular amongst the scientific community. In 2014, 96 EMBO Courses & Workshops were held and attracted more than 11,000 partici-pants. The events took place in 23 different countries.

EMBO’s Laboratory Management Courses, which provide training for postdoctoral researchers and group leaders, are in strong demand. 19 courses were held in 2014 and we continue to look for ways to expand their reach.

As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, EMBO played a major role in organizing The FEBS-EMBO Conference 2014* in Paris, France, on 30 August to 4 September. The meeting, which was organized with FEBS and the French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, brought together many leading researchers to discuss the latest scientific findings in

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the life sciences. More than 2500 participants attended the event. On the opening day, William Whelan, the first Secretary General of FEBS, revealed the early history and development of FEBS. Gottfried Schatz, former Secretary General of EMBO, de-scribed how the activities of EMBO had grown over the years. The meeting also included opening lectures from Catherine Dulac from Harvard University and Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Dulac’s talk focused on how the mouse brain is geared for so-cial interaction. Pääbo’s lecture addressed the origins and evo-lution of humans.

Later in the year, we had a further confirmation of the value of our efforts to widen our membership when we witnessed the award of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to no less than three EMBO Members active in neuroscience. The 2014 recipients were Professor John O’Keefe, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University College London, Edvard Moser, Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and May-Britt Moser, Director of the Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The prize was awarded for work that elucidat-ed how the brains of larger organisms create maps of the space surrounding them and how these organisms can navigate their way through a complex environment.

The EMBO Science Policy Programme has made further progress to advance science policies that will help to strength-en the global research community. A European Science Foundation-funded workshop on the use of non-anonymized human genome sequence was held at the end of the year and the official report on the workshop was published recently.1In collaboration with Thomas Lemberger, Deputy Head of

Scientific Publications, a grant was received from the Brocher Foundation to support a workshop on the genomics of cogni-tion in December 2015. Work continues to help develop the next version of Epigeum, an online training course for research ethics. Few organizations have solutions in place to help im-prove how scientists are trained in ethics. Epigeum has been well received by the scientific community and has the potential for wider development and use.

In July 2014, EMBO’s SourceData project received a three-year, € 420,000 grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation to sup-port its work to improve access to the data in published scien-tific articles. Efficient access to primary research data could significantly speed up science. The SourceData team is devel-oping tools to make the data in scientific publications easier to find and to allow scientists to use the data to their full potential.

In November, the EMBC approved the Indicative Scheme for 2015-2019, a 2.5% increase versus the approved budget for 2014. I would like to thank all members of the EMBC for their renewed commitment to the activities of EMBO. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who con-tributed to the success of EMBO in our anniversary year and I look forward to many more achievements in the years to come.

Sincerely

*Administrated by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH1 www.embo.org/documents/science_policy/non-anonymized_human%20genome_sequence_ESF_EMBO_2014_workshop_report.pdf

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The EMBO Council met in April 2014. Major decisions are listed below along with other important EMBO actions not described elsewhere in this report.

EMBO actions 2014

➔➔ EMBO OFFICERS & COUNCIL 2014Paul Nurse EMBO SECRETARY GENERAL

Detlef Weigel CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL

Richard Treisman VICE CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL

Geneviève AlmouzniPascale CossartVictor de LorenzoCaroline DeanRoberto di LauroDenis DubouleAnne EphrussiRegine KahmannLeszek KaczmarekMart SaarmaPaul Schulze-LefertDimitris ThanosVeronica van HeyningenMEMBERS OF EMBO COUNCIL

➔➔ See page 18 for a detailed list of the 2014 EMBO Council

Council and membership elections➔❚ Detlef Weigel was re-elected Chair of EMBO Council for 2015, Geneviève Almouzni was elected Vice Chair of EMBO Council for 2015. ➔❚ Caroline Dean and Denis Duboule were re-elected to Council by the membership for the period 2015 –2017. Jürgen Knoblich (AT), Carl-Henrik Heldin (SE) and Karen Vousden (UK) were newly elected for the same period. Leszek Kaczmarek was selected to replace Roberto di Lauro for the year 2015.➔❚ On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, EMBO expanded the scope of its membership by electing 50 researchers working in the fields of neuroscience and ecology & evolution. In total, 106 outstanding researchers in the life sciences were elected to the EMBO Membership. One hundred of the scientists reside in Europe and neighbouring countries; six Associate Members were elected from China, Japan and the United States. The EMBO Membership currently comprises more than 1700 life scientists. More information is listed on pages 20 –25.

Financial matters➔❚ The EMBO Council approved the accounts for 2013 and the preliminary budget for the EMBO activities for 2015. This funding comes from income generated by the EMBO publications and supplements the EMBC financing of the EMBO Programmes and activities. It is also used to pilot EMBO activities that are not part of the EMBC General Programme.➔❚ Since 2009, the EMBO and EMBC accounts have been audited by KPMG (Switzerland). This audit is carried out in addition to the standard auditing by a national audit court from one of the EMBC Member States (currently Netherlands).

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EMBO actions 2014

➔➔ EMBO COMMITTEE CHAIRS 2014Jane Langdale EMBO Membership Committee

Sarah Bray EMBO Fellowship Committee

Frank Uhlmann EMBO Course Committee

Gisou van der Goot EMBO Young Investigator Committee

Reinhard Jahn EMBO Publications Advisory Board

➔➔ See page 19 for a complete list of the 2014 committee members.

➔➔ EMBO Council Administrator Gitta Bourke [email protected] T +49 6221 8891 117 F +49 6221 8891 202

Awards➔❚ Sophie Martin of the University Lausanne, Switzerland, was the winner of the 2014 EMBO Gold Medal. The award acknowledged her work on molecular events that define the organization and development of the cell (see page 101).➔❚ EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announced Pascale Cossart, of the Institute Pasteur in Paris, France, as the winner of the 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award.➔❚ EMBO Members John O’Keefe, Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Meetings and training➔❚ EMBO, EMBL and EMBC organized a joint Anniversary Science and Policy Meeting in Heidelberg on 2 and 3 July 2014. The event marked the 50th anniversary of EMBO, the 45th anniversary of EMBC and the 40th anniversary of EMBL. ➔❚ The FEBS-EMBO 2014 Conference was held in Paris, France from 30 August to 4 September.➔❚ New EMBO Members elected in 2014 were welcomed to the organization during the Anniversary Members’ Meeting held from 29 to 31 October 2014 in Heidelberg.➔❚ EMBO and EMBL held six joint EMBO | EMBL Symposia in the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in 2014. ➔❚ EMBO continues to participate in the activities and meetings of the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE).➔❚ The EMBO Director and EMBO managers were engaged in a variety of other meetings and collaborations – in particular with the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), the European Science Foundation (ESF), the European Research Council (ERC) and the various programmes of the European Commission (EC). ➔❚ EMBO provided management training for postdoctoral researchers and group leaders by organizing 19 Laboratory Management Courses.

Other EMBO activities

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EMBC actions 2014

➔➔ EMBC OFFICERS 2014Toivo Maimets ESTONIA PRESIDENT

Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS

Angela Nieto SPAIN VICE-PRESIDENTS

Patrick Cramer GERMANY SECRETARY GENERAL

Kalervo Hiltunen FINLAND FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR

Hemma Bauer AUSTRIA FINANCE COMMITTEE VICE CHAIR

➔➔ STRATEGIC WORKING PARTy 2014Ahmet Ademoğlu TURKEY

Lucia Banci ITALY Hemma Bauer AUSTRIA Patrick Cramer GERMANY Josiane Entringer LUXEMBOURG

Jean-Michel Heard FRANCE Kalervo Hiltunen FINLAND Toivo Maimets ESTONIA CHAIR

Angela Nieto SPAIN Mark Palmer UNITED KINGDOM

Jeannette Ridder-Numan NETHERLANDS

Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS

Volker Wiesenthal GERMANY

➔➔ See pages 12 – 16 for a list of all EMBC Delegates

The EMBC Delegates met in formal session in June and November 2014. The EMBC Finance Committee met in June 2014 and the EMBC Strategic Working Party met in June and November 2014; the decisions and actions resulting from these meetings are listed below.

Financial matters➔❚ EMBC noted the reports of the external auditors and accepted the accounts for 2013. ➔❚ EMBC approved the Indicative Scheme for the period 2015 – 2019 and the budget for 2015.

EMBC decisions and actions ➔❚ EMBC heard a detailed report from EMBO on the delivery of the EMBC General Programme. ➔❚ EMBC agreed unanimously to accept Malta’s application for EMBC membership. Following ratification of the EMBC Agreement, Malta will become the 28th EMBC Member State.➔❚ EMBC agreed to prolong the cooperation agreement with Singapore for a further 14 months until 31 December 2015. ➔❚ EMBC agreed to accept India’s application for EMBC Associate Membership.

Election of officers for 2014 ➔❚ Gerrit van Meer (Netherlands) was elected President of EMBC for 2015. Fabio Iannaccone (Italy) and Charalambos Savakis (Greece) were elected Vice-Presidents for 2015. ➔❚ Patrick Cramer (Germany) was re-elected Secretary General of EMBC for 2015.

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EMBC actions 2014

➔➔ FINANCE COMMITTEE

PERMANENT MEMBERS

France GermanyItaly Spain United Kingdom

ELECTED MEMBERS

Austria Belgium Finland Greece Ireland Netherlands Sweden

➔➔ For the scale of contributions by the individual EMBC Member States, see page 17.

➔➔ EMBC Administrator Gitta Bourke [email protected] T +49 6221 8891 117 F +49 6221 8891 202

➔➔ EMBC MEMBER STATES

The following countries are member states of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC):

➔❚ Austria ➔❚ Belgium➔❚ Croatia➔❚ Czech Republic➔❚ Denmark➔❚ Estonia➔❚ Finland➔❚ France➔❚ Germany

➔❚ Greece➔❚ Hungary➔❚ Iceland➔❚ Ireland➔❚ Israel➔❚ Italy➔❚ Luxembourg➔❚ Netherlands➔❚ Norway

➔❚ Poland➔❚ Portugal➔❚ Slovak Republic➔❚ Slovenia➔❚ Spain➔❚ Sweden➔❚ Switzerland➔❚ Turkey➔❚ United Kingdom

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EMBC Member States 12–17

EMBO Council & Committees 18–19

EMBO Membership 20–25

EMBO Scientific Publications 26–29

EMBO Fellowships 30–83

EMBO Young Investigators 84–88

EMBO Installation Grants 89

EMBO Courses & Workshops 90–96

EMBO Women in Science 98–100

EMBO Gold Medal 101

EMBO Keynote Lectures 102–104

EMBO staff in Heidelberg 106–107

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EMBC Delegates & [email protected]

AUSTRIA

Dr. Hemma BauerAustrian Ministry of Science, Research and Economy Unit V/3c – Life Sciences Rosengasse 2–6AT-1014 ViennaT +43 1 53120 [email protected]

Prof. Veronika SexlInstitute for Pharmacology and ToxicologyChair of InstituteVeterinärplatz 1AT-1210 ViennaT +43 (1) [email protected]

BELGIUM

Dr. François GuissartBelgian Federal Science Policy OfficeAvenue Louise 231BE-1050 BrusselsT +32 2 238 34 [email protected]

Mr Vincent MeunierBelgian Federal Science Policy OfficeAvenue Louise 231BE-1050 BrusselsT +32 2 238 34 [email protected]

Prof. Marc van MontaguInstitute of Plant Biotechnology Outreach (IPBO)IIC UGent/VIBTechnologiepark 3BE-9052 Ghent-ZwijnaardeT +32 9 264 87 [email protected]

CROATIA

Dr. Lovorka Baraç LaucExecutive DirectorThe National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development Ilica 24HR-10000 ZagrebT +385 51 228 [email protected]

Prof. Kresimir PaveliçUniversity of RijekaDept. of BiotechnologyRadmile Matej i 2HR-51000 RijekaT +385 51 584 [email protected]

CzECH REPUBLIC

Ms Jana BystrickáMinistry of Education, Youth and SportsDept. of International CooperationKarmelitska 7CZ-118 12 PragueT +420 234 811 [email protected]

Dr. zdena PalkovaDept. of Genetics and MicrobiologyCharles UniversityVinicná 5CZ-12844 Prague 2T +420 2 2195 [email protected]

Prof. Toivo Maimets EMBC President

Prof. Patrick Cramer EMBC Secretary General

Gitta Bourke EMBC Administrator

embc.embo.org

A President, two Vice Presidents and a Secretary General lead the EMBC, the intergovernmental funding body of EMBO. The governments of the member states nominate EMBC Delegates. Typically each member state appoints one delegate from a relevant ministry and one scientific adviser.

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DENMARK

Mr Troels Tvedegaard RasmussenDanish Agency for Science, Technology and InnovationBredgade 40DK-1260 – Copenhagen KT +45 7231 [email protected]

Prof. Jesper Velgaard OlsenThe Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein ResearchPanum InstituttetBlegdamsvej 3DK-2200 København NT +45 [email protected]

ESTONIA

Prof. Toivo MaimetsDept. of Cell BiologyInstitute of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of TartuRiia 23b–135EE-51010 TartuT +372 737 [email protected]

Dr. Toivo RäimMinistry of Education and ResearchTallinn OfficeTõnismägi 11EE-15192 TallinnT +372 735 [email protected]

FINLAND

Prof. Kalervo HiltunenFaculty of Biochemistry and Mol. MedicineUniversity of OuluAapisti e 7 BFI-90220 OuluT +358 294 [email protected]

Dr. Jarmo WahlforsDirector, Health Research UnitAcademy of FinlandHakaniemenranta 6, PO Box 131 FI-00531 HelsinkiT +358 29 533 [email protected]

FRANCE

Dr. Vincent GeliInstitut Jean Paoli et Irène CalmettesCentre regional de lutte contre le cancer27, boulevard Lei RoureFR-13273 Marseille cedex 09T +33 4 91 75 84 [email protected]

Dr. Jean-Michel HeardDirection générale pour la Recherche et l’InnovationMinistère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche1, rue DescartesFR-75231 Paris Cedex 5T +33 1 55 55 90 [email protected]

Dr. Thierry MeinnelAVIESANInstitut des Sciences du VégétalBât 23, 1 avenue de la TerrasseFR-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedexT +33 1 69 82 36 [email protected]

GERMANY

Prof. Patrick CramerMPI for Biophysical ChemistryDept. Molecular BiologyFeodor-Lynen-Str. 25DE-37077 GoettingenT +49 89 [email protected]

Dr. Jan GrapentinBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungKapelle-Ufer 1DE-10117 Berlin T +49 30 18 57 [email protected]

Dr. Volker WiesenthalBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungReferat 613Kapelle-Ufer 1DE-10117 BerlinT +49 3018 57 [email protected]

GREECE

Dr. Nikos PrekasMinistry of Education and Religious Affairs,Sport and CultureGSRTInternational Organisations Division14–18 Mesogeion AvenueGR-115 10 AthensT +30 210 [email protected]

Prof. Charalambos SavakisInstitute of Cell & Developmental BiologyBSRC Alexander Fleming34 Alexander Fleming StreetGR-16672 VariT +30 210 8976 [email protected]

HUNGARY

Ms Katalin HajósDeputy HeadHungarian Academy of SciencesDept. for International RelationsNádor utca 7HU-1051 BudapestT +36 1 411 [email protected]


Prof. Làszlò PatthyInstitute of EnzymologyBiological Research CentreKarolina ut 29HU-1113 BudapestT +36 1 209 [email protected]

ICELAND

Dr. Eiríkur SteingrímssonDept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty of MedicineUniversity of IcelandVatnsmyrarvegur 16IS-101 ReykjavikT +354 525 [email protected]

IRELAND

Dr. Marion BolandScience Foundation IrelandWilton Park HouseWilton PlaceIE-Dublin 2T +353 1 607 [email protected]

Mr Brian DaltonOffice of Science, Technology & InnovationDept. of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation23 Kildare StreetIE-Dublin 2T +353 1 631 [email protected]

ISRAEL

Dr. Yossi KalifaDirector of Life SciencesMinistry of Science, Technology and SpaceHaqirya Hamizrahit, Bldg 3P.O. Box 49100IL-91490 JerusalemT +972 2 [email protected]

Prof. Joel SussmanDept. of Structural BiologyThe Israel Structural Proteomics CenterWeizmann Institute of ScienceIL-76100 RehovotT +972 8 [email protected]

ITALY

Prof. Lucia BanciCERM – Centro di Ricerca di Risonanze MagneticheUniversità di FirenzeVia Luigi Sacconi 6IT-50019 Sesto FiorentinoT +39 055 [email protected]

Mr Fabio IannacconeMinistero dell’Economia e delle FinanzeRagioneria Generale dello StatoI.G.A.E. Uff. IXVia XX Settembre no 97IT-00187 RomaT +39 06 476 [email protected]

LUxEMBOURG

Ms Josiane EntringerDeputy DirectorMinistry of Higher Education and Research20, Montée de la PetrusseLU-2327 LuxembourgT +352 247 [email protected]

NETHERLANDS

Dr. Jeannette Ridder-NumanMinistry of Education, Culture and ScienceIPC 4100Rijnstraat 50NL-2515 XP Den HaagT +31 70 412 [email protected]@minocw.nl

Prof. Gerrit van MeerBureau Faculteit BètawetenschappenBudapestlaan 6 - kamer 001ANL-3584 CH UtrechtT +31 30 253 [email protected]

NORWAY

Prof. Oddmund BakkeUniversity of OsloDept. of Molecular BiosciencesKristine Bonnevies husBlindernveien 31NO-0371 OsloT +47 22855787 +47 [email protected]

Dr. Jacob E. WangResearch Council of NorwayDrammensveien 288NO-0283 OsloT +47 22 03 73 [email protected]

POLAND

Prof. Leszek KaczmarekDept. of Molecular and Cellular NeurobiologyNencki InstitutePasteura 3PL-02-093 WarsawT +48 22 [email protected]

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Ms Maria KlimkiewiczDepartment of International Cooperation20 Hoza St.PL-00-529 WarsawT +48 22 5017 [email protected]

PORTUGAL

Prof. Maria Carmo-FonsecaFaculdade de MedicinaInstituto de Medicina MolecularAv. Prof. Egas MonizPT-1649-028 Lisboa CodesT +351 21 799 94 [email protected]

Mr Luís Filipe MotaDepartment of International Relations Foundation for Science & Technology (FCT)Ministry of Education & Science Av. D. Carlos I, 126-7°PT-1249-074 LisbonT +351 21391 15 [email protected]

Prof. Cláudio SunkelInstitute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC)University of PortoRua do Campo Alegre 823PT-4150-180 PortoT +351 22 607 49 [email protected]

SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Ms Anna JuríkováDepartment of International Cooperation in Research & DevelopmentMinistry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak RepublicStromová 1 SK-813 30 BratislavaT +421 2 [email protected]

Dr. Silvia PastorekováInstitute of VirologySlovak Academy of SciencesDubravska cesta 9SK-845 05 BratislavaT +421 2 59 30 24 [email protected]

Prof. Ján TurnaSlovak Centre of Scientific and Technical InformationLamacska cesta 8/ASK-811 04 BratislavaT +421 2 69 25 31 [email protected]

SLOVENIA

Dr. Tomaz BohDirectorate of ScienceMinistry of Education, Science & SportMasarykova 16SI-1000 LjubljanaT [email protected]@gov.si

Mr Andrej OgrajensekScience DivisionScience Directorate Ministry of Education, Science and Sports Masarykova 16SI-1000 LjubljanaT +386 1 478 46 [email protected]

Prof. Boris TurkDept. of Biochemistry andMolecular and Structural BiologyJ. Stefan Institute Jamova 39SI-1000 LjubljanaT +386 1 477 37 [email protected]

SPAIN

Dr. Cristina BauluzSubdirección General de Relaciones InternacionalesSecretaría General de Ciencia Tecnología e InnovaciónC/Albacete, 5-P5N D10ES-28027 MadridT +34 91 603 88 [email protected]

Prof. M. Angela NietoHead of Developmental NeurobiologyInstitute of Neurosciences CSIC-UMHAvda. Ramon y Cajal s/nES-03550 San Juan de AlicanteT +34 965 [email protected]

SWEDEN

Prof. Stefan HohmannDept. of Chemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of GothenburgMedicinaregatan 9CSE-405 30 GothenburgT +46 31 [email protected]

Dr. Maria ThuvesonSwedish Research CouncilVästra Järnvägsgatan 3SE-101 38 StockholmT +46 8 546 44 [email protected]

SWITzERLAND

Dr. Isabella BerettaState Secretariat for Education, Research & Innovation SERIInternational Research & Innovation ProgrammesEinsteinstrasse 2CH-3003 BerneT +41 58 462 84 [email protected]


Prof. Damian BrunnerInstitute of Mol. Life SciencesUniversity of ZurichBuilding/Room: Y55-L-66Winterthurerstrasse 190CH-8057 ZurichT +41 44 635 [email protected]

TURKEY

Prof. Ahmet AdemogluBiomedical Engineering InstituteBogazici UniversityBebekTR-34342 IstanbulT +90 212 259 64 [email protected]

UNITED KINGDOM

Mr Bruce MintyMedical Research Council (MRC) 14th FloorOne Kemble StreetGB-London WC2B 4ANT +44 1793 [email protected]

Dr. Mark PalmerMedical Research Council14th Floor, One Kemble StreetGB-London WC2B 4ANT +44 20 7395 [email protected]

Mr Tim WillisBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) North Star AvenuePolaris HouseGB-Swindon SN2 1UHT +44 1793 [email protected]

17EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBC Member States financial contributions

EMBC Member States financial contributions

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EMBC Member State 2014% of total

contributionsAustria 2.05Belgium 2.53Croatia 0.32Czech Republic 0.92Denmark 1.61Estonia 0.11Finland 1.29France 14.88Germany 18.69Greece 1.71Hungary 0.64Iceland 0.07Ireland 1.16Israel 0.97Italy 11.23Luxembourg 0.21Netherlands 4.27Norway 2.17Poland 2.42Portugal 1.14Slovak Republic 0.43Slovenia 0.25Spain 7.79Sweden 2.48Switzerland 2.59Turkey 3.44United Kingdom 14.60Total 100.00

18 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Council 2014

EMBO Council

EMBO Council members Elected term(s) of office Name Country – Town2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Geneviève Almouzni FR-Paris2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015 Pascale Cossart FR-Paris2012 – 2014 Caroline Dean UK-Norwich2014 – 2016 Victor de Lorenzo ES-Madrid2013 – 2015 Roberto di Lauro IT-Napoli2012 – 2014 Denis Duboule CH-Geneva2013 – 2015 Anne Ephrussi DE-Heidelberg2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2014 Leszek Kaczmarek PL-Warsaw2014 – 2016 Regine Kahmann DE-Marburg2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Mart Saarma FI-Helsinki2013 – 2015 Paul Schulze-Lefert DE-Koeln2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Dimitris Thanos GR-Athens2010 – 2011, 2012 – 2014 Richard Treisman VICE CHAIR UK-London2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015 Detlef Weigel CHAIR DE-Tuebingen2010, 2011 – 2013, 2014 Veronica van Heyningen UK-Edinburgh

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Ex officio Council members Maria Leptin Director, EMBOPaul Nurse Secretary General, EMBO

Observers Toivo Maimets President, EMBCPatrick Cramer Secretary General, EMBCIain Mattaj Director General, EMBLJane Langdale CHAIR EMBO Membership CommitteeGisou van der Goot CHAIR EMBO Young Investigator CommitteeFrank Uhlmann CHAIR EMBO Course CommitteeSarah Bray CHAIR EMBO Fellowship CommitteeReinhard Jahn CHAIR EMBL SAC

The EMBO Council is the governing body of EMBO, responsible for ensuring the development of the organization. It consists of 15 members, who serve for a period of three years and who may be re-elected for one additional term of office.

2014 www.embo.org/about-embo/council

EMBO Council members are elected for a three-year term of office and may be re-elected for one additional term of office.

19EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Committees 2014

[email protected] www.embo.org/about-embo/committees#publications

EMBO CommitteesMembers serve on committees to guide core EMBO programmes, activities and publications. The EMBO Council appoints members to serve on committees for a four-year term; committee chairs are appointed for three years and may serve on the committee beyond the usual four years.

Course Committee 2009 Frank Uhlmann UK CHAIR2012 Frédéric Allain CH2014 Nils Brose DE2012 Søren Brunak DK2014 Javier Cáceres UK2013 Christian Lehner CH2012 Paul Schulze-Lefert DE2013 Anne Spang CH2014 Janet Thornton UK2011 Isabelle Vernos ES2014 Arturo Zychlinsky DE

Fellowship Committee2012 Sarah Bray UK CHAIR2013 Andres Aguilera ES2012 Anna Akhmanova NL2010 Cecilia Maria Arraiano PT2013 Claudia Bagni BE2012 Naama Barkai IL2010 Yinon Ben-Neriah IL2013 József Burgyán HU2013 Michael Boutros DE2013 Elena Conti DE2012 Liam Dolan UK2013 Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna IT2013 Santiago F. Elena ES2014 Eric Miska UK2011 Thomas Nystroem SE2013 Luca Scorrano CH2012 Brigitta Stockinger UK2011 Nektarios Tavernarakis GR2014 Antoine Triller FR2013 Pierre Vanderhaeghen BE

young Investigator Committee2011 Gisou van der Goot CH CHAIR2011 Bruno Amati IT2013 Christer Betsholtz SE2011 Anne Ferguson-Smith UK2012 Michael Hall CH2011 Yrjö Helariutta FI2012 Robert Kaptein NL2014 Karim Labib UK2013 Dietmar Schmucker BE2013 Maria Sibilia AT

Membership Committee2009 Jane Langdale UK CHAIR2013 Ewan Birney UK2011 Irene Bozzoni IT2012 Nils Brose DE2014 Tim Clausen AT2013 Maria Pia Cosma ES2012 Carlos Dotti BE2011 Andreas Engel NL2014 Urs Greber CH2011 Gillian M. Griffiths UK2014 Edith Heard FR2011 Francesc Posas ES2013 Jacques Pouysségur FR2011 Catherine Rabouille NL2012 Hans-Georg Rammensee DE2014 Philippe J. Sansonetti FR2013 Michel O. Steinmetz CH2013 Giulio Superti-Furga AT2012 Olivier Voinnet CH2014 Kenneth H. Wolfe IE

EMBO | EMBL Symposia Committee*2010 Maria Leptin DE CHAIR2008 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL CHAIR2008 Anne Ephrussi DE, EMBL2013 Anne-Claude Gavin DE, EMBL2008 Darren Gilmour DE, EMBL**

2011 Michael O. Hengartner CH2008 Matthias W. Hentze DE, EMBL2013 Jan Korbel DE, EMBL**

2011 Frauke Melchior DE2013 Ramesh Pillai FR, EMBL**

2014 Frank Uhlmann UK

Science Policy Advisory Group*2012 Geneviève Almouzni FR2012 Ioannis Economidis BE**

2013 Anne Ephrussi DE2012 Toivo Maimets EE**

2012 Claudio Sunkel PT2012 Richard Treisman UK

Publications Advisory Board*2010 Reinhard Jahn DE Chair2010 Peer Bork DE, EMBL2013 Pietro De Camilli US2009 Ivan Dikic DE2014 Ari Helenius (2014)2011 Robert Kiley UK**

2010 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL2014 Jo McEntyre UK2014 Tom Misteli USA2013 Frank Uhlmann UK

Ex-officioStefanie DimmelerThomas LembergerMaria LeptinBernd Pulverer

FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Committee2013 Cecilia Arraiano PT2011 Johanna Ivaska FI2013 Ingrid Grummt DE2012 Oscar Marin ES2014 Sean Munro UK2013 Maciej Zylicz PL2013 Anna Tramontano IT2014 Gerrit van Meer NL

Internal Auditor (EMBL)Tomasz Smolarek

External Auditors Central Audit Service Netherlands

EMBO AuditKPMG

* Committee includes EMBO Members and** external advisers

2014

20 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Members elected in 2014

EMBO Members [email protected] www.embo.org/members

Name Institute Research interestRalf Adams MPI für Molekulare Biomedizin | Münster, Germany and

University of Münster, GermanyMolecular regulation of angiogenesis

Margarida Amaral University | Lisbon, Portugal Membrane traffic of disease-related proteins

Michalis Averof École Normale Supérieure | Lyon, France Comparative developmental biology

Ian T. Baldwin Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie | Jena, Germany The function of plant genes in nature

Nicholas H. Barton Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST) | Klosterneuburg, Austria

Theoretical evolutionary genetics

Malcolm J. Bennett University | Nottingham, United Kingdom Adaptive responses during root development

Per-Olof Berggren Karolinska University Hospital | Stockholm, Sweden Pancreatic islet cell signal-transduction

Anna Bigas Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM) | Barcelona, Spain

Stem cell specification and leukemia development

Antje Boëtius Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeres-forschung | Bremerhaven, Germany and Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie | Bremen, Germany

Marine microbiology and deep sea life

Sebastian Bonhoeffer ETH Zurich, Switzerland Evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases

Déborah Bourc'his Institut Curie | Paris, France Epigenetic control of mammalian reproduction

Philippe Bousso Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Dynamics of immune responses during cancer and infection

Ineke Braakman Utrecht University, Netherlands Membrane glycoprotein folding and chaperone action

Paul Brakefield University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Trinity College | Cambridge, United Kingdom

Evolution of adaptive radiations in butterflies

Michael Brecht Humboldt University | Berlin, Germany Neuro-behavior

Julius Brennecke IMBA | Vienna, Austria Small RNA mediated genome defense in Drosophila

Thijn R. Brummelkamp Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience | Amsterdam, Netherlands and CeMM | Vienna, Austria

Experimental biomedical genetics

Scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the life sciences are nominated and elected annually by the membership. More than 1700 of Europe’s leading life scientists are EMBO Members. The membership actively guides the implementation of the many EMBO initiatives offered to scientists by serving on the EMBO Council, Committees and Advisory Editorial Boards.

21EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Members elected in 2014

Name Institute Research interestOliver Brüstle Universität | Bonn, Germany Neural stem cells for disease modeling and

repair

Johannes Buchner Technical University of Munich | Garching, Germany Molecular chaperones and protein folding

Carmen Buchrieser Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Bacterial evolution & host pathogen interactions

Ian Chambers MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine | Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Transcriptional control of pluripotent cell states

Brian Charlesworth University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evolutionary genetics and genomics

Deborah Charlesworth University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evolution of sex chromosomes in non-model systems

Emmanuelle Charpentier Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung | Braunschweig, Germany and Umeå University, Sweden

Regulatory RNAs and proteins in infection biology

Philippe Chavrier Institut Curie | Paris, France Cell biology of tumor cell invasion

Daniel Choquet Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (IINS) | Bordeaux, France

Glutamate receptor traffic and synaptic plasticity

Rui M. Costa Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown | Lisbon, Portugal

Neurobiology of action

Stanislas Dehaene CEA / Saclay | Gif-sur-Yvette, France and Collège de France | Paris, France

Neuroimaging of human cognitive architectures

Winfried Denk MPI für Neurobiologie | Martinsried, Germany and HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus | Ashburn, United States

Watching the brain and tracing its wires

Emmanouil Dermitzakis University of Geneva, Switzerland Cellular genetics and genomics

Raymond Dolan University College London, United Kingdom Decision making in health and disease

Peter Donnelly Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics | Oxford, United Kingdom and University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Genomic discovery in health and disease

Yadin Dudai Weizmann Institute of Science | Rehovot, Israel and New York University, United States

Brain mechanisms of episodic memory

Dieter Ebert University of Basel, Switzerland Host-symbiont co-evolution & local adaptation

Hans Ellegren Uppsala University, Sweden Avian evolutionary genomics

Barry J. Everitt University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Neural and psychological basis of drug addiction

Tamás F. Freund Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Functional architecture of cortical microcircuits

Rainer Friedrich Friedrich Miescher Institute | Basel, Switzerland Neuronal circuits and computations

Karl J. Friston University College London, United Kingdom The anatomy of inference in the brain

Uta Frith University College London, United Kingdom Mechanisms in social cognition


Name Institute Research interestAnne-Claude Gavin European Molecular Biology Laboratory | Heidelberg,

GermanyBiochemical and chemical approaches to biomolecular networks

Sten Grillner Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden Networks in motion – from ion channels to behaviour

Ilkka Hanski University of Helsinki, Finland Metapopulation biology and biodiversity research

Volker Haucke Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) | Berlin, Germany and Freie Universität | Berlin, Germany

Endocytosis and endosomal membrane dynamics

Albert J.R. Heck Utrecht University, Netherlands Mass spectroscopy for proteomics & structural biology

Peter Hegemann Humboldt University | Berlin, Germany Structure and function of sensory photoreceptors

Carsten Janke Institut Curie | Orsay, France Mechanisms and functions of microtubule diversity

Jukka Jernvall University of Helsinki, Finland Mammalian evo-devo

Mike Jetten Radboud University | Nijmegen, Netherlands and Delft University of Technology | Delft, Netherlands

Anaerobic microbiology

Henrik Kaessmann University | Lausanne, Switzerland and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | Lausanne, Switzerland

Functional evolution of mammalian genomes

John Kendrick-Jones MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cellular functions of myosins in health and disease

René F. Ketting Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) | Mainz, Germany Small RNA mediated regulation of gene expression

Ole Kiehn Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden Neural circuits controlling movements

David Komander MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, United Kingdom

Specificity in the ubiquitin system

Loeske E.B. Kruuk University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Australian National University | Canberra, Australia

Life history evolution in natural populations

Gilles Laurent MPI für Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Cortical architecture and function

zoi Lygerou University | Patras, Greece Control over DNA replication in eukaryotic cells

Troy W. Margrie MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) | London, United Kingdom and University College London, United Kingdom

Function and connectivity of neuronal circuits

Michela Matteoli Istituto Clinico Humanitas | Rozzano, Italy and CNR Institute of Neuroscience | Milano, Italy

Synaptic protein networks in brain diseases

Robert M. May University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ecosystem dynamics, biodiversity and conservation

Gil McVean Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics | Oxford, United Kingdom

The causes and consequences of genetic variation

23EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Members elected in 2014

Name Institute Research interestPascal Meier Institute of Cancer Research | London, United Kingdom Cell death and inflammation in cancer

Randolf Menzel Freie Universität | Berlin, Germany Learning, memory, navigation and communication

Hannah Monyer Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, Germany

GABAergic interneurons and neuronal coding

Richard G.M. Morris University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Instituto de Neurociencias | Alicante, Spain

Neurobiology of learning and memory

J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia | Norwich, United Kingdom Bacterial metabolism of atmospheric trace gases

Marco Muzi-Falconi Università degli Studi | Milano, Italy Maintenance of genome integrity in eukaryotes

Stéphane Noselli Institut de Biologie Valrose | Nice, France L/R asymmetry and morphogenesis in Drosophila

John O'Keefe University College London, United Kingdom Hippocampus: spatial navigation and memory

Isabelle Olivieri Université II | Montpellier, France Population genetics, phylogenetics, evolution

Christine A. Orengo University College London, United Kingdom Classifying and predicting protein functions

Julian Parkhill Sanger Institute | Cambridge, United Kingdom Bacterial genomics and evolution

Josephine Pemberton University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evolutionary genetics of natural populations

Antoine Peters Friedrich Miescher Institute | Basel, Switzerland Chromatin, epigenetics and the mammalian life cycle

Lluis Quintana-Murci Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Human genome diversity and adaptation to pathogens

Giacomo Rizzolatti Universita | Parma, Italy Cognitive functions of the motor system

Sabrina Sabatini Università 'La Sapienza' | Roma, Italy How to maintain continuous root growth

Erik Sahai Cancer Research UK London Research Institute | London, United Kingdom

Cancer invasion and the tumour microenvironment

Vincent Savolainen Imperial College | London, United Kingdom Biodiversity genomics

Christopher Schofield University of Oxford, United Kingdom Regulation of protein biosynthesis by oxygen

Wolfram Schultz University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Neuroscience of reward and decision making

Erin M. Schuman MPI für Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Cell biology of neuronal synapses

Peter Schuster University | Vienna, Austria and Santa Fe Institute | Santa Fe, United States

Molecular evolution of asexual species

Giorgio Scita IFOM – European Institute of Oncology | Milano, Italy and Università degli Studi | Milano, Italy

Mechanisms of tumor cell migration and invasion

Idan Segev The Hebrew University | Jerusalem, Israel Computations in neurons and neuronal networks

Michael Sieweke Centre d'Immunologie | Marseille, France and Max-Delbrück-Centrum | Berlin, Germany

Stem cell and macrophage biology


Name Institute Research interestWolf Singer MPI für Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Analysis of network dynamics

Michael Sixt Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST) | Klosterneuburg, Austria

Morphodynamics of immune cells

Peter Somogyi University of Oxford, United Kingdom Network dynamics of the brain – the chronocircuit

Haim Sompolinsky The Hebrew University | Jerusalem, Israel and Harvard University | Cambridge, United States

Computational principles of brain function

Christian Spahn Charité - Universitätsmedizin | Berlin, Germany Structure and function of macromolecular machines

Karen Steel King's College | London, United Kingdom Genetics and pathology of deafness

Christoph M. Tang University of Oxford, United Kingdom Bacterial pathogenesis and vaccine development

Daniel Vaulot Station Biologique | Roscoff, France Diversity and ecology of eukaryotic phytoplankton

Scott Waddell University of Oxford, United Kingdom Memory, motivation and neural transposition

Andreas Wagner University of Zurich, Switzerland and Santa Fe Institute | Santa Fe, United States

Evolutionary adaptation and innovation in molecular systems

E. Gerhart H. Wagner Uppsala University, Sweden and SciLifeLab | Uppsala, Sweden

Regulatory RNA in bacteria: mechanisms and biology

Markus Wahl Freie Universität | Berlin, Germany Mechanisms of molecular ribonucleoprotein machines

Nina Wedell University of Exeter, United Kingdom Sex, conflict and selfish genes

Stuart A. West University of Oxford, United Kingdom Social evolution

25EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Associate Members elected in 2014

Scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the life sciences, and reside in countries other than the member states, are nominated and elected annually by the membership. 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. 124 of the world’s leading life scientists are EMBO Associate Members.

EMBO Associate Members [email protected] www.embo.org/members

Name Institute Research interestSusan Gottesman NIH | Bethesda, United States Post-transcriptional regulation in bacteria

Tomas Kirchhausen Harvard Medical School | Boston, United States and Children's Hospital Boston | Boston, United States

Membrane traffic, endocytosis & organelle biogenesis

Sandra L. Schmid University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, United States

Mechanisms regulating clathrin-mediated endocytosis

David L. Spector Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States Nuclear organization and gene expression

xiaodong Wang National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS) | Beijing, China

Biochemical pathways of cell death in mammals

Yoshinori Watanabe University | Tokyo, Japan Chromosome segregation in mitosis & meiosis

26 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Scientific Publications

Bernd Pulverer Head

Thomas Lemberger Deputy Head

EMBO Scientific Publicationswww.embo.org/scientific-publications

The EMBO Journal has published research advances characterized by rigour and originality since 1982. The journal publishes research papers of broad interest in any area of molecular, cell and developmental biology. The journal also publishes topical reviews and commentaries.

Reuven AgamiAndrés AguileraDario AlessiGeneviève AlmouzniJohan AuwerxDavid BarfordDenise P BarlowFacundo BatistaDavid BaulcombeAnton J BernsCedric BlanpainChris BowlerErik BoyeBernd BukauJavier CaceresPico CaroniChristine E ClaytonHans CleversDaniela CordaPatrick CramerPietro V De CamilliBart De StrooperIvan DikicVishva DixitGiulio F DraettaMartin EilersJeff ErringtonReinhard Fässler

Susan M GasserHolger GerhardtPierre GönczyMagdalena GötzIngrid GrummtCrisanto GutierrezChristian HaassAlan Hall†

Michael N HallRandy HallStephen C HarrisonF Ulrich HartlCarl-Philipp HeisenbergAri H HeleniusKristian HelinRegine HenggeNobutaka HirokawaMarc HochstrasserTim HuntTony HunterEd HurtNancy E HynesElisa IzaurraldeStephen P JacksonReinhard JahnRoland KanaarV. Narry KimRuediger Klein

Guido KroemerThomas KunkelKarim LabibAchim LeutzJoachim LingnerBernard MalissenJavier MartinezJoan MassaguéIain W MattajMarjori MatzkeIra MellmanMarco MilánSean MorrisonJorge MoscatShmuel MuallemSean MunroKiyoshi NagaiChristof NiehrsM Angela NietoBernd NiliusEisuke NishidaPoul NissenPaul NurseAndre NussenzweigMoshe OrenTom Owen-HughesMarcus E PeterMatthias Peter

Nikolaus PfannerJonathon PinesOlaf PongsAnthony PugsleyPeter J RatcliffeCaetano Reis e SousaAnne RidleyMarina RodninaDavid RonHelen R SaibilPhilippe J SansonettiDirk SchübelerPaul Schulze-LefertLuca ScorranoBertrand SéraphinMichael SheetzDavid J SherrattBenny ShiloRoberto SitiaAustin SmithHarald StenmarkThomas SurreyMasatoshi TakeichiSharon ToozeLaszlo ToraHiroki UedaFrank UhlmannDaan van Aalten

Gerrit van MeerIsabelle VernosJörg VogelOlivier VoinnetKaren VousdenGabriel WaksmanMichael WayStephen C WestEric WesthofDale WigleyAlfred WittinghoferDieter H. WolfRichard WoodJeff Wrana

Chief EditorBernd Pulverer

EditorsDavid del AlamoKarin DumstreiAlexander Kohlmaier* Andrea LeibfriedAnne NielsenThomas Schwarz-RomondHartmut Vodermaier

* left EMBO in 2014† Alan Hall passed away on 3 May 2015

The EMBO Journal

Advisory Editorial Board 2014 | The EMBO Journal emboj.embopress.org | [email protected]

27EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Scientific Publications

EMBO Scientific Publications

EMBO reports publishes both short and longer research papers that describe advances in a broad spectrum of the life sciences. Papers emphasize novelty over mechanistic detail and are complemented by reviews, commentary, and features on science and society. The journal is read by both the scientific community and general readers interested in the societal impact of advances in the life sciences.

Reuven AgamiAndrés AguileraDario AlessiManuela BaccariniFredrik BäckhedVytas BankaitisFacundo BatistaDavid BaulcombeRoger BeachyPeter B. BeckerDavid BentleyAnton J. BernsLutz BornmanMichel BouvierPico CaroniTimothy CaulfieldJames J. CollinsBarbara ConradtElizabeth CraigBeverly DavidsonMario de BonoGianni Del SalClaude DesplanIvan DikicCatherine DrennanDuanqing PeiDaniel DurocherZvulun Elazar

Jeff ErringtonJonathan FramptonMike GaleHolger GerhardtCayetano GonzalezLawrence GostinMagdalena GötzJean GruenbergLeonard GuarenteCrisanto GutierrezIlkka HanskiChristian HardtkeStephen C. HarrisonDaniel HartlBassem HassanVolker HauckeYuehui HeKristian HelinRegina HenggeTony HunterElisa IzaurraldeRudolf JaenischCynthia KenyonBatsheva KeremDaniel KlionskyKarim LabibThomas LangerRoland Lill

Joachim LingnerTrevor LithgowManyuan LongJiri LukasMichael MalimBernard MalissenRob MartienssenJavier MartinezRené MedemaPascal MeierIra MellmanMarco MilánRandall MoonVamsi MoothaSean MorrisonJorge MoscatAndrea MusacchioLászló NagyM. Angela NietoBernd NiliusPoul NissenThomas NyströmMoshe OrenNorbert PerrimonMatthias PeterStefano PiccoloJonathon PinesKathrin Plath

Joseph PuglisiMichael RapePeter J. RatcliffeFelix ReyHans-Jörg RheinbergerAnne RidleyArie RipMarina RodninaPam RonaldMichael RosbashEytan RuppinHelen R. SaibilNaruya SaitouPhilippe J. SansonettiGerald SchattenClaus ScheidereitUeli SchiblerRoded SharanBenny ShiloHaruhiko SiomiTitia SixmaBruce SpiegelmanNicholas SteneckMark StonekingMichael SussmanJesper SvejstrupNektarios TavernarakisDan Tawfik

David TollerveyGabriel WaksmanDavid WallachMing-Bo WangYoshi WatanabeMichael WayBeverly WendlandStephen C. WestJerry WorkmanMeng-Chao YaoSeppo Ylä-HerttualaHong ZhangJiangzhi Zhang

Special Advisors Arthur CaplanLars SchaadeJeremy SugarmanHanna-Marja VoipioAxel WolffRaymond Zilinskas

Chief EditorHowy Jacobs

EditorsHolger BreithauptSamuel CaddickNonia ParienteBarbara PaulyEsther Schnapp

EMBO reports

Advisory Editorial Board 2014 | EMBO reports embor.embopress.org | [email protected]

28 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Scientific Publications


Molecular Systems Biology, the leading systems biology research journal, publishes high-quality research in the fields of systems biology, synthetic biology and systems medicine. Molecular Systems Biology is an open access journal.

Julie Ahringer Charles Auffray Johan AuwerxGary BaderEwan Birney Tom Blundell Michael BoutrosThomas S. Deisboeck Roland EilsJan Ellenberg Michael ElowitzJames Ferrell Alan Fersht Stan Fields Eileen Furlong Anne-Claude GavinRonald Germain Mark Gerstein Anne-Claude GingrasAlexander HoffmannFrank Holstege Laurence D. HurstTerence HwaTrey IdekerDirk Inzé Sung Hou KimBoris KholodenkoHiroaki Kitano

Jan Korbel Nevan J. KroganGalit LahavDoron Lancet Rune LindingAndrew J. Link Andrew MillarVamsi Mootha Jeremy Nicholson Garry Nolan Béla Novák Duncan OdomStephen OliverAlexander van OudenaardenBernhard Palsson Norbert Perrimon Joshua RabinowitzNikolaus RajewskyRama Ranganathan Aviv RegevUwe Sauer Eric Schadt Luis Serrano Lucy Shapiro Benny Shilo Pamela Silver Christina SmolkeMichael Snyder

Peter Sorger Igor StagljarLars SteinmetzJanet Thornton Masaru Tomita Marc Vidal Albertha (Marian) Walhout Jun WangHans V. Westerhoff Lothar Willmitzer John YatesLingchong YouMarino Zerial

Chief EditorThomas Lemberger

Senior EditorsRuedi AebersoldPeer BorkGeorge ChurchLeroy HoodEdison Liu

EditorMaria Polychronidou

Molecular Systems Biology

Advisory Editorial Board 2014 | Molecular Systems Biology msb.embopress.org | [email protected]

29EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Scientific Publications


EMBOMolecular Medicine

EMBO Molecular Medicine is dedicated to research that connects the clinical sciences and molecular cell biology. The journal is the leading open access journal for translational research.

Adriano AguzziKari AlitaloRuss. B. AltmanStylianos AntonarakisAlan AshworthKaren B. AvrahamAndrea BallabioYann BarrandonAnton BernsCédric BlanpainClara D. BloomfieldPico CaroniVivian G. CheungKenneth R. ChienHans CleversRalph DeBerardinisElisabetta DejanaPeter DirksOliver EickelbergMartin EilersMarc FeldmannAlain FischerPhilippe FroguelGerardo GambaMartin GleaveFrank G. GrosveldChristian HaassCarl-Henrik Heldin

Doug HiltonJan HoeijmakersGökhan S. HotamışlıgilNancy E. HynesAlain IsraelBarbara B. KahnCynthia KenyonRobert S. KerbelJean-Pierre KinetJonathan K. C. KnowlesGuido KroemerAndreas E. KulozikChristopher J. MarshallAnthony P. MonacoSalvador MoncadaPierluigi NicoteraBernd NiliusStephen O’RahillyEric N. OlsonAlbert OsterhausManolis PasparakisChristine PetitKornelia PolyakRino RappuoliPeter J. RatcliffeGideon RechaviPaola Ricciardi-CastagnoliNadia Rosenthal

Richard SchilskyNicholas J. SchorkYosef ShilohGerald ShulmanAustin G. SmithBruce SpiegelmanDeepak SrivastavaAnu Suomalainen-WartiovaaraGiulio Superti-FurgaElaine I. TuomanenAxel UllrichVeronica van HeyningenInder M. VermaSimon Wain-HobsonGerd WalzFiona WattChristian WeberLars Zender

Chief EditorStefanie Dimmeler

Senior EditorsDario AlessiGiulio CossuUta FranckeFred H. GageMatthias HentzeGökhan S. Hotamişlıgil Joan MassaguéPhilippe SansonettiBart de Strooper

EditorsRoberto BuccioneCéline Carret

EMBO Molecular Medicine

Advisory Editorial Board 2014 | EMBO Molecular Medicine embomolmed.embopress.org | [email protected]

30 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Long-Term Fellowships

Andrea Hutterer Programme Manager

EMBO [email protected] www.embo.org/funding-awards/fellowships

EMBO Long-Term Fellowships: StatisticsApplications and awards 1977– 2014Year Applications Awards Success rate %2014 1648 247 152013 1645 185 112012 1555 247 162011 1633 268 162010 1668 275 162009 1332 258 192008 1218 215 182007 1288 212 162006 1232 222 182005 1236 198 162004 1137 163 142003 1080 164 152002 790 178 222001 645 147 232000 707 155 221999 830 170 201998 790 144 181997 831 185 221996 898 160 181995 877 147 171994 806 176 221993 739 199 271992 626 142 23

Year Applications Awards Success rate %1991 571 139 241990 526 123 231989 460 118 261988 455 141 311987 383 120 311986 333 90 271985 340 92 271984 305 112 371983 294 103 351982 276 91 331981 274 111 411980 242 108 451979 254 101 401978 235 101 431977 236 94 40

Renowned for its strict attention to scientific excellence, the EMBO Fellowship Programme has supported thousands of talented young scientists since its launch in the 1960s. EMBO Fellowships support postdoctoral and predoctoral research visits of varying duration to laboratories throughout the EMBC Member States and internationally.

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31EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships

EMBO Long-Term Fellowships: StatisticsApplications and awards 2000 – 2014 Country from Applications % of total Awards % of total Success rate % Austria 257 1 72 2 28Belgium 304 2 54 2 18Croatia 103 1 17 1 17Czech Republic 164 1 25 1 15Denmark 122 1 25 1 20Estonia 29 <1 1 <1 3Finland 193 1 30 1 16France 3068 16 478 15 16Germany 2037 11 527 17 26Greece 351 2 74 2 21Hungary 220 1 28 1 13Iceland 19 <1 3 <1 16Ireland 163 1 17 1 10Israel 1041 6 206 7 20Italy 1306 7 194 6 15Luxembourg 3 <1 3 <1 100Netherlands 672 4 143 5 21Norway 31 <1 4 <1 13Poland 336 2 55 2 16Portugal 475 3 93 3 20Slovak Republic 47 <1 6 <1 13Slovenia 52 <1 2 <1 4Spain 2419 13 249 8 10Sweden 596 3 77 2 13Switzerland 278 1 73 2 26Turkey 150 1 20 1 13United Kingdom 773 4 121 4 16Eastern Europe 406 2 49 2 12USA/Canada 808 4 177 6 22Others 2391 13 311 10 13Total 18814 100 3134 100 17


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectLercher, Lukas

Austrian University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Carlomagno, Teresa

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

The molecular mechanism of nucleosome assembly by histone chaperones

Gehart, Helmuth

Austrian Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France

Clevers, Hans C. Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Time-resolved transcriptional profiling of enteroendocrine fate determination in the intestine

Walzthöni, Thomas

Austrian Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Gaul, Ulrike Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany

Dissecting the Drosophila core promoter

Hellerschmied-Jelinek, Doris

Austrian Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria

Crews, Craig Yale University, New Haven, United States

Analysis of Golgi stress response and quality control system

Claeys, Hannes

Belgian Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium

Jackson, David Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States

The effects of drought on maize inflorescence development

Vos, Melissa

Belgian Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Klein, Christine Institute of Clinical and Molecular Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Germany

The implication of lipids in Parkinson's disease

Kass Youssef, Khalil

Belgian Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Molecular Human Biology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Nieto, Angela M. Institute of Neuroscience, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain

Cancer cell plasticity and heterogeneity in tumor progression: Defining functional programs of EMT factors in breast cancer models

Van Den Ameele, Jelle

Belgian Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Molecular Human Biology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Brand, Andrea Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Metabolic reprogramming during neurogenesis: Roles for the Notch pathway

Vanwalleghem, Gilles

Belgian Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Gosselies, Belgium

Scott, Ethan The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Functional links among cerebellum, optic tectum and thalamus and their implication in sensory integration

De Vadder, Filipe

Belgian French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Lyon, France

Backhed, Fredrik University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Gut microbiota influence on central regulation of energy homeostasis

MacVicar, Thomas

British University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Langer, Thomas CECAD Research Center, Cologne, Germany

The mitochondrial response to stress: Mitochondrial dynamics regulation by OMA1 activation and OPA1 processing

Dorrell, Richard

British University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bowler, Chris Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Evolution and functional significance of connected chloroplast and mitochondrial electron transport pathways in diatom algae


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectRudd, Sean

British University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Helleday, Thomas Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Role of Y-family polymerases in oxidised dNTP pool-induced genome instability

Rousseau, Adrien

British Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France

Bertolotti, Anne Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Identification of proteins rescuing proteasome defects as a strategy to clear misfolded proteins

Razzell, William

British University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Zallen, Jennifer Rockefeller Research Laboratories, New York, United States

The role of tension in Hippo pathway signaling

Thompson, Andrew

British University of York, United Kingdom

Paulson, James The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, United States

Hemagglutinin specificity as a risk factor in the emergence of new pandemic influenza

Harris, Clifford

British University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jacobsen, Steven E.

University of California Los Angeles, United States

Dissecting mechanisms of DNA methylation control using CRISPR-dCas9 targeting

Ward, Michelle

British Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, United Kingdom

Gilad, Yoav University of Chicago, United States

A comparative study of the effects of hypoxia on cardiomyocytes in primates

Reynell, Clare

British University College London, United Kingdom

Robitaille, Richard University of Montreal, Canada

Investigation into the role of astrocytes in defining neuronal plasticity in the barrel cortex

Erceg, Jelena

Croatian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Wu, Ting Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Dynamics of allele-specific (homolog-specific) chromosome organization during Drosophila embryogenesis

Slyskova, Jana

Czech Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Vermeulen, Wim Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Genome-wide screening for synthetic lethal genes in colorectal cancer

zimmermann, Michal

Czech The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Durocher, Daniel Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Unraveling the molecular networks of DNA double strand break repair pathway choice

Simicek, Michal

Czech Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Komander, David Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Functional characterization of ubiquitin linkage-specific ovarian tumor deubiquitinases

Storm, Nadia

Danish Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany

Cuervo, Ana Maria Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States

The role of chaperone-mediated autophagy in tau proteotoxicity

Gregersen, Lea Haarup

Danish Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Svejstrup, Jesper Q.

Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom

Elucidating the functional role of novel factors involved in the transcription-related DNA damage response


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectPeuscher, Marieke

Dutch The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

West, Stephen C. Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom

Structural and biochemical characterization of pre-recombination complexes

Stadhouders, Ralph

Dutch Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Graf, Thomas Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

The dynamics of the mammalian epigenome during transcription factor-induced cell fate conversion

Schmidt, Ewoud

Dutch University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

Polleux, Franck Columbia University, New York, United States

Shaping the human brain: The role of SRGAP2C in the evolution of cortical networks

Verweij, Frederik

Dutch Cancer Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Raposo, Graça Curie Institute, Paris, France

Revealing the physiology of exosome secretion in vivo by a 4D-imaging approach

Bronkhorst, Walter

Dutch Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Ketting, René F. Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany

Epigenetic silencing events during germline development in vertebrates

Van Galen, Peter

Dutch The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Bernstein, Bradley Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States

Targeting epigenetically heterogeneous acute myeloid leukemia cells

Vos, Seychelle

Dutch University of California Berkeley, United States

Cramer, Patrick Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Determining the molecular architecture of mammalian RNA polymerase II-P-TEFb in complex with HIV Tat-Tar

Putker, Marrit

Dutch University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

O'Neill, John Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Out of sync: Unravelling the reciprocal regulation of the metabolic circadian rhythm and tumour cell metabolism

Schoof, Erwin

Dutch Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Dick, John Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada

Global characterization of the quantitative proteome landscapes underlying human hematopoietic and leukemic stem cell lineage commitment

Van Der Goot, Annemieke

Dutch University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

Kopito, Ron Stanford University, United States

The role of N-glycans and ER lectins in protein triage in the early secretory pathway

Velema, Willem

Dutch University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Kool, Eric T. Stanford University, United States

A sensor for a DNA-repair enzyme as a molecular diagnostic tool to guide cancer treatment

Feng, Qian

Dutch Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Kornmann, Benoit Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

When mitochondria are under pressure


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectWeijts, Bart

Dutch Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Traver, David University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States

Deciphering the role of Notch signalling in the formation of hematopoietic stem cells and initiation of leukemia

Van Den Elzen, Antonia

Dutch Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France

Giraldez, Antonio Yale University, New Haven, United States

Identification of factors promoting survival of anoxic conditions in zebrafish embryos

Blot, Antonin

French Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Hofer, Sonja Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

How higher-order thalamocortical pathways influence sensory processing in primary visual cortex

Tsai, Feng-Ching

French FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Bassereau, Patricia

Curie Institute, Paris, France

Membrane-ezrin-actin interactions mediated by ezrin binding proteins and I-BAR domain proteins in reconstituted systems

Wartel, Morgane

French National Center for Scientific Research, Marseille, France

Typas, Athanasios European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Deciphering the molecular machinery governing peptidoglycan biogenesis in bacteria using global and targeted molecular approaches

Brunet, Yannick

French Institute of Microbiology of the Mediterranean, Marseille, France

Rudner, David Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Coordinating cell wall synthesis and hydrolysis during bacterial growth

Bonnay, François

French University of Strasbourg, France

Knoblich, Jürgen Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria

Characterization of metabolic factors required for tumor maintenance in Drosophila

Bianchi, Julie

French University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Wiman, Klas Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Generation of a panel of novel cellular models to investigate p53 mutation heterogeneity and oncogenic properties

Monniaux, Marie

French Laboratory of Cellular Plant Physiology, Grenoble, France

Hay, Angela Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Genetic and developmental determinants of petal number variation between Arabidopsis thaliana and Cardamine hirsuta

Bonnet, Jacques

French Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France

Müller, Jürg Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Quantitative analyses of the dynamics of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 during fly embryogenesis

Tamoutounour, Samira

French Center of Immunology of Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France

Belkaid, Yasmine National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, United States

Role of microbiota in the epigenetic regulation of macrophages and dendritic cells and consequences for skin homeostasis

Pouchelon, Gabrielle

French University of Geneva, Switzerland

Fishell, Gordon New York University Langone Medical Center, United States

The activity-dependent regulation of cortical interneuron cell death during development

Lecland, Nicolas

French Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain

Merdes, Andreas Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

The role of microtubules in skin barrier function


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectIvanovitch, Kenzo

French University College London, United Kingdom

Torres, Miguel Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain

Cellular basis of early heart morphogenesis in mouse

Eskandarian, Haig Alexander

French Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

McKinney, John Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

Characterizing bacterial phenotypic heterogeneity using atomic force microscopy coupled with fluorescence microscopy in real-time

Plucain, Jessica

French University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Velicer, Gregory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Genetic and physiological bases of the evolution of kin discrimination in Myxococcus xanthus

Barbet-Massin, Emeline

French École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France

Reif, Bernd Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

Structure and dynamics of ribosome associated factors and nascent chains by solid-state NMR spectroscopy

Eckersley-Maslin, Melanie

French Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States

Reik, Wolf The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Novel screen for epigenetic regulators of totipotency

Broutier, Laura

French Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France

Huch, Meritxell Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Human "mini-liver" stem cell culture systems: From mechanisms behind liver cancer origin and recurrence to new therapeutic treatments

Roques, Magali

French University of Montpellier 2, France

Tewari, Rita The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Centrins and cell division in the malaria parasite

Jacquemet, Guillaume

French University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Ivaska, Johanna Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland

Targeting invasive filopodia during cancer cell invasion

Montellier, Emilie

French Albert Bonniot Institute, La Tronche, France

Sassone-Corsi, Paolo

University of California Irvine, United States

Circadian transcriptional reprogramming in development of cancer

Paque, Sébastien

French University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

Weijers, Dolf Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Unraveling the action mechanism of the auxin response transcription factors

Sayou, Camille

French University of Grenoble, France

Tollervey, David Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Characterizing the lncRNA-mRNA interactome

Garreau De Loubresse, Nicolas

French Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France

Yin, Peng Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, United States

Engineering DNA frameworks for cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography

Wild, Michael

German Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Strasbourg, France

Laux, Thomas Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany

Stem cell regulation in the shoot meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana: The role of the spatial restriction of the F-box protein LEAF CURLING RESPONSIVENESS (LCR) by the micro RNA394


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectKinkelin, Kerstin

German Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany

Diffley, John F.X. Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom

Mechanism of MCM2-7 double-hexamer formation during initiation of DNA replication in budding yeast

Knoche, Elena

German Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany

Louis, Matthieu Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Processing of naturalistic stimuli by the peripheral olfactory system of the Drosophila larva

Bocklisch, Christina

German University of Geneva, Switzerland

Larkum, Matthew Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany

Synaptic plasticity mechanisms underlying memory consolidation

Soyk, Sebastian

German Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Lippman, Zachary Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States

Identification and molecular characterization of novel factors regulating meristem maturation and branching in tomato

Erdel, Fabian

German German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Greene, Eric Columbia University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, United States

Dissecting the formation of histone methylation domains on chromatin curtains

Hasenfuss, Sebastian

German Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Spiegelman, Bruce M.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States

Molecular mechanisms linking cholesterol metabolism to skeletal muscle function

Waszak, Sebastian

German Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

Korbel, Jan European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Integrative analysis of germline and somatic genetic variation in 2000 cancer patients

Linneweber, Gerit

German University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hassan, Bassem Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Molecular mechanisms of neuronal connectivity – The synaptic code for variability and stereotypy

Kassube, Susanne

German Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkeley, United States

Thomä, Nicolas Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Molecular architecture and mechanism of the Fanconi anemia core complex

Herhaus, Lina

German University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Dikic, Ivan Goethe University School of Medicine, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The role of linear ubiquitin signalling in tumour-stromal crosstalk

Kohl, Johannes

German Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Dulac, Catherine Harvard University, Cambridge, United States

Neural circuits underlying parental behavior

Kretzschmar, Kai

German King's College London, United Kingdom


Modelling cancer immunomodulation in epithelial organoid cultures


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectHeinrich, Stephanie

German Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany

Weis, Karsten Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Quantitative single molecule analysis of mRNA transport dynamics

Hondele, Maria


Weis, Karsten Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Visualizing post-transcriptional control of mRNA turnover and P-body formation by light microscopy and X-ray crystallography

Kummer, Eva

German Center for Molecular Biology, University Heidelberg, Germany

Ban, Nenad Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

A structural approach to determine the function of mitochondrial IF2 in mRNA binding and start codon recognition during translation initiation

Mehnert, Martin

German Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Aebersold, Ruedi Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Modular proteome organization and the genotype-phenotype transition: Cancer mutations that alter the composition and function of kinase complexes

Renkawitz, Jörg

German Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Sixt, Michael Institute of Science and Technology, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Molecular and system level view of immune cell migration

Milles, Sigrid

German European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Blackledge, Martin

Institute of Structural Biology, Grenoble, France

Plasticity of intrinsically disordered paramyxoviral phosphoproteins: A multi-scale study of disorder in measles virus

Rognoni, Emanuel

German Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Watt, Fiona King's College London, United Kingdom

Analysis of dermal fibroblast subpopulations in different tumor in response to aberrant epidermal Wnt-signaling

Sievers, Cem

German Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Bernstein, Bradley Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States

Identifying regulatory circuits determining glioblastoma subtypes and intratumor heterogeneity

Link, Jana

German University of Würzburg, Germany

Jantsch, Verena Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria

The role of LEM-domain proteins in DNA damage repair

Hausmann, Jens

German The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Vestweber, Dietmar

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany

Crossing barriers: The role of autotaxin in leukocyte extravasation

Wilfling, Florian

German Yale University, New Haven, United States

Jentsch, Stefan Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Identification and characterization of yeast ubiquitin-Atg8 adaptors


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectBoland, Andreas

German Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Barford, David Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Molecular basis for securin and cyclin ubiquitination by the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C)

Tischer, Thomas

German University of Constance, Germany

Schuh, Melina Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Functional analysis of a new phosphatase required for meiotic resumption in mouse oocytes

Muerdter, Felix

German Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States

Stark, Alexander Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria

A functional map of enhancer dependencies on transcriptional cofactors

Jäger, Natalie

German German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Snyder, Michael Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Large-scale drug response phenotyping using the 1000 Genomes Project cell lines

Mayer, Christian T.

German Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany

Nussenzweig, Michel

The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Genome-wide analysis of DNA damage in germinal center B cells in vivo

Stauch, Benjamin

German European Molecular Biology Laboratory – European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Cherezov, Vadim The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, United States

Development of photoinducible chemical switches for the time-resolved structural investigation of protein conformational changes upon ligand binding using X-ray free-electron laser radiation

Barakat, Stefan

German Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Chambers, Ian The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Causes and consequences of pluripotency gene regulatory network component heterogeneity

Posor, York

German Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany

Vanhaesebroeck, Bart

University College London, United Kingdom

Characterisation of the signalling and physiological roles of the class II PI3K isoforms, with focus on PI3K- C2α

Daubner, Gerrit

German Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Zurich, Switzerland

Alessi, Dario University of Dundee, United Kingdom

A simplified system to study regulation of the WNK-signalling pathway

Brandt, Benjamin

German University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States

Hothorn, Michael University of Geneva, Switzerland

Molecular insights into plant stem cell maintenance by peptide hormone receptor kinases

Erdmann, Susanne

German University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Cavicchioli, Ricardo

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Influence of virus-host interaction on microbial community dynamics of a hypersaline system in Antarctica

Schulz, Daniel


Bodenmiller, Bernd

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Macrophages gone wrong – Targeted signaling network modulation to reprogram tumor-associated-macrophages to fight cancer


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectBanisch, Torsten

German Center for Molecular Biology of Inflammation, Münster, Germany

Gilboa, Lilach Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Uncovering somatic control of germ line stem cell biology

Gruhn, Wolfram Herbert

German Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany

Surani, M. Azim Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mechanistic analysis of Blimp1 and Prdm14 in epigenetic gene regulation

Kara, Eleanna

Greek University College London, United Kingdom

Hyman, Bradley Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Assessment of the prionoid hypothesis as a substrate for the propagation of α-synuclein pathology

Karakasilioti, Ismene

Greek Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Greece

Brüning, Jens C. Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany

The aging hypothalamus: A role for DNA damage responses in metabolic disease

Konstantinides, Nikolaos

Greek Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Greece

Desplan, Claude New York University, United States

A machine-learning computational model of the development of Drosophila motion and color vision processing centers

Velimezi, Georgia

Greek National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Loizou, Joanna Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Characterization of the ATM signaling pathway in response to replication stress

Kyritsis, Nikolaos

Greek Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Beattie, Michael University of California San Francisco, United States

The role of inflammation in central nervous system injuries: From zebrafish to mammals

Doumpas, Nikolaos

Greek German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Basler, Konrad University of Zurich, Switzerland

TCF independent outputs of Wnt signaling

Symmons, Orsolya

Hungarian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Yvert, Gael École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France

Human genetics at the single-cell level: Studying the determinants of cell-to-cell heterogeneity

Toth-Petroczy, Agnes

Hungarian Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Marks, Debora S Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Alternative protein conformations determined by evolutionary couplings from genomic sequencing

Banreti, Agnes

Hungarian Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

Meier, Pascal The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom

Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of apoptosis-induced compensatory proliferation (AiP)

Doherty, Aoife

Irish National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

De Magalhães, João Pedro

University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Identification of genetic and molecular mechanisms that impact age-related cancer susceptibility and progression

Marianovich, Maria

Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Frenette, Paul Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States

Elucidating mechanisms controlling ageing of the haematopoietic stem cell niche


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectLivneh, Yoav

Israeli The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Lowell, Bradford Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, United States

A neural circuit for hunger-induced changes in the representation of food-related cues

Nachmani, Daphna


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


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


Polley, Daniel Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Homeostatic modifications in GABA-inhibitory circuits enable sound processing after auditory nerve degeneration

Rahamin, Inbal


Lee, Richard Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, United States

GDF11 as a novel treatment for ischemic heart disease

Kopper, Oded



Fallopian tube stem cells and their role in ovarian cancer initiation

Noor, Elad


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


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


Pritchard, Jonathan

Stanford University, United States

Uncovering the effects of thousands of human polymorphisms on transcription factor binding and disease

Yaffe, Eitan


Relman, David Stanford University, United States

Modeling phage-host interactions in the human gut using chromosome conformation capture

Fluman, Nir


von Heijne, Gunnar

Stockholm University, Sweden

Topology rearrangements in membrane protein maturation


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectHoch, Eitan

Israeli Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Altshuler, David The Broad Institute, Cambridge, United States

The role of orphan transporter SLC16A11 in lipid metabolism and link to type 2 diabetes

Mansour, Abed AlFatah


Gage, Fred The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, United States

Decoding the molecular landscape of aging during adult neurogenesis

Burstein, David

Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Banfield, Jillian University of California Berkeley, United States

Expanding the known protein universe through metagenomic analysis of uncharted branches of the tree of life

Ben-David, Eyal


Kruglyak, Leonid University of California Los Angeles, United States

Systematic dissection of the role of genetic variation in variable expressivity

Melamed, Ze'Ev

Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Cleveland, Don University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States

Genome editing of neurons derived from patient fibroblasts as a model for studying ALS pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches

Gilad, Ariel

Israeli Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Helmchen, Fritjof University of Zurich, Switzerland

Behavior-dependent interactions in the mouse cortex

ziv, Omer


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


Howard, Jonathon Yale University, New Haven, United States

Reassembly of axonemal tubulins

Abu-Remaileh, Monther

Israeli* The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Sabatini, David Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States

Dietary control of the intestinal stem cell niche

Mugoni, Vera

Italian University of Turin, Italy Pandolfi, Pier Paolo

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, United States

Characterization of the transcriptional rewiring for leukemia resistance to targeting the mutant IDH2R140Q

Silva, Bianca A

Italian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Monterotondo, Italy

Gräff, Johannes Brain Mind Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

Analysis of the molecular mechanisms at the basis of remote fear memory extinction

Biffi, Giulia

Italian Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, United Kingdom

Tuveson, David Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States

pH regulation in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and its microenvironment

Olivieri, Daniel

Italian University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

Betschinger, Joerg Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Understanding the establishment of the ground pluripotency cell state

*permanent resident of Israel


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectMarcon, Luciano

Italian Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Müller, Patrick Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany

The molecular basis of a vertebrate reaction-diffusion patterning system

Piazza, Ilaria

Italian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Picotti, Paola Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

An integrative technology to study protein-small molecule interactions and their contribution to protein function

Perrera, Valentina

Italian Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Colot, Vincent Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Investigating RNA methylation in A. thaliana as part of the adaptive response to stress

Santoro, Federica

Italian Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Chien, Kenneth R. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Unraveling human cardiogenesis by transcriptional profiling and cell-fate mapping of human cardiovascular progenitors

Panigada, Davide

Italian University of Milan, Italy Liakopoulos, Dimitris

Macromolecular Biochemistry Research Center, Montpellier, France

Investigation of SUMO-dependent ubiquitylation in spindle function

Caizzi, Livia

Italian Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Cramer, Patrick Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Basis for co-transcriptional pre-mRNA splicing

Alfieri, Claudio


Barford, David Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Biochemical and structural analysis of the mechanisms of human anaphase-promoting complex inhibition by the mitotic checkpoint complex

Racioppi, Claudia

Italian Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy

Christiaen, Lionel New York University, United States

Chromatin accessibility and cis-regulatory dynamics underlying heart vs pharyngeal muscle specification in Ciona intestinalis

Mainardi, Sara

Italian Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Bernards, René The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Finding genetic dependencies in colon cancer using 3D organoid culture models

Piccolo, Francesco

Italian Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, London, United Kingdom

Heintz, Nathaniel The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Understanding the epigenetic mechanisms that are governed by 5hmC in the brain

Marchesi, Arin

Italian International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

Scheuring, Simon University of Aix-Marseille, France

ICaRO - Ion channels and receptors operation

Antonica, Francesco

Italian Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Zernicka-Goetz, Magdalena

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Regulation of size in the implanting mouse embryo


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectBaldini, Francesco

Italian University of Perugia, Terni, Italy

Ferguson, Heather University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

The role of insulin cascades in regulating the host-species dependent fitness and parasite transmission ability of malaria mosquitoes

Linster, Martin

Luxembourger Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Smith, Gavin Jd National University of Singapore, Singapore

Global circulation patterns and phenotypic characterization of human parainfluenza viruses

Stanek, Jan

Polish University of Warsaw, Poland

Pintacuda, Guido Institute of Analytical Sciences, Villeurbanne, France

Structure of a large non-crystalline multiprotein assembly by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance

Szymborska, Anna

Polish European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Gerhardt, Holger Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

The role of Notch signaling and junction remodeling in control of blood vessel diameter

zientara-Rytter, Katarzyna

Polish Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Subramani, Suresh

University of California San Diego, United States

In the search for the therapeutic targets - Identification and characterization of the specific pexophagy proteins in yeast and mammals

Pinheiro, Ines

Portuguese Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Heard, Edith Curie Institute, Paris, France

Dissecting the role of chromatin modifications in X chromosome inactivation

Correia, Ana Luisa

Portuguese Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States

Bentires-Alj, Mohamed

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Regulation of dormant breast cancer cell awakening by adipocytes

Campinho, Pedro

Portuguese Institute of Science and Technology, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Vermot, Julien Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France

Mechanics of vascular tissue homeostasis and morphogenesis in response to flow forces

Beira, Jorge

Portuguese Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, University College London, United Kingdom

Paro, Renato Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Interplay between signalling and chromatin during regeneration and tumourigenesis

Dias-Ferreira, Eduardo

Portuguese Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal

Maimon, Gaby The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Dissecting stored variables underlying reinforcement learning in Drosophila

Coelho, Dina

Portuguese Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, Oeiras, Portugal

Moreno, Eduardo University of Bern, Switzerland

Molecular and genetic mechanisms of neuronal selection


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectMatos, Marco

Portuguese University of Coimbra, Portugal

Robitaille, Richard University of Montreal, Canada

Adenosine-mediated regulation of hippocampal inhibitory synaptic transmission and its relevance for learning and memory processes – contribution of the astrocytic network

zmajkovicova, Katarina

Slovak Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria

Wymann, Matthias

University of Basel, Switzerland

PI3K and DNA repair – point of convergence?

Rozbesky, Daniel

Slovak Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Jones, Yvonne Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Molecular basis of semaphorin and plexin function in nervous system development

Garcia Gomez, Sara

Spanish Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

Boulton, Simon Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom

Molecular mechanisms of the non-homologous end-joining repair pathway in response to double strand break

Vilarrasa-Blasi, Josep

Spanish Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Dinneny, José Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States

Identification and characterization of water sensing mechanisms in plants

Balsa, Eduardo

Spanish La Princesa University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Puigserver, Pere Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States

Regulation of melanoma metastasis by the metabolic regulator PGC1α

Eguren, Manuel

Spanish Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Ellenberg, Jan European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Defining the mechanism of actin-mediated spindle position sensing in mouse oocytes

Leyva-Díaz, Eduardo

Spanish Institute of Neuroscience, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain

Hobert, Oliver Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States

Defining the regulatory logic of pan-neuronal gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans

González Rosa, Juan Manuel

Spanish Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain

Burns, Caroline Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States

Genetic determinants of pharyngeal arch artery establishment

Perez-Escudero, Alfonso

Spanish Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

Gore, Jeff Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

Does critical slowing down predict death of a complex organism?

Reines, Maria Del Mar

Spanish Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Madrid, Spain

Meyer, Thomas F. Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Use of a novel human gastric primary culture model to explore the mechanisms of gastric cancerogenesis


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectLuxan, Guillermo

Spanish Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain

Adams, Ralf Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany

Endothelial cell subtypes in bone angiogenesis and osteogenesis

Foronda, Miguel

Spanish Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Kaji, Keisuke Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

A dual gRNA method for systematic, genetic interrogation of the non-coding genome in pluripotency

Marques, Maria Angeles

Spanish University of Valencia, Spain

Pollard, Steven Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Transcriptional regulation of glioma stem cell quiescence and activation: A key role for the FOX, SOX and NFI families of transcription factors

Castellano Pozo, Maikel

Spanish Andalusian Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine Centre, Seville, Spain

Martinez Perez, Enrique

Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Cohesin dynamics during C. elegans meiotic prophase

Herrera, Salvador


Bach, Erika A. New York University School of Medicine, United States

Characterizing the mechanisms that control stem cell behavior during aging

Nadal, Mariona

Spanish Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Steinmetz, Lars Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Mitochondrial to nuclear gene transfer via synthetic evolution

Moral Quiros, Pedro

Spanish University of Oviedo, Spain

Auwerx, Johan Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

Mapping the mitochondrial unfolded protein response through genetic and integrative systems biology approaches

Babiano, Reyes

Spanish University of Seville, Spain Lingner, Joachim Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

Elucidation of the telomeric chromatin structure in Coats plus/Dyskeratosis congenita cellular models

Millán zambrano, Gonzalo

Spanish Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Spain

Kouzarides, Tony Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Functional analysis of the role of histone H3K37 monomethylation in DNA replication

Cardozo Ruiz, Marcos Julián


Becker, Catherina The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Role of dopamine during spinal cord development and regeneration

De Mendoza, Alex

Spanish Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain

Lister, Ryan The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

Functional evolution of cytosine methylation in animal development and the origins of the vertebrate methylome

Garcia Doval, Carmela

Spanish Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain

Jinek, Martin University of Zurich, Switzerland

Structural and biochemical studies of type I-D CRISPR systems

Sebe-Pedros, Arnau

Spanish Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Tanay, Amos Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Cell type diversity in early metazoans and the origin of complex genome regulatory architectures


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectSabelström, Hanna

Swedish Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Persson, Anders University of California San Francisco, United States

Subpial zone astrocytes as the origin of cortical astrocytomas

Åkerblom, Malin

Swedish Lund University, Sweden McManus, Michael

University of California San Francisco, United States

A new technology for deep brain mapping

Schweizer, Fabian

Swiss University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Goossens, Alain Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium

Deciphering the terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus by transcriptional modulation

Mattle, Daniel

Swiss Aarhus University, Denmark

Standfuss, Jörg Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

Molecular mechanisms of night blindness investigated by time-resolved femtosecond crystallography

Barandun, Jonas

Swiss Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Klinge, Sebastian The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Structural and functional studies of the eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis complex UtpB

Dogan, Sukru Anil

Turkish University of Cologne, Germany

Zeviani, Massimo Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Transgenic and adeno-associated virus-driven expression of potentially therapeutic xenogenes, AOX and Ndi1, in oxidative phosphorylation-defective mouse models

Uslu, Veli Vural

Turkish European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Hell, Ruediger Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg, Germany

Investigating the sulfate sensing and signaling cascades in plants

Demir, Kubilay

Turkish German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Beachy, Philip A. Stanford University, United States

Novel proteins involved in the mechanisms of hedgehog signal transduction by smoothened in the sensory organelle primary cilium

Fisek, Mehmet

Turkish Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Häusser, Michael The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, United Kingdom

Neuronal and dendritic recruitment on neocortical area borders

Hallacli, Erinc

Turkish Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Lindquist, Susan Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States

Investigation of eIF4G as a Parkinson's disease gene in S.cerevisiae


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectClancy, Kelly

American University of California Berkeley, United States

Mrsic-Flogel, Thomas

Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

The influence of hemispheric activity dynamics on visual processing and visually guided behaviors

New, Aaron

American Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Lehner, Benjamin Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Mapping and understanding the impact of natural genetic variation on the inter-individual variability of a phenotypic trait in yeast

Clark, Andrew

American Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, United Kingdom

Vignjevic, Danijela Curie Institute, Paris, France

Regulation of collective cell migration during tumor invasion

Wan, William

American Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States

Briggs, John European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Determining the structure of viral membrane proteins in situ

Sulima, Sergey

American University of Maryland, College Park, United States

De Keersmaecker, Kim

Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Oncogenic mechanisms of the ribosomal protein L10 R98S mutation in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Palaniappan, Krishnan

American University of California Berkeley, United States

Aebersold, Ruedi Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Structural characterization of cancer-associated mixed lineage leukemia interactomes by quantitative mass spectrometry

Webster, Brian

American Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, United States

Dreux, Marlene International Center for Infectiology Research, Lyon, France

Eating inflammation: Defining the interplay between autophagy and the antiviral and inflammatory responses in dengue infection

Haas, Joel

American University of California San Francisco, United States

Staels, Bart Pasteur Institute, Lille, France

Establishing and testing a transcriptional network describing gene interactions in resolution of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Kato, Saul

American Columbia University, New York, United States

Zimmer, Manuel Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria

From a connectome to functional neural maps of the C. elegans nervous system

Pernas, Lena

American Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Scorrano, Luca University of Padua, Italy Attacking mitochondrial retrograde signaling to alter the natural history of autosomal dominant optic atrophy

Flatt, Justin

American Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States

Greber, Urs University of Zurich, Switzerland

Revealing how adenoviruses dock and deliver at the nuclear pore complex

Beckwith, Esteban

Argentinian Leloir Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gilestro, Giorgio Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Searching for the genetic support for information flow behind sleep


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectSelkrig, Joel

Australian Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Typas, Athanasios European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Dissecting the Salmonella-host interaction by quantitative proteomics

Radzisheuskaya, Aliaksandra

Belarusian Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, United Kingdom

Helin, Kristian University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Identification and characterization of novel essential regulators of acute myeloid leukemia

Pencheva, Nora

Bulgarian The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Bernards, René The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Identification of mesenchymal genes that drive glioblastoma brain invasion

Wamsteeker Cusulin, Jaclyn

Canadian University of Calgary, Canada

Lüthi, Andreas Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Investigation of the neural circuit-basis for biasing of fear learning by stress

Quazi, Faraz

Canadian University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Stoffel, Markus Institute of Molecular Health Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Coordination of apoptotic pathways in pancreatic beta-islet cells: Role of putative transcription factor JAZF1 and type-2 diabetes mellitus

Yang, Yu Hsuan Carol

Canadian University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Stainier, Didier Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

The role of autonomic innervation in endocrine pancreas development and glucose homeostasis

David, Daryl Jason

Canadian University of Toronto, Canada

Cossart, Pascale Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Characterization of novel virulence factors of Listeria

Wideman, Jeremy

Canadian University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Richards, Thomas University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Comparative genomics of diatoms and Bolidophyceae: Insight into the evolution of one of Earth's most productive phototrophs

Winter, Deborah

Canadian Duke University, Durham, United States

Amit, Ido Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Deciphering epigenomic and transcriptional regulatory networks in the mammalian immune system: The role of chromatin dynamics in macrophage heterogeneity

Barriga, Elias

Chilean Andrés Bello National University, Santiago, Chile

Charras, Guillaume

University College London, United Kingdom

Biomechanical analysis of directional collective migration in vivo

Sun, Mai

Chinese Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany

Hentze, Matthias W.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Analysis of the role of RNA in the function of the TORC1 pathway

Huang, Hongling

Chinese University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Carmeliet, Peter Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Glutaminase 1: A key enzyme in endothelial cell glutamine metabolism and a potential target for novel anti-angiogenic strategies


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Projectxie, Meng

Chinese McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Chagin, Andrei Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Endochondral bone formation as a mechanism coupling body size and environment: Exploring potential role of the mTOR signalling pathway

Lu, Yu-Xuan

Chinese Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Partridge, Linda Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany

The relationship between histone methylation and insulin pathway in ageing

Qiu, Jian

Chinese Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany

Gönczy, Pierre Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

Dissecting the assembly of protein complexes governing spindle positioning

zhou, Feng

Chinese Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Geldner, Niko University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Endodermal barrier compartmentalizes the immune and stress response in Arabidopsis roots

zhou, Wenkun

Chinese Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Scheres, Ben J.G. Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Safeguarding the root stem cell niche in response to genotoxic stress

Antoniou, Anna

Cypriot University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Schratt, Gerhard Philipp University Marburg, Germany

Investigating the dynamic localization of microRNA effector complexes at intracellular membranes in neurons during synaptic plasticity and dendritogenesis

Borkar, Aditi

Indian University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Geyer, Matthias Center of Advanced European Studies and Research, Bonn, Germany

Structural studies of the HIV-1 transactivation complex

Vijayan, Vinoy

Indian Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States

Verstreken, Patrik Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic maintenance and rejuvenation

Singh, Deepankar Pratap

Indian Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Peters, Antoine Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Identification and functional characterization of the potential key regulators of zygotic genome activation in the mouse

Sharma, Sunny

Indian Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Lafontaine, Denis Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Gosselies, Belgium

Global analysis of human ribosomal RNA modification and characterization of human rRNA base methyl transferases in ribosome biogenesis and function

Rangaraju, Vidhya

Indian Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States

Schuman, Erin Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Mitochondrial dynamics and local protein synthesis in dendrites

Soni, Kartik

Indian Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India

Tajbakhsh, Shahragim

Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Static and dynamic imaging of clonally marked mouse muscle stem cells in distinct physiological states


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectRadhakrishnan, Sabarinathan

Indian University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Lopez-Bigas, Nuria

Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Computational identification of driver mutations in non-coding regulatory regions of cancer genomes

Gupta, Rajat

Indian Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Choudhary, Chunaram

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Systematic investigation of USP1 deubiquitylase targets and their functions

Mukherjee, Budhaditya

Indian Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India

Soldati-Favre, Dominique

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Dissection of aspartic protease(s) implicated in the processing and export of Toxoplasma gondii effector molecules that subvert host cellular functions

Goyal, Parveen

Indian Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Friemann, Rosmarie

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Structural and functional characterization of tripartitie ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporters involved in sialic acid uptake in bacterial pathogens

Kumar, Pradeep

Indian Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Parekh, Anant University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Role of calcium (Ca2+) channels in regulating leptin secretion from adipocytes

Muliyil, Sonia

Indian Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Freeman, Matthew

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Dissecting the molecular and functional role of iRhoms in protein quality control in the Drosophila nervous system

Yamashita, Yui

Japanese Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Beckmann, Roland

Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany

Structural analysis of nascent peptide-mediated ribosome stalling as an intracellular nutrient sensing mechanism in plants

zelezniak, Aleksej

Lithuanian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Ralser, Markus Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

Genetic regulatory basis of cross-species metabolism variation

Yanez Cuna, J. Omar

Mexican Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria

van Steensel, Bas The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Understanding the principles of lamina-associated domains

Fica, Sebastian

Romanian The University of Chicago, United States

Nagai, Kiyoshi Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Defining the structural mechanisms for cooperation between RNA and proteins in promoting and active configuration of the RNA catalytic core of the spliceosome

Psakhye, Ivan

Russian Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Branzei, Dana FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy

Roles of SUMO in the DNA replication stress response

Romanov, Roman

Russian Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Harkany, Tibor Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Molecular control of stress responses and network wiring of stress neurons by secretagogin


EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationalsName Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory ProjectVjestica, Aleksandar

Serbian National University of Singapore, Singapore

Martin, Sophie G. University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Exploring the transcription-dependent and independent pheromone-signaling regulation of morphogenetic transitions in fission yeast

Balchin, David

South African University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Hartl, F. Ulrich Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Elucidating the mechanism of protein folding by the eukaryotic chaperonin TRiC/CCT

Lee, Yong Woo

South Korean Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Azzalin, Claus Maria

Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Telomeric RNA:DNA hybrids in human cells: Regulation and impact on telomere stability

Choi, Jeongmin

South Korean University of Missouri, Columbia, United States

Paszkowski, Uta University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Identification of INHOSPITABLE (IHO)-interacting proteins during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

Lee, Cheng-Ruei

Taiwanese Duke University, Durham, United States

Nordborg, Magnus

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria

Genetic architecture of complex traits across different geographical and genetic scales in Arabidopsis

Tu, Hsiung-Lin

Taiwanese University of California Berkeley, United States

Tay, Savas Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Probing cell-to-cell variability using single cell analysis: Correlate receptor level activation and downstream cellular response in NFκB signaling


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56 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Short-Term Fellowships

EMBO Advanced Fellowships ➔➔

EMBO Advanced Fellowships, launched in 2014, offer an additional two years of funding for EMBO Long-Term Fellows who demonstrate exceptional progress during their postdoctoral work. The fellowship allows the awardees to complete their postdoctoral research in the host laboratory and to establish their own line of research.

EMBO Advanced Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader ProjectLin, Suewei

Taiwanese Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Waddell, Scott Thirst-control of naïve and learned behaviors in Drosophila

Santiago Cuellar, Julia

Spanish University of Geneva, Switzerland Hothorn, Michael Mechanistic insights on LRR- receptor ligand-sensing and activation by association with co-receptor proteins

Sarek, Grzegorz

Polish Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom

Boulton, Simon Molecular mechanisms of RTEL1-TRF2 interplay at telomeres

Schwefel, David

German Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

Taylor, Ian Decoding the Vpx/Vpr system

Wong, Emily

Australian European Molecular Biology Laboratory – European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Flicek, Paul Dissection of cis and trans influence on transcription factor binding and chromatin state in mammals

57EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships

EMBO Short-Term Fellowships: StatisticsApplications and awards 1977– 2014Year Applications Awards Success rate % 2014 548 284 522013 560 280 502012 585 312 532011 506 281 552010 421 219 522009 495 255 522008 395 213 542007 409 211 522006 393 194 492005 383 201 522004 301 167 552003 289 138 482002 252 170 672001 233 124 532000 274 176 641999 230 138 601998 279 143 511997 339 188 551996 316 180 571995 325 187 571994 369 203 551993 376 209 551992 351 213 611991 344 194 561990 346 211 611989 331 199 601988 351 211 601987 301 212 701986 309 215 701985 304 221 731984 320 226 711983 335 223 671982 321 213 661981 339 235 691980 357 242 681979 344 243 711978 349 244 701977 294 213 72

Applications and awards 2000 – 2014Country from* Applications % of total Awards % of total Success rate %Austria 75 1 39 1 52Belgium 107 2 76 2 71Croatia 52 1 24 1 46Czech Republic 102 2 61 2 60Denmark 34 1 20 1 59Estonia 9 <1 6 <1 67Finland 45 1 24 1 53France 295 5 187 6 63Germany 400 7 245 8 61Greece 189 3 111 3 59Hungary 134 2 76 2 57Iceland 16 <1 11 <1 69Ireland 60 1 37 1 62Israel 189 3 125 4 66Italy 885 15 460 14 52Luxembourg 2 <1 2 <1 100Netherlands 177 3 111 3 63Norway 16 <1 8 <1 50Poland 224 4 112 3 50Portugal 166 3 90 3 54Slovak Republic 18 <1 11 <1 61Slovenia 55 1 29 1 53Spain 1062 18 561 17 53Sweden 55 1 37 1 67Switzerland 68 1 43 1 63Turkey 134 2 51 2 38United Kingdom 207 3 130 4 63Eastern Europe 363 6 163 5 45Others 905 15 375 12 41Total 6044 100 3225 100 53

* “Country from” refers to nationality

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EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectAmbroggio, Ernesto

Argentinian Curie Institute, Paris, France

Bassereau, Patricia

University of Cordoba, Argentina

The interplay between transmembrane domain geometry and membrane curvature as sorting determinants of membrane proteins

Asencion Diez, Matias

Argentinian John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Bornemann, Stephen

National University of Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

Characterization of enzymes involved in the metabolism of trehalose 6-phosphate and GDP-glucose in actinobacteria

Astiz, Mariana

Argentinian University of Lübeck, Germany

Oster, Henrik National Scientific and Technical Research Council, La Plata, Argentina

Impact of early-life events on the circadian system

Bussi, Claudio

Argentinian The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ktistakis, Nicholas T.

University of Cordoba, Argentina

The role of autophagy in the regulation of microglial cell activation and inflammation

Carlotto, Nicolás

Argentinian Institute of Plant Sciences, Paris, France

Crespi, Martin University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Study of gene expression regulation mediated by non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana: Identification of the DEVH-box RNA helicase ISE2 target RNAs

Delgui, Laura Ruth

Argentinian University of Paris-Sud, France

Esclatine, Audrey Institute of Histology and Embriology of Mendoza, Argentina

Role of Toll-like Receptor-2 in autophagic pathway induction after human cytomegalovirus infection

Franchini, Gisela R

Argentinian University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Smith, Brian O. National University of La Plata, Argentina

Structure refinement and ligand binding analysis of apo-ABA-1A of the parasite Ascaris suum employing NMR

Jaworski, Felipe Martin

Argentinian Aston Medical School – Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Ahmed, Asif University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

The effect of heme oxygenase-1 on prostate cancer neovascularization through modulation of the glycan-galectin axis

López, María Florencia

Argentinian Zaidín Experimental Station, Granada, Spain

Delgado Igeño, María Jesús

Institute of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, La Plata, Argentina

Establishment of the role of ntrBC and ntrYX in nitrate assimilation and denitrification in B. japonicum

Muñoz, Manuel

Argentinian FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy

Foiani, Marco University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

ATR-mediated regulation of alternative splicing in skin cells

Naum-Ongania, Gabriela

Argentinian University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Bickmore, Wendy University Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Effect of nuclear architecture in Hox gene activation

Revuelta, Maria Victoria

Argentinian Wageningen University, The Netherlands

van Kan, Jan National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina

The role of aspartic proteinases in the plant-pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea: integration of in silico predictions with molecular and physiological data

Rípodas, Carolina

Argentinian The Laboratory of Plant Microbe Interactions, Castanet Tolosan, France

Niebel, Andreas National University of La Plata, Argentina

Study of the role of the NF-Y transcription factor in the efficient nodulation


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectSánchez, María Florencia

Argentinian Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, Tübingen, Germany

García Sáez, Ana Medical Research Institute Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra, Cordoba, Argentina

Effects of the topological distribution of the ligand in the cell death triggered by Fas Receptor in immortalized cells

Weiner, Andrea Maria Julia

Argentinian University of Bath, United Kingdom

Kelsh, Robert University of Rosario, Argentina

Gene expression regulation during melanophore differentiation: Sox10, Mitfa and miRNAs roles

Berry, Scott

Australian Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Buehler, Marc John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Biochemical characterisation of RNA-binding by Arabidopsis thaliana protein like heterochromatin protein 1

Brugger, Christiane

Austrian St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, United States

Partridge, Janet University of Geneva, Switzerland

Functional analysis of the fission yeast histone deacetylase Clr3

Ilicic, Tomislav

Austrian Columbia University, New York, United States

Pe'er, Dana Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Computational approaches to classifying CD4+ T cell subtypes from single cell RNA-sequencing data

Prattes, Michael

Austrian Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Zhang, Xiaodong University of Graz, Austria Crystallization of the Drg1-diazaborine complex

Reichel, Marlene

Austrian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Hentze, Matthias The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Plant mRNA interactome

Schmidt, Thomas

Austrian Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine,University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Simister, Philip University of Salzburg, Austria

Functional analysis of the activity of recombinant HtrA

Schroeder, Sabrina

Austrian Free University of Berlin, Germany

Sigrist, Stephan University of Graz, Austria Spermidine mimics the metabolic effects of caloric restriction

Taschner, Michael

Austrian University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Pedersen, Lotte Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Functional dissection of the intraflagellar transport (IFT) process using structure-based mutants

Blomme, Jonas

Belgian The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Millar, Harvey Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium

Functional characterisation of SWIB-5, a potential new regulator of mitochondrial gene expression

De Bock, Katrien

Belgian Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

Aragones, Julian Catholic Univesity of Leuven, Belgium

Oxygen sensing HIF pathways in obesity

Derzelle, Alessandro

Belgian University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States

Katju, Vaishali University of Namur, Belgium

Study of copy number variation in an ancient asexual

Duchou, Jolien

Belgian University of Barcelona, Spain

Ciruela, Francisco Ghent University, Belgium Investigation of D2-typeR-µOR heterodimerization by Proximity Ligation Assay and Time-resolved Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectDumetz, Franck

Belgian Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Clos, Joachim Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium

Isolation, modification and characterisation of Leishmania donovani field-isolate episomes

Heyndrickx, Ken

Belgian Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Weigel, Detlef Ghent University, Belgium Genomic variation of experimentally determined transcription factor binding sites based on single nucleotide polymorphisms

Maes, Hannelore

Belgian Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Soengas, Maria Catholic Univesity of Leuven, Belgium

The importance of lysosomal function for tumor-driven lymphangiogenesis

Mizuno, Carolina Megumi

Brazilian University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

López-García, Purificación

University of Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Shedding light into deep sea viruses using metagenomics

Creasey, Rhiannon

British Tel Aviv University, Israel Gazit, Ehud The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Nanomechanical properties of novel diphenylalanine constructs

Ding, James

British University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Ospelt, Caroline University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Perturbation studies of rheumatoid arthritis associated long non-coding RNA lnc-RBPJ-1

Krasovec, Rok

British Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Ackermann, Martin

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Heterogeneity in confinement-induced quorum-sensing among individual Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells

Law, Ah-Lai

British Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Cao, Yihai King's College London, United Kingdom

Analysis of the role of lamellipodin in metastasis in vivo

Lewis, Amy

British National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

Colombo, Mario Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Targeting histone deacetylase (HDAC) for rational drug design: establishing the role of specific HDAC isoforms in inflammation and repair in a mouse model of colitis

Martinez, Pierre

British Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Szállási, Zoltán Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Development of new SNP array methods for cancer evolution studies

McCluskey, Kaley

British University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Ha, Taekjip University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom

Unfolding the lysine riboswitch with optical force and FRET

Murdoch, Sarah

British Bielefeld University, Germany

Niehaus, Karsten University of Dundee, United Kingdom

A metabolomics-based approach for predicting antibiotic resistance in airway infections associated with cystic fibrosis

zhao, Buyun

British Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Schoofs, Liliane Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Elucidating the neural basis of arousal in C. elegans

Hanna, Courtney

Canadian University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States

Owens, Gary The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Epigenetic dynamics in oogenesis


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectFu, Yu

Chinese Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Colot, Vincent Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Epigenomic analyses of different stem cell niches in Arabidopsis thaliana

Li, Kun

Chinese Friedrich Miescher Institutefor Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Roska, Botond Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Circuit mechanism of seasonal affective disorder

Díaz, Fernando

Columbian Institute of Population Genetics, Vienna, Austria

Schlötterer, Christian

University of Valle, Cali, Columbia

Reverse thermal selection in Drosophila melanogaster

Bilandzija, Helena

Croatian Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Rink, Jochen Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

Evolutionary mechanisms of pigment loss in cave planaria

Tokic, Silvija

Croatian Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Vesalius Research Center, Leuven, Belgium

Carmeliet, Peter Medical University of Graz, Austria

Metabolism of primary placental endothelial cells in gestational diabetes mellitus

Lamazares-Arcia, Emilio

Cuban Zaragoza University, Spain Sancho Sanz, Javier

University of Concepción, Chili

Stabilization of apoflavodoxin of Anabaena PCC 7119 using accumulation of mutations on the triple mutant base on rational strategies

Pavelka, Antonin

Czech International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland

Bujnicki, Janusz M. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Protein-RNA complex prediction by integration of evolutionary information

Senigl, Filip

Czech Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, United States

Schatz, David Institute of Molecular Genetics,Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Identification and characterization of non-immunoglobulin DIVAC enhancers

Singh, Khushwant

Czech The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Dixelius, Christina Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Secreted proteins and studies of the Plasmodiophora brassicae-Arabidopsis responses

Symonová, Radka

Czech The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway

Praebel, Kim Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics,Academy of Science of Czech Republic, Libechov, Czech Republic

Cytogenetic background of iterative evolution in incipient salmonid species

Jones, Sarah Elizabeth

Danish Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany

Einsle, Oliver Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Crystallization of human tryptophan hydroxylase isoform 1

Kidmose, Rune

Danish Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg, France

Klaholz, Bruno Aarhus University, Denmark

Structural characterization of the 80S ribosome from C. elegans by cryo-EM


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectWewer Albrechtsen, Nicolai

Danish Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Mann, Matthias Universtiy of Copenhagen, Denmark

Assessment of gut hormones in the gut-brain axis of obesity and type 2 diabetes

Bakker, Gert-Jan

Dutch Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Strömblad, Staffan

Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Multi-scale analysis of plasticity of tumor cell invasion in 3D environments

Molenhuis, Remco

Dutch Tel Aviv University, Israel Iraqi, Fuad A. University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

Identifying molecular networks for autism spectrum disorder core behavioral phenotypes

Muggen, Alice

Dutch Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Jumaa, Hassan Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

B cell receptor signaling in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Ottema, Sophie

Dutch Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal

Maiato, Helder Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Role of the MT plus-end tracking protein CLASP2 in ES cell mitosis

Reinink, Peter

Dutch Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Moody, Branch Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Isolation and identification of CD1 presented lipid antigens and associated T cells

Stroo, Esther

Dutch Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

Ebbinghaus, Simon

University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

Visualizing the role of SERF in aggregation initiation in living cells

van 't Veer, Inge Leonie

Dutch Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Vollmer, Waldemar

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Kinetic characterization of protein-protein and protein-substrate interactions of PBP1b and improvement of the glycosyl transferase assay

van den Bosch, Martijn

Dutch National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, United States

Young, Marian Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

WISP1 as downstream mediator of canonical Wnt signaling in the development of osteoarthritis

van der Knaap, Noortje

Dutch Max Planck lnstitute forNeurological Research, Cologne, Germany

Hoehn, Mathias Donders Institute of Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

The risk of antidepressants for the developing brain

Mahfouz, Ahmed

Egyptian University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Eichler, Evan Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Prioritizing genes harboring de novo missense mutations using an integrative network-based approach

Besnard, Fabrice

French University of Edingurgh, United Kingdom

Blaxter, Mark Institute of Biology of Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Assembly and annotation of the genome of the nematode Oscheius tipulae


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectBreton, Amandine

French Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Grosveld, Frank King's College London, United Kingdom

Identification and characterization of non-coding transcripts as potential regulators of c-MYB

Duplouy, Anne

French Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Miller, Wolfgang University of Helsinki, Finland

Following endosymbionts of a parasitoid wasp in its butterfly host

Labouesse, Marie

French University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

Guidotti, Alessandro

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland

An epigenetic signature regulating corticolimbic expression of RELN and GAD67 in a neurodevelopmental mouse model of schizophrenia

Michaud, Morgane

French National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, United States

Prinz, William Laboratory of Cellular Plant Physiology, Grenoble, France

Transfer of galactolipids from chloroplast to mitochondria

Roland, Benjamin

French Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States

Franks, Kevin Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Paris, France

Characterization of the cell-type bases of olfactory cortex activity

Texier, Pauline

French La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, Melbourne, Australia

Dougan, David Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

Regulation of toxin-antitoxin-chaperone system by proteases

Vieyres, Gabrielle

French Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Yale, New Haven, United States

Lindenbach, Brett Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany

Trafficking and function of ABHD5 during hepatitis C virus assembly in live infected cells

Weisbrod, David

French University of Milan, Italy DiFrancesco, Dario

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Identification of a putative Ca2+-activated K+ channel IKCa (SK4) in mouse sinoatrial node cells and its potential role in pacemaker activity

Ballweg, Stephanie

German University of Pittsburgh, United States

Brodsky, Jeffrey L. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Analysis of intra-membrane sensing by the OLE pathway in vitro

Baumgarten, Thomas

German University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Slotboom, Dirk-Jan


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


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectBröhl, Dominique

German Kyoto University, Japan Kageyama, Ryoichiro

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Analysis of Hes1 expression in muscle satellite cells on a single-cell level

Colinas, Maite

German Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Weber, Andreas University of Geneva, Switzerland

The impact of vitamin B6 deficiency on photorespiration

Dahlhoff, Maik

German Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Yarden, Yosef Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Investigation of ERBB2 and ERBB3 in the human epidermis of the skin

Deditius, Julia Andrea

German University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Pilizota, Teuta Helmholtz Centre of Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

The effect of the virulence master regulator HilD on flagellar rotation and proton motive force

Della Corte, Dennis

German Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Levitt, Michael Jülich Research Center, Germany

Evaluation of mutants in computational protein design

Floris, Dorothea Lilli

German Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, United States

Mostofsky, Stewart

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Functional lateralization of motor circuit connectivity and motor performance in children with autism

Füchtbauer, Winnie Sophie

German University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Schornack, Sebastian

Aarhus University, Denmark

Involvement of Lotus LysM containing proteins in the plant-pathogen interaction with Phytophthora palmivora

Grosswendt, Stefanie

German Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, United States

Singer, Robert H. Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Transcriptome-wide identification of RNA:RNA Interactions

Haneklaus, Moritz

German The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Masters, Seth Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

NLRP3 regulation by miRNA-223, post-translational modification and novel binding partners

Heusel, Moritz

German University College London, United Kingdom

Mercer, Jason Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Assessing protein interaction dynamics during poxvirus infection by SEC-SWATH- and AP-MS

Hirschberg, Stefan

German The Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, France

Kremer, Eric J. University of Bristol, United Kingdom

A pharmacogenetic strategy to target noradrenergic endogenous analgesic circuits in vivo

Krampen, Lea

German Stockholm University, Sweden

de Gier, Jan Willem

Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Tübingen, Germany

Characterizing the mechanism of SRP-targeting-avoidance of transmembrane domain-containing substrates of bacterial type III secretion systems

Kuhn, Maike

German University of Luxembourg, Belval, Luxembourg

Hiller, Karsten Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany

Influence of bacterial and viral respiratory pathogens on macrophage metabolism using stable isotope labeled tracer molecules


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectSchaedler, Theresia

German University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Waterham, Hans R.

Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Mechanism of fatty acid transport by peroxisomal ABC proteins

van den Boom, Johannes

German The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Funabiki, Hironori University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

The role of p97 in the segregation of Ku80 from DNA double strand breaks

Vögtle, Friederike-Nora

German Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Graz, Austria

Madeo, Frank Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany

Stress-induced re-translocation of the novel mitochondrial protein Pho88

Widderich, Nils

German Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Rudner, David Philipp University of Marburg, Germany

Spore formation at high salinity in Bacillus subtilis

zeymer, Cathleen

German University College London, United Kingdom

Hansen, D. Flemming

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany

Side-chain dynamics of key catalytic residues probed along the phosphoryl transfer reaction trajectory: What can we learn about the nature of the transition state?

zocher, Sara

German Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States

Song, Hongjun Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Germany

Analyzing the influence of an enriched environment on the DNA methylation landscape in the adult mouse dentate gyrus

Afratis, Nikolaos

Greek University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Couchman, John R. University of Patras, Greece

The role of cross-talk between estrogen receptor and EGFR/IGFR/syndecans on hormone-dependent breast cancer cells

Havaki, Sophia

Greek University of Zurich, Switzerland

Lopes, Massimo National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Sustained expression of p21WAF1 in a p53 defective function environment triggers replication stress leading to oncogenic activity

Tavoulari, Sotiria

Greek University of Geneva, Switzerland

Martinou, Jean-Claude

Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Structural analysis of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier

Adler, Nikoletta

Hungarian University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

Shusta, Eric Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Derivation of BBB endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells for progression of novel dynamic in vitro human BBB model

Kremlitzka, Mariann

Hungarian University of Lübeck, Germany

Köhl, Jörg Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

The impact of intracellular C3a/C3aR interactions on human B cell functions under steady state and inflammatory conditions

Szikora, Szilárd

Hungarian European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Lénárt, Péter Institute of Genetics, Szeged, Hungary

Investigating the mechanism of sarcomeric actin filament assembly with super-resolution microscopy

Heidarsson, Pétur

Icelandic University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Clarke, Jane University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Calcium-dependence of folding and misfolding pathways in a neuronal calcium sensor

Lemarquis, Andri Leo

Icelandic Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Toes, Rene University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

Role of B regulatory cells and spontaneous autoantibody production in the pathogenesis of IgA deficiency


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectBhan, Arunoday

Indian Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany

Niehrs, Christof University of Texas, Arlington, United States

Investigation of estradiol mediated demethylation of the CpG islands in the promoter of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), HOTAIR via GADD45a

Garge, Sneha

Indian University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Diggle, Steve Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India

The effect of biogeography on the efficiency of quorum quenching biocontrol on phytopathogens

Kamble, Avinash

Indian Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Aharoni, Asaph University of Pune, India Functional analysis of the tomato glycoalkaloid metabolism genes and promoters in response to fungal pathogens

Kumaragurubaran, Rathnakumar

Indian German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Augustin, Hellmut Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Elucidating the role of angiopoietin-2 in thrombin-induced vascular leakage

Palle, Pushpalatha

Indian Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Kuchroo, Vijay Technical University Munich, Germany

Reconstruction of an unbiased mechanistic model that describes how salt influences the differentiation of naive T cells into Th17 cells in EAE model

Sonawane, Avinash

Indian Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Maeurer, Markus KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India

Studies on T-cell responses of novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine molecules and immunomodulatory glycopeptides in preclinical model

Sreenivasa Gopalan, Vishaka Datta

Indian Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Semsey, Szabolcs The National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

A theoretical and experimental evaluation of the E. coli galactose regulatory network

Surana, Sunaina

Indian Curie Institute, Paris, France

Perez, Franck The National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

Tissue-specific targeting of L-DNA based nanostructures in vivo using recombinant antibodies

Venkannagari, Harikanth

Indian Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Aachen University, Germany

Lüscher, Bernhard University of Oulu, Finland

Development of chemical probes to study the cellular roles of ARTD10

Ghorbani, Sarieh

Iranian Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Simon, Rüdiger Ghent University, Belgium Intracellular localization of AtSBT6.1 and AtSerpin1

Gilgunn, Sarah

Irish Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Conroy, Paul Dublin City University, Ireland

Investigation of the key interactions between novel avian recombinant antibody fragments and the free prostate specific antigen (fPSA)

O'Leary, Cian

Irish University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Unger, Ronald E. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

The development of advanced respiratory co-culture in vitro models using a novel bi-layered collagen-GAG scaffold for applications in respiratory drug development and nanotoxicology


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectO'Neill, Hugh

Irish Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States

Walsh, Conor J. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Development of a pro-angiogenic, biomaterial liner embedded in an external direct cardiac compression device to regenerate the damaged myocardium after heart failure

Williams, Tom

Irish Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Roger, Andrew J. Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Investigating genomic and metabolic innovation across a rooted archaeal tree

Cohen, Meital

Israeli Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Loewer, Alexander Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Monitoring the endogenous dynamics of the E2F circuitry in single living cells

Frumkin, Idan

Israeli Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Church, George M. The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Re-coding the Escherichia coli genome to explore the evolution of the translation machinery

Mamrut, Shimrat

Israeli Paris Sorbonne University, France

Berrih-Aknin, Sonia

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

DNA methylation and gene expression profiling of monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for myasthenia gravis

Shahar, Tal

Israeli Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Canada

Dick, John Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

Leukemia heterogeneity and chemoresistance - Identifying cancer stem cell subpopulations in acute myeloid leukemia

Arcella, Annalisa

Italian Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

Bathe, Mark Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain

Designing self-assembled DNA origami force-sensors

Asperti, Michela

Italian Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Meyron-Holtz, Esther

University of Brescia, Italy Roles of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in the regulation of liver hepcidin expression

Astro, Veronica

Italian Max Planck Institute of Molecular CellBiology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Zerial, Marino San Raffaele Research Institute, Milan, Italy

Elucidating the mechanisms of ERC1a/liprin-alpha1 complex mediated cell polarization and migration: a novel role in integrin endocytosis?

Bertolini, Jessica Armida

Italian Center of Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain

Bovolenta, Paola University of Milan, Italy Functional characterization of regulatory sequences targeted by the transcription factor SOX2, identified by studies of long-range chromatin interactions in brain-derived neural stem/precursor cells

Bonaiuti, Paolo

Italian Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Knop, Michael FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy

In vivo measurement of Spindle Assembly Checkpoint signal and response

Bruzzone, Maria Jessica

Italian University of Regensburg, Germany

Griesenbeck, Joachim

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Compositional and structural studies of nuclease hypersensitive fragile nucleosomes

Candotti, Michela

Italian University of Zurich, Switzerland

Schuler, Ben Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain

A disordered protein in a cell-like environment: alteration of its structure and dynamic explored quantitatively by single-molecule FRET and MD simulation


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectCarroni, Marta

Italian Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Bukau, Bernd University of London, United Kingdom

Disaggregation of alpha-synuclein amyloid fibers human molecular chaperones

Esposito, Rosaria

Italian Villefranche-sur-mer Developmental Biology Laboratory, France

Hudson, Clare Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn', Naples, Italy

Transcriptional regulation and gene function of Gsx, a gene expressed in the photoreceptor cell lineage in Ciona intestinalis

Franciosini, Anna

Italian RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Japan

Sugimoto, Keiko Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Role of the SCFCFK1 ubiquitin ligase in the promotion of cell size in Arabidopsis thaliana

Fusco, Giuliana

Italian University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States

Veglia, Gianluigi University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Unveiling the structure and dynamics of alpha-synuclein bound to lipid vesicles

Gandini, Francesca

Italian Innsbruck Medical University, Austria

Parson, Walther University of Pavia, Italy Ancient and recent migrations to Africa from the Middle East

Gatto, Alberto

Italian Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Barton, Paul J. R. Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain

Unravelling alternative splicing role and regulation in human heart failure

La Rosa, Ruggero

Italian Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Bundy, Jake Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain

Metabolic profiling to unravel the role of the Crc global regulator in optimizing the metabolism in Pseudomonas putida

Leanza, Luigi

Italian University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Gulbins, Erich University of Padova, Italy In vivo effects of new inhibitors of a mitochondrial potassium channel in a melanoma mouse model

Legnini, Ivano

Italian Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Rajewsky, Nikolaus

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Identification and study of circular RNAs involved in muscle differentiation and disease

Loda, Agnese

Italian Curie Institute, Paris, France

Heard, Edith Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Xist RNA-mediated silencing of X-linked and autosomal genes: does genomic position matter?

Loffreda, Alessia

Italian Stockholm University, Sweden

Visa, Neus University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Investigating the role of paraspeckles in the cellular response to DNA damage (DDR)

Luchinat, Enrico


Neveu, Pierre University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Protein overexpression and isotopic labeling in cultured embryonic stem cells for in-cell NMR

Mariotti, Marco

Italian University College Cork, Ireland

Atkins, John F. Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Characterization of the residue inserted by translational readthrough in the hymenoptera SPS1-rt gene

Maschietto, Valentina

Italian University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Tulln, Austria

Rainer, Schuhmacher

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Piacenza, Italy

Metabolomic study of pathways conferring resistance against mycotoxigenic fungi in maize

Mascia, Tiziana

Italian University College Dublin, Ireland

Doohan, Fiona University of Bari, Italy RNA interference in Phytophthora infestans against TMV infection (RIPAT)


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectMasuzzo, Paola

Italian Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Geiger, Benjamin Ghent University, Belgium Advancing cell migration research via bioinformatics

Moretto, Edoardo

Italian Interdisciplinary Institute for Neurosciences, University of Bordeaux, France

Choquet, Daniel Institute of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy

Tetraspanin 5 enriched microdomain provides a platform for dendritic spine formation

Nascimbeni, Anna

Italian Paris Descartes University, France

Codogno, Patrice University of Padova, Italy Role of ER-plasma membrane contact sites in mammalian autophagosome biogenesis

Pasini, Martina

Italian University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Overton, Tim University of Barcelona, Spain

E. coli engineering for recombinant protein secretion and flow-cytometry analysis for physiological characterization

Pisano, Annalinda

Italian University of Helsinki, Finland

Hämäläinen, Riikka

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Evaluating the rescuing effects of the carboxy-terminal domain of human mitochondrial leucyl-tRNA synthetase on iPCSs-derived neurons carrying the 3243A>G mutation in the MTTL1 gene

Raggi, Sara

Italian Jean-Pierre Bourgin Institute, Versailles, France

Mouille, Grégory Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Molecular mechanisms of plant response to pectin damage

Saponaro, Federica

Italian Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany

Pellegata, Natalia University of Pisa, Italy Evaluation of the efficacy of novel drugs against gonadotroph pituitary adenomas

Scarpa, Elena

Italian Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

Theveneau, Eric University College London, Kingdom

Differences between cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion forces lead to a contact inhibition of locomotion response

Sisalli, Maria Jose

Italian University College London, United Kingdom

Duchen, Michael University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria interactions and Ca2+ crosstalk in in vitro model of Parkinson's disease

Stefanelli, Gilda

Italian University of Victoria, Canada

Ausió, Juan University of Insubria, Busto Arsizio, Italy

Characterization of a novel phosphorylation site of MeCP2 that might be involved in neuronal morphogenesis and chromatin related functions

Tebaldi, Toma

Italian Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sanguinetti, Guido

Centre for Integrative Biology, Trento, Italy

Development of an algorithm for the identification and prioritization of post-transcriptional interactions (RNA-proteins and RNA-RNA) from data generated by the CLIP-seq family of techniques

Tomasello, Ugo

Italian Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Germany

Calegari, Federico Neuroscience Institute, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Role of miRNAs in cerebral cortex folding


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectTruini, Anna

Italian University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

Beer, David George

National Cancer Research Institute, University Hospital San Martino, Genova, Italy

Identification and heterogeneity of metastasis-selected gene alterations in lung cancer

Vassalli, Quirino Attilio

Italian University of Bath, United Kingdom

Kelsh, Robert Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn', Naples, Italy

Gene regulatory networks controlling chordate photoreceptor cell development

Tanaka, Kentaro

Japanese University of Oklahoma, United States

Masly, John P. Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Comparative analysis of development of male terminal structures between Drosophila species

Corral Lugo, Andrés

Mexican Hiroshima University, Japan

Kato, Junichi Zaidín Experimental Station, Granada, Spain

Functional annotation of chemoreceptors by high-throughput chemotaxis assay screening

Gomez, Georgina

Mexican University of Bern, Switzerland

Meister, Peter Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology, Seville, Spain

Functional role of MEL-28/ELYS in nuclear organization

Cunnington, Emelyne

New Zealander

Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Teusink, Bas Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

Selection for yield in yeast to investigate the nature of the Crabtree-effect

North, Rachel

New Zealander

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Friemann, Rosmarie

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Sialic acid import and degradation by a clinically important human pathogen

Soreng, Kristiane

Norwegian Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, United Kingdom

Tooze, Sharon University of Oslo, Norway Phosphoinositide-binding proteins in autophagy: Characterization of the PX-BAR protein SNX18 in autophagy

Adamczuk, Marcin

Polish Laval University, Quebec, Canada

Charette, Steve University of Warsaw, Poland

Role of mobile genetic elements in the genomic plasticity and loss of virulence in Aeromonas salmonicida, the etiologic agent of furunculosis, which is an important disease for farmed fish

Drebert, Zuzanna

Polish The Queen’s Medical Research Institute,University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Hadoke, Patrick Ghent University, Belgium Role of glucocorticoids and selective glucocorticoid receptor modulators in angiogenesis

Dyla, Mateusz

Polish Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States

Blanchard, Scott C. Aarhus University, Denmark

Single-molecule studies of a bacterial homologue of SERCA

Gacek, Katarzyna

Polish The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Batley, Jacqueline Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute – National Research Institute, Poznan, Poland

Genome-wide association study in regulation of fatty acid composition in Brassica napus

Janiszewska Likus, Joanna

Polish King’s College London, United Kingdom

Tavassoli, Mahvash

Institute of Human Genetics, Poznan, Poland

Functional analyses of miR-1246 and miR-1290 involvement in pathogenesis of head and neck cancers


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectJurkowska, Renata

Polish The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Reik, Wolf Stuttgart University, Germany

Controlling the methylation writers - regulation of the Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b DNA methyltransferases by posttranslational modifications

Kania, Elzbieta

Polish The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Ryan, Kevin Mossakowski Medical Research Centre,Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland

Investigation of autophagy in verapamil-induced cell death

Makala, Ewa

Polish Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tollervey, David Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics,Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Studies of direct interaction between the negative regulator of RNA polymerase III - Maf1 and tRNAs

Ostrowska, Kinga

Polish Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Ghigo, Jean-Marc University of Lodz, Poland Mechanisms of induction of persistence by nutrient stress and SOS response in bacterial biofilms

Rysnik, Oliwia

Polish University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Baeten, Dominique

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Investigating aberrant HLA-B27 expression in an HLA-B27 transgenic rat arthritis model and in human spondyloarthritis synovium

Stolarczyk, Marta

Polish McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Lukács, Gergely L. Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Is ROS a link between ADAM17 activity and CFTR deficiency?

zapisek, Bartosz

Polish The French National Centre for Scientific Research, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Bonnefoy, Nathalie

University of Warsaw, Poland

Characterization of the ppr10 gene from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

zwirowski, Szymon

Polish Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Bukau, Bernd University of Gdansk, Poland

Characterization of bacterial and yeast small heat shock protein substrate complexes

Bordeira-Carriço, Renata

Portuguese University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain

Gómez-Skarmeta, Jose Luis

IBMC-INEB Associated Laboratory, University of Porto, Portugal

Genome-wide analysis of the pancreatic regulatory landscapes in zebrafish

Carvalhal, Sara

Portuguese University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

Hübner, Angela University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Study of ALADIN meiotic function in female mouse oocytes

Lince-Faria, Mariana

Portuguese European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Pepperkok, Rainer Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal

New microtubule regulators involved in centriole biogenesis

Matos, Andreia

Portuguese Tübingen University, Germany

Ragni, Laura New University of Lisbon, Oeiras, Portugal

Effects of thermospermine on the secondary growth of the Arabidopsis hypocotyl

Moscoso, Joana

Portuguese Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Jung, Kirsten Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Understanding how c-di-AMP impacts potassium transport across the membrane in Staphylococcus aureus


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectPaquete, Catarina

Portuguese Boston University, United States

Elliott, Sean New University of Lisbon, Oeiras, Portugal

Elucidation of the catalytic properties of redox enzymes that belongs to the octaheme cytochrome c family

Rosario, Ana

Portuguese Columbia University, New York, United States

Mancia, Filippo Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, Oeiras, Portugal

Structure determination of phosphatidylinositol synthase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (PIPSMt) and human (PIPSh)

Salgado, Marco

Portuguese Biochemistry and Plant Molecular Physiology, French National Center for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France

Zimmermann, Sabine


What are the carbon sources supplied to Frankia in actinorhizal nodules?

Vaz, Filipa

Portuguese University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Ligoxygakis, Petros

New University of Lisbon, Oeiras, Portugal

Determination of the ability of Staphylococcus aureus mutants lacking peptidoglycan binding proteins to cause disease in the Drosophila infection model

Bakalenko, Nadezhda

Russian University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Akam, Michael Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Federation

Antisense Hox transcripts of annelids Alitta virens and Platynereis dumerilii

Korobeinikova, Anna

Russian Innsbruck Medical University, Austria

Piendl, Wolfgang Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russian Federation

Studying the role of essential ribosomal protein L5 and its structural elements in the formation of the functionally active bacterial ribosome

Lapin, Dmitry

Russian Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Toulouse, France

Deslandes, Laurent

Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Investigating a regulator of immune receptor-chromatin association

Mayorova, Tatiana

Russian Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Elphick, Maurice R.

Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Developmental analysis of neuropeptide expression in the starfish Asterias rubens

Melnikov, Sergey

Russian The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Rout, Michael Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France

Dual role of protein extensions in eukaryotic ribosomes: systematic identification of factors that bind and guide ribosomal proteins towards the ribosome assembly site

Pyatrikas, Darya

Russian University of Milan, Italy Costa, Alex Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

Plant mitochondria in regulation of calcium homeostasis in Arabidopsis cells during heat shock

Sluchanko, Nikolai

Russian Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Strelkov, Sergei V. A. N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Atomic structure of the complex of human HspB6 with the universal adapter protein 14-3-3


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectSyutkin, Alexey

Russian Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany

Albers, Sonja-Verena

Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russian Federation

Investigation of environmental effects on the assembly and function of Haloarcula marismortui motility apparatus

Ulanova, Lilia

Russian Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Levraud, Jean-Pierre

University of Oslo, Norway Investigation of the role of leukocytes in Francisella infection using a zebrafish model

Gak, Igor

Serbian Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria

Gerlich, Daniel Technical University of Dresden, Germany

Visualizing restriction point control in live cells

Wong, Mei Mei Jaslyn Elizabeth

Singaporean The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, United Kingdom

Zipfel, Cyril Aarhus University, Denmark

Identification of protein interaction partners of nod factor receptors in Lotus japonicus through proteomic approaches

Konte, Tilen

Slovenian Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany

Terpitz, Ulrich University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Physiological role of rhodopsins from selected halotolerant and halophilic fungi

Hockman, Dorit

South African California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States

Bronner, Marianne

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine,University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Deciphering neural crest development in the lamprey

Heo, Jungok

South Korean North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States

Sozzani, Rosangela

University of Helsinki, Finland

High resolution map of phloem gene expression

Acebes Huerta, Andrea

Spanish University of Messina, Italy

Ferlazzo, Guido University Institute of Oncology of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

NK/DC cells interplay in the immunosurveillance against cancer cell DNA ploidy

Alvarez, Alejandro

Spanish University of Toulouse, France

Legube, Gaelle University of Seville, Spain Genome-wide map of TOP2-induced DNA break hotspots

Arechederra, Maria

Spanish Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille-Luminy, France

Maina, Flavio Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Analysis of C3G function in HGF/Met induced migration and invasion of hepatocarcinoma cells

Arjona Madueño, Francisco Jesús

Spanish University College London Medical School, United Kingdom

Kleta, Robert Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Functionomics of the membrane transporter SLC41A1: a new molecular player involved in renal Mg2+ reabsorption?

Baison-Olmo, Fernando

Spanish University of Geneva, Switzerland

Soldati, Thierry University of Seville, Spain Dictyostelium discoideum as host model for Salmonella enterica

Bajic, Djordje

Spanish Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

Papp, Balázs Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain

Decoding the global gene expression reprogramming in genetically perturbed yeasts

Barcena-Fernandez, Clea

Spanish The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States

Zhang, Feng University of Oviedo, Spain

CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing for the generation of new models of aging and cancer


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectBernal, Patricia

Spanish Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Filloux, Alain Zaidín Experimental Station, Granada, Spain

First steps toward the biochemical and structural characterisation of a novel type VI secretion system effector-immunity pair

Bidart, Gonzalo

Spanish Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Willemsen, Linette

Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, Valencia, Spain

Immunomodulatory properties of human milk-like oligosaccharides synthesized using the transglycosylation activity of glycosidases isolated from lactic acid bacteria

Blasco Moreno, Bernat

Spanish Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany

Leidel, Sebastian Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Dissecting the role of the exonuclease Xrn1p in cellular translational control

Brunet Galmés, Isabel

Spanish University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Christie-Oleza, Joseph

University of Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain

Proteomic insights into naphthalene degradation by Pseudomonas

Caballero Bermejo, Montaña

Spanish University of Osnabrück, Germany

Brandt, Ronald University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain

Tau phosphorylation at threonine-50 and threonine-69: Physiological consequences

Casado, Victoria

Spanish Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Rocks, Oliver Institute of Biology and Molecular Genetics, Valladolid, Spain

Beta2-chimaerin in breast cancer: roles in cytoskeletal dynamics, cell adhesions and spatio-temporal control of Rac during these processes

Catalan, Pablo

Spanish University of Zurich, Switzerland

Wagner, Andreas Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganés, Spain

Evolutionary consequences of the coupling of levels in the genotype-phenotype map

Cortiguera, María Gabriela

Spanish University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Wagner, Simon University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Effects of the histone deacetylase inhibitor romidepsin in lymphoma B-cells and Bcl6 regulation

Cruz Martinez, Pablo

Spanish Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Franklin, Robin University of Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain

Study of mesenchymal stem cell-mediated activation of signaling pathways in neural stem progenitor cells

del Peso Santos, Teresa

Spanish European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Benes, Vladimir Umea University, Sweden Deciphering temperature and metabolic dependent regulation of biofilm development in Vibrio cholerae

Domínguez Sánchez, María

Spanish Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Bartek, Jiri University of Seville, Spain Novel CtIP Interactors that control its repair function

Duran-Frigola, Miquel

Spanish Tel Aviv University, Israel Ruppin, Eytan Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain

Rational polypharmacology through genome-scale metabolic networks

Escribano, Oscar

Spanish University of California, San Francisco, United States

McManus, Michael

Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Role of non-coding RNAs in the beta cell hyperplasia observed in the mouse model of type 2 diabetes iLIRKO (inducible Liver Insulin Receptor KnockOut)


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectEscudero Paniagua, Antonio

Spanish Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Williams, David S. University of Salamanca, Spain

CRB2 silencing in an in vivo model

Fernández López, Cristina

Spanish Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Glaser, Philippe Biological Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Conjugative transfer of a streptococcal integrative and mobilizable element

Flores, Gema

Spanish University of Reading, United Kingdom

Gibson, Glenn Institute of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition, Madrid, Spain

Human gut microbiota effects on anthocyanins encapsulated with cyclodextrins

Floristán Muruzábal, Alfredo

Spanish New York University Langone Medical Center, United States

Hernando-Monge, Eva M.

Institute of Biomedical Research 'Alberto Sols', Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

Analysis of Lysyl Oxidase-Like 3 (LOXL3) and microRNAs (miRNAs) relationship in metastatic melanoma

Fructuoso, Marta

Spanish Paris Diderot University, France

Janel, Nathalie Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

The role of Dyrk1A on homeostatic regulation of feeding behavior in a Down syndrome mouse model

Garanto, Alejandro

Spanish University of Iowa, United States

Tucker, Budd A. Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Antisense oligonucleotide based therapy for CEP290-associated LCA in iPSC-derived photoreceptors

García Hernández, Violeta

Spanish University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland

Sanchez, Jean-Charles

University of Salamanca, Spain

Proteomic analysis of the soluble fraction of the pancreas during the early phase of acute pancreatitis employing a TMT labeling approach. Effect of the inhibition of MAPKs and type IV phosphodiesterase

García Linares, Sara

Spanish Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Slotte, J. Peter Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Molecular dissection of the membrane requirements for actinoporins optimum functionality

García-Fontana, Cristina

Spanish The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Hai-Chua, Nam University of Granada, Spain

Characterization of plant-microorganism interaction at transcriptomic level as a biotechnological tool

Getino, María

Spanish University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Jiménez, Jose I. University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Bacteriophages as evolvable conjugation inhibitors

Gómez Climent, María Ángeles

Spanish Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Germany

Hasan, Mazahir T. University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain

Regulation of fear memory and active coping by the motivational circuit

Gonzalez Carracedo, Mario

Spanish Wageningen University, The Netherlands

van Kan, Jan University of La Laguna, Spain

Role of highly O-glycosylated proteins in the virulence of Botrytis cinerea

González-Prieto, Coral

Spanish German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Schmidt, Manfred University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Characterization of the integration pattern obtained after genetic modification of human cells with a conjugative relaxase by nrLAM-PCR and next-generation sequencing


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectGuijas, Carlos

Spanish University of Colorado, Aurora, United States

Murphy, Robert C. University of Valladolid, Spain

Identification of molecular species of triglycerides and diglycerides in plasma from patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Hernández-Varas, Pablo

Spanish ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain

Lakadamyali, Melike

Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Dissecting cell-matrix adhesion complex anatomy by super-resolution microscopy

Herrero del Rio, Mª del Rocío

Spanish Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Arenzana-Seisdedos, Fernando

University of Jaen, Spain Innate immunity genes and resistance to HIV-1 infection

Izquierdo, Helena

Spanish Curie Institute, Paris, France

Manel, Nicolas Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain

Role of mitochondrial functions in HIV infection and immunity

Juarez Vicente, Francisco de Paula

Spanish Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Melchior, Frauke Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seville, Spain

Analysis of SUMOylation during neuronal differentiation

Labrador Garrido, Adahir

Spanish University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Knowles, Tuomas P.

Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seville, Spain

Kinetic analysis of the aggregation mechanism of alpha-synuclein in the presence of nanobodies

Lobato Márquez, Damián

Spanish Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

McKinney, John Biological Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Single cell-based analysis to study how toxin-antitoxin systems of the pathogen Salmonella enterica contribute to persistence during infection of the eukaryotic cell

Lombana Sacristán, Laura

Spanish Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry – Therapeutical Life Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz , Germany

Schneider, Dirk Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Use of the gallex system to check the interaction of hepatitis c virus envelope glycoproteins at the plasmatic membrane

Lopez Fabuel, Irene

Spanish Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Murphy, Michael P.

Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics, Salamanca, Spain

Understanding the molecular mechanism responsible for the different mitochondrial complex I assembly in neurons and astrocytes and its bioenergetics consequences

López-Escardó, David

Spanish University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

López-García, Purificación

Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain

Diversity and distribution of two deep-branching enigmatic protist groups prior to the metazoan radiation, Filasterea and Corallochytrea

Maeso, Ignacio

Spanish Oceanographic Observatory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

Escrivá, Héctor University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain

Functional survey of developmental regulatory landscapes in the amphioxus genome


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectMarcos Ramiro, Beatriz

Spanish King’s College London, United Kingdom

Cox, Susan Center of Molecular Biology 'Severo Ochoa', Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

Study of the dynamics of Rho GTPases during endothelial barrier recovery using advanced imaging techniques

Mas Lladó, Maria

Spanish University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Christie-Oleza, Joseph

University of Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain

Proteogenomics analysis of diesel tolerance and degradation in nine marine Roseobacter isolates from the coast of Mallorca

Matheu, Ander

Spanish San Francisco University, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Lima Ribeiro, Marcelo

Health Research Biodonostia Institute, San Sebastian, Spain

Role of SOX9 in gastric cancer

Maycas Cepeda, Marta

Spanish Indiana UniversityMedical Center, Indianapolis, United States

Bellido, Teresita Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Study of mechanical loading alone and in combination with parathyroid hormone related protein (PTHrP) to reverse the alterations of bone micro-architecture in diabetic mice

Mercader, Josep M

Spanish The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States

Altshuler, David Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

Characterisation of genetic mosaicism in type 2 diabetes patients: causal mechanism and diagnosis

Miralles-Duran, Alejandro

Spanish Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Fisher, Reinhard University of Seville, Spain Localization and interaction by fluorescence of the photoreceptor protein WcoB with other proteins from Phycomyces blakesleeanus using Aspergillus nidulans as a model

Moreno Amatria, Esther

Spanish Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Birchall, James C. University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Leishmania vaccination using microneedles and DNA nucleosomal histones

Núñez-Gómez, Elena

Spanish University College London, United Kingdom

Greenwood, John University of Salamanca, Spain

Role of LRG1 in modulating endoglin-mediated endothelial cell signaling and function

Oriola, David

Spanish University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Gadélha, Hermes University of Barcelona, Spain

Active fluctuations in sperm flagella

Palomino, Martina

Spanish Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe, Germany

Luy, Burkhard Príncipe Felipe Research Center, Valencia, Spain

Optimization of a new fast bidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance experiment for the analysis of biological samples

Peralta López, Marina

Spanish Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg, France

Vermot, Julien Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain

Identifying mechanotransduction pathways triggering epicardial development in zebrafish embryos

Perez-Benavente, Beatriz

Spanish The Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, France

Piechaczyk, Marc University of Valencia, Spain

Identification of new transcriptional targets of JunB involved in cell proliferation

Perez-Carro, Raquel

Spanish Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Cremers, Frans P. M.

Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Next-generation sequencing in inherited retinal dystrophies: Searching for novel causative variants in 700 uncharacterized Spanish families


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectPozo Guisado, Eulalia

Spanish University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Alessi, Dario R. University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

Determination of ORAI1 phosphorylation sites

Pun, Andrés

Spanish Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States

Koch, Walter J. Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain

Gene therapy for Beta3-adrenoreceptor overexpression in cardiomyocytes with rAAV9

Rodríguez Herrán, Alexandra

Spanish University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Laparra Llopis, José Moises

University of Leon, Spain Evaluation of the immunomodulatory features within the gut-liver axis of two Lactobacilli with probiotic potential

Rodríguez Navarro, Sarai

Spanish University of Bern, Switzerland

Dufour, Jean-François

Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

Does physical exercise decrease the risk of HCC? Use of an orthotopic syngeneic MH rat model

Roldán López, Nuria

Spanish Abo Academi University, Turku, Finland

Slotte, J. Peter Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Understanding pulmonary surfactant protein SP-C/cholesterol interactions: Effect of SP-C on cholestatrienol distribution in lung surfactant membranes

Ruano Gallego, David

Spanish Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Frankel, Gad Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain

Arming commensal E. coli to fight bacterial pathogens

Rueda Carrasco, Javier

Spanish German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany

Heneka, Michael Center of Molecular Biology 'Severo Ochoa', Autonomous University of Madrid , Spain

Elucidating the role of Sfrp1 in brain inflammation

Sanchez Alcudia, Rocio

Spanish University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Rivolta, Carlo Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Whole genome sequencing in retinitis pigmentosa: searching for pathogenic DNA variants in 11 Spanish families

Santos zas, Icía

Spanish The Institute of Myology, Paris, France

Mouly, Vincent University Clinical Hospital of Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Validation of the myogenic action of the obestatin/GPR39 system in human for the treatment of myopathies

Sastre-Moreno, Guillermo

Spanish National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

Holt, Ian J. Center of Molecular Biology 'Severo Ochoa', Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

Role of PrimPol in tolerating oxidative damage in mitochondria

Vargas, Javier

Spanish Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Koster, Bram Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain

Novel methods for automatic image quality assessment for high-throughput cryo electron microscopy

Yeramian, Andree

Spanish Norwegian Radium Hospital,Oslo University Hospital, Norway

Lyng, Heidi Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida, Spain

Signaling pathways and miRNA patterns involved in endometrial cancer resistance to therapy

zubeldia Plazaola, Arantzazu

Spanish Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States

LaBarge, Mark Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain

Role of the microenvironment in the heterogeneity and evolution of breast cancer


EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectCornille, Amandine

Swedish South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Huang, Huirun Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Testing experimental local adaptation in the worldwide annual polyploid shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)

Grimsholm, Ola

Swedish Bambino Gesú Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy

Carsetti, Rita University of Gothenburg, Sweden

B-cell tolerance mechanisms in primary immunodeficiencies

Geiger, Roger

Swiss Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Mann, Matthias Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Proteome and secretome atlas of human immune cells

Ben Farhat, Khaoula

Tunisian Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Italy

Garlanda, Cecilia Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunisia

Susceptibility to aspergillosis and PTX3 deficiency

Girgin Ersoy, Zeynep

Turkish University of Helsinki, Finland

Saris, Per Gebze Institute of Technology, Kocaeli, Turkey

The effect of multiple copies of fhuR and rpiA genes of Lactococcus lactis on nisin biosynthesis

Saglar, Emel

Turkish Aarhus University, Denmark

Fenton, Robert A. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Functional analysis of aquaporin-2 gene mutation that cause nephrogenic diabetes insipidus

Tyutyunnykova, Anna

Ukrainan National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Dresden, Germany

Dubrovska, Anna The Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Phospholipase C epsilon as a potential biomarker for the head and neck cancer

Rosconi, Federico

Uruguayan University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Grant, Andrew Clemente Estable Biological Research Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay

High-throughput transposon mutagenesis studies in plant growth promoting bacteria

Katz, Shauna

US-American National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

Guillemot, Francois

Institute of Neurobiology, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Deciphering an evolutionarily conserved mechanism of microRNA regulation in adult neural stem cells

Klosowiak, Julian

US-American Curie Institute, Paris, France

Houdusse-Juille, Anne

Northwestern University, Chicago, United States

Structure and function of the mitochondrial protein Miro

Lawrence, Stacey

US-American Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Simon, Rüdiger Yale University, New Haven, United States

Microscopic analysis of G(beta gamma) heterodimer interaction with FLS2 and BAK1 receptor complexes

Minikel, Eric

US-American University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Aguzzi, Adriano Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States

Genome-wide CRISPR screen for loss-of-function mutations that reduce prion protein expression

Ruff, Emily

US-American Institute Jacques Monod, University of Paris, France

Strick, Térence University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

Single-molecule investigation of the initial steps of transcription initiation by DNA nanomanipulation


ERS | EMBO joint fellowships awarded in 2014Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory ProjectHilvering, Bart

Dutch University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Pavord, Ian University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

Group 2 innate lymphoid cells and severe non-atopic, eosinophilic asthma

Tischler, Verena

German University of Cologne, Germany

Thomas, Roman University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Modulators of oncogenic signaling in lung cancer – understanding the mechanisms of resistance in settings of precision therapy


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Austria 1 2 2 1 1 7Belgium 1 1 1 1 4Croatia 0Czech Republic 0Denmark 1 1 1 1 1 1 6Estonia 0Finland 1 2 1 4France 1 3 1 4 1 1 2 12 1 2 2 5 35Germany 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 5 3 1 1 1 12 3 4 2 2 3 48Greece 0Hungary 1 1Iceland 0Ireland 1 1 2Israel 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7Italy 1 1 1 1 1 2 7Luxembourg 1 1Netherlands 1 4 1 3 2 11Norway 1 1 2Poland 1 1Portugal 1 1Slovak Republic 0Slovenia 0Spain 3 1 1 1 2 8Sweden 1 1 1 1 1 2 7Switzerland 1 8 4 1 1 15Turkey 0UK 2 1 3 2 3 3 2 1 3 1 19 1 2 8 51EMBL 1 1 1 1 1 5Eastern Europe 0USA/Canada 1 1 1 1 3 9 2 2 2 5 1 2 11 2 8 51Others 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 10Total 4 10 1 4 7 0 3 6 23 2 2 1 5 5 23 0 14 2 8 6 0 1 76 6 6 2 26 7 5 29 284

* “From” refers to home laboratory (see list on pages 58 – 80)

84 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Young Investigators

EMBO Young Investigators 2014Name Nationality Institute Research interest CountryGad Asher Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Mammalian circadian clocks IL

Petr Broz Swiss Biocentre, University of Basel Inflammasome complexes CH

Felipe Cortés Ledesma Spanish Andalusian Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine Centre, Seville

Repair of blocked DNA breaks ES

Filippo Del Bene Italian Institut Curie, Paris Neural circuit formation and function FR

Mads Gyrd-Hansen Danish University of Oxford Ubiquitin signalling UK

Mario Halic Croatian University of Munich (LMU) Small RNA mediated heterochromatin formation

DE

Sebastian Hiller German Biocentre, University of Basel Outer membrane protein biogenesis CH

Michael Hothorn German University of Geneva Membrane signalling in plants CH

Jan Huisken German MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Imaging developmental processes DE

Claudine Kraft Swiss Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Regulation and signalling in autophagy AT

François Leulier French Institute of Functional Genomics in Lyon (IGFL) Host/microbiota interactions FR

Hai-Kun Liu Chinese German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Central nervous system stem cells DE

Massimiliano Mazzone

Italian Vesalius Research Center, VIB & KU Leuven Macrophages in ischemia and cancer BE

Yuki Nakamura Japanese Academia Sinica, Taipei Lipid diversity in plant development TW

Lionel Navarro French Institute of Biology of the ENS (IBENS), Paris Small RNAs and innate immunity FR

Caren Norden German MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Retinal morphogenesis DE

Diego Pasini Italian European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan Epigenetics in differentiation and cancer IT

Lori Passmore British MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Macromolecular machines for RNA synthesis UK

Michael Potente German MPI for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim Angiogenesis and metabolism DE

Halyna Shcherbata Ukrainian MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Solingen miRNAs in cell differentiation and maintenance DE

Maria Teresa Teixeira Portuguese Institut de Biologie, Paris Telomere biology FR

Kristin Tessmar-Raible German Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Circalunar clocks AT

Ines Thiele German University of Luxembourg Modelling of human metabolism LU

Steven West British University of Edinburgh Nuclear pre-mRNA processing UK

Thomas Wollert German MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried Molecular mechanism of autophaghy DE

Philip zegerman British Wellcome Trust / CRUK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge Regulation of genome replication UK

Johannes zuber German Research Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Cancer drug target identification with RNAi AT

Gerlind Wallon Programme Manager

EMBO young InvestigatorsLaunched in 2000, the programme has supported 342 scientists in 19 EMBC Member States. Researchers from Singapore and Taiwan have joined the programme due to cooperation agreements signed in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The EMBO Young Investigators benefit from training opportunities designed to raise their profile, widen their networks and support their research groups.

[email protected] www.embo.org/funding-awards/young-investigators

85EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Young Investigators

EMBO Young Investigators 2000 – 2013

Adams, RalfAgami, ReuvenAhel, IvanAllain, FrédéricAlon, UriAmit, IdoAntonny, BrunoArber, SilviaArkowitz, RobertArribas, JoaquinAshe, HilaryAverof, MichalisAzzalin, Claus Maria

Barkai, NaamaBarr, FrancisBarral, YvesBarre, François-XavierBasto, RenataBatista, FacundoBaum, BuzzBehrens, AxelBeja, OdedBellaiche, YohannsBen-Yehuda, SigalBenton, RichardBerezikov, EugeneBerger, FrédéricBertolotti, AnneBertrand, EdouardBettencourt-Dias, MónicaBlanpain, CédricBlázquez, MiguelBochtler, MatthiasBoulton, SimonBousso, PhilippeBoutros, MichaelBriscoe, JamesBühler, MarcBujnicki, JanuszBumann, Dirk

Carballido-López, RutCarleton, AlanCarroll, JasonCarter, AndrewCarvalho, PedroCasares, FernandoCavaillé, Jérôme

Chin, JasonChiti, FabrizioChoudhary, ChunaramChristoforidis, SavvasClausen, TimCollinson, IanConradt, BarbaraCorona, DavideCosma, Maria PiaCostanzo, VincenzoCowling, VictoriaCramer, PatrickCurrie, Peter

d’Adda di Fagagna, FabrizioDaumke, OliverDavis, Danielde Gier, Jan-WillemDel Pozo, Miguel A.Delledonne, MassimoDessen, AndreaDickson, BarryDominguez, MariaDonaldson, AnneDrew, DavidDutzler, Raimund

Einsle, OliverElena, SantiagoElf, JohanEtienne-Manneville, Sandrine

Fankhauser, ChristianFernández-Capetillo, ÓscarFernández-Chacón, RafaelFischer, AndréFriml, JiriFuks, François

Garel, SoniaGarinis, GeorgeGeldner, NikoGerhardt, HolgerGerlich, Daniel WolframGil, Jesus

Ginhoux, FlorentGlotzer, MichaelGönczy, PierreGonzález-Reyes, AcaimoGotta, MonicaGrill, StephanGroth, AnjaGrunwald Kadow, Ilona

Hajkova, PetraHajnal, AlexHanna, JacobHardingham, GilesHarkany, TiborHassan, BassemHaucke, VolkerHelariutta, YkäHelms, VolkhardHidalgo, AliciaHirst, JudyHoffmann, EvaHolstege, FrankHoogenraad, CasperHopfner, Karl-PeterHoppe, ThorstenHummel, Thomas

Ivaska, Johanna

Jacobs, JacquelineJanke, CarstenJansen, RalfJarriault, SophieJefferis, GregoryJensen, KimJensen, Torben HeickJessberger, SebastianJovine, Luca

Kaessmann, HenrikKaufmann, KerstinKeays, DavidKetting, RenéKhakh, BaljitKlaholz, BrunoKlose, RobertKnoblich, JürgenKöhler, ClaudiaKomander, David

Kondrashov, FyodorKonieczny, IgorKunji, Edmund

Labib, KarimLakadamyali, MelikeLängst, GernotLappalainen, PekkaLecuit, ThomasLehner, BenLemaitre, BrunoLevashina, Elena A.Leys, DavidLogan, DarrenLogan, MalcolmLohmann, JanLopes, MassimoLópez-Bendito, GuillerminaLorentzen, EsbenLovering, AndrewLöwe, JanLüdde, TomLuke, BrianLygerou, Zoi

Madan Babu, M.Mailand, NielsMakinen, TaijaMalnasi Csizmadia, AndrasMansuy, IsabelleManzanares, MiguelMarin, OscarMarine, Jean-ChristopheMarques-Bonet, TomasMarston, AdeleMartens, SaschaMartin-Bermudo, Maria DoloresMartín-Serrano, JuanMartin, SophieMartinez, JavierMás, PalomaMathieu, OlivierMattevi, AndreaMehlen, PatrickMeier, PascalMeraldi, Patrick

Miguel-Aliaga, IreneMilán, MarcoMilo, RonMiska, EricMitchell, KevinMoller, Simon GeirMorillon, AntoninMosialos, GeorgeMota, MariaMusacchio, Andrea

Nagy, LaszloNehrbass, UlfNeuhauss, StephanNichols, BenjaminNissen, PoulNollen, EllenNoselli, Stéphane

Odom, DuncanOldroyd, GilesOtzen, DanielOwen-Hughes, TomOwen, DavidOxenius, Annette

Palková, ZdenaPalmer, RuthPasero, PhilippePeeper, DanielPellizzoni, LivioPeracchi, AlessioPerrakis, AnastassisPeters, AntoinePeters, Jan-MichaelPetronczki, MarkPhilpott, DanaPierre, PhilippePilpel, YitzhakPoirazi, PanayiotaPolo, SimonaPosas, FrancescPrud’homme, Benjamin

Radtke, FreddyRalser, MarkusReddy, AkhileshReich, ZivRescigno, MariaReversade, BrunoRicci, RomeoRichards, Thomas

Rico, BeatrizRizzoli, SilvioRobinson, RobertRodriguez, IvanRoska, BotondRouse, John

Sablina, AnnaSahai, ErikSalecker, IrisSandberg, RickardSantos, ManuelSaudou, FrédéricSchärer, Orlando D.Schedl, AndreasSchleper, ChristaSchlötterer, ChristianSchneitz, KaySchnittger, ArpSchnorrer, FrankSchratt, GerhardSchübeler, DirkSchuh, MelinaSchuldiner, MayaSchulze, AlmutSchwappach, BlancheScorrano, LucaSegal, EranSelbach, MatthiasSeoane, JoanSilva-Santos, BrunoSimons, MikaelSo, EricSorek, RotemSourjik, VictorSoutoglou, EviSpahn, ChristianSpang, AnneSprecher, SimonStancheva, IrinaStark, AlexanderStock, DanielaSträßer, KatjaStrick, TerenceStumpf, MichaelSuomalainen-Wartiovaara, AnuSzabò, Ildikò

Taipale, JussiTamagnone, Luca

Tanaka, TomoyukiTanay, AmosTapon, NicolasTarsounas, MadalenaTavernarakis, NektariosTeichmann, SarahTeleman, AurelioTelford, MaximilianTherond, PascalThery, ManuelThompson, BarryTolar, PavelTorres-Padilla, Maria-ElenaTrouche, DidierTrumpp, AndreasTsiantis, MiltosTuschl, Thomas

Uhlmann, FrankUlrich, HelleUngermann, Christian

van Aalten, DaanVan den Ackerveken, Guidovan der Goot, Gisouvan Steensel, BasVeening, Jan-WillemVeldhoen, MarcVendruscolo, MicheleVermot, JulienVerstrepen, KevinVinkemeier, UweViola, AntonellaVoinnet, Olivier

Walden, HelenWalther, TobiasWilson, DanielWimmer, Ernst A.Wutz, Anton

Yanai, Itai

Zarivach, RazZeeman, SamuelZernicka-Goetz, MagdalenaZimmermann, Pascale


EMBO Young Investigators: statisticsApplications and awards 2005 – 2014

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Country Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw. Appl. Aw.

Austria 3 1 3 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 3 1 8 3Belgium 3 0 6 2 6 1 2 0 6 1 3 1 3 0 3 0 5 1 9 1Croatia 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0Czech Republic 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0Denmark 1 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 5 1 1 0 4 3 2 0Estonia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0Finland 2 0 5 2 8 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 9 0 3 0France 14 2 16 4 8 3 11 1 11 0 12 0 23 4 21 3 29 3 20 4Germany 23 4 27 2 19 3 21 1 17 2 22 7 19 3 16 1 17 2 31 7Greece 6 0 4 0 4 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 0Hungary 1 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0Iceland 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Ireland 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0Israel 3 1 5 1 2 1 4 0 6 1 7 1 4 1 10 4 8 1 7 1Italy 14 1 11 3 10 1 4 0 15 1 12 1 11 0 8 0 7 0 10 1Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1The Netherlands 5 1 8 0 5 1 7 0 7 1 7 1 6 1 13 1 11 1 7 0Norway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 2 0Poland 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Portugal 4 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 5 1 3 0 3 0 19 0 9 0Slovak Republic 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0Slovenia 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Spain 17 1 16 0 18 3 12 1 8 0 14 3 27 0 23 1 28 3 21 1Sweden 3 1 10 0 14 1 3 0 3 1 4 0 8 1 7 1 6 1 11 0Switzerland 8 3 5 2 4 0 5 2 11 6 11 1 11 3 10 2 7 1 10 3Turkey 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 1 0United Kingdom 13 2 22 5 26 3 32 7 24 3 32 5 34 8 22 5 29 5 33 4Singapore 4 1 1 1 3Taiwan 1 0 4 1Others 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2Total 128 17 153 21 132 18 116 12 123 17 137 21 164 22 160 22 192 23 202 27

Female 32 2 32 6 37 3 32 2 34 4 39 3 57 8 57 8 59 5 64 7Male 96 15 121 15 95 15 84 10 89 13 98 18 107 14 103 14 133 18 138 20

87EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Young Investigators

EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2014Young Investigator Conference Location DateFyodor Kondrashov Population Genetics Group 47 GB-Bath 7 – 10 January

Sascha Martens EMBO Workshop: Protein and Lipid Function in Secretion and Endocytosis

AT-Goldegg 14 – 19 January

Marc Veldhoen Keystone Symposia: Emerging Cytokine Networks CA-Vancouver 17 – 22 January

Sebastian Jessberger Adult Neurogenesis: From stem cells to therapies IN-Mumbai 6 – 8 February

Melike Lakadamyali 58th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting US-San Francisco 15 – 19 February

Markus Ralser Keystone Symposium: Omics Meets Cell Biology: Applications to Human Health and Disease

US-Taos 18 – 23 February

Jacqueline Jacobs & Madalena Tarsounas

Abcam Meeting: Maintenance of Genome Stability KN-St. Kitts 3 – 6 March

Sascha Martens Gordon Research Conference: Autophagy in Stress, Development and Disease

IT-Lucca (Barga) 16 – 21 March

Massimo Lopes Gordon Conference: DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer US-Ventura 16 – 21 March

Markus Ralser Biochemical Society Focused Meeting: Redox regulation in health and disease

GB-Edinburgh 19 – 21 March

Beatriz Rico EMBO Workshop: Mechanisms of neuronal remodelling IL-Ein-Gedi 22 – 26 March

Sebastian Jessberger Keystone Symposia: Adult neurogenesis SE-Stockholm 12 – 17 May

Daniel Wilson EMBO Workshop | Recoding: Reprogramming Genetic Decoding

IE-Killarney 13 – 18 May

Anja Groth EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course on Nuclear Proteomics GR-Kos 18 – 23 May

Eva Hoffmann 2014 Meiosis Gordon Conference US-New London 1 – 6 June

Pedro Carvalho EMBO Workshop: Cellular Imaging of Lipids IT-Vico Equense 2 – 6 June

Robert Klose & Kevin Verstrepen Society for molecular biology and evolution annual meeting US-Puerto Rico 8 – 12 June

Anja Groth Gordon Research Conference: Chromatin structure and function

US-Waltham 8 – 13 June

Pavel Tolar FASEB Science Research conference on Immunoreceptors US-Steamboat Springs 15 – 20 June

Bruno Reversade ISSCR 12th Annual Meeting CA-Vancouver 18 – 21 June

Rut Carballido-López Gordon Research Conference: Bacterial Cell Surfaces US-West Dover 22 – 27 June

Irene Miguel-Aliaga EMBO Conference: The Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila

GR-Kolymbari 22 – 28 June

Kim Jensen 3rd Midnight Sun Symposium: LRIG Proteins and the Regulation of Growth Factor Signaling

SE-Abisko 26 – 29 June

Anja Groth Gordon Research Conference: Genomic Instability CN-Hong Kong 6 – 11 July


EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2014Young Investigator Conference Location DateMaya Schuldiner Gordon Research Conference: Thiol-Based Redox

Regulation and Signaling ES-Girona 20 – 25 July

Niko Geldner Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress in Plants

US-Newry 3 – 8 August

Sophie Martin Gordon Research Conference: Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton

US-Andover 10 – 15 August

Sonia Garel Gordon Research Conference: Neural Development US-Newport 10 – 15 August

Petra Hajkova 14th FEBS Young Scientist Forum FR-Paris 27 – 30 August

Sophie Jarriault EMBO Conference: The Molecular and cellular basis of regeneration and tissue repair

ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols 6 – 10 September

Raz zarivach 4th International Meeting on Magnetotactic Bacteria BR-Rio de Janeiro 15 – 18 September

Tomas Marques-Bonet & Benjamin Prud'homme

The Genome: Structure, Expression and Evolution IT-Naples 22 – 24 September

Niko Geldner 9th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting 2014 DE-Heidelberg 24 – 26 September

Renata Basto & Manuel Thery EMBO conference: Centrosome and Spindle Pole Bodies PT-Lisbon 30 Sep – 3 October

Marc Bühler IMB Conference ‘Nuclear RNA in Gene Regulation & Chromatin Structure’

DE-Mainz 9 – 12 October

Ben Lehner X meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD)

ES-Madrid 13 – 15 October

Jacqueline Jacobs & Daniel Wilson 15th IUBMB – 24th FAOBMB – TSBMB International Conference Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Transition from Basic to Translational

TW-Taipei 21 – 26 October

Sascha Martens Jacques Monod Conference: Molecular basis for membrane remodelling and organization

FR-Roscoff 15 – 19 November

89EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Installation Grants

EMBO Installation Grant Recipients 2014Name Nationality Moving from Moving to Research interestNuno Barbosa-Morais Portuguese University of Toronto, CA Institute of Molecular Medicine,

Lisbon, PTCancer transcriptomes and metastasis

Tolga Çukur Turkish University of California, Berkeley, US

Bilkent University, Ankara, TR Investigation of the visual system

Ana Domingos Portuguese The Rockefeller University, New York, US

Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, PT

Neurobiological control of obesity

Peter Lukavsky Austrian Stanford University, US CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ

Molecular basis of aberrant splicing

Günes Özhan Turkish University of Technology Dresden, DE

Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (iBG), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TR

Wnt/β-catenin signalling

Pavel Plevka Czech Purdue University, Indiana, US CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ

Structural studies of Picornaviruses

Piotr Setny Polish Technical University of Munich, DE

Centre for New Technologies, University of Warsaw, PL

Hydration effects in proteins

Gerhard Wingender German La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, US

Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (iBG), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TR

Invariant Natural Killer T cells in allergy

Gerlind Wallon Programme Manager

EMBO Installation GrantsEMBO Installation Grants, launched in 2006, strengthen science by funding researchers to relocate and establish laboratories in one of the participating member states of, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Portugal, and Turkey. Awardees are closely integrated into the Young Investigator network, helping them to build reputations in the European scientific community.

[email protected] www.embo.org/funding-awards/installation-grants

90 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Courses & Workshops

EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014Title Organizer Location Dates

Practical CoursesEMBC Member States

Metabolomics bioinformatics for life scientists R. Salek UK-Cambridge 17 – 21 March

Advanced optical microscopy B. Amos UK-Plymouth 2 – 12 April

Computational structural biology G. Battle UK-Hinxton 7 – 11 April

Computational molecular evolution A. Stamatakis GR-Heraklion 5 – 14 May

Bioinformatics and genomes analyses F. Tekaia GR-Athens 5 – 17 May

The structural characterization of macromolecular complexes

C. Petosa FR-Grenoble 2 – 7 June

Non-coding RNAs: From discovery to function V. Benes IE-Galway 7 – 13 June

Molecular genetics with fission yeast B. Arcangioli FR-Paris 30 June – 11 July

3D Developmental imaging G. Martins PT-Oeiras 4 – 12 July

Correlative light electron microscopy P. Verkade UK-Bristol 6 – 11 July

Solution and solid-state NMR of paramagnetic molecules

P. Turano IT-Sesto Fiorentino 13 – 19 July

Biomolecular simulation M. Nilges FR-Paris 20 – 27 July

Genotype to phenotype mapping of complex traits

L. Emery UK-Hinxton 28 July – 1 August

Multidimensional NMR in structural biology C. Griesinger DE-Joachimsthal 10 – 15 August

Light sheet microscopy P. Tomancak DE-Dresden 18 – 29 August

Cryo-electron microscopy and 3D image processing

J. Briggs DE-Heidelberg 31 August – 9 September

Ubiquitin and related modifiers K. Hofmann IT-Alghero 6 – 13 September

Protein expression, purification, and characterization (PEPC9)

R. Meijers DE-Hamburg 8 – 16 September

Microscopy, modelling and biophysical methods

F. Nedelec DE-Heidelberg 8 – 20 September

Anne-Marie Glynn Programme Manager

EMBO Courses & WorkshopsThe EMBO Courses & Workshops Programme funds high-quality meetings and provides scientists at all career stages with networking and training opportunities. The selection processes ensure that only the best and most diverse life science meetings are funded.

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Practical CoursesEMBC Member States (cont.)

Single-cell gene expression analysis J. Dreyer-Lamm DE-Heidelberg 19 – 25 September

Targeted proteomics: Experimental design and data analysis

E. Sabidó ES-Barcelona 28 September – 3 October

Non-coding RNA in infection J. Vogel DE-Würzburg 12 – 18 October

Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data G. Rustici UK-Hinxton 20 – 25 October

High-throughput microscopy for systems biology

R. Pepperkok DE-Heidelberg 20 – 26 October

Solution scattering from biological macromolecules

D. Svergun DE-Hamburg 27 October – 3 November

Biomolecular interaction analysis: From molecules to cells

F. Silva PT-Porto 24 – 28 November

Practical Courses Non-EMBC Member States

Computational biology: Genomes to systems P. Bork CL-Puerto Varas 3 – 9 April

Computational analysis of protein-protein interactions: From sequences to networks

N. Mulder ZA-Cape Town 28 September – 3 October

Workshops EMBC Member States

Protein and lipid function in secretion and endocytosis

S. Tooze AT-Goldegg am See 14 – 19 January

Signalling to and from endomembranes H. Farhan DE-Hegne 15 – 19 March

Mechanisms of neuronal remodelling O. Schuldiner IL-Ein Gedi 22 – 26 March

Stalked alpha-Proteobacteria and relatives: From genes to structure

P. Viollier DE-Ebsdorfergrund 30 March – 3 April

Recoding: Reprogramming genetic decoding J.F. Atkins IE-Killarney 13 – 18 May

Glycobiology and glycochemistry: Applications to human health and disease

P. Videira PT-Lisbon 26 – 30 May

Magnetic resonance for cellular structural biology

R. Pierattelli IT-Principina Terra 1 – 6 June

Histone variants M.E. Torres Padilla FR-Strasbourg 2 – 4 June

Cellular imaging of lipids G. D'Angelo IT-Vico Equense 2 – 6 June

Simultaneous profiling of RNA and protein using proximity ligation assay

S. Bustin UK-Chelmsford 7 – 7 July

Intercellular communication in plant development and disease

M. Heinlein FR-Bischoffsheim 24 – 29 August

Advances in protein – protein interaction analysis and modulation

X. Morelli FR-Hyères 9 – 12 September



Workshops EMBC Member States(cont.)

Unraveling biological secrets by single-cell expression profiling

J. Dreyer-Lamm DE-Heidelberg 25 – 26 September

Decoding neural circuit structure and function A. Celik TR-Istanbul 26 – 28 September

Development and regeneration of the spinal cord

E. Martí Gorostiza ES-Sitges 1 – 4 October

Cancer stem cells 20 years later: Achievements, controversies, emerging concepts and technologies

G. Morrone IT-Catanzaro 3 – 6 October

Human RNA viruses A. Marcello TR-Istanbul 6 – 8 October

Translational advances in cancer cell signalling and metabolism

A. Carracedo ES-Bilbao 7 – 9 October

Non-coding RNAs in genome expression, maintenance and stability

A. Morillon FR-Cargèse 7 – 10 October

Epigenetic plasticity: Implications in neural (dys)function

J. Marques PT-Braga 22 – 25 October

A systems-level view of cytoskeletal function B. Geiger SE-Stockholm 27 – 31 October

Workshops Non-EMBC Member States

Current advances in membrane trafficking: Implications for polarity and diseases

M.P. Marzolo CL-Puerto Natales 9 – 14 September

Wnt signalling: Stem cells, development and disease

E. Vincan AU-Broome 6 – 9 October

Cell plasticity and nuclear dynamics C. Stewart SG-Singapore 12 – 15 October

Stem cells and epigenetics in cancer E. So CN-Hong Kong 16 – 18 October

Upstream and downstream of Hox genes R. Mishra IN-Hyderabad 14 – 17 December

Conferences and Conference Series EMBC Member States

The mighty Daphnia: Past, present and future L. Mirbahai UK-Birmingham 19 – 22 January

Visualizing biological data (VIZBI 2014) S. ODonoghue DE-Heidelberg 5 – 7 March

Human evolution in the genomic era: origins, populations and phenotypes

C. Batini UK-Leicester 1 – 4 April

Telomeres, telomerase and disease P. Baumann BE-Brussels 30 April – 4 May

Molecular biology of muscle development and regeneration

I. Bozzoni IT-Acaya 14 – 18 May

Lymphocyte signalling C.T. Baldari IT-Bertinoro 17 – 21 May

Cellular signalling and cancer therapy I. Dikic HR-Cavtat 23 – 27 May

Microtubules: Structure, regulation and functions

C. Janke DE-Heidelberg 28 – 31 May

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Conferences and Conference Series EMBC Member States(cont.)

Enzyme mechanisms by biological systems N. Scrutton UK-Manchester 1 – 4 June

Gene transcription in yeast: From regulatory networks to mechanisms

D.M. Shore ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols

14 – 19 June

The molecular and developmental biology of Drosophila

A. Ephrussi GR-Kolymbari 22 – 28 June

Microbiology after the genomics revolution (Genomes 2014)

C. Buchrieser FR-Paris 24 – 27 June

Viruses of microbes: Structure and function, from molecules to communities

J. Klumpp CH-Zurich 14 – 18 July

Chemical biology E. Lemke DE-Heidelberg 20 – 23 August

Brain development and disorders Y. Ben-Ari FR-La Ciotat 5 – 8 September

The molecular and cellular basis of regeneration and tissue repair

E. Salo ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols

6 – 10 September

Interdisciplinary plant development O. Leyser UK-Cambridge 21 – 24 September

Innate lymphoid cells G. Eberl FR-Paris 29 September – 1 October

Centrosomes and spindle pole bodies M. Bettencourt-Dias PT-Lisbon 30 September – 3 October

Stem cells in cancer and regenerative medicine C. Nerlov DE-Heidelberg 9 – 12 October

Experimental approaches to evolution and ecology using yeast and other model systems

L. Steinmetz DE-Heidelberg 12 – 15 October

The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) as a hub for organelle communication

M. Schuldiner ES-Girona 26 – 31 October

From functional genomics to systems biology E. Furlong DE-Heidelberg 8 – 11 November

Conferences and Conference Series Non-EMBC Member States

Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins: At the crossroads from chromatin to protein

F. Pelisch AR-Buenos Aires 19 – 24 October

ESF | EMBO Symposia Cell polarity and membrane trafficking D. St. Johnston PL-Pułtusk 10 – 15 May

Biology of plastids: Towards a blueprint for synthetic organelles

A. Weber PL-Pułtusk 21 – 26 June

Synthetic biology of antibiotic production E. Takano ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols

30 August – 4 September

Long regulatory RNAs A. Werner PL-Pułtusk 13 – 18 September



ESF | EMBO Symposia(cont.)

Flies, worms and robots: Combining perspectives on minibrains and behaviour

M. Louis ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols

8 – 13 November

EMBO | EMBL Symposia

Translating diabetes J.C. Brüning DE-Heidelberg 30 April – 3 May

Tumour microenvironment and signalling A.J. Berns DE-Heidelberg 7 – 10 May

Molecular machines: Lessons from integrating structure, biophysics and chemistry

T. Carlomagno DE-Heidelberg 18 – 21 May

Epithelia: The building blocks of multicellularity H.C. Clevers DE-Heidelberg 27 – 30 August

The complex life of mRNA A. Ephrussi DE-Heidelberg 5 – 8 October

Frontiers in metabolism: From molecular physiology to systems medicine

J. Auwerx DE-Heidelberg 17 – 20 November

EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses

Biophysics of channels and transporters F.M. Ashcroft IT-Erice 11 – 17 May

Nuclear proteomics A. Imhof GR-Kos 17 – 22 May

EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Courses Non-EMBC Member States

Structural and biophysical methods for biological macromolecules in solution

D. Svergun BR-São Paulo 19 – 26 January

Biology of bacterial non-coding RNAs C. Valverde AR-Bernal 4 – 9 March

High-throughput next generation sequencing applied to infectious diseases

F. Guerfali TN-Tunis 15 – 25 September

Biochemistry and molecular biology: Bench to bedside approaches

L.C. Cameron BR-Cuiabá/Poconé 27 October – 7 November

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Laboratory Management Courses 2014Title Organizer Location Dates

Laboratory Management Courses***

EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for postdocs)

A. GlynnM. Cairns

DE-Leimen(near Heidelberg)

28–30 January

EMBO Laboratory Management Course(for independent group leaders)

A. GlynnM. Cairns


3–6 February


A. GlynnM. Cairns


18–20 February


A. GlynnM. Cairns


10–13 March


A. GlynnM. Cairns


25–27 March


A. GlynnM. Cairns


1–3 April


A. GlynnM. Cairns


28–30 April


A. GlynnM. Cairns


5–8 May


A. GlynnM. Cairns


20–22 May


A. GlynnM. Cairns


9–11 June


A. GlynnM. Cairns


16–18 June


A. GlynnM. Cairns


14-17 July


A. GlynnM. Cairns


6-9 October


A. GlynnM. Cairns


4–6 November

EMBO Laboratory Management Course: Female Leaders in Science(for independent group leaders)

A. GlynnM. Cairns


5–7 November


A. GlynnM. Cairns


10–13 November


A. GlynnM. Cairns


17–20 November

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Laboratory Management Courses 2014Title Organizer Location Dates

Laboratory Management Courses***(cont.)


A. GlynnM. Cairns


24–27 November


A. GlynnM. Cairns


2–4 December

***administered by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH

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98 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Women in Science

Gerlind Wallon Manager

Participation of women in EMBO activities: StatisticsEMBO Courses & Workshops 2010 – 2014 (including EMBO | EMBL Symposia, EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses, EMBO Conference Series, EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Courses, EMBO Practical Courses, EMBO Workshops, ESF | EMBO Symposia)Year % women % female speakers2011 49 272012 47 292013 46 302014 49 32

EMBO Women in ScienceEMBO monitors gender balance in all of its activities and develops initiatives to counteract imbalances and to raise awareness of issues facing female scientists as their careers advance. An annual award highlights major contributions of female researchers to the life sciences.

EMBO Membership (including Associate Members)Year Total number of members % Women2002 1126 132003 1162 132004 1191 142005 1223 142006 1271 142007 1305 142008 1357 142009 1413 152010 1461 152011 1492 152012 1532 162013 1567 162014 1657 17

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Participation of women in EMBO activities: StatisticsEMBO Short-Term Fellowships

Applications % Awards % Success rate %2010 Female applicants 230 55 126 58 55

Male applicants 191 45 93 42 49Overall 421 219 52

2011 Female applicants 267 53 152 54 57Male applicants 239 47 129 46 54Overall 506 281 55




2010 – 2014 Female applicants 1476 56 782 57 53Male applicants 1144 44 594 43 52Overall 2620 1376 53

Participation of women in EMBO activities: StatisticsEMBO Long-Term Fellowships






2014 Female applicants 742 45 86 35 12 Male applicants 906 55 161 65 18

Overall 1648 247 152010 – 2014 Female applicants 3824 47 504 41 13


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Participation of women in EMBO activities: StatisticsEMBO Installation Grants








101EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Gold Medal

1986 John Tooze Heidelberg, DE

1987 Barbara Pearse Cambridge, UK

1988 Antonio Lanzavecchia Basel, CH

1989 Hugh Pelham Cambridge, UK

1990 Erwin Wagner Vienna, AT

1991 Patrick Stragier Paris, FR

1992 Carl-Henrik Heldin Uppsala, SE

1993 Jim Smith London, UK

1994 Paolo Sassone-Corsi Strasbourg, FR

1995 Richard Treisman London, UK

1996 Enrico Coen Norwich, UK

1997 Dirk Görlich Heidelberg, DE

1998 Adriano Aguzzi Zurich, CH

1999 Konrad Basler Zurich, CH

2000 Christof Niehrs Heidelberg, DE

Daniel St. Johnston Cambridge, UK

2001 Matthew Freeman Cambridge, UK

2002 Amanda Fisher London, UK

2003 Anthony Hyman Dresden, DE

2004 María Blasco Madrid, ES

2005 Dario Alessi Dundee, UK

2006 Frank Uhlmann London, UK

2007 Jan Löwe Cambridge, UK

2008 James Briscoe London, UK

2009 Olivier Voinnet Strasbourg, FR

2010 Jason W. Chin London, UK

2011 Simon Boulton London, UK

2012 Jirí Friml Ghent, BE

2013 Thijn Brummelkamp Amsterdam, NL

2014 Sophie Martin Lausanne, CH

EMBO Gold Medalists 1986 – 2014

The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually to young scientists for outstanding contributions to the life sciences in Europe.

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102 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO Keynote Lectures

Anne-Marie Glynn Manager

EMBO Keynote Lectures 2014Name Lecture Title Location Date

Keynote LecturesEMBC Member States

Gunnar von Heijne Meeting of the Italian Bioinformatics Society (BITS2014)

IT-Rome 26 – 28 February

Nicholas Talbot European Conference of Fungal Genetics (ECFG12)

ES-Seville 23 – 27 March

Søren Brunak Integrative and Computational Biology Joint Symposium – V IMPPC Annual Conference and 4DCellFate Workshop

ES-Barcelona 27 – 28 March

Ada Yonath Structure and Dynamics of Biological Macromolecules

IT-Rome 8 – 9 April

Roger Patient 7th Swiss Zebrafish Meeting CH-Geneva 24 – 25 April

Poul Nissen Biophysics of Channels and Transporters IT-Erice 11 – 17 May

Malcom F. White CRISPR 2014 DE-Berlin 14 – 16 May

Angus I. Lamond EMBO | FEBS Lecture Course on Nuclear Proteomics

GR-Kos 17 – 21 May

Urs Jenal Young Microbiologists Symposium on Microbe Signalling, Organisation and Pathogenesis

UK-Dundee 2 – 3 June

Luca Scorrano Euromit 2014, the International Meeting on Mitochondrial Pathology

FI-Tampere 15 – 19 June

Nils-Göran Larsson Euromit 2014, the International Meeting on Mitochondrial Pathology

FI-Tampere 15 – 19 June

Susumu Tonegawa International Workshop on Dendrites (Dendrites 2014)

GR-Heraklion (Crete) 1 – 4 July

Douglas Hanahan The 23rd Biennial Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research: From Basic Research to Personalised Cancer Treatment

DE-Munich 5 – 8 July

Stephen C. Harrison Early Events in Virus Infection CH-Ascona 25 – 28 August

Howard Riezman Lipids as molecular switches GR-Spetses Island 25 – 30 August

EMBO Keynote LecturesEvery year, EMBO Members are funded to present keynote lectures at international scientific meetings. Keynote lectures raise awareness of EMBO activities, support members in their collaborations with scientists from associated fields and promote European science worldwide.

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Keynote LecturesEMBC Member States(cont.)

Yosef Yarden BioNetVisA workshop From biological network reconstruction to data visualization and analysis in molecular biology and medicine

FR-Strasbourg 7 – 7 September

Ray Dixon XI European Nitrogen Fixation Congress ES-Costa Adeje 7 – 10 September

Nobutaka Hirokawa 18th International Microscopy Congress (IMC 2014)

CZ-Prague 7 – 12 September

Richard Henderson Crossing Frontiers in the Life Sciences AT-Vienna 11 – 12 September

Douglas R. Higgs Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Medicine: Bridging research and the clinic

GR-Athens 11 – 15 September

Marat Yusupov 25th tRNA Conference 2014 GR-Kyllini 21 – 25 September

Gary Felsenfeld The genome: structure, expression and evolution

IT-Naples 22 – 24 September

Huanming Yang The genome: structure, expression and evolution

IT-Naples 22 – 24 September

Satyajit Mayor 1st International Meeting 'Building the Cell'

FR-PARIS 24 – 26 September

Caroline Dean 9th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting 2014 DE-Heidelberg 24 – 26 September

Giacomo Cavalli FISV 2014 XIII Congress IT-Pisa 24 – 27 September

Ruth Lehmann Nuclear RNA in Gene Regulation & Chromatin Structure

DE-Mainz 9 – 12 October

Alexander Levitzki iMed Conference 6.0. – Lisbon 2014 PT-Lisbon 10 – 12 October

Denis Duboule X Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology

ES-Madrid 13 – 15 October

Jason W. Chin Inspired by Biology: Exploring Nature's Toolbox

DE-Heidelberg 23 – 25 October

Konrad Sandhoff 360-degree Lysosome; from structure to genomics, from function to disease

TR-Aydın 23 – 27 October

Camilla Sjögren RNA meets DNA: on the road to genome instability

ES-Baeza 3 – 5 November

Ronald M. Evans CNIC Conference – Energy homeostasis and metabolic disease

ES-Madrid 7 – 8 November

Reinhard Jahn Conférence Jacques Monod: Molecular basis for membrane remodelling and organization

FR-Roscoff 15 – 19 November

Bernard Dujon XVIII Congress of the Portuguese Biochemical Society

PT-Coimbra 17 – 20 December

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Keynote LecturesNon-EMBC Member States

Gideon J. Davies 27th International Carbohydrate Symposium

IN-Bangalore 12 – 17 January

Ivan Dikic CANCERCON 2014 – International Conference on Cancer Biology: Molecular Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutics

IN-Chennai 30 January – 2 February

Jan Löwe 39th Lorne Conference for Protein Structure and Function

AU-Lorne 9 – 13 February

Gillian Griffiths Young Investigator Meeting 2014 IN-Hyderabad 9 – 13 February

Wendy Bickmore 2014 Lorne Genome Conference AU-Lorne 16 – 18 February

Wolfgang Baumeister The 2nd i-MANI Symposium and Workshop TW-Tainan 3 – 6 March

Josef Penninger Future of Experimental Medicine Conference – Inflammation in Disease and Ageing

AU-Manly 16 – 19 March

Freddy Radtke The 14th Hunter Meeting, incorporating the 7th Pre-Conference Imaging Workshop

AU-Pokolbin 25 – 28 March

Colin Goding 24th South African Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SASBMB) Congress

ZA-Rawsonville 6 – 9 July

Alain Nicolas FASEB Summer Research Conference 'Dynamic DNA Structures in Biology'

US-Itasca 20 – 25 July

Hans C. Clevers Wnt signalling: Stem cells, development and disease

AU-Broome 6 – 9 October

Aaron Ciechanover Ubiquitin & UBLs at the Crossroads from Chromatin to Protein

AR-Buenos Aires 19 – 24 October

Dominique Ferrandon 2014 SAIB Annual Meeting: Study of resilience, a second dimension of host defense, in intestinal infections of the genetic model organism Drosophila melanogaster

AR-Rosario 11 – 14 November

Thomas Lecuit The 7th Australian Developmental Biology Workshop

AU-Brisbane 12 – 15 November

Arturo zychlinsky LXII Annual Meeting of the Argentinean Society of Immunology

AR-Mar del Plata 19 – 22 November

Yann Barrandon 16th A-IMBN Annual Conference PH-Manila 1 – 2 December

Ashok Venkitaraman 2nd Meeting on Chromosome Stability IN-Bangalore 14 – 18 December

Global Exchange Lecture SeriesNon-EMBC Member States

Scott Waddell EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series TW-Taipei 3 – 4 November

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106 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.orgEMBO staff in Heidelberg

EMBO staff in Heidelberg as of February 2015

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The �rst �ve Advanced Fellows are selected (page 56). 247 Long-Term and 284 Short-Term Fellowships are awarded. The Fellows’ Meeting is held in Heidelberg in June 2014. In Novem-ber, the US Fellows’ Meeting is held at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, United States.

EMBO enlarges its membership on the occasion of its 50th anniversary and elects 106 new members (page 20). Twenty-seven Young Investigators (page 84) and eight InstallationGrantees (page 89) join the EMBO community.

EMBO Science Policy and EMBO Press receive a grant from the Fondation Brocher for a workshop on the genomics of cognition to be held in December 2015. The programme holds two workshops in 2014, one on the use of quotas in academic hiring (funded by Bosch Stiftung); the other on uses of non-anonymized human genome sequence in research (funded by ESF).

Sophie Martin receives the 2014 EMBO Gold Medal (page 101).

Cooperation agreement between EMBO, EMBC and the Government of the Republic of Singapore is extended until end of 2015. India requests to become an EMBC Associate Member State.

More than 11,000 participants from 105 countries attend 96 scienti�c events; 313 participants attend 19 EMBO Laboratory Management Courses.

French biologist Pascale Cossart receives the 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award.

The FEBS–EMBO 2014 Conference celebrates the 50th anniversa-ries of FEBS and EMBO and the centennial of the French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SFBBM).

EMBO Press launches a referee cross-commenting platform, Expanded View �gures, author checklists and image integrity screening services across its journals; manuscript transfers to EMBOreports are increased. The SourceData project is developing tools to search and re-use published data with a grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation.

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