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EMBO facts & figures  HIGHLIGHTS †‡ˆ CONTACT EMBOEMBO & EMBC facts & figures 2019EMBO Courses & Workshops Membership “” life scientists from •– countries were newly elected to EMBO Young Investigators the EMBO Membership. EMBO Installation Grants EMBO Global Investigator Network –˜™ Long-Term, ž™Ÿ Short-Term and ¡ve Advanced Fellowships Fellowships EMBO Women in Science were awarded. EMBO facts & figures reportsEMBO on Keynote the implementation Lectures of the EMBC General Pro- EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships, providing better social security gramme entrusted to EMBOGerlind and on Wallon other EMBO activities. EMBO Scientific Publications E Programme Head Bernd Pulverer M to the fellows, were launched. B Maria Leptin Deputy Director Head O EMBO promotes excellence in the life sciences in Europe and beyond. The major goals G Young Investigators and •¢ group leaders were selected as EMBO Young Investigators, and EMBO Director +     +    ­ O another –– scientists in the early stages of setting up their of the organization are to support talented researchers at all stages of their careers, LD Installation Grants M laboratories were selected as Installation Grantees. stimulate the exchange of scientific information, and help build a research environ- EDA 2019 L ment where scientists can achieve their best work. Science Policy Projects on governance of research integrity and on technical and policy approaches to mitigate problems arising from tissue culture Since 1964, EMBO has helped young scientists to advance their research, promote cell heterogeneity. Eilish Craddock their international reputationsEMBO and Fellowships ensure their mobility. Courses, workshops,EMBO practi Scientific- Publications Courses & Workshops and Over –¤¤ scienti¡c events were co-funded. Personal Assistant to cal courses and EMBO ScientificDavid Publications del Álamo disseminate the latest researchThomas and offer Lemberger other scientiŽc meetings the EMBO Director training in techniques to maintainProgramme high standards Head of excellence in research practice.Deputy Head +     +     +     Global Activities The EMBO Global Investigator Network providing funding and networking EMBO supports talented researchers, selected through impartial evaluation processes, to young life scientists in Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan was launched. to allow them to do great science. The wide scientific scope across the full range of life The ¡rst nine life scientists to join the programme were selected. science research coupled with the broad geographical reach of more than 1,800 mem- Awards M. Madan Babu and Paola Picotti were honored with the bers and associate members – some of the best researchers in Europe and around the EMBO Gold Medal. Administration & Financeworld – positions EMBO optimallyEMBO to Science serve Policythe life science community. EMBO Global Activities EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Bernhard Huber Michele Garfinkel Bettina Trueb announced Sara Linse as the recipient of the •¤–Ÿ FEBS|EMBO Women Head Programme Head Head in Science Award. +     The European Molecular Biology+ Conference   ­­ (EMBC), founded in 1969, is an inter-gov+   - ­  ernmental organization comprising 30 Member States including most of the European EMBC EMBO held a symposium celebrating the “¤th anniversary of the EMBC. Union and some of the neighbouring countries. The EMBC provides, through its General EMBO Press EMBO Scienti¡c Publications continued to shape best practice Programme, a framework for European co-operation in the field of the life sciences. in scienti¡c publishing through its ‘Transparent Process’ Information Support & and contributions to debates about Open Science, preprints EMBC Financial contributions from each Member State carry the General Programme.Resources The ex- and peer review. EMBO Council & Committees EMBO Communications Membership & Elections ecution of the EMBC General Programme is entrusted to EMBO. Both EMBC and EMBO Sophia Hercus Tilmann Kießling Volker Wiersdorff Review Commons Together with ASAPbio, EMBO launched Review Commons, a Assistant are driven by a common commitmentHead to quality research. Their joint activities areHead charac- pre-journal portable review platform which aims at accelerating +     terized by quality and encouragement+   of co-operation  within the scientific community.+     scienti¡c publishing by offering journal-independent peer review.

Complete list of EMBO staff in Heidelberg on pages  . table of contents EMBO Fellowships 24 – 73 Preface 4 – 5 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 24 – 41 EMBO actions in 2019 6 – 7 Statistics 24 – 25 EMBC actions in 2019 8 – 9 Awards 2019 26 – 39 Geographical distribution 2019 40 – 41 EMBO Advanced Fellowships 42 facts & figures 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 43 – 73 Statistics 43 EMBC Member States 12 – 13 Awards 2016 44 – 71 Delegates and Advisers 12 Geographical distribution 2019 72 – 73 Financial contributions 13 EMBO Young Investigators 74 – 79 EMBO Council & Committees 14 – 15 Young Investigators 2000 – 2019 74 – 75 EMBO Council 2019 14 Applications and awards 2015 – 2019 76 EMBO Committees 2019 15 Lectures 2019 77 – 79

EMBO Membership 16 – 19 EMBO Installation Grants 80-81 EMBO Members 2019 16 – 18 Installation Grantees 2019 80 EMBO Associate Members 2019 19 Global Investigators 2019 81

EMBO Scientific Publications 20 – 23 EMBO Courses & Workshops 82 – 87 Advisory Editorial Boards & Editors of Practical Courses 2019 82 – 83 The EMBO Journal 20 Workshops 2019 83 – 86 EMBO Reports 21 EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses 2019 86 Molecular Systems Biology 22 India | EMBO Symposia 87 EMBO Molecular Medicine 23 EMBO Keynote Lectures 88 – 91 Keynote Lectures 2019 88 – 91

EMBO Gold Medal 92 Gold Medalists 1986 – 2019 92

EMBO Women in Science 93 – 95 Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics 93 – 95

EMBO Staff in Heidelberg 96 – 97

EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 3 In this brochure, we report on last year’s EMBO activities and The EMBC continues to pursue the mission of promoting programmes. In 2019, EMBO awarded 184 EMBO Postdoctoral life science across national borders, and has done so for 50 Fellowships (formally, and in the remainder of this report, referred years. As an international and independent association of now to as Long-Term Fellowships) and five Advanced Fellowships. We 30 countries committed to scientific excellence, the EMBC has provided 349 Short-Term Fellowships to researchers at all career made significant contributions to the fostering and funding of stages and from all disciplines across the life sciences. EMBO con- generations of life scientists. tinued to foster scientific discussion and the exchange of knowl- It was a great pleasure to see that the year 2019 ended with edge by providing funding to over 90 scientific workshops and the commitment of the EMBC Member States not only to fund practical courses attended by more than 11,000 scientists. all of the current EMBO Programmes and activities for another A major reform of the EMBO Long-Term Fellowship Pro- five years, but to significantly increase the budget, allowing for gramme was finalized in 2019: The updated scheme replaces a major reform: the conversion of the stipend-based fellowships fellows’ stipends with two-year salaried contracts from their into contract-based fellowships, providing better social security Maria Leptin host organizations that include social security payments as re- Gerrit van Meer and other benefits for the EMBO Fellows. EMBO Director quired by national and local laws and regulations. In this way, EMBC President I thank all EMBC Delegates for their ongoing support, and I we meet young scientists’ increasing need for social security, wish Leszek Kaczmarek, who succeeded me as EMBC President while continuing to give them scientific independence. EMBO at the beginning of 2020, all the best for the continued execution congratulated twenty-seven life scientists on their selection as of the EMBC mission, that of fostering excellence in the life Preface new EMBO Young Investigators. Nine scientists in Chile, India, Preface sciences across Europe and beyond. I am writing this text in spring 2020, a few weeks into the SARS- Taiwan and Singapore joined the newly launched Global Inves- We are increasingly seeing an urgent need to promote science CoV-2 pandemic, which has changed our lives profoundly. A tigator Network, a highly welcome step to tighter cooperation and scientific research beyond national boundaries. Numerous long-unheard political and public call for science as the key to with our partner countries and territories outside Europe. political events and developments in Europe act against solving the crisis is now resonating throughout the world. Together with ASAPbio, EMBO created Review Commons, the foundations of fruitful science and research. Efficient It is encouraging to see a strong movement of the scientific a platform for high-quality peer review of manuscripts before cooperation and close exchange of knowledge irrespective of community to contribute to work on SARS-CoV-2, which has submission to one of 17 partner journals. This multi-journal nationalities, locations and political agendas, is becoming even emerged spontaneously. Individual scientists have embraced partnership was set up to accelerate scientific publishing more crucial than in the past. The spirit of science is more Gerrit van Meer the challenge of research on the biology of the virus, and po- through journal-independent peer review. international than almost any other area of our society. We EMBC President 2015 – 2019 tential avenues for therapy, diagnosis and vaccination. More I sincerely thank the EMBC Delegates, the EMBO Members should be proud of that and not become distracted from what than three hundred EMBO Members and Young Investigators serving on Council and Committees, and all EMBO staff for their we believe to be essential for science to succeed. have intensified or shifted their laboratories’ research to work ongoing dedication to promoting excellence in the life sciences. towards understanding the disease, developing improved meth- ods for detecting the virus, developing drugs or vaccines, pro- viding advice or equipment and helping in other ways. Funding and programmes that support excellent scientists with few or no strings attached clearly allow researchers to re- act immediately and deal effectively with challenges such as COVID-19. I am happy that EMBO, thanks to the funds from the Maria Leptin EMBC, has been able to support such individuals in such a way. EMBO Director

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Major decisions of the EMBO Council are listed below with other important EMBO actions including actions not described elsewhere in this report.

➔ EMBO OFFICERS & COUNCIL 2019 EMBO Membership and Council Other EMBO activities ➔ EMBO COMMITTEE CHAIRS 2019 Paul Nurse ❚ 56 life scientists were newly elected to the EMBO Membership. Their total ❚ EMBO entered a partnership in the Horizon 2020-funded project BioRoboost, Philippe Sansonetti EMBO SECRETARY GENERAL EMBO Membership Committee number includes 48 EMBO Members residing in 17 EMBC Member States contributing particularly to crafting policy options for improving risk assessment Carl-Henrik Heldin and eight EMBO Associate Members working in Argentina, Australia, Japan, for synthetic biology applications. Luca Scorrano CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL EMBO Fellowship Committee Singapore and the US. They join a group of more than 1,800 of the best ❚ EMBO Scientific Publications continued to shape best practice in scientific Titia Sixma Christian Lehner researchers in Europe and around the world. 43% of the newly elected members publishing through its ‘Transparent Process’ and contributions to debates about VICE CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL EMBO Course Committee are female. Open Science, preprints and peer review. Karen Avraham ❚ Council re-elected Carl-Henrik Heldin as Chair and Titia Sixma as Vice Chair of Karim Labib ❚ The EMBO Director and several programme heads contributed to high-level EMBO Young Investigator Committee Adrian Bird EMBO Council for the year 2020. policy discussions on Open Science and on the limits of peer review. Ivan Dikic Victor de Lorenzo ❚ Adrian Bird, Michael N. Hall and Claudio Sunkel were re-elected, and Crisanto ❚ EMBO and EMBO Press made their journals’ finances public to provide transparency EMBO Publications Advisory Board Matthew Freeman Gutierrez and Maria Rescigno were newly elected as members of EMBO Council and clarity about what it costs to publish articles in high quality, selective journals. for the period 2020-2022. ➔ See page 15 for a complete list of Eileen Furlong ❚ Together with ASAPbio, EMBO launched Review Commons, a pre-journal the 2019 committee members Michael Hall EMBO activities portable review platform which aims at accelerating scientific publishing by offering journal-independent peer review. Regine Kahmann ❚ 184 Long-Term, 349 Short-Term and five Advanced Fellowships were awarded. ➔ EMBO Council Office ❚ EMBO and EMBL held eleven joint EMBO|EMBL Symposia in Heidelberg, Germany Sophia Hercus Jürgen Knoblich ❚ From October 2019 on, the updated EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme ❚ [email protected] Michel Labouesse replaces fellows’ stipends with two-year salaried contracts from their host Together with the American Society for Cell Biology, EMBO held the joint T +49 6221 8891 124 Jiri Lukas organizations that include social security payments as required by national and ASCB|EMBO Meeting in Washington DC, USA. F +49 6221 8891 200 local laws and regulations. László Nagy ❚ The system biologists M. Madan Babu and Paola Picotti were honored with the ❚ EMBO Gold Medal. Claudio Sunkel 27 group leaders in the early stages of setting up their laboratories were selected as EMBO Young Investigators. They join a network of 129 current and ❚ EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Karen Vousden 340 former Young Investigators who represent some of the best up-and-coming Sara Linse of Lund University, Sweden, as the recipient of the 2019 FEBS|EMBO MEMBERS OF EMBO COUNCIL researchers in the life sciences in Europe and beyond. Women in Science Award. ➔ See page 14 for a detailed list ❚ 11 Installation Grants were awarded to early-career scientists in four ❚ EMBO hosted a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the EMBC. of the 2019 EMBO Council participating EMBC Member States. ❚ The EMBO Global Investigator Network providing funding and networking to Financial matters young life scientists in Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan was launched. The first ❚ The EMBO Council approved the accounts for 2018 and the budgets nine life scientists to join the programme were selected. for the EMBO activities for 2020. This funding comes from the EMBC and is ❚ Over 100 scientific events were co-funded. supplemented with income generated by the EMBO publications. It is also used to pilot EMBO activities that are not part of the EMBC General Programme. ❚ EMBO Science Policy Programme carried out two major projects: one focused on governance of research integrity and the other on technical and policy ❚ Since 2009, the EMBO and EMBC accounts have been audited by KPMG approaches to mitigate problems arising from tissue culture cell heterogeneity. Switzerland. This audit is carried out in addition to the standard auditing by a national audit court from one the EMBC Member States.

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➔ EMBC OFFICERS 2019 The major decision and actions resulting from the meetings of the EMBC ➔ FINANCE COMMITTEE Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS Delegates (June, November, and December 2019) are listed below. ➔ EMBC MEMBER STATES PERMANENT MEMBERS PRESIDENT The Conference was supported by the EMBC Finance Committee (June 2019). The following countries are Member States of the European Molecular France Eirikur Steingrimsson ICELAND Biology Conference (EMBC): Germany Boris Turk SLOVENIA ❚ Austria ❚ Iceland ❚ Portugal Italy VICE PRESIDENTS Election of officers for 2020 ❚ Belgium ❚ Ireland ❚ Slovak Republic Spain Anne Paoletti FRANCE ❚ EMBC elected Leszek Kaczmarek (PL) as President of EMBC. ❚ Croatia ❚ Israel ❚ Slovenia United Kingdom SECRETARY GENERAL ❚ Czech Republic ❚ Italy ❚ Spain ❚ EMBC re-elected Boris Turk (SI) and elected Lucia Banci (IT) as Vice Presidents Troels Tvedegaard Rasmussen ❚ Denmark ❚ Lithuania ❚ Sweden of EMBC. ELECTED MEMBERS (2019 – 2021) DENMARK FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR ❚ ❚ ❚ Estonia Luxembourg Switzerland Croatia Lovorka Barać Lauc CROATIA ❚ EMBC re-elected Anne Paoletti (FR) as Secretary General of EMBC. ❚ Finland ❚ Malta ❚ Turkey Denmark FINANCE COMMITTEE VICE CHAIR ❚ ❚ France ❚ Montenegro ❚ United Kingdom EMBC elected Elena Hoffert (FR) as Chair of the EMBC Finance Committee. Poland ❚ Germany ❚ Netherlands ➔ STRATEGIC WORKING PARTY 2019 ❚ EMBC elected Barbara Ohnesorge (DE) as Vice Chair of the EMBC Finance ❚ Greece ❚ Norway Sweden Ahmet Ademoğlu TURKEY Committee. ❚ Hungary ❚ Poland Switzerland Lucia Banci ITALY The Netherlands Financial matters Hemma Bauer AUSTRIA Turkey ❚ EMBC noted the reports of the external auditors and approved the accounts Josiane Entringer LUXEMBOURG for 2018. ➔ For the scale of contributions by the Angela Nieto SPAIN ❚ individual EMBC Member States, EMBC approved the Indicative Scheme for the period 2020 - 2024 and the see page 13 Barbara Ohnesorge GERMANY budget for 2020. Mark Palmer UNITED KINGDOM ❚ EMBC approved the appointment of KPMG as the External Auditors for the Anne Paoletti FRANCE financial years 2019, 2020 and 2021. ➔ EMBC Office Sophia Hercus Eirikur Steingrimsson ICELAND [email protected] EMBC decisions and actions Boris Turk SLOVENIA T +49 6221 8891 124 ❚ F +49 6221 8891 200 Troels Tvedegaard Rasmussen EMBC established a subordinate body, a working group on increasing DENMARK participation in EMBO activities across the EMBC Member States. Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS CHAIR

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EMBC Member States 12 – 13

EMBO Council & Committees 14 – 15

EMBO Membership 16 – 19

EMBO Scientific Publications 20 – 23

EMBO Fellowships 24 – 73

EMBO Young Investigators 74 – 79

EMBO Installation Grants 80 – 81

EMBO Courses & Workshops 82 – 87

EMBO Keynote Lectures 88 – 91

EMBO Gold Medal 92

EMBO Keynote Lectures 93 – 95

EMBO Staff in Heidelberg 96 – 97

10 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 11 EMBC Delegates & Advisers EMBC Member States financial embc.embo.org [email protected] contributions & use for EMBO Programmes The EMBC is the intergovernmental body that funds EMBO. It is overseen by a President and a Prof. Gerrit Van Meer Secretary General. Each EMBC Member State typically appoints one delegate from a relevant EMBC President [email protected] government ministry and one scientific adviser. Anne Paoletti EMBC Secretary General The EMBC Members States provide the budget for the execution of the EMBO Programmes. The EMBO books are audited by independent external and internal auditors. Sophia Hercus EMBC Office

Entire EMBC budget 2019: Euro 21,831,575 % of total EMBC Member State contributions Austria Germany Malta Slovenia Austria 2.08 Budgeted use for EMBO Programmes Dr. Hemma Bauer Dr. Barbara Ohnesorge Dr. Joseph Borg Dr. Tomaz Boh Rounded to full percent. Prof. Veronika Sexl Prof. Peter Becker Dr. Christian Spiteri Mr. Andrej Ograjenšek Belgium 2.54 Prof. Boris Turk Croatia 0.33 Belgium Greece Montenegro Czech Republic 0.88 Other Ms. Maria-Helena Bosschaerts Prof. Spyros Georgatos Dr. Danilo Mrdak Denmark 1.67 Administration & Spain Dr. Laurent Ghys Ms. Panagiota Katsafana Ms. Djurdjina Bulatović Estonia 0.12 Infrastructure Mr. Alain Heynen Dr. Cristina Bauluz Finland 1.23 Science Policy Hungary Netherlands Prof. M. Angela Nieto 9% France 13.93 Young Investigator Croatia Mr. Gergely Boehm Mr. Richard Derksen Sweden Germany 19.04 Programme Dr. Lovorka Barać Lauc Prof. Làszlò Patthy Mr. Peter Steenhuis 1% Prof. Kreŝimir Pavelić Ms. Mirjam Lieshout-Vijverberg Prof. Björn Andersson Greece 1.15 5% 1% Iceland Drs. Santje van Londen Dr. Maria Thuveson Hungary 0.58 Czech Republic Prof. Eiríkur Steingrímsson Prof. Gerrit van Meer Iceland 0.08 Mr. Jan Buriánek Switzerland Ireland 0.93 Courses & Norway Workshops 11% Prof. Zdena Palková Ireland Dr. Isabella Beretta Israel 1.46 Prof. Oddmund Bakke Dr. Doris Wohlfender-Bühler Dr. Maria Nash Italy 10.4 Denmark Dr. Jacob E. Wang Prof. Anna Jazwinska-Müller Mr. Garry Purcell Lithuania 0.14 Ms. Stine Vad Bovtrup Dr. Laurent Salzarulo Luxembourg 0.18 Prof. Birthe Kragelund Israel Poland Turkey Malta 0.03 8% Mr. Troels Tvedegaard Rasmussen Dr. Yossi Kalifa Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek Short-Term Prof. Joel Sussman Ms. Maria Klimkiewicz Prof. Ahmet Ademoglu Netherlands 4.4 Fellowships Estonia Dr. Jale Sahin Norway 2.64 65% Prof. Maia Kivisaar Italy Portugal Poland 2.66 Long-Term United Kingdom Dr. Toivo Räim Prof. Lucia Banci Ms. Luisa Igreja Portugal 1.05 Fellowships Prof. Cláudio Sunkel Mr. Hugh Dunlop Dr. Mauro Bertelletti Slovak Republic 0.46 Finland Mr. Fabio Iannaccone Dr. Mark Palmer Slovenia 0.21 Prof. Johanna Myllyharju Slovak Republic Mr. Tim Willis Spain 6.8 Dr. Sirpa Nuotio Lithuania Mr. Jakub Birka Sweden 2.88 Dr. Milda Jodinskiene Dr. Silvia Pastoreková France Prof. Virginijus Sikšnyš Mr. Marcel Sládok Switzerland 3.65 Dr. Elena Hoffert Prof. Ján Turňa Turkey 4.05 Dr. Anne Paoletti Luxembourg United Kingdom 14.43 Ms. Josiane Entringer Total 100.00

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

The EMBO Council is the governing body of EMBO responsible for ensuring the development of the Through serving on boards and committees, EMBO Members deliver and guide the organization’s 2019 organization. The EMBO Council comprises 15 EMBO Members. 2019 programmes, activities and publications. Committee members are appointed by EMBO Council.

EMBO Council members Elected term(s) of office Name Country – Town Course Committee Young Investigator Committee Science Policy Advisory Group* FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Committee* 2019 – 2021 Karen B. Avraham IL-Tel Aviv 2013 Christian Lehner CH CHAIR 2014 Karim Labib UK CHAIR 2012 Geneviève Almouzni FR 2019 Asifa Akhtar DE 2018 Buzz Baum UK 2012 Ioannis Economidis BE** 2013 Cecilia Arraiano PT 2017 – 2019 Adrian Bird UK-Edinburgh 2019 Kristina Djinovic-Carugo AT 2017 Gerhard Christofori CH 2013 Anne Ephrussi DE 2017 Thomas Boehm DE 2014 – 2016, 2017 – 2019 Victor de Lorenzo ES-Madrid 2019 Anne-Claude Gavin CH 2017 Antonella de Matteis IT 2012 Toivo Maimets EE** 2017 Anne-Lise Boerresen-Dale NO** 2018 – 2020 Matthew Freeman UK-Oxford 2015 Zoi Lygerou GR 2016 Christoph Dehio CH 2012 Claudio Sunkel PT 2019 Frauke Melchior DE 2019 – 2021 Eileen Furlong DE-Heidelberg 2018 Klaus-Armin Nave DE 2017 Carlos Dotti ES 2015 Gerrit van Meer NL 2014 Gerrit van Meer NL 2017 Isabelle Vernos ES 2017 – 2019 Michael N. Hall CH-Basel 2016 Catherine Rabouille NL 2019 Pascal Genschik FR 2016 Peter Sebo CZ 2017 Darren Gilmour CH 2014 Maciej Zylicz PL 2015 – 2017, 2018 – 2020 Carl-Henrik Heldin SE-Uppsala 2016 Jens Stougaard DK 2019 Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil FR EMBO | EMBL Symposia 2014 – 2016, 2017 – 2019 Regine Kahmann DE-Marburg 2018 Jernej Ule UK 2017 Irmgard Sinning DE Committee* Internal Auditor EMBL 2015 – 2017, 2018 – 2020 Jürgen Knoblich AT-Vienna 2016 Alfonso Valencia ES 2010 Maria Leptin DE CHAIR Tomasz Smolarek 2018 – 2020 Michel Labouesse FR-Paris 2015 Núria Verdaguer ES Global Investigator Network 2019 Edith Heard DE, EMBL CHAIR 2019 – 2021 Jiri Lukas DK-Copenhagen Committee 2018 Amparo Acker-Palmer DE External Auditors Fellowship Committee 2019 – 2021 László Nagy HU-Debrecen 2019 Noel F. Lowndes IE CHAIR 2017 Alexander Aulehla DE, EMBL** Central Audit Service Netherlands 2013 Luca Scorrano IT CHAIR 2019 M. Madan Babu UK 2008 Anne Ephrussi DE, EMBL 2019 – 2021 Titia Sixma NL-Amsterdam 2019 Manuela Baccarini AT 2019 Helle Ulrich DE 2018 Malcolm J. Bennett UK EMBO Audit 2017 – 2019 Claudio E. Sunkel PT-Porto 2018 Frédéric Berger AT 2019 Cosima T. Baldari IT 2017 Christian Lehner CH 2015 – 2017, 2018 – 2020 Karen Vousden UK-London 2016 Yehudit Bergmann IL 2019 Chris Bowler FR 2017 Jonas Ries DE, EMBL KPMG 2016 James Briscoe UK 2019 Cayetano González ES 2017 Detlef Weigel DE 2017 Francesco Cecconi DK 2019 Marc Lecuit FR 2017 Judith Zaugg DE, EMBL** * Committee includes EMBO Members and external advisers** EMBO Council members are elected for a three-year term of office and may be re-elected for one additional term of office. 2017 Agnieszka Chacinska PL 2019 Ramesh S. Pillai CH 2019 Ian Chambers UK 2019 Iris Salecker UK Publications Advisory Board* 2016 Marie-Anne Felix FR 2019 Blanche Schwappach DE 2009 Ivan Dikic DE CHAIR 2018 Fatima Gebauer Hernández ES 2018 Pedro Beltrao UK** Ex officio Council members Maria Leptin Director, EMBO 2019 Isabel Gordo PT Membership Committee 2019 Ulrich Dirnagl DE** 2018 Magda Konarska PL Paul Nurse Secretary General, EMBO 2014 Philippe J. Sansonetti FR CHAIR 2014 Ari Helenius CH 2019 Ben Luisi UK 2019 Cédric Blanpain BE 2017 Kristian Helin US 2016 Erin Schumann DE 2019 Dana Branzei IT 2017 Chonnettia Jones UK** Observers Gerrit van Meer President, EMBC 2017 Virginijus Siksnys LT 2016 Bernard Malissen FR 2017 V. Narry Kim KR Anne Paoletti Secretary General, EMBC 2015 Michael Sixt AT 2019 Susanne Mandrup DK 2010 Iain Mattaj IT 2019 Lea Sistonen FI Edith Heard Director General, EMBL 2017 Pere Puigdomènech ES 2014 Johanna McEntyre UK** 2016 Shahragim Tajbakhsh FR 2018 David Ron UK 2014 Tom Misteli US** Philippe Sansonetti CHAIR EMBO Membership Committee 2015 Jörg Vogel DE 2018 Claire Rougeulle FR 2018 Maya Schuldiner IL Karim Labib CHAIR EMBO Young Investigator Committee 2016 Peter Scheiffele CH 2019 Blanche Schwappach DE Christian Lehner CHAIR EMBO Course Committee 2019 Kate Storey UK Luca Scorrano CHAIR EMBO Fellowship Committee 2017 Sarah Teichmann UK Paul Nurse CHAIR EMBL SAC 2016 Markus Wahl DE

14 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 15 Name Institute Research interest Birgitta Henriques Karolinska Institutet | Solna, Sweden; and Karolinska Microbial-host interactions in health and disease EMBO Members 2019 Normark University Hospital | Stockholm, Sweden www.embo.org/members [email protected] Elina Ikonen University of Helsinki, Finland Lipid transport and storage in human cells Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden; and Normal and leukemic hematopoietic stem cell Election to EMBO Membership is recognition of research excellence and the outstanding achievements made by a life scientist. The University of Oxford, United Kingdom biology EMBO Membership includes more than 1,800 of the best researchers in Europe and worldwide. New members are nominated and Peter Jonas Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST) | Structure and function of central synapses elected by the membership annually. Klosterneuburg, Austria Paul Lehner University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Viral silencing and immune evasion pathways Ruth E. Ley MPI für Entwicklungsbiologie | Tübingen, Germany Co-evolution of humans and their microbiomes Name Institute Research interest Andrea Ablasser Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Lausanne, Recognition of DNA by the innate immune system PurificaciónLópez-García  Université de Paris-Sud | Orsay, France Microbial diversity, ecology and evolution Switzerland Susan E. Mango Biozentrum | University of Basel, Switzerland Embryonic development and plasticity Sonja-Verena Albers Universität Freiburg, Germany Molecular and cellular biology of archaea Giovanni Marsicano Neurocentre Magendie | Bordeaux, France The endocannabinoid system: a path to brain complexity Roberto Bassi Università degli Studi | Verona, Italy; and Consiglio Light use efficiency in plants and algae Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) | Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Adèle L. Marston Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology | Edinburgh, United Chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis Kingdom Peter Baumann Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) | Mainz, Germany; Genome stability and chromosome dynamics and Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität | Mainz, Germany Roberto Mayor University College London, United Kingdom Cell migration & differentiation in embryo development Richard Benton University | Lausanne, Switzerland Chemosensory neurobiology and evolution Ron Milo Weizmann Institute of Science | Rehovot, Israel Design principles of energy and carbon metabolism Judith Berman Tel Aviv University, Israel Genomic & epigenetic stress response mechanisms Garib Murshudov MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, Computational structural biology Melanie Blokesch Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Lausanne, Bacterial pathoecology and evolution United Kingdom Switzerland Marcin Nowotny International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology | Mechanisms of nucleic acid processing Wout Boerjan University | Gent, Belgium Engineering lignin biosynthesis and structure Warsaw, Poland Alain Chédotal Institut de la Vision | Paris, France Axon guidance mechanisms Lalita Ramakrishnan MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, Tuberculosis pathogenesis and immunity Peter R. Cook Sir William Dunn School | Oxford, United Kingdom Transcription factories and gene regulation United Kingdom Nynke H. Dekker University of Technology | Delft, Netherlands Single-molecule studies of replication Katrin Rittinger Francis Crick Institute | London, United Kingdom Mechanisms of ubiquitin-dependent signalling Andrzej Dziembowski The Polish Academy of Sciences | Warsaw, Poland Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression Aurélien Roux University of Geneva, Switzerland Mechanics of biological surface morphogenesis I. Sadaf Farooqi University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Mechanisms controlling human energy Rickard Sandberg Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden Single-cell genomics to decipher gene regulation homeostasis James Sharpe EMBL | Barcelona, Spain Multicellular systems biology George A. Garinis IMBB – FORTH | Heraklion, Greece; and University of Genome instability, cancer and aging in mammals Bruno Silva-Santos Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes | T cell functions in healthy and malignant tissues Crete | Heraklion, Greece Lisbon, Portugal Fanni Gergely Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute | Cambridge, Centrosomes in mitosis, development and disease Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute | Cambridge, United Human genome variation in health and disease United Kingdom Kingdom; and University of Cambridge, United José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta Universidad Pablo de Olavide | Sevilla, Spain Gene regulation during development and evolution Kingdom Thomas Gregor Institut Pasteur | Paris, France; and Princeton Physics of biological function Robert Tampé Goethe University | Frankfurt, Germany; and University Macromolecular complexes in adaptive immunity University, United States of Oxford, United Kingdom Barbara Ann Halkier University of Copenhagen | Frederiksberg, Denmark The role of plant specialized metabolism Manuel Théry Hôpital St. Louis | Paris, France; and Interdisciplinary Cell architecture and polarity Research Institute of Grenoble (IRIG), France

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22 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 23 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships: Statistics EMBO Fellowships Applications and awards 2015 – 2019 Country from* Applications % of total Awards % of total Success rate % www.embo.org/funding-awards/fellowships [email protected] Austria 72 1 18 2 25 Belgium 120 2 20 2 17 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships fund postdoctoral research for a period of up to two years. Long- David del Alamo Croatia 34 0 8 1 24 Term Fellows carry out basic research in the life sciences in laboratories in Europe and across the Programme Head Czech Republic 79 1 9 1 11 world. International mobility is a key requirement for EMBO Fellows, and the EMBO Fellowship Denmark 24 0 1 0 4 Programme, launched in the 1960s, was the first of its kind. Estonia 23 0 2 0 9 Finland 54 1 7 1 13 France 721 10 89 9 12 Germany 617 9 149 15 24 Greece 97 1 12 1 12 Hungary 55 1 3 0 5 Iceland 2 0 1 0 50 India 487 7 26 3 5 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships ➔➔ Ireland 46 1 5 1 11 Israel 342 5 67 7 20 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships: Statistics Italy 525 8 83 8 16 Applications and awards 2015 – 2019 Lithuania 16 0 4 0 25 Year Applications Awards Success rate % Luxembourg 3 0 1 0 33 2019 1189 184 16 Malta 3 0 0 0 0 2018 1200 190 16 Montenegro 1 0 1 0 100 2017 1190 189 16 Netherlands 214 3 49 5 23 2016 1561 170 11 Norway 3 0 1 0 33 2015 1549 252 16 Poland 159 2 18 2 11 Portugal 194 3 26 3 13 Singapur 8 0 1 0 13 Slovak Republic 25 0 1 0 4 Slovenia 14 0 2 0 14 Spain 773 11 86 9 11 Sweden 88 1 10 1 11 Switzerland 58 1 15 2 26 Turkey 73 1 9 1 12 United Kingdom 201 3 50 5 25 Eastern Europe 135 2 20 2 15 USA/Canada 317 5 69 7 22 Others 1306 19 122 12 9 Total 6889 100 985 100 14

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24 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 25 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Lukas Groschner Austrian University of Oxford, Alexander Borst MPI für Neurobiologie | Neural arithmetic of motion vision Priya Crosby British MRC Laboratory of Carrie Partch University of California | The role of PERIOD in the circadian United Kingdom Martinsried, Germany Molecular Biology | Santa Cruz, United States repressive complex and circadian Markus Linder Austrian Medical University of Michael N. Hall Biozentrum | University of Histidine phosphorylation in colorectal Cambridge, United entrainment Vienna, Austria Basel, Switzerland cancer Kingdom Julia Pfanzelter Austrian Francis Crick Institute | Stephan Grill Technische Universität | Physical basis of apoptosis and size Gillian Dunphy British Lancaster University, David Sancho Centro Nacional Dissecting molecular mechanisms London, United Kingdom Dresden, Germany sensing United Kingdom Madrid de Investigaciones that connect innate sensing and Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | mitochondrial adaptations in dendritic Roman Praschberger Austrian University of London | Patrik Verstreken Katholieke Universiteit | Elucidating the differential neuronal Madrid, Spain cells London, United Kingdom Leuven, Belgium impact of neurodegeneration-associated toxic proteins Dominic Evans British University College London, Gilles Laurent MPI für Hirnforschung | From vision to camouflage: behavioural United Kingdom Frankfurt, Germany computations in the cuttlefish Eva Maria Rebrova Austrian Karolinska Institutet | Nicholas M. I. University | Copenhagen, Mechanism and function of a natural Stockholm, Sweden Taylor Denmark eukaryote-targeting nanoinjection Ryan Hamnett British MRC Laboratory of Julia Kaltschmidt Stanford University, Molecular characterisation and system Molecular Biology | United States functional assessment of glutamatergic Cambridge, United cells in the enteric nervous system Natalie Romanov Austrian EMBL | Heidelberg, Martin Beck MPI für Biophysik | Unraveling drug reaction variability Kingdom Germany Frankfurt, Germany across individuals by thermal proteome profiling. Natasha Jansz British Walter and Eliza Hall Maria Elena Torres Helmholtz Zentrum | Transposable elements as regulators Institute | Parkville, Padilla München, Germany of genome architecture during pre- Jasmin Taubenschmid- Austrian IMBA | Vienna, Austria Wolf Reik Babraham Institute Identification of regulators of zygotic Australia implantation development Stowers | Cambridge, United genome activation by single cell Kingdom transcriptome screening Liane Josie Josie British Imperial College | London, Kay Grunewald University | Hamburg, Using visual proteomics to understand United Kingdom Germany membrane dynamics in the malaria Anaxi Houbaert Belgian Ghent University, Belgium Niko Geldner University | Lausanne, Make it, don't break it: a gain-of-function parasite Plasmodium falciparum Switzerland reconstitution screen for Casparian strip formation Alice Sherrard British University of Bristol, Clodagh O'Shea Salk Institute for Understanding the relationship between United Kingdom Biological Studies | La heterochromatin structure and gene Arnaud Vanden Broeck Belgian Institute of Genetics and Sebastian Klinge Rockefeller University | Human ribosome biogenesis: towards Jolla, United States expression Molecular and Cellular New York, United States an in-depth structure-function Biology (IGBMC) | Illkirch, understanding Mathew Tata British University College London, Jonas Frisén Karolinska Institutet | Vascular regulation of human France United Kingdom Stockholm, Sweden neurogenesis after stroke Niko Amin-Wetzel British University of Cambridge, Mario de Bono Institute of Science and Control of gene expression at the Michael Webster British MRC Laboratory of Albert Institute of Genetics and Molecular basis of transcription- United Kingdom Technology Austria (IST) | endoplasmic reticulum Molecular Biology | Weixlbaumer Molecular and Cellular translation coupling in bacteria by cryo- Klosterneuburg, Austria Cambridge, United Biology (IGBMC) | Illkirch, electron microscopy Kingdom France Christopher Booth British University of Oxford, Andrew Lane Dana-Farber Cancer Lineage specific roles of IRF8 and Myb United Kingdom Institute | Boston, United in pathogenesis of blastic plasmacytoid Marija Matejčić Croatian MPI für molekulare Xavier Trepat Institut de Bioenginyeria Linking mechanics to shape and fate in States dendritic cell neoplasm Zellbiologie und Genetik | de Catalunya (IBEC) | intestinal organoids Dresden, Germany Barcelona, Spain David Bradley British Wellcome Genome Christian Landry Université Laval | Québec, Exploring evolutionary mechanisms to Campus | Hinxton, United Canada buffer spurious crosstalk in signalling Mia Petljak Croatian Wellcome Sanger Institute Aviv Regev Broad Institute of MIT Molecular Origins of APOBEC-associated Kingdom networks | Cambridge, United and Harvard | Cambridge, Mutational Signatures in Human Cancer Kingdom United States Helena Cantwell British Francis Crick Institute | Rebecca Heald University of California | Molecular basis of spindle morphology London, United Kingdom Berkeley, United States changes at the meiosis-to-mitosis Marko Šestan Croatian University | Rijeka, Croatia Henrique University of Lisbon, It takes two for tango: neuroimmune transition Veiga-Fernandes Portugal regulation of metabolic homeostasis Marie Christou-Kent British Institute for Advanced Thomas Graf Centro de Regulación Exploring the cross-talk between C/ Christina Gladkova Czech MRC Laboratory of Ronald D. Vale University of California Understanding mitochondrial trafficking: Biosciences | Grenoble, Genómica (CRG) | EBPa and Oct4 during early embryo Molecular Biology | San Francisco, United Linking mitochondria to motors France Barcelona, Spain development Cambridge, United States Kingdom

26 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 27 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Matouš Glanc Czech Institute of Science and Bert De Rybel VIB Center for Plant The role of tetraspanins in plant cell Célian Bimbard French IBENS | INSERM 1024 - Matteo Carandini University College London, Multimodal integration of auditory Technology Austria (IST) | Systems Biology | Ghent, division orientation CNRS 8197 | Paris, France United Kingdom signals in visual cortex Klosterneuburg, Austria Belgium Drice Challal French Institut Jacques Monod | Benjamin University of Toronto, Regulation and function of dynamic RNA Veronika Ostapcuk Czech Friedrich Miescher Cigall Kadoch Dana-Farber Cancer Mechanistic dissection of the PBAF Paris, France Blencowe Canada interactions and splicing transitions Institute | Basel, Institute | Boston, United chromatin remodeling complex in renal during neurogenesis Switzerland States cancer Flavie Coquel French CNRS Institute of Human Andrea Ablasser Swiss Federal Institute of Dissecting STING-independent roles for Mitchell Bijnen Dutch University | Maastricht, Marc Bajénoff Centre d'Immunologie | Macrophage and stromal cell interaction: Genetics | Montpellier, Technology | Lausanne, cGAS in senescence and viral infection Netherlands Marseille, France characterizing the niches France Switzerland Eva Brinkman Dutch Netherlands Cancer Vicente Pelechano Karolinska Institutet | Genetic wiring maps of co-acting Julie Darrigues French Center of Pathophysiology Julie Ribot Instituto de Medicina Deciphering the role of meningeal Institute | Amsterdam, Solna, Sweden transcriptional factors in single cells of Toulouse Purpan, Molecular | Lisboa, gammadelta17T cells in Parkinson's Netherlands France Portugal disease Anne Margriet Heijink Dutch University | Groningen, Daniel Durocher Mount Sinai Hospital | Network-based analysis of alternative Clémence Frioux French Université de Rennes 1 | Oliver Ebenhöh Heinrich Heine University Development of mathematical models to Netherlands Toronto, Canada homology-directed repair pathways Rennes, France | Düsseldorf, Germany understand the functional organisation Ruben Hulswit Dutch Utrecht University, Thomas Bowden University of Oxford, Structural basis of neurotropic and stability of root microbiota Netherlands United Kingdom bornavirus glycoprotein assembly and Juliane Glaser French Institut Curie | Paris, Stefan Mundlos Max Planck Institute The role of MusD transposable elements function: template for therapeutic France for Molecular Genetics | in the 3D regulation of the mammalian design. Berlin, Germany genome Rob Van Dalen Dutch Utrecht University, Andreas Peschel Universität | Tübingen, Host control of nasal microbiota by Kevin Grosselin French École Supérieure de Bradley Bernstein Broad Institute of MIT Connecting genome architecture to Netherlands Germany secretory IgA. Physique et de Chimie and Harvard | Cambridge, regulatory functions in single-cells Dieke Van Dinther Dutch Cancer Center | David Sancho Centro Nacional Functional relevance of mitochondrial Industrielles (ESPCI) | United States Amsterdam, Netherlands de Investigaciones supercomplex assembly in myeloid cells Paris, France Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Sarah Guiziou French Centre de Biochemie Jennifer University of Washington | Decoding complex, time-dependent Madrid, Spain Structurale | Montpellier, Nemhauser Seattle, United States gene regulation networks shaping Laurens Van Tienen Dutch MRC Laboratory of William Sellers Broad Institute of MIT Identification of paralogous gene France development Molecular Biology | and Harvard | Cambridge, dependencies in cancer Philippe Jean French Göttingen Graduate Nicolas Michalski Institut Pasteur | Paris, Characterising the role of the cadherin- Cambridge, United United States School of Neurosciences | France related proteins cdhr15 and cdhr23 in Kingdom Göttingen, Germany the shaping and functioning of auditory Rosina Savisaar Estonian Nile University | Giza, Maria Instituto de Medicina From co-transcriptional splicing kinetics cortex microcircuits Egypt Carmo-Fonseca Molecular João Lobo to the evolutionary impact of exon and Vincent Loubiere French CNRS Institute of Human Alexander Stark IMP | Vienna, Austria Deciphering the principles of enhancer Antunes | Lisbon, Portugal intron definition Genetics | Montpellier, cooperativity Matti Turtola Finnish University | Turku, Finland Torben Heick Aarhus University, Characterising Nab2-mediated France Jensen Denmark regulation of gene expression Margot Riggi French University of Geneva, Janet Iwasa University of Utah | Salt Animating ESCRT-mediated membrane Chloé Baron French Hubrecht Institute | Leonard Zon Children's Hospital Boston Clonal dynamics and architecture of the Switzerland Lake City, United States remodeling Utrecht, Netherlands | Boston, United States blood stem cell niche Léa Ripoll French Institut Curie | Paris, Mark Von Zastrow University of California Deciphering the localization, trafficking Eloise Bertiaux French Institut Pasteur | Paris, Paul Guichard University of Geneva, Deciphering the structural and molecular France San Francisco, United and functions of mammalian adenylyl France Switzerland mechanisms governing microtubule States cyclase isoforms doublet formation Mateusz Trylinski French Institut Pasteur | Paris, Buzz Baum MRC Laboratory for The coordination of cell growth and Chloé Béziat French University of Natural Yvon Jaillais École Normale Supérieure | Phosphatidylserine on the road: France Molecular Cell Biology | shape during the formation of a Resources and Life Lyon, France understanding the formation of London, United Kingdom functioning organ Sciences | Vienna, Austria developmentally-controlled lipid Maria Bottermann German MRC Laboratory of Facundo Batista Ragon Institute of MGH | The role of Nox2 and Atg14 in regulating patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana Molecular Biology | MIT and Harvard, United canonical and non-canonical autophagy Cambridge, United States during early B cell function Kingdom

28 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 29 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Katharina Braunger German Ludwig-Maximilians- Susan M. Lea Sir William Dunn School | Structural characterization of surface- Natalie Kaempf German Leibniz-Institut Patrik Verstreken Katholieke Universiteit | Sleep dysfunction in Parkinson's disease Universität | München, Oxford, United Kingdom bound convertase formation in the für Molekulare Leuven, Belgium Germany human complement system Pharmakologie (FMP) | Lisa Buchauer German Deutsches Shalev Itzkovitz Weizmann Institute of Inferring dynamic gene regulatory Berlin, Germany Krebsforschungszentrum Science | Rehovot, Israel strategies in intact tissues Laura Kremer German Helmholtz Zentrum Nils-Göran Karolinska Institutet | Maintaining functional mammalian (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, München | Neuherberg, Larsson Stockholm, Sweden mtDNA between generations Germany Germany German Camargo German Ludwig-Maximilians- Timm Schroeder ETH Zurich, Switzerland Uncovering the function of centrosomes Judith Kribelbauer German Columbia University | Bart Deplancke Swiss Federal Institute of Dissecting the molecular building Ortega Universität (LMU) | and microtubule dynamics in adult New York, United States Technology | Lausanne, principles of locally formed Martinsried, Germany hematopoietic stem cell fate decisions Switzerland transcriptional hubs Nils Eling German European Bioinformatics Bernd University of Zurich, Profiling the emergence of cellular Franziska Kundel German University of Cambridge, Jan Ellenberg EMBL | Heidelberg, PAINTing the early mammalian genome Institute | Hinxton | Bodenmiller Switzerland heterogeneity in breast cancer organoids United Kingdom Germany using super-resolution microscopy Cambridge, United Marie-Therese German EMBL | Heidelberg, Paola Picotti ETH Zurich, Switzerland Linking altered protein structures to Kingdom MacKmull Germany disease subtypes and progression of Christina Ernst German European Bioinformatics Didier Trono Swiss Federal Institute of Expanding the regulatory role of Parkinson's disease Institute | Hinxton | Technology | Lausanne, human KRAB-zinc finger proteins Mathias Mahn German Weizmann Institute of Andreas Lüthi Friedrich Miescher Integration of emotional information Cambridge, United Switzerland through characterisation of their RNA Science | Rehovot, Israel Institute | Basel, during decision-making Kingdom interactome Switzerland Christina Maria Franck German University of Cologne, Cyril Zipfel University of Zurich, Deciphering the dynamic network of Hendrik Messal German Francis Crick Institute | Jacco Van Netherlands Cancer Whole-organ imaging to identify stem Germany Switzerland malectin-like receptor kinases regulating London, United Kingdom Rheenen Institute | Amsterdam, cell pools in the adult mammary gland plant innate immunity Netherlands and reveal their crosstalk in hormone- Daniel Friedrich German Leibniz-Institut Gerhard Wagner Harvard Medical School | Deciphering the molecular mechanisms induced tissue remodeling für Molekulare Boston, United States of non-canonical translation Katrina Meyer German Max-Delbrück-Centrum | Lucas Pelkmans University of Zurich, DYRK3 as a regulator of phase-transition Pharmakologie (FMP) | orchestrating cell fate decisions Berlin, Germany Switzerland in chromatin-based transcriptional Berlin, Germany control Thomas Hainmueller German Universität Freiburg, György Buzsaki New York University, The mossy fiber synapse—imprinting a Alexander Mietke German MPI für Physik komplexer Joern Dunkel Massachusetts Institute Identifying essential mechanical Germany United States memory trace in CA3 Systeme | Dresden, of Technology (MIT) | and biochemical mechanisms in the Katja Hansen German Universität | L. Stirling Harvard Medical School | Exploring the impact of mitochondrial Germany Cambridge (MA), United formation of mesoscopic biofilm Kaiserslautern, Germany Churchman Boston, United States transcription regulation and the spatial States architectures distribution of mRNAs on OXPHOS Lukas Milles German Ludwig-Maximilians- David Baker University of Washington | Deconstructing the fundamental biogenesis Universität | München, Seattle, United States principles of protein mechanics through Sarah Henrikus German University | Wollongong, Alessandro Costa Francis Crick Institute | Cryo-EM visualization of sister Germany de novo design Australia London, United Kingdom chromatid cohesion establishment at the Markus Mund German EMBL | Heidelberg, Marko Kaksonen University of Geneva, Dynamics and mechanics of endocytosis replication fork Germany Switzerland in the native tissue context—EndoDroso Annabelle Hoegl German Technical University Chunaram University | Copenhagen, Global profiling of the GCN5/PCAF- Fena Ochs German University | Copenhagen, Kim A. Nasmyth University of Oxford, Investigating the mechanism of cohesion of Munich | Garching, Choudhary Denmark regulated acetylome and proteome Denmark United Kingdom establishment in human cells Germany Tobias Thomas Schmidt German Deutsches Jan Karlseder Salk Institute for Mechanisms of escape from telomere- Dominik Hoelper German University of Wisconsin | Robin C. Allshire Wellcome Centre for Cell Investigating molecular determinants of Krebsforschungszentrum Biological Studies | La driven crisis Madison, United States Biology | Edinburgh, United neocentromere specification via single- (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, Jolla, United States Kingdom locus affinity purification Germany Ulrich Hohmann German University of Geneva, Julius Brennecke IMBA | Vienna, Austria Mechanistic analysis of piRNA precursor Jakob Trendel German EMBL | Heidelberg, Bernhard Kuster Technische Universität | Time-resolved quantification of protein- Switzerland nuclear export Germany München, Germany RNA interactions during DNA double- strand break repair in human cells

30 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 31 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Martin Vögele German MPI für Biophysik | Ron Dror Stanford University School From structures to movies: combining Waleed Minzel Israeli The Hebrew University | Jonathan Kipnis University of Virginia | IFNgamma/IFNgammaR signaling and Frankfurt, Germany of Medicine, United States cryo-electron microscopy and computer Jerusalem, Israel Charlottesville, United neuromodulation simulation to reveal macromolecular States mechanisms Tali Reiner Brodetzki Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Roberto Bonasio University of Pennsylvania Neuronal plasticity in adult ant brains Philipp Wahle German Max-Delbrück-Centrum | Grayson J. Camp Institute of Molecular and Multiplexed transcript and protein | Philadelphia, United during caste transition and its effect on Berlin, Germany Clinical Ophthalmology | maps of microglia-incorporated retinal States learning and memory Basel, Switzerland organoids at cellular and subcellular Daphna Rothschild Israeli Weizmann Institute of Maria Barna Stanford University, Assembly and functional resolution. Science | Rehovot, Israel United States characterization of the heterogeneous Matthias Weith German Universität Duisburg- Paola Picotti ETH Zurich, Switzerland Structural and genetic variability of the human ribosomal DNA variants across Essen | Essen, Germany proteostasis network in yeast during populations, tissues and different health heat stress parameters and diseases Jonas Wietek German Humboldt University | Ofer Yizhar Weizmann Institute of BLAS²T: Bi-stable light-activated Dor Russ Israeli Technion | Haifa, Israel Jeffery Dangl University of North Specificity in the plant-microbiome Berlin, Germany Science | Rehovot, Israel silencing of synaptic transmission Carolina | Chapel Hill, ecosystem Eleni Dimou Greek Universität | Heidelberg, David Klenerman University of Cambridge, Imaging the trans-cellular spreading United States Germany United Kingdom and seeding of the Alzheimer's disease Nadav Shai Israeli Weizmann Institute of Leslie Vosshall Rockefeller University | To bite or not to bite: Master regulators of associated Tau protein at a single Science | Rehovot, Israel New York, United States mosquito attraction to humans aggregate resolution Uri Weill Israeli Weizmann Institute of Jochen Rink MPI für molekulare Probing the basis of dynamic tissue Ákos Nyerges Hungarian Biological Research Centre George Church Harvard Medical School | Bacterial evolution with a reduced Science | Rehovot, Israel Zellbiologie und Genetik | homeostasis with planarian stem cell | Szeged, Hungary Boston, United States genetic code Dresden, Germany chimeras Abel Vertesy Hungarian IMBA | Vienna, Austria Jürgen Knoblich IMBA | Vienna, Austria Pheno-connectomics of human Niccolò Arecco Italian EMBL | Heidelberg, Manuel Irimia Centro de Regulación Alternative demixing: does alternative neurodevelopmental diseases Germany Genómica (CRG) | splicing regulate phase separation Miri Adler Israeli Weizmann Institute of Aviv Regev Broad Institute of MIT Principles of cell communication circuits Barcelona, Spain abilities of chromatin-associated factors? Science | Rehovot, Israel and Harvard | Cambridge, in tissue repair and fibrosis Matteo Boretto Italian Katholieke Universiteit | Hans C. Clevers Hubrecht Institute | Deciphering the effects of FBXW7 United States Leuven, Belgium Utrecht, Netherlands mutations in endometrial cancer ‪Miri Israeli Bar-Ilan University | Sten Linnarsson Karolinska Institutet | Reveal early neurodevelopment at high with CRISPR/Cas9 engineered human Danan-Gotthold‬‏ Ramat Gan, Israel Stockholm, Sweden resolution using single cell approaches endometrial organoids. Yaniv Eyal-Lubling Israeli Weizmann Institute of Peter J. Campbell Wellcome Sanger Institute Comprehensive profiling of tumors and Roberta Cagnetta Italian University of Cambridge, Nahum McGill University | Role and regulatory mechanisms Science | Rehovot, Israel | Cambridge, United normal tissues with the residing immune United Kingdom Sonenberg Montreal, Canada of mRNA translation in memory Kingdom cells by overlaying single-cell RNA-seq consolidation and reconsolidation data on somatic mutant clones in somatostatin interneurons of the prefrontal cortex Yaniv Eyal-Lubling Israeli Weizmann Institute of Carlos Caldas Cancer Research UK Comprehensive profiling of breast Science | Rehovot, Israel Cambridge Institute tumors and matching normal tissues Giuseppe Condomitti Italian Gasthuisberg Campus | Beatriz Rico MRC Centre for Dissecting the molecular code | Cambridge, United with the residing immune cells by Leuven, Belgium Developmental underlying Somatostatin interneuron Kingdom overlaying single-cell RNA-seq data on Neurobiology | London, subpopulation-specific wiring in cortical somatic mutant clones United Kingdom circuits Leah Houri-Ze'Evi Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Leslie Vosshall Rockefeller University | Mechanisms of a Lifetime of Behavior in Duccio Conti Italian Queen Mary | University Andrea Musacchio MPI für molekulare Role of PLK1 kinase in the epigenetic New York, United States Aedes aegypti Mosquito Females of London, United Physiologie | Dortmund, inheritance of centromeres Kingdom Germany Itamar Lev Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Manuel Zimmer IMP | Vienna, Austria Deciphering the functions and mechanisms of brain-wide motor Riccardo De Santis Italian University of Rome Ali Brivanlou Rockefeller University | In-vitro modeling of human embryonic representations 'Sapienza' | Rome, Italy New York, United States brain structures through optogenetic induction of polarizing signals Jonathan Lezmy Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel David Attwell University College London, Regulation of myelinated axonal United Kingdom excitability by perinodal glial cells

32 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 33 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Mattia Falcone Italian Deutsches Oliver Maddocks University of Glasgow, Metabolic-epigenetic crosstalk in the Katarina Psenakova Slovak Charles University in Danesh Moazed Harvard Medical School | Structural and functional analysis of a Krebsforschungszentrum United Kingdom tumour-stroma niche Prague | Prague, Czech Boston, United States conformational switch in Clr4 (Suv39h) (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, Republic that regulates heterochromatin Germany formation Angelo Forli Italian Italian Institute of Michael Yartsev University of California | From social networks to neural networks: Tea Lenarcic Slovenian National Institute of Nenad Ban ETH Zurich, Switzerland Maturation of mitochondrial ribosomes Technology | Genova, Italy Berkeley, United States Imaging social memory in the bat Chemistry | Ljubljana, hippocampus Slovenia Eleonora Meschi Italian Institut de Biologie Scott Waddell University of Oxford, Identification of deleterious central Julia Aguade Gorgorio Spanish University Hospital | Hanna Mikkola University of California | Defining the function of MYCT1 in Valrose | Nice, France United Kingdom effects caused by diet-induced obesity: Zurich, Switzerland Los Angeles, United States governing human hematopoietic stem does obesity lead to neuro-inflammation cell engraftment and cognitive impairments? Ángel Álvarez-Prado Spanish Centro de Investigaciones Johanna Joyce University | Lausanne, Inflaming the microenvironment Alberto Pezzotta Italian International School for James Briscoe Francis Crick Institute | A forward-engineering approach Biológicas (CIB / CSIC) | Switzerland of glioblastoma tumors by ADAR1 Advanced Studies | Trieste, London, United Kingdom to decipher morphogen signalling Madrid, Spain inhibition: a two-hit approach for the Italy strategies in tissue development treatment of brain cancer. Emilia Puig Lombardi Italian Institut Curie | Paris, Madalena University of Oxford, Monitoring cancer stem cell dynamics Diego Balboa Spanish University of Helsinki, Jorge Ferrer Centro de Regulación Mapping of pancreatic islet cell-type France Tarsounas United Kingdom and therapeutic response in BRCA2- Finland Genómica (CRG) | specific enhancer dynamics to reveal deficient breast tumour cells Barcelona, Spain novel genetic mechanisms of human Annamaria Sgromo Italian MPI für Stefan Ameres IMBA | Vienna, Austria Molecular and functional diabetes Entwicklungsbiologie | characterization of metazoan RNA Sergio Córdoba Casado Spanish Centre for Molecular Claude Desplan New York University (NYU) Molecular mechanisms of neural Tübingen, Germany 3′-end uridylation Biology 'Severo Ochoa' | | New York, United States migration in the Drosophila optic lobe Georgij Kostiuk Lithuanian Vilnius University, Grazvydas MPI für biophysikalische Tracking the fate of foreign DNA in living Madrid, Spain Lithuania Lukinavicius Chemie | Göttingen, bacterial cells by nanoscopy Raquel Cuella Martin Spanish Wellcome Centre for Alberto Ciccia Columbia University | Modelling mutations in breast cancer- Germany Human Genetics | Oxford, New York, United States associated genes by large-scale precision Mihailo Mirkovic Instituto Gulbenkian de Yves Barral ETH Zurich, Switzerland Biological significance of age-dependent United Kingdom genome editing Ciência | Oeiras, Portugal spindle pole body (SPB) inheritance Raquel Fueyo Arévalo Spanish Instituto de Biología Joanna Wysocka Stanford University, Ape-specific regulation of gene Katarzyna Kliza Polish Goethe University | Michiel Radboud University | Identification of novel poly(ADP- Molecular de Barcelona United States expression by transposable elements in Frankfurt, Germany Vermeulen Nijmegen, Netherlands ribosyl)-binding proteins and their role (IBMB) | Barcelona, Spain development and cancer in regulating DNA damage response Silvia Galvan Pena Spanish GlaxoSmithKline | Christophe Harvard Medical School | Mechanisms of gut-distal organs pathways Stevenage, United Benoist Boston, United States immune communication Rita Domingues Portuguese Champalimaud Centre Matthew University of Manchester, Role of extracellular ATP in shaping Kingdom for the Unknown | Lisbon, Hepworth United Kingdom group 3 innate lymphoid cell responses. Ana Victoria Spanish Centro Nacional Erika Pearce MPI für Immunbiologie Supramolecular organization of Portugal Lechuga-Vieco de Investigaciones und Epigenetik | Freiburg, respiratory complexes during immune Marta Jordão Portuguese Universitaetsklinik | Johanna Joyce University | Lausanne, Investigating the CNS lymphatic system Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Germany cell metabolic reprogramming Freiburg, Germany Switzerland and immune cell trafficking in brain Madrid, Spain tumor progression Laura Lorenzo Orts Spanish University of Geneva, Andrea Pauli IMP | Vienna, Austria Functional analysis of ribosome Madalena Madeira Portuguese IMBA | Vienna, Austria Alexander F. Schier Biozentrum | University of Translational regulation during zebrafish Switzerland heterogeneity during zebrafish embryo Reimão Pinto Basel, Switzerland embryogenesis development Joao Miguel Monteiro Portuguese Universidade Nova de Jordan Raff University of Oxford, Unravelling the molecular dynamics of Rosa Martinez Corral Spanish Universitat Pompeu Fabra Jeremy Harvard Medical School | Biophysical foundations of Lisboa | Lisbon, Portugal United Kingdom centriole and centrosome assembly | Barcelona, Spain Gunawardena Boston, United States transcriptional synergy Tomás Pires De Portuguese Wellcome Genome Barbara Treutlein ETH Zürich | Basel, Cell type cross-talk driving axolotl limb María Martínez López Spanish Centro Nacional Henrique University of Lisbon, Commensal microbiota regulation of Carvalho Gomes Campus | Hinxton, United Switzerland regeneration de Investigaciones Veiga-Fernandes Portugal neuro-immune networks Kingdom Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Madrid, Spain

34 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 35 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Member States’ nationals EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | EMBC Associate Member States’ nationals/EMBC Co-operation Partner States’ nationals Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Juan José Montero Spanish Centro Nacional Roland Rad Technische Universität | Identification and in vivo Vivek Bhardwaj Indian MPI für Immunbiologie Alexander van Hubrecht Institute | Reconstructing the single-cell dynamics Valderrama de Investigaciones München, Germany characterization of molecular networks und Epigenetik | Freiburg, Oudenaarden Utrecht, Netherlands of chromatin topology and gene Oncológicas (CNIO) | driving PDAC metastasis Germany expression during development Madrid, Spain Neha Bhatia Indian University | Sydney, Miltos Tsiantis MPI für Understanding the genetic basis of leaf Marta Sanchez Spanish PEBC | L'Hospitalet de Henrik Zentrum für Molekulare Cellular evolution of the mammalian Australia Züchtungsforschung | shape diversity in crucifers Delgado Llobregat (Barcelona), Kaessmann Biologie (ZMBH) | placenta Köln, Germany Spain Heidelberg, Germany Pratik Dave Indian Indian Institute of Science Jeffrey Chao Friedrich Miescher Investigating the dynamics of miRNA- Sandra Segura Bayona Spanish Institute for Research in Simon Boulton Francis Crick Institute | Mechanisms underlying regulation | Bangalore, India Institute | Basel, mediated translational repression and Biomedicine | Barcelona, London, United Kingdom and removal of G-quadruplex/R-loop Switzerland decay via single mRNA fluorescence Spain transcription-replication conflicts microscopy Iker Valle Aramburu Spanish EMBL | Heidelberg, Venizelos Francis Crick Institute | Identification and characterisation of Sharan Janjuha Indian Technische Universität | Gerald Schwank University of Zurich, Spatial transcriptomics and in vivo crispr Germany Papayannopoulos London, United Kingdom factors regulating the architecture of Dresden, Germany Switzerland mutagenesis to investigate tumour neutrophil extracellular traps microenvironment heterogeneity Meret Arter Swiss ETH Zurich, Switzerland Scott Keeney Memorial Sloan-Kettering Uncovering genetic conflict in mouse Vikram Babu Indian University | Würzburg, Alexandru Radu MRC Laboratory of Structure of a human GABA(A) receptor Cancer Center | New York, meiotic recombination Kasaragod Germany Aricescu Molecular Biology | complex United States Cambridge, United Nicolas Swiss MRC Laboratory of Sven Panke ETH Zurich, Switzerland Bioengineering an orthogonal Kingdom Huguenin-Dezot Molecular Biology | transcription system for the continuous Poonam Mehra Indian University of Delhi South Malcolm J. University of Nottingham, Xero-Branching: discovering how plant Cambridge, United directed evolution of proteins in Campus | New Delhi, India Bennett United Kingdom roots adapt to reduced water availability Kingdom Escherichia coli Satya Brata Routh Indian Centre for Cellular and Kiyoshi Nagai MRC Laboratory of Mechanism of mRNA release from the Tina Schreier Swiss ETH Zurich, Switzerland Julian M. Hibberd University of Cambridge, Optimising cell-to-cell connectivity Molecular Biology (CCMB) Molecular Biology | spliceosome by the DEAH-box helicase United Kingdom between mesophyll and bundle sheath | Hyderabad, India Cambridge, United Prp22 cells for improved C4 photosynthesis Kingdom Andrea Vettiger Swiss Biozentrum | University of Thomas Harvard Medical School | Elucidating spatiotemporal dynamics of Maria Jose Perez Chilean Universidad de Chile | Michela Deleidi Deutsches Zentrum Intracellular and Intercellular Basel, Switzerland Bernhardt Boston, United States peptidoglycan synthesis and remodeling Jimenez Santiago, Chile für Neurodegenerative signaling pathways of Mitochondrial Deniz Aydin Turkish Swiss Federal Institute of Ron Dror Stanford University School Defining the structural mechanism of Erkrankungen in der Unfolding Protein Response (UPRmt) in Technology | Lausanne, of Medicine, United States GPCR functional selectivity to enable Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Neurological Disease Switzerland effective drug therapies (DZNE) | Tübingen, Germany Shun-Hsiao Lee Taiwanese MPI für Biochemie | Titia K. Sixma Netherlands Cancer Structural and biochemical analysis of Martinsried, Germany Institute | Amsterdam, regulation of transcription-coupled DNA Netherlands repair Hsiu-Chuan Lin Taiwanese Academia Sinica | Taipei, Gray Camp Institute of Molecular and Recording and programming human Taiwan Clinical Ophthalmology | retina cell fates Basel, Switzerland

36 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 37 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Iris Odstrcil Argentinean Harvard University | Andreas Lüthi Friedrich Miescher Neuronal circuit mechanisms mediating Yilin Kang Malaysian University of Melbourne, Anu Suomalainen- University of Helsinki, Innate immunity and mitochondrial Cambridge, United States Institute | Basel, the interplay between action selection Australia Wartiovaara Finland disease—pathogenesis, risk factors and Switzerland and internal states population history Joyce Meiring Australian University of New South Anna Akhmanova Utrecht University, Testing a mechanical role for Diego Mexican Ludwig-Maximilians- Elly M. Tanaka IMP | Vienna, Austria Unraveling the role of transposable Wales | Sydney, Australia Netherlands microtubules in 3D mesenchymal Rodriguez-Terrones Universität | München, elements in the evolution of the gene migration Germany regulatory networks driving limb Raul Bressan Brazilian MRC Centre for Kim B. Jensen Biotech Research and Dissecting the mechanisms underlying regeneration in axolotl Regenerative Medicine Innovation Centre (BRIC) | YAP activation in intestinal tissue repair Rachel North New University of Canterbury David Drew Stockholm University, De-orphanisation of brain 'sugar' | Edinburgh, United Copenhagen, Denmark Zealander | Christchurch, New Sweden transporters: Investigating substrate Kingdom Zealand specificity and the molecular Pedro Papotto Brazilian University of Lisbon, Judith E. Allen University of Manchester, The role of dermal γδ17 T cells in the determinants of transport Portugal United Kingdom establishment of type-2 immunity in Lucas Tafur Petrozzi Peruvian EMBL | Heidelberg, Robbie Loewith University of Geneva, Structural and functional studies distal sites. Germany Switzerland of Saccharomyces cerevisiae TORC2 Brittany Bonfim Canadian University of Toronto, Charles Swanton Francis Crick Institute | Mapping the genomic and transcriptomic inhibition by metabolic stress Campbell Canada London, United Kingdom events required for lung tumour Alexander Belyy Russian Institut Pasteur | Paris, Stefan Raunser MPI für molekulare Comprehensive analysis of a new toxin microenvironment modelling in favour of France Physiologie | Dortmund, complex from Proteus mirabilis invasion and metastasis Germany Stanley Ng Canadian University Health Peter J. Campbell Wellcome Sanger Development of a liver tissue disease Yury Bykov Russian EMBL | Heidelberg, Maya Schuldiner Weizmann Institute of Defining the targeting pathways of Network (UHN) | Toronto, Institute | Cambridge, state estimator using genetic and gene Germany Science | Rehovot, Israel mitochondrial ribosomal proteins Canada United Kingdom expression properties for estimating Sohyon Lee South Korean The Scripps Research Berend Snijder ETH Zurich, Switzerland Surveying the phenotypic landscape of the likelihood of progression to Institute | San Diego, pluripotent cells across individuals hepatocellular carcinoma United States Zhong Han Chinese Institut Jacques Monod | Jesper Q. Svejstrup Francis Crick Institute | In vitro study of eukaryotic transcription- Hugo Bisio Uruguayan University of Geneva, Chantal Abergel Aix-Marseille Université | Dissecting transient remote control of Paris, France London, United Kingdom replication collisions Switzerland Marseille, France the host nucleus by Noumeavirus Rongqin Li Chinese Peking University | Beijing, F. Ulrich Hartl MPI für Biochemie | Molecular chaperone functions analyzed Colleen Drapek US-American Duke University | Durham, Giles Oldroyd The Sainsbury Laboratory Understanding the role of gibberellic China Martinsried, Germany at single molecule level in vivo United States | Cambridge, United acid accumulation in the nitrogen-fixing Yalin Liu Chinese Institute of Genetics & Xiaoqi Feng John Innes Centre | Mechanism underlying thermosensitivity Kingdom symbiosis of legumes Developmental Biology | Norwich, United Kingdom of male reproduction Ann Gregory US-American Ohio State University | Jeroen Raes Katholieke Universiteit | Exploiting native aggregating protein Beijing, China Columbus, United States Leuven, Belgium regions to modulate the human gut Yuanqing Ma Chinese University of New South Hai-Tao He Centre d'Immunologie | The steps required for Lck to microbiome Wales | Sydney, Australia Marseille, France phosphorylate the T cell receptor Elliott Milner US-American Children's Hospital Boston Tiago Branco MRC Laboratory for The role of periaqueductal grey circuits Lukas Tamayo Orrego Colombian Institut de recherches Andrew P. Jackson MRC Human Genetics The DNA replication fork in development | Boston, United States Molecular Cell Biology | in the sustained maintenance of innate cliniques de Montréal Unit | Edinburgh, United London, United Kingdom escape behavior. (IRCM) | Montreal, Canada Kingdom Anthony Piro US-American Duke University | Durham, Jane E. Parker MPI für Exploration of biotic and abiotic factors Javad Najafi Iranian University | Luxembourg, Nicolas Minc Institut Jacques Monod | Mechanisms of microtubule force United States Züchtungsforschung | shaping accommodation during plant- Luxembourg Paris, France exertion in bulk cytoplasm Köln, Germany fungal symbiosis Suguru Takagi Japanese The University of Tokyo | Richard Benton University | Lausanne, Comparative functional and Hayden Schmidt US-American Harvard Medical School | Richard Benton University | Lausanne, Pharmacology and structure of the Kashiwa, Japan Switzerland neuroanatomical analyses of olfactory Boston, United States Switzerland ionotropic receptor class of insect circuits in drosophilids chemoreceptors Reiya Taniguchi Japanese University of Tokyo, Japan Martin Beck EMBL | Heidelberg, Cryo-electron tomographic analysis of Han Ngoc Ho Vietnamese University | Wollongong, Stephen C. West Francis Crick Institute | Processing recombination intermediates Germany protein complex assembly intermediates Australia London, United Kingdom within a chromatin context Shohei Yamamoto Japanese Physiological Chemistry | Manuel Théry Hôpital St. Louis | Paris, The mechanism underlying symmetry Huong Vu Vietnamese University of Texas | Robert A. Cross University of Warwick | Ensemble mechanics of bidirectional Bunkyo, Japan France breaking of cytoskeleton networks in cell Austin, United States Coventry, United Kingdom kinesins polarization

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Applications Awards Nationality Austrian Belgian British Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Eastern European Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Indian (A) Irish Israeli Italian Lithuanian Luxembourgian Maltese Montenegrinian Norwegian Others Polish Portuguese Singaporean (A) Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Turkish USA/ Canada Total Destination Destination Nationality Austrian Belgian British Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Eastern European Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Indian (A) Irish Israeli Italian Lithuanian Luxembourgian Maltese Montenegrinian Norwegian Others Polish Portuguese Singaporean (A) Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Turkish USA/ Canada Total Austria 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 21 Austria 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 Belgium 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 2 4 27 Belgium 1 1 1 1 4 Croatia Croatia Czech Republic 2 2 1 1 1 7 Czech Republic Denmark 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 3 1 6 1 1 5 2 30 Denmark 1 1 1 1 4 Eastern Europe Eastern Europe EMBL 1 1 1 1 1 5 EMBL 1 1 2 Estonia 1 1 Estonia Finland 1 1 2 4 Finland 1 1 France 1 3 1 3 14 6 2 5 1 7 25 1 2 16 2 89 France 1 1 2 4 8 Germany 5 2 7 6 3 1 11 5 1 1 6 2 6 3 25 4 4 15 1 1 8 117 Germany 3 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 21 Greece 2 2 Greece Hungary 1 1 Hungary Iceland Iceland India (A) 1 1 India (A) Ireland 1 2 1 4 Ireland Israel 1 1 4 4 5 2 1 1 6 1 26 Israel 1 2 3 Italy 2 2 1 2 1 5 6 1 20 Italy Lithuania Lithuania Luxembourg 1 1 2 Luxembourg Malta 1 1 2 Malta Montenegro Montenegro Netherlands 1 4 3 4 1 12 1 1 2 13 1 2 6 1 1 4 57 Netherlands 1 1 1 2 1 6 Norway 1 1 1 3 Norway Others 1 1 1 4 4 1 1 5 1 4 23 Others Poland 1 1 Poland Portugal 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 2 4 2 1 1 23 Portugal 1 1 1 1 4 Singapore (A) 1 1 Singapore (A) Slovak Republic Slovak Republic Slovenia 1 1 2 Slovenia Spain 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 4 21 7 4 48 Spain 2 1 1 1 1 6 Sweden 3 1 3 1 1 7 5 1 1 1 19 1 6 1 1 4 56 Sweden 1 1 1 1 1 5 Switzerland 1 1 2 1 8 2 1 1 16 19 1 14 1 4 1 1 26 2 6 1 5 1 2 1 5 123 Switzerland 1 1 2 11 2 1 5 3 1 1 1 1 30 Turkey 1 1 Turkey United Kingdom 2 4 1 2 1 5 2 1 19 11 2 1 21 1 9 17 41 6 34 2 3 2 19 206 United Kingdom 1 1 2 4 1 3 3 5 6 2 2 1 4 35 USA / Canada 2 5 19 3 4 8 1 1 42 44 4 4 4 2 49 23 4 5 9 2 1 36 5 4 3 2 286 USA / Canada 1 6 1 2 2 6 8 1 7 3 1 6 2 1 47 Total 16 10 45 7 13 1 44 19 7 8 127 117 12 13 86 9 67 76 4 2 1 214 16 38 3 3 136 14 11 12 58 1189 Total 7 2 14 3 3 7 2 1 1 16 32 1 2 7 13 12 1 1 24 1 5 1 1 15 4 1 7 184

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EMBO Advanced Fellowships offer an additional two years of funding for EMBO Long-Term Fellows who demonstrate exceptional Short-Term Fellowships fund research Applications and awards 2015 – 2019 Country from* Applications % of total Awards % of total Success rate % progress in their postdoctoral work. The fellowship allows scientists to complete their postdoctoral research in the host laboratory and exchanges of up to three months between Austria 37 1 25 2 68 to establish their own line of research. laboratories in EMBC Member States, Belgium 44 2 30 2 68 Associate Member States and countries Croatia 16 1 10 1 63 and territories covered by a co-operation Czech Republic 50 2 29 2 58 agreement. Their aim is to promote Denmark 42 2 25 2 60 networking and collaboration and provide Estonia 2 <1 2 <1 100 Finland 25 1 11 1 44 France 82 3 51 3 62 EMBO Advanced Fellowships awarded in 2019 Germany 131 5 78 5 60 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Project Greece 49 2 26 2 53 Madhanagopal Indian MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology I Roger Williams Structural mechanisms underpinning regulation of EMBO Short-Term Fellowships: Statistics Hungary 33 1 19 1 58 Anandapadamanaban Cambridge I United Kingdom mTORC1 activity on lysosomal membranes Applications and awards 2015 – 2019 Iceland 0 0 0 0 0 Year Applications Awards Success rate % India (A) 220 8 98 7 45 Frank Buermann German MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology I Jan Löwe Direct imaging of SMC-kleisin ATPase cycle 2019 554 349 63 Ireland 30 1 14 1 47 Cambridge I United Kingdom intermediates 2018 598 337 56 Israel 55 2 39 3 71 Mario Iurlaro Italian Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Dirk Schübeler Dynamics of chromatin remodeler-mediated binding 2017 588 281 48 Italy 271 10 156 11 58 Research I Basel I Switzerland of transcription factors 2016 618 350 57 Lithuania 1 <1 1 <1 100 Shuheng Lin Chinese Stem Cell and Cancer Laboratory ULB/ Cédric Blanpain Deciphering the mechanisms of reactivation of 2015 401 194 48 Luxembourg 1 <1 0 0 0 WELBIO I Brussels I Belgium multipotent cell fate of mammary gland stem cells Malta 2 <1 1 <1 50 in transplantation condition Montengro 1 <1 1 <1 <1 Jongeun Park South Korean Cellular Genetics I Wellcome Trust Sanger Sarah Teichmann Deciphering mechanisms of human T-cell Netherlands 96 3 58 4 60 Institute I Hinxton I United Kingdom development using single-cell genomics and Norway 6 <1 3 <1 50 organoids Poland 74 3 47 3 64 Portugal 72 3 37 2 51 Singapore (A) 3 <1 3 <1 100 Slovak Republic 6 <1 4 <1 67 Slovenia 18 1 9 1 50 Spain 781 28 412 28 53 Sweden 34 1 26 2 77 Switzerland 38 1 28 2 74 Turkey 56 2 29 2 52 United Kingdom 163 6 120 8 74 EMBL 6 <1 4 <1 67 Eastern Europe 35 1 11 1 31 United States / Canada 37 1 14 1 38 Others 242 9 62 4 26 Total 2759 100 1483 100 54

42 EMBO Advanced Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 43 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Maiara Aime Iriarte Argentinean CIC nanoGUNE | Donostia, Salvatore Chiantia Universität | Potsdam, Building influenza virion models to Alister Burt British Institut de Biologie Peijun Zhang University of Oxford, Structure and rearrangements of Alonso Spain Germany establish physical properties of its external Structurale | Grenoble, United Kingdom chemoreceptor arrays in E. coli minicells by surface France cryo-electron tomography Aida Marcotti Argentinean Instituto de Neurociencias John N. Wood University College London, Study of cold responders in DRG neurons Jack Collier British University | Newcastle, Thomas University of Helsinki, Investigating the molecular | San Juan de Alicante, United Kingdom using GCaMP imaging system in live mice United Kingdom McWilliams Finland pathophysiology of ATG7 signalling in Spain neuronal dysfunction Ingrid Hartl Austrian Johannes Kepler Pavel Krejci Masaryk University | Brno, Detection of phosphorylated FGFR3 Samuel Ellis British University College London, Sergio Filipe Instituto de Tecnologia Investigating whether RSV enhances University | Linz, Austria Czech Republic United Kingdom Química e Biólogia | Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence by Anna Huber Austrian Medical University | Peter Crowley National University of Protein/fatty acid co-crystallization: an Oeiras, Portugal inhibiting peptidoglycan branched stem Innsbruck, Austria Ireland | Galway, Ireland approach to unravel the structure-function peptides synthesis relation of the antimicrobial protein PAFB Said Hafidh British Institute of Experimental Juan De Dios Estación Experimental del Optimising an in vivo immunolocalization Lukas Kuderna Austrian Institute of Evolutionary Guojie Zhang University | Copenhagen, Conservation genomics and the evolution Botany (IEB) | Prague, Alche Zaidín | CSIC, Spain method for pollen tubes secreted exosomes Biology (IEB) | Barcelona, Denmark of diversity in primates Czech Republic in tobacco Spain Brennen Heames British University of Münster, Klara Hlouchova Charles University in Investigating the foldability of de novo- Gregor Oemer Austrian Medical University | Riekelt Academic Medical Centre Metabolic flux analysis of CRISPR/Cas9 Germany Prague | Prague, Czech emerged proteins Innsbruck, Austria Houtkooper | Amsterdam, Netherlands mediated TAZ deficient HEK cells Republic Sonja Rittchen Austrian Medical University | Graz, Simon Phipps The University of The PGD2-DP1-DP2 axis in antiviral Evie Morris British University | Southampton, Tom Gilbert University | Copenhagen, Inferring adaptations to arid environments Austria Queensland | Brisbane, immunity and asthma pathogenesis United Kingdom Denmark through studying the gut microbiota of Australia desert bats using a novel combination of metabarcoding and metagenomics Sophie Hendrix Belgian University | Hasselt, Andreas J. Meyer Universität Bonn, Dissecting the role of glutathione in approaches Belgium Germany cadmium-mediated signalling processes originating in the endoplasmic reticulum Emma Robinson British University | Maastricht, Anthony University of Cambridge, Using single nuclear sequencing to Netherlands Davenport United Kingdom delineate novel molecular and cellular Damien Hermand Belgian University | Namur, Florian Steiner University of Geneva, Deciphering the role of the RNA polymerase mechanisms in different aetiologies of Belgium Switzerland II CTD S2 phosphorylation during the human heart failure developement of a metazoa Robert Smith British University | Sheffield, Yann Guérardel Université Lille 1 Sciences Structural determination of polysaccharide Kurt Jacobs Belgian University of Zurich, Christine Eischen Thomas Jefferson DNA replication fork remodeling and United Kingdom et Technologies | decorations critical for the virulence of E. Switzerland University | Philadelphia, stability in unperturbed and stress- Villeneuve d'Ascq, France faecalis OG1RF United States induced hematopoiesis Amy Vincent British Newcastle University, Anu Suomalainen- University of Helsinki, What is driving clonal expansion of Valerie Belgian Katholieke Universiteit | Birgitt Schüle Stanford University, Probing Parkinson’s disease with induced United Kingdom Wartiovaara Finland mitochondrial DNA deletions? Uytterhoeven Leuven, Belgium United States human microcircuits on CMOS chips James Wagstaff British MRC Laboratory of John Irwin University of California Ultra-large library docking for early-stage Dorien Wilmaerts Belgian Katholieke Universiteit | Matthias University | Groningen, Influence of NAD(P)H concentrations on Molecular Biology | San Francisco, United antibiotic discovery Leuven, Belgium Heinemann Netherlands persister awakening Cambridge, United States George Pacheco Brazilian University | Copenhagen, Miguel Carneiro University of Porto, Following the trajectories of derived Kingdom Denmark Portugal domestic alleles in worldwide populations Rhys Wardman British University | Lincoln, Matthias W. EMBL | Heidelberg, Uncovering the role of ‘secretory RNA- of feral pigeons United Kingdom Hentze Germany binding proteins’ in pancreatic β-cell Mark Bailey British University of Birmingham, Paula Mulo University | Turku, Finland Collaboratively shedding light on NOT4 function United Kingdom chloroplast function Jack Webster British University of Strathclyde | Peer Wulff Universität | Kiel, Assessing the role of the prefrontal cortex- Lauren Boland British Hammersmith Hospital | Jeroen Bakkers Hubrecht Institute | Popeye domain containing proteins and Glasgow, United Kingdom Germany lateral habenula pathway in working London, United Kingdom Utrecht, Netherlands their effects on heart regeneration in Danio memory processing rerio Liang Wu British University | York, United Israel Vlodavsky Technion | Haifa, Israel Molecular characterization of Kingdom Heparanase-2 and its interacting partners

44 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 45 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Francisca Cornejo Chilean Universidad Mayor | Greg Findlay University of Dundee, Modelling autism spectrum disorders using Daniela Simcikova Czech Charles University in Orsolya Barabas EMBL | Heidelberg, Effects of cancer-associated variations Santiago, Chile United Kingdom human iPSCs Prague | Prague, Czech Germany in hexokinase 2 on proliferation and Oscar A. Chilean University | Concepcion, Adrian University of Bristol, A QM/MM computational study of the Republic metabolism of cancer cells Douglas-Gallardo Chile Mulholland United Kingdom carboxylase activity of the RuBisCO Eva Svandova Czech Academy of Sciences Reinhard Gruber Medical University of Specification of FasL functions in enzyme by means of multi-scale molecular of the Czech Republic | Vienna, Austria osteogenic differentiation dynamics simulations Prague, Czech Republic Alejandro Luarte Chilean Universidad de Chile | Rodrigo Herrera Leibniz-Institut Unraveling the role of axonally synthesized Roel Hammink Dutch Radboud University | Susana Rocha Katholieke Universiteit | Visualization and manipulation of the Santiago de Chile, Chile für Neurobiologie | Rtn-1C in the organization of growth Nijmegen, Netherlands Leuven, Belgium immunological synapse Magdeburg, Germany cone´s cytoskeleton on cortical neurons Tom Houben Dutch University | Maastricht, Frank Pfrieger CNRS | Strasbourg, France Disease modifiers of Niemann-Pick type Daniela Soto Chilean Universidad Austral de Andrea Franzetti Università degli Studi | Molecular ecology and functional Netherlands C1 disease Chile | Valdivia, Chile Milano, Italy characterization of Microbial snow Esther Keizer Dutch Utrecht University, Falk Hillmann Leibniz-Institute for Heterogeneity of Aspergillus fumigatus communities in maritime Antarctica: global Netherlands Natural Product Research infections warming and contamination markers | Jena, Germany Yixin Liu Chinese University of Helsinki, Stephen Muench University | Leeds, United The structure of GDF15/GFRAL/RET Rezin Majied Dutch Erasmus University MC | Jan Frayne University of Bristol, Human adult erythroid progenitor cell Finland Kingdom complex Rotterdam, Netherlands United Kingdom lines for molecular analysis of normal and Chao Qi Chinese ETH Zurich, Switzerland Ana-Nicoleta Freie Universität | Berlin, Molecular dynamics simulations of the key pathologic erythropoiesis Bondar Germany nucleotide-bound conformations of the Mandy Meijer Dutch Radboud University | Carmen Sandi Swiss Federal Institute Linking the genome and environment membrane adenylyl cyclase AC9 Nijmegen, Netherlands of Technology | Lausanne, through DNA methylation in peripubertal Lucía Zhu Chinese Centro Nacional Michael D Taylor Hospital for Sick Children | Molecular characterization of local relapse Switzerland stress-induced pathological aggressive rat de Investigaciones Toronto, Canada using new models of brain metastasis models Oncológicas (CNIO) | Bonnie Plug Dutch University | Amsterdam, Anna Williams University of Edinburgh, Organotypic brain slice cultures: a valuable Madrid, Spain Netherlands United Kingdom tool for studying central nervous system Tomislav Jednacak Croatian University | Zagreb, Gang Chen Nanyang Technological Structural basis for RNA sequence endogenous repair Croatia University Singapore, recognition by peptide nucleic acids Maarten Sarink Dutch Erasmus University MC | Robert Sutak Charles University in Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation as a Singapore Rotterdam, Netherlands Prague | Prague, Czech new target to treat primary amoebic Tatjana Mijošek Croatian Ruđer Bošković Institute | Dirk Schaumlöffel University | Pau, France Intracellular metal mapping in bioindicator Republic meningoencephalitis by repurposing two Zagreb, Croatia organisms by use of nanoscale secondary well-known drugs ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) Anthal Smits Dutch University of Technology | Katja Universität | Tübingen, Biomolecular mapping of heart valve Blanka Roje Croatian University | Split, Croatia Vinko Toševski Roche Glycart | Schlieren, Microbiome modulates immune response Eindhoven, Netherlands Schenke-Layland Germany regeneration Switzerland to bladder cancer Marijn Stokman Dutch University Medical Alexandre Institut Imagine | Paris, Functional characterization of novel Juraj Simunic Croatian Ruđer Bošković Institute | Marin Barisic Danish Cancer Research The role of kinesin-5 and PRC1 in Centre (UMC) | Utrecht, Benmerah France therapeutic targets in renal ciliopathies Zagreb, Croatia Center | Copenhagen, generation and maintenance of spindle Netherlands Denmark chirality Martijn Van De Dutch National Institute for David Price Cardiff University, United T cell receptor clonotyping of single Jiří Kyslík Czech Biology Centre | Ceske Tamar Lotan University of Haifa | Haifa, Evolution of poly-γ-glutamate biosynthetic Garde Public Health and the Kingdom cell sorted CD4+ T cells recognizing a Budejovice, Czech Israel pathway in Cnidaria Environment (RIVM) | conserved epitope of bacterial cytolysins in Republic Bilthoven, Netherlands the context of a common HLA-class II allele Kateřina Mácová Czech Masaryk University | Brno, Andrea Ficke Norwegian Institute of Abiotic-biotic stress crosstalk during Sjoerd Van Deventer Dutch Radboud University | Thomas Ruhr-Universität | Understanding tetraspanin membrane Czech Republic Bioeconomy Research | Ås, seed development in Brassica napus: the Nijmegen, Netherlands Günther-Pomorski Bochum, Germany organization and dynamics by combining Norway influence of high temperatures on the model membranes with advanced progression of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum microscopy infection and seed quality Kasper Van Gelderen Dutch Utrecht University, Jan Petrasek Institute of Experimental Live imaging of HY5 shoot-root transport Netherlands Botany (IEB) | Prague, and phloem unloading Czech Republic

46 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 47 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Aleksi Sutinen Finnish University | Oulu, Finland Roman Chrast Karolinska Institutet | GDAP1 – an enigmatic link to inherited Chloé Oudinet French Institut de Pharmacologie Frederick W. Alt Harvard Medical School | The role of switch repeats in chromosomal Stockholm, Sweden peripheral neuropathy et de Biologie Structurale Boston, United States translocations associated with class switch Mari Virtanen Finnish University of Helsinki, Michael Kiebler Ludwig-Maximilians- Posttranslational regulation of GABAergic (IPBS), France recombination Finland Universität | München, transmission: a role for local translation of Nicolas Pionnier French University of Liverpool, Thierry Walzer Centre International de Does worms infection protect from Germany the chloride transporter KCC2 United Kingdom Recherche en Infectiologie developing liver disease? Pierre Bohec French University College London, Jochen Guck Max Planck Institute Investigating how signalling controls cell | Lyon, France United Kingdom for the Science of Light | mechanics using optogenetics and real- Claire Pujol French Institut du Cerveau et de Sophie MPI für Metabolism characterization of Erlangen, Germany time deformability cytometry la Moelle Épinière (ICM) | Steculorum Stoffwechselforschung | neurodegenerative process in Cyp2U1 Marie-Astrid Boutet French Queen Mary | University Massimo Locati Istituto Clinico Humanitas Role of tetraspanin MS4A4A in a mouse Paris, France Köln, Germany deficient mice of London, United | Rozzano, Italy model of Rheumatoid Arthritis Nicolas Vita French CNRS | Marseille, France Patrick Viollier University of Geneva, Deep-sequencing based genetic and Kingdom Switzerland genomic dissection of the anaerobic Julien Delezie French University of Basel, Nina Henriette Helmholtz-Zentrum Involvement of the transcriptional delignification process Switzerland Uhlenhaut München | Garching, co-regulator PERIOD2 in the regulation of Kim Bartels German EMBL | Hamburg, Hagen Hofmann Weizmann Institute of Structural dynamics of proton-dependent Germany skeletal muscle function Germany Science | Rehovot, Israel oligopeptide transporters Maeva Dufies French Institute for Research on Yihai Cao Karolinska Institutet | Role of inflammasomes in clear cell renal Benedikt Goretzki German Johannes-Gutenberg- Dirk Jan Slotboom University | Groningen, Functional and structural investigations of Cancer and Aging (IRCAN) Stockholm, Sweden cell carcinoma Universität | Mainz, Netherlands the eukaryotic ion channel TRPV4 and its | Nice, France Germany interaction partner PACSIN3 Cécile Exertier French University of Rome Daniela Rhodes Nanyang Technological Structural basis of a protection mechanism Uta Hardt German Karolinska Institutet | Sarah A. Wellcome Sanger Studies in rheumatoid arthritis: B cell 'Sapienza' | Rome, Italy University Singapore, against hemolysis: cryoEM structure of Stockholm, Sweden Teichmann Institute | Cambridge, immunogenetics and transcriptomics Singapore the complex involving human hemoglobin, United Kingdom haptoglobin and the macrophage receptor Andrea Kliewer German University Hospital | Jena, Zsolt Lenkei Paris Tech ESPCI | Paris, Signatures of opioid tolerance and CD163 Germany France addiction in functional brain connectivity Antoine Hocher French MRC London Institute of Simonetta Institut Pasteur | Paris, Life without histones – alternative patterns Medical Sciences | London, Gribaldo France solutions to DNA packaging in Nastassia German Universitat Pompeu Fabra Thomas F. Meyer MPI für Infektionsbiologie Genetic engineering of Propionibacterium United Kingdom Diaforarchaea Knödlseder | Barcelona, Spain | Berlin, Germany acnes by homologous recombination Pauline Jeannot French Lund University, Sweden Neil Carragher Western General Hospital Understand and target reactive astrocytes Victor Krajka German University | Lübeck, Carsten Janke Institut Curie | Orsay, When building blocks became | Edinburgh, United in brain tumor microenvironment Germany France obstacles: elucidating the functional Kingdom mechanisms behind TUBB4A-associated Romain Laine French University College London, Bassam Hajj Institut Curie | Paris, 3D-LiveSRRF: open-source live-cell 3D tubulinopathies United Kingdom France super-resolution Microscopy Andreas Lange German University of Münster, Ylva Ivarsson Uppsala University, Using proteomic phage display to Romain Le Bail French University | Liège, Belgium Silvia Cappello Max Planck Institute of Study of the interplay between migrating Germany Sweden characterize the functionality of de novo Psychiatry | München, cortical interneurons and dorsal cortical genes from Drosophila melanogaster Germany populations using a model of human Soulafa Mamlouk German Charité – David Posada University of Vigo | Vigo, Tracking therapy resistance in colorectal forebrain development Universitätsmedizin | Portugal cancer using evolutionary computational Rémi Mathieu French INSERM | Marseille, Ludovic Telley University | Lausanne, Transcriptional controls over laminar Berlin, Germany methods France Switzerland allocation of interneuron subtypes during Christin Naumann German Leibniz Institute of Plant Yasin Dagdas Gregor Mendel Institute of Identification of interaction partners of cerebral cortex development Biochemistry | Halle, Molecular Plant Biology | plant P5-type ATPase PDR2 in autophagy Remy Merret French Université | Perpignan, Ho-Ming Chen Agricultural Use of degradome data to reveal Germany Vienna, Austria induced by phosphate limitation France Biotechnology Research co-translational mRNA decay regulation Franziska German Institute of Medical Takashi Hiiragi EMBL | Heidelberg, Embryonic pluripotency: characterization Center (ABRC) | Taipei, across Arabidopsis development Paul-Shushan Biology (IMB) | Singapore, Germany of candidate gene ELABELA linked to Taiwan Singapore monozygotic twinning

48 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 49 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Anika Pupak German Universitat de Barcelona | Ulf Andersson Aarhus University, meRIP-seq: deciphering the Vivien Horvath Hungarian Institute of Evolutionary Gianfranco Anfora Fondazione Edmund Characterizing the molecular basis of Barcelona, Spain Vang Ørom Denmark epitranscriptome in Huntington's disease Biology (IEB) | Barcelona, Mach | San Michele desiccation resistance in Drosophila Lea Rapp German Universität | Stuttgart, Jiri Damborsky Masaryk University | Brno, Molecular modeling of CYP153AM.aq for Spain all'Adige, Italy melanogaster European populations Germany Czech Republic a deep understanding of its function and Gábor Murányi Hungarian Agricultural Wolf-Dietrich ETH Zurich, Switzerland Studies on Salmonella genomic island 1 in specificity Biotechnology Centre | Hardt mouse gut: virulence, conjugative transfer Nina Schmolka German University of Zurich, Christophe EMBL | Monterotondo, Dissecting epigenetic mechanisms during Gödöllö, Hungary and dissemination Switzerland Lancrin Italy early haematopoiesis Andrea Princz Hungarian IMBB – FORTH | Heraklion, Federico Pelisch University of Dundee, The role of SUMOylation in the regulation Caroline Sophie German Universität | Heidelberg, Mathieu Brochet University of Geneva, Unconventional centrosome composition Greece United Kingdom of stress responsive transcription factors in Simon Germany Switzerland and organization in malaria-causing Caenorhabditis elegans parasites Vanndita Bahl Indian Jawaharlai Nehru Anthony Holder Francis Crick Institute | Functional characterization of two schizont Christoph Spahn German Goethe University | Ricardo Henriques University College London, Investigation of bacterial chromosome University | New Delhi, London, United Kingdom stage expressed Plasmodium falciparum Frankfurt, Germany United Kingdom organization using deep learning assisted India proteins by generating conditional live-cell super-resolution microscopy knockouts using CRISPR Cas9 methodology Anja Worrich German Hemholtz Centre for Dani Or ETH Zurich, Switzerland Persistence of antibiotic resistance in Amrita Bhattacharya Indian Indian Institute of Christian MPI für biophysikalische Dynamics of Skp1elucidates unique Environmental Research | multistress environments (ARISE) Technology | Mumbai, Griesinger Chemie | Göttingen, mechanism of recognition of F-box proteins Leipzig, Germany India Germany in SCF complex Erithelgi Bertsoulaki Greek University of Liverpool, Helder Maiato University of Porto, Investigating the role of USP31 in the Swarnabh Indian Technion | Haifa, Israel Huiqing Zhou Centre for Molecular Integrative epigenomic approaches for United Kingdom Portugal regulation of mitotic spindle dynamics Bhattacharya Life Sciences | Nijmegen, unraveling chromatin remodeling and gene Netherlands regulation by P63 and SOX2 in corneal Constantine Greek University of Thessaly | Asaph Aharoni Weizmann Institute of Analysis of the triterpene and steroidal stem cells Garagounis Larissa, Greece Science | Rehovot, Israel saponin content in tissues of Lotus japonicus and Trigonella foenum-graecum Arindam Indian University of Calcutta | Enni Marakkanen University of Zurich, Regulation of TGF-β signaling in canine Bhattacharyya Kolkata, India Switzerland model of breast cancer progression: an Dimitris Greek Biomedical Sciences Stein Aerts Katholieke Universiteit | Single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic insight into the effect of cancer-associated Konstantopoulos Research Center Leuven, Belgium dissection of genome regulatory fibroblasts 'Alexander Fleming' | mechanisms driving from oncogene- Athens, Greece induced-senescence to malignancy Moushumi Indian Rajiv Gandhi University Michael Jeltsch University of Helsinki, VEGF receptor-3 binding and activation by Bhattacharyya of Health Sciences | Finland Green Fluorescent Protein-tagged mature Konstantinos Greek University of Crete | Patrick Celie Netherlands Cancer Structure determination of the Exo70B1 Bengaluru, India VEGF-C in living cells Kotsaridis Heraklion, Greece Institute | Amsterdam, plant protein of the exocyst in complex Netherlands with its novel putative ligand effector XopP Neloy Chakroborty Indian Adamas University | Albrecht Haase University | Trento, Italy Deciphering the neuronal population code of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris Kolkata, India in a higher-order brain centre: a high- resolution imaging study in the honeybee Katerina Nastou Greek National and Kapodistrian Lars Juhl Jensen University | Copenhagen, Exploring novel mechanistic insights in olfactory system University | Athens, Denmark amyloidoses: a text mining and molecular Greece interaction network approach Shivam Chandel Indian Indian Institute of Lydia M. Sorokin University of Münster, Role of protein tyrosine phosphatase PEST Technology | Chennai, Germany in hypoxia induced angiogenesis Petros Papadopoulos Greek Complutense University Kim De Katholieke Universiteit | Defining the metabolic and transcriptional India of Madrid (UCM) | Madrid, Keersmaecker Leuven, Belgium cues of megakaryocytic differentiation Spain that promote transition to AML in Mukeshkumar Indian Shri A. N. Patel PG Robert Bruno Institut de Biologie Targeting co-crystal growth and structural myeloproliferative neoplasm patients Chaubey Institute | Anand, India Intégrative de la Cellule | insight of Beta-Amyloid Cleaving Enzyme 1 Gif-sur-Yvette, France (BACE1)- Phycobiliproteins (PBPs): special Barbara Nikolett Hungarian University | Szeged, Lea Sistonen Abo Akademi University | Role of P53 in the degradation of RNAPII emphasis on structural dynamics and Borsos Hungary Turku, Finland upon DNA double strand breaks stability of the complex Dániel Gerber Hungarian Hungarian Academy Ludovic Orlando Université Paul Sabatier | The makeup of the modern horse: a history Supriyo Choudhury Indian Institute of Neurosciences Thomas Brochier Aix-Marseille Université | Exploring the source of beta and gamma of Sciences | Budapest, Toulouse, France of the biological changes introduced by | Kolkata, India Marseille, France band oscillations in muscle during power Hungary human management grip in healthy adults

50 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 51 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Nakshi Desai Indian Indian Institute of Chandrasekhar University | Gothenburg, Investigation of G-quadruplex formation Debanjan Mukherjee Indian Instituto de Medicina Laurence Zitvogel Institut Gustave Roussy | Plasmodium and host microbiota: friend Technology | Gandhinager, Kanduri Sweden in lncRNA MEG3 and its impact on tumor Molecular João Lobo Villejuif, France or foe? India suppressor function Antunes | Lisbon, Portugal Uthra Gowthaman Indian University of Copenhagen Tineke Lenstra Netherlands Cancer Spatio-temporal resolution of DNC Joydeep Nag Indian Rajiv Gandhi Centre Dorothee Von Laer University | Innsbruck, Elucidation of the mechanism | Frederiksberg, Denmark Institute | Amsterdam, transcription by single molecule RNA live- for Biotechnology | Austria of interaction of CHIKV envelope Netherlands cell imaging Thiruvananthapuram, glycoproteins using VSV-based pseudovirus Latika Gupta Indian Sanjay Gandhi Neil McHugh University | Bath, United Comparison of myositis specific and India Postgraduate Institute Kingdom associated autoantibodies prevalence and Sanjeev Nara Indian Basque Center on Radoslaw Martin Freie Universität | Berlin, Decoding the pre-stimulus predictions in of Medical Sciences | clinical associations between British and Cognition | Brain and Cichy Germany visual perception Lucknow, India North Indian patients with inflammatory Language, Spain myositis Suranjana Pal Indian Tata Institute of Guillermina Instituto de Neurociencias Exploring thalamic-subplate interactions in Gopichand Gutti Indian Banaras Hindu University Michael Ruhr-Universität | Development of novel GluN2B-selective Fundamental Research | López-Bendito | San Juan de Alicante, the cortex-specific Lhx2 mutant mouse | Varanasi, India Hollmann Bochum, Germany NMDA receptor modulators for treatment Mumbai, India Spain of Alzheimer’s disease Abhijeet Pandey Indian College of Pharmaceutical Ruth Prassl University | Graz, Austria Surface architectured metal organic Jaya Jacob Indian Sree Buddha College of Piet Lens National University of Analysis of microbial heavy metal stress Sciences | Manipal, India framework based liposomes (Lipo-MOF) Engineering | Pattoor, Ireland | Galway, Ireland factors and metal detoxification profile for mitochondria targeted therapy (MTT) India that aids biosynthesis of quantum dots of multiple myeloma: a multimodal Bhavana Kayyar Indian Jawaharial Nehru Centre Nicolae Radu Essex University | Investigating the role of mrhl lncRNA in therapeutic approach for Advanced Scientific Zabet Colchester, United mediating 3D genomic organisation Amey Redkar Indian National University of Renier A. L. Van University of Oxford, Mining the active intercellular tomato Research | Bengaluru, Kingdom Córdoba | Córdoba, Spain Der Hoorn United Kingdom root proteome by activity based protein India profiling during vascular wilt infection by Sowri Babu Kotikala Indian Vignan's Foundation for Marta Alves University of Lisbon, Development of photoluminescence Fusarium oxysporum Science | Technology & Portugal biosensors for fast and multiplexed Sarmistha Saha Indian Indian Institute of Brigitta Buttari Istituto Superiore di Anti-inflammatory activity of Lupeol Research, India detection and quantification of Technology | Gandhinager, Sanita | Roma, Italy against atherosclerosis induced biomolecules India inflammation by switching M1/ Pavan Kumar Indian National Institute for Ario De Marco University of Nova Gorica Development of nanobody (bi-specific) to M2-macrophage polarization Research in Reproductive | Vipava, Slovenia enhance killing efficacy of cytokine induced Jayanti Singh Indian Indian Institute of Amnon Horovitz Weizmann Institute of Allosteric mechanism of signal Health | Mumbai, India killer cells Technology | Mumbai, Science | Rehovot, Israel transduction in AAA+ motor machine, Preeti Kute Indian Institute for Stem Cell Arne Klungland University | Oslo, Norway Deciphering the role and mechanism of India MopR Biology and Regenerative m6A mediated synaptic translation Arun Sridhar Indian Bharathidasan University Francisco Universidad | Murcia, Isolation and identification of novel Medicine | Bangalore, | Tiruchirapalli, India Guardiola Spain bioactive peptides from the epidermal India mucus of fish Ichcha Manipur Indian CNR | Napoli, Italy Francesco Iorio Wellcome Sanger Network-based characterization of the Vikas Kumar - Indian Birla Institute of Julien Pompon Université II | Montpellier, RNAi mediated characterisation of Aedes Institute | Cambridge, metabolic landscape of cancer cell lines Technology and Science | France aegypti ABC transporter(s) in immunity United Kingdom Pilani, India upon dengue virus infection Sankaranarayanan Indian University of Cambridge, Simon Alberti MPI für molekulare In vitro reconstitution and characterization Omkar Vinchure Indian Indian Institute of María A. Blasco Centro Nacional Elucidating the biological significance of Meenakshi United Kingdom Zellbiologie und Genetik | of the Drosophila DEAD-box protein Me31B Technology | Delhi, India de Investigaciones miRNA in regulation of telomere dynamics Sundaram Dresden, Germany Oncológicas (CNIO) | in glioblastoma Brijesh Modi Indian European Brain Research Francesco Radboud University | In-vivo electrophysiological and Madrid, Spain Institute (EBRI) | Rome, Battaglia Nijmegen, Netherlands optogenetic techniques to study social Rajesh Vinnakota Indian National Center for Cell Peter Peters University | Maastricht, Synchronization of stimulus application Italy memory encoding in an animal model of Science (NCCS) | Pune, Netherlands with vitrification: a novel cryo-electron Autism India microscope grid preparation method for the study of ion channels

52 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 53 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Leila Fotoohabadi Iranian National AIDS Research Nancy Dumais Université de Sherbrooke, Assessment of transmigration of ART- Serenella Anzilotti Italian IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Salvatore University of Basel, Identification of genetic somatic Institute | Pune, India Canada conjugated nanoparticles across human Tumori Fondazione Piscuoglio Switzerland alterations and transcriptomic blood – brain barrier model 'Senatore G. Pascale' | perturbation in hereditary and sporadic Sabra Rostami Iranian Bogazici University | Klaus D. Jandt Friedrich-Schiller- Evaluation of antibacterial activities of Naples, Italy Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients Istanbul, Turkey Universität | Jena, shark skin topography on biomimicked Veronica Begni Italian Università degli Studi | Aniko Korosi University | Amsterdam, Modulation of the Germany Polymeric Substrates Milano, Italy Netherlands hypothalamic – pituitary-adrenal axis Mohammad Iranian Universita | Bari, Italy Erik Verbruggen University | Antwerp, Responses of durum wheat (Triticum via supplementation with essential Yaghoubi Khanghahi Belgium durum Desf.) root endophytic bacterial micronutrients communities to chemical/microbiological Michele Bertacchi Italian Institut de Biologie Silvia Cappello Max Planck Institute of COUP-TFI/NR2F1 in neurodevelopmental fertilization managements under drought Valrose | Nice, France Psychiatry | München, cortical disorders: a human organoid model and salinity stresses Germany of BBSOA syndrome Idan Adir Israeli Weizmann Institute of Ulrich auf dem Technical University Creating an ECM-cell microenvironment Martina Biagioni Italian Institute of Neuroscience | Sandra Siegert Institute of Science and Mitochondrial dynamics and retinal Science | Rehovot, Israel Keller of Denmark | Lyngby, atlas for the research of regeneration and Pisa, Italy Technology Austria (IST) | microglia activation Denmark fibrosis Klosterneuburg, Austria Rona Aviram Israeli Weizmann Institute of Michael N. Hall Biozentrum | University of Cell autonomous circadian oscillations in Elisabetta Bianchi Italian Università degli Studi | Silvana Munzi CE3C – Centre for Excess nitrogen and lichens: Science | Rehovot, Israel Basel, Switzerland the phosphorylation state of the PI3K-AKT- Firenze, Italy Ecology | Evolution and ecophysiological responses and lichen- mTOR pathway Environmental Changes, associated microbial communities Mark Berliner Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Tamara University of Cologne, The regulatory network connecting the Portugal Gigolashvili Germany COP9 Signalosome and glucosinolates Valeria Calabrese Italian Università degli Studi | Massimiliano Utrecht University, Alpha-synuclein effects on neurons biosynthesis and turnover Perugia, Italy Caiazzo Netherlands transdifferentiated from fibroblasts Ronni Cohen Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Ira Milosevic European Neuroscience Elucidating the involvement of Amisyn in extracted from patients with Parkinson's Institute | Göttingen, synaptic plasticity and behavior disease: voltammetric, electrophysiologic Germany and morphologic analyses Tal Dahan-Meir Israeli Weizmann Institute of Magnus Nordborg Gregor Mendel Institute of Temporal and spatial adaptation of a wild Federica Campanelli Italian Università degli Studi | Camilla Bellone University of Geneva, Analysis of social-evoked striatal synaptic Science | Rehovot, Israel Molecular Plant Biology | wheat population under climate change Perugia, Italy Switzerland plasticity in laboratory animals Vienna, Austria Sara Cimini Italian University of Rome Blanca San Centre for Research in Identification and functional validation Arie Fridrich Israeli The Hebrew University | Uri Frank National University of Functional characterization of a 600 'Sapienza' | Rome, Italy Segundo Agricultural Genomics | of novel miRNAs involved in rice innate Jerusalem, Israel Ireland | Galway, Ireland million years-old cnidarian microRNA: Barcelona, Spain immunity miR-2022 Paolo Cocomazzi Italian Università degli Studi | Dmitri Svergun EMBL | Hamburg, Interaction between the Apoptosis Inducing Lirin Michaeli Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Barbara Conradt Ludwig-Maximilians- "Regulation of mitochondrial dynamics and Milano, Italy Germany Factor (AIF) and CHCHD4: a possible Universität | München, cell fate by the SUMO system connection to mitochondriopathies onset Germany during mitochondrial stress and aging" Ilaria Colzi Italian Università degli Studi | Nathalie Université Libre de The role of the cell walls in intraspecific Yaakov Socol Israeli Hebrew University | Matthew Waldor Harvard Medical School | Novel factors involved in pro- and Firenze, Italy Verbruggen Bruxelles | Brussels, cadmium accumulation in Arabidopsis Jerusalem, Israel Boston, United States anti-death processes induced by Belgium species enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) Marialessandra Italian Universita | Bari, Italy Maria Isabel Loza Universidade | Santiago Biological evaluation of new ligands as Josephine Alba Italian University of Rome Miquel Pons Universitat de Barcelona | Structural and dynamical characterization Contino García de Compostela, Spain diagnostic tools and therapeutic agents 'Sapienza' | Rome, Italy Barcelona, Spain of c-Src kinase binding to lipid membranes useful in neurodegenerative and cancer diseases Fabrizio Angius Italian University of Cagliari | Pedro Simas Instituto de Medicina An innovative chimera-virus animal model Cagliari, Italy Molecular João Lobo of infection to investigate curative effect of Sara Costantini Italian Università 'La Sapienza' | Charles Melnyk Swedish University of Investigating the role of damage associated Antunes | Lisbon, Portugal sulfonamide derivatives against gamma- Roma, Italy Agricultural Sciences | molecular patterns during plant graft Herpesvirus induced malignancies Uppsala, Sweden formation

54 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 55 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Omar De Bei Italian Università degli Studi di Ben Luisi University of Cambridge, Cryo-EM structure of the complex between Jessica Mingardi Italian University | Brescia, Italy Iiris Hovatta University of Helsinki, miR-9-5p in behavioural stress Parma, Italy United Kingdom bacterial hemophore IsdB and human Finland vulnerability: a focus on morphological hemoglobin and functional changes in neurons and Marta De Italian Utrecht University, Jan Ellenberg EMBL | Heidelberg, Understanding the mechanisms of oligodendrocytes Ruijter-Villani Netherlands Germany spindle formation and chromosome mis- Monica Nanni Italian University of Rome Francesco Cecconi Danish Cancer Research Analysis of the involvement of FGFR altered segregation in IVF embryos 'Sapienza' | Rome, Italy Center | Copenhagen, splicing and aberrant FGF signaling on Anna Maria Floriano Italian Università | Pavia, Italy Lionel Guy Uppsala University, Advanced evolutionary genomics analyses Denmark the interplay between autophagy and Sweden towards the understanding of the evolution epithelial-mesenchymal transition during of the intramitochondrial tropism of carcinogenesis Midichloria symbionts of ticks Veronica Nasta Italian University of Florence | David I. Stuart Wellcome Centre for Structural elucidation of the cytosolic [4Fe- Antonio Francioso Italian University of Rome Isabel López University of La Laguna "Searching for bioactive and Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Human Genetics | Oxford, 4S] cluster assembly: a Cryo-EM approach 'Sapienza' | Rome, Italy Bazzocchi | San Cristóbal de La neuroprotective compounds from the United Kingdom Laguna, Spain European tropical flora: Laura Pagliari Italian Università degli Studi | Axel Mithöfer MPI für Chemische Be local: site-specific hormone responses from Cuba to Canary Islands crossing the Udine, Italy Ökologie | Jena, Germany for new hints in phytoplasma-plant Mediterranean Sea" interaction study Adele Gabba Italian National University of Jesus CIC bioGUNE | Derio, Characterisation of 15N and 13C labelled Francesco Italian Goethe University | Jim Swoger EMBL | Barcelona, Spain High-content and high-throughput Ireland | Galway, Ireland Jimenez-Barbero Spain human macrophage galactose c-type lectin Pampaloni Frankfurt, Germany analysis of live three-dimensional (CLEC10A) via nuclear magnetic resonance gastruloids with light sheet fluorescence and investigation of multivalent ligand microscopy binding mode Alessandro Poli Italian Istituto Firc di Oncologia Aldo Ferrari ETH Zurich, Switzerland Real-time cell-nucleus volume ratio Nicola Gaetano Italian University of Campania Philippe Djian Université Paris Descartes Analysis of Transglutaminase 2 (TG 2) Molecolare | Milano, Italy measurement Gatta 'Luigi Vanvitelli' | Caserta, | Paris, France expression in human pluripotent stem cells Giulia Regazzo Italian Regina Elena National Francesco Bertoni Oncology Institute of High-throughput miRNA functional Italy (h-iPSC)-derived neural and glial cells, and Cancer Institute | Roma, Southern Switzerland screening to identify sensitizers to standard in cerebral organoids derived from IPS cells Italy (IOSI) | Bellinzona, therapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma Francesco Giardini Italian University of Florence | Martin Bishop King's College | London, Whole heart computational model of Switzerland Sesto Fiorentino, Italy United Kingdom action potential propagation based Veronica Ruta Italian University of Rome Julio Salinas Centro de Investigaciones Living in adverse environmental conditions: on high-resolution cytoarchitectonic 'Sapienza' | Rome, Italy Biológicas (CIB / CSIC) | uncovering the role of the DAG1 and WRKY reconstruction Madrid, Spain proteins in the response to abiotic stress Lucia Gigli Italian University of Florence | Elizaveta A University | Bath, United Magneto-structural relations in during plant development Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Suturina Kingdom metalloproteins Valeria Scalcon Italian Università di Padova, Italy Marcus Conrad Helmholtz Zentrum Unravelling the potential role of Francesca Lopez Italian National University of Frederic Université | Perpignan, De-novo genome assembly of Arabidopsis München | Neuherberg, glutaredoxin 2 in ferroptosis Ireland | Galway, Ireland Pontvianne France thaliana with reduced 45S rDNA copy Germany number generated by CRISPR-Cas9 Mariangela Tabone Italian Universidad Europea | François Fenaille CEA / Saclay | Gif-sur- Effect of cocoa rich in procyanidins mutagenesis Madrid, Spain Yvette, France chronic consumption in plasma and fecal Elisa Magistrati Italian Istituto Firc di Oncologia Monica Instituto Gulbenkian de Deciphering the role of myosin VI in metabolome after a session of acute Molecolare | Milano, Italy Bettencourt-Dias Ciência | Oeiras, Portugal centrosome biology exercise Paolo Martini Italian Università di Padova, Italy Zlatko Trajanoski Medical University | A computational framework to build the Giulia Tarquini Italian Università degli Studi | Nicolás Bologna Centre for Research in "Subcellular characterization of virus- Innsbruck, Austria network of cell-to-cell communication Udine, Italy Agricultural Genomics induced RNA silencing pathway from spatial and single cell RNA-seq data (CRAG) | Cerdanyola del in Vitis vinifera and Arabidopsis thaliana" Alice Migazzi Italian University | Trento, Italy Frédéric Saudou Institute of Neuroscience | Role of arginine methylation in huntingtin- Vallès, Spain Grenoble, France mediated axonal trafficking: implications Giuseppe Taurino Italian Università degli Studi di Saverio Tardito Beatson Institute for The metabolic role of mesenchymal stromal for Huntington’s Disease Parma, Italy Cancer Research | vells in scute lymphoblastic leukemia Glasgow, United Kingdom

56 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 57 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Debora Traversa Italian Universita | Bari, Italy Lasse Sommer Aarhus University, Unraveling the molecular function of Monika Fajfer Polish Cardinal Stefan Kota Praveen Indian Institute of Science Understanding the ecology and evolution Kristensen Denmark circular PVT1 transcript in human cancer Wyszyński University | Karanth | Bangalore, India of host – parasite interactions with the Ottavia Vitaloni Italian Scuola Normale Superiore Jason W. Chin MRC Laboratory of "PISA 2.0 project: a platform to select Warsaw, Poland example of Geckobia mites (Acariformes: | Pisa, Italy Molecular Biology | intrabodies against a single post- Pterygosomatidae) and Hemidactylus Cambridge, United translational geckos (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the Kingdom modification of proteins in vivo" Indian subcontinent Giovanni Zifarelli Italian University of Oxford | MRC, Christian Michael Ludwig-Maximilians- Direct patch-clamp measurements on Malgorzata Gazda Polish University of Porto, Tom Gilbert University | Copenhagen, The genetic basis of pigeon’s eye United Kingdom Grimm Universität | München, lysosomes to investigate the physiological Portugal Denmark pigmentation Germany role of the lysosomal chloride/proton Adrian Górecki Polish University | Warsaw, Celia Manaia University of Porto, Integrating quantitative and qualitative antiporter ClC-7 mutated in osteopetrosis Poland Portugal molecular approaches for a better and lysosomal storage disease surveillance of spreading of bacterial genes Reuben Yaa Kenyan King's College | London, José Luis Universidad Pablo de Regulation of Brachyury in cancer conferring resistance to critically important United Kingdom Gómez-Skarmeta Olavide | Sevilla, Spain antibiotics Ruta Lasauskaite Lithuanian University of Basel, Michael Richter University of Liverpool, Neurovascular and cardiovascular Magdalena Polish Polish Academy of Barbara University Hospital of Platelets and platelet microparticles Switzerland United Kingdom responses to a cognitive challenge under Kostrzewska- Sciences | Poznan, Poland Wollenberg Schleswig-Holstein | (PMP) as omnipresent RNA messengers in different ambient lighting conditions Poczekaj Lübeck, Germany inflammatory diseases Rebecca Borg Maltese University of Malta | Jan Herman University Medical Identification of novel genetic factors Marcin Makowski Polish Instituto de Medicina Iván López Universidad Complutense Studying antimicrobial peptide- Msida, Malta Veldink Centre (UMC) | Utrecht, associated with amyotrophic lateral Molecular João Lobo de Madrid (UCM) | Madrid, bioenergetic membrane interactions Netherlands sclerosis in an isolated island population Antunes | Lisbon, Portugal Spain Abril Escamilla Ayala Mexican Katholieke Universiteit | Magali Mondin University of Bordeaux | Analysis of γ-secretase complexes by dual Agnieszka Malcher Polish Institute of Human Bernhard G. Max Planck Institute CRISPR/Cas9 system based Leuven, Belgium Bordeaux, France color high-density single particle tracking Genetics | Poznan, Poland Herrmann for Molecular Genetics | spermatogenesis impairment in vitro Berlin, Germany modeling of human male gonad Christian Feregrino Mexican University of Basel, Henrik Zentrum für Molekulare A computational pipeline for gene Switzerland Kaessmann Biologie (ZMBH) | co-expression network comparisons across Karol Nowosad Polish Medical University of Cosimo De Bari University | Aberdeen, Chromatin and transcriptome analysis of Heidelberg, Germany species Lublin | Lublin, Poland United Kingdom the developing mice joint interzones Marcela Sandoval Mexican University | Copenhagen, Marc A. Centro Nacional Análisis Application of Hi-C methods for the Joanna Swierkowska Polish Institute of Human Caroline Klaver Erasmus University MC | The role of the noncoding miRNA and Velasco Denmark Marti-Renom Genómico (CNAG) | generation of long read fragments and Genetics | Poznan, Poland Rotterdam, Netherlands enhancers in high myopia Barcelona, Spain genome assemblies from degraded Adam Ustaszewski Polish Polish Academy of Jose Ignacio Institut D'Investigacions Identification of putative alternations samples Sciences | Poznan, Poland Martin-Subero Biomèdiques August of open chromatin regions in classical Jorge Zamora Mexican Wageningen University, Alexandra Jones University of Warwick | Deciphering the master code: Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | Hodgkin lymphoma by integration of ATAC- Zaragoza Netherlands Coventry, United Kingdom phosphorylation-dependent regulation of Barcelona, Spain Seq and high-throughput sequencing of retinoblastoma-related protein activity cis-regulatory elements. Jelena Zindovic University of Montenegro Christina Varveri Benaki Phytopathological "Next generation diagnostics and Márcia Carvalho Portuguese University of Trás-os- Gernot Bodner University of Natural Phenotyping different root systems of | Podgorica, Montenegro Institute | Athens, Greece characterization for emerging viruses and Montes and Alto Douro | Resources & Life Sciences wheat and their implication for drought virus-like agents Vila Real, Portugal (BOKU) | Vienna, Austria response using hyperspectral imaging of economically significant agricultural Ricardo Coelho Portuguese IPATIMUP | Porto, Olli Kallioniemi Science for Life Laboratory Unveil the role played by MSLN expression crops in Montenegro" Portugal | Solna, Sweden in chemoresistance of ovarian cancer cells Gabriela Nerida Peruvian Centro Nacional de Gunnar Bratbak University | Bergen, Production of polinton-like viruses for high Krishna Kant Portuguese International Iberian Elena Martínez Institut de Bioenginyeria A 3D tissue model system to study the Condezo Castro Biotecnología (CNB) | Norway resolution structural studies Nanotechnology Fraiz de Catalunya (IBEC) | penetration of nanotheranostic agents in Madrid, Spain Laboratory | Braga, Barcelona, Spain micrometastasis Andrzej Cwetsch Polish Imagine Institute | Paris, Marcos Centro Nacional Role of transcription factor Dbx1 in Portugal France Malumbres de Investigaciones regulation of the cell cycle machinery Catarina Lopes Portuguese University of Lisbon, Koji Kinoshita University of Southern Evaluating of erythrocyte deformability Oncológicas (CNIO) | Portugal Denmark | Odense, and its interaction with fibrinogen variants Madrid, Spain Denmark using micropipette aspiration

58 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 59 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Bárbara Portuguese Universidade do Minho | Jens Schwamborn University | Luxembourg, Mesenchymal stem cells secretome in Matevž Rumpret Slovenian University Medical Meytal Landau Technion | Haifa, Israel SIRL-1 as an immune inhibitory receptor Mendes-Pinheiro Braga, Portugal Luxembourg Parkinson’s disease regenerative medicine: Centre (UMC) | Utrecht, recognizing amyloids formed by human using brain organoids as a tool Netherlands and bacterial antimicrobial peptides Ana Rita Mendes Portuguese Champalimaud Sandrine Bertrand Université de Bordeaux | Functional characterization of the spinal Jeongyoon Choi South Korean University of Oxford, Alexey Amunts Science for Life Laboratory Revealing 3D-high-resolution structure of Foundation | Lisbon, Bordeaux, France ejaculation network United Kingdom | Solna, Sweden the Xist RNP using single-particle cryo-EM Portugal Aixa María Aguilera Spanish Universidad | Granada, Linda Giblin Teagasc Food Research Lipid nanoparticles: evaluation of the Carlos Moreira Portuguese Instituto de Tecnologia Cyril Zipfel University of Zurich, Deciphering new functions of lipid polymer Garrido Spain Centre | Moorepark, digestibility and the intestinal permeability Química e Biólogia | Switzerland barriers as potential elicitors of plant Ireland through a Caco2/HT-29 co-culture as an in Oeiras, Portugal immunity vitro model of human intestinal epithelium Filipa Ribeiro Portuguese Instituto de Medicina Eliane Piaggio Institut Curie | Paris, Elucidating Foxp3+ Tfr cell differentiation Ana Alcaraz Serna Spanish Hospital Universitario de Jens Volker Stein Université | Fribourg, Migration priming of dendritic cells after Molecular João Lobo France one cell at a time la Princesa | Madrid, Spain Switzerland synaptic contact Antunes | Lisbon, Portugal Álvaro Andrades Spanish Universidad | Granada, Rory Johnson University | Bern, Genome-wide discovery of cancer Rui Rodrigues Portuguese University of Lisbon, Carlos Fitzsimons Science Park | Amsterdam, Deciphering the role of Cannabinoid Delgado Spain Switzerland driver long non-coding RNAs in lung Portugal Netherlands Type 2 receptors on adult hippocampal adenocarcinoma neurogenesis as therapeutic targets for Irene Anton-Sales Spanish Institut de Ciencies de Heli Skottman University | Tampere, Limbal epithelial stem cell transplantation depression Materials de Barcelona Finland to the ocular surface using bacterial Tess Afanasyeva Russian Radboud University | Michael University College London, Generation and characterization of retinal (CSIC) | Barcelona, Spain nanocellulose films Nijmegen, Netherlands Cheetham United Kingdom organoids to study LCA5-associated retinal Sara Artigas Spanish Institute for Game and Ard Nijhof Freie Universität | Berlin, RNAi in ticks as a tool for vaccine degeneration Jerónimo Wildlife Research | Ciudad Germany development Alisa Garaeva Russian University | Groningen, Markus Seeger University of Zurich, Synthetic nanobodies for functional and Real, Spain Netherlands Switzerland structural characterization of glutamate Beatriz Ballester Spanish University | Valencia, Melanie Helmholtz Zentrum | Study of the contribution of extracellular transporters Llobell Spain Königshoff München, Germany vesicles to lung epithelial cell Alvin Chew Singaporean Nanyang Technological Christos MPI für molekulare Structural insights of Mycobacterial reprogramming in idiopathic pulmonary University Singapore, Gatsogiannis Physiologie | Dortmund, Polyketide Synthase 13 in mycolic acid fibrosis Singapore Germany biosynthesis Ivan Ballesteros Spanish Centro Nacional Irina A. Udalova University of Oxford, Deciphering chromatin organization in Siyao Guo Singaporean Nanyang Technological Frank Aarestrup Technical University Prevalence and characterization of de Investigaciones United Kingdom tissue-associated Neutrophils during University Singapore, of Denmark | Lyngby, extended spectrum Beta-lactamase Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | homeostasis Singapore Denmark (ESBL) – producing E.coli in markets of Madrid, Spain Singapore Cristina Benito Spanish Complutense University Ana Rebane University | Tartu, Estonia Epigenetic characterization of dendritic Nada Labajova Slovak Slovak Academy of Martin Loose Institute of Science and Dynamics of Clostridium difficile Min Villalvilla of Madrid (UCM) | Madrid, cells differentiated in the presence of Sciences | Bratislava, Technology Austria (IST) | system and its implication on cell division Spain allergoid-mannan conjugates Slovakia Klosterneuburg, Austria and sporulation Adela Bernabeu Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos John Mason University of Edinburgh, Generation of brain organoids from Darina Paprckova Slovak Institute of Molecular David Cole Immunocore Limited The role of self-reactivity of the CD8+ T cells Zornoza III-ISCII | Majadahonda, United Kingdom pluripotent stem cells. Characterization Genetics of the ASCR | | Abingdon, United in the immune response Spain and comparison of two different protocols Prague, Czech Republic Kingdom César Bernat Spanish Universidad Politecnica Chris Hawes Brookes University | Putative function of Arabidopsis p24 Kristína Vičíková Slovak Slovak Academy of Dominik Filipp Academy of Sciences A novel role of CD222 in T cell activation Silvestre de Valencia | Burjassot, Oxford, United Kingdom proteins in transport to the plasma Sciences | Bratislava, of the Czech Republic | Spain membrane of GPI-anchored proteins Slovakia Prague, Czech Republic Noel Blanco Spanish Instituto de Biología Fredy Barneche Institute of Biology of the Regulation of RNA Pol II activity by DELLA- Manja Omerzu Slovenian University Medical Raul Méndez Institute for Research in RNA binding protein CPEB1 is a novel Wnt Touriñán Molecular y Celular de ENS | Paris, France HUB1 in Arabidopsis Centre (UMC) | Utrecht, Biomedicine | Barcelona, pathway regulator Plantas | Valencia, Spain Netherlands Spain

60 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 61 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Borja Blanco Spanish Basque Center on Robert Cooper University College London, Mapping whole head resting-state Maria Davis Lopez Spanish Universidad | Sevilla, Sonia Brichard Université Catholique Is Adiponectin exerting a protective role Cognition | Brain and United Kingdom functional connectivity in neonates with De Carrizosa Spain de Louvain | Brussels, on extraocular muscles in Duchenne's Language, Spain combined high density diffuse optical Belgium muscular dystrophy? tomography and electroencephalography Rubén De Dios Spanish Universidad Pablo de Jörg Vogel University | Würzburg, Deciphering the ncRNA-Mediated Susanna Bodoy Spanish Institute for Research in Günter Weiss Medical University | Regulation of FPN1 in macrophages from Barranco Olavide | Sevilla, Spain Germany Posttranscriptional regulation in the Biomedicine | Barcelona, Innsbruck, Austria lysinuric protein intolerance mouse model anaerobic and the general stress responses Spain of the Facultative Anaerobe Sphingopyxis Èlia Bosch Rué Spanish Universitat Internacional George Alexander Duke University | Durham, Maturation and functional characterization granuli TFA de Catalunya | Barcelona, Truskey United States of engineered blood vessel like structure Maria Ester De La Spanish Fundación Centro Guillermo Oliver Northwestern University | Meis transcription factors and the Spain Cruz Crespillo Nacional de Chicago, United States Epicardium: paracrine association with Álvaro Briso- Spanish Centre for Molecular Hans C. Clevers Hubrecht Institute | Establishment of inherited metabolic Investigaciones cardiac lymphatics? Montiano Pastrana Biology 'Severo Ochoa' | Utrecht, Netherlands disease models for therapy development Cardiovasculares | Madrid, Madrid, Spain and evaluation of pharmacological Spain chaperones: hepatic organoids and gene Irene Delgado Spanish Instituto de Biomedicina Marija Cvijovic University | Gothenburg, Study of proliferative heterogeneity in editing Román de Sevilla | Sevilla, Spain Sweden clonal cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Izaskun Buendia Spanish Hospital Universitario de Denis Vivien University | Caen, France Proof of concept of the therapeutic Daniel Duque Spanish Institut D'Investigacions Ewelina Knapska Nencki Institute | Warsaw, The role of pre-frontal cortex in the la Princesa | Madrid, Spain potential of ITH13001 by induction of Biomèdiques August Poland generation of expectations the Nrf2-Hemoxygenase 1 axis for the Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | treatment of cerebral stroke Barcelona, Spain Sonia Burgaz Spanish Universidad Complutense Giovanni Neurocentre Magendie | Role of the mitochondrial CB1 receptor Daniel F. Marchán Spanish University of Vigo | Vigo, Thibaud Decaëns Centre d'Ecologie Phylogenetic relationships of southern de Madrid (UCM) | Madrid, Marsicano Bordeaux, France in neuronal deterioration in Parkinson's Portugal Fonctionnelle et Evolutive France endemic earthworm genera – Spain disease | Montpellier, France filling the gap in the evolution of Andres Angel Spanish Universidad de Thomas Universität | Heidelberg, Role of CYP1A in the biotransformation and Lumbricidae Calderon-Garcia Salamanca, Spain Braunbeck Germany biological effects of drugs of abuse Alfonso Spanish Universidad Pablo de Sigurd Braun Ludwig-Maximilians- Identification of regulators of the Rabl María Cámara Spanish University | A Coruña, Dora Brites University of Lisbon, Separation of small extracellular vesicles Fernandez-Alvarez Olavide | Sevilla, Spain Universität (LMU) | configuration Quílez Spain Portugal from cancerous cells and assessment Martinsried, Germany of their cargo in specific inflammatory Mónica Spanish Instituto de Parasitología Peter Carmeliet Vesalius Research Center | Role of PARP inhibition in promoting mediators Fernández-Cortés y Biomedicina | Armilla, Leuven, Belgium vasculogenic mimicry normalization in vivo Mar Spanish Biocruces Bizkaia Health Vincenzo Donadio Università | Bologna, Italy Abnormal α-synuclein deposits in Spain Carmona-Abellan Research Institute | skin nerves of idiopathic and genetic José Fernández- Spanish Instituto de Biomedicina Jorge Perez Universität | Regensburg, Consequences of the depletion of yeast Barakaldo, Spain Parkinson´s disease Fernández de Sevilla | Sevilla, Spain Fernandez Germany ribosomal protein eL15 and RNA helicase Mireia Spanish IDIBAPS | CIBERehd | Loredana Saveanu Université Diderot (Paris Identification of albumin receptors and Mak5 on ribosome biogenesis Casulleras-Oliver Hospital Clinic, Spain 7) | Paris, France characterization of albumin intracellular Eva Florensa-Zanuy Spanish Universidad de Cantabria John Cryan University College | Cork, Behavioural, immune and microbiota trafficking in human monocytes | Santander, Spain Ireland alterations induced by early-life antibiotic Jean-Paul Cerna Spanish Universidad Politécnica | Victor Sourjik MPI für terrestrische Characterization of phytopathogenic administration in mice: implications for Vargas Madrid, Spain Mikrobiologie | Marburg, bacteria chemoreceptors mood and cognitive disorders Germany Joana Fort Spanish Institute for Research in Thorben Cordes Ludwig-Maximilians- Study of molecular mechanism of the LAT Mario D. Cordero Spanish Universidad | Granada, Thomas Von University | Newcastle, Evaluating the role of NLRP3- Biomedicine | Barcelona, Universität (LMU) | transporter BasC by intramolecular FRET Spain Zglinicki United Kingdom inflammasome in senescent cells Spain Martinsried, Germany Cristina Cueto Spanish CEU Cardenal Herrera Paul Coffer University Medical Role of Rnd3 in autophagy through BioID Silvia Galan Spanish Centro de Regulación Juan M MPI für Molekulare Definition of structural alphabets for University | Valencia, Centre (UMC) | Utrecht, proximity Biotinylation technique Genómica (CRG) | Vaquerizas Biomedizin | Münster, determining the relationship between Spain Netherlands Barcelona, Spain Germany structural patterns and genomic features

62 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 63 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Luis Javier Galindo Spanish Université de Paris-Sud | Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Universitat Pompeu Fabra Phylogenomics and comparative genomics Jorge Spanish Universidad Politecnica | Dolf Weijers Wageningen University, Cellular analysis of meristem behaviour González Orsay, France | Barcelona, Spain of Amoeboradix gromovi and Sanchytrium Hernández-García Valencia, Spain Netherlands under stress in the liverwort Marchantia tribonematis (Sanchytriaceae), a divergent polymorpha fugal clade Leticia Herrera Spanish Centro Nacional Bruce M. Harvard Medical School | Role of skeletal muscle p38 MAPKs in the Miguel García Spanish University | Oviedo, Spain Ola Larsson Karolinska Institutet | Identification and characterization of Melle de Investigaciones Spiegelman Boston, United States control of locomotor activity Álvarez Stockholm, Sweden ribosome translation patterns in RPS15- Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | mutated chronic lymphocytic leukemia by Madrid, Spain polysome profiling and RNA sequencing Óscar Herrero Spanish Universidad Nacional de David Siaussat Sorbonne University | Assessment of the biocide potential Rocío García Gómez Spanish Universidad de Cantabria Victoria Sanz Queen Mary | University Unraveling IQGAP1 and IQGAP2 scaffold Educación a Distancia | Paris, France of methyl ketones and implications in | Santander, Spain Moreno of London, United proteins effect on melanoma invasion and Madrid, Spain integrated pest management (BIOPEST) Kingdom metastasis capacities using 3D matrix Juan José Huesa Spanish University | Valencia, Guillermo University | Copenhagen, Application of cryo-EM studies for the imaging systems Spain Montoya Denmark structural characterization of the Rcs Jorge García-Lema Spanish Institute for Research in Jonathan Grimes University of Oxford, Structural characterization of the human phosphorelay system Biomedicine | Barcelona, United Kingdom ADAT2-ADAT3-tRNA complex Nekane Ibarluzea Spanish Biocruces Bizkaia Health Hans Van Radboud University | Disease modelling in MED12 related Spain Research Institute | Bokhoven Nijmegen, Netherlands disorders using CRISPR/Cas9 technology Celia García Spanish Centre for Molecular Nick Brown University of Cambridge, Analysis of the regulation of cell- Barakaldo, Spain Biology 'Severo Ochoa' | United Kingdom extracellular matrix interactions by Sonia Infante Spanish IMDEA Nanociencia | Diane Barber University of California Metallo-organic compounds capable of Madrid, Spain the Drosophila melanogaster Hox gene Madrid, Spain San Francisco, United hijacking/releasing a proton for shuttling Ultrabithorax to determine organ shape States protons into cancer cells Maria Garcia Spanish Centro Nacional Dirk Görlich MPI für biophysikalische Importin-7: a mechanosensing import Leire Iparraguirre Spanish BioDonostia Health Thomas Birkballe Aarhus University, Role of circRNAs in the transcriptome de Investigaciones Chemie | Göttingen, factor for Cavin-1 and YAP1 Research Institute | San Hansen Denmark regulation network in multiple sclerosis Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Germany Sebastian, Spain Madrid, Spain David Juan Spanish Institute of Evolutionary Duncan T. Odom Deutsches Defining gene regulatory elements Natalia González Spanish Centro Nacional de Andres Alcover Institut Pasteur | Paris, SNX27 in the control of cytoskeleton Biology (IEB) | Barcelona, Krebsforschungszentrum responsible for gene expression changes in Mancha Biotecnología (CNB) | France rearrangements, signalling microclusters Spain (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, primate evolution of somatic cells Madrid, Spain and T cell function Germany Jaime Gonzalez Spanish University | Surrey, United Rolf Kümmerli University of Zurich, In vivo analysis of population invasion Iris Juárez Leal Spanish Instituto de Neurociencias Matthias Prigge Leibniz-Institut Optogenetic stimulation of Stria Medularis Kingdom Switzerland using engineered Pseudomonas aeruginosa | San Juan de Alicante, für Neurobiologie | afferents into medial Habenula Sandra Guallar Spanish Universitat de Barcelona | Thierry Soldati University of Geneva, Impact of the joint effect of PDIM and Spain Magdeburg, Germany Garrido Barcelona, Spain Switzerland ESAT-6 during amoeba infection Paula Juiz-Valiña Spanish University | A Coruña, Justin Rochford University | Aberdeen, Defining the response of adipose tissue to Diego Guerin Spanish University of the Basque Paolo Carloni Forschungszentrum Jülich Activation of a Rhodopsin mutant Spain United Kingdom bariatric surgery: a possible mediator of Country | Leioa, Spain GmbH | Jülich, Germany causing severe retinitis pigmentosa: a improved metabolic health metadynamics study Jose Ignacio Labella Spanish University of Alicante | Conrad Queen Mary | University Connection between the essential Xabier Guruceaga Spanish University of the Basque Jarrod R University of Tennessee | Generation of Aspergillus fumigatus Sanfrutos Alicante, Spain Mullineaux of London, United response regulator RpaB and the thylakoid Sierra Country | Leioa, Spain Fortwendel Memphis, United States deletion mutant strains using CRISPR-Cas9 Kingdom biogenesis technology Iraia Ladero Spanish NEIKER | Basque Institute Dirk Werling University College London, Cattle innate response against Julieta Gabriela Spanish Universidad | Murcia, Patrick Lonergan University College | Bovine rJuno coated beads: an alternative for Agricultural Research United Kingdom mycobacterial infections: neutrophil Hamze Araujo Spain Dublin, Ireland model to understand gamete interaction and Development, Spain extracellular trap release and in cattle inflammasome complex formation in María Isabel Spanish Institute for Research in Bruno Antonny Institut de Pharmacologie Dissecting the mechanism by caspase-1 activation Hernández Alvarez Biomedicine | Barcelona, Moléculaire et Cellulaire which Mitofusin 2 participates in Jaione Lasa Spanish BioDonostia Health Isabelle Richard Généthon | Evry, France New therapeutic treatments for LGMD2A Spain (IPMC) | Valbonne, France phosphatidylserine transfer from ER to Research Institute | San targeting SERCA mitochondria Sebastian, Spain

64 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 65 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Jesús Lavado-García Spanish Universitat Autonoma Terry Biopocessing Technology Glycomic characterization of HIV-1 virus- Aida Obiols Spanish PEBC | L'Hospitalet de Jeroen University Medical Characterization of new circRNAs species de Barcelona | Barcelona, Nguyen-Khuong Institute | Singapore, like particles and co-produced extracellular Llobregat (Barcelona), Pasterkamp Centre (UMC) | Utrecht, with regulatory potential in a human Spain Singapore vesicles within a HEK293 mammalian Spain Netherlands cellular model of Rett syndrome production system Paula Olaizola Rebe Spanish BioDonostia Health Luca Fabris Università di Padova, Italy Role of post-translational modifications in Laura Lopez Blanch Spanish Centro de Regulación Stephen W. University College London, Deciphering the role and regulation of Research Institute | San the regulation of the cholangiocarcinoma- Genómica (CRG) | Wilson United Kingdom alternatively spliced microexons during Sebastian, Spain stroma crosstalk Barcelona, Spain nervous system development and function Wilfredo Spanish University of Malaga, Tapio Lönnberg Centre for Biotechnology | Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of Lorena Magraner Spanish Centro Nacional Janet Thornton European Bioinformatics Identification of new biomarkers in Oliva-Olivera Spain Turku, Finland metabolic sensitivity to apoptosis in Pardo de Investigaciones Institute | Hinxton | prostate cancer adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell Oncológicas (CNIO) | Cambridge, United subpopulations Madrid, Spain Kingdom Bruna Oriol-Tordera Spanish AIDS Research Institute Béhazine Université 6 Pierre et Systems vaccinology to identify Esmeralda Magro Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos Deborah Gill University of Oxford, Generation of a Surfactant-Protein B (SP-B) IrsiCaixa | Badalona, Spain Combadière Marie Curie (UPMC) | Paris, epigenetically regulated immune López III | Madrid, Spain United Kingdom deficient (knock-in) human pluripotent France responses in the kick-and-kill clinical trial stem cell line using CRISPR-Cas9 BCN02-Romi Rubén Martín Spanish Universidad | Granada, Anastasios D. University of Kent | Biological and biochemical insights into Jesús Osuna Spanish Centro Nacional de Erika Pearce MPI für Immunbiologie Metabolic control of CD8+ T cells function Escolano Spain Tsaousis Canterbury, United Cryptosporidium infection to understand Biotecnología (CNB) | und Epigenetik | Freiburg, by bacterial-trained CD4+ T lymphocytes Kingdom the intracellular propagation mechanisms Madrid, Spain Germany and host-parasite interactions, and to Marta Palomo Spanish CIC bioGUNE | Derio, Ragnhildur Thora Wellcome Trust Centre The role of AMPAkines in remyelination: explore candidates as anti-microbial drugs Spain Káradóttir for Stem Cell Research protective treatment against nervous Eduard Masvidal Spanish Universitat Autonoma Rob Wykes University College London, Assessing the effects of potentially | Cambridge, United system degeneration? Codina de Barcelona | Barcelona, United Kingdom clinically-translatable drugs on cortical Kingdom Spain spreading depression using graphene Eva Parisi Spanish Universitat de Lleida | Stephen Brown University | Sheffield, RNAi cellular screen to identify modulators transistor arrays Lleida, Spain United Kingdom of the master EMT regulator Snail in a Elena Mata Spanish Universidad | Zaragoza, Stephen Gordon University College | Characterization of Mycobacterium bovis Drosophila metastatic colorectal cancer Spain Dublin, Ireland PknH mutants transcriptomic profile and model analysis of RD900 locus across MTBC Alberto Parras Spanish Universidad Autonoma | Tobias Engel Royal College of Surgeons mRNA Polyadenylation in epilepsy by Sara Mederos Spanish Cajal Institute | Madrid, György Buzsaki New York University, Astrocytes impact in vivo PV+ synaptic Madrid, Spain in Ireland | Dublin, Ireland CPEBs Spain United States connections in prefrontal cortex Rebeca Perez De Spanish Hospital La Paz Institute Isabelle Meyts Katholieke Universiteit | Whole-exome sequencing analysis Catharina Spanish University of Malaga, Geert De Jaeger Ghent University, Belgium Identification of different ribosome Diego for Health Research Leuven, Belgium in patients with combined Merchante Spain populations in Arabidopsis cell cultures (IDIPAZ) | Madrid, Spain immunodeficiencies to describe new and their implication in gene-specific genetic defects translation Marta Perez Illana Spanish Centro Nacional de Urs Greber University of Zurich, Optimization of an experimental strategy Iris Montero Muñoz Spanish Autonomous University of Pablo Muñoz University of Oxford, Phylogenetic study of Acalypha l. Biotecnología (CNB) | Switzerland to map the positions of core proteins on the Madrid | Madrid, Spain Rodriguez United Kingdom (Euphorbiaceae) from the Western Indian Madrid, Spain Adenovirus genome ocean region in the context of Acalypha Alejandro Spanish Universidad de Helen Wheadon University of Glasgow, β-catenin inhibition mediated by protein worldwide Pérez-Fernández Salamanca, Spain United Kingdom tyrosine phosphatases: an adjuvant Antonio Javier Spanish Universidad Pablo de Brigitte University of Technology | Effect of lipoic acid on fatty acids and therapy towards a real cure to chronic Moreno Perez Olavide | Sevilla, Spain Thomasset Compiègne, France lipids biosynthesis in plants: metabolic myeloid leukaemia characterization Patricia Spanish Hospital Universitario Thierry Naas University Hospital Center Molecular analysis of plasmids in Lara Moreno Spanish University of Castilla-La Christian Voigt Leibniz Institute for Zoo Using stable isotopes to establish the Perez-Palacios Virgen Macarena | Seville, (CHU) | Le Kremlin-Bicetre, carbapenemase-producing clinical isolates Mancha | Ciudad Real, and Wildlife Research | flyways of European turtle dove Spain France of Klebsiella pneumoniae Spain Berlin, Germany

66 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 67 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Monica Perez Spanish Centro Nacional Scott Lowe Memorial Sloan-Kettering Understanding the contrasting roles of Ana Del Carmen Spanish Universidad | Granada, Paul Cotter Teagasc Food Research Metagenomic analysis of intestinal de Investigaciones Cancer Center | New York, GATA6 and GATA4 in pancreas homeostasis Soriano Lerma Spain Centre | Moorepark, microbial communities in the context of Oncológicas (CNIO) | United States and tumorigenesis Ireland nutritional ferropenic anaemia: towards Madrid, Spain the development of microbiome-targeted Guillem Spanish Universitat Autònoma de Georgios University | Patras, Greece Identification of human antimicrobial therapies Prats-Ejarque Barcelona | Cerdanyola, Spyroulias RNase interactions at the substrate Pablo Suárez Cortés Spanish MPI für Infektionsbiologie Timothy F. University of Minnesota Delineating noncanonical calcium Spain secondary base by nuclear magnetic | Berlin, Germany Walseth | Minneapolis, United signaling in the transmission stages of resonance States Plasmodium falciparum Pilar Spanish Instituto de Biomedicina Val Brunton University of Edinburgh, Relevance of endoglin and MMP14 upon Cristina Tejedo Spanish Centro Nacional Jean-Christophe Katholieke Universiteit | Characterization of tumor heterogeneity Puerto-Camacho de Sevilla | Sevilla, Spain United Kingdom the regulation of cell signalling pathways de Investigaciones Marine Leuven, Belgium driven by STAU1 expression in melanoma involved in the metastatic phenotype of Oncológicas (CNIO) | Ewing sarcoma cells Madrid, Spain Daniel Pulido Spanish CIBERNED | Barcelona, Tambet Teesalu University | Tartu, Estonia Multivalent peptide-targeted dendritic Pascual Torres Spanish Institut de Recerca Matthew Wood University of Oxford, Cryptic exon splicing correction by splice- Spain platforms with enhanced tumor homing Biomèdica | Lleida, Spain United Kingdom switching antisense oligonucleotides properties Iratxe Uranga Spanish Centro de Investigacion Reuben Benjamin King's College | London, Role of Granzyme A during immunotherapy Gabriela Quiroga Spanish Estación Experimental del Raffaella Maria Istituto per la Protezione Cell-type differential regulation of maize Murillo Biomedica de Aragon | United Kingdom with CD19 CAR-T cells García Zaidín | CSIC, Spain Balestrini Sostenibile delle Piante | aquaporins by the arbuscular mycorrhizal Zaragoza, Spain Torino, Italy (AM) symbiosis during drought stress Roberto Vázquez Spanish Centro de Investigaciones Yves Briers University | Gent, Belgium Tackling polymicrobial respiratory tract Sandra Rodríguez Spanish National University of Johan Auwerx Swiss Federal Institute Mitochondrial dysfunction and Biológicas (CIB / CSIC) | infections by high-throughput construction López Córdoba | Córdoba, Spain of Technology | Lausanne, dysregulation of NAD+ metabolism in non- Madrid, Spain of multi-modular lysins Switzerland alcoholic fatty liver disease Rebeca Vecino Pérez Spanish Universidad (CSIC) | Marcela Pekna University | Gothenburg, Decoding the role of complement-brain Bernardo Rodríguez Spanish Universidade | Santiago Jan O. Korbel EMBL | Heidelberg, Retropore: elucidating the impact of Salamanca, Spain Sweden interaction in neuroreparation after Martín de Compostela, Spain Germany retrotransposon-mediated structural ischemia variation in the cancer genome through Alejandro Spanish Universidad | Sevilla, Wouter H. Roos University | Groningen, DNA moulding by Prefoldin Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing Velázquez-Cruz Spain Netherlands Abril Sanchez Botet Spanish Universitat Internacional Vivian Li The Francis Crick Institute Cyclin P (CCNP) promotes tumorigenesis Alba Vera Zambrano Spanish Instituto Investigaciones Niels Decher Philipps-Universität Role of the Sigma 1 receptor (Sig1R) in the de Catalunya | Barcelona, | London, United Kingdom and cancer stemness Biomédicas (CSIC) | Marburg, Germany Kv1.5 Channelosome Spain Madrid, Spain Eva Sandoval Spanish University | Pau, France Gijs Van Haaften University Medical CRISPR/Cas9 targeted enrichment of Aida Verdes Gorín Spanish Natural History Museum | Stefania Science for Life Laboratory Spatially resolved transcriptome profiling Quintana Centre (UMC) | Utrecht, environmental integrons London, United Kingdom Giacomello | Solna, Sweden of a venomous marine invertebrate: Netherlands the ribbon worm Lineus longissimus Alvaro Santos Spanish BioDonostia Health Luke Boulter Western General Hospital Differentiation of peripheral blood (Nemertea) Research Institute | San | Edinburgh, United mononuclear cells to cholangiocyte-like Carlos Vicente Spanish Universidad de Giovanni University of Bordeaux | Dissecting high brain functions and Sebastian, Spain Kingdom cells by cellular reprogramming: novel Gutiérrez Salamanca, Spain Marsicano Bordeaux, France behaviour modulated by astrocytic strategy for the study of polycystic liver mitochondrial ROS diseases Sonia Vicente-Ruiz Spanish Centro de Investigacion Twan Lammers RWTH University | Aachen, Tumor microenvironment (TME) Noelia Serrano Spanish Universidad Complutense Jorge Sepulcre Massachusetts General Dynamic functional connectivity from Principe Felipe (CIPF) | Germany modulation study in 3D cell culture and Martínez de Madrid (UCM) | Madrid, Hospital (MGH) | local to large-scale brain networks across Valencia, Spain ex vivo tumors upon treatment using two Spain Charlestown, United individuals in the AD continuum different polymer-drug conjugates States Ana Villalba Spanish Instituto de Neurociencias Alexandre Baffet Institut Curie | Paris, Behavior of Sv2b vesicles in mouse RGCs Daniel Sobrido Spanish Universidade | Santiago Matthias Landgraf University of Cambridge, Study of the role of reactive oxigen species Requena | San Juan de Alicante, France Cameán de Compostela, Spain United Kingdom in synaptic plasticity, neuro-protection and Spain axon regeneration

68 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 69 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2019 Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Name Nationality Home institute Group leader Host institute Project Natàlia Vilor-Tejedor Spanish Centro de Regulación Hieab H Adams Erasmus University MC | Genetic architecture of brain atrophy Tatiana Feuerborn US-American Swedish Museum Laurent Frantz Queen Mary | University Paleogenomics of sledge dogs Genómica (CRG) | Rotterdam, Netherlands and its influence on the progression of of Natural History | of London, United Barcelona, Spain dementia Stockholm, Sweden Kingdom Rebecca Andersson Swedish University | Gothenburg, Maria Carolina Centre de Medicina Protoesome impairment in aged Sarah Overby US-American Universidad Politecnica Miguel Varela University of Oxford, Therapeutic gene modulation of MBNL1/2 Sweden Florian Regenerativa de haematopoietic stem cells – consequences de Valencia | Burjassot, United Kingdom by miRNA targeting in myotonic dystrophy Barcelona | Barcelona, and solutions Spain Spain David Bernson Swedish Chalmers University of Janet Kumita University of Cambridge, Purification of TDP-43 for biophysical Technology | Gothenburg, United Kingdom studies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Sweden pathology Shady Younis Swedish Uppsala University, Alice Jouneau INRA | Jouy-en-Josas, Understanding the role of ZC3H11A Sweden France protein in embryo development Andrea Danani Swiss Dalle Molle Institute for Miguel Weil Tel Aviv University, Israel Role of the protein domain Arg101-Arg103 Artificial Intelligence in the JD aggregation pathway implicated Research | Manno, in SCA3 disease Switzerland Ester Eckert Swiss Institute of Ecosystem Ellen Katholieke Universiteit | Axenisation of Daphnia magna for Study | National research Decaestecker Leuven, Belgium transcriptome analysis of freshwater Council, Italy Escherichia coli Grégory La Sala Swiss Swiss Federal Institute Veronika Sexl University of Veterinary Targeting oncogenic signaling of the of Technology | Lausanne, Medicine | Vienna, Austria transcription factor STAT3 with a potent Switzerland and selective monobody inhibitor Pelin Balcik Ercin Turkish Technical University | Catherine Université II | Montpellier, The expression of SIX1 and its functional Gebze, Turkey Alix-Panabieres France significance in circulating tumor cells Nazli Ecem Dal Turkish Dokuz Eylul University | Agnieszka Nicolaus Copernicus Evaluation of vitamin D status and Izmir, Turkey Siomek-Górecka University | Bydgoszcz, epigenetic markers in systemic sclerosis Poland by mass spectrometry-based novel technologies Burcu Firatligil Turkish Institute of Technology | Nonappa Aalto University | Espoo, The effect of 3D nanoscaffolds on invasion Yildirir Izmir, Turkey Nonappa Finland and extravasation of breast cancer cells in a lab-on-a-chip (LOC) system Merve Öyken Turkish Middle East Technical Huib Ovaa University Medical Centre SNX3 and the RETROMER dependent University | Ankara, Turkey | Leiden, Netherlands recycling of EGFR Çağlar Sagun Turkish Soil | Fertilizer and Valeria Bianciotto Istituto per la Protezione In vitro culturing techniques of AM fungi Water Resources Central Sostenibile delle Piante | and Molecular characterization of AM fungi Research Institute, Turkey Torino, Italy Bora Taştan Turkish Dokuz Eylul University | Amanda Sierra Achucarro Basque Center Immunometabolic adaptation of microglial Izmir, Turkey for Neuroscience | phagocytosis Zamudio, Spain Dilek Unal Turkish Bilecik Seyh Edebali Karl-Josef Dietz University | Bielefeld, Function of Polyamines on protein-protein University | Bilecik, Turkey Germany interaction during PSII repair mechanisms

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72 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 73 EMBO Young Investigators 2019 EMBO Young Investigators Name Nationality Institute Research interest Country Gender Siddhesh Kamat Indian Indian Institute of Science Education A chemoproteomics and metabolomics approach IN M www.embo.org/funding-awards/young-investigators [email protected] and Research, Pune towards enzyme function annotation Wanda Kukulski Swiss MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, How molecular architectures of cellular membranes UK F Through the Young Investigator Programme, EMBO identifies and supports some of the best Gerlind Wallon Cambridge contribute to functions Programme Manager young researchers in the life sciences. EMBO Young Investigators are group leaders in the early Madeline Lancaster US-American MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Understanding development of human brain size UK F stages of setting up an independent laboratory in EMBC Member States, Associate Member Cambridge and complexity States or countries and territories covered by a co-operation agreement. Prisca Liberali Italian Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel Self-organisation during organoids formation CH F Martin Loose German Institute of Science and Technology Self-organization of protein systems AT M Austria (IST), Klosterneuburg Jean-Léon Maître French Institut Curie, Paris Mechanics of mammalian development FR M Sebastian Marquardt German University of Copenhagen Rules and roles of long non-coding RNA transcription DK M EMBO Young Investigators 2019 Name Nationality Institute Research interest Country Gender Bjørn Panyella Danish Aarhus University Molecular mechanisms of transmembrane DK M Pedersen metabolite uptake Alexey Amunts Israeli Science for Life Laboratory, Solna Establishing principles of protein synthesis and SE M folding in organelles Randall J. Platt US-American ETH Zurich, Basel Interrogating complex disease mechanisms and CH M cellular behaviors with CRISPR Tuncay Baubec Austrian University of Zurich Function and regulation of epigenetic patterns in CH M mammalian cells Hayley Sharpe British University of Cambridge Cell signalling by receptor tyrosine phosphatases UK F Petter Brodin Swedish Science for Life Laboratory, Solna Shaping of human immune systems by SE M Fran Supek Croatian Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Variability in mutational processes across genome ES M environmental influences early in life Barcelona regions and across individuals Cécile Charrier French Institute of Biology of the ENS, Paris Mechanisms and human-specific regulations of FR F Marvin Tanenbaum Dutch Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht Gene expression dynamics in single cells NL M synaptic development and plasticity Barbara Treutlein German ETH Zurich, Basel Reconstructing organ development using single-cell CH F Bert De Rybel Belgian VIB – Flanders Institute for Unraveling plant vascular development BE M genomics Biotechnology, Ghent Joseph Yeeles British MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Mechanisms of eukaryotic chromosome replication UK M Daniele Fachinetti Italian Institut Curie, Paris Revealing the impact of centromeric DNA on FR M Cambridge centromere formation and integrity Elif Firat-Karalar US-American Koc University, Istanbul Dissecting the spatiotemporal regulation of TR F centrosome/cilium complex Yaron Fuchs Israeli Technion, Haifa Harnessing stem cell apoptosis for tissue IL M regeneration Paul Guichard French University of Geneva Deciphering the architecture and assembly of the CH M centriole Martin Guilliams Belgian Ghent University Tissue signals and transcription factors driving BE M Kupffer cell differentiation Edouard Hannezo French Institute of Science and Technology Physical principles of biological systems AT M Austria (IST), Klosterneuburg Ping-Chih Ho Taiwanese University of Lausanne, Epalinges Immunometabolic editing on facilitating immune CH M evasion in melanomas Jan Philipp Junker German Max Delbrück Center, Berlin Systematic analysis of variability and plasticity in DE M vertebrate development

74 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 75 Applications and awards 2015 – 2019 EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2019 Applications % of total Awards % of total Young Investigator Conference Location Date Country (2015-2019) applications (2015-2019) awards Axel Innis Ribosome: Structure, Function, Assembly, Regulation, as a Therapeutic MX-Mérida 6 – 10 January Austria 25 2.3 7 5.4 Traget Belgium 25 2.3 2 1.6 Pablo Huertas Gordon Research Conference on Mammalian DNA Repair US-Ventura,CA 10 – 15 February Croatia 3 0.3 0 0.0 Caren Norden LS2 Annual Meeting 2019 on "Cell Biology from Tissue to Nucleus” CH-Zurich 14 – 15 February Czech Republic 11 1.0 0 0.0 Denmark 28 2.6 2 1.6 Claire Wyart The 13th Annual Meeting of Gulbenkian Students (AMeeGuS) PT-Azores 12 – 15 March Estonia 1 0.1 0 0.0 Emmanuelle Bayer French Cell Wall meeting (12èmes journées du Réseau Français des FR-Roscoff 14 – 16 March Finland 10 0.9 0 0.0 Parois—jRFP2019) France 84 7.8 15 11.6 Kristin Tessmar-Raible New Genetic Tools for Non-Model Organisms US-Ashburn, VA 17 – 20 March Germany 140 13.0 16 12.4 Greece 2 0.2 0 0.0 Ana Jesus Garcia Saez Hunter Cell Biology Meeting AU-Hunter Valley 18 – 21 March Hungary 5 0.5 0 0.0 Stefan Ameres 7th International Symposium Crossroads in Biology (CiB) DE-Cologne 27 – 29 March Iceland 2 0.2 0 0.0 Nathalie Rochefort 2019 Dendrites Gordon Research Conference US-Ventura, CA 31 March – 5 April Ireland 7 0.7 0 0.0 Israel 42 3.9 7 5.4 Arun Shukla Experimantal Biology 2019: American Society for Pharmacology and US-Orlando, FL 6 – 9 April Italy 50 4.7 2 1.6 Experimental Therapeutics Annual Meeting 2019 Luxembourg 1 0.1 0 0.0 Emmanuelle Bayer Botanical Microscopy 2019 GB-Oxford 14 – 18 April Netherlands 40 3.7 6 4.7 Paola Picotti EMBO Workshop on Protein Quality Control: From Mechanisms to Disease ES-Paguera, Mallorca 28 April – 3 May Norway 6 0.6 0 0.0 Poland 7 0.7 1 0.8 Magdalini Polymenidou EMBO Workshop on Protein Quality Control: From Mechanisms to Disease ES-Paguera, Mallorca 28 April – 3 May Portugal 35 3.3 0 0.0 Naoko Mizuno Fibronectin, Integrins and Related Molecules Gordon Research IT-Lucca 5 – 10 May Slovakia 0 0.0 0 0.0 Conference – Extracellular Matrix and Integrins: Regulation of Cell and Slovenia 0 0.0 0 0.0 Tissue Function Spain 71 6.6 6 4.7 Pere Roca-Cusachs Fibronectin, Integrins and Related Molecules Gordon Research IT-Lucca 5 – 10 May Sweden 49 4.6 4 3.1 Conference – Extracellular Matrix and Integrins: Regulation of Cell and Switzerland 63 5.9 20 15.5 Tissue Function Turkey 7 0.7 1 0.8 Dahai Luo 32nd International Conference on Antiviral Research US-Baltimore, MD 12 – 15 May United Kingdom 204 19.0 29 22.5 Cyprus 1 0.1 0 0.0 Minhajuddin Sirajuddin British Microtubule Meeting, 2019 GB-Edinburgh 13 May Singapore 33 3.1 7 5.4 Filipe Cabreiro Junior Microbiologists Meeting of Marseille, 5th Edition FR-Marseille 15 – 17 May Taiwan 9 0.8 0 0 Kikue Gordon Research Conference Germinal Stem Cell Biology 2019 HK-Hong Kong 19 – 24 May India 108 10.0 4 3.1 Tachibana-Konwalski Others 6 0.6 0 0.0 Total 1075 129 Ivan Matic PARP2019: New Avenues in Basic and Translational PARP Research HU-Budapest 20 – 23 May Luca Giorgetti The Genome in Three Dimensions GR-Kyllini 20 – 24 May Jochen Rink Molecular Mechanisms of Tissue Injury, Repair and Fibrosis GR-Spetses 23 – 31 May Massimiliano Mazzone Neural Guidance Molecules in Development and Disease IT-Baveno 25 – 28 May Elena Seiradake Neural Guidance Molecules in Development and Disease IT-Baveno 25 – 28 May Jeremy Carlton EMBO Workshop on Cell Polarity and Membrane Dynamics ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols 26 – 31 May Pere Roca-Cusachs EMBO Workshop on Cell Polarity and Membrane Dynamics ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols 26 – 31 May Ana Jesus Garcia Saez 2nd Cell Death, Cell Stress and Metabolism Conference MX-Puerto Vallarta 27 – 30 May

76 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 77 EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2019 EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2019 Young Investigator Conference Location Date Young Investigator Conference Location Date Nolwenn Jouvenet EMBO Workshop on Antigen Processing and Presentation (APP 2019) FR-Paris 30 May – 2 June Alessandro Vannini 2019 FEBS Workshop in Chromatin Proteomics GR-Heraklion 22 – 27 September Petr Broz Conference on Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammation NO-Trondheim 3 – 6 June Xiaoqi Feng Mechanisms and Evolution of Intergenerational Change 2019 GB-Hinxton 24 – 26 September Bungo Akiyoshi Inaugural Trieste Cell Cycle Meeting IT-Trieste 3 – 6 June Guadalupe Sabio 2019 International Retinoblastoma Conference US-Charleston, SC 29 September – 3 October Ross Chapman Inaugural Trieste Cell Cycle Meeting IT-Trieste 3 – 6 June Ana Jesus Garcia Saez Cell Death in Immunity and Inflammation GR-Crete 6 – 9 October Magdalini Polymenidou Protein Aggregation From Structural Variants to in Vivo Sequelae US-Snowmass, CO 9 – 14 June Dario Riccardo Latin American Genetics Conference (ALAG2019) AR-Mendoza 6 – 9 October Ana Jesus Garcia Saez Molecular Organization, Function and Dynamics of Biomembranes FR-Cargèse 10 – 20 June Valenzano Jan Rehwinkel SIBBM 2019: Frontiers in Molecular Biology Nucleic Acid Immunity: From IT-Bologna 11 – 13 June Sophie Polo EMBO Workshop on Histone Chaperones: Structure, Function and Role in GR-Crete 6 – 11 October Cellular Mechanisms to New Technologies Development and Disease Guadalupe Sabio Novel Concept of Niche – Directed Cancer Therapies DE-Frankfurt 13 – 14 June Stefan Ameres 5th Annual Meeting of the Danish RNA Society: "From Basic Research to DK-Copenhagen 7 October Annika Guse Gordon Research Conference “Animal-Microbe-Symbiosis as Nested US-Mount Snow, UT 16 – 21 June Industrial Applications" Ecosystems” Ross Chapman EMBO Workshop "The DNA-Damage Response in Cell Physiology and GR-Cape Sounio 7 – 11 October Martin Pilhofer European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins, ETOX 2019 CH-Davos 22 – 26 June Disease" Jeffrey Chao FASEB Intracellular RNA Localization and Local Translation US-Snowmass, CO 30 June – 5 July Pablo Huertas EMBO Workshop "The DNA-Damage Response in Cell Physiology and GR-Cape Sounio 7 – 11 October Disease" Halyna Shcherbata FASEB Intracellular RNA Localization and Local Translation US-Snowmass, CO 30 June – 5 July Nicole Joller 9th International Conference on Autoimmunity: Mechanisms and Novel GR-Crete 12 – 17 October Martin Jinek PSB Symposium "Macromolecules in Action" FR-Grenoble 4 – 5 July Treatments Elena Seiradake PSB Symposium "Macromolecules in Action" FR-Grenoble 4 – 5 July Jerome Gros 6th Tri-Regional Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Meeting FR-Illkirch 18 October Gaëlle Legube FASEB Conference on Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangements US-Steamboat Springs, 14 – 19 July Alvaro Rada-Iglesias European Developmental Biology Congress ES-Alicante 23 – 26 October CO Nathalie Rochefort The Operating Regime of Neural Circuits as a Determinant for US-Ashburn, VA 3 – 6 November Joao Matos FASEB Conference on Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangements US-Steamboat Springs, 14 – 19 July Computations CO Sophie Polo Joint LV Annual SAIB Meeting and XIV PABMB Conference AR-Salta 5 – 8 November Nicolas Plachta Gordon Research Conference Fertilization and Activation of Development US-Holderness, NH 28 July – 2 August Emmanuelle Bayer Plants in a Changing World – Integration of Photosynthesis, Adaptation and FI-Helsinki 6 – 8 November Anthony Roberts The Biology of Cilia and Flagella US-Snowmass, CO 4 – 9 August Development Kristin Tessmar-Raible Fourth International Conference on Invertebrate Vision SE-Fjälkinge 5 – 12 August Marek Basler Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence 2019 (BMSV19) ZA-Cape Town 24 – 28 November Manuel Valiente SNO Inaugural Conference on Brain Metastases US-New York City, NY 16 – 17 August Jan-Willem Veening Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence 2019 (BMSV19) ZA-Cape Town 24 – 28 November Kikue EMBO Conference on Meiosis FR-La Rochelle 24 – 29 August Arun Shukla ASCEPT-PAGANZ 2019 Joint Scientific Meeting – Molecular Control of G NZ-Queenstown 25 – 29 November Tachibana-Konwalski Protein-Coupled Receptor Efficacy Carmine Settembre EMBO Workshop on Autophagy: "From Molecular Principles to Human GB-Crief 26 – 30 August Christophe Dessimoz 21st EMBL PhD Symposium on "Facing the Future – Perspectives and DE-Heidelberg 28 – 30 November Diseases" Challenges of Life Sciences in the 21st Century" Marek Basler The New Microbiology GR-Spetses 4 – 12 September Julie Welburn ASCB/EMBO 2019 Meeting US-Washington DC 7 – 11 December Yogesh Kulathu The Ubiquitin System: Biology, Mechanisms and Roles in Disease HR-Cavtat 13 – 17 September Nathalie Rochefort 6th International Workshop on Technologies for Optogenetics and IT-Venice 11 – 13 December Pablo Huertas Conference Jacques Monod, Genome Instability: "When RNA Meets FR-Roscoff 16 – 20 September Neurophotonics – OPTOGEN2019 Chromatin" Maria Teresa Teixeira Conference Jacques Monod, Genome Instability: "When RNA Meets FR-Roscoff 16 – 20 September Chromatin"

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www.embo.org/funding-awards/installation-grants [email protected] www.embo.org/funding-awards/global-investigators [email protected]

EMBO Installation Grants support early-career scientists establishing independent laboratories Gerlind Wallon The Global Investigator Network was created in 2019 with the aim to support the next Gerlind Wallon in one of six participating EMBC Member States that fund their respective grantees. At present, Programme Manager generation of scientific leaders that have set up their laboratories in EMBC Associate Member Programme Manager the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Turkey accept Installation Grant States or in countries and territories covered by a co-operation agreement. EMBO Global Investigators applications with the aim of strengthening the life sciences in these countries. are provided with opportunities to interact with other researchers based in the same region and with those based in Europe, allowing for the establishment of new collaborations.

EMBO Installation Grant Recipients 2019 Name Nationality Moving from Moving to Research interest EMBO Global Investigators 2019 Panagiotis Alexiou Greek Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Deep learning for genomic and Name Nationality Institute Research interest Country Gender Republic Republic transcriptomic pattern identification Santosh Chauhan Indian Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar Autophagy, inflammation, and the crosstalk IN M Yusuke Azuma Japanese Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Engineered bacterial compartments for Yen-Ping Hsueh Taiwanese Academia Sinica, Taipei Molecular interactions and coevolution between TW F Poland Poland protein design and production carnivorous fungi and nematodes Peter Draber Czech Institute of Molecular Genetics of BIOCEV, First Faculty of Medicine, Search for new therapeutic targets to Yansong Miao Chinese Nanyang Technological University Singapore Phase separation and mechanical regulation of SG M the ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic Charles University, Vestec, Czech modulate the immune system actin assembly in plant signalling Republic Dimple Notani Indian National Centre for Biological Sciences, Dissecting enhancer mechanisms in signalling IN F Ezgi Karaca Turkish Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Identification of Pioneer Transcription Bangalore context Turkey Turkey Factor Binding Modes to Chromatin Timothy Saunders British National University of Singapore Biochemical and biomechanical processes guiding SG M Rafal Mostowy Polish Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Co-evolution between bacterial capsules organ formation Poland Poland and phage tails Meng How Tan Singaporean Nanyang Technological University Singapore ADAR gene regulatory network in human SG M Aleksandra Pekowska Polish National Institute of Health, Nencki Institute of Experimental Evolutionary and functional genomics of development and diseases Bethesda, Maryland, USA Biology, Warsaw, Poland astrocytes Isheng Jason Tsai Taiwanese Academia Sinica, Taipei Ecology, evolution and genetics of fungi and TW M Pedro Sousa-Victor Portuguese João Lobo Antunes Institute of João Lobo Antunes Institute of Mechanisms of tissue ageing and repair: nematodes Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, roadblocks to stem cell-based therapies Portugal Portugal Jyothilakshmi Indian National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Calcium channels in plant defense against insect IN F Vadassery Delhi herbivory Grzegorz Sumara Polish Rudolf Virchow Center for Nencki Institute of Experimental Signaling cascades in metabolic diseases Experimental Biomedicine, Biology, Warsaw, Poland Maria-Isabel Yuseff Chilean Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Cell biological control of immune responses CL F Würzburg, Germany Santiago de Chile Piotr Szwedziak Polish University of Warsaw, Poland ReMedy+ Foundation, Warsaw, Cellular architecture of Archaea in the Poland context of eukaryogenesis Gunes Unal Turkish Bogazici University, Istanbul, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Chemogenetic Investigation of Basal Turkey Turkey Forebrain Input to the Amygdaloid Complex Bahar Degirmenci Uzun Turkish Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey The roles of primary cilia and intestinal stem cell niche in obesity

80 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 81 EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2019 EMBO Courses & Workshops Title Organizer Location Dates Practical Courses 2019 Integrative and cellular structural biology M. Nilges FR-Paris 8 – 13 July EMBC Member States www.embo.org/funding-awards/courses-workshops [email protected] Structure, dynamics and function of biological M. Sattler DE-Garching 26 July – 2 August (continued) macromolecules by NMR Through the Courses & Workshops Programme, EMBO supports and encourages the sharing of Gerlind Wallon Mouse genome engineering M. Sarov DE-Dresden 25 August – 6 Programme Manager scientific knowledge and skills across all career stages and disciplines in the life sciences. EMBO September funds over 90 scientific events every year, which are organised by some of the leading scientists Image processing for cryo-electron microscopy H.R. Saibil UK-London 2 – 12 September in their fields and attract more than 11,000 participants annually. Current methods in cell biology A. Diz-Muñoz DE-Heidelberg 8 – 17 September Synthetic biology in action: Bridging natural/ V. de Lorenzo DE-Heidelberg 15 – 22 September non-natural EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2019 Metabolomics bioinformatics in human health R. Salek FR-Lyon 16 – 20 September Title Organizer Location Dates Practical Courses 2019 Optogenetics: From design to cell signalling to S. De Renzis DE-Heidelberg 25 – 29 March Small angle neutron and X-ray scattering from F. Gabel FR-Grenoble 23 – 27 September EMBC Member States tissue morphogenesis biomacromolecules in solution Population genomics: Background, tools and V. Colonna IT-Procida 30 March – 6 April Humanized mice in biomedicine: Challenges R. Stripecke DE-Heidelberg 3 – 8 November programming and innovations High-accuracy CLEM: Applications at room M. Schorb DE-Heidelberg 7 – 12 April Practical integrative structural biology J. Kosinski DE-Hamburg 3 – 9 November temperature and in cryo Targeted proteomics: Experimental design and E. Sabidó ES-Barcelona 10 – 15 November The 2019 whole-cell modeling summer school M. Lluch Senar ES-Barcelona 7 – 13 April data analysis Research to service: Planning and running a E. Karaca TR-Izmir 8 – 12 April The fundamentals of high-end cell sorting D. Ordonez DE-Heidelberg 11 – 15 November bioinformatics core facility Methods for analysis of circular RNAs: No V. Benes DE-Heidelberg 17 – 22 November Characterisation of post-translational M.R. Larsen DK-Odense 2 – 9 May tautology modifications in cellular signalling Quantitative proteomics: Strategies and tools J. Krijgsveld DE-Heidelberg 5 – 10 May Practical Courses 2019 Computational analysis of protein-protein S. Gosavi IN-Bangalore 1 – 6 December to probe biology EMBC Associate interactions in cell function and disease Single cell omics Q. Deng DE-Heidelberg 12 – 18 May Member State Extracellular vesicles: From biology to A. Hendrix DE-Heidelberg 2 – 7 June biomedical applications Practical Courses 2019 Functional live imaging of plants A. Maizel JP-Nagoya 21 – 30 May High-throughput protein production and N. Burgess-Brown UK-Didcot 10 – 19 June Non-EMBC Member crystallization State Advanced methods of electron microscopy in J. Nebesarova CZ-České Budějovice 10 – 20 June cell biology Workshops 2019 B-cell development and leukemia A. Borkhardt ES-Salamanca 8 – 11 March Microbial metagenomics: A 360º approach J.E. González-Pastor DE-Heidelberg 12 – 19 June EMBC Member States Visualizing biological data (VIZBI 2019) S. O'Donoghue DE-Heidelberg 13 – 15 March Bioinformatics and genome analyses C. Donati IT-San Michele all'Adige 16 – 30 June Current advances in protein translocation R. Erdmann ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols 23 – 27 March Breathless microbes: Techniques and theory in C. Welte NL-Wageningen 1 – 5 July across membranes anaerobic microbiology Pathogen immunity and signalling J. Rehwinkel UK-Oxford 1 – 5 April Developmental neurobiology: From worms to C. Kiecker UK-London 7 – 20 July Genome dynamics in neuroscience and aging Y. Shiloh IL-Herzliya 7 – 11 April mammals

82 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 83 EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2019 EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2019 Title Organizer Location Dates Title Organizer Location Dates Workshops 2019 Organ crosstalk in energy balance and G. Sabio ES-Chiclana de la 8 – 11 April Workshops 2019 CD1-MR1: Beyond MHC restricted lymphocytes P. Klenerman UK-Oxford 1 – 5 September EMBC Member States metabolic disease Frontera EMBC Member States Bacterial networks (BacNet19) K. Jung ES-Sant Feliu de Guíxols 1 – 6 September (continued) (continued) Toxin-antitoxin systems in bacteria S. Helaine UK-Windsor 15 – 17 April The physics and chemistry of endocytosis at A. Roux IT-Ischia 1 – 6 September Protein quality control: From mechanisms to B. Bukau ES-Costa de la Calma 28 April – 3 May multiple scales disease Protein synthesis and translational control F. Gebauer DE-Heidelberg 4 – 7 September Chromatin and epigenetics A. Akhtar DE-Heidelberg 1 – 4 May Hernández Cell biology of the neuron: Polarity, plasticity F. Bradke GR-Heraklion 7 – 10 May Network inference in biology and disease C. Neri IT-Naples 10 – 13 September and regeneration Organization of bacterial and eukaryotic J-M. Peters AT-Vienna 10 – 13 September Chromosome segregation and aneuploidy L. Jansen PT-Cascais 11 – 15 May genomes by SMC complexes Caveolae and nanodomains: Translating C. Lamaze FR-Le Pouliguen 12 – 16 May The ubiquitin system: Biology, mechanisms and C. Joazeiro HR-Cavtat 13 – 17 September structural principles and dynamics into roles in disease function Molecular mechanisms of unconventional M.T. Pallotta IT-Assisi 16 – 18 September Awakening of the genome: The maternal-to- P. Svoboda CZ-Prague 15 – 18 May protein secretion in eukaryotic cells zygotic transition DNA topology and topoisomerases in genome F. Cortés Ledesma CH-Les Diablerets 16 – 20 September Mesenchymal cells in inflammation, immunity G. Kollias GR-Athens 19 – 23 May dynamics and cancer Beyond the standard: Non-model vertebrates G.R. Lewin DE-Berlin 17 – 20 September ThymE: T cell and thymus biology J. Abramson IL-Rehovot 19 – 24 May in biomedicine The genome in three dimensions A. Papantonis GR-Kyllini 20 – 24 May Creating is understanding: Synthetic biology J.L. Faulon DE-Heidelberg 22 – 25 September Neural guidance molecules in development L. Tamagnone IT-Baveno 25 – 28 May masters complexity and disease Lipid function in health and disease K. Simons DE-Dresden 27 – 30 September Cell polarity and membrane dynamics S. Iden ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols 26 – 31 May RNP network dynamics in development and J. Ule SI-Ljubljana 29 September – 2 Antigen processing and presentation 10 (APP A. Hosmalin FR-Paris 30 May – 2 June disease October 10) Cell death in immunity and inflammation M. Pasparakis GR-Crete 6 – 9 October Bacterial cell division: Closing the gap T. Den Blaauwen SE-Lund 9 – 12 June Histone chaperones: Structure, function and J. Tyler GR-Crete 6 – 10 October Synergy of experiment and computation in J. Carey CZ-Nové Hrady 23 – 28 June role in development and disease quantitative systems biology Tools for structural biology of membrane C. Löw DE-Hamburg 7 – 9 October Limb development and regeneration: New tools J. Sharpe ES-Barcelona 2 – 5 July proteins for a classic model system The DNA-damage response in cell physiology M. Tarsounas GR-Attica 7 – 11 October The molecular life of diatoms T. Mock UK-Norwich 14 – 18 July and disease Fission yeast J. Ayte ES-Barcelona 14 – 19 July Comparative genomics of eukaryotic microbes: K.H. Wolfe ES-Sant Feliu de Guíxols 14 – 19 October Genomes in flux, and flux between genomes Molecular and population biology of G. Christophides GR-Chania 22 – 26 July mosquitoes and other disease vectors The impact of bacterial infections on human T.F. Meyer DE-Berlin 26 – 29 October cancer Meiosis 2019 C. Mézard FR-La Rochelle 25 – 29 August Precision health: Molecular basis, technology L. Steinmetz DE-Heidelberg 13 – 16 November Autophagy: From molecular principles to K.M. Ryan UK-Crieff 26 – 30 August and digital health human diseases Proteostasis: From organelles to organisms C. Adrain PT-Ericeira 15 – 19 November

84 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 85 EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2019 EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2019 Title Organizer Location Dates Title Organizer Location Dates Workshops 2019 Molecular neuroscience: From genes to circuits H. Ghosh IN-Bangalore 4–7 February EMBO | EMBL Probing neural dynamics with behavioural L. Rondi-Reig DE-Heidelberg 10–13 April EMBC Associate in health and disease Symposia 2019 genetics Member States EMBC Member States Intrinsically disordered proteins: From H. Atreya IN-Bangalore 8–13 December The identity and evolution of cell types H. Kaessmann DE-Heidelberg 15–18 May (continued) molecules to systems Mechanical forces in development F. Schnorrer DE-Heidelberg 3–6 July New approaches and concepts in microbiology A. Typas DE-Heidelberg 10–13 July Workshops 2019 Exploring genomic landscapes M. Allende CL-San Pedro de Atacama 10–12 January Co-operation Partner Multiomics to mechanisms: Challenges in data J. Zaugg DE-Heidelberg 11–13 September Bridging cell and tissue mechanics to fate M. Concha CL-Santiago 2–5 April Countries integration specification in development Systems genetics: From genomes to complex B. Lehner DE-Heidelberg 29 September–2 Emerging concepts of the neuronal C. Gonzalez-Billault CL-Villarrica 14–18 April traits October cytoskeleton Seeing is believing: Imaging the molecular J. Ellenberg DE-Heidelberg 9–12 October Integrative biology: From molecules to E. Schirmer CL-Santiago 22–25 April processes of life ecosystems in extreme environments The non-coding genome J. Vogel DE-Heidelberg 16–19 October Metabolism meets epigenetics A.G. Ladurner DE-Heidelberg 20–23 November Workshops 2019 Membrane shaping and remodeling by proteins J. Hu CN-Xiu Ning 11–14 April Non-EMBC Member Single cell biology P. Carninci JP-Tokyo 20–22 May States India | EMBO Regulatory epigenomics: From large data to R. Siddharthan IN-Chennai 10–13 March Symposia 2019 useful models EMBO | FEBS Lecture Molecular mechanisms of tissue injury, repair S. Rose-John GR-Spetses Island 23–31 May Sensing and signalling in plant stress response A. Pareek IN-New Delhi 15–17 April Courses 2019 and fibrosis Human microbiome: Resistance and disease S. Mukherjee IN-Kalyani 9–12 November Venice summer school 2019: Mechanism in J. Jaeger IT-Venice 26–30 August development and evolution The new microbiology P. Cossart GR-Spetses Island 4–12 September The Hydra XIV European summer school on A. Smith GR-Hydra 15–22 September stem cell biology and regenerative medicine Mitochondria in life, death and disease A. Trifunovic ME-Herceg Novi 24–28 September

EMBO Global Exchange Small brains, big ideas J. Sierralta CL-Las Cruces 5–13 April Lecture Courses 2019 Structural and biophysical methods for D. Svergun CL-Santiago 14–20 October Co-operation Partner biological macromolecules in solution Countries

EMBO | EMBL Synthetic morphogenesis: From gene circuits to S. De Renzis DE-Heidelberg 17–20 March Symposia 2019 tissue architecture EMBC Member States Reconstructing the human past: Using ancient J. Krause DE-Heidelberg 31 March–3 April and modern genomics

86 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 87 EMBO Keynote Lectures 2019 EMBO Keynote Lectures Name Lecture Title Location Date Keynote Lectures 2019 Bruce Alan Beutler Novel Concepts in Innate Immunity DE-Tübingen 12 – 14 June EMBC Member States www.embo.org/funding-awards/lecture-grants [email protected] Rino Rappuoli European Workshops on Bacterial Protein CH-Davos 22 – 26 June (continued) Toxins – ETOX19 EMBO funds keynote lectures given by its members and associate members at international Gerlind Wallon Amos Tanay 4th EACR Conference Cancer Genomics UK-Cambridge 23 – 26 June scientific conferences. The aim of the lectures is to support the exchange of scientific knowledge, Programme Manager Kenneth H. Wolfe 7th Conference on Physiology of Yeasts and IT-Milano 24 – 27 June support members in forming and maintaining scientific networks and collaborations, and to Filamentous Fungi raise awareness of EMBO. Jane E. Parker IS-MPMI International Congress on UK-Glasgow 14 – 18 July Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions Luca Jovine 32nd European Cristallographic Meeting AT-Vienna 18 – 23 August EMBO Keynote Lectures 2019 Botond Roska 18th National Congress of the Spanish ES-Santiago de 4 – 6 September Name Lecture Title Location Date Society of Neuroscience (SENC) Compostela Keynote Lectures 2019 Ronald N. Germain Annual Biochemical Winter Meeting of the NO-Røros 24 – 27 January EMBC Member States Norwegian Biochemical Society (NBS) Arturo Zychlinsky The New Microbiology GR-Spetses 4 – 12 September Anna Akhmanova LS2 Annual Meeting 2019: Cell Biology CH-Zurich 14 – 15 February Irene Miguel-Aliaga European Drosophila Research Conference CH-Ecublens 5 – 8 September from Tissue to Nucleus (EDRC) 2019 Richard A. Flavell EACR Conference Series: Defence is the Best ES-Barcelona 11 – 13 March Yosef Shiloh Cellular Senescence: the Bright and the GR-Athens 9 – 12 September Attack: Immuno-Oncology Breakthroughs Dark Side Robert A. Martienssen Chromatin and Epigenetics: Inheritance DE-Neuherberg 1 – 3 April Roberto Solano International Conference on Plant DE-Freiburg 10 – 13 September and Design Proteostasis 2019 Geneviève Almouzni Conférences Jacques Monod: Mitotic and FR-Roscoff 8 – 12 April Maya Schuldiner Engineering Life: From Origins to Organs DE-Dresden 11 – 13 September Meiotic Cell Cycle Control and Execution René Bernards EACR Conference Series Nanotechnology in UK-Cambridge 12 – 14 September Uta Frith The 2019 Festival of Neuroscience IE-Dublin 14 – 17 April Cancer: Engineering for Oncology Howard Riezman The 2019 FEBS Special Meeting on PT-Cascais 6 – 10 May Cédric Blanpain EMBO | FEBS Lecture Course Hydra XIV GR-Hydra 15 – 22 September Sphingolipid Biology: Sphingolipids in European Summer School on Stem Cell Physiology and Pathology Biology and Regenerative Medicine Carlos Caldas EACR-ESMO Joint Conference: Liquid IT-Bergamo 15 – 17 May Marco Foiani Genome Instability: when RNA Meets FR-Roscoff 16 – 20 September Biopsies Chromatin Pietro V. De Camilli Cell dynamics: Organelle-Cytoskeleton PT-Lisbon 19 – 22 May Bruce Beutler ABCD Meeting 2019 IT-Bologna 18 – 21 September Interface Amanda Fisher FEBS Advanced Lecture Course on GR-Fodele 22 – 27 September Jennifer Cell dynamics: Organelle-Cytoskeleton PT-Lisbon 19 – 22 May Chromatin Proteomics 2019 Lippincott-Schwartz Interface Antonella Viola 13th Meeting of the Slovenian Biochemical SI-Dobrna 24 – 27 September Ottoline Leyser Life2019 NL-Bunnik 28 – 29 May Society Fiona Powrie The Second Conference on Molecular NO-Trondheim 3 – 7 June Nils-Göran Larsson EMBO | FEBS Lecture Course on ME-Herceg Novi 24 – 28 September Mechanisms of Inflammation Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease Wieland B. Huttner 3rd International Meeting of the Trisomy ES-Barcelona 6 – 9 June Cédric Blanpain EACR Conference Series – Seed and Soil: DE-Berlin 7 – 9 October 21 Research Society Mechanisms of Metastasis Tom A. Rapoport Molecular Organization, Function and FR-Cargèse 10 – 20 June Dynamics of Biomembranes

88 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 89 EMBO Keynote Lectures 2019 EMBO Keynote Lectures 2019 Name Lecture Title Location Date Name Lecture Title Location Date Keynote Lectures 2019 Gisou van der Goot Endoplasmic Reticulum Meeting 2019 – FR-Paris 9 – 11 October Keynote Lectures 2019 Bertrand Séraphin mRNA Turnover: Mechanisms, Regulation CA-Montreal 25 – 28 June EMBC Member States From Basic Cell Biology to Translational Non-EMBC Member and their Implication in Infectious and Age- (continued) Approaches: a Path to the Clinic States Related Diseases (continuted) Ben Luisi Cryo-electron Microscopy in Structural IT-Rome 10 – 11 October Biology: Paving the Way Towards Precision Elena Conti Intracellular RNA Localization and Local US-Snowmass Village 30 June – 5 July Biomedicine and Biotechnology Translation Denis Duboule European Developmental Biology Congress ES-Alicante 23 – 26 October Susan M. Gasser FASEB Conference on Genetic US-Steamboat Springs 14 – 19 July (EDBC 2019) Recombination and Genome Rearrangements Manuel Serrano New Concepts in Age-related ES-Madrid 24 – 26 October Cardiovascular Disease Jane Langdale FASEB Mechanisms in Plant Development US-Olean 28 July – 2 August Meeting Christiane From Genes to Organisms: Transcriptional ES-Baeza 28 – 30 October Nüsslein-Volhard Control in Development and Disease M. Angela Nieto The TGF-B Superfamily Conference: US-West Palm Beach 28 July – 2 August Signaling in Development and Disease Varda Rotter 4th International p53 Isoforms Meeting HR-Dubrovnik 3 – 6 November and 9th International p64/p73 Workshop Luke O’Neill 14th World Congress on Inflammation AU-Sydney 15 – 19 September Laura Machesky Actin-based Mechanosensation and Force ES-Baeza 11 – 13 November Pura Muñoz Cánoves Frontiers in Myogenesis Meeting: Skeletal CR-San Jose 23 – 28 September Generation in Health and Disease Muscle: Development, Regeneration and Disease Anthony Hyman 21st EMBL PhD Symposium: Facing the DE-Heidelberg 28 – 30 November Future – Perspectives and Challenges of Paul Schulze-Lefert 15th Argentine Congress on Microbiology AR-Ciudad Autónoma 25 – 27 September Life Sciences in the 21st Century de Buenos Aires Jean-Pierre Changeux 16th International Symposium on IL-Rehovot 8 – 13 December Christine A. Orengo ISCB-Africa ASBCB Conference on GH-Kumasi 11 – 15 November Cholinergic Mechanisms (ISCM-XVI) Bioinformatics Karen Vousden Cell Signalling in Cancer Medicine AU-Rowland Flat 12 – 15 November Keynote Lectures 2019 Tim Hunt Cell Cycle and Cell Death IN-Tiruvalla 10 – 11 October Tracy Palmer Bacterial Morphogenesis Survival and ZA-Noordhoek 24 – 28 November EMBC Associate Virulence (BMSV) 2019 Member State Sophien Kamoun Australasian Plant Pathology Society AU-South Wharf 25 – 28 November Conference 2019 Keynote Lectures 2019 Nenad Ban 44th Lorne Conference for Protein AU-Lorne 10 – 14 February Non-EMBC Member Structure and Function Global Lecture Series Michael Hall Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society of CL-Puerto Varas 25 – 29 November States 2019 Cell Biology Jonas Frisén 2nd Neurogenesis Conference BS-Nassau 5 – 8 March Sebastian Jessberger Annual meeting of the Molecular Biology JP-Fukuoka 3 – 6 December Stephan Grill Hunter Cell Biology Meeting AU-Lovedale 18 – 22 March Society of Japan Santiago F. Elena 14th International Plant Virus KR-Seoul 13 – 17 May Epidemiology Symposium Christiane 14th International Zebrafish Conference CN-Suzhou 12 – 16 June Nüsslein-Volhard Tom A. Rapoport The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) US-Snowmass 23 – 28 June Conference: From Unfolded Proteins to Disease

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www.embo.org/funding-awards/gold-medal [email protected] www.embo.org/science-policy/women-in-science [email protected]

The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually to scientists under the age of 40 for outstanding contributions to the life sciences in Europe. EMBO is committed to monitoring gender balance in all its programmes and activities. In Gerlind Wallon Candidates are nominated by EMBO Members and selected by EMBO Council. The recipients of the 2019 EMBO Gold Medal were addition, EMBO develops initiatives to counteract gender imbalances and to raise awareness of Manager M. Madan Babu for his fundamental contributions to the field of computational molecular biology, and Paola Picotti for conceptual issues facing women scientists as their careers advance. and technological breakthroughs in the mass spectrometric analysis of proteins and proteomes.

Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics EMBO Membership (including Associate Members) EMBO Gold Medalists 1986 – 2019 EMBO Courses & Workshops 2015 – 2019 Year Total number of members % Women (including EMBO | EMBL Symposia, EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses, 1986 John Tooze Heidelberg, DE 2000 Christof Niehrs Heidelberg, DE 2012 Jirˇí Friml Ghent, BE 2015 1694 17.4 EMBO Conference Series, EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Courses, 2016 1729 18.0 1987 Barbara Pearse Cambridge, UK Daniel St. Johnston Cambridge, UK 2013 Thijn Brummelkamp Amsterdam, NL EMBO Practical Courses, EMBO Workshops) 2017 1779 18.9 Year % women % female speakers 1988 Antonio Lanzavecchia Basel, CH 2001 Matthew Freeman Cambridge, UK 2014 Sophie Martin Lausanne, CH 2018 1810 19.8 2015 49 35 1989 Hugh Pelham Cambridge, UK 2002 Amanda Fisher London, UK 2015 Ido Amit Rehovot, IL 2019 1840 20.5 2016 49 35 1990 Erwin Wagner Vienna, AT 2003 Anthony Hyman Dresden, DE Sarah Teichmann Cambridge, UK 2017 50 36 1991 Patrick Stragier Paris, FR 2004 María Blasco Madrid, ES 2016 Richard Benton Lausanne, CH 2018 51 37 1992 Carl-Henrik Heldin Uppsala, SE 2005 Dario Alessi Dundee, UK Ben Lehner Barcelona, ES 2019* 49 40 1993 Jim Smith London, UK 2006 Frank Uhlmann London, UK 2017 Maya Schuldiner Rehovot, IL 1994 Paolo Sassone-Corsi Strasbourg, FR 2007 Jan Löwe Cambridge, UK 2018 Marek Basler Basel, CH *2019 data represents 80% of the events 1995 Richard Treisman London, UK 2008 James Briscoe London, UK Melina Schuh Göttingen, DE 1996 Enrico Coen Norwich, UK 2009 Gold Medal 2009 revoked in 2019 M. Madan Babu Cambridge, UK 1997 Dirk Görlich Heidelberg, DE January 2016 Paola Picotti Zurich, CH 1998 Adriano Aguzzi Zurich, CH 2010 Jason W. Chin London, UK 1999 Konrad Basler Zurich, CH 2011 Simon Boulton London, UK

92 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 93 Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO Young Investigator Programme Applications % Awards % Success rate % Applications % Awards % Success rate % 2015 Female applicants 240 60 116 60 48 2015 Female applicants 64 37 8 35 13 Male applicants 161 40 78 40 48 Male applicants 111 63 15 65 14 Overall 401 194 48 Overall 175 23 13 2016 Female applicants 362 59 201 57 56 2016 Female applicants 65 30 9 36 14 Male applicants 256 41 149 43 58 Male applicants 149 70 16 64 11 Overall 618 350 57 Overall 214 25 12 2017 Female applicants 335 57 170 60 51 2017 Female applicants 88 34 11 39 13 Male applicants 253 43 111 40 44 Male applicants 169 66 17 61 10 Overall 588 281 48 Overall 257 28 11 2018 Female applicants 355 59 208 62 59 2018 Female applicants 74 38 11 42 15 Male applicants 243 41 129 38 53 Male applicants 121 62 15 58 12 Overall 598 337 56 Overall 195 26 13 2019 Female applicants 322 58 199 57 62 2019 Female applicants 73 31 7 26 10 Male applicants 232 42 150 43 65 Male applicants 161 69 20 74 12 Overall 554 349 63 Overall 234 27 12 2015 – 2019 Female applicants 1614 58 894 59 55 2015 – 2019 Female applicants 364 34 46 36 13 Male applicants 1145 42 617 41 54 Male applicants 711 66 83 64 12 Overall 2759 1511 55 Overall 1075 129 12

Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO Installation Grants Applications % Awards % Success rate % Applications % Awards % Success rate % 2015 Female applicants 773 50 118 47 15 2015 Female applicants 27 31 3 33 11 Male applicants 776 50 134 53 17 Male applicants 59 69 6 67 10 Overall 1549 252 16 Overall 86 9 11 2016 Female applicants 733 47 67 39 9 2016 Female applicants 19 28 2 29 11 Male applicants 828 53 103 61 12 Male applicants 50 72 5 71 10 Overall 1561 170 11 Overall 69 7 10 2017 Female applicants 594 50 80 42 13 2017 Female applicants 13 30 3 50 23 Male applicants 596 50 109 58 18 Male applicants 31 70 3 50 10 Overall 1190 189 16 Overall 44 6 14 2018 Female applicants 575 48 76 40 13 2018 Female applicants 15 31 4 40 27 Male applicants 625 52 114 60 18 Male applicants 33 69 6 60 18 Overall 1200 190 16 Overall 48 10 21 2019 Female applicants 589 50 89 48 15 2019 Female applicants 18 37 3 27 17 Male applicants 600 50 95 52 16 Male applicants 31 63 8 73 26 Overall 1189 184 15 Overall 49 11 22 2015 – 2019 Female applicants 3264 49 430 44 13 2015 – 2019 Female applicants 92 31 15 35 16 Male applicants 3425 51 555 56 19 Male applicants 204 69 28 65 14 Overall 6689 985 16 Overall 296 43 15

Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics EMBO Global Investigator Network Applications % Awards % Success rate % 2019 Female applicants 11 28 4 44 36 Male applicants 29 72 5 56 17 Overall 40 9 23

94 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 95 EMBO staff in Heidelberg under contract in 2019 EMBO Press Bernd Pulverer Head of EMBO Press, Chief Editor, The EMBO Journal [email protected] Thomas Lemberger Deputy Head of EMBO Press, Chief Editor, Molecular Systems Biology [email protected] Director Maria Leptin EMBO Director [email protected] Elisabetta Argenzio Editor, The EMBO Journal [email protected] Director’s Office Eilish Craddock Personal Assistant to EMBO Director [email protected] Stefanie Boehm Editor, The EMBO Journal [email protected] Bettina Trueb Senior Project Coordinator [email protected] Erica Boxheimer Editorial Assistant, Data Integrity Analyst [email protected] Holger Breithaupt Senior Editor, EMBO Reports [email protected] EMBC and EMBO Council Gitta Bourke Senior EMBC and EMBO Council Administrator Achim Breiling Editor, EMBO Reports [email protected] Heike Lorenzen-Schmidt EMBC and EMBO Council Officer Céline Carret Senior Editor, EMBO Molecular Medicine [email protected] Sophia Hercus Assistant, EMBC and EMBO Council [email protected] Annika Diederich Editorial Assistant [email protected] EMBO Membership Volker Wiersdorff Head, EMBO Membership & Elections [email protected] Karin Dumstrei Senior Editor, The EMBO Journal and Coordinator, EMBO Press [email protected] Larisa Bulgatova Programme Officer [email protected] Ieva Gailite Editor, The EMBO Journal [email protected] Sophia Hercus Programme Assistant, maternity cover [email protected] Adam Gristwood Officer, Science & Society* Jingyi Hou Editor, EMBO Molecular Medicine & Molecular Systems Biology [email protected] Courses & Workshops Gerlind Wallon Head, Courses & Workshops Programme; EMBO Deputy Director [email protected] Daniel Klimmeck Editor, The EMBO Journal [email protected] Programme, Lecture Grants Joy Akinyi Programme Specialist [email protected] Joel Maupin Marketing & Project Manager [email protected] courses_workshops @ Ayesha Asif Programme Officer [email protected] Sara Monaco Managing Editor, Review Commons [email protected] embo.org Anna Larsson Programme Officer, absence cover Shirin Neidlein Editorial Assistant, Review Commons [email protected] Igor Jukić Graphic Design & Communications Officer [email protected] Fiona Panayi Editorial Administrator [email protected] Maria Polychronidou Senior Editor, Molecular Systems Biology; Training Coordinator, EMBO Press [email protected] Fellowship Programme David del Alamo Head, Fellowship Programme [email protected] Martina Rembold Editor, EMBO Reports [email protected] [email protected] Larisa Bulgatova Programme Officer [email protected] Christopher Rickerby Editorial Assistant [email protected] Ingrid Busby Programme Officer [email protected] Deniz Senyilmaz Tiebe Editor, EMBO Reports [email protected] Leonard Nevaril Finance & Fellowship Officer, maternity cover Benardine Ngu Accounting & Programme Officer [email protected] SourceData Thomas Lemberger Head of SourceData [email protected] Inga Strazda Programme Specialist [email protected] Eva Benito Garagorri SourceData Scientific Coordinator Raimonda Augutyte Programme Officer, maternity cover [email protected] Hannah Sonntag Scientific and Outreach Coordinator [email protected] Ruidong Zhang Web Developer Global Activities Luis Valente Head of Global Activities [email protected] Bettina Trueb Head of Global Activities – government relations [email protected] Life Science Alliance/EMBO Andrea Leibfried Executive Editor, Life Science Alliance [email protected] Gerlind Wallon Head of Global Activities – scientific activities [email protected] Press Innovations Giorga Carta Editorial Assistant, Life Science Alliance contact@life-science-alliance. Betsi Flores Programme Officer [email protected] Reilly Lorenz Editorial Assistant, Life Science Alliance [email protected] org Science Policy Programme Michele Garfinkel Head, Science Policy Pogramme [email protected] EMBO Public Relations & Tilmann Kiessling Head, Public Relations & Communications [email protected] [email protected] Alessandra Bendiscioli Senior Programme Officer [email protected] Communications Annika Grandison Senior Public Affairs & Communications Officer Helen Sitar Programme Officer [email protected] [email protected] Laura Hiscott Communications Trainee Igor Jukić Graphic Design & Communications Officer [email protected] Young Investigator Network Gerlind Wallon Head, YIP/Installation Grants/Women in Science [email protected] Sandra Krahl Senior Graphic Designer (Young Investigator Programme, Installation Grants, Lena Steshenko Senior Programme Officer [email protected] Pauline Marchetti Graphic Designer [email protected] Global Investigator Network Betsi Flores Programme Officer [email protected] Stephen Pewter Digital Communications & Information Officer [email protected] and Women in Science [email protected] Rita Freischlad Programme Assistant [email protected] Information Support & Volker Wiersdorff Head, Information Support & Resources [email protected] Resources Martin Kubik IT Systems Administrator [email protected] Administration & Finance Bernhard Huber Head, Administration & Finance [email protected] Alejandro Riera Mainar Senior Developer & Data Specialist [email protected] Jonathan Kirsch Deputy Head, Administration & Finance [email protected] Stephen Pewter Digital Communications & Information Officer [email protected] Seán Bourke Reception, Building Maintenance [email protected] Eva Portik Financial Officer [email protected] EMBO Solutions (formerly Samuel Krahl Project Coordinator, EMBO Solutions [email protected] GFLW) Leonard Nevaril Finance & Fellowship Officer, maternity cover Gilda Motzny Administrator [email protected] [email protected] Benardine Ngu Accounting & Programme Officer [email protected]

*on secondment from EMBL 96 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 97 HIGHLIGHTS †‡ˆ CONTACT EMBO & EMBC EMBO Courses & Workshops Membership “” life scientists from •– countries were newly elected to EMBO Young Investigators the EMBO Membership. EMBO Installation Grants EMBO Global Investigator Network –˜™ Long-Term, ž™Ÿ Short-Term and ¡ve Advanced Fellowships Fellowships EMBO Women in Science were awarded. EMBO Responsible Editor EMBO Keynote Lectures Tilmann Kießling Meyerhofstr. 1 EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships, providing better social security Gerlind Wallon EMBO Scientific Publications E 69117 Heidelberg Programme Head Bernd Pulverer M to the fellows, were launched.Production: Coordination, B Germany Maria Leptin Deputy Director Head O layout, graphics, cover G YoungT +49 Investigators 6221 8891 0 and •¢ group leaders werePauline selected Marchetti as EMBO Young Investigators, and EMBO Director +     +    ­ O another –– scientists in the early stages of setting up their LD InstallationF +49 6221 Grants 8891 200 M laboratories were selectedData curation as Installation Grantees. EDAL 2019 [email protected] Joy Akinyi www.embo.org Science Policy Projects on governanceRaimonda of research Augutyte integrity and on technical and policy approaches to Ingridmitigate Busby problems arising from tissue culture cell heterogeneity. Betsi Flores Rita Freischlad Eilish Craddock EMBO Fellowships EMBO Scientific Publications European Molecular Courses & Workshops and Over –¤¤ scienti¡c eventsSophia were Hercus co-funded. Personal Assistant to David del Álamo Thomas Lemberger Biology Conference Joel Maupin other scientiŽc meetings the EMBO Director Programme Head Deputy Head Lena Steshenko Meyerhofstr. 1 +     +     +     69117 Heidelberg Bettina Trueb Volker Wiersdorff GlobalGermany Activities The EMBO Global Investigator Network providing funding and networking to young life scientists in Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan was launched. T +49 6221 8891 0 The ¡rst nine life scientistsPhotos to join the programme were selected. F +49 6221 8891 202 Marietta Schupp (EMBL Photolab) [email protected] M. Madan Babu and PaolaIvar Pel Picotti were honored with the embc.embo.org EMBO Gold Medal. Publication date Administration & Finance EMBO Science Policy EMBO Global Activities EMBO and the FederationJune 2020 of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Bernhard Huber Michele Garfinkel Bettina Trueb announced Sara Linse as the recipient of the •¤–Ÿ FEBS|EMBO Women Head Programme Head Head in Science Award. +     +    ­­ +    ­ 

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