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EMBO Long-Term Fellowships The rst ve Advanced Fellows are selected (page ). EMBO Young Investigators Long-Term and Short-Term Fellowships are awarded. The EMBO Installation Grants Fellows’ Meeting is held in Heidelberg in June . In Novem- EMBO Women in Science ber, the US Fellows’ Meeting is held at the Salk Institute in La Gerlind Wallon EMBO Scientific Publications Jolla, United States. Programme Manager Bernd Pulverer New EMBO Members & EMBO enlarges its membership on the occasion of its th Maria Leptin Deputy Director Head Young Investigators anniversary and elects new members (page ). Twenty- EMBO Director + + seven Young Investigators (page ) and eight Installation Grantees (page 8 join the EMBO community. EMBO Science Policy EMBO Science Policy and EMBO Press receive a grant from the Fondation Brocher for a workshop on the genomics of cognition Eilish Craddock to be held in December . The programme holds two Personal Assistant to EMBO Fellowships EMBO Scientific Publications workshops in , one on the use of quotas in academic hiring the EMBO Director Andrea Hutterer Thomas Lemberger (funded by Bosch Stiftung); the other on uses of + non-anonymized human genome sequence in research (funded Programme Manager Deputy Head by ESF). + + EMBO Gold Medal Sophie Martin receives the EMBO Gold Medal (page ). EMBO Global Activities Cooperation agreement between EMBO, EMBC and the Government of the Republic of Singapore is extended until end FEBS EMBO Courses & Workshops of . India requests to become an EMBC Associate Member EMBO Keynote Lectures EMBO Public Relations State. EMBO Administration & Finance EMBO Global Exchange & Communications Paris EMBO Courses & Workshops More than , participants from countries attend Bernhard Huber Anne-Marie Glynn Barry Whyte hosted by SFBBM scientic events; participants attend EMBO Laboratory Head Programme Manager Head Management Courses. + + + FEBS | EMBO Women in French biologist Pascale Cossart receives the FEBS | EMBO Science Award Women in Science Award. FEBS–EMBO Conference The FEBS–EMBO Conference celebrates the th anniversa- ries of FEBS and EMBO and the centennial of the French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SFBBM). EMBC Information Support EMBO Council & Committees EMBO Science Policy & Resources EMBO Press EMBO Press launches a referee cross-commenting platform, Gitta Bourke Michele Garfinkel Volker Wiersdorff Expanded View gures, author checklists and image integrity Administrator Programme Manager Head screening services across its journals; manuscript transfers to + + + EMBOreports are increased. The SourceData project is developing tools to search and re-use published data with a grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation.

Complete list of EMBO staff in Heidelberg on pages . EMBO facts & figures 2014

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

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

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

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

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

Both EMBO and EMBC are driven by a common commitment to research at the European level. Their joint activities are characterized by quality and encouragement of co-operation within the scientific community. table of contents EMBO Fellowships 30–83 Preface 4–5 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 30–55 EMBO actions in 2014 6–7 Statistics 30–31 EMBC actions in 2014 8–9 Awards 2014 32–52 Geographical distribution 2014 54–55 EMBO Advanced Fellowships 56 facts & figures 2014 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 57–83 Statistics 57 EMBC Member States 12–17 Awards 2014 58–80 Delegates and Advisers 12–16 Geographical distribution 2014 82–83 Financial contributions 17 EMBO Young Investigators 84–88 EMBO Council & Committees 18–19 Young Investigators 2014 84 EMBO Council 2014 18 Young Investigators 2000–2013 85 EMBO Committees 2014 19 Applications and awards 2005 –2014 86 EMBO Membership 20–25 Lectures 2014 87–88 EMBO Members 2014 20–24 EMBO Installation Grants 89 EMBO Associate Members 2014 25 Installation Grantees 2014 89

EMBO Scientific Publications 26–29 EMBO Courses & Workshops 90–96 Advisory Editorial Boards & Senior Editors of Practical Courses 2014 90–91 The EMBO Journal 26 Workshops 2014 91–92 EMBO reports 27 Conferences 2014 92–93 Molecular Systems Biology 28 Symposia 2014 93–94 EMBO Molecular Medicine 29 EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses 2014 94 Global Exchange Lecture Courses 2014 94 Laboratory Management Courses 2014 95–96

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

EMBO Gold Medal 101 Gold Medalists 1986 –2014 101

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

EMBO Staff in Heidelberg 106–107

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org 3 preface

2014 was an eventful year Young Investigators who represent some of the best group for EMBO as we celebrated leaders contributing to European research. The programme re- the 50th anniversary of our or- ceived 202 applications in 2014. Thirteen per cent of the can- ganization. EMBO was official- didates who applied were selected and the new investigators ly founded on 12 July 1964. It originated from 11 countries. has since helped to establish a EMBO also supports scientists who wish to set up labora- community of outstanding sci- tories in countries looking to improve their research capacity. entists who have made signifi- In 2014, eight researchers received Installation Grants for this cant contributions to advance purpose. The grants are helping the scientists to relocate and the life sciences in Europe and set up laboratories in the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal and other parts of the world. Turkey. 72 researchers have been funded by EMBO Installation Our 50th anniversary year Grants since the start of the programme in 2006. Maria Leptin included activities and events 247 Long-Term Fellowships and 284 Short-Term Fellowships EMBO Director that featured some of EMBO’s were awarded in 2014. EMBO Long-Term Fellowships provide many achievements. One of the financial support for postdoctoral research in leading laborato- highlights was a science and policy meeting held in Heidelberg ries in Europe and around the world. Short-Term Fellowships, in July as part of the celebrations. The meeting included talks which support three-month visits to laboratories in Europe and from Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of Research and elsewhere in the world, allow young scientists to gain experi- Innovation at the European Commission, invited scientific ence in some of the latest scientific technologies. speakers, and a panel discussion featuring the opinions of sci- Our Courses & Workshops continue to be popular amongst ence ministers from Europe. the scientific community. In 2014, 96 EMBO Courses & In 2014, 106 scientists were welcomed to the EMBO mem- Workshops were held and attracted more than 11,000 partici- bership in recognition of their outstanding achievements in the pants. The events took place in 23 different countries. life sciences. The 106 new members included 50 scientists who EMBO’s Laboratory Management Courses, which provide have made exceptional contributions to neuroscience, ecology training for postdoctoral researchers and group leaders, are in and evolution, disciplines that were selected as part of the stra- strong demand. 19 courses were held in 2014 and we continue tegic expansion of the EMBO membership for the anniversary to look for ways to expand their reach. year. A special membership meeting in October was the ideal As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, EMBO played opportunity to welcome all recently elected members to the a major role in organizing The FEBS-EMBO Conference 2014* organization. The EMBO Membership currently includes more in Paris, France, on 30 August to 4 September. The meeting, than 1700 life scientists in the international community. which was organized with FEBS and the French Society for 27 young scientists were selected as EMBO Young Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, brought together many Investigators in 2014. The scientists join a network of 342 leading researchers to discuss the latest scientific findings in

4 Preface | Maria Leptin EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org the life sciences. More than 2500 participants attended the Scientific Publications, a grant was received from the Brocher event. On the opening day, William Whelan, the first Secretary Foundation to support a workshop on the genomics of cogni- General of FEBS, revealed the early history and development of tion in December 2015. Work continues to help develop the FEBS. Gottfried Schatz, former Secretary General of EMBO, de- next version of Epigeum, an online training course for research scribed how the activities of EMBO had grown over the years. ethics. Few organizations have solutions in place to help im- The meeting also included opening lectures from Catherine prove how scientists are trained in ethics. Epigeum has been Dulac from Harvard University and Svante Pääbo from the well received by the scientific community and has the potential Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. for wider development and use. Dulac’s talk focused on how the mouse brain is geared for so- In July 2014, EMBO’s SourceData project received a three- cial interaction. Pääbo’s lecture addressed the origins and evo- year, € 420,000 grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation to sup- lution of humans. port its work to improve access to the data in published scien- Later in the year, we had a further confirmation of the value tific articles. Efficient access to primary research data could of our efforts to widen our membership when we witnessed significantly speed up science. The SourceData team is devel- the award of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to oping tools to make the data in scientific publications easier to no less than three EMBO Members active in neuroscience. The find and to allow scientists to use the data to their full potential. 2014 recipients were Professor John O’Keefe, Director of the In November, the EMBC approved the Indicative Scheme Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in Neural Circuits and Behaviour for 2015-2019, a 2.5% increase versus the approved budget at University College London, Edvard Moser, Director of the for 2014. I would like to thank all members of the EMBC for Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural their renewed commitment to the activities of EMBO. I would Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who con- Technology, and May-Britt Moser, Director of the Centre for tributed to the success of EMBO in our anniversary year and I Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science look forward to many more achievements in the years to come. and Technology. The prize was awarded for work that elucidat- ed how the brains of larger organisms create maps of the space Sincerely surrounding them and how these organisms can navigate their way through a complex environment. The EMBO Science Policy Programme has made further progress to advance science policies that will help to strengthen the global research community. A European Science Foundation-funded workshop on the use of non-anonymized human genome sequence was held at the end of the year and *Administrated by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH 1 the official report on the workshop was published recently. In 1 www.embo.org/documents/science_policy/non-anonymized_ collaboration with Thomas Lemberger, Deputy Head of human%20genome_sequence_ESF_EMBO_2014_workshop_report.pdf

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org Preface | Maria Leptin 5 EMBO actions 2014

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

➔➔EMBO OFFICERS & COUNCIL 2014 Council and membership elections Paul Nurse ❚❚Detlef Weigel was re-elected Chair of EMBO Council for 2015, EMBO SECRETARY GENERAL Geneviève Almouzni was elected Vice Chair of EMBO Council for 2015. Detlef Weigel ❚❚Caroline Dean and Denis Duboule were re-elected to Council by the membership CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL for the period 2015 –2017. Jürgen Knoblich (AT), Carl-Henrik Heldin (SE) and Richard Treisman Karen Vousden (UK) were newly elected for the same period. Leszek Kaczmarek VICE CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL was selected to replace Roberto di Lauro for the year 2015. Geneviève Almouzni ❚❚On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, EMBO expanded the scope of its Pascale Cossart membership by electing 50 researchers working in the fields of neuroscience Victor de Lorenzo and ecology & evolution. In total, 106 outstanding researchers in the life Caroline Dean sciences were elected to the EMBO Membership. One hundred of the scientists Roberto di Lauro reside in Europe and neighbouring countries; six Associate Members were elected from China, Japan and the United States. The EMBO Membership Denis Duboule currently comprises more than 1700 life scientists. Anne Ephrussi More information is listed on pages 20 –25. Regine Kahmann Financial matters Leszek Kaczmarek ❚❚The EMBO Council approved the accounts for 2013 and the preliminary budget Mart Saarma for the EMBO activities for 2015. This funding comes from income generated Paul Schulze-Lefert by the EMBO publications and supplements the EMBC financing of the EMBO Dimitris Thanos Programmes and activities. It is also used to pilot EMBO activities that are not part of the EMBC General Programme. Veronica van Heyningen ❚❚Since 2009, the EMBO and EMBC accounts have been audited by KPMG MEMBERS OF EMBO COUNCIL (Switzerland). This audit is carried out in addition to the standard auditing by a national audit court from one of the EMBC Member States (currently ➔➔See page 18 for a detailed list Netherlands). of the 2014 EMBO Council

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Other EMBO activities

Awards ➔➔EMBO Committee Chairs 2014 ❚❚Sophie Martin of the University Lausanne, Switzerland, was the winner of the Jane Langdale 2014 EMBO Gold Medal. The award acknowledged her work on molecular events EMBO Membership Committee that define the organization and development of the cell (see page 101). Sarah Bray EMBO Fellowship Committee ❚❚EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announced Pascale Cossart, of the Institute Pasteur in Paris, France, as the winner of the Frank Uhlmann EMBO Course Committee 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. ❚❚EMBO Members John O’Keefe, Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser have been Gisou van der Goot EMBO Young Investigator Committee awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Reinhard Jahn Meetings and training EMBO Publications Advisory Board ❚❚EMBO, EMBL and EMBC organized a joint Anniversary Science and Policy Meeting in Heidelberg on 2 and 3 July 2014. The event marked the 50th anniversary of EMBO, the 45th anniversary of EMBC and the 40th anniversary of EMBL. ➔➔See page 19 for a complete list of the 2014 committee members. ❚❚The FEBS-EMBO 2014 Conference was held in Paris, France from 30 August to 4 September. ❚❚New EMBO Members elected in 2014 were welcomed to the organization ➔➔EMBO Council Administrator Gitta Bourke during the Anniversary Members’ Meeting held from 29 to 31 October 2014 in [email protected] Heidelberg. T +49 6221 8891 117 ❚❚EMBO and EMBL held six joint EMBO | EMBL Symposia in the EMBL Advanced F +49 6221 8891 202 Training Centre in 2014. ❚❚EMBO continues to participate in the activities and meetings of the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE). ❚❚The EMBO Director and EMBO managers were engaged in a variety of other meetings and collaborations – in particular with the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), the European Science Foundation (ESF), the European Research Council (ERC) and the various programmes of the European Commission (EC). ❚❚EMBO provided management training for postdoctoral researchers and group leaders by organizing 19 Laboratory Management Courses.

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO actions 2014 7 EMBC actions 2014

➔➔EMBC OFFICERS 2014 The EMBC Delegates met in formal session in June and November 2014. The Toivo Maimets ESTONIA EMBC Finance Committee met in June 2014 and the EMBC Strategic Working PRESIDENT Party met in June and November 2014; the decisions and actions resulting from Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS these meetings are listed below. Angela Nieto SPAIN VICE-PRESIDENTS Financial matters Patrick Cramer GERMANY ❚❚EMBC noted the reports of the external auditors and accepted the accounts SECRETARY GENERAL for 2013. Kalervo Hiltunen FINLAND ❚❚EMBC approved the Indicative Scheme for the period 2015 – 2019 and the Finance Committee CHAIR budget for 2015. Hemma Bauer AUSTRIA Finance Committee VICE CHAIR EMBC decisions and actions ❚❚EMBC heard a detailed report from EMBO on the delivery of the EMBC ➔➔Strategic Working Party 2014 General Programme. Ahmet Ademoğlu TURKEY ❚❚EMBC agreed unanimously to accept Malta’s application for EMBC Lucia Banci ITALY membership. Following ratification of the EMBC Agreement, Malta will Hemma Bauer AUSTRIA become the 28th EMBC Member State. ❚❚EMBC agreed to prolong the cooperation agreement with Singapore for a Patrick Cramer GERMANY further 14 months until 31 December 2015. Josiane Entringer LUXEMBOURG ❚❚ EMBC agreed to accept India’s application for EMBC Associate Membership. Jean-Michel Heard FRANCE Kalervo Hiltunen FINLAND Election of officers for 2014 ❚❚Gerrit van Meer (Netherlands) was elected President of EMBC for 2015. Toivo Maimets ESTONIA CHAIR Fabio Iannaccone (Italy) and Charalambos Savakis (Greece) were elected Vice- Angela Nieto SPAIN Presidents for 2015. Mark Palmer UNITED KINGDOM ❚❚Patrick Cramer (Germany) was re-elected Secretary General of EMBC Jeannette Ridder-Numan for 2015. NETHERLANDS Gerrit van Meer NETHERLANDS Volker Wiesenthal GERMANY

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

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➔➔ ➔➔EMBC Member States Finance Committee The following countries are member states of the European Molecular Biology PERMANENT MEMBERS Conference (EMBC): France Germany ❚❚Austria ❚❚Greece ❚❚Poland Italy ❚❚Belgium ❚❚Hungary ❚❚Portugal Spain ❚❚Croatia ❚❚Iceland ❚❚Slovak Republic United Kingdom ❚❚Czech Republic ❚❚Ireland ❚❚Slovenia ❚❚Denmark ❚❚Israel ❚❚Spain ELECTED MEMBERS ❚❚Estonia ❚❚Italy ❚❚Sweden Austria ❚❚Finland ❚❚Luxembourg ❚❚Switzerland Belgium ❚❚France ❚❚Netherlands ❚❚Turkey Finland ❚❚Germany ❚❚Norway ❚❚United Kingdom Greece Ireland Netherlands Sweden

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

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

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | embc.embo.org EMBC actions 2014 9 facts & figures 2014

EMBC Member States 12–17

EMBO Council & Committees 18–19

EMBO Membership 20–25

EMBO Scientific Publications 26–29

EMBO Fellowships 30–83

EMBO Young Investigators 84–88

EMBO Installation Grants 89

EMBO Courses & Workshops 90–96

EMBO Women in Science 98–100

EMBO Gold Medal 101

EMBO Keynote Lectures 102–104

EMBO staff in Heidelberg 106–107

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embc.embo.org [email protected]

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

Austria Mr Vincent Meunier Prof. Kresimir Paveliç Belgian Federal Science Policy Office University of Rijeka Dr. Hemma Bauer Avenue Louise 231 Dept. of Biotechnology Austrian Ministry of Science, Research BE-1050 Brussels Radmile Matej i 2 and Economy T +32 2 238 34 63 HR-51000 Rijeka Unit V/3c – Life Sciences [email protected] T +385 51 584 550 Rosengasse 2–6 [email protected] AT-1014 Vienna Prof. Marc van Montagu T +43 1 53120 6213 Institute of Plant Biotechnology Outreach (IPBO) [email protected] IIC UGent/VIB Technologiepark 3 Prof. Veronika Sexl Czech Republic BE-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology T +32 9 264 87 27 Ms Jana Bystrická Chair of Institute [email protected] Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Veterinärplatz 1 Dept. of International Cooperation AT-1210 Vienna Karmelitska 7 T +43 (1) 25077-2910 CZ-118 12 Prague [email protected] Croatia T +420 234 811 242 [email protected] Dr. Lovorka Baraç Lauc Executive Director Dr. Zdena Palkova Belgium The National Foundation for Science, Higher Dept. of Genetics and Microbiology Education and Technological Development Charles University Dr. François Guissart Ilica 24 Vinicná 5 Belgian Federal Science Policy Office HR-10000 Zagreb CZ-12844 Prague 2 Avenue Louise 231 T +385 51 228 692 T +420 2 2195 1721 BE-1050 Brussels [email protected] [email protected] T +32 2 238 34 86 [email protected]

12 EMBC Delegates EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org Denmark Dr. Jarmo Wahlfors Dr. Jan Grapentin Director, Health Research Unit Bundesministerium für Mr Troels Tvedegaard Rasmussen Academy of Finland Bildung und Forschung Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Hakaniemenranta 6, PO Box 131 Kapelle-Ufer 1 Innovation FI-00531 Helsinki DE-10117 Berlin Bredgade 40 T +358 29 533 5126 T +49 30 18 57 5439 DK-1260 – Copenhagen K [email protected] [email protected] T +45 7231 8296 [email protected] Dr. Volker Wiesenthal Bundesministerium für Prof. Jesper Velgaard Olsen France Bildung und Forschung The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center Referat 613 for Protein Research Dr. Vincent Geli Kapelle-Ufer 1 Panum Instituttet Institut Jean Paoli et Irène Calmettes DE-10117 Berlin Blegdamsvej 3 Centre regional de T +49 3018 57 5098 DK-2200 København N lutte contre le cancer [email protected] T +45 35325022 27, boulevard Lei Roure [email protected] FR-13273 Marseille cedex 09 T +33 4 91 75 84 03 [email protected] Greece

Estonia Dr. Jean-Michel Heard Dr. Nikos Prekas Direction générale pour la Recherche et Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Prof. Toivo Maimets l’Innovation Sport and Culture Dept. of Cell Biology Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de GSRT Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology la Recherche International Organisations Division University of Tartu 1, rue Descartes 14–18 Mesogeion Avenue Riia 23b–135 FR-75231 Paris Cedex 5 GR-115 10 Athens EE-51010 Tartu T +33 1 55 55 90 30 T +30 210 7458115 T +372 737 5028 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Thierry Meinnel Prof. Charalambos Savakis Dr. Toivo Räim AVIESAN Institute of Cell & Developmental Biology Ministry of Education and Research Institut des Sciences du Végétal BSRC Alexander Fleming Tallinn Office Bât 23, 1 avenue de la Terrasse 34 Alexander Fleming Street Tõnismägi 11 FR-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex GR-16672 Vari EE-15192 Tallinn T +33 1 69 82 36 12 T +30 210 8976 404 T +372 735 0125 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Germany Hungary Finland Prof. Patrick Cramer Ms Katalin Hajós Prof. Kalervo Hiltunen MPI for Biophysical Chemistry Deputy Head Faculty of Biochemistry and Mol. Medicine Dept. Molecular Biology Hungarian Academy of Sciences University of Oulu Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 Dept. for International Relations Aapisti e 7 B DE-37077 Goettingen Nádor utca 7 FI-90220 Oulu T +49 89 218076965 HU-1051 Budapest T +358 294 481150 [email protected] T +36 1 411 6158 [email protected] [email protected]

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | embc.embo.org EMBC Delegates 13 Prof. Làszlò Patthy Israel Netherlands Institute of Enzymology Dr. Yossi Kalifa Dr. Jeannette Ridder-Numan Biological Research Centre Karolina ut 29 Director of Life Sciences Ministry of Education, Culture and Science HU-1113 Budapest Ministry of Science, Technology and Space IPC 4100 T +36 1 209 3537 Haqirya Hamizrahit, Bldg 3 Rijnstraat 50 [email protected] P.O. Box 49100 NL-2515 XP Den Haag IL-91490 Jerusalem T +31 70 412 3662 T +972 2 5411126 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Iceland Prof. Joel Sussman Prof. Gerrit van Meer Dr. Eiríkur Steingrímsson Dept. of Structural Biology Bureau Faculteit Bètawetenschappen Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The Israel Structural Proteomics Center Budapestlaan 6 - kamer 001A Faculty of Medicine Weizmann Institute of Science NL-3584 CH Utrecht University of Iceland IL-76100 Rehovot T +31 30 253 4628 Vatnsmyrarvegur 16 T +972 8 9344531 [email protected] IS-101 Reykjavik [email protected] T +354 525 4270 [email protected] Norway Italy Prof. Oddmund Bakke Prof. Lucia Banci University of Oslo Ireland CERM – Centro di Ricerca di Risonanze Dept. of Molecular Biosciences Dr. Marion Boland Magnetiche Kristine Bonnevies hus Science Foundation Ireland Università di Firenze Blindernveien 31 Wilton Park House Via Luigi Sacconi 6 NO-0371 Oslo Wilton Place IT-50019 Sesto Fiorentino T +47 22855787 +47 22854594 IE-Dublin 2 T +39 055 4574263 [email protected] [email protected] T +353 1 607 3284 Dr. Jacob E. Wang [email protected] Mr Fabio Iannaccone Research Council of Norway Mr Brian Dalton Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze Drammensveien 288 Office of Science, Technology & Innovation Ragioneria Generale dello Stato NO-0283 Oslo Dept. of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation I.G.A.E. Uff. IX T +47 22 03 73 25 23 Kildare Street Via XX Settembre no 97 [email protected] IE-Dublin 2 IT-00187 Roma T +353 1 631 2197 T +39 06 476 13656 [email protected] [email protected] Poland

Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek Luxembourg Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology Nencki Institute Ms Josiane Entringer Pasteura 3 Deputy Director PL-02-093 Warsaw Ministry of Higher Education and Research T +48 22 6503001 20, Montée de la Petrusse [email protected] LU-2327 Luxembourg T +352 247 85217 [email protected]

14 EMBC Delegates EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org Ms Maria Klimkiewicz Dr. Silvia Pastoreková Spain Department of International Cooperation Institute of Virology Dr. Cristina Bauluz 20 Hoza St. Slovak Academy of Sciences PL-00-529 Warsaw Dubravska cesta 9 Subdirección General de Relaciones T +48 22 5017 852 SK-845 05 Bratislava Internacionales [email protected] T +421 2 59 30 24 04 Secretaría General de Ciencia Tecnología e [email protected] Innovación C/Albacete, 5-P5N D10 Prof. Ján Turna ES-28027 Madrid Portugal Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical T +34 91 603 88 67 Information [email protected] Prof. Maria Carmo-Fonseca Lamacska cesta 8/A Prof. M. Angela Nieto Faculdade de Medicina SK-811 04 Bratislava Instituto de Medicina Molecular T +421 2 69 25 31 02 Head of Developmental Neurobiology Av. Prof. Egas Moniz [email protected] Institute of Neurosciences CSIC-UMH PT-1649-028 Lisboa Codes Avda. Ramon y Cajal s/n T +351 21 799 94 11 ES-03550 San Juan de Alicante [email protected] T +34 965 919243 Slovenia [email protected] Mr Luís Filipe Mota Department of International Relations Dr. Tomaz Boh Foundation for Science & Technology (FCT) Directorate of Science Ministry of Education & Science Ministry of Education, Science & Sport Sweden Av. D. Carlos I, 126-7° Masarykova 16 Prof. Stefan Hohmann PT-1249-074 Lisbon SI-1000 Ljubljana T +351 21391 15 29 T +38614784699 Dept. of Chemistry and Molecular Biology [email protected] [email protected] University of Gothenburg [email protected] Medicinaregatan 9C Prof. Cláudio Sunkel SE-405 30 Gothenburg Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC) Mr Andrej Ograjensek T +46 31 3608488 University of Porto Science Division [email protected] Rua do Campo Alegre 823 Science Directorate Dr. Maria Thuveson PT-4150-180 Porto Ministry of Education, Science and Sports T +351 22 607 49 00 Masarykova 16 Swedish Research Council [email protected] SI-1000 Ljubljana Västra Järnvägsgatan 3 T +386 1 478 46 34 SE-101 38 Stockholm [email protected] T +46 8 546 44 193 [email protected] Slovak Republic Prof. Boris Turk Dept. of Biochemistry and Ms Anna Juríková Molecular and Structural Biology Department of International Cooperation in J. Stefan Institute Switzerland Research & Development Jamova 39 Dr. Isabella Beretta Ministry of Education, Science, Research and SI-1000 Ljubljana Sports of the Slovak Republic T +386 1 477 37 72 State Secretariat for Education, Research & Stromová 1 [email protected] Innovation SERI SK-813 30 Bratislava International Research & Innovation Programmes T +421 2 59374717 Einsteinstrasse 2 [email protected] CH-3003 Berne T +41 58 462 84 17 [email protected]

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | embc.embo.org EMBC Delegates 15 Prof. Damian Brunner Institute of Mol. Life Sciences University of Zurich Building/Room: Y55-L-66 Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 Zurich T +41 44 635 4457 [email protected]

Turkey

Prof. Ahmet Ademoglu Biomedical Engineering Institute Bogazici University Bebek TR-34342 Istanbul T +90 212 259 64 18 [email protected]

United Kingdom

Mr Bruce Minty Medical Research Council (MRC) 14th Floor One Kemble Street GB-London WC2B 4AN T +44 1793 416200 [email protected]

Dr. Mark Palmer Medical Research Council 14th Floor, One Kemble Street GB-London WC2B 4AN T +44 20 7395 2209 [email protected]

Mr Tim Willis Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) North Star Avenue Polaris House GB-Swindon SN2 1UH T +44 1793 413247 [email protected]

16 EMBC Delegates EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBC Member States financial contributions [email protected]

EMBC Member State 2014 % of total contributions Austria 2.05 Belgium 2.53 Croatia 0.32 Czech Republic 0.92 Denmark 1.61 Estonia 0.11 Finland 1.29 France 14.88 Germany 18.69 Greece 1.71 Hungary 0.64 Iceland 0.07 Ireland 1.16 Israel 0.97 Italy 11.23 Luxembourg 0.21 Netherlands 4.27 Norway 2.17 Poland 2.42 Portugal 1.14 Slovak Republic 0.43 Slovenia 0.25 Spain 7.79 Sweden 2.48 Switzerland 2.59 Turkey 3.44 United Kingdom 14.60 Total 100.00

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The EMBO Council is the governing body of EMBO, responsible for ensuring the development of the organization. It consists of 15 members, who serve for a period of three years and who may be re-elected 2014 for one additional term of office.

EMBO Council members Elected term(s) of office Name Country – Town 2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Geneviève Almouzni FR-Paris 2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015 Pascale Cossart FR-Paris 2012 – 2014 Caroline Dean UK-Norwich 2014 – 2016 Victor de Lorenzo ES-Madrid 2013 – 2015 Roberto di Lauro IT-Napoli 2012 – 2014 Denis Duboule CH-Geneva 2013 – 2015 Anne Ephrussi DE-Heidelberg 2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2014 Leszek Kaczmarek PL-Warsaw 2014 – 2016 Regine Kahmann DE-Marburg 2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Mart Saarma FI-Helsinki 2013 – 2015 Paul Schulze-Lefert DE-Koeln 2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Dimitris Thanos GR-Athens 2010 – 2011, 2012 – 2014 Richard Treisman Vice Chair UK-London 2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015 Detlef Weigel Chair DE-Tuebingen 2010, 2011 – 2013, 2014 Veronica van Heyningen UK-Edinburgh

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

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

Observers Toivo Maimets President, EMBC Patrick Cramer Secretary General, EMBC Iain Mattaj Director General, EMBL Jane Langdale Chair EMBO Membership Committee Gisou van der Goot Chair EMBO Young Investigator Committee Frank Uhlmann Chair EMBO Course Committee Sarah Bray Chair EMBO Fellowship Committee Reinhard Jahn Chair EMBL SAC

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Members serve on committees to guide core EMBO programmes, activities and publications. The EMBO Council appoints members to serve on committees for a four-year term; committee chairs are appointed 2014 for three years and may serve on the committee beyond the usual four years.

Course Committee Young Investigator Committee EMBO | EMBL Symposia FEBS | EMBO Women in Science 2009 Frank Uhlmann UK Chair 2011 Gisou van der Goot CH Chair Committee* Committee 2012 Frédéric Allain CH 2011 Bruno Amati IT 2010 Maria Leptin DE Chair 2013 Cecilia Arraiano PT 2014 Nils Brose DE 2013 Christer Betsholtz SE 2008 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL Chair 2011 Johanna Ivaska FI 2012 Søren Brunak DK 2011 Anne Ferguson-Smith UK 2008 Anne Ephrussi DE, EMBL 2013 Ingrid Grummt DE 2014 Javier Cáceres UK 2012 Michael Hall CH 2013 Anne-Claude Gavin DE, EMBL 2012 Oscar Marin ES 2013 Christian Lehner CH 2011 Yrjö Helariutta FI 2008 Darren Gilmour DE, EMBL** 2014 Sean Munro UK 2012 Paul Schulze-Lefert DE 2012 Robert Kaptein NL 2011 Michael O. Hengartner CH 2013 Maciej Zylicz PL 2013 Anne Spang CH 2014 Karim Labib UK 2008 Matthias W. Hentze DE, EMBL 2013 Anna Tramontano IT 2014 Janet Thornton UK 2013 Dietmar Schmucker BE 2013 Jan Korbel DE, EMBL** 2014 Gerrit van Meer NL 2011 Isabelle Vernos ES 2013 Maria Sibilia AT 2011 Frauke Melchior DE 2014 Arturo Zychlinsky DE 2013 Ramesh Pillai FR, EMBL** Internal Auditor (EMBL) Membership Committee 2014 Frank Uhlmann UK Tomasz Smolarek Fellowship Committee 2009 Jane Langdale UK Chair 2012 Sarah Bray UK Chair 2013 Ewan Birney UK Science Policy Advisory Group* External Auditors 2013 Andres Aguilera ES 2011 Irene Bozzoni IT 2012 Geneviève Almouzni FR Central Audit Service Netherlands 2012 Anna Akhmanova NL 2012 Nils Brose DE 2012 Ioannis Economidis BE** 2010 Cecilia Maria Arraiano PT 2014 Tim Clausen AT 2013 Anne Ephrussi DE EMBO Audit 2013 Claudia Bagni BE 2013 Maria Pia Cosma ES 2012 Toivo Maimets EE** KPMG 2012 Naama Barkai IL 2012 Carlos Dotti BE 2012 Claudio Sunkel PT 2010 Yinon Ben-Neriah IL 2011 Andreas Engel NL 2012 Richard Treisman UK 2013 József Burgyán HU 2014 Urs Greber CH 2013 Michael Boutros DE 2011 Gillian M. Griffiths UK Publications Advisory Board* * Committee includes 2013 Elena Conti DE 2014 Edith Heard FR 2010 Reinhard Jahn DE Chair EMBO Members and 2012 Liam Dolan UK 2011 Francesc Posas ES 2010 Peer Bork DE, EMBL ** external advisers 2013 Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna IT 2013 Jacques Pouysségur FR 2013 Pietro De Camilli US 2013 Santiago F. Elena ES 2011 Catherine Rabouille NL 2009 Ivan Dikic DE 2014 Eric Miska UK 2012 Hans-Georg Rammensee DE 2014 Ari Helenius (2014) 2011 Thomas Nystroem SE 2014 Philippe J. Sansonetti FR 2011 Robert Kiley UK** 2013 Luca Scorrano CH 2013 Michel O. Steinmetz CH 2010 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL 2012 Brigitta Stockinger UK 2013 Giulio Superti-Furga AT 2014 Jo McEntyre UK 2011 Nektarios Tavernarakis GR 2012 Olivier Voinnet CH 2014 Tom Misteli USA 2014 Antoine Triller FR 2014 Kenneth H. Wolfe IE 2013 Frank Uhlmann UK 2013 Pierre Vanderhaeghen BE Ex-officio Stefanie Dimmeler Thomas Lemberger Maria Leptin Bernd Pulverer

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

Name Institute Research interest Ralf Adams MPI für Molekulare Biomedizin | Münster, Germany and Molecular regulation of angiogenesis University of Münster, Germany Margarida Amaral University | Lisbon, Portugal Membrane traffic of disease-related proteins Michalis Averof École Normale Supérieure | Lyon, France Comparative developmental biology Ian T. Baldwin Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie | Jena, Germany The function of plant genes in nature Nicholas H. Barton Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST) | Theoretical evolutionary genetics Klosterneuburg, Austria Malcolm J. Bennett University | Nottingham, United Kingdom Adaptive responses during root development Per-Olof Berggren Karolinska University Hospital | Stockholm, Sweden Pancreatic islet cell signal-transduction Anna Bigas Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques Stem cell specification and leukemia (IMIM) | Barcelona, Spain development Antje Boëtius Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeres- Marine microbiology and deep sea life forschung | Bremerhaven, Germany and Max-Planck- Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie | Bremen, Germany Sebastian Bonhoeffer ETH Zurich, Switzerland Evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases Déborah Bourc'his Institut Curie | Paris, France Epigenetic control of mammalian reproduction Philippe Bousso Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Dynamics of immune responses during cancer and infection Ineke Braakman Utrecht University, Netherlands Membrane glycoprotein folding and chaperone action Paul Brakefield University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Evolution of adaptive radiations in butterflies Trinity College | Cambridge, United Kingdom Michael Brecht Humboldt University | Berlin, Germany Neuro-behavior Julius Brennecke IMBA | Vienna, Austria Small RNA mediated genome defense in Drosophila Thijn R. Brummelkamp Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience | Amsterdam, Experimental biomedical genetics Netherlands and CeMM | Vienna, Austria

20 EMBO Members elected in 2014 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org Name Institute Research interest Oliver Brüstle Universität | Bonn, Germany Neural stem cells for disease modeling and repair Johannes Buchner Technical University of Munich | Garching, Germany Molecular chaperones and protein folding Carmen Buchrieser Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Bacterial evolution & host pathogen interactions Ian Chambers MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine | Edinburgh, Transcriptional control of pluripotent cell states United Kingdom Brian Charlesworth University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evolutionary genetics and genomics Deborah Charlesworth University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evolution of sex chromosomes in non-model systems Emmanuelle Charpentier Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung | Regulatory RNAs and proteins in infection Braunschweig, Germany and Umeå University, Sweden biology Philippe Chavrier Institut Curie | Paris, France Cell biology of tumor cell invasion Daniel Choquet Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (IINS) | Glutamate receptor traffic and synaptic Bordeaux, France plasticity Rui M. Costa Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown | Lisbon, Neurobiology of action Portugal Stanislas Dehaene CEA / Saclay | Gif-sur-Yvette, France and Collège de Neuroimaging of human cognitive architectures France | Paris, France Winfried Denk MPI für Neurobiologie | Martinsried, Germany and Watching the brain and tracing its wires HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus | Ashburn, United States Emmanouil Dermitzakis University of Geneva, Switzerland Cellular genetics and genomics Raymond Dolan University College London, United Kingdom Decision making in health and disease Peter Donnelly Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics | Oxford, Genomic discovery in health and disease United Kingdom and University of Oxford, United Kingdom Yadin Dudai Weizmann Institute of Science | Rehovot, Israel and Brain mechanisms of episodic memory New York University, United States Dieter Ebert University of Basel, Switzerland Host-symbiont co-evolution & local adaptation Hans Ellegren Uppsala University, Sweden Avian evolutionary genomics Barry J. Everitt University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Neural and psychological basis of drug addiction Tamás F. Freund Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Functional architecture of cortical microcircuits Academy of Sciences, Hungary Rainer Friedrich Friedrich Miescher Institute | Basel, Switzerland Neuronal circuits and computations Karl J. Friston University College London, United Kingdom The anatomy of inference in the brain Uta Frith University College London, United Kingdom Mechanisms in social cognition

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Members elected in 2014 21 Name Institute Research interest Anne-Claude Gavin European Molecular Biology Laboratory | Heidelberg, Biochemical and chemical approaches to Germany biomolecular networks Sten Grillner Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden Networks in motion – from ion channels to behaviour Ilkka Hanski University of Helsinki, Finland Metapopulation biology and biodiversity research Volker Haucke Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) | Endocytosis and endosomal membrane Berlin, Germany and Freie Universität | Berlin, Germany dynamics Albert J.R. Heck Utrecht University, Netherlands Mass spectroscopy for proteomics & structural biology Peter Hegemann Humboldt University | Berlin, Germany Structure and function of sensory photoreceptors Carsten Janke Institut Curie | Orsay, France Mechanisms and functions of microtubule diversity Jukka Jernvall University of Helsinki, Finland Mammalian evo-devo Mike Jetten Radboud University | Nijmegen, Netherlands and Anaerobic microbiology Delft University of Technology | Delft, Netherlands Henrik Kaessmann University | Lausanne, Switzerland and Swiss Institute Functional evolution of mammalian genomes of Bioinformatics | Lausanne, Switzerland John Kendrick-Jones MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, Cellular functions of myosins in health and United Kingdom disease René F. Ketting Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) | Mainz, Germany Small RNA mediated regulation of gene expression Ole Kiehn Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden Neural circuits controlling movements David Komander MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, Specificity in the ubiquitin system United Kingdom Loeske E.B. Kruuk University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Life history evolution in natural populations Australian National University | Canberra, Australia Gilles Laurent MPI für Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Cortical architecture and function Zoi Lygerou University | Patras, Greece Control over DNA replication in eukaryotic cells Troy W. Margrie MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) | Function and connectivity of neuronal circuits London, United Kingdom and University College London, United Kingdom Michela Matteoli Istituto Clinico Humanitas | Rozzano, Italy and Synaptic protein networks in brain diseases CNR Institute of Neuroscience | Milano, Italy Robert M. May University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ecosystem dynamics, biodiversity and conservation Gil McVean Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics | Oxford, The causes and consequences of genetic United Kingdom variation

22 EMBO Members elected in 2014 EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org Name Institute Research interest Pascal Meier Institute of Cancer Research | London, United Kingdom Cell death and inflammation in cancer Randolf Menzel Freie Universität | Berlin, Germany Learning, memory, navigation and communication Hannah Monyer Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) | GABAergic interneurons and neuronal coding Heidelberg, Germany Richard G.M. Morris University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Neurobiology of learning and memory Instituto de Neurociencias | Alicante, Spain J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia | Norwich, United Kingdom Bacterial metabolism of atmospheric trace gases Marco Muzi-Falconi Università degli Studi | Milano, Italy Maintenance of genome integrity in eukaryotes Stéphane Noselli Institut de Biologie Valrose | Nice, France L/R asymmetry and morphogenesis in Drosophila John O'Keefe University College London, United Kingdom Hippocampus: spatial navigation and memory Isabelle Olivieri Université II | Montpellier, France Population genetics, phylogenetics, evolution Christine A. Orengo University College London, United Kingdom Classifying and predicting protein functions Julian Parkhill Sanger Institute | Cambridge, United Kingdom Bacterial genomics and evolution Josephine Pemberton University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Evolutionary genetics of natural populations Antoine Peters Friedrich Miescher Institute | Basel, Switzerland Chromatin, epigenetics and the mammalian life cycle Lluis Quintana-Murci Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Human genome diversity and adaptation to pathogens Giacomo Rizzolatti Universita | Parma, Italy Cognitive functions of the motor system Sabrina Sabatini Università 'La Sapienza' | Roma, Italy How to maintain continuous root growth Erik Sahai Cancer Research UK London Research Institute | Cancer invasion and the tumour London, United Kingdom microenvironment Vincent Savolainen Imperial College | London, United Kingdom Biodiversity genomics Christopher Schofield University of Oxford, United Kingdom Regulation of protein biosynthesis by oxygen Wolfram Schultz University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Neuroscience of reward and decision making Erin M. Schuman MPI für Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Cell biology of neuronal synapses Peter Schuster University | Vienna, Austria and Santa Fe Institute | Molecular evolution of asexual species Santa Fe, United States Giorgio Scita IFOM – European Institute of Oncology | Milano, Italy Mechanisms of tumor cell migration and and Università degli Studi | Milano, Italy invasion Idan Segev The Hebrew University | Jerusalem, Israel Computations in neurons and neuronal networks Michael Sieweke Centre d'Immunologie | Marseille, France and Stem cell and macrophage biology Max-Delbrück-Centrum | Berlin, Germany

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Members elected in 2014 23 Name Institute Research interest Wolf Singer MPI für Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Analysis of network dynamics Michael Sixt Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST) | Morphodynamics of immune cells Klosterneuburg, Austria Peter Somogyi University of Oxford, United Kingdom Network dynamics of the brain – the chronocircuit Haim Sompolinsky The Hebrew University | Jerusalem, Israel and Computational principles of brain function Harvard University | Cambridge, United States Christian Spahn Charité - Universitätsmedizin | Berlin, Germany Structure and function of macromolecular machines Karen Steel King's College | London, United Kingdom Genetics and pathology of deafness Christoph M. Tang University of Oxford, United Kingdom Bacterial pathogenesis and vaccine development Daniel Vaulot Station Biologique | Roscoff, France Diversity and ecology of eukaryotic phytoplankton Scott Waddell University of Oxford, United Kingdom Memory, motivation and neural transposition Andreas Wagner University of Zurich, Switzerland and Evolutionary adaptation and innovation in Santa Fe Institute | Santa Fe, United States molecular systems E. Gerhart H. Wagner Uppsala University, Sweden and Regulatory RNA in bacteria: mechanisms and SciLifeLab | Uppsala, Sweden biology Markus Wahl Freie Universität | Berlin, Germany Mechanisms of molecular ribonucleoprotein machines Nina Wedell University of Exeter, United Kingdom Sex, conflict and selfish genes Stuart A. West University of Oxford, United Kingdom Social evolution

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Scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the life sciences, and reside in countries other than the member states, are nominated and elected annually by the membership. The membership actively guides the implementation of the many EMBO initiatives offered to scientists by serving on the EMBO Council, Committees and Advisory Editorial Boards. 124 of the world’s leading life scientists are EMBO Associate Members.

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

Tomas Kirchhausen Harvard Medical School | Boston, United States and Membrane traffic, endocytosis & organelle Children's Hospital Boston | Boston, United States biogenesis

Sandra L. Schmid University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Mechanisms regulating clathrin-mediated Dallas, United States endocytosis

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

Xiaodong Wang National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS) | Biochemical pathways of cell death in mammals Beijing, China

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

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Bernd Pulverer Head Thomas Lemberger The EMBO Journal Deputy Head

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

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

Reuven Agami Susan M Gasser Guido Kroemer Nikolaus Pfanner Gerrit van Meer * left EMBO in 2014 Andrés Aguilera Holger Gerhardt Thomas Kunkel Jonathon Pines Isabelle Vernos † Alan Hall passed away Dario Alessi Pierre Gönczy Karim Labib Olaf Pongs Jörg Vogel on 3 May 2015 Geneviève Almouzni Magdalena Götz Achim Leutz Anthony Pugsley Olivier Voinnet Johan Auwerx Ingrid Grummt Joachim Lingner Peter J Ratcliffe Karen Vousden David Barford Crisanto Gutierrez Bernard Malissen Caetano Reis e Sousa Gabriel Waksman Denise P Barlow Christian Haass Javier Martinez Anne Ridley Michael Way Facundo Batista Alan Hall† Joan Massagué Marina Rodnina Stephen C West David Baulcombe Michael N Hall Iain W Mattaj David Ron Eric Westhof Anton J Berns Randy Hall Marjori Matzke Helen R Saibil Dale Wigley Cedric Blanpain Stephen C Harrison Ira Mellman Philippe J Sansonetti Alfred Wittinghofer Chris Bowler F Ulrich Hartl Marco Milán Dirk Schübeler Dieter H. Wolf Erik Boye Carl-Philipp Heisenberg Sean Morrison Paul Schulze-Lefert Richard Wood Bernd Bukau Ari H Helenius Jorge Moscat Luca Scorrano Jeff Wrana Javier Caceres Kristian Helin Shmuel Muallem Bertrand Séraphin Pico Caroni Regine Hengge Sean Munro Michael Sheetz Chief Editor Christine E Clayton Nobutaka Hirokawa Kiyoshi Nagai David J Sherratt Bernd Pulverer Hans Clevers Marc Hochstrasser Christof Niehrs Benny Shilo Daniela Corda Tim Hunt M Angela Nieto Roberto Sitia Editors Patrick Cramer Tony Hunter Bernd Nilius Austin Smith David del Alamo Pietro V De Camilli Ed Hurt Eisuke Nishida Harald Stenmark Karin Dumstrei Bart De Strooper Nancy E Hynes Poul Nissen Thomas Surrey Alexander Kohlmaier* Ivan Dikic Elisa Izaurralde Paul Nurse Masatoshi Takeichi Andrea Leibfried Vishva Dixit Stephen P Jackson Andre Nussenzweig Sharon Tooze Anne Nielsen Giulio F Draetta Reinhard Jahn Moshe Oren Laszlo Tora Thomas Martin Eilers Roland Kanaar Tom Owen-Hughes Hiroki Ueda Schwarz-Romond Jeff Errington V. Narry Kim Marcus E Peter Frank Uhlmann Hartmut Vodermaier Reinhard Fässler Ruediger Klein Matthias Peter Daan van Aalten

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EMBO reports

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

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Reuven Agami Jeff Errington Joachim Lingner Joseph Puglisi David Tollervey Editors Andrés Aguilera Jonathan Frampton Trevor Lithgow Michael Rape Gabriel Waksman Holger Breithaupt Dario Alessi Mike Gale Manyuan Long Peter J. Ratcliffe David Wallach Samuel Caddick Manuela Baccarini Holger Gerhardt Jiri Lukas Felix Rey Ming-Bo Wang Nonia Pariente Fredrik Bäckhed Cayetano Gonzalez Michael Malim Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Yoshi Watanabe Barbara Pauly Vytas Bankaitis Lawrence Gostin Bernard Malissen Anne Ridley Michael Way Esther Schnapp Facundo Batista Magdalena Götz Rob Martienssen Arie Rip Beverly Wendland David Baulcombe Jean Gruenberg Javier Martinez Marina Rodnina Stephen C. West Roger Beachy Leonard Guarente René Medema Pam Ronald Jerry Workman Peter B. Becker Crisanto Gutierrez Pascal Meier Michael Rosbash Meng-Chao Yao David Bentley Ilkka Hanski Ira Mellman Eytan Ruppin Seppo Ylä-Herttuala Anton J. Berns Christian Hardtke Marco Milán Helen R. Saibil Hong Zhang Lutz Bornman Stephen C. Harrison Randall Moon Naruya Saitou Jiangzhi Zhang Michel Bouvier Daniel Hartl Vamsi Mootha Philippe J. Sansonetti Pico Caroni Bassem Hassan Sean Morrison Gerald Schatten Special Advisors Timothy Caulfield Volker Haucke Jorge Moscat Claus Scheidereit Arthur Caplan James J. Collins Yuehui He Andrea Musacchio Ueli Schibler Lars Schaade Barbara Conradt Kristian Helin László Nagy Roded Sharan Jeremy Sugarman Elizabeth Craig Regina Hengge M. Angela Nieto Benny Shilo Hanna-Marja Voipio Beverly Davidson Tony Hunter Bernd Nilius Haruhiko Siomi Axel Wolff Mario de Bono Elisa Izaurralde Poul Nissen Titia Sixma Raymond Zilinskas Gianni Del Sal Rudolf Jaenisch Thomas Nyström Bruce Spiegelman Claude Desplan Cynthia Kenyon Moshe Oren Nicholas Steneck Chief Editor Ivan Dikic Batsheva Kerem Norbert Perrimon Mark Stoneking Howy Jacobs Catherine Drennan Daniel Klionsky Matthias Peter Michael Sussman Duanqing Pei Karim Labib Stefano Piccolo Jesper Svejstrup Daniel Durocher Thomas Langer Jonathon Pines Nektarios Tavernarakis Zvulun Elazar Roland Lill Kathrin Plath Dan Tawfik

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Molecular Systems Biology

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Julie Ahringer Jan Korbel Peter Sorger Charles Auffray Nevan J. Krogan Igor Stagljar Johan Auwerx Galit Lahav Lars Steinmetz Gary Bader Doron Lancet Janet Thornton Ewan Birney Rune Linding Masaru Tomita Tom Blundell Andrew J. Link Marc Vidal Michael Boutros Andrew Millar Albertha (Marian) Walhout Thomas S. Deisboeck Vamsi Mootha Jun Wang Roland Eils Jeremy Nicholson Hans V. Westerhoff Jan Ellenberg Garry Nolan Lothar Willmitzer Michael Elowitz Béla Novák John Yates James Ferrell Duncan Odom Lingchong You Alan Fersht Stephen Oliver Marino Zerial Stan Fields Alexander van Oudenaarden Eileen Furlong Bernhard Palsson Chief Editor Anne-Claude Gavin Norbert Perrimon Thomas Lemberger Ronald Germain Joshua Rabinowitz Mark Gerstein Nikolaus Rajewsky Senior Editors Anne-Claude Gingras Rama Ranganathan Ruedi Aebersold Alexander Hoffmann Aviv Regev Peer Bork Frank Holstege Uwe Sauer George Church Laurence D. Hurst Eric Schadt Leroy Hood Terence Hwa Luis Serrano Edison Liu Trey Ideker Lucy Shapiro Dirk Inzé Benny Shilo Editor Sung Hou Kim Pamela Silver Maria Polychronidou Boris Kholodenko Christina Smolke Hiroaki Kitano Michael Snyder

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EMBO Molecular Medicine

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Adriano Aguzzi Doug Hilton Richard Schilsky Chief Editor Kari Alitalo Jan Hoeijmakers Nicholas J. Schork Stefanie Dimmeler Russ. B. Altman Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil Yosef Shiloh Stylianos Antonarakis Nancy E. Hynes Gerald Shulman Senior Editors Alan Ashworth Alain Israel Austin G. Smith Dario Alessi Karen B. Avraham Barbara B. Kahn Bruce Spiegelman Giulio Cossu Andrea Ballabio Cynthia Kenyon Deepak Srivastava Uta Francke Yann Barrandon Robert S. Kerbel Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara Fred H. Gage Anton Berns Jean-Pierre Kinet Giulio Superti-Furga Matthias Hentze Cédric Blanpain Jonathan K. C. Knowles Elaine I. Tuomanen Gökhan S. Hotamişlıgil Clara D. Bloomfield Guido Kroemer Axel Ullrich Joan Massagué Pico Caroni Andreas E. Kulozik Veronica van Heyningen Philippe Sansonetti Vivian G. Cheung Christopher J. Marshall Inder M. Verma Bart de Strooper Kenneth R. Chien Anthony P. Monaco Simon Wain-Hobson Hans Clevers Salvador Moncada Gerd Walz Editors Ralph DeBerardinis Pierluigi Nicotera Fiona Watt Roberto Buccione Elisabetta Dejana Bernd Nilius Christian Weber Céline Carret Peter Dirks Stephen O’Rahilly Lars Zender Oliver Eickelberg Eric N. Olson Martin Eilers Albert Osterhaus Marc Feldmann Manolis Pasparakis Alain Fischer Christine Petit Philippe Froguel Kornelia Polyak Gerardo Gamba Rino Rappuoli Martin Gleave Peter J. Ratcliffe Frank G. Grosveld Gideon Rechavi Christian Haass Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli Carl-Henrik Heldin Nadia Rosenthal

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

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EMBO Long-Term Fellowships: Statistics Applications and awards 1977– 2014 Year Applications Awards Success rate % Year Applications Awards Success rate % 2014 1648 247 15 1991 571 139 24 2013 1645 185 11 1990 526 123 23 2012 1555 247 16 1989 460 118 26 2011 1633 268 16 1988 455 141 31 2010 1668 275 16 1987 383 120 31 2009 1332 258 19 1986 333 90 27 2008 1218 215 18 1985 340 92 27 2007 1288 212 16 1984 305 112 37 2006 1232 222 18 1983 294 103 35 2005 1236 198 16 1982 276 91 33 2004 1137 163 14 1981 274 111 41 2003 1080 164 15 1980 242 108 45 2002 790 178 22 1979 254 101 40 2001 645 147 23 1978 235 101 43 2000 707 155 22 1977 236 94 40 1999 830 170 20 1998 790 144 18 1997 831 185 22 1996 898 160 18 1995 877 147 17 1994 806 176 22 1993 739 199 27 1992 626 142 23

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

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 31 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Lercher, Austrian University of Oxford, Carlomagno, European Molecular The molecular mechanism of nucleosome Lukas United Kingdom Teresa Biology Laboratory, assembly by histone chaperones Heidelberg, Germany Gehart, Austrian Institute of Genetics and Clevers, Hans C. Hubrecht Institute, Time-resolved transcriptional profiling of Helmuth Molecular and Cellular Utrecht, The Netherlands enteroendocrine fate determination in the Biology, Illkirch, France intestine Walzthöni, Austrian Swiss Federal Institute Gaul, Ulrike Ludwig Maximilian Dissecting the Drosophila core promoter Thomas of Technology Zurich, University Munich, Switzerland Germany Hellerschmied- Austrian Research Institute of Crews, Craig Yale University, New Analysis of Golgi stress response and quality Jelinek, Molecular Pathology, Haven, United States control system Doris Vienna, Austria Claeys, Belgian Flanders Interuniversity Jackson, David Cold Spring Harbor The effects of drought on maize Hannes Institute for Laboratory, United States inflorescence development Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium Vos, Belgian Flanders Interuniversity Klein, Christine Institute of Clinical and The implication of lipids in Parkinson's Melissa Institute for Molecular Neurogenetics, disease Biotechnology, Catholic University of Lübeck, University of Leuven, Germany Belgium Kass Youssef, Belgian Institute of Nieto, Angela M. Institute of Neuroscience, Cancer cell plasticity and heterogeneity Khalil Interdisciplinary Research Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain in tumor progression: Defining functional in Molecular Human programs of EMT factors in breast cancer Biology, Free University of models Brussels, Belgium Van Den Ameele, Belgian Institute of Brand, Andrea Wellcome Trust/Cancer Metabolic reprogramming during Jelle Interdisciplinary Research Research UK Gurdon neurogenesis: Roles for the Notch pathway in Molecular Human Institute, Cambridge, Biology, Free University of United Kingdom Brussels, Belgium Vanwalleghem, Belgian Institute of Molecular Scott, Ethan The University of Functional links among cerebellum, optic Gilles Biology and Medicine, Queensland, Brisbane, tectum and thalamus and their implication Gosselies, Belgium Australia in sensory integration De Vadder, Belgian French Institute of Health Backhed, Fredrik University of Gothenburg, Gut microbiota influence on central Filipe and Medical Research, Sweden regulation of energy homeostasis Lyon, France MacVicar, British University of Bristol, Langer, Thomas CECAD Research Center, The mitochondrial response to stress: Thomas United Kingdom Cologne, Germany Mitochondrial dynamics regulation by OMA1 activation and OPA1 processing Dorrell, British University of Cambridge, Bowler, Chris Institute of Biology of Evolution and functional significance of Richard United Kingdom École Normale Supérieure, connected chloroplast and mitochondrial Paris, France electron transport pathways in diatom algae

32 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Rudd, British University of Sussex, Helleday, Thomas Karolinska Institutet, Role of Y-family polymerases in oxidised Sean Brighton, United Kingdom Stockholm, Sweden dNTP pool-induced genome instability Rousseau, British Institute of Genetics and Bertolotti, Anne Medical Research Council Identification of proteins rescuing Adrien Molecular and Cellular Laboratory of Molecular proteasome defects as a strategy to clear Biology, Illkirch, France Biology, Cambridge, misfolded proteins United Kingdom Razzell, British University of Bristol, Zallen, Jennifer Rockefeller Research The role of tension in Hippo pathway William United Kingdom Laboratories, New York, signaling United States Thompson, British University of York, Paulson, James The Scripps Research Hemagglutinin specificity as a risk factor in Andrew United Kingdom Institute, La Jolla, United the emergence of new pandemic influenza States Harris, British University of Cambridge, Jacobsen, University of California Dissecting mechanisms of DNA methylation Clifford United Kingdom Steven E. Los Angeles, United States control using CRISPR-dCas9 targeting Ward, British Cancer Research UK Gilad, Yoav University of Chicago, A comparative study of the effects of hypoxia Michelle Cambridge Institute, United States on cardiomyocytes in primates United Kingdom Reynell, British University College London, Robitaille, Richard University of Montreal, Investigation into the role of astrocytes in Clare United Kingdom Canada defining neuronal plasticity in the barrel cortex Erceg, Croatian European Molecular Wu, Ting Harvard Medical School, Dynamics of allele-specific (homolog- Jelena Biology Laboratory, Boston, United States specific) chromosome organization during Heidelberg, Germany Drosophila embryogenesis Slyskova, Czech Academy of Sciences Vermeulen, Wim Erasmus University Genome-wide screening for synthetic lethal Jana of the Czech Republic, Medical Center, genes in colorectal cancer Prague, Czech Republic Rotterdam, The Netherlands Zimmermann, Czech The Rockefeller University, Durocher, Daniel Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Unraveling the molecular networks of DNA Michal New York, United States Research Institute, Mount double strand break repair pathway choice Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada Simicek, Czech Flanders Interuniversity Komander, David Medical Research Council Functional characterization of ubiquitin Michal Institute for Laboratory of Molecular linkage-specific ovarian tumor Biotechnology, Catholic Biology, Cambridge, deubiquitinases University of Leuven, United Kingdom Belgium Storm, Danish Max Planck Institute Cuervo, Ana Maria Albert Einstein College The role of chaperone-mediated autophagy Nadia for Biology of Ageing, of Medicine, New York, in tau proteotoxicity Cologne, Germany United States Gregersen, Danish Max Delbrück Center Svejstrup, Cancer Research UK, Elucidating the functional role of novel Lea Haarup for Molecular Medicine, Jesper Q. London Research Institute, factors involved in the transcription-related Berlin, Germany South Mimms, United DNA damage response Kingdom

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 33 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Peuscher, Dutch The Netherlands Cancer West, Stephen C. Cancer Research UK, Structural and biochemical characterization Marieke Institute, Amsterdam, London Research Institute, of pre-recombination complexes The Netherlands South Mimms, United Kingdom Stadhouders, Dutch Erasmus University Graf, Thomas Centre for Genomic The dynamics of the mammalian epigenome Ralph Medical Center, Regulation, Barcelona, during transcription factor-induced cell fate Rotterdam, Spain conversion The Netherlands Schmidt, Dutch University Medical Center Polleux, Franck Columbia University, New Shaping the human brain: The role of Ewoud Utrecht, The Netherlands York, United States SRGAP2C in the evolution of cortical networks Verweij, Dutch Cancer Center Raposo, Graça Curie Institute, Paris, Revealing the physiology of exosome Frederik Amsterdam, France secretion in vivo by a 4D-imaging approach The Netherlands Bronkhorst, Dutch Radboud University Ketting, René F. Institute of Molecular Epigenetic silencing events during germline Walter Nijmegen Medical Centre, Biology, Mainz, Germany development in vertebrates The Netherlands Van Galen, Dutch The Netherlands Cancer Bernstein, Bradley Massachusetts General Targeting epigenetically heterogeneous Peter Institute, Amsterdam, Hospital, Harvard acute myeloid leukemia cells The Netherlands Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States Vos, Dutch University of California Cramer, Patrick Max Planck Institute for Determining the molecular architecture of Seychelle Berkeley, United States Biophysical Chemistry, mammalian RNA polymerase II-P-TEFb in Göttingen, Germany complex with HIV Tat-Tar Putker, Dutch University Medical Center O'Neill, John Medical Research Council Out of sync: Unravelling the reciprocal Marrit Utrecht, The Netherlands Laboratory of Molecular regulation of the metabolic circadian rhythm Biology, Cambridge, and tumour cell metabolism United Kingdom Schoof, Dutch Technical University Dick, John Princess Margaret Cancer Global characterization of the quantitative Erwin of Denmark, Lyngby, Centre, Toronto, Canada proteome landscapes underlying human Denmark hematopoietic and leukemic stem cell lineage commitment Van Der Goot, Dutch University Medical Center Kopito, Ron Stanford University, The role of N-glycans and ER lectins in Annemieke Groningen, United States protein triage in the early secretory pathway The Netherlands Velema, Dutch University of Groningen, Kool, Eric T. Stanford University, A sensor for a DNA-repair enzyme as a Willem The Netherlands United States molecular diagnostic tool to guide cancer treatment Feng, Dutch Utrecht University, Kornmann, Benoit Swiss Federal Institute When mitochondria are under pressure Qian The Netherlands of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

34 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Weijts, Dutch Utrecht University, Traver, David University of California Deciphering the role of Notch signalling in Bart The Netherlands San Diego, La Jolla, the formation of hematopoietic stem cells United States and initiation of leukemia Van Den Elzen, Dutch Institute of Genetics and Giraldez, Antonio Yale University, New Identification of factors promoting survival Antonia Molecular and Cellular Haven, United States of anoxic conditions in zebrafish embryos Biology, Illkirch, France Blot, French Institute of Biology of Hofer, Sonja Biozentrum, University of How higher-order thalamocortical pathways Antonin École Normale Supérieure, Basel, Switzerland influence sensory processing in primary Paris, France visual cortex Tsai, French FOM Institute AMOLF, Bassereau, Curie Institute, Paris, Membrane-ezrin-actin interactions Feng-Ching Amsterdam, Patricia France mediated by ezrin binding proteins and The Netherlands I-BAR domain proteins in reconstituted systems Wartel, French National Center for Typas, Athanasios European Molecular Deciphering the molecular machinery Morgane Scientific Research, Biology Laboratory, governing peptidoglycan biogenesis in Marseille, France Heidelberg, Germany bacteria using global and targeted molecular approaches Brunet, French Institute of Microbiology Rudner, David Harvard Medical School, Coordinating cell wall synthesis and Yannick of the Mediterranean, Boston, United States hydrolysis during bacterial growth Marseille, France Bonnay, French University of Strasbourg, Knoblich, Jürgen Institute of Molecular Characterization of metabolic factors François France Biotechnology, Vienna, required for tumor maintenance in Austria Drosophila Bianchi, French University of Sussex, Wiman, Klas Karolinska University Generation of a panel of novel cellular Julie Brighton, United Kingdom Hospital, Stockholm, models to investigate p53 mutation Sweden heterogeneity and oncogenic properties Monniaux, French Laboratory of Cellular Hay, Angela Max Planck Institute for Genetic and developmental determinants of Marie Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding Research, petal number variation between Arabidopsis Grenoble, France Cologne, Germany thaliana and Cardamine hirsuta Bonnet, French Institute of Genetics and Müller, Jürg Max Planck Institute of Quantitative analyses of the dynamics of Jacques Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Martinsried, Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 during fly Biology, Illkirch, France Germany embryogenesis Tamoutounour, French Center of Immunology Belkaid, Yasmine National Institute of Role of microbiota in the epigenetic Samira of Marseille-Luminy, Allergy and Infectious regulation of macrophages and dendritic Marseille, France Diseases, Bethesda, cells and consequences for skin homeostasis United States Pouchelon, French University of Geneva, Fishell, Gordon New York University The activity-dependent regulation of cortical Gabrielle Switzerland Langone Medical Center, interneuron cell death during development United States Lecland, French Institute for Research in Merdes, Andreas Paul Sabatier University, The role of microtubules in skin barrier Nicolas Biomedicine, Barcelona, Toulouse, France function Spain

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 35 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Ivanovitch, French University College London, Torres, Miguel Spanish National Centre Cellular basis of early heart morphogenesis Kenzo United Kingdom for Cardiovascular in mouse Research, Madrid, Spain Eskandarian, French Pasteur Institute, Paris, McKinney, John Swiss Federal Institute Characterizing bacterial phenotypic Haig Alexander France of Technology Lausanne, heterogeneity using atomic force microscopy Switzerland coupled with fluorescence microscopy in real-time Plucain, French University of Exeter, Velicer, Gregory Swiss Federal Institute Genetic and physiological bases of Jessica United Kingdom of Technology Zurich, the evolution of kin discrimination in Switzerland Myxococcus xanthus Barbet-Massin, French École Normale Supérieure, Reif, Bernd Technical University Structure and dynamics of ribosome Emeline Lyon, France of Munich, Garching, associated factors and nascent chains by Germany solid-state NMR spectroscopy Eckersley-Maslin, French Cold Spring Harbor Reik, Wolf The Babraham Institute, Novel screen for epigenetic regulators of Melanie Laboratory, United States Cambridge, totipotency United Kingdom Broutier, French Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, Huch, Meritxell Wellcome Trust/Cancer Human "mini-liver" stem cell culture Laura France Research UK Gurdon systems: From mechanisms behind liver Institute, Cambridge, cancer origin and recurrence to new United Kingdom therapeutic treatments Roques, French University of Montpellier Tewari, Rita The University of Centrins and cell division in the malaria Magali 2, France Nottingham, parasite United Kingdom Jacquemet, French University of Manchester, Ivaska, Johanna Turku Centre for Targeting invasive filopodia during cancer Guillaume United Kingdom Biotechnology, Finland cell invasion Montellier, French Albert Bonniot Institute, Sassone-Corsi, University of California Circadian transcriptional reprogramming in Emilie La Tronche, France Paolo Irvine, United States development of cancer Paque, French University of Picardie Jules Weijers, Dolf Wageningen University, Unraveling the action mechanism of the Sébastien Verne, Amiens, France The Netherlands auxin response transcription factors Sayou, French University of Grenoble, Tollervey, David Wellcome Trust Centre for Characterizing the lncRNA-mRNA Camille France Cell Biology, University of interactome Edinburgh, United Kingdom Garreau De French Institute of Genetics and Yin, Peng Wyss Institute for Engineering DNA frameworks for Loubresse, Molecular and Cellular Biologically Inspired cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray Nicolas Biology, Illkirch, France Engineering, Harvard crystallography University, Boston, United States Wild, German Institute of Plant Laux, Thomas Albert Ludwig University Stem cell regulation in the shoot meristem Michael Molecular Biology, Freiburg, Germany of Arabidopsis thaliana: The role of the Strasbourg, France spatial restriction of the F-box protein LEAF CURLING RESPONSIVENESS (LCR) by the micro RNA394

36 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Kinkelin, German Ludwig Maximilian Diffley, John F.X. Cancer Research UK, Mechanism of MCM2-7 double-hexamer Kerstin University Munich, London Research Institute, formation during initiation of DNA Germany South Mimms, replication in budding yeast United Kingdom Knoche, German Charité-University Louis, Matthieu Centre for Genomic Processing of naturalistic stimuli by the Elena Medicine Berlin, Germany Regulation, Barcelona, peripheral olfactory system of the Drosophila Spain larva Bocklisch, German University of Geneva, Larkum, Matthew Charité-University Synaptic plasticity mechanisms underlying Christina Switzerland Medicine Berlin, Germany memory consolidation Soyk, German Swiss Federal Institute Lippman, Zachary Cold Spring Harbor Identification and molecular Sebastian of Technology Zurich, Laboratory, United States characterization of novel factors regulating Switzerland meristem maturation and branching in tomato Erdel, German German Cancer Research Greene, Eric Columbia University Dissecting the formation of histone Fabian Center, Heidelberg, and the Howard Hughes methylation domains on chromatin curtains Germany Medical Institute, New York, United States Hasenfuss, German Spanish National Cancer Spiegelman, Dana-Farber Cancer Molecular mechanisms linking cholesterol Sebastian Research Centre, Madrid, Bruce M. Institute, Boston, metabolism to skeletal muscle function Spain United States Waszak, German Swiss Federal Institute Korbel, Jan European Molecular Integrative analysis of germline and somatic Sebastian of Technology Lausanne, Biology Laboratory, genetic variation in 2000 cancer patients Switzerland Heidelberg, Germany Linneweber, German University of Cambridge, Hassan, Bassem Flanders Interuniversity Molecular mechanisms of neuronal Gerit United Kingdom Institute for connectivity – The synaptic code for Biotechnology, Catholic variability and stereotypy University of Leuven, Belgium Kassube, German Howard Hughes Medical Thomä, Nicolas Friedrich Miescher Molecular architecture and mechanism of Susanne Institute, Berkeley, Institute for Biomedical the Fanconi anemia core complex United States Research, Basel, Switzerland Herhaus, German University of Dundee, Dikic, Ivan Goethe University School The role of linear ubiquitin signalling in Lina United Kingdom of Medicine, Frankfurt am tumour-stromal crosstalk Main, Germany Kohl, German Medical Research Council Dulac, Catherine Harvard University, Neural circuits underlying parental behavior Johannes Laboratory of Molecular Cambridge, United States Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom Kretzschmar, German King's College London, Clevers, Hans C. Hubrecht Institute, Modelling cancer immunomodulation in Kai United Kingdom Utrecht, The Netherlands epithelial organoid cultures

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 37 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Heinrich, German Friedrich Miescher Weis, Karsten Institute of Biochemistry, Quantitative single molecule analysis of Stephanie Laboratory of the Max Swiss Federal Institute mRNA transport dynamics Planck Society, Tübingen, of Technology Zurich, Germany Switzerland Hondele, German Ludwig Maximilian Weis, Karsten Institute of Biochemistry, Visualizing post-transcriptional control of Maria University Munich, Swiss Federal Institute mRNA turnover and P-body formation by Germany of Technology Zurich, light microscopy and X-ray crystallography Switzerland Kummer, German Center for Molecular Ban, Nenad Institute of Molecular A structural approach to determine the Eva Biology, University Biology and Biophysics, function of mitochondrial IF2 in mRNA Heidelberg, Germany Swiss Federal Institute binding and start codon recognition during of Technology Zurich, translation initiation Switzerland Mehnert, German Max Delbrück Center Aebersold, Ruedi Institute of Molecular Modular proteome organization and the Martin for Molecular Medicine, Systems Biology, Swiss genotype-phenotype transition: Cancer Berlin, Germany Federal Institute of mutations that alter the composition and Technology Zurich, function of kinase complexes Switzerland Renkawitz, German Max Planck Institute of Sixt, Michael Institute of Science Molecular and system level view of immune Jörg Biochemistry, Martinsried, and Technology, cell migration Germany Klosterneuburg, Austria Milles, German European Molecular Blackledge, Institute of Structural Plasticity of intrinsically disordered Sigrid Biology Laboratory, Martin Biology, Grenoble, France paramyxoviral phosphoproteins: A multi- Heidelberg, Germany scale study of disorder in measles virus Rognoni, German Max Planck Institute of Watt, Fiona King's College London, Analysis of dermal fibroblast subpopulations Emanuel Biochemistry, Martinsried, United Kingdom in different tumor in response to aberrant Germany epidermal Wnt-signaling Sievers, German Swiss Federal Institute of Bernstein, Bradley Massachusetts General Identifying regulatory circuits determining Cem Technology Zurich, Basel, Hospital, Harvard glioblastoma subtypes and intratumor Switzerland Medical School and Broad heterogeneity Institute, Boston, United States Link, German University of Würzburg, Jantsch, Verena Max F. Perutz The role of LEM-domain proteins in DNA Jana Germany Laboratories, Vienna, damage repair Austria Hausmann, German The Netherlands Cancer Vestweber, Max Planck Institute for Crossing barriers: The role of autotaxin in Jens Institute, Amsterdam, Dietmar Molecular Biomedicine, leukocyte extravasation The Netherlands Münster, Germany Wilfling, German Yale University, New Jentsch, Stefan Max Planck Institute of Identification and characterization of yeast Florian Haven, United States Biochemistry, Martinsried, ubiquitin-Atg8 adaptors Germany

38 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Boland, German Max Planck Institute for Barford, David Medical Research Council Molecular basis for securin and cyclin Andreas Developmental Biology, Laboratory of Molecular ubiquitination by the anaphase-promoting Tübingen, Germany Biology, Cambridge, complex (APC/C) United Kingdom Tischer, German University of Constance, Schuh, Melina Medical Research Council Functional analysis of a new phosphatase Thomas Germany Laboratory of Molecular required for meiotic resumption in mouse Biology, Cambridge, oocytes United Kingdom Muerdter, German Cold Spring Harbor Stark, Alexander Research Institute of A functional map of enhancer dependencies Felix Laboratory, United States Molecular Pathology, on transcriptional cofactors Vienna, Austria Jäger, German German Cancer Research Snyder, Michael Stanford University School Large-scale drug response phenotyping Natalie Center, Heidelberg, of Medicine, United States using the 1000 Genomes Project cell lines Germany Mayer, German Institute of Infection Nussenzweig, The Rockefeller University, Genome-wide analysis of DNA damage in Christian T. Immunology, TWINCORE, Michel New York, United States germinal center B cells in vivo Hannover, Germany Stauch, German European Molecular Cherezov, Vadim The Scripps Research Development of photoinducible chemical Benjamin Biology Laboratory – Institute, La Jolla, switches for the time-resolved structural European Bioinformatics United States investigation of protein conformational Institute, Hinxton, changes upon ligand binding using X-ray United Kingdom free-electron laser radiation Barakat, German Erasmus University Chambers, Ian The University of Causes and consequences of pluripotency Stefan Medical Center, Edinburgh, gene regulatory network component Rotterdam, United Kingdom heterogeneity The Netherlands Posor, German Leibniz Institute for Vanhaesebroeck, University College London, Characterisation of the signalling and York Molecular Pharmacology, Bart United Kingdom physiological roles of the class II PI3K Berlin, Germany isoforms, with focus on PI3K- C2α Daubner, German Institute of Molecular Alessi, Dario University of Dundee, A simplified system to study regulation of the Gerrit Biology and Biophysics, United Kingdom WNK-signalling pathway Zurich, Switzerland Brandt, German University of California Hothorn, Michael University of Geneva, Molecular insights into plant stem cell Benjamin San Diego, La Jolla, Switzerland maintenance by peptide hormone receptor United States kinases Erdmann, German University of Copenhagen, Cavicchioli, University of New South Influence of virus-host interaction on Susanne Denmark Ricardo Wales, Sydney, Australia microbial community dynamics of a hypersaline system in Antarctica Schulz, German Ludwig Maximilian Bodenmiller, University of Zurich, Macrophages gone wrong – Targeted Daniel University Munich, Bernd Switzerland signaling network modulation to reprogram Germany tumor-associated-macrophages to fight cancer

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 39 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Banisch, German Center for Molecular Gilboa, Lilach Weizmann Institute of Uncovering somatic control of germ line Torsten Biology of Inflammation, Science, Rehovot, Israel stem cell biology Münster, Germany Gruhn, German Institute of Molecular Surani, M. Azim Wellcome Trust/Cancer Mechanistic analysis of Blimp1 and Prdm14 Wolfram Herbert Biology, Mainz, Germany Research UK Gurdon in epigenetic gene regulation Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Kara, Greek University College London, Hyman, Bradley Harvard Medical School, Assessment of the prionoid hypothesis as a Eleanna United Kingdom Boston, United States substrate for the propagation of α-synuclein pathology Karakasilioti, Greek Institute of Molecular Brüning, Jens C. Max Planck Institute for The aging hypothalamus: A role for DNA Ismene Biology and Metabolism Research, damage responses in metabolic disease Biotechnology, Heraklion, Cologne, Germany Greece Konstantinides, Greek Institute of Molecular Desplan, Claude New York University, A machine-learning computational model of Nikolaos Biology and United States the development of Drosophila motion and Biotechnology, Heraklion, color vision processing centers Greece Velimezi, Greek National and Kapodistrian Loizou, Joanna Research Center for Characterization of the ATM signaling Georgia University of Athens, Molecular Medicine of pathway in response to replication stress Greece the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria Kyritsis, Greek Dresden University of Beattie, Michael University of California The role of inflammation in central nervous Nikolaos Technology, Germany San Francisco, system injuries: From zebrafish to mammals United States Doumpas, Greek German Cancer Research Basler, Konrad University of Zurich, TCF independent outputs of Wnt signaling Nikolaos Center, Heidelberg, Switzerland Germany Symmons, Hungarian European Molecular Yvert, Gael École Normale Supérieure, Human genetics at the single-cell level: Orsolya Biology Laboratory, Lyon, France Studying the determinants of cell-to-cell Heidelberg, Germany heterogeneity Toth-Petroczy, Hungarian Weizmann Institute of Marks, Debora S Harvard Medical School, Alternative protein conformations Agnes Science, Rehovot, Israel Boston, United States determined by evolutionary couplings from genomic sequencing Banreti, Hungarian Eotvos Lorand University, Meier, Pascal The Institute of Cancer Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of apoptosis- Agnes Budapest, Hungary Research, London, induced compensatory proliferation (AiP) United Kingdom Doherty, Irish National University of De Magalhães, University of Liverpool, Identification of genetic and molecular Aoife Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland João Pedro United Kingdom mechanisms that impact age-related cancer susceptibility and progression Marianovich, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Frenette, Paul Albert Einstein College Elucidating mechanisms controlling ageing Maria Science, Rehovot, Israel of Medicine, New York, of the haematopoietic stem cell niche United States

40 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Livneh, Israeli The Hebrew University of Lowell, Bradford Beth Israel Deaconess A neural circuit for hunger-induced changes Yoav Jerusalem, Israel Medical Center, Boston, in the representation of food-related cues United States Nachmani, Israeli The Hebrew University of Pandolfi, Pier Beth Israel Deaconess RBPs control of the tumor repressor gene Daphna Jerusalem, Israel Paolo Medical Center, Boston, PTEN and of PTEN-ceRNA crosstalk United States Baruch, Israeli The Hebrew University of Marban, Eduardo Cedars-Sinai Medical Exploring the therapeutic effect of Moshe Jerusalem, Israel Center, Los Angeles, cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) United States exosomes and design of these exosomes for intravenous administration Hagai, Israeli University of California Teichmann, European Molecular Evolution of transcriptional regulation in Tzachi San Francisco, Sarah A. Biology Laboratory – innate immunity United States European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom Resnik, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Polley, Daniel Harvard Medical School, Homeostatic modifications in GABA- Jennifer Science, Rehovot, Israel Boston, United States inhibitory circuits enable sound processing after auditory nerve degeneration Rahamin, Israeli The Hebrew University of Lee, Richard Harvard University, GDF11 as a novel treatment for ischemic Inbal Jerusalem, Israel Brigham and Women's heart disease Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, United States Kopper, Israeli The Hebrew University of Clevers, Hans C. Hubrecht Institute, Fallopian tube stem cells and their role in Oded Jerusalem, Israel Utrecht, The Netherlands ovarian cancer initiation Noor, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Sauer, Uwe Institute of Molecular The thermodynamic underpinnings of Elad Science, Rehovot, Israel Systems Biology, Swiss enzyme-enzyme interactions and substrate Federal Institute of channeling Technology Zurich, Switzerland Shahar, Israeli The Hebrew University of Schuman, Erin Max Planck Institute for Synaptic activity effects on local protein Or Jerusalem, Israel Brain Research, Frankfurt synthesis and spreading in high resolution am Main, Germany Sharon, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Pritchard, Stanford University, Uncovering the effects of thousands of Eilon Science, Rehovot, Israel Jonathan United States human polymorphisms on transcription factor binding and disease Yaffe, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Relman, David Stanford University, Modeling phage-host interactions in the Eitan Science, Rehovot, Israel United States human gut using chromosome conformation capture Fluman, Israeli Weizmann Institute of von Heijne, Stockholm University, Topology rearrangements in membrane Nir Science, Rehovot, Israel Gunnar Sweden protein maturation

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 41 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Hoch, Israeli Ben Gurion University of Altshuler, David The Broad Institute, The role of orphan transporter SLC16A11 in Eitan the Negev, Beer Sheva, Cambridge, United States lipid metabolism and link to type 2 diabetes Israel Mansour, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Gage, Fred The Salk Institute for Decoding the molecular landscape of aging Abed AlFatah Science, Rehovot, Israel Biological Studies, La Jolla, during adult neurogenesis United States Burstein, Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Banfield, Jillian University of California Expanding the known protein universe David Berkeley, United States through metagenomic analysis of uncharted branches of the tree of life Ben-David, Israeli The Hebrew University of Kruglyak, Leonid University of California Systematic dissection of the role of genetic Eyal Jerusalem, Israel Los Angeles, United States variation in variable expressivity Melamed, Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Cleveland, Don University of California Genome editing of neurons derived Ze'Ev San Diego, La Jolla, from patient fibroblasts as a model for United States studying ALS pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches Gilad, Israeli Bar-Ilan University, Helmchen, Fritjof University of Zurich, Behavior-dependent interactions in the Ariel Ramat-Gan, Israel Switzerland mouse cortex Ziv, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Miska, Eric Wellcome Trust/Cancer Mobile RNA in nematodes and mammals: Omer Science, Rehovot, Israel Research UK Gurdon Biology and new insights into RNA delivery Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Orbach, Israeli The Hebrew University of Howard, Jonathon Yale University, New Reassembly of axonemal tubulins Ron Jerusalem, Israel Haven, United States Abu-Remaileh, Israeli* The Hebrew University Sabatini, David Whitehead Institute for Dietary control of the intestinal stem cell Monther Hadassah Medical School, Biomedical Research, niche Jerusalem, Israel Cambridge, United States Mugoni, Italian University of Turin, Italy Pandolfi, Beth Israel Deaconess Characterization of the transcriptional Vera Pier Paolo Medical Center, Boston, rewiring for leukemia resistance to targeting United States the mutant IDH2R140Q Silva, Italian European Molecular Gräff, Johannes Brain Mind Institute, Analysis of the molecular mechanisms at the Bianca A Biology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute basis of remote fear memory extinction Monterotondo, Italy of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland Biffi, Italian Cancer Research UK Tuveson, David Cold Spring Harbor pH regulation in pancreatic ductal Giulia Cambridge Institute, Laboratory, United States adenocarcinoma and its microenvironment United Kingdom Olivieri, Italian University Medical Center Betschinger, Joerg Friedrich Miescher Understanding the establishment of the Daniel Groningen, Institute for Biomedical ground pluripotency cell state The Netherlands Research, Basel, Switzerland

*permanent resident of Israel

42 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Marcon, Italian Centre for Genomic Müller, Patrick Friedrich Miescher The molecular basis of a vertebrate reaction- Luciano Regulation, Barcelona, Laboratory of the Max diffusion patterning system Spain Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany Piazza, Italian European Molecular Picotti, Paola Institute of Biochemistry, An integrative technology to study protein- Ilaria Biology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute small molecule interactions and their Heidelberg, Germany of Technology Zurich, contribution to protein function Switzerland Perrera, Italian Max Planck Institute Colot, Vincent Institute of Biology of Investigating RNA methylation in A. thaliana Valentina of Immunobiology and École Normale Supérieure, as part of the adaptive response to stress Epigenetics, Freiburg im Paris, France Breisgau, Germany Santoro, Italian Research Center for Chien, Kenneth R. Karolinska Institutet, Unraveling human cardiogenesis by Federica Molecular Medicine of Stockholm, Sweden transcriptional profiling and cell-fate the Austrian Academy of mapping of human cardiovascular Sciences, Vienna, Austria progenitors Panigada, Italian University of Milan, Italy Liakopoulos, Macromolecular Investigation of SUMO-dependent Davide Dimitris Biochemistry Research ubiquitylation in spindle function Center, Montpellier, France Caizzi, Italian Centre for Genomic Cramer, Patrick Max Planck Institute for Basis for co-transcriptional pre-mRNA Livia Regulation, Barcelona, Biophysical Chemistry, splicing Spain Göttingen, Germany Alfieri, Italian European Molecular Barford, David Medical Research Council Biochemical and structural analysis of the Claudio Biology Laboratory, Laboratory of Molecular mechanisms of human anaphase-promoting Heidelberg, Germany Biology, Cambridge, complex inhibition by the mitotic checkpoint United Kingdom complex Racioppi, Italian Stazione Zoologica Anton Christiaen, Lionel New York University, Chromatin accessibility and cis-regulatory Claudia Dohrn, Naples, Italy United States dynamics underlying heart vs pharyngeal muscle specification in Ciona intestinalis Mainardi, Italian Spanish National Cancer Bernards, René The Netherlands Cancer Finding genetic dependencies in colon Sara Research Centre, Madrid, Institute, Amsterdam, cancer using 3D organoid culture models Spain The Netherlands Piccolo, Italian Medical Research Council Heintz, Nathaniel The Rockefeller University, Understanding the epigenetic mechanisms Francesco Clinical Sciences Centre, New York, United States that are governed by 5hmC in the brain London, United Kingdom Marchesi, Italian International School for Scheuring, Simon University of Aix- ICaRO - Ion channels and receptors Arin Advanced Studies, Trieste, Marseille, France operation Italy Antonica, Italian Free University of Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, Regulation of size in the implanting mouse Francesco Brussels, Belgium Magdalena United Kingdom embryo

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 43 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Baldini, Italian University of Perugia, Ferguson, Heather University of Glasgow, The role of insulin cascades in regulating the Francesco Terni, Italy United Kingdom host-species dependent fitness and parasite transmission ability of malaria mosquitoes Linster, Luxembourger Erasmus University Smith, Gavin Jd National University of Global circulation patterns and phenotypic Martin Medical Center, Singapore, Singapore characterization of human parainfluenza Rotterdam, viruses The Netherlands Stanek, Polish University of Warsaw, Pintacuda, Guido Institute of Analytical Structure of a large non-crystalline Jan Poland Sciences, Villeurbanne, multiprotein assembly by solid-state nuclear France magnetic resonance Szymborska, Polish European Molecular Gerhardt, Holger Max Delbrück Center The role of Notch signaling and junction Anna Biology Laboratory, for Molecular Medicine, remodeling in control of blood vessel Heidelberg, Germany Berlin, Germany diameter Zientara-Rytter, Polish Institute of Biochemistry Subramani, University of California In the search for the therapeutic targets - Katarzyna and Biophysics, Polish Suresh San Diego, United States Identification and characterization of the Academy of Sciences, specific pexophagy proteins in yeast and Warsaw, Poland mammals Pinheiro, Portuguese Max Planck Institute Heard, Edith Curie Institute, Paris, Dissecting the role of chromatin Ines of Immunobiology and France modifications in X chromosome inactivation Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Correia, Portuguese Lawrence Berkeley Bentires-Alj, Friedrich Miescher Regulation of dormant breast cancer cell Ana Luisa National Laboratory, Mohamed Institute for Biomedical awakening by adipocytes Berkeley, United States Research, Basel, Switzerland Campinho, Portuguese Institute of Science Vermot, Julien Institute of Genetics and Mechanics of vascular tissue homeostasis Pedro and Technology, Molecular and Cellular and morphogenesis in response to flow Klosterneuburg, Austria Biology, Illkirch, France forces Beira, Portuguese Medical Research Council Paro, Renato Swiss Federal Institute of Interplay between signalling and chromatin Jorge National Institute for Technology Zurich, Basel, during regeneration and tumourigenesis Medical Research, Switzerland University College London, United Kingdom Dias-Ferreira, Portuguese Champalimaud Centre Maimon, Gaby The Rockefeller University, Dissecting stored variables underlying Eduardo for the Unknown, Lisbon, New York, United States reinforcement learning in Drosophila Portugal Coelho, Portuguese Institute of Chemical and Moreno, Eduardo University of Bern, Molecular and genetic mechanisms of Dina Biological Technology, Switzerland neuronal selection Oeiras, Portugal

44 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Matos, Portuguese University of Coimbra, Robitaille, Richard University of Montreal, Adenosine-mediated regulation of Marco Portugal Canada hippocampal inhibitory synaptic transmission and its relevance for learning and memory processes – contribution of the astrocytic network Zmajkovicova, Slovak Max F. Perutz Wymann, University of Basel, PI3K and DNA repair – point of convergence? Katarina Laboratories, Vienna, Matthias Switzerland Austria Rozbesky, Slovak Charles University, Prague, Jones, Yvonne Wellcome Trust Centre Molecular basis of semaphorin and plexin Daniel Czech Republic for Human Genetics, function in nervous system development University of Oxford, United Kingdom Garcia Gomez, Spanish Autonomous University of Boulton, Simon Cancer Research UK, Molecular mechanisms of the non- Sara Madrid, Spain London Research Institute, homologous end-joining repair pathway in South Mimms, response to double strand break United Kingdom Vilarrasa-Blasi, Spanish Center for Research in Dinneny, José Carnegie Institution for Identification and characterization of water Josep Agricultural Genomics, Science, Stanford, sensing mechanisms in plants Cerdanyola del Vallès, United States Spain Balsa, Spanish La Princesa University Puigserver, Pere Dana-Farber Cancer Regulation of melanoma metastasis by the Eduardo Hospital, Madrid, Spain Institute, Boston, metabolic regulator PGC1α United States Eguren, Spanish Spanish National Cancer Ellenberg, Jan European Molecular Defining the mechanism of actin-mediated Manuel Research Centre, Madrid, Biology Laboratory, spindle position sensing in mouse oocytes Spain Heidelberg, Germany Leyva-Díaz, Spanish Institute of Neuroscience, Hobert, Oliver Howard Hughes Medical Defining the regulatory logic of pan- Eduardo Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain Institute, Columbia neuronal gene expression in Caenorhabditis University Medical Center, elegans New York, United States González Rosa, Spanish Spanish National Centre Burns, Caroline Massachusetts General Genetic determinants of pharyngeal arch Juan Manuel for Cardiovascular Hospital, Harvard artery establishment Research, Madrid, Spain Medical School and Broad Institute, Boston, United States Perez-Escudero, Spanish Cajal Institute, Madrid, Gore, Jeff Massachusetts Institute Does critical slowing down predict death of a Alfonso Spain of Technology, Cambridge, complex organism? United States Reines, Spanish Centro de Investigaciones Meyer, Thomas F. Max Planck Institute for Use of a novel human gastric primary culture Maria Del Mar Biológicas, Madrid, Spain Infection Biology, Berlin, model to explore the mechanisms of gastric Germany cancerogenesis

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 45 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Luxan, Spanish Spanish National Centre Adams, Ralf Max Planck Institute for Endothelial cell subtypes in bone Guillermo for Cardiovascular Molecular Biomedicine, angiogenesis and osteogenesis Research, Madrid, Spain Münster, Germany Foronda, Spanish Spanish National Cancer Kaji, Keisuke Medical Research Council A dual gRNA method for systematic, genetic Miguel Research Centre, Madrid, Centre for Regenerative interrogation of the non-coding genome in Spain Medicine, Edinburgh, pluripotency United Kingdom Marques, Spanish University of Valencia, Pollard, Steven Medical Research Council Transcriptional regulation of glioma stem Maria Angeles Spain Centre for Regenerative cell quiescence and activation: A key Medicine, Edinburgh, role for the FOX, SOX and NFI families of United Kingdom transcription factors Castellano Pozo, Spanish Andalusian Molecular Martinez Perez, Medical Research Council Cohesin dynamics during C. elegans meiotic Maikel Biology and Regenerative Enrique Clinical Sciences Centre, prophase Medicine Centre, Seville, Imperial College London, Spain United Kingdom Herrera, Spanish Autonomous University of Bach, Erika A. New York University Characterizing the mechanisms that control Salvador Madrid, Spain School of Medicine, stem cell behavior during aging United States Nadal, Spanish Pompeu Fabra University, Steinmetz, Lars Stanford University School Mitochondrial to nuclear gene transfer via Mariona Barcelona, Spain of Medicine, United States synthetic evolution Moral Quiros, Spanish University of Oviedo, Auwerx, Johan Swiss Federal Institute Mapping the mitochondrial unfolded protein Pedro Spain of Technology Lausanne, response through genetic and integrative Switzerland systems biology approaches Babiano, Spanish University of Seville, Spain Lingner, Joachim Swiss Federal Institute Elucidation of the telomeric chromatin Reyes of Technology Lausanne, structure in Coats plus/Dyskeratosis Switzerland congenita cellular models Millán Zambrano, Spanish Institute of Biomedicine of Kouzarides, Tony Wellcome Trust/Cancer Functional analysis of the role of histone Gonzalo Seville, Spain Research UK Gurdon H3K37 monomethylation in DNA replication Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Cardozo Ruiz, Spanish Autonomous University of Becker, Catherina The University of Role of dopamine during spinal cord Marcos Julián Madrid, Spain Edinburgh, development and regeneration United Kingdom De Mendoza, Spanish Institute of Evolutionary Lister, Ryan The University of Western Functional evolution of cytosine methylation Alex Biology, Barcelona, Spain Australia, Crawley, in animal development and the origins of the Australia vertebrate methylome Garcia Doval, Spanish Spanish National Centre Jinek, Martin University of Zurich, Structural and biochemical studies of type Carmela for Biotechnology, Madrid, Switzerland I-D CRISPR systems Spain Sebe-Pedros, Spanish Pompeu Fabra University, Tanay, Amos Weizmann Institute of Cell type diversity in early metazoans and Arnau Barcelona, Spain Science, Rehovot, Israel the origin of complex genome regulatory architectures

46 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Sabelström, Swedish Karolinska Institutet, Persson, Anders University of California Subpial zone astrocytes as the origin of Hanna Stockholm, Sweden San Francisco, cortical astrocytomas United States Åkerblom, Swedish Lund University, Sweden McManus, University of California A new technology for deep brain mapping Malin Michael San Francisco, United States Schweizer, Swiss University of Lausanne, Goossens, Alain Flanders Interuniversity Deciphering the terpenoid indole alkaloid Fabian Switzerland Institute for biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus by Biotechnology, Ghent transcriptional modulation University, Belgium Mattle, Swiss Aarhus University, Standfuss, Jörg Paul Scherrer Institute, Molecular mechanisms of night blindness Daniel Denmark Villigen, Switzerland investigated by time-resolved femtosecond crystallography Barandun, Swiss Swiss Federal Institute Klinge, Sebastian The Rockefeller University, Structural and functional studies of the Jonas of Technology Zurich, New York, United States eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis complex Switzerland UtpB Dogan, Turkish University of Cologne, Zeviani, Massimo Medical Research Council Transgenic and adeno-associated virus- Sukru Anil Germany Mitochondrial Biology driven expression of potentially therapeutic Unit, Cambridge, xenogenes, AOX and Ndi1, in oxidative United Kingdom phosphorylation-defective mouse models Uslu, Turkish European Molecular Hell, Ruediger Ruprecht Karl University Investigating the sulfate sensing and Veli Vural Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany signaling cascades in plants Heidelberg, Germany Demir, Turkish German Cancer Research Beachy, Philip A. Stanford University, Novel proteins involved in the mechanisms Kubilay Center, Heidelberg, United States of hedgehog signal transduction by Germany smoothened in the sensory organelle primary cilium Fisek, Turkish Harvard Medical School, Häusser, Michael The Wolfson Institute Neuronal and dendritic recruitment on Mehmet Boston, United States for Biomedical Research, neocortical area borders University College London, United Kingdom Hallacli, Turkish Max Planck Institute Lindquist, Susan Whitehead Institute for Investigation of eIF4G as a Parkinson's Erinc of Immunobiology and Biomedical Research, disease gene in S.cerevisiae Epigenetics, Freiburg im Cambridge, United States Breisgau, Germany

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 47 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Clancy, American University of California Mrsic-Flogel, Biozentrum, University of The influence of hemispheric activity Kelly Berkeley, United States Thomas Basel, Switzerland dynamics on visual processing and visually guided behaviors New, American Flanders Interuniversity Lehner, Benjamin Centre for Genomic Mapping and understanding the impact Aaron Institute for Biotechnology, Regulation, Barcelona, of natural genetic variation on the inter- Catholic University of Spain individual variability of a phenotypic trait Leuven, Belgium in yeast Clark, American Medical Research Council Vignjevic, Danijela Curie Institute, Paris, Regulation of collective cell migration during Andrew Laboratory for Molecular France tumor invasion Cell Biology, University College London, United Kingdom Wan, American Vanderbilt University, Briggs, John European Molecular Determining the structure of viral William Nashville, United States Biology Laboratory, membrane proteins in situ Heidelberg, Germany Sulima, American University of Maryland, De Keersmaecker, Flanders Interuniversity Oncogenic mechanisms of the ribosomal Sergey College Park, United States Kim Institute for protein L10 R98S mutation in T cell acute Biotechnology, Catholic lymphoblastic leukemia University of Leuven, Belgium Palaniappan, American University of California Aebersold, Ruedi Institute of Molecular Structural characterization of cancer- Krishnan Berkeley, United States Systems Biology, Swiss associated mixed lineage leukemia Federal Institute of interactomes by quantitative mass Technology Zurich, spectrometry Switzerland Webster, American Gladstone Institute of Dreux, Marlene International Center for Eating inflammation: Defining the interplay Brian Virology and Immunology, Infectiology Research, between autophagy and the antiviral and San Francisco, Lyon, France inflammatory responses in dengue infection United States Haas, American University of California Staels, Bart Pasteur Institute, Lille, Establishing and testing a transcriptional Joel San Francisco, France network describing gene interactions in United States resolution of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Kato, American Columbia University, Zimmer, Manuel Research Institute of From a connectome to functional neural Saul New York, United States Molecular Pathology, maps of the C. elegans nervous system Vienna, Austria Pernas, American Stanford University School Scorrano, Luca University of Padua, Italy Attacking mitochondrial retrograde signaling Lena of Medicine, United States to alter the natural history of autosomal dominant optic atrophy Flatt, American Case Western Reserve Greber, Urs University of Zurich, Revealing how adenoviruses dock and Justin University, Cleveland, Switzerland deliver at the nuclear pore complex United States Beckwith, Argentinian Leloir Institute, Buenos Gilestro, Giorgio Imperial College London, Searching for the genetic support for Esteban Aires, Argentina United Kingdom information flow behind sleep

48 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Selkrig, Australian Nanyang Technological Typas, Athanasios European Molecular Dissecting the Salmonella-host interaction Joel University, Singapore Biology Laboratory, by quantitative proteomics Heidelberg, Germany Radzisheuskaya, Belarusian Wellcome Trust – Medical Helin, Kristian University of Copenhagen, Identification and characterization of Aliaksandra Research Council Denmark novel essential regulators of acute myeloid Cambridge Stem Cell leukemia Institute, United Kingdom Pencheva, Bulgarian The Rockefeller University, Bernards, René The Netherlands Cancer Identification of mesenchymal genes that Nora New York, United States Institute, Amsterdam, drive glioblastoma brain invasion The Netherlands Wamsteeker Canadian University of Calgary, Lüthi, Andreas Friedrich Miescher Investigation of the neural circuit-basis for Cusulin, Canada Institute for Biomedical biasing of fear learning by stress Jaclyn Research, Basel, Switzerland Quazi, Canadian University of British Stoffel, Markus Institute of Molecular Coordination of apoptotic pathways in Faraz Columbia, Vancouver, Health Sciences, Swiss pancreatic beta-islet cells: Role of putative Canada Federal Institute of transcription factor JAZF1 and type-2 Technology Zurich, diabetes mellitus Switzerland Yang, Canadian University of British Stainier, Didier Max Planck Institute for The role of autonomic innervation in Yu Hsuan Carol Columbia, Vancouver, Heart and Lung Research, endocrine pancreas development and Canada Bad Nauheim, Germany glucose homeostasis David, Canadian University of Toronto, Cossart, Pascale Pasteur Institute, Paris, Characterization of novel virulence factors Daryl Jason Canada France of Listeria Wideman, Canadian University of Alberta, Richards, Thomas University of Exeter, Comparative genomics of diatoms and Jeremy Edmonton, Canada United Kingdom Bolidophyceae: Insight into the evolution of one of Earth's most productive phototrophs Winter, Canadian Duke University, Durham, Amit, Ido Weizmann Institute of Deciphering epigenomic and transcriptional Deborah United States Science, Rehovot, Israel regulatory networks in the mammalian immune system: The role of chromatin dynamics in macrophage heterogeneity Barriga, Chilean Andrés Bello National Charras, University College London, Biomechanical analysis of directional Elias University, Santiago, Chile Guillaume United Kingdom collective migration in vivo Sun, Chinese Ludwig Maximilian Hentze, European Molecular Analysis of the role of RNA in the function of Mai University Munich, Matthias W. Biology Laboratory, the TORC1 pathway Germany Heidelberg, Germany Huang, Chinese University of Chinese Carmeliet, Peter Flanders Interuniversity Glutaminase 1: A key enzyme in endothelial Hongling Academy of Sciences, Institute for cell glutamine metabolism and a potential Shanghai, China Biotechnology, Catholic target for novel anti-angiogenic strategies University of Leuven, Belgium

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 49 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Xie, Chinese McGill University, Chagin, Andrei Karolinska Institutet, Endochondral bone formation as a Meng Montreal, Canada Stockholm, Sweden mechanism coupling body size and environment: Exploring potential role of the mTOR signalling pathway Lu, Chinese Sun Yat-sen University, Partridge, Linda Max Planck Institute for The relationship between histone Yu-Xuan Guangzhou, China Biology of Ageing, Cologne, methylation and insulin pathway in ageing Germany Qiu, Chinese Albert Ludwig University Gönczy, Pierre Swiss Federal Institute Dissecting the assembly of protein Jian of Freiburg, Germany of Technology Lausanne, complexes governing spindle positioning Switzerland Zhou, Chinese Chinese Academy of Geldner, Niko University of Lausanne, Endodermal barrier compartmentalizes the Feng Agricultural Sciences, Switzerland immune and stress response in Arabidopsis Beijing, China roots Zhou, Chinese Chinese Academy of Scheres, Ben J.G. Wageningen University, Safeguarding the root stem cell niche in Wenkun Sciences, Beijing, China The Netherlands response to genotoxic stress Antoniou, Cypriot University of Bristol, Schratt, Gerhard Philipp University Investigating the dynamic localization of Anna United Kingdom Marburg, Germany microRNA effector complexes at intracellular membranes in neurons during synaptic plasticity and dendritogenesis Borkar, Indian University of Cambridge, Geyer, Matthias Center of Advanced Structural studies of the HIV-1 Aditi United Kingdom European Studies and transactivation complex Research, Bonn, Germany Vijayan, Indian Geisel School of Medicine, Verstreken, Patrik Flanders Interuniversity Molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic Vinoy Dartmouth College, Institute for maintenance and rejuvenation Hanover, United States Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Singh, Indian Institute of Biology of Peters, Antoine Friedrich Miescher Identification and functional Deepankar Pratap École Normale Supérieure, Institute for Biomedical characterization of the potential key Paris, France Research, Basel, regulators of zygotic genome activation in Switzerland the mouse Sharma, Indian Goethe University Lafontaine, Denis Institute of Molecular Global analysis of human ribosomal RNA Sunny Frankfurt am Main, Biology and Medicine, modification and characterization of human Germany Gosselies, Belgium rRNA base methyl transferases in ribosome biogenesis and function Rangaraju, Indian Weill Cornell Medical Schuman, Erin Max Planck Institute for Mitochondrial dynamics and local protein Vidhya College, New York, Brain Research, Frankfurt synthesis in dendrites United States am Main, Germany Soni, Indian Institute of Genomics and Tajbakhsh, Pasteur Institute, Paris, Static and dynamic imaging of clonally Kartik Integrative Biology, Delhi, Shahragim France marked mouse muscle stem cells in distinct India physiological states

50 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Radhakrishnan, Indian University of Copenhagen, Lopez-Bigas, Pompeu Fabra University, Computational identification of driver Sabarinathan Denmark Nuria Barcelona, Spain mutations in non-coding regulatory regions of cancer genomes Gupta, Indian Max Planck Institute of Choudhary, University of Copenhagen, Systematic investigation of USP1 Rajat Biochemistry, Martinsried, Chunaram Denmark deubiquitylase targets and their functions Germany Mukherjee, Indian Indian Institute of Soldati-Favre, University of Geneva, Dissection of aspartic protease(s) implicated Budhaditya Chemical Biology, Kolkata, Dominique Switzerland in the processing and export of Toxoplasma India gondii effector molecules that subvert host cellular functions Goyal, Indian Free University of Brussels, Friemann, University of Gothenburg, Structural and functional characterization Parveen Belgium Rosmarie Sweden of tripartitie ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporters involved in sialic acid uptake in bacterial pathogens Kumar, Indian Tata Institute of Parekh, Anant University of Oxford, Role of calcium (Ca2+) channels in regulating Pradeep Fundamental Research, United Kingdom leptin secretion from adipocytes Mumbai, India Muliyil, Indian Tata Institute of Freeman, University of Oxford, Dissecting the molecular and functional role Sonia Fundamental Research, Matthew United Kingdom of iRhoms in protein quality control in the Mumbai, India Drosophila nervous system Yamashita, Japanese Hokkaido University, Beckmann, Ludwig Maximilian Structural analysis of nascent peptide- Yui Sapporo, Japan Roland University Munich, mediated ribosome stalling as an Germany intracellular nutrient sensing mechanism in plants Zelezniak, Lithuanian European Molecular Ralser, Markus Medical Research Council Genetic regulatory basis of cross-species Aleksej Biology Laboratory, National Institute for metabolism variation Heidelberg, Germany Medical Research, London, United Kingdom Yanez Cuna, Mexican Research Institute of van Steensel, Bas The Netherlands Cancer Understanding the principles of lamina- J. Omar Molecular Pathology, Institute, Amsterdam, associated domains Vienna, Austria The Netherlands Fica, Romanian The University of Chicago, Nagai, Kiyoshi Medical Research Council Defining the structural mechanisms for Sebastian United States Laboratory of Molecular cooperation between RNA and proteins in Biology, Cambridge, promoting and active configuration of the United Kingdom RNA catalytic core of the spliceosome Psakhye, Russian Max Planck Institute of Branzei, Dana FIRC Institute of Roles of SUMO in the DNA replication stress Ivan Biochemistry, Martinsried, Molecular Oncology, response Germany Milan, Italy Romanov, Russian Karolinska Institutet, Harkany, Tibor Medical University of Molecular control of stress responses Roman Stockholm, Sweden Vienna, Austria and network wiring of stress neurons by secretagogin

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 51 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Vjestica, Serbian National University of Martin, Sophie G. University of Lausanne, Exploring the transcription-dependent Aleksandar Singapore, Singapore Switzerland and independent pheromone-signaling regulation of morphogenetic transitions in fission yeast Balchin, South African University of the Hartl, F. Ulrich Max Planck Institute of Elucidating the mechanism of protein David Witwatersrand, Biochemistry, Martinsried, folding by the eukaryotic chaperonin TRiC/ Johannesburg, South Germany CCT Africa Lee, South Korean Yonsei University, Seoul, Azzalin, Claus Institute of Biochemistry, Telomeric RNA:DNA hybrids in human cells: Yong Woo Korea Maria Swiss Federal Institute Regulation and impact on telomere stability of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Choi, South Korean University of Missouri, Paszkowski, Uta University of Cambridge, Identification of INHOSPITABLE (IHO)- Jeongmin Columbia, United States United Kingdom interacting proteins during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice Lee, Taiwanese Duke University, Durham, Nordborg, Gregor Mendel Institute Genetic architecture of complex traits across Cheng-Ruei United States Magnus of Molecular Plant Biology, different geographical and genetic scales in Vienna, Austria Arabidopsis Tu, Taiwanese University of California Tay, Savas Swiss Federal Institute of Probing cell-to-cell variability using Hsiung-Lin Berkeley, United States Technology Zurich, Basel, single cell analysis: Correlate receptor Switzerland level activation and downstream cellular response in NFκB signaling

52 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 53 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 2014: Geographical distribution

Applications Eastern European nationalities US-American/ Canadian Other nationalities Destination Nationality Austrian Belgian Croatian Czech Danish Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Israeli Italian Luxembourgian Dutch Norwegian Polish Portuguese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Turkish British Total Austria 1 1 1 2 6 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 7 27 Belgium 1 2 1 5 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 16 37 Croatia 1 1 2 Czech Republic 1 1 1 3 Denmark 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 4 1 1 4 2 1 3 9 36 Estonia 0 Finland 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 12 France 1 1 1 9 8 1 1 2 4 15 2 1 3 15 1 2 1 16 46 130 Germany 4 4 3 3 11 15 2 1 2 3 7 7 3 21 1 1 2 4 8 5 50 157 Greece 3 3 Hungary 1 1 Iceland 1 1 2 Ireland 1 1 2 2 3 9 Israel 3 1 2 7 13 Italy 2 1 3 1 1 1 6 3 2 1 10 31 Luxembourg 0 The Netherlands 1 1 1 1 4 6 1 5 7 3 2 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 12 61 Norway 2 1 1 1 2 7 Poland 1 1 2 Portugal 1 1 2 7 4 5 20 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 0 Spain 1 2 7 5 1 9 3 2 6 3 1 1 3 2 18 64 Sweden 1 1 2 5 6 1 2 5 2 1 2 2 1 4 2 3 1 4 20 65 Switzerland 3 1 1 14 12 2 2 4 8 5 1 5 5 15 1 4 2 4 14 30 133 Turkey 1 1 2 UK 3 6 2 2 2 3 27 31 2 4 2 7 22 1 16 8 9 1 42 2 1 3 3 18 24 74 315 EMBL 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 2 2 6 21 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 8 11 3 2 4 1 87 39 4 4 8 72 23 28 7 13 3 79 14 6 4 26 1 3 450 Others 1 11 10 1 1 4 1 2 9 1 4 45 Total 23 31 9 11 7 3 14 186 156 16 17 1 15 97 116 2 71 0 36 51 12 2 218 25 14 15 47 47 81 325 1648

54 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 2014: Geographical distribution

Awards Eastern European nationalities US-American/ Canadian Other nationalities Destination Nationality Austrian Belgian Croatian Czech Danish Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Israeli Italian Luxembourgian Dutch Norwegian Polish Portuguese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Turkish British Total Austria 1 3 1 1 1 1 8 Belgium 1 1 1 3 6 Croatia 0 Czech Republic 0 Denmark 1 1 2 Estonia 0 Finland 1 1 France 2 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 4 1 17 Germany 1 1 3 5 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 5 28 Greece 0 Hungary 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Israel 1 1 1 3 Italy 1 1 2 Luxembourg 0 The Netherlands 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 9 Norway 0 Poland 0 Portugal 0 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 0 Spain 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 Sweden 1 1 1 1 1 2 7 Switzerland 3 7 1 2 3 1 3 1 3 1 1 5 6 37 Turkey 0 UK 1 1 1 4 8 1 1 1 3 2 1 6 2 1 2 1 5 41 EMBL 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 8 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 1 1 1 1 1 5 8 3 1 15 4 7 1 2 7 2 1 2 5 68 Others 1 1 1 1 4 Total 4 6 1 3 2 0 0 23 38 6 3 0 1 22 17 1 14 0 3 7 2 0 21 2 3 5 9 8 17 29 247

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 55 EMBO Advanced Fellowships ➔➔

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

EMBO Advanced Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Project Lin, Taiwanese Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, Waddell, Scott Thirst-control of naïve and learned behaviors in Suewei University of Oxford, United Kingdom Drosophila Santiago Cuellar, Spanish University of Geneva, Switzerland Hothorn, Michael Mechanistic insights on LRR- receptor ligand-sensing Julia and activation by association with co-receptor proteins Sarek, Polish Cancer Research UK, London Research Boulton, Simon Molecular mechanisms of RTEL1-TRF2 interplay at Grzegorz Institute, South Mimms, United Kingdom telomeres Schwefel, German Medical Research Council National Taylor, Ian Decoding the Vpx/Vpr system David Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom Wong, Australian European Molecular Biology Laboratory – Flicek, Paul Dissection of cis and trans influence on transcription Emily European Bioinformatics Institute, factor binding and chromatin state in mammals Hinxton, United Kingdom

56 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships ➔➔ EMBO Short-Term Fellowships: Statistics Applications and awards 1977– 2014 Applications and awards 2000 – 2014 Year Applications Awards Success rate % Country from* Applications % of total Awards % of total Success rate % 2014 548 284 52 Austria 75 1 39 1 52 2013 560 280 50 Belgium 107 2 76 2 71 2012 585 312 53 Croatia 52 1 24 1 46 2011 506 281 55 Czech Republic 102 2 61 2 60 2010 421 219 52 Denmark 34 1 20 1 59 2009 495 255 52 Estonia 9 <1 6 <1 67 2008 395 213 54 Finland 45 1 24 1 53 2007 409 211 52 France 295 5 187 6 63 2006 393 194 49 Germany 400 7 245 8 61 2005 383 201 52 Greece 189 3 111 3 59 2004 301 167 55 Hungary 134 2 76 2 57 2003 289 138 48 Iceland 16 <1 11 <1 69 2002 252 170 67 Ireland 60 1 37 1 62 2001 233 124 53 Israel 189 3 125 4 66 2000 274 176 64 Italy 885 15 460 14 52 1999 230 138 60 Luxembourg 2 <1 2 <1 100 1998 279 143 51 Netherlands 177 3 111 3 63 1997 339 188 55 Norway 16 <1 8 <1 50 1996 316 180 57 Poland 224 4 112 3 50 1995 325 187 57 Portugal 166 3 90 3 54 1994 369 203 55 Slovak Republic 18 <1 11 <1 61 1993 376 209 55 Slovenia 55 1 29 1 53 1992 351 213 61 Spain 1062 18 561 17 53 1991 344 194 56 Sweden 55 1 37 1 67 1990 346 211 61 Switzerland 68 1 43 1 63 1989 331 199 60 Turkey 134 2 51 2 38 1988 351 211 60 United Kingdom 207 3 130 4 63 1987 301 212 70 Eastern Europe 363 6 163 5 45 1986 309 215 70 Others 905 15 375 12 41 1985 304 221 73 Total 6044 100 3225 100 53 1984 320 226 71 1983 335 223 67 * “Country from” refers to nationality 1982 321 213 66 1981 339 235 69 1980 357 242 68 1979 344 243 71 1978 349 244 70 1977 294 213 72

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 57 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Ambroggio, Argentinian Curie Institute, Paris, Bassereau, University of Cordoba, The interplay between transmembrane Ernesto France Patricia Argentina domain geometry and membrane curvature as sorting determinants of membrane proteins Asencion Diez, Argentinian John Innes Centre, Bornemann, National University Characterization of enzymes involved in the Matias Norwich, United Kingdom Stephen of Litoral, Santa Fe, metabolism of trehalose 6-phosphate and Argentina GDP-glucose in actinobacteria Astiz, Argentinian University of Lübeck, Oster, Henrik National Scientific and Impact of early-life events on the circadian Mariana Germany Technical Research system Council, La Plata, Argentina Bussi, Argentinian The Babraham Institute, Ktistakis, University of Cordoba, The role of autophagy in the regulation of Claudio Cambridge, Nicholas T. Argentina microglial cell activation and inflammation United Kingdom Carlotto, Argentinian Institute of Plant Sciences, Crespi, Martin University of Buenos Aires, Study of gene expression regulation Nicolás Paris, France Argentina mediated by non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana: Identification of the DEVH-box RNA helicase ISE2 target RNAs Delgui, Argentinian University of Paris-Sud, Esclatine, Audrey Institute of Histology and Role of Toll-like Receptor-2 in autophagic Laura Ruth France Embriology of Mendoza, pathway induction after human Argentina cytomegalovirus infection Franchini, Argentinian University of Glasgow, Smith, Brian O. National University of La Structure refinement and ligand binding Gisela R United Kingdom Plata, Argentina analysis of apo-ABA-1A of the parasite Ascaris suum employing NMR Jaworski, Argentinian Aston Medical School – Ahmed, Asif University of Buenos Aires, The effect of heme oxygenase-1 on prostate Felipe Martin Aston University, Argentina cancer neovascularization through Birmingham, modulation of the glycan-galectin axis United Kingdom López, Argentinian Zaidín Experimental Delgado Igeño, Institute of Biotechnology Establishment of the role of ntrBC and ntrYX María Florencia Station, Granada, Spain María Jesús and Molecular Biology, La in nitrate assimilation and denitrification in Plata, Argentina B. japonicum Muñoz, Argentinian FIRC Institute of Foiani, Marco University of Buenos Aires, ATR-mediated regulation of alternative Manuel Molecular Oncology, Argentina splicing in skin cells Milan, Italy Naum-Ongania, Argentinian University of Edinburgh, Bickmore, Wendy University Arturo Effect of nuclear architecture in Hox gene Gabriela United Kingdom Jauretche, Buenos Aires, activation Argentina Revuelta, Argentinian Wageningen University, van Kan, Jan National University of Mar The role of aspartic proteinases in the Maria Victoria The Netherlands del Plata, Argentina plant-pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea: integration of in silico predictions with molecular and physiological data Rípodas, Argentinian The Laboratory of Plant Niebel, Andreas National University of La Study of the role of the NF-Y transcription Carolina Microbe Interactions, Plata, Argentina factor in the efficient nodulation Castanet Tolosan, France

58 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Sánchez, Argentinian Interfaculty Institute of García Sáez, Ana Medical Research Effects of the topological distribution of María Florencia Biochemistry, Tübingen, Institute Mercedes y the ligand in the cell death triggered by Fas Germany Martín Ferreyra, Cordoba, Receptor in immortalized cells Argentina Weiner, Argentinian University of Bath, Kelsh, Robert University of Rosario, Gene expression regulation during Andrea Maria Julia United Kingdom Argentina melanophore differentiation: Sox10, Mitfa and miRNAs roles Berry, Australian Friedrich Miescher Buehler, Marc John Innes Centre, Biochemical characterisation of RNA- Scott Institute for Biomedical Norwich, United Kingdom binding by Arabidopsis thaliana protein like Research, Basel, heterochromatin protein 1 Switzerland Brugger, Austrian St. Jude Children's Partridge, Janet University of Geneva, Functional analysis of the fission yeast Christiane Research Hospital, Switzerland histone deacetylase Clr3 Memphis, United States Ilicic, Austrian Columbia University, New Pe'er, Dana Wellcome Trust Sanger Computational approaches to classifying Tomislav York, United States Institute, Cambridge, CD4+ T cell subtypes from single cell RNA- United Kingdom sequencing data Prattes, Austrian Imperial College London, Zhang, Xiaodong University of Graz, Austria Crystallization of the Drg1-diazaborine Michael United Kingdom complex Reichel, Austrian European Molecular Hentze, Matthias The Australian National Plant mRNA interactome Marlene Biology Laboratory, University, Canberra, Heidelberg, Germany Australia Schmidt, Austrian Weatherall Institute Simister, Philip University of Salzburg, Functional analysis of the activity of Thomas of Molecular Austria recombinant HtrA Medicine,University of Oxford, United Kingdom Schroeder, Austrian Free University of Berlin, Sigrist, Stephan University of Graz, Austria Spermidine mimics the metabolic effects of Sabrina Germany caloric restriction Taschner, Austrian University of Copenhagen, Pedersen, Lotte Max Planck Institute of Functional dissection of the intraflagellar Michael Denmark Biochemistry, Martinsried, transport (IFT) process using structure-based Germany mutants Blomme, Belgian The University of Western Millar, Harvey Flanders Interuniversity Functional characterisation of SWIB-5, a Jonas Australia, Perth, Australia Institute for potential new regulator of mitochondrial Biotechnology, Ghent gene expression University, Belgium De Bock, Belgian Autonomous University of Aragones, Julian Catholic Univesity of Oxygen sensing HIF pathways in obesity Katrien Madrid, Spain Leuven, Belgium Derzelle, Belgian University of New Mexico, Katju, Vaishali University of Namur, Study of copy number variation in an ancient Alessandro Albuquerque, Belgium asexual United States Duchou, Belgian University of Barcelona, Ciruela, Francisco Ghent University, Belgium Investigation of D2-typeR-µOR Jolien Spain heterodimerization by Proximity Ligation Assay and Time-resolved Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 59 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Dumetz, Belgian Bernhard Nocht Institute Clos, Joachim Institute of Tropical Isolation, modification and characterisation Franck for Tropical Medicine, Medicine, Antwerpen, of Leishmania donovani field-isolate Hamburg, Germany Belgium episomes Heyndrickx, Belgian Max Planck Institute for Weigel, Detlef Ghent University, Belgium Genomic variation of experimentally Ken Developmental Biology, determined transcription factor binding sites Tübingen, Germany based on single nucleotide polymorphisms Maes, Belgian Spanish National Cancer Soengas, Maria Catholic Univesity of The importance of lysosomal function for Hannelore Research Centre, Madrid, Leuven, Belgium tumor-driven lymphangiogenesis Spain Mizuno, Brazilian University of Paris-Sud, López-García, University of Miguel Shedding light into deep sea viruses using Carolina Megumi Orsay, France Purificación Hernández, San Juan de metagenomics Alicante, Spain Creasey, British Tel Aviv University, Israel Gazit, Ehud The University of Nanomechanical properties of novel Rhiannon Nottingham, diphenylalanine constructs United Kingdom Ding, British University Hospital Zurich, Ospelt, Caroline University of Manchester, Perturbation studies of rheumatoid arthritis James Switzerland United Kingdom associated long non-coding RNA lnc-RBPJ-1 Krasovec, British Swiss Federal Institute Ackermann, University of Manchester, Heterogeneity in confinement-induced Rok of Technology Zurich, Martin United Kingdom quorum-sensing among individual Switzerland Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells Law, British Karolinska Institutet, Cao, Yihai King's College London, Analysis of the role of lamellipodin in Ah-Lai Stockholm, Sweden United Kingdom metastasis in vivo Lewis, British National Cancer Institute, Colombo, Mario Blizard Institute, Queen Targeting histone deacetylase (HDAC) for Amy Milan, Italy Mary University of London, rational drug design: establishing the role of United Kingdom specific HDAC isoforms in inflammation and repair in a mouse model of colitis Martinez, British Technical University Szállási, Zoltán Barts Cancer Institute, Development of new SNP array methods for Pierre of Denmark, Lyngby, Queen Mary University of cancer evolution studies Denmark London, United Kingdom McCluskey, British University of Illinois at Ha, Taekjip University of St. Andrews, Unfolding the lysine riboswitch with optical Kaley Urbana-Champaign, United Kingdom force and FRET United States Murdoch, British Bielefeld University, Niehaus, Karsten University of Dundee, A metabolomics-based approach for Sarah Germany United Kingdom predicting antibiotic resistance in airway infections associated with cystic fibrosis Zhao, British Catholic University of Schoofs, Liliane Medical Research Council Elucidating the neural basis of arousal in C. Buyun Leuven, Belgium Laboratory of Molecular elegans Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom Hanna, Canadian University of Virginia, Owens, Gary The Babraham Institute, Epigenetic dynamics in oogenesis Courtney Charlottesville, Cambridge, United States United Kingdom

60 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Fu, Chinese Institute of Biology of Colot, Vincent Heinrich Heine University Epigenomic analyses of different stem cell Yu École Normale Supérieure, Düsseldorf, Germany niches in Arabidopsis thaliana Paris, France Li, Chinese Friedrich Miescher Roska, Botond Institute of Neuroscience, Circuit mechanism of seasonal affective Kun Institutefor Biomedical Chinese Academy of disorder Research, Basel, Sciences, Shanghai, China Switzerland Díaz, Columbian Institute of Population Schlötterer, University of Valle, Cali, Reverse thermal selection in Drosophila Fernando Genetics, Vienna, Austria Christian Columbia melanogaster Bilandzija, Croatian Max Planck Institute of Rink, Jochen Ruđer Bošković Institute, Evolutionary mechanisms of pigment loss in Helena Molecular Cell Biology Zagreb, Croatia cave planaria and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Tokic, Croatian Flanders Interuniversity Carmeliet, Peter Medical University of Graz, Metabolism of primary placental endothelial Silvija Institute for Austria cells in gestational diabetes mellitus Biotechnology, Vesalius Research Center, Leuven, Belgium Lamazares-Arcia, Cuban Zaragoza University, Spain Sancho Sanz, University of Concepción, Stabilization of apoflavodoxin of Anabaena Emilio Javier Chili PCC 7119 using accumulation of mutations on the triple mutant base on rational strategies Pavelka, Czech International Institute Bujnicki, Janusz M. Masaryk University, Brno, Protein-RNA complex prediction by Antonin of Molecular and Cell Czech Republic integration of evolutionary information Biology in Warsaw, Poland Senigl, Czech Yale University School Schatz, David Institute of Molecular Identification and characterization of non- Filip of Medicine, New Haven, Genetics,Academy of immunoglobulin DIVAC enhancers United States Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic Singh, Czech The Swedish University Dixelius, Christina Czech University of Life Secreted proteins and studies of the Khushwant of Agricultural Sciences, Sciences, Prague, Czech Plasmodiophora brassicae-Arabidopsis Uppsala, Sweden Republic responses Symonová, Czech The Arctic University of Praebel, Kim Institute of Animal Cytogenetic background of iterative Radka Norway, Tromso, Norway Physiology and evolution in incipient salmonid species Genetics,Academy of Science of Czech Republic, Libechov, Czech Republic Jones, Danish Albert Ludwig University Einsle, Oliver Technical University Crystallization of human tryptophan Sarah Elizabeth Freiburg, Germany of Denmark, Lyngby, hydroxylase isoform 1 Denmark Kidmose, Danish Institute of Genetics and Klaholz, Bruno Aarhus University, Structural characterization of the 80S Rune Molecular and Cellular Denmark ribosome from C. elegans by cryo-EM Biology, Strasbourg, France

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 61 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Wewer Danish Max Planck Institute of Mann, Matthias Universtiy of Copenhagen, Assessment of gut hormones in the gut-brain Albrechtsen, Biochemistry, Martinsried, Denmark axis of obesity and type 2 diabetes Nicolai Germany Bakker, Dutch Karolinska Institutet, Strömblad, Radboud University Multi-scale analysis of plasticity of tumor Gert-Jan Huddinge, Sweden Staffan Medical Centre, Nijmegen, cell invasion in 3D environments The Netherlands Molenhuis, Dutch Tel Aviv University, Israel Iraqi, Fuad A. University Medical Center Identifying molecular networks for Remco Utrecht, The Netherlands autism spectrum disorder core behavioral phenotypes Muggen, Dutch Max Planck Institute Jumaa, Hassan Erasmus Medical Center, B cell receptor signaling in chronic Alice of Immunobiology and Rotterdam, lymphocytic leukemia Epigenetics, Freiburg im The Netherlands Breisgau, Germany Ottema, Dutch Institute of Molecular Maiato, Helder Erasmus Medical Centre, Role of the MT plus-end tracking protein Sophie and Cell Biology, Porto, Rotterdam, CLASP2 in ES cell mitosis Portugal The Netherlands Reinink, Dutch Brigham and Women's Moody, Branch Utrecht University, Isolation and identification of CD1 presented Peter Hospital, Harvard Medical The Netherlands lipid antigens and associated T cells School, Boston, United States Stroo, Dutch Ruhr University, Bochum, Ebbinghaus, University Medical Center Visualizing the role of SERF in aggregation Esther Germany Simon Groningen, initiation in living cells The Netherlands van 't Veer, Dutch Newcastle University, Vollmer, Utrecht University, Kinetic characterization of protein-protein Inge Leonie Newcastle upon Tyne, Waldemar The Netherlands and protein-substrate interactions of PBP1b United Kingdom and improvement of the glycosyl transferase assay van den Bosch, Dutch National Institutes of Young, Marian Radboud University WISP1 as downstream mediator of Martijn Health Clinical Center, Medical Center, Nijmegen, canonical Wnt signaling in the development Bethesda, United States The Netherlands of osteoarthritis van der Knaap, Dutch Max Planck lnstitute Hoehn, Mathias Donders Institute of Brain The risk of antidepressants for the Noortje forNeurological Research, Cognition and Behaviour, developing brain Cologne, Germany Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Mahfouz, Egyptian University of Washington, Eichler, Evan Delft University of Prioritizing genes harboring de novo Ahmed Seattle, United States Technology, missense mutations using an integrative The Netherlands network-based approach Besnard, French University of Edingurgh, Blaxter, Mark Institute of Biology of Assembly and annotation of the genome of Fabrice United Kingdom Ecole Normale Supérieure, the nematode Oscheius tipulae Paris, France

62 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Breton, French Erasmus University Grosveld, Frank King's College London, Identification and characterization of non- Amandine Medical Center, United Kingdom coding transcripts as potential regulators Rotterdam, of c-MYB The Netherlands Duplouy, French Medical University of Miller, Wolfgang University of Helsinki, Following endosymbionts of a parasitoid Anne Vienna, Austria Finland wasp in its butterfly host Labouesse, French University of Illinois at Guidotti, Swiss Federal Institute An epigenetic signature regulating Marie Chicago, United States Alessandro of Technology, corticolimbic expression of RELN and GAD67 Schwerzenbach, in a neurodevelopmental mouse model of Switzerland schizophrenia Michaud, French National Institute of Prinz, William Laboratory of Cellular Transfer of galactolipids from chloroplast to Morgane Diabetes and Digestive Plant Physiology, mitochondria and Kidney Diseases, Grenoble, France Bethesda, United States Roland, French Duke University School of Franks, Kevin Center for Characterization of the cell-type bases of Benjamin Medicine, Durham, Interdisciplinary Research olfactory cortex activity United States in Biology, Paris, France Texier, French La Trobe Institute for Dougan, David Paul Sabatier University, Regulation of toxin-antitoxin-chaperone Pauline Molecular Science, Toulouse, France system by proteases Melbourne, Australia Vieyres, French Boyer Center for Lindenbach, Brett Centre for Experimental Trafficking and function of ABHD5 during Gabrielle Molecular Medicine, and Clinical Infection hepatitis C virus assembly in live infected University of Yale, New Research, TWINCORE, cells Haven, United States Hannover, Germany Weisbrod, French University of Milan, Italy DiFrancesco, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Identification of a putative Ca2+-activated K+ David Dario Aviv, Israel channel IKCa (SK4) in mouse sinoatrial node cells and its potential role in pacemaker activity Ballweg, German University of Pittsburgh, Brodsky, Jeffrey L. Goethe University, Analysis of intra-membrane sensing by the Stephanie United States Frankfurt, Germany OLE pathway in vitro Baumgarten, German University of Groningen, Slotboom, Stockholm University, Characterizing the effect of membrane lipid Thomas The Netherlands Dirk-Jan Sweden composition on the activity of the E. coli glutamate transporter GltP Benn, German Flanders Interuniversity Zwijsen, An Free University of Berlin, BMP-dependent SMAD versus non-SMAD Andreas Institute for Germany signalling in sprouting angiogenesis Biotechnology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Billmann, German University of Minnesota, Myers, Chad German Cancer Research Analysis of the dynamic genetic interaction Maximilian Minneapolis, Center, Heidelberg, landscape of Wnt signaling United States Germany Brand, German Institute of Research on Pouyssegur, University Hospital Generation and characterization of the Almut Cancer and Aging, Nice, Jacques Regensburg, Germany immunomodulatory effects of MCT1 and France Basigin KO in murine B16.SIY melanoma cells

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 63 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Bröhl, German Kyoto University, Japan Kageyama, Max Delbrück Center Analysis of Hes1 expression in muscle Dominique Ryoichiro for Molecular Medicine, satellite cells on a single-cell level Berlin, Germany Colinas, German Heinrich Heine University Weber, Andreas University of Geneva, The impact of vitamin B6 deficiency on Maite Düsseldorf, Germany Switzerland photorespiration Dahlhoff, German Weizmann Institute of Yarden, Yosef Ludwig Maximilian Investigation of ERBB2 and ERBB3 in the Maik Science, Rehovot, Israel University of Munich, human epidermis of the skin Germany Deditius, German University of Edinburgh, Pilizota, Teuta Helmholtz Centre of The effect of the virulence master regulator Julia Andrea United Kingdom Infection Research, HilD on flagellar rotation and proton motive Braunschweig, Germany force Della Corte, German Stanford University Levitt, Michael Jülich Research Center, Evaluation of mutants in computational Dennis School of Medicine, Germany protein design United States Floris, German Kennedy Krieger Institute, Mostofsky, University of Cambridge, Functional lateralization of motor circuit Dorothea Lilli Baltimore, United States Stewart United Kingdom connectivity and motor performance in children with autism Füchtbauer, German University of Cambridge, Schornack, Aarhus University, Involvement of Lotus LysM containing Winnie Sophie United Kingdom Sebastian Denmark proteins in the plant-pathogen interaction with Phytophthora palmivora Grosswendt, German Albert Einstein College Singer, Robert H. Max Delbrück Center Transcriptome-wide identification of Stefanie of Medicine, Yeshiva for Molecular Medicine, RNA:RNA Interactions University, New York, Berlin, Germany United States Haneklaus, German The Walter and Eliza Masters, Seth Trinity College, Dublin, NLRP3 regulation by miRNA-223, post- Moritz Hall Institute of Medical Ireland translational modification and novel binding Research, Melbourne, partners Australia Heusel, German University College London, Mercer, Jason Institute of Molecular Assessing protein interaction dynamics Moritz United Kingdom Systems Biology, Swiss during poxvirus infection by SEC-SWATH- Federal Institute of and AP-MS Technology Zurich, Switzerland Hirschberg, German The Institute of Molecular Kremer, Eric J. University of Bristol, A pharmacogenetic strategy to target Stefan Genetics of Montpellier, United Kingdom noradrenergic endogenous analgesic circuits France in vivo Krampen, German Stockholm University, de Gier, Jan Institute of Medical Characterizing the mechanism of SRP- Lea Sweden Willem Microbiology and Hygiene, targeting-avoidance of transmembrane Tübingen, Germany domain-containing substrates of bacterial type III secretion systems Kuhn, German University of Luxembourg, Hiller, Karsten Centre for Experimental Influence of bacterial and viral respiratory Maike Belval, Luxembourg and Clinical Infection pathogens on macrophage metabolism Research, TWINCORE, using stable isotope labeled tracer molecules Hannover, Germany

64 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Schaedler, German University of Amsterdam, Waterham, Rothamsted Research, Mechanism of fatty acid transport by Theresia The Netherlands Hans R. Harpenden, peroxisomal ABC proteins United Kingdom van den Boom, German The Rockefeller University, Funabiki, Hironori University of Duisburg- The role of p97 in the segregation of Ku80 Johannes New York, United States Essen, Germany from DNA double strand breaks Vögtle, German Institute of Molecular Madeo, Frank Albert Ludwig University Stress-induced re-translocation of the novel Friederike-Nora Biosciences, Graz, Austria Freiburg, Germany mitochondrial protein Pho88 Widderich, German Harvard Medical School, Rudner, David Philipp University of Spore formation at high salinity in Bacillus Nils Boston, United States Marburg, Germany subtilis Zeymer, German University College London, Hansen, D. Max Planck Institute Side-chain dynamics of key catalytic Cathleen United Kingdom Flemming for Medical Research, residues probed along the phosphoryl Heidelberg, Germany transfer reaction trajectory: What can we learn about the nature of the transition state? Zocher, German Johns Hopkins University Song, Hongjun Center for Regenerative Analyzing the influence of an enriched Sara School of Medicine, Therapies Dresden, environment on the DNA methylation Baltimore, United States Germany landscape in the adult mouse dentate gyrus Afratis, Greek University of Copenhagen, Couchman, John R. University of Patras, The role of cross-talk between estrogen Nikolaos Denmark Greece receptor and EGFR/IGFR/syndecans on hormone-dependent breast cancer cells Havaki, Greek University of Zurich, Lopes, Massimo National and Kapodistrian Sustained expression of p21WAF1 in a p53 Sophia Switzerland University of Athens, defective function environment triggers Greece replication stress leading to oncogenic activity Tavoulari, Greek University of Geneva, Martinou, Medical Research Council Structural analysis of the mitochondrial Sotiria Switzerland Jean-Claude Laboratory of Molecular pyruvate carrier Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom Adler, Hungarian University of Wisconsin- Shusta, Eric Trinity College, Dublin, Derivation of BBB endothelial cells from Nikoletta Madison, United States Ireland human pluripotent stem cells for progression of novel dynamic in vitro human BBB model Kremlitzka, Hungarian University of Lübeck, Köhl, Jörg Eötvös Loránd University, The impact of intracellular C3a/C3aR Mariann Germany Budapest, Hungary interactions on human B cell functions under steady state and inflammatory conditions Szikora, Hungarian European Molecular Lénárt, Péter Institute of Genetics, Investigating the mechanism of sarcomeric Szilárd Biology Laboratory, Szeged, Hungary actin filament assembly with super- Heidelberg, Germany resolution microscopy Heidarsson, Icelandic University of Cambridge, Clarke, Jane University of Copenhagen, Calcium-dependence of folding and Pétur United Kingdom Denmark misfolding pathways in a neuronal calcium sensor Lemarquis, Icelandic Leiden University Medical Toes, Rene University of Iceland, Role of B regulatory cells and spontaneous Andri Leo Center, The Netherlands Reykjavík, Iceland autoantibody production in the pathogenesis of IgA deficiency

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 65 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Bhan, Indian Institute of Molecular Niehrs, Christof University of Texas, Investigation of estradiol mediated Arunoday Biology, Mainz, Germany Arlington, United States demethylation of the CpG islands in the promoter of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), HOTAIR via GADD45a Garge, Indian University of Nottingham, Diggle, Steve Maharaja Sayajirao The effect of biogeography on the efficiency Sneha United Kingdom University of Baroda, of quorum quenching biocontrol on Vadodara, India phytopathogens Kamble, Indian Weizmann Institute of Aharoni, Asaph University of Pune, India Functional analysis of the tomato Avinash Science, Rehovot, Israel glycoalkaloid metabolism genes and promoters in response to fungal pathogens Kumaragurubaran, Indian German Cancer Research Augustin, Hellmut Indian Institute of Elucidating the role of angiopoietin-2 in Rathnakumar Center, Heidelberg, Technology Madras, thrombin-induced vascular leakage Germany Chennai, India Palle, Indian Harvard Medical School, Kuchroo, Vijay Technical University Reconstruction of an unbiased mechanistic Pushpalatha Boston, United States Munich, Germany model that describes how salt influences the differentiation of naive T cells into Th17 cells in EAE model Sonawane, Indian Karolinska University Maeurer, Markus KIIT University, Studies on T-cell responses of novel Avinash Hospital, Stockholm, Bhubaneswar, India Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine Sweden molecules and immunomodulatory glycopeptides in preclinical model Sreenivasa Indian Niels Bohr Institute, Semsey, Szabolcs The National Centre A theoretical and experimental evaluation of Gopalan, University of Copenhagen, for Biological Sciences, the E. coli galactose regulatory network Vishaka Datta Denmark Bangalore, India Surana, Indian Curie Institute, Paris, Perez, Franck The National Centre Tissue-specific targeting of L-DNA based Sunaina France for Biological Sciences, nanostructures in vivo using recombinant Bangalore, India antibodies Venkannagari, Indian Institute of Biochemistry Lüscher, Bernhard University of Oulu, Development of chemical probes to study Harikanth and Molecular Biology, Finland the cellular roles of ARTD10 Aachen University, Germany Ghorbani, Iranian Heinrich Heine University Simon, Rüdiger Ghent University, Belgium Intracellular localization of AtSBT6.1 and Sarieh Düsseldorf, Germany AtSerpin1 Gilgunn, Irish Monash University, Conroy, Paul Dublin City University, Investigation of the key interactions Sarah Melbourne, Australia Ireland between novel avian recombinant antibody fragments and the free prostate specific antigen (fPSA) O'Leary, Irish University Medical Center, Unger, Ronald E. Royal College of Surgeons The development of advanced respiratory Cian Johannes Gutenberg in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland co-culture in vitro models using a novel University, Mainz, bi-layered collagen-GAG scaffold for Germany applications in respiratory drug development and nanotoxicology

66 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project O'Neill, Irish Harvard School of Walsh, Conor J. Royal College of Surgeons Development of a pro-angiogenic, Hugh Engineering and Applied in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland biomaterial liner embedded in an external Sciences, Cambridge, direct cardiac compression device to United States regenerate the damaged myocardium after heart failure Williams, Irish Dalhousie University, Roger, Andrew J. Newcastle University, Investigating genomic and metabolic Tom Halifax, Canada Newcastle upon Tyne, innovation across a rooted archaeal tree United Kingdom Cohen, Israeli Max Delbrück Center Loewer, Alexander Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Monitoring the endogenous dynamics of the Meital for Molecular Medicine, Gan, Israel E2F circuitry in single living cells Berlin, Germany Frumkin, Israeli Harvard Medical School, Church, George M. The Weizmann Institute Re-coding the Escherichia coli genome to Idan Boston, United States of Science, Rehovot, Israel explore the evolution of the translation machinery Mamrut, Israeli Paris Sorbonne University, Berrih-Aknin, Technion – Israel Institute DNA methylation and gene expression Shimrat France Sonia of Technology, Haifa, Israel profiling of monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for myasthenia gravis Shahar, Israeli Princess Margaret Cancer Dick, John Rambam Health Care Leukemia heterogeneity and Tal Center, Toronto, Canada Campus, Haifa, Israel chemoresistance - Identifying cancer stem cell subpopulations in acute myeloid leukemia Arcella, Italian Massachusetts Institute Bathe, Mark Institute for Research in Designing self-assembled DNA origami Annalisa of Technology, Cambridge, Biomedicine, Barcelona, force-sensors United States Spain Asperti, Italian Technion – Israel Institute Meyron-Holtz, University of Brescia, Italy Roles of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in the Michela of Technology, Haifa, Israel Esther regulation of liver hepcidin expression Astro, Italian Max Planck Institute of Zerial, Marino San Raffaele Research Elucidating the mechanisms of ERC1a/liprin- Veronica Molecular CellBiology Institute, Milan, Italy alpha1 complex mediated cell polarization and Genetics, Dresden, and migration: a novel role in integrin Germany endocytosis? Bertolini, Italian Center of Molecular Bovolenta, Paola University of Milan, Italy Functional characterization of regulatory Jessica Armida Biology Severo Ochoa, sequences targeted by the transcription Madrid, Spain factor SOX2, identified by studies of long- range chromatin interactions in brain- derived neural stem/precursor cells Bonaiuti, Italian Center for Molecular Knop, Michael FIRC Institute of In vivo measurement of Spindle Assembly Paolo Biology, University of Molecular Oncology, Checkpoint signal and response Heidelberg, Germany Milan, Italy Bruzzone, Italian University of Regensburg, Griesenbeck, University of Geneva, Compositional and structural studies of Maria Jessica Germany Joachim Switzerland nuclease hypersensitive fragile nucleosomes Candotti, Italian University of Zurich, Schuler, Ben Institute for Research in A disordered protein in a cell-like Michela Switzerland Biomedicine, Barcelona, environment: alteration of its structure and Spain dynamic explored quantitatively by single- molecule FRET and MD simulation

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 67 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Carroni, Italian Center for Molecular Bukau, Bernd University of London, Disaggregation of alpha-synuclein amyloid Marta Biology, University of United Kingdom fibers human molecular chaperones Heidelberg, Germany Esposito, Italian Villefranche-sur-mer Hudson, Clare Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Transcriptional regulation and gene function Rosaria Developmental Biology Dohrn', Naples, Italy of Gsx, a gene expressed in the photoreceptor Laboratory, France cell lineage in Ciona intestinalis Franciosini, Italian RIKEN Center for Sugimoto, Keiko Sapienza University of Role of the SCFCFK1 ubiquitin ligase in the Anna Sustainable Resource Rome, Italy promotion of cell size in Arabidopsis thaliana Science, Yokohama, Japan Fusco, Italian University of Minnesota, Veglia, Gianluigi University of Cambridge, Unveiling the structure and dynamics of Giuliana Minneapolis, United Kingdom alpha-synuclein bound to lipid vesicles United States Gandini, Italian Innsbruck Medical Parson, Walther University of Pavia, Italy Ancient and recent migrations to Africa from Francesca University, Austria the Middle East Gatto, Italian Imperial College London, Barton, Paul J. R. Spanish National Centre Unravelling alternative splicing role and Alberto United Kingdom for Cardiovascular regulation in human heart failure Research, Madrid, Spain La Rosa, Italian Imperial College London, Bundy, Jake Spanish National Centre Metabolic profiling to unravel the role of Ruggero United Kingdom for Biotechnology, Madrid, the Crc global regulator in optimizing the Spain metabolism in Pseudomonas putida Leanza, Italian University of Duisburg- Gulbins, Erich University of Padova, Italy In vivo effects of new inhibitors of a Luigi Essen, Germany mitochondrial potassium channel in a melanoma mouse model Legnini, Italian Max Delbrück Center Rajewsky, Sapienza University of Identification and study of circular RNAs Ivano for Molecular Medicine, Nikolaus Rome, Italy involved in muscle differentiation and Berlin, Germany disease Loda, Italian Curie Institute, Paris, Heard, Edith Erasmus Medical Centre, Xist RNA-mediated silencing of X-linked and Agnese France Rotterdam, autosomal genes: does genomic position The Netherlands matter? Loffreda, Italian Stockholm University, Visa, Neus University of Milano- Investigating the role of paraspeckles in the Alessia Sweden Bicocca, Italy cellular response to DNA damage (DDR) Luchinat, Italian European Molecular Neveu, Pierre University of Florence, Protein overexpression and isotopic labeling Enrico Biology Laboratory, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy in cultured embryonic stem cells for in-cell Heidelberg, Germany NMR Mariotti, Italian University College Cork, Atkins, John F. Centre for Genomic Characterization of the residue inserted Marco Ireland Regulation, Barcelona, by translational readthrough in the Spain hymenoptera SPS1-rt gene Maschietto, Italian University of Natural Rainer, Catholic University of the Metabolomic study of pathways conferring Valentina Resources and Life Schuhmacher Sacred Heart, Piacenza, resistance against mycotoxigenic fungi in Sciences, Tulln, Austria Italy maize Mascia, Italian University College Dublin, Doohan, Fiona University of Bari, Italy RNA interference in Phytophthora infestans Tiziana Ireland against TMV infection (RIPAT)

68 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Masuzzo, Italian Weizmann Institute of Geiger, Benjamin Ghent University, Belgium Advancing cell migration research via Paola Science, Rehovot, Israel bioinformatics Moretto, Italian Interdisciplinary Institute Choquet, Daniel Institute of Neuroscience, Tetraspanin 5 enriched microdomain Edoardo for Neurosciences, Milan, Italy provides a platform for dendritic spine University of Bordeaux, formation France Nascimbeni, Italian Paris Descartes University, Codogno, Patrice University of Padova, Italy Role of ER-plasma membrane contact sites Anna France in mammalian autophagosome biogenesis Pasini, Italian University of Birmingham, Overton, Tim University of Barcelona, E. coli engineering for recombinant protein Martina United Kingdom Spain secretion and flow-cytometry analysis for physiological characterization Pisano, Italian University of Helsinki, Hämäläinen, Sapienza University of Evaluating the rescuing effects of the Annalinda Finland Riikka Rome, Italy carboxy-terminal domain of human mitochondrial leucyl-tRNA synthetase on iPCSs-derived neurons carrying the 3243A>G mutation in the MTTL1 gene Raggi, Italian Jean-Pierre Bourgin Mouille, Grégory Sapienza University of Molecular mechanisms of plant response to Sara Institute, Versailles, Rome, Italy pectin damage France Saponaro, Italian Helmholtz Center Munich, Pellegata, Natalia University of Pisa, Italy Evaluation of the efficacy of novel drugs Federica German Research Center against gonadotroph pituitary adenomas for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany Scarpa, Italian Paul Sabatier University, Theveneau, Eric University College London, Differences between cell-cell and cell-matrix Elena Toulouse, France Kingdom adhesion forces lead to a contact inhibition of locomotion response Sisalli, Italian University College London, Duchen, Michael University of Naples Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria Maria Jose United Kingdom Federico II, Italy interactions and Ca2+ crosstalk in in vitro model of Parkinson's disease Stefanelli, Italian University of Victoria, Ausió, Juan University of Insubria, Characterization of a novel phosphorylation Gilda Canada Busto Arsizio, Italy site of MeCP2 that might be involved in neuronal morphogenesis and chromatin related functions Tebaldi, Italian Institute for Adaptive Sanguinetti, Centre for Integrative Development of an algorithm for the Toma and Neural Computation, Guido Biology, Trento, Italy identification and prioritization of post- University of Edinburgh, transcriptional interactions (RNA-proteins United Kingdom and RNA-RNA) from data generated by the CLIP-seq family of techniques Tomasello, Italian Center for Regenerative Calegari, Federico Neuroscience Institute, Role of miRNAs in cerebral cortex folding Ugo Therapies Dresden, San Juan de Alicante, Germany Spain

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 69 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Truini, Italian University of Michigan, Beer, David National Cancer Research Identification and heterogeneity of Anna Ann Arbor, United States George Institute, University metastasis-selected gene alterations in lung Hospital San Martino, cancer Genova, Italy Vassalli, Italian University of Bath, Kelsh, Robert Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Gene regulatory networks controlling Quirino Attilio United Kingdom Dohrn', Naples, Italy chordate photoreceptor cell development Tanaka, Japanese University of Oklahoma, Masly, John P. Oxford Brookes University, Comparative analysis of development of Kentaro United States United Kingdom male terminal structures between Drosophila species Corral Lugo, Mexican Hiroshima University, Kato, Junichi Zaidín Experimental Functional annotation of chemoreceptors Andrés Japan Station, Granada, Spain by high-throughput chemotaxis assay screening Gomez, Mexican University of Bern, Meister, Peter Andalusian Centre for Functional role of MEL-28/ELYS in nuclear Georgina Switzerland Developmental Biology, organization Seville, Spain Cunnington, New Free University of Teusink, Bas Massey University, Selection for yield in yeast to investigate the Emelyne Zealander Amsterdam, Auckland, New Zealand nature of the Crabtree-effect The Netherlands North, New University of Gothenburg, Friemann, University of Canterbury, Sialic acid import and degradation by a Rachel Zealander Sweden Rosmarie Christchurch, clinically important human pathogen New Zealand Soreng, Norwegian Cancer Research UK, Tooze, Sharon University of Oslo, Norway Phosphoinositide-binding proteins in Kristiane London Research Institute, autophagy: Characterization of the PX-BAR United Kingdom protein SNX18 in autophagy Adamczuk, Polish Laval University, Quebec, Charette, Steve University of Warsaw, Role of mobile genetic elements in the Marcin Canada Poland genomic plasticity and loss of virulence in Aeromonas salmonicida, the etiologic agent of furunculosis, which is an important disease for farmed fish Drebert, Polish The Queen’s Hadoke, Patrick Ghent University, Belgium Role of glucocorticoids and selective Zuzanna Medical Research glucocorticoid receptor modulators in Institute,University of angiogenesis Edinburgh, United Kingdom Dyla, Polish Weill Cornell Medical Blanchard, Scott C. Aarhus University, Single-molecule studies of a bacterial Mateusz College, New York, Denmark homologue of SERCA United States Gacek, Polish The University of Batley, Jacqueline Plant Breeding and Genome-wide association study in Katarzyna Queensland, Brisbane, Acclimatization Institute – regulation of fatty acid composition in Australia National Research Brassica napus Institute, Poznan, Poland Janiszewska Likus, Polish King’s College London, Tavassoli, Institute of Human Functional analyses of miR-1246 and miR- Joanna United Kingdom Mahvash Genetics, Poznan, Poland 1290 involvement in pathogenesis of head and neck cancers

70 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Jurkowska, Polish The Babraham Institute, Reik, Wolf Stuttgart University, Controlling the methylation writers - Renata Cambridge, Germany regulation of the Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b DNA United Kingdom methyltransferases by posttranslational modifications Kania, Polish The Beatson Institute for Ryan, Kevin Mossakowski Medical Investigation of autophagy in verapamil- Elzbieta Cancer Research, Glasgow, Research Centre,Polish induced cell death United Kingdom Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland Makala, Polish Wellcome Trust Centre for Tollervey, David Institute of Biochemistry Studies of direct interaction between the Ewa Cell Biology, University of and Biophysics,Polish negative regulator of RNA polymerase III - Edinburgh, Academy of Sciences, Maf1 and tRNAs United Kingdom Warsaw, Poland Ostrowska, Polish Pasteur Institute, Paris, Ghigo, Jean-Marc University of Lodz, Poland Mechanisms of induction of persistence by Kinga France nutrient stress and SOS response in bacterial biofilms Rysnik, Polish University of Amsterdam, Baeten, University of Oxford, Investigating aberrant HLA-B27 expression Oliwia The Netherlands Dominique United Kingdom in an HLA-B27 transgenic rat arthritis model and in human spondyloarthritis synovium Stolarczyk, Polish McGill University, Lukács, Gergely L. Erasmus Medical Center, Is ROS a link between ADAM17 activity and Marta Montreal, Canada Rotterdam, CFTR deficiency? The Netherlands Zapisek, Polish The French National Bonnefoy, University of Warsaw, Characterization of the ppr10 gene from Bartosz Centre for Scientific Nathalie Poland Schizosaccharomyces pombe Research, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Zwirowski, Polish Center for Molecular Bukau, Bernd University of Gdansk, Characterization of bacterial and yeast small Szymon Biology, University of Poland heat shock protein substrate complexes Heidelberg, Germany Bordeira-Carriço, Portuguese University Pablo de Gómez-Skarmeta, IBMC-INEB Associated Genome-wide analysis of the pancreatic Renata Olavide, Seville, Spain Jose Luis Laboratory, University of regulatory landscapes in zebrafish Porto, Portugal Carvalhal, Portuguese University Hospital Carl Hübner, Angela University of Dundee, Study of ALADIN meiotic function in female Sara Gustav Carus, Dresden, United Kingdom mouse oocytes Germany Lince-Faria, Portuguese European Molecular Pepperkok, Rainer Gulbenkian Institute of New microtubule regulators involved in Mariana Biology Laboratory, Science, Oeiras, Portugal centriole biogenesis Heidelberg, Germany Matos, Portuguese Tübingen University, Ragni, Laura New University of Lisbon, Effects of thermospermine on the secondary Andreia Germany Oeiras, Portugal growth of the Arabidopsis hypocotyl Moscoso, Portuguese Ludwig Maximilian Jung, Kirsten Imperial College London, Understanding how c-di-AMP impacts Joana University, Munich, United Kingdom potassium transport across the membrane Germany in Staphylococcus aureus

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 71 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Paquete, Portuguese Boston University, Elliott, Sean New University of Lisbon, Elucidation of the catalytic properties of Catarina United States Oeiras, Portugal redox enzymes that belongs to the octaheme cytochrome c family Rosario, Portuguese Columbia University, Mancia, Filippo Institute of Chemical and Structure determination of Ana New York, United States Biological Technology, phosphatidylinositol synthase from Oeiras, Portugal Mycobacterium tuberculosis (PIPSMt) and human (PIPSh) Salgado, Portuguese Biochemistry and Plant Zimmermann, Stockholm University, What are the carbon sources supplied to Marco Molecular Physiology, Sabine Sweden Frankia in actinorhizal nodules? French National Center for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France Vaz, Portuguese University of Oxford, Ligoxygakis, New University of Lisbon, Determination of the ability of Filipa United Kingdom Petros Oeiras, Portugal Staphylococcus aureus mutants lacking peptidoglycan binding proteins to cause disease in the Drosophila infection model Bakalenko, Russian University of Cambridge, Akam, Michael Saint Petersburg State Antisense Hox transcripts of annelids Alitta Nadezhda United Kingdom University, Russian virens and Platynereis dumerilii Federation Korobeinikova, Russian Innsbruck Medical Piendl, Wolfgang Institute of Protein Studying the role of essential ribosomal Anna University, Austria Research, Russian protein L5 and its structural elements in the Academy of Sciences, formation of the functionally active bacterial Pushchino, Russian ribosome Federation Lapin, Russian Laboratory of Plant- Deslandes, Max-Planck Institute for Investigating a regulator of immune Dmitry Microbe Interactions, Laurent Plant Breeding Research, receptor-chromatin association Toulouse, France Cologne, Germany Mayorova, Russian Queen Mary University of Elphick, Koltzov Institute of Developmental analysis of neuropeptide Tatiana London, United Kingdom Maurice R. Developmental Biology expression in the starfish Asterias rubens of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation Melnikov, Russian The Rockefeller University, Rout, Michael Institute of Genetics and Dual role of protein extensions in eukaryotic Sergey New York, United States Molecular and Cellular ribosomes: systematic identification of Biology, Illkirch, France factors that bind and guide ribosomal proteins towards the ribosome assembly site Pyatrikas, Russian University of Milan, Italy Costa, Alex Siberian Institute of Plant mitochondria in regulation of calcium Darya Plant Physiology and homeostasis in Arabidopsis cells during heat Biochemistry, Irkutsk, shock Russian Federation Sluchanko, Russian Catholic University of Strelkov, Sergei V. A. N. Bach Institute of Atomic structure of the complex of human Nikolai Leuven, Belgium Biochemistry of Russian HspB6 with the universal adapter protein Academy of Sciences, 14-3-3 Moscow, Russian Federation

72 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Syutkin, Russian Albert Ludwig University Albers, Institute of Protein Investigation of environmental effects on Alexey Freiburg, Germany Sonja-Verena Research, Russian the assembly and function of Haloarcula Academy of Sciences, marismortui motility apparatus Pushchino, Russian Federation Ulanova, Russian Pasteur Institute, Paris, Levraud, University of Oslo, Norway Investigation of the role of leukocytes in Lilia France Jean-Pierre Francisella infection using a zebrafish model Gak, Serbian Institute of Molecular Gerlich, Daniel Technical University of Visualizing restriction point control in live Igor Biotechnology, Vienna, Dresden, Germany cells Austria Wong, Singaporean The Sainsbury Laboratory, Zipfel, Cyril Aarhus University, Identification of protein interaction partners Mei Mei Jaslyn Norwich, United Kingdom Denmark of nod factor receptors in Lotus japonicus Elizabeth through proteomic approaches Konte, Slovenian Julius Maximilian Terpitz, Ulrich University of Ljubljana, Physiological role of rhodopsins from Tilen University of Würzburg, Slovenia selected halotolerant and halophilic fungi Germany Hockman, South African California Institute of Bronner, Weatherall Institute Deciphering neural crest development in the Dorit Technology, Pasadena, Marianne of Molecular lamprey United States Medicine,University of Oxford, United Kingdom Heo, South Korean North Carolina State Sozzani, University of Helsinki, High resolution map of phloem gene Jungok University, Raleigh, Rosangela Finland expression United States Acebes Huerta, Spanish University of Messina, Ferlazzo, Guido University Institute of NK/DC cells interplay in the Andrea Italy Oncology of Asturias, immunosurveillance against cancer cell DNA Oviedo, Spain ploidy Alvarez, Spanish University of Toulouse, Legube, Gaelle University of Seville, Spain Genome-wide map of TOP2-induced DNA Alejandro France break hotspots Arechederra, Spanish Developmental Biology Maina, Flavio Complutense University Analysis of C3G function in HGF/Met induced Maria Institute of Marseille- of Madrid, Spain migration and invasion of hepatocarcinoma Luminy, France cells Arjona Madueño, Spanish University College London Kleta, Robert Radboud University Functionomics of the membrane transporter Francisco Jesús Medical School, Medical Center, Nijmegen, SLC41A1: a new molecular player involved in United Kingdom The Netherlands renal Mg2+ reabsorption? Baison-Olmo, Spanish University of Geneva, Soldati, Thierry University of Seville, Spain Dictyostelium discoideum as host model for Fernando Switzerland Salmonella enterica Bajic, Spanish Biological Research Center, Papp, Balázs Spanish National Centre Decoding the global gene expression Djordje Hungarian Academy of for Biotechnology, Madrid, reprogramming in genetically perturbed Sciences, Szeged, Hungary Spain yeasts Barcena- Spanish The Broad Institute of MIT Zhang, Feng University of Oviedo, CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing for Fernandez, and Harvard, Cambridge, Spain the generation of new models of aging and Clea United States cancer

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 73 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Bernal, Spanish Imperial College London, Filloux, Alain Zaidín Experimental First steps toward the biochemical and Patricia United Kingdom Station, Granada, Spain structural characterisation of a novel type VI secretion system effector-immunity pair Bidart, Spanish Utrecht University, Willemsen, Institute of Agrochemistry Immunomodulatory properties of human Gonzalo The Netherlands Linette and Food Technology, milk-like oligosaccharides synthesized Valencia, Spain using the transglycosylation activity of glycosidases isolated from lactic acid bacteria Blasco Moreno, Spanish Max Planck Institute for Leidel, Sebastian Pompeu Fabra University, Dissecting the role of the exonuclease Xrn1p Bernat Molecular Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain in cellular translational control Münster, Germany Brunet Galmés, Spanish University of Warwick, Christie-Oleza, University of Balearic Proteomic insights into naphthalene Isabel Coventry, United Kingdom Joseph Islands, Palma, Spain degradation by Pseudomonas Caballero Bermejo, Spanish University of Osnabrück, Brandt, Ronald University of Extremadura, Tau phosphorylation at threonine-50 and Montaña Germany Caceres, Spain threonine-69: Physiological consequences Casado, Spanish Max Delbrück Center Rocks, Oliver Institute of Biology and Beta2-chimaerin in breast cancer: roles in Victoria for Molecular Medicine, Molecular Genetics, cytoskeletal dynamics, cell adhesions and Berlin, Germany Valladolid, Spain spatio-temporal control of Rac during these processes Catalan, Spanish University of Zurich, Wagner, Andreas Carlos III University of Evolutionary consequences of the coupling Pablo Switzerland Madrid, Leganés, Spain of levels in the genotype-phenotype map Cortiguera, Spanish University of Leicester, Wagner, Simon University of Cantabria, Effects of the histone deacetylase inhibitor María Gabriela Leicester, United Kingdom Santander, Spain romidepsin in lymphoma B-cells and Bcl6 regulation Cruz Martinez, Spanish Wellcome Trust-Medical Franklin, Robin University of Miguel Study of mesenchymal stem cell-mediated Pablo Research Council, Hernández, Alicante, activation of signaling pathways in neural Cambridge Stem Cell Spain stem progenitor cells Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom del Peso Santos, Spanish European Molecular Benes, Vladimir Umea University, Sweden Deciphering temperature and metabolic Teresa Biology Laboratory, dependent regulation of biofilm Heidelberg, Germany development in Vibrio cholerae Domínguez Spanish Danish Cancer Society Bartek, Jiri University of Seville, Spain Novel CtIP Interactors that control its repair Sánchez, Research Centre, function María Copenhagen, Denmark Duran-Frigola, Spanish Tel Aviv University, Israel Ruppin, Eytan Institute for Research in Rational polypharmacology through Miquel Biomedicine, Barcelona, genome-scale metabolic networks Spain Escribano, Spanish University of California, McManus, Complutense University Role of non-coding RNAs in the beta cell Oscar San Francisco, Michael of Madrid, Spain hyperplasia observed in the mouse model United States of type 2 diabetes iLIRKO (inducible Liver Insulin Receptor KnockOut)

74 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Escudero Paniagua, Spanish Jules Stein Eye Institute, Williams, David S. University of Salamanca, CRB2 silencing in an in vivo model Antonio University of California, Spain Los Angeles, United States Fernández López, Spanish Pasteur Institute, Paris, Glaser, Philippe Biological Research Conjugative transfer of a streptococcal Cristina France Centre, Madrid, Spain integrative and mobilizable element Flores, Spanish University of Reading, Gibson, Glenn Institute of Food Science, Human gut microbiota effects on Gema United Kingdom Technology and Nutrition, anthocyanins encapsulated with Madrid, Spain cyclodextrins Floristán Spanish New York University Hernando-Monge, Institute of Biomedical Analysis of Lysyl Oxidase-Like 3 (LOXL3) Muruzábal, Langone Medical Center, Eva M. Research 'Alberto Sols', and microRNAs (miRNAs) relationship in Alfredo United States Autonomous University of metastatic melanoma Madrid, Spain Fructuoso, Spanish Paris Diderot University, Janel, Nathalie Centre for Genomic The role of Dyrk1A on homeostatic regulation Marta France Regulation, Barcelona, of feeding behavior in a Down syndrome Spain mouse model Garanto, Spanish University of Iowa, Tucker, Budd A. Radboud University Antisense oligonucleotide based therapy Alejandro United States Medical Centre, Nijmegen, for CEP290-associated LCA in iPSC-derived The Netherlands photoreceptors García Hernández, Spanish University Medical Center, Sanchez, University of Salamanca, Proteomic analysis of the soluble fraction Violeta Geneva, Switzerland Jean-Charles Spain of the pancreas during the early phase of acute pancreatitis employing a TMT labeling approach. Effect of the inhibition of MAPKs and type IV phosphodiesterase García Linares, Spanish Abo Akademi University, Slotte, J. Peter Complutense University Molecular dissection of the membrane Sara Turku, Finland of Madrid, Spain requirements for actinoporins optimum functionality García-Fontana, Spanish The Rockefeller University, Hai-Chua, Nam University of Granada, Characterization of plant-microorganism Cristina New York, United States Spain interaction at transcriptomic level as a biotechnological tool Getino, Spanish University of Surrey, Jiménez, Jose I. University of Cantabria, Bacteriophages as evolvable conjugation María Guildford, Santander, Spain inhibitors United Kingdom Gómez Climent, Spanish Charité – University Hasan, Mazahir T. University Pablo de Regulation of fear memory and active coping María Ángeles Medicine Berlin, Germany Olavide, Seville, Spain by the motivational circuit Gonzalez Spanish Wageningen University, van Kan, Jan University of La Laguna, Role of highly O-glycosylated proteins in the Carracedo, The Netherlands Spain virulence of Botrytis cinerea Mario González-Prieto, Spanish German Cancer Research Schmidt, Manfred University of Cantabria, Characterization of the integration pattern Coral Center, Heidelberg, Santander, Spain obtained after genetic modification of Germany human cells with a conjugative relaxase by nrLAM-PCR and next-generation sequencing

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 75 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Guijas, Spanish University of Colorado, Murphy, Robert C. University of Valladolid, Identification of molecular species of Carlos Aurora, United States Spain triglycerides and diglycerides in plasma from patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis Hernández-Varas, Spanish ICFO-Institute of Photonic Lakadamyali, Karolinska Institutet, Dissecting cell-matrix adhesion complex Pablo Sciences, Castelldefels, Melike Huddinge, Sweden anatomy by super-resolution microscopy Spain Herrero del Rio, Spanish Pasteur Institute, Paris, Arenzana- University of Jaen, Spain Innate immunity genes and resistance to Mª del Rocío France Seisdedos, HIV-1 infection Fernando Izquierdo, Spanish Curie Institute, Paris, Manel, Nicolas Spanish National Centre Role of mitochondrial functions in HIV Helena France for Cardiovascular infection and immunity Research, Madrid, Spain Juarez Vicente, Spanish Center for Molecular Melchior, Frauke Andalusian Center for Analysis of SUMOylation during neuronal Francisco de Paula Biology, University of Molecular Biology and differentiation Heidelberg, Germany Regenerative Medicine, Seville, Spain Labrador Garrido, Spanish University of Cambridge, Knowles, Andalusian Center for Kinetic analysis of the aggregation Adahir United Kingdom Tuomas P. Molecular Biology and mechanism of alpha-synuclein in the Regenerative Medicine, presence of nanobodies Seville, Spain Lobato Márquez, Spanish Swiss Federal Institute McKinney, John Biological Research Single cell-based analysis to study how Damián of Technology, Lausanne, Centre, Madrid, Spain toxin-antitoxin systems of the pathogen Switzerland Salmonella enterica contribute to persistence during infection of the eukaryotic cell Lombana Sacristán, Spanish Institute of Pharmacy Schneider, Dirk Complutense University Use of the gallex system to check the Laura and Biochemistry – of Madrid, Spain interaction of hepatitis c virus envelope Therapeutical Life glycoproteins at the plasmatic membrane Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz , Germany Lopez Fabuel, Spanish Medical Research Council Murphy, Institute of Functional Understanding the molecular mechanism Irene Laboratory of Molecular Michael P. Biology and Genomics, responsible for the different mitochondrial Biology, Cambridge, Salamanca, Spain complex I assembly in neurons and United Kingdom astrocytes and its bioenergetics consequences López-Escardó, Spanish University of Paris-Sud, López-García, Institute of Evolutionary Diversity and distribution of two deep- David Orsay, France Purificación Biology, Barcelona, Spain branching enigmatic protist groups prior to the metazoan radiation, Filasterea and Corallochytrea Maeso, Spanish Oceanographic Escrivá, Héctor University Pablo de Functional survey of developmental Ignacio Observatory in Banyuls- Olavide, Seville, Spain regulatory landscapes in the amphioxus sur-Mer, France genome

76 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Marcos Ramiro, Spanish King’s College London, Cox, Susan Center of Molecular Study of the dynamics of Rho GTPases during Beatriz United Kingdom Biology 'Severo Ochoa', endothelial barrier recovery using advanced Autonomous University of imaging techniques Madrid, Spain Mas Lladó, Spanish University of Warwick, Christie-Oleza, University of Balearic Proteogenomics analysis of diesel tolerance Maria Coventry, United Kingdom Joseph Islands, Palma, Spain and degradation in nine marine Roseobacter isolates from the coast of Mallorca Matheu, Spanish San Francisco University, Lima Ribeiro, Health Research Role of SOX9 in gastric cancer Ander Sao Paulo, Brazil Marcelo Biodonostia Institute, San Sebastian, Spain Maycas Cepeda, Spanish Indiana UniversityMedical Bellido, Teresita Jiménez Díaz Foundation Study of mechanical loading alone and in Marta Center, Indianapolis, University Hospital, combination with parathyroid hormone United States Madrid, Spain related protein (PTHrP) to reverse the alterations of bone micro-architecture in diabetic mice Mercader, Spanish The Broad Institute of MIT Altshuler, David Barcelona Characterisation of genetic mosaicism in Josep M and Harvard, Cambridge, Supercomputing Center, type 2 diabetes patients: causal mechanism United States Barcelona, Spain and diagnosis Miralles-Duran, Spanish Karlsruhe Institute of Fisher, Reinhard University of Seville, Spain Localization and interaction by fluorescence Alejandro Technology, Germany of the photoreceptor protein WcoB with other proteins from Phycomyces blakesleeanus using Aspergillus nidulans as a model Moreno Amatria, Spanish Cardiff University, Birchall, James C. University of Navarra, Leishmania vaccination using microneedles Esther United Kingdom Pamplona, Spain and DNA nucleosomal histones Núñez-Gómez, Spanish University College London, Greenwood, John University of Salamanca, Role of LRG1 in modulating endoglin- Elena United Kingdom Spain mediated endothelial cell signaling and function Oriola, Spanish University of Oxford, Gadélha, Hermes University of Barcelona, Active fluctuations in sperm flagella David United Kingdom Spain Palomino, Spanish Institute of Organic Luy, Burkhard Príncipe Felipe Research Optimization of a new fast bidimensional Martina Chemistry, Karlsruhe, Center, Valencia, Spain nuclear magnetic resonance experiment for Germany the analysis of biological samples Peralta López, Spanish Institute of Genetics and Vermot, Julien Spanish National Centre Identifying mechanotransduction pathways Marina Molecular and Cellular for Cardiovascular triggering epicardial development in Biology, Strasbourg, Research, Madrid, Spain zebrafish embryos France Perez-Benavente, Spanish The Institute of Molecular Piechaczyk, Marc University of Valencia, Identification of new transcriptional targets Beatriz Genetics of Montpellier, Spain of JunB involved in cell proliferation France Perez-Carro, Spanish Radboud University Cremers, Jiménez Díaz Foundation Next-generation sequencing in inherited Raquel Nijmegen Medical Centre, Frans P. M. University Hospital, retinal dystrophies: Searching for novel The Netherlands Madrid, Spain causative variants in 700 uncharacterized Spanish families

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 77 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Pozo Guisado, Spanish University of Dundee, Alessi, Dario R. University of Extremadura, Determination of ORAI1 phosphorylation Eulalia United Kingdom Badajoz, Spain sites Pun, Spanish Temple University School Koch, Walter J. Spanish National Centre Gene therapy for Beta3-adrenoreceptor Andrés of Medicine, Philadelphia, for Cardiovascular overexpression in cardiomyocytes with United States Research, Madrid, Spain rAAV9 Rodríguez Herrán, Spanish University Medical Center, Laparra Llopis, University of Leon, Spain Evaluation of the immunomodulatory Alexandra Johannes Gutenberg José Moises features within the gut-liver axis of two University, Mainz, Lactobacilli with probiotic potential Germany Rodríguez Navarro, Spanish University of Bern, Dufour, Vall d'Hebron Research Does physical exercise decrease the risk of Sarai Switzerland Jean-François Institute, Barcelona, Spain HCC? Use of an orthotopic syngeneic MH rat model Roldán López, Spanish Abo Academi University, Slotte, J. Peter Complutense University Understanding pulmonary surfactant Nuria Turku, Finland of Madrid, Spain protein SP-C/cholesterol interactions: Effect of SP-C on cholestatrienol distribution in lung surfactant membranes Ruano Gallego, Spanish Imperial College London, Frankel, Gad Spanish National Centre Arming commensal E. coli to fight bacterial David United Kingdom for Biotechnology, Madrid, pathogens Spain Rueda Carrasco, Spanish German Center for Heneka, Michael Center of Molecular Elucidating the role of Sfrp1 in brain Javier Neurodegenerative Biology 'Severo Ochoa', inflammation Diseases, Bonn, Germany Autonomous University of Madrid , Spain Sanchez Alcudia, Spanish University of Lausanne, Rivolta, Carlo Jiménez Díaz Foundation Whole genome sequencing in retinitis Rocio Switzerland University Hospital, pigmentosa: searching for pathogenic DNA Madrid, Spain variants in 11 Spanish families Santos Zas, Spanish The Institute of Myology, Mouly, Vincent University Clinical Validation of the myogenic action of the Icía Paris, France Hospital of Santiago, obestatin/GPR39 system in human for the Santiago de Compostela, treatment of myopathies Spain Sastre-Moreno, Spanish National Institute for Holt, Ian J. Center of Molecular Role of PrimPol in tolerating oxidative Guillermo Medical Research, London, Biology 'Severo Ochoa', damage in mitochondria United Kingdom Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Vargas, Spanish Leiden University Medical Koster, Bram Spanish National Centre Novel methods for automatic image quality Javier Center, The Netherlands for Biotechnology, Madrid, assessment for high-throughput cryo Spain electron microscopy Yeramian, Spanish Norwegian Radium Lyng, Heidi Biomedical Research Signaling pathways and miRNA patterns Andree Hospital,Oslo University Institute of Lleida, Spain involved in endometrial cancer resistance Hospital, Norway to therapy Zubeldia Plazaola, Spanish Lawrence Berkeley LaBarge, Mark Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Role of the microenvironment in the Arantzazu National Laboratory, Spain heterogeneity and evolution of breast cancer Berkeley, United States

78 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Cornille, Swedish South China Botanical Huang, Huirun Uppsala University, Testing experimental local adaptation in Amandine Garden, Chinese Academy Uppsala, Sweden the worldwide annual polyploid shepherd's of Sciences, Guangzhou, purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) China Grimsholm, Swedish Bambino Gesú Children's Carsetti, Rita University of Gothenburg, B-cell tolerance mechanisms in primary Ola Hospital, Rome, Italy Sweden immunodeficiencies Geiger, Swiss Max Planck Institute of Mann, Matthias Institute for Research in Proteome and secretome atlas of human Roger Biochemistry, Martinsried, Biomedicine, Bellinzona, immune cells Germany Switzerland Ben Farhat, Tunisian Humanitas Clinical and Garlanda, Cecilia Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Susceptibility to aspergillosis and PTX3 Khaoula Research Center, Rozzano, Tunisia deficiency Italy Girgin Ersoy, Turkish University of Helsinki, Saris, Per Gebze Institute of The effect of multiple copies of fhuR and Zeynep Finland Technology, Kocaeli, rpiA genes of Lactococcus lactis on nisin Turkey biosynthesis Saglar, Turkish Aarhus University, Fenton, Robert A. Hacettepe University, Functional analysis of aquaporin-2 gene Emel Denmark Ankara, Turkey mutation that cause nephrogenic diabetes insipidus Tyutyunnykova, Ukrainan National Center for Dubrovska, Anna The Institute of Molecular Phospholipase C epsilon as a potential Anna Radiation Research Biology and Genetics biomarker for the head and neck cancer in Oncology, Dresden, of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Germany Ukraine Rosconi, Uruguayan University of Cambridge, Grant, Andrew Clemente Estable High-throughput transposon mutagenesis Federico United Kingdom Biological Research studies in plant growth promoting bacteria Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay Katz, US-American National Institute for Guillemot, Institute of Neurobiology, Deciphering an evolutionarily conserved Shauna Medical Research, London, Francois Gif-sur-Yvette, France mechanism of microRNA regulation in adult United Kingdom neural stem cells Klosowiak, US-American Curie Institute, Paris, Houdusse-Juille, Northwestern University, Structure and function of the mitochondrial Julian France Anne Chicago, United States protein Miro Lawrence, US-American Heinrich Heine University Simon, Rüdiger Yale University, New Microscopic analysis of G(beta gamma) Stacey Düsseldorf, Germany Haven, United States heterodimer interaction with FLS2 and BAK1 receptor complexes Minikel, US-American University Hospital Zurich, Aguzzi, Adriano Harvard Medical School Genome-wide CRISPR screen for loss-of- Eric Switzerland and Broad Institute, function mutations that reduce prion protein Boston, United States expression Ruff, US-American Institute Jacques Monod, Strick, Térence University of Wisconsin, Single-molecule investigation of the initial Emily University of Paris, France Madison, United States steps of transcription initiation by DNA nanomanipulation

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 79 ERS | EMBO joint fellowships awarded in 2014 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Home laboratory Project Hilvering, Dutch University of Oxford, Pavord, Ian University Medical Center Group 2 innate lymphoid cells and severe Bart United Kingdom Utrecht, The Netherlands non-atopic, eosinophilic asthma Tischler, German University of Cologne, Thomas, Roman University Hospital Zurich, Modulators of oncogenic signaling in lung Verena Germany Switzerland cancer – understanding the mechanisms of resistance in settings of precision therapy

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Applications

To From* Austria Belgium Croatia Republic Czech Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Republic Slovak Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey UK Eastern Europe USA/Canada Others Total Austria 1 2 2 1 2 8 Belgium 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 12 Croatia 1 1 Czech Republic 1 1 2 Denmark 2 1 1 3 1 1 3 2 1 5 20 Estonia 1 1 Finland 1 2 1 1 5 France 1 3 2 2 6 1 1 2 15 1 1 2 2 2 11 52 Germany 4 3 1 1 2 2 1 3 2 2 6 3 3 1 1 22 3 2 4 5 4 12 87 Greece 0 Hungary 1 1 2 4 Iceland 0 Ireland 1 1 3 5 Israel 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 4 12 Italy 1 1 4 3 2 1 2 1 8 23 Luxembourg 1 1 2 Netherlands 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 3 4 18 Norway 1 4 1 6 Poland 1 1 Portugal 1 1 1 2 5 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 1 1 Spain 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 16 31 Sweden 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 2 4 17 Switzerland 1 1 10 4 1 1 3 21 Turkey 1 1 2 UK 2 2 3 2 4 1 2 8 2 1 5 4 36 2 3 1 18 96 EMBL 1 1 3 1 1 7 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 3 4 1 2 2 3 11 4 2 2 8 7 1 3 22 2 2 1 8 1 89 Others 1 2 4 2 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 20 Total 11 14 1 6 8 0 6 8 33 3 12 1 8 9 50 0 19 2 13 18 2 1 133 10 8 9 31 20 10 102 548 * “From” refers to home laboratory (see list on pages 58 – 80)

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To From* Austria Belgium Croatia Republic Czech Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Republic Slovak Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey UK Eastern Europe USA/Canada Others Total Austria 1 2 2 1 1 7 Belgium 1 1 1 1 4 Croatia 0 Czech Republic 0 Denmark 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 Estonia 0 Finland 1 2 1 4 France 1 3 1 4 1 1 2 12 1 2 2 5 35 Germany 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 5 3 1 1 1 12 3 4 2 2 3 48 Greece 0 Hungary 1 1 Iceland 0 Ireland 1 1 2 Israel 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 Italy 1 1 1 1 1 2 7 Luxembourg 1 1 Netherlands 1 4 1 3 2 11 Norway 1 1 2 Poland 1 1 Portugal 1 1 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 0 Spain 3 1 1 1 2 8 Sweden 1 1 1 1 1 2 7 Switzerland 1 8 4 1 1 15 Turkey 0 UK 2 1 3 2 3 3 2 1 3 1 19 1 2 8 51 EMBL 1 1 1 1 1 5 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 1 1 1 1 3 9 2 2 2 5 1 2 11 2 8 51 Others 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 10 Total 4 10 1 4 7 0 3 6 23 2 2 1 5 5 23 0 14 2 8 6 0 1 76 6 6 2 26 7 5 29 284 * “From” refers to home laboratory (see list on pages 58 – 80)

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www.embo.org/funding-awards/young-investigators [email protected]

Launched in 2000, the programme has supported 342 scientists in 19 EMBC Member States. Gerlind Wallon Researchers from Singapore and Taiwan have joined the programme due to cooperation Programme Manager agreements signed in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The EMBO Young Investigators benefit from training opportunities designed to raise their profile, widen their networks and support their research groups.

EMBO Young Investigators 2014 Name Nationality Institute Research interest Country Gad Asher Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Mammalian circadian clocks IL Petr Broz Swiss Biocentre, University of Basel Inflammasome complexes CH Felipe Cortés Ledesma Spanish Andalusian Molecular Biology and Repair of blocked DNA breaks ES Regenerative Medicine Centre, Seville Filippo Del Bene Italian Institut Curie, Paris Neural circuit formation and function FR Mads Gyrd-Hansen Danish University of Oxford Ubiquitin signalling UK Mario Halic Croatian University of Munich (LMU) Small RNA mediated heterochromatin DE formation Sebastian Hiller German Biocentre, University of Basel Outer membrane protein biogenesis CH Michael Hothorn German University of Geneva Membrane signalling in plants CH Jan Huisken German MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Imaging developmental processes DE Claudine Kraft Swiss Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Regulation and signalling in autophagy AT François Leulier French Institute of Functional Genomics in Lyon (IGFL) Host/microbiota interactions FR Hai-Kun Liu Chinese German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Central nervous system stem cells DE Massimiliano Italian Vesalius Research Center, VIB & KU Leuven Macrophages in ischemia and cancer BE Mazzone Yuki Nakamura Japanese Academia Sinica, Taipei Lipid diversity in plant development TW Lionel Navarro French Institute of Biology of the ENS (IBENS), Paris Small RNAs and innate immunity FR Caren Norden German MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Retinal morphogenesis DE Diego Pasini Italian European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan Epigenetics in differentiation and cancer IT Lori Passmore British MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Macromolecular machines for RNA synthesis UK Michael Potente German MPI for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim Angiogenesis and metabolism DE Halyna Shcherbata Ukrainian MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Solingen miRNAs in cell differentiation and maintenance DE Maria Teresa Teixeira Portuguese Institut de Biologie, Paris Telomere biology FR Kristin Tessmar-Raible German Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Circalunar clocks AT Ines Thiele German University of Luxembourg Modelling of human metabolism LU Steven West British University of Edinburgh Nuclear pre-mRNA processing UK Thomas Wollert German MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried Molecular mechanism of autophaghy DE Philip Zegerman British Wellcome Trust / CRUK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge Regulation of genome replication UK Johannes Zuber German Research Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Cancer drug target identification with RNAi AT

84 EMBO Young Investigators EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Young Investigators 2000 – 2013

Adams, Ralf Chin, Jason Ginhoux, Florent Kondrashov, Fyodor Miguel-Aliaga, Rico, Beatriz Tanaka, Tomoyuki Agami, Reuven Chiti, Fabrizio Glotzer, Michael Konieczny, Igor Irene Rizzoli, Silvio Tanay, Amos Ahel, Ivan Choudhary, Gönczy, Pierre Kunji, Edmund Milán, Marco Robinson, Robert Tapon, Nicolas Allain, Frédéric Chunaram González-Reyes, Milo, Ron Rodriguez, Ivan Tarsounas, Labib, Karim Alon, Uri Christoforidis, Acaimo Miska, Eric Roska, Botond Madalena Savvas Gotta, Monica Lakadamyali, Mitchell, Kevin Tavernarakis, Amit, Ido Melike Rouse, John Antonny, Bruno Clausen, Tim Grill, Stephan Moller, Simon Geir Nektarios Längst, Gernot Sablina, Anna Arber, Silvia Collinson, Ian Groth, Anja Morillon, Antonin Teichmann, Sarah Lappalainen, Pekka Sahai, Erik Arkowitz, Robert Conradt, Barbara Grunwald Kadow, Mosialos, George Teleman, Aurelio Lecuit, Thomas Salecker, Iris Arribas, Joaquin Corona, Davide Ilona Mota, Maria Telford, Maximilian Cosma, Maria Pia Lehner, Ben Sandberg, Rickard Therond, Pascal Ashe, Hilary Hajkova, Petra Musacchio, Andrea Costanzo, Vincenzo Lemaitre, Bruno Santos, Manuel Thery, Manuel Averof, Michalis Hajnal, Alex Cowling, Victoria Levashina, Elena A. Nagy, Laszlo Saudou, Frédéric Thompson, Barry Azzalin, Claus Hanna, Jacob Cramer, Patrick Leys, David Nehrbass, Ulf Schärer, Orlando D. Tolar, Pavel Maria Hardingham, Giles Currie, Peter Logan, Darren Neuhauss, Stephan Schedl, Andreas Torres-Padilla, Barkai, Naama Harkany, Tibor Logan, Malcolm Nichols, Benjamin Schleper, Christa Maria-Elena Barr, Francis d’Adda di Fagagna, Hassan, Bassem Lohmann, Jan Nissen, Poul Schlötterer, Trouche, Didier Fabrizio Barral, Yves Haucke, Volker Lopes, Massimo Nollen, Ellen Christian Trumpp, Andreas Daumke, Oliver Barre, Helariutta, Ykä López-Bendito, Noselli, Stéphane Schneitz, Kay Tsiantis, Miltos François-Xavier Davis, Daniel Helms, Volkhard Guillermina Schnittger, Arp Odom, Duncan Tuschl, Thomas Basto, Renata de Gier, Jan-Willem Hidalgo, Alicia Lorentzen, Esben Schnorrer, Frank Oldroyd, Giles Batista, Facundo Del Pozo, Miguel A. Hirst, Judy Lovering, Andrew Schratt, Gerhard Uhlmann, Frank Otzen, Daniel Baum, Buzz Delledonne, Hoffmann, Eva Löwe, Jan Schübeler, Dirk Ulrich, Helle Massimo Owen-Hughes, Tom Behrens, Axel Holstege, Frank Lüdde, Tom Schuh, Melina Ungermann, Dessen, Andrea Owen, David Christian Beja, Oded Hoogenraad, Luke, Brian Schuldiner, Maya Dickson, Barry Oxenius, Annette Bellaiche, Yohanns Casper Lygerou, Zoi Schulze, Almut van Aalten, Daan Dominguez, Maria Ben-Yehuda, Sigal Hopfner, Karl-Peter Van den Madan Babu, M. Palková, Zdena Schwappach, Benton, Richard Donaldson, Anne Hoppe, Thorsten Blanche Ackerveken, Guido Mailand, Niels Palmer, Ruth Berezikov, Eugene Drew, David Hummel, Thomas Scorrano, Luca van der Goot, Gisou Makinen, Taija Pasero, Philippe Berger, Frédéric Dutzler, Raimund Segal, Eran van Steensel, Bas Ivaska, Johanna Malnasi Csizmadia, Peeper, Daniel Bertolotti, Anne Einsle, Oliver Andras Pellizzoni, Livio Selbach, Matthias Veening, Jacobs, Jacqueline Jan-Willem Bertrand, Edouard Elena, Santiago Mansuy, Isabelle Peracchi, Alessio Seoane, Joan Janke, Carsten Veldhoen, Marc Bettencourt-Dias, Elf, Johan Manzanares, Perrakis, Anastassis Silva-Santos, Bruno Mónica Etienne- Jansen, Ralf Miguel Peters, Antoine Simons, Mikael Vendruscolo, Michele Blanpain, Cédric Manneville, Jarriault, Sophie Marin, Oscar Peters, Jan-Michael So, Eric Vermot, Julien Blázquez, Miguel Sandrine Jefferis, Gregory Marine, Petronczki, Mark Sorek, Rotem Verstrepen, Kevin Bochtler, Matthias Jensen, Kim Jean-Christophe Philpott, Dana Sourjik, Victor Fankhauser, Vinkemeier, Uwe Boulton, Simon Christian Jensen, Torben Marques-Bonet, Pierre, Philippe Soutoglou, Evi Heick Viola, Antonella Bousso, Philippe Fernández- Tomas Pilpel, Yitzhak Spahn, Christian Jessberger, Voinnet, Olivier Boutros, Michael Capetillo, Óscar Marston, Adele Spang, Anne Sebastian Poirazi, Panayiota Briscoe, James Fernández-Chacón, Martens, Sascha Polo, Simona Sprecher, Simon Walden, Helen Rafael Jovine, Luca Bühler, Marc Martin-Bermudo, Posas, Francesc Stancheva, Irina Walther, Tobias Fischer, André Maria Dolores Bujnicki, Janusz Kaessmann, Henrik Prud’homme, Stark, Alexander Wilson, Daniel Bumann, Dirk Friml, Jiri Kaufmann, Kerstin Martín-Serrano, Benjamin Juan Stock, Daniela Wimmer, Ernst A. Fuks, François Keays, David Sträßer, Katja Wutz, Anton Carballido-López, Martin, Sophie Radtke, Freddy Ketting, René Rut Garel, Sonia Martinez, Javier Ralser, Markus Strick, Terence Khakh, Baljit Yanai, Itai Carleton, Alan Garinis, George Más, Paloma Reddy, Akhilesh Stumpf, Michael Klaholz, Bruno Carroll, Jason Geldner, Niko Mathieu, Olivier Reich, Ziv Suomalainen- Zarivach, Raz Klose, Robert Wartiovaara, Anu Zeeman, Samuel Carter, Andrew Gerhardt, Holger Mattevi, Andrea Rescigno, Maria Knoblich, Jürgen Szabò, Ildikò Zernicka-Goetz, Carvalho, Pedro Gerlich, Daniel Mehlen, Patrick Reversade, Bruno Wolfram Köhler, Claudia Magdalena Casares, Fernando Meier, Pascal Ricci, Romeo Taipale, Jussi Cavaillé, Jérôme Gil, Jesus Komander, David Zimmermann, Meraldi, Patrick Richards, Thomas Tamagnone, Luca Pascale

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86 EMBO Young Investigators EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2014 Young Investigator Conference Location Date Fyodor Kondrashov Population Genetics Group 47 GB-Bath 7 – 10 January Sascha Martens EMBO Workshop: Protein and Lipid Function in Secretion AT-Goldegg 14 – 19 January and Endocytosis Marc Veldhoen Keystone Symposia: Emerging Cytokine Networks CA-Vancouver 17 – 22 January Sebastian Jessberger Adult Neurogenesis: From stem cells to therapies IN-Mumbai 6 – 8 February Melike Lakadamyali 58th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting US-San Francisco 15 – 19 February Markus Ralser Keystone Symposium: Omics Meets Cell Biology: US-Taos 18 – 23 February Applications to Human Health and Disease Jacqueline Jacobs & Madalena Abcam Meeting: Maintenance of Genome Stability KN-St. Kitts 3 – 6 March Tarsounas Sascha Martens Gordon Research Conference: Autophagy in Stress, IT-Lucca (Barga) 16 – 21 March Development and Disease Massimo Lopes Gordon Conference: DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer US-Ventura 16 – 21 March Markus Ralser Biochemical Society Focused Meeting: Redox regulation in GB-Edinburgh 19 – 21 March health and disease Beatriz Rico EMBO Workshop: Mechanisms of neuronal remodelling IL-Ein-Gedi 22 – 26 March Sebastian Jessberger Keystone Symposia: Adult neurogenesis SE-Stockholm 12 – 17 May Daniel Wilson EMBO Workshop | Recoding: Reprogramming Genetic IE-Killarney 13 – 18 May Decoding Anja Groth EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course on Nuclear Proteomics GR-Kos 18 – 23 May Eva Hoffmann 2014 Meiosis Gordon Conference US-New London 1 – 6 June Pedro Carvalho EMBO Workshop: Cellular Imaging of Lipids IT-Vico Equense 2 – 6 June Robert Klose & Kevin Verstrepen Society for molecular biology and evolution annual meeting US-Puerto Rico 8 – 12 June Anja Groth Gordon Research Conference: US-Waltham 8 – 13 June Chromatin structure and function Pavel Tolar FASEB Science Research conference on Immunoreceptors US-Steamboat Springs 15 – 20 June Bruno Reversade ISSCR 12th Annual Meeting CA-Vancouver 18 – 21 June Rut Carballido-López Gordon Research Conference: Bacterial Cell Surfaces US-West Dover 22 – 27 June Irene Miguel-Aliaga EMBO Conference: The Molecular and Developmental GR-Kolymbari 22 – 28 June Biology of Drosophila Kim Jensen 3rd Midnight Sun Symposium: LRIG Proteins and the SE-Abisko 26 – 29 June Regulation of Growth Factor Signaling Anja Groth Gordon Research Conference: Genomic Instability CN-Hong Kong 6 – 11 July

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Young Investigators 87 EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2014 Young Investigator Conference Location Date Maya Schuldiner Gordon Research Conference: Thiol-Based Redox ES-Girona 20 – 25 July Regulation and Signaling Niko Geldner Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress US-Newry 3 – 8 August in Plants Sophie Martin Gordon Research Conference: US-Andover 10 – 15 August Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton Sonia Garel Gordon Research Conference: Neural Development US-Newport 10 – 15 August Petra Hajkova 14th FEBS Young Scientist Forum FR-Paris 27 – 30 August Sophie Jarriault EMBO Conference: The Molecular and cellular basis of ES-Sant Feliu de Guixols 6 – 10 September regeneration and tissue repair Raz Zarivach 4th International Meeting on Magnetotactic Bacteria BR-Rio de Janeiro 15 – 18 September Tomas Marques-Bonet & The Genome: Structure, Expression and Evolution IT-Naples 22 – 24 September Benjamin Prud'homme Niko Geldner 9th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting 2014 DE-Heidelberg 24 – 26 September Renata Basto & Manuel Thery EMBO conference: Centrosome and Spindle Pole Bodies PT-Lisbon 30 Sep – 3 October Marc Bühler IMB Conference ‘Nuclear RNA in Gene Regulation & DE-Mainz 9 – 12 October Chromatin Structure’ Ben Lehner X meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology ES-Madrid 13 – 15 October (SEBD) Jacqueline Jacobs & Daniel Wilson 15th IUBMB – 24th FAOBMB – TSBMB International TW-Taipei 21 – 26 October Conference Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Transition from Basic to Translational Sascha Martens Jacques Monod Conference: Molecular basis for membrane FR-Roscoff 15 – 19 November remodelling and organization

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EMBO Installation Grants, launched in 2006, strengthen science by funding researchers to Gerlind Wallon relocate and establish laboratories in one of the participating member states of, Croatia, Czech Programme Manager Republic, Estonia, Poland, Portugal, and Turkey. Awardees are closely integrated into the Young Investigator network, helping them to build reputations in the European scientific community.

EMBO Installation Grant Recipients 2014 Name Nationality Moving from Moving to Research interest Nuno Barbosa-Morais Portuguese University of Toronto, CA Institute of Molecular Medicine, Cancer transcriptomes and metastasis Lisbon, PT Tolga Çukur Turkish University of California, Bilkent University, Ankara, TR Investigation of the visual system Berkeley, US Ana Domingos Portuguese The Rockefeller University, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Neurobiological control of obesity New York, US Oeiras, PT Peter Lukavsky Austrian Stanford University, US CEITEC, Masaryk University, Molecular basis of aberrant splicing Brno, CZ Günes Özhan Turkish University of Technology Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Wnt/β-catenin signalling Dresden, DE Center (iBG), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TR Pavel Plevka Czech Purdue University, Indiana, US CEITEC, Masaryk University, Structural studies of Picornaviruses Brno, CZ Piotr Setny Polish Technical University of Munich, Centre for New Technologies, Hydration effects in proteins DE University of Warsaw, PL Gerhard Wingender German La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Invariant Natural Killer T cells in allergy Immunology, US Center (iBG), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TR

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The EMBO Courses & Workshops Programme funds high-quality meetings and provides scientists Anne-Marie Glynn at all career stages with networking and training opportunities. The selection processes ensure Programme Manager that only the best and most diverse life science meetings are funded.

EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014 Title Organizer Location Dates Practical Courses Metabolomics bioinformatics for life scientists R. Salek UK-Cambridge 17 – 21 March EMBC Member States Advanced optical microscopy B. Amos UK-Plymouth 2 – 12 April Computational structural biology G. Battle UK-Hinxton 7 – 11 April Computational molecular evolution A. Stamatakis GR-Heraklion 5 – 14 May Bioinformatics and genomes analyses F. Tekaia GR-Athens 5 – 17 May The structural characterization of C. Petosa FR-Grenoble 2 – 7 June macromolecular complexes Non-coding RNAs: From discovery to function V. Benes IE-Galway 7 – 13 June Molecular genetics with fission yeast B. Arcangioli FR-Paris 30 June – 11 July 3D Developmental imaging G. Martins PT-Oeiras 4 – 12 July Correlative light electron microscopy P. Verkade UK-Bristol 6 – 11 July Solution and solid-state NMR of paramagnetic P. Turano IT-Sesto Fiorentino 13 – 19 July molecules Biomolecular simulation M. Nilges FR-Paris 20 – 27 July Genotype to phenotype mapping of complex L. Emery UK-Hinxton 28 July – 1 August traits Multidimensional NMR in structural biology C. Griesinger DE-Joachimsthal 10 – 15 August Light sheet microscopy P. Tomancak DE-Dresden 18 – 29 August Cryo-electron microscopy and 3D image J. Briggs DE-Heidelberg 31 August – processing 9 September Ubiquitin and related modifiers K. Hofmann IT-Alghero 6 – 13 September Protein expression, purification, and R. Meijers DE-Hamburg 8 – 16 September characterization (PEPC9) Microscopy, modelling and biophysical F. Nedelec DE-Heidelberg 8 – 20 September methods

90 EMBO Courses & Workshops EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014 Title Organizer Location Dates Practical Courses Single-cell gene expression analysis J. Dreyer-Lamm DE-Heidelberg 19 – 25 September EMBC Member States Targeted proteomics: Experimental design and E. Sabidó ES-Barcelona 28 September – (cont.) data analysis 3 October Non-coding RNA in infection J. Vogel DE-Würzburg 12 – 18 October Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data G. Rustici UK-Hinxton 20 – 25 October High-throughput microscopy for systems R. Pepperkok DE-Heidelberg 20 – 26 October biology Solution scattering from biological D. Svergun DE-Hamburg 27 October – macromolecules 3 November Biomolecular interaction analysis: From F. Silva PT-Porto 24 – 28 November molecules to cells

Practical Courses Computational biology: Genomes to systems P. Bork CL-Puerto Varas 3 – 9 April Non-EMBC Member Computational analysis of protein-protein N. Mulder ZA-Cape Town 28 September – States interactions: From sequences to networks 3 October

Workshops Protein and lipid function in secretion and S. Tooze AT-Goldegg am See 14 – 19 January EMBC Member States endocytosis Signalling to and from endomembranes H. Farhan DE-Hegne 15 – 19 March Mechanisms of neuronal remodelling O. Schuldiner IL-Ein Gedi 22 – 26 March Stalked alpha-Proteobacteria and relatives: P. Viollier DE-Ebsdorfergrund 30 March – 3 April From genes to structure Recoding: Reprogramming genetic decoding J.F. Atkins IE-Killarney 13 – 18 May Glycobiology and glycochemistry: Applications P. Videira PT-Lisbon 26 – 30 May to human health and disease Magnetic resonance for cellular structural R. Pierattelli IT-Principina Terra 1 – 6 June biology Histone variants M.E. Torres Padilla FR-Strasbourg 2 – 4 June Cellular imaging of lipids G. D'Angelo IT-Vico Equense 2 – 6 June Simultaneous profiling of RNA and protein S. Bustin UK-Chelmsford 7 – 7 July using proximity ligation assay Intercellular communication in plant M. Heinlein FR-Bischoffsheim 24 – 29 August development and disease Advances in protein – protein interaction X. Morelli FR-Hyères 9 – 12 September analysis and modulation

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses & Workshops 91 EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014 Title Organizer Location Dates Workshops Unraveling biological secrets by single-cell J. Dreyer-Lamm DE-Heidelberg 25 – 26 September EMBC Member States expression profiling (cont.) Decoding neural circuit structure and function A. Celik TR-Istanbul 26 – 28 September Development and regeneration of the spinal E. Martí Gorostiza ES-Sitges 1 – 4 October cord Cancer stem cells 20 years later: Achievements, G. Morrone IT-Catanzaro 3 – 6 October controversies, emerging concepts and technologies Human RNA viruses A. Marcello TR-Istanbul 6 – 8 October Translational advances in cancer cell signalling A. Carracedo ES-Bilbao 7 – 9 October and metabolism Non-coding RNAs in genome expression, A. Morillon FR-Cargèse 7 – 10 October maintenance and stability Epigenetic plasticity: Implications in neural J. Marques PT-Braga 22 – 25 October (dys)function A systems-level view of cytoskeletal function B. Geiger SE-Stockholm 27 – 31 October

Workshops Current advances in membrane trafficking: M.P. Marzolo CL-Puerto Natales 9 – 14 September Non-EMBC Member Implications for polarity and diseases States Wnt signalling: Stem cells, development and E. Vincan AU-Broome 6 – 9 October disease Cell plasticity and nuclear dynamics C. Stewart SG-Singapore 12 – 15 October Stem cells and epigenetics in cancer E. So CN-Hong Kong 16 – 18 October Upstream and downstream of Hox genes R. Mishra IN-Hyderabad 14 – 17 December

Conferences and The mighty Daphnia: Past, present and future L. Mirbahai UK-Birmingham 19 – 22 January Conference Series Visualizing biological data (VIZBI 2014) S. ODonoghue DE-Heidelberg 5 – 7 March EMBC Member States Human evolution in the genomic era: origins, C. Batini UK-Leicester 1 – 4 April populations and phenotypes Telomeres, telomerase and disease P. Baumann BE-Brussels 30 April – 4 May Molecular biology of muscle development and I. Bozzoni IT-Acaya 14 – 18 May regeneration Lymphocyte signalling C.T. Baldari IT-Bertinoro 17 – 21 May Cellular signalling and cancer therapy I. Dikic HR-Cavtat 23 – 27 May Microtubules: Structure, regulation and C. Janke DE-Heidelberg 28 – 31 May functions

92 EMBO Courses & Workshops EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014 Title Organizer Location Dates Conferences and Enzyme mechanisms by biological systems N. Scrutton UK-Manchester 1 – 4 June Conference Series Gene transcription in yeast: From regulatory D.M. Shore ES-Sant Feliu de 14 – 19 June EMBC Member States networks to mechanisms Guixols (cont.) The molecular and developmental biology of A. Ephrussi GR-Kolymbari 22 – 28 June Drosophila Microbiology after the genomics revolution C. Buchrieser FR-Paris 24 – 27 June (Genomes 2014) Viruses of microbes: Structure and function, J. Klumpp CH-Zurich 14 – 18 July from molecules to communities Chemical biology E. Lemke DE-Heidelberg 20 – 23 August Brain development and disorders Y. Ben-Ari FR-La Ciotat 5 – 8 September The molecular and cellular basis of E. Salo ES-Sant Feliu de 6 – 10 September regeneration and tissue repair Guixols Interdisciplinary plant development O. Leyser UK-Cambridge 21 – 24 September Innate lymphoid cells G. Eberl FR-Paris 29 September – 1 October Centrosomes and spindle pole bodies M. Bettencourt-Dias PT-Lisbon 30 September – 3 October Stem cells in cancer and regenerative medicine C. Nerlov DE-Heidelberg 9 – 12 October Experimental approaches to evolution and L. Steinmetz DE-Heidelberg 12 – 15 October ecology using yeast and other model systems The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) as a hub for M. Schuldiner ES-Girona 26 – 31 October organelle communication From functional genomics to systems biology E. Furlong DE-Heidelberg 8 – 11 November

Conferences and Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins: At the F. Pelisch AR-Buenos Aires 19 – 24 October Conference Series crossroads from chromatin to protein Non-EMBC Member States

ESF | EMBO Symposia Cell polarity and membrane trafficking D. St. Johnston PL-Pułtusk 10 – 15 May Biology of plastids: Towards a blueprint for A. Weber PL-Pułtusk 21 – 26 June synthetic organelles Synthetic biology of antibiotic production E. Takano ES-Sant Feliu de 30 August – Guixols 4 September Long regulatory RNAs A. Werner PL-Pułtusk 13 – 18 September

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses & Workshops 93 EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2014 Title Organizer Location Dates ESF | EMBO Symposia Flies, worms and robots: Combining M. Louis ES-Sant Feliu de 8 – 13 November (cont.) perspectives on minibrains and behaviour Guixols

EMBO | EMBL Translating diabetes J.C. Brüning DE-Heidelberg 30 April – 3 May Symposia Tumour microenvironment and signalling A.J. Berns DE-Heidelberg 7 – 10 May Molecular machines: Lessons from integrating T. Carlomagno DE-Heidelberg 18 – 21 May structure, biophysics and chemistry Epithelia: The building blocks of multicellularity H.C. Clevers DE-Heidelberg 27 – 30 August The complex life of mRNA A. Ephrussi DE-Heidelberg 5 – 8 October Frontiers in metabolism: From molecular J. Auwerx DE-Heidelberg 17 – 20 November physiology to systems medicine

EMBO | FEBS Lecture Biophysics of channels and transporters F.M. Ashcroft IT-Erice 11 – 17 May Courses Nuclear proteomics A. Imhof GR-Kos 17 – 22 May

EMBO Global Structural and biophysical methods for D. Svergun BR-São Paulo 19 – 26 January Exchange Lecture biological macromolecules in solution Courses Biology of bacterial non-coding RNAs C. Valverde AR-Bernal 4 – 9 March Non-EMBC Member States High-throughput next generation sequencing F. Guerfali TN-Tunis 15 – 25 September applied to infectious diseases Biochemistry and molecular biology: Bench to L.C. Cameron BR-Cuiabá/Poconé 27 October – bedside approaches 7 November

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Laboratory Management Courses 2014 Title Organizer Location Dates Laboratory EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 28–30 January Management (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) Courses*** EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 3–6 February (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 18–20 February (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 10–13 March (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 25–27 March (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 1–3 April (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 28–30 April (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 5–8 May (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 20–22 May (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 9–11 June (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 16–18 June (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 14-17 July (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 6-9 October (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 4–6 November (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course: Female A. Glynn DE-Leimen 5–7 November Leaders in Science M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) (for independent group leaders) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 10–13 November (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 17–20 November (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg)

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Laboratory Management Courses 2014 Title Organizer Location Dates Laboratory EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 24–27 November Management (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) Courses*** EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 2–4 December (cont.) (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg)

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EMBO monitors gender balance in all of its activities and develops initiatives to counteract Gerlind Wallon imbalances and to raise awareness of issues facing female scientists as their careers advance. An Manager annual award highlights major contributions of female researchers to the life sciences.

Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics EMBO Membership (including Associate Members) EMBO Courses & Workshops 2010 – 2014 Year Total number of members % Women (including EMBO | EMBL Symposia, EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses, 2002 1126 13 EMBO Conference Series, EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Courses, 2003 1162 13 EMBO Practical Courses, EMBO Workshops, ESF | EMBO Symposia) 2004 1191 14 Year % women % female speakers 2005 1223 14 2011 49 27 2006 1271 14 2012 47 29 2007 1305 14 2013 46 30 2008 1357 14 2014 49 32 2009 1413 15 2010 1461 15 2011 1492 15 2012 1532 16 2013 1567 16 2014 1657 17

98 EMBO Women in Science EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics EMBO Short-Term Fellowships Applications % Awards % Success rate % 2010 Female applicants 230 55 126 58 55 Male applicants 191 45 93 42 49 Overall 421 219 52 2011 Female applicants 267 53 152 54 57 Male applicants 239 47 129 46 54 Overall 506 281 55 2012 Female applicants 317 54 165 53 52 Male applicants 268 46 147 47 55 Overall 585 312 53 2013 Female applicants 340 61 172 61 51 Male applicants 220 39 108 39 49 Overall 560 280 50 2014 Female applicants 322 59 167 59 52 Male applicants 226 41 117 41 52 Overall 548 284 52 2010 – 2014 Female applicants 1476 56 782 57 53 Male applicants 1144 44 594 43 52 Overall 2620 1376 53

Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics EMBO Long-Term Fellowships Applications % Awards % Success rate % 2010 Female applicants 802 48 123 45 15 Male applicants 866 52 152 55 18 Overall 1668 275 17 2011 Female applicants 748 46 103 38 14 Male applicants 885 54 165 62 19 Overall 1633 268 16 2012 Female applicants 739 48 115 47 16 Male applicants 816 52 132 53 16 Overall 1555 247 16 2013 Female applicants 793 48 77 42 10 Male applicants 852 52 108 58 13 Overall 1645 185 11 2014 Female applicants 742 45 86 35 12 Male applicants 906 55 161 65 18 Overall 1648 247 15 2010 – 2014 Female applicants 3824 47 504 41 13 Male applicants 4325 53 718 59 17 Overall 8149 1222 15

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Women in Science 99 Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics EMBO Young Investigator Programme Applications % Awards % Success rate % 2010 Female applicants 39 28 3 14 8 Male applicants 98 72 18 86 18 Overall 137 21 15 2011 Female applicants 57 35 8 36 14 Male applicants 107 65 14 64 13 Overall 164 22 13 2012 Female applicants 57 36 8 36 14 Male applicants 103 64 14 64 14 Overall 160 22 14 2013 Female applicants 59 31 5 22 8 Male applicants 133 69 18 78 14 Overall 192 23 12 2014 Female applicants 64 32 7 26 11 Male applicants 138 68 20 74 14 Overall 202 27 13 2010 – 2014 Female applicants 276 32 31 27 11 Male applicants 579 68 84 73 15 Overall 855 115 13

Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics EMBO Installation Grants Applications % Awards % Success rate % 2010 Female applicants 11 32 3 43 27 Male applicants 23 68 4 57 17 Overall 34 7 21 2011 Female applicants 8 30 3 43 38 Male applicants 19 70 4 57 21 Overall 27 7 26 2012 Female applicants 11 28 1 10 9 Male applicants 29 73 9 90 31 Overall 40 10 25 2013 Female applicants 20 31 2 33 10 Male applicants 45 69 4 67 9 Overall 65 6 9 2014 Female applicants 27 39 2 25 7 Male applicants 42 61 6 75 14 Overall 69 8 12 2010 – 2014 Female applicants 77 33 11 29 14 Male applicants 158 67 27 71 17 Overall 235 38 16

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The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually to young scientists for outstanding contributions to the life sciences in Europe.

EMBO Gold Medalists 1986 – 2014

1986 John Tooze Heidelberg, DE 1998 Adriano Aguzzi Zurich, CH 2009 Olivier Voinnet Strasbourg, FR 1987 Barbara Pearse Cambridge, UK 1999 Konrad Basler Zurich, CH 2010 Jason W. Chin London, UK 1988 Antonio Lanzavecchia Basel, CH 2000 Christof Niehrs Heidelberg, DE 2011 Simon Boulton London, UK 1989 Hugh Pelham Cambridge, UK Daniel St. Johnston Cambridge, UK 2012 Jirˇí Friml Ghent, BE 1990 Erwin Wagner Vienna, AT 2001 Matthew Freeman Cambridge, UK 2013 Thijn Brummelkamp Amsterdam, NL 1991 Patrick Stragier Paris, FR 2002 Amanda Fisher London, UK 2014 Sophie Martin Lausanne, CH 1992 Carl-Henrik Heldin Uppsala, SE 2003 Anthony Hyman Dresden, DE 1993 Jim Smith London, UK 2004 María Blasco Madrid, ES 1994 Paolo Sassone-Corsi Strasbourg, FR 2005 Dario Alessi Dundee, UK 1995 Richard Treisman London, UK 2006 Frank Uhlmann London, UK 1996 Enrico Coen Norwich, UK 2007 Jan Löwe Cambridge, UK 1997 Dirk Görlich Heidelberg, DE 2008 James Briscoe London, UK

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Every year, EMBO Members are funded to present keynote lectures at international scientific Anne-Marie Glynn meetings. Keynote lectures raise awareness of EMBO activities, support members in their Manager collaborations with scientists from associated fields and promote European science worldwide.

EMBO Keynote Lectures 2014 Name Lecture Title Location Date Keynote Lectures Gunnar von Heijne Meeting of the Italian Bioinformatics IT-Rome 26 – 28 February EMBC Member States Society (BITS2014) Nicholas Talbot European Conference of Fungal Genetics ES-Seville 23 – 27 March (ECFG12) Søren Brunak Integrative and Computational Biology ES-Barcelona 27 – 28 March Joint Symposium – V IMPPC Annual Conference and 4DCellFate Workshop Ada Yonath Structure and Dynamics of Biological IT-Rome 8 – 9 April Macromolecules Roger Patient 7th Swiss Zebrafish Meeting CH-Geneva 24 – 25 April Poul Nissen Biophysics of Channels and Transporters IT-Erice 11 – 17 May Malcom F. White CRISPR 2014 DE-Berlin 14 – 16 May Angus I. Lamond EMBO | FEBS Lecture Course on Nuclear GR-Kos 17 – 21 May Proteomics Urs Jenal Young Microbiologists Symposium on UK-Dundee 2 – 3 June Microbe Signalling, Organisation and Pathogenesis Luca Scorrano Euromit 2014, the International Meeting FI-Tampere 15 – 19 June on Mitochondrial Pathology Nils-Göran Larsson Euromit 2014, the International Meeting FI-Tampere 15 – 19 June on Mitochondrial Pathology Susumu Tonegawa International Workshop on Dendrites GR-Heraklion (Crete) 1 – 4 July (Dendrites 2014) Douglas Hanahan The 23rd Biennial Congress of the DE-Munich 5 – 8 July European Association for Cancer Research: From Basic Research to Personalised Cancer Treatment Stephen C. Harrison Early Events in Virus Infection CH-Ascona 25 – 28 August Howard Riezman Lipids as molecular switches GR-Spetses Island 25 – 30 August

102 EMBO Keynote Lectures EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Keynote Lectures 2014 Name Lecture Title Location Date Keynote Lectures Yosef Yarden BioNetVisA workshop From biological FR-Strasbourg 7 – 7 September EMBC Member States network reconstruction to data (cont.) visualization and analysis in molecular biology and medicine Ray Dixon XI European Nitrogen Fixation Congress ES-Costa Adeje 7 – 10 September Nobutaka Hirokawa 18th International Microscopy Congress CZ-Prague 7 – 12 September (IMC 2014) Richard Henderson Crossing Frontiers in the Life Sciences AT-Vienna 11 – 12 September Douglas R. Higgs Pharmacogenomics and Genomic GR-Athens 11 – 15 September Medicine: Bridging research and the clinic Marat Yusupov 25th tRNA Conference 2014 GR-Kyllini 21 – 25 September Gary Felsenfeld The genome: structure, expression and IT-Naples 22 – 24 September evolution Huanming Yang The genome: structure, expression and IT-Naples 22 – 24 September evolution Satyajit Mayor 1st International Meeting 'Building FR-PARIS 24 – 26 September the Cell' Caroline Dean 9th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting 2014 DE-Heidelberg 24 – 26 September

Giacomo Cavalli FISV 2014 XIII Congress IT-Pisa 24 – 27 September Ruth Lehmann Nuclear RNA in Gene Regulation & DE-Mainz 9 – 12 October Chromatin Structure Alexander Levitzki iMed Conference 6.0. – Lisbon 2014 PT-Lisbon 10 – 12 October Denis Duboule X Meeting of the Spanish Society for ES-Madrid 13 – 15 October Developmental Biology Jason W. Chin Inspired by Biology: Exploring Nature's DE-Heidelberg 23 – 25 October Toolbox Konrad Sandhoff 360-degree Lysosome; from structure to TR-Aydın 23 – 27 October genomics, from function to disease Camilla Sjögren RNA meets DNA: on the road to genome ES-Baeza 3 – 5 November instability Ronald M. Evans CNIC Conference – Energy homeostasis and ES-Madrid 7 – 8 November metabolic disease Reinhard Jahn Conférence Jacques Monod: FR-Roscoff 15 – 19 November Molecular basis for membrane remodelling and organization Bernard Dujon XVIII Congress of the Portuguese PT-Coimbra 17 – 20 December Biochemical Society

EMBO facts & figures 2014 | www.embo.org EMBO Keynote Lectures 103 EMBO Keynote Lectures 2014 Name Lecture Title Location Date Keynote Lectures Gideon J. Davies 27th International Carbohydrate IN-Bangalore 12 – 17 January Non-EMBC Member Symposium States Ivan Dikic CANCERCON 2014 – International IN-Chennai 30 January – Conference on Cancer Biology: Molecular 2 February Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutics Jan Löwe 39th Lorne Conference for Protein AU-Lorne 9 – 13 February Structure and Function Gillian Griffiths Young Investigator Meeting 2014 IN-Hyderabad 9 – 13 February Wendy Bickmore 2014 Lorne Genome Conference AU-Lorne 16 – 18 February Wolfgang Baumeister The 2nd i-MANI Symposium and Workshop TW-Tainan 3 – 6 March Josef Penninger Future of Experimental Medicine AU-Manly 16 – 19 March Conference – Inflammation in Disease and Ageing Freddy Radtke The 14th Hunter Meeting, incorporating AU-Pokolbin 25 – 28 March the 7th Pre-Conference Imaging Workshop Colin Goding 24th South African Society of Biochemistry ZA-Rawsonville 6 – 9 July and Molecular Biology (SASBMB) Congress Alain Nicolas FASEB Summer Research Conference US-Itasca 20 – 25 July 'Dynamic DNA Structures in Biology' Hans C. Clevers Wnt signalling: Stem cells, development AU-Broome 6 – 9 October and disease Aaron Ciechanover Ubiquitin & UBLs at the Crossroads from AR-Buenos Aires 19 – 24 October Chromatin to Protein Dominique Ferrandon 2014 SAIB Annual Meeting: Study of AR-Rosario 11 – 14 November resilience, a second dimension of host defense, in intestinal infections of the genetic model organism Drosophila melanogaster Thomas Lecuit The 7th Australian Developmental Biology AU-Brisbane 12 – 15 November Workshop Arturo Zychlinsky LXII Annual Meeting of the Argentinean AR-Mar del Plata 19 – 22 November Society of Immunology Yann Barrandon 16th A-IMBN Annual Conference PH-Manila 1 – 2 December Ashok Venkitaraman 2nd Meeting on Chromosome Stability IN-Bangalore 14 – 18 December

Global Exchange Scott Waddell EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series TW-Taipei 3 – 4 November Lecture Series Non-EMBC Member States

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