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Welcoming 62 New EMBO Members Marek Basler & Melina Schuh SUMMER 2018 ISSUE 39 Scientists from 24 countries elected Welcoming 62 new EMBO Members PAGES 4 – 5 Research assessment EMBO Gold Medal 2018 Kicking the impact Marek Basler & Melina Schuh honoured factor habit PAGE 3 PAGE 11 Creative collaborations Learning to lead Fellowship application EMBO Young Investigators EMBO Lab Leadership courses Tips and tricks on structuring share their stories in the spotlight a project proposal PAGES 6 – 7 PAGES 8 – 9 PAGE 12 www.embo.org TABLE OF CONTENTS © Marietta Schupp, EMBL Photolab Marietta Schupp, © Meet the 62 new EMBO Members Editorial PagesEMBO NEWS4-5 he first EMBO Gold Medal was present- ed to John Tooze in 1986. Since then, it Thas been awarded annually to celebrate EMBO news EMBO community the scientific achievements of young scien- tists. The work of this year’s recipients, Marek Two EMBO Gold Medals awarded Page 3 Updates from across Europe Basler and Melina Schuh (see p 3), continues Pages 14 – 16 in the same vein, exemplifying the exciting research that takes place across Europe. Each year, we ask our Members and Young Awards and publications Investigators to nominate candidates for the Gold Medal. Selecting one, or sometimes two, Achievements and papers by members of recipients from the many deserving nominees the EMBO community Page 17 is not an easy task. To make the selection process as fair as possible, we have changed the way EMBO Council assesses and discusses Crossing EMBO events each candidate. continents As one of the original signatories of the San Upcoming courses, workshops and Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment conferences Page 18 (DORA), we believe that the way research- ers and their work are assessed must change. Young Investigator collaborations Using the journal impact factor to evaluate Pages 6 – 7 Fresh from EMBO Press someone’s work might be easy, but it is also inaccurate and unfair. DORA aims to change Learning to lead in science Pages 8 – 9 that, and on p 11 we explore examples from institutes and funders on how different ways How to apply for a fellowship Page 12 of assessing researchers could look. The change we made to the Gold Medal selection process is in line with these princi- EMBO Fellows meet in Heidelberg ples. EMBO Council no longer considers the Page 13 publication lists of the shortlisted nominees. Instead, it begins its deliberations with short Montenegro joins the EMBC Page 13 presentations on each nominee’s contribution to their field and the originality of their work. From not promoting our own journal’s Science Policy Five of EMBO’s latest publications at a impact factors to asking applicants to describe glance Page 19 their most important research outcomes, EMBO applies DORA principles in many different ways. However, to make a real differ- ence in how researchers are assessed, it is important to involve everyone in the system, including scientists and institutes as well as publishers and funders. As the European DORA hub, we are inter- ested in highlighting examples of good prac- tice and sharing people's experience to show that selection criteria don’t have to be based on the journal impact factor. So let us know Research integrity: funders on the case about initiatives that you are aware of. Page 10 Maria Leptin Director, EMBO Kicking the impact factor habit Page 11 2 EMBOencounters | Summer 2018 | [email protected] ©2018 EMBO EMBO NEWS Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Marek Basler Melina Schuh © Biozentrum, University of Basel University Biozentrum, © Irene Böttcher-Gajewski © Gold Medal honour for Interviews with the recipients are available online: embo.org/news/articles/2018/probing- Marek Basler and Melina Schuh bacterial-injection-needles-at-nanoscale EMBO award celebrates achievements of Czech microbiologist and embo.org/news/articles/2018/ German biochemist illuminating-the-beginning-of-life oung independent group leaders are postdocs in my lab, without whom the work we URING O NO UT important for a strong research environ- do would not be possible.” O ST H A 6 N ment. To recognize some of the remarka- Melina Schuh from the Max Planck Institute 8 D Y 9 I 1 N ble achievements of scientists under the age of 40 for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, in Europe, EMBO annually awards its Gold Medal, is awarded the medal in recognition of her work E G C C N O which is endowed with an award of 10,000 euros. on meiosis in mammalian oocytes. I N S T Marek Basler, who is based at the Biozentrum As a PhD student the University of Heidelberg EMBO R H at the University of Basel, Switzerland, receives and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory I C B R the award for his work on bacterial type VI secre- (EMBL), Schuh developed a way to use live cell GOLD U A T E I O tion systems (T6SS). imaging microscopy to study meiosis in mouse S MEDAL E N R S E Following his PhD research on bacterial toxins oocytes. She later extended this technique to T C O N L E I I F C E S at the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech observing the processes that result in aneuploidy Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic, in human eggs. In addition to identifying molec- Basler began working on T6SS in John Mekalanos' ular processes during meiosis, Schuh has also lab at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. established new tools to study gene and protein Combining cryo-electron microscopy with live- function in the female germ cell. About the cell imaging approaches, he determined the EMBO Member Sean Munro, MRC Laboratory system’s structure and functional dynamics in of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, describes EMBO Gold great detail. In addition to showing how T6SS Schuh as “a truly remarkable young scientist. functions as a molecular speargun, Basler also She is utterly committed, a broad thinker, experi- demonstrated that these nanomachines are mentally fearless, and always looking for new Medal involved in interbacterial signal transduction. questions and approaches. She has pioneered EMBO Member Erich Nigg, University of Basel, methods to image mammalian meiosis and used The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually says about Basler: “He has shown originality and them to identify new players in this fundamen- to life science researchers under the age of productivity throughout his career, and has made tal process. In a particularly important move she 40, who are currently working in one of the many groundbreaking contributions. His work also performed the first live imaging of meiosis in EMBC Member States. has revolutionized research on bacterial secretion human oocytes.” EMBO Members and EMBO Young systems and clearly established him as a leader “It is an absolute honour to be amongst so Investigators are invited to nominate in this field.” many excellent colleagues who received the candidates for the medal. To be considered, Basler himself says about receiving the award: EMBO Gold Medal in previous years,” says a nomination must be supported by one “It's an incredible honour, and a great motiva- Schuh. “But the award should really go to the proposer and two sponsors. tion. It is fantastic to know that there are people many outstanding postdocs and students I have The nominations deadline for the 2019 outside my research field who think that the had the pleasure to work with. None of our work award is 1 February 2019. work we do is exciting and important. I’m also would have been possible without their enthusi- happy about the recognition for the students and asm and dedication.” embo.org/funding-awards/gold-medal ©2018 EMBO EMBOencounters | Summer 2018 | [email protected] 3 EMBO NEWS 62 life scientists elected as EMBO Members 2018 In May this year, EMBO welcomed 53 Members residing in 17 EMBC Member States and nine Associate Members currently working in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan and the USA. They join a group of more than 1800 of the best researchers in Europe and around the world, and will be formally welcomed at the Members’ Meeting in Heidelberg between 24 and 26 October 2018. Judith E. Allen Maria Ina Arnone Salvador Aznar Benitah Marc Bühler Janusz M. Bujnicki Sarah J. Butcher Type 2 immunity, helminths Developmental gene regula- Stem cells in homeostasis, Epigenetic regulation of Computational and experi- Macromolecular structure and macrophage biology tory network evolution aging and cancer gene expression mental structural biology and assembly Manchester, United Kingdom Naples, Italy Barcelona, Spain Basel, Switzerland Warsaw, Poland Helsinki, Finland Alfredo Oscar Cáceres* Peter J. Campbell A. Bernardo Carvalho* Michele De Luca George Diallinas Nicole Dubilier Cytoskeletal signaling and Somatic mutations in Evolutionary genomics of Epithelial stem cells in cell Transporter structure- Symbioses between marine neuronal polarity cancer and normal cells Drosophila Y chromosomes and gene therapy function and cell biology invertebrates and bacteria Córdoba, Argentina Cambridge, United Kingdom Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Modena, Italy Athens, Greece Bremen, Germany Michael B. Elowitz* Michaela Frye Sonia Garel Petra Hajkova Gregory J. Hannon Axel Imhof Synthetic and RNA modifications in Forebrain wiring Molecular mechanisms of Small RNA, the piRNA Chromatin proteomics systems biology stem cells and plasticity epigenetic reprogramming pathway, cancer biology Planegg-Martinsried, Pasadena, United States Cambridge, United Kingdom Paris, France London, United Kingdom Cambridge, United Kingdom Germany Artur Jarmolowski Luca Jovine Frank Jülicher Jim Kaufman Colin Kleanthous Stefan Knapp RNA metabolism in plants Molecular basis of egg- Physics of living matter Structure, function and Bacterial protein-protein Rational design of Poznań, Poland sperm recognition Dresden, Germany evolution of immunity interactions chemical probes Huddinge, Sweden Cambridge, United Kingdom Oxford, United Kingdom Frankfurt a. Main, Germany Ana-Maria Lennon- Karolin Luger* Matthias P.
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