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EMBL April 2003 &Cetera Newsletter of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory 14 EMBL April 2003 &cetera Newsletter of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory EBI to co-host 2004 ISMB-ECCB EMBL postdocs travel to Africa ...page 3 predoc selection week at EMBL ...page 5 EBI to co-host the world’s largest Does your Auntie Hilda bioinformatics conference know what DNA is? The EBI will be co-hosting ISMB–ECCB 2004 – a joint conference between Tell her to come find out at EMBL’s Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and The European Open House on Sunday, June 29. Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) – in Glasgow, UK on 1-5 Visitors will get a real taste of lab life August 2004. The conference will be chaired by the EBI’s director, Janet as they participate in guided tours, Thornton, and David Gilbert of the University of Glasgow. The UK-funded hands-on activities, and fun and Collaborative Computational Project 11 and the Scottish Bioinformatics games – all in celebration of the Forum are the other co-hosts. Heidelberg lab’s 25th anniversary. Hilda and others will soon be able to EMBL researchers travel to Africa to register, either online at www.embl.de, or by calling help build community health center 06221/387 0. Earlier this year, two EMBL postdocs, Emmanuel Reynaud and Jez Simpson, If you work at EMBL and want to get in hung up their lab coats and set off on an incredible adventure. Travelling in on the fun, we’ve got lots of jobs for you. a 1974 Land Rover named Ella, they made their way from the UK, down Just send us an email at [email protected] through continental Europe and across into Africa, where they navigated their way through deserts and minefields. Their final destination? A small village in Mauritania called Khabou, where they helped the local communi- ty to build a health center. Read more about their adventures... on page 5 in this issue... He’s got tape on the soles of his shoes! education@EMBL 2 You can find her every Tuesday and Thursday stacking labcoats in the science & society 2 cupboards beneath the second floor staircase. She has worked at EMBL since the very beginning, and used to have breakfast with Sir John every day. Find postdocs in mauritania 3 out who Martha Friedman is in names to faces... on page 6 EBI research day 4 the EMBO corner 5 Predoc selection week at EMBL names to faces 6 March 10 marked the start of the annual predoc selection week at EMBL. letter to the editor 6 Busloads of ambitious students arrived at the Heidelberg campus for an news & events 7 intense week of interviews, tours and socializing, all in hopes of being accepted into the International PhD Programme. Get the inside scoop from people@EMBL 8 some current students... on page 7 p Education @ EMBL Education activities are getting underway at scientist/educators and visitors. Their job Alexander Picker joined the staff in April as EMBO and EMBL with the beginning of the will be to bring teachers in for three-day lab- Education Officer. He did his PhD at the EC-funded “Continuing Education for oratory practicals which will be used simul- Department of Neurobiology, University of European Biology Teachers” project taneously as a platform for training scien- Heidelberg in the group of Michael Brand (CEEBT), which officially started on March tists and developing new educational mate- working on the genetic control of brain 1. The Heidelberg campus will host an inter- rials based on EMBL science. Those materi- national Teachers Workshop on May 23-24, als will be made available to teachers development in the zebrafish embryo. After including teachers from across Europe, throughout Europe via the Internet. that he worked for three years at experts and media developers from many Trista Dawson, familiar to many EMBLites LIONbioscience AG, Heidelberg, where he different countries, and scientists. Details because of her former post at Cellzome, developed web-based educational material can be obtained at www.embo.org/proj- joined the project in March. She brings along for bioinformatics, did applied bioinformat- ects/scisoc/education.html and from the years of experience in project management, ics research and finally led a software devel- CEEBT website, to be launched in the next communications and marketing. She also opment team. He wants to combine his few days. Scientists are more than welcome has a unique combination of academic qual- interest in molecular biology, bioinformatics to attend. ifications, with degrees in both science and and teaching by developing new approaches The CEEBT project has also permitted the business. These skills will be especially valu- to life science education in the context of the creation of a facility called the European able in managing the ELLS facility, strategic Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences planning, financial management and promo- ELLS. (ELLS) at EMBL, which will be staffed by tion. – Russ Hodge EMBL/EMBO to hold debate on digital age publishing practices EMBL and EMBO will hold a joint round- tion of scientific knowledge. In our view it is more upcoming events... table debate on Publishing practices at the urgent that all interested parties, practicing Crossroads - Between the Print Media and the scientists and publishers, collectively assess On Tuesday, April 29, Professor Scott Internet, on Saturday, June 7 at 14.00 at the the state of affairs and future prospects as we Gilbert (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania) Print Media Academy, Kurfürsten-Anlage 52 find ourselves at historical crossroads will speak about “Teaching evolution in Heidelberg. The aim of this event is to between the print media and the Internet. through development.” This lecture is part promote reflection and debate within the sci- of the EMBL/DAI-sponsored 'Science and Speakers include Jean-Claude Guédon, entific community on how new technologies Culture' series, and will take place at the (University of Montréal), Alan Fersht that are ushering in a new digital age affect Deutsch–Amerikanische Institut, (Professor, Cambridge University), Dirk publishing practices in science. The intro- Sofienstrasse12, Heidelberg at 16.00. duction of revolutionary communication Haank (CEO, Elsevier Science), Iain Mattaj technologies at the end of the 20th century (Scientific Director, EMBL), and Michael On Wednesday, April 30 at 16.00 Professor has had a profound impact on the mode of Eisen (Director, Public Library of Science). Gilbert will give a second lecture in EMBL’s Operon auditorium, entitled “The new revo- production, appropriation, and dissemina- – Halldór Stefánsson lution in developmental biology: expansion and reconciliation.” New releases from Science & Society... On Wednesday, May 7, Ronald Plasterk Now available on DVD: Infectious Diseases: Challenges, Threats and from the Netherlands Institute for Responsibilities, a collection of keynote speeches from the joint EMBL/EMBO Developmental Biology in Utrecht and win- Science & Society Conference, held in Heidelberg on November 8-9, 2002. If you ner of the 2002 EMBO Award for missed the meeting and would like a copy, email Lena Reunis at Communication in the Life Sciences, will [email protected]. speak on “Communicating about science with the general public.” The talk will take EMBO Reports special science and society issue. The May 2003 issue of EMBO place in EMBL’s Operon at 17.00. Reports will be dedicated to a collection of essays authored by the participants of the Infectious Diseases conference. See www.emboreports.org for more. These events are open to the public. Young researchers hold science symposium at EMBL One hundred and fifty keen science students newly upgraded facilities in the Operon acknowledgement, ‘Thanks to Greg's Dad,’ took part in the European Junior Science and auditorium did just the trick. and another had a Results section that Humanities Symposium at EMBL in mid- EMBL staff enthusiastically served as judges explained the apparent bias toward male March. The event is organized by the of the posters and were impressed by the participants as ‘We tried to get girls to play European Union and US Department of quality of the research. Research topics the video games. But they didn't want to.’” Defense-dependent school systems to pro- ranged from “Can you guess the flavour of Highlights of the symposium included a mote scientific research in high schools. baby food?” to “Does playing video games play based on the science of bubbles and a Organizers chose EMBL as the location for affect your memory?” to “Are North science trivia quiz, the lucky winners of the symposium to give the students the American or European students leaner?” which got to take home EMBL lab coats. chance to learn about EMBL's research. They “I was impressed by the simple honesty in Thanks go to all judges, Anne Ephrussi, also needed a real conference venue for their their approach to the scientific process,” says Andrew Moore and Luis Vacs for technical own oral and poster presentations. EMBL’s one judge. “One poster included the support. 3 Out of the lab and into Africa EMBL researchers help to build a community health center in Mauritania Earlier this year, EMBL postdocs Emmanuel Reynaud and Jez Simpson hung up their lab coats and set off on an incredible adventure. Travelling in a 1974 Land Rover named Ella, they made their way from the UK, down through Europe and across into Africa, where they navigated their way through deserts and minefields. Their final destination? A small village in Mauritania called Khabou, where they helped to build a health center for the local community. MANY EMBL RESEARCHERS HAVE ACTIVITIES THAT of 5, mainly of malaria. This area is along the through Morocco to Casablanca, where we TAKE THEM BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE LAB. Senegal river, and has a climate that breeds picked up our visas to enter Mauritania.
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