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The EMBO Pocket Directory 2018 The EMBO Pocket Directory EMBO MEMBERS | EMBO ASSOCIATE MEMBERS | EMBO YOUNG INVESTIGATORS The EMBO Pocket Directory 2018 EMBO Members EMBO Associate Members EMBO Young Investigators This booklet is a condensed version of The EMBO Directory 2018. It lists 1,931 current EMBO Members, EMBO Associate Members, and EMBO Young Investigators by (i) their name; (ii) their association with broad scientific subject areas; (iii) an index of self-assigned keywords; and (iv) their current country and city of residence. A searchable database with specific keywords is available online at people.embo.org © 2018 by EMBO. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of EMBO. EDITORIAL DEADLINE 15 July 2018 EDITOR | TYPESETTING Volker Wiersdorff DATA COLLECTION AND CURATION Larisa Bulgatova, Volker Wiersdorff PRINT MERA Print & Design Sandhausen, Germany FULL LIST city, country |EMBOfunctionskeywords city, ALPHABETICAL LIST ALPHABETICAL COUNTRIES INDEX KEYWORD EMBO AREAS SUBJECT EMBO COUNTRIES KEYWORDS SUBJECT AREAS FULL LIST ALPHABETICAL LIST city, country | EMBO functions | keywords Abbreviations EMBO 2018 EMBO Member elected in 2018 Assoc 2018 EMBO Associate Member elected in 2018 YIP 2018 EMBO Young Investigator since 2018 CouC Course Committee EbiC E-Biosci Committee EefC East European Fellowships Committee EEsC EMBO | EMBL Symposia Committee FelC Fellowship Committee GexC Global Exchange Committee MemC Membership Committee MemPubC Membership & Publication Committee PerC Peer Review Committee PolAG Science Policy Advisory Group PubAB Publications Advisory Board PubEipC Publications ( & Electronic Information) Committee SciSocC Science & Society Committee TemC The EMBO Meeting Committee WisC FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Committee WpfC World Programme Fellowships Committee YipC Young Investigator Committee → see also (people with similar keywords) Aaltonen, Lauri – Helsinki (FI) | EMBO branching morphogenesis / motor proteins / membrane trafficking / 2000 | SciSocC03–06 | Hereditary vascular development / zebrafish / fluorescence microscopy → Luini | cancer / cancer genetics / colon cancer / Drosophila → Leptin | Martin | Klumperman | Louvard | Amos | Tolić leiomyoma → van ‘t Veer | Vogelstein | Heisenberg | Raz | Noselli Bardelli | Pelicci | Pavelic Akhtar, Asifa – Freiburg (DE) | EMBO Agami, Reuven – Amsterdam (NL) | 2013 | CouC19–22 | Epigenetics / X Acker-Palmer, Amparo – EMBO 2007 | Functional genetic tools / chromosome / nuclear organization Frankfurt am Main (DE) | EMBO cancer / tumor suppressor / enhancer / & dynamics / Drosophila / functional 2015 | Neurovascular interface / mRNA processing / RNA binding genomics → Heard | Bickmore | Fraser | neuronal development / neuronal proteins / protein translation / amino acid Santoro | Cavalli plasticity / angiogenesis / tumour metabolism → Gebauer Hernández | FULL LIST growth → Monyer | Kiehn | Schwab | Pavelic | Vousden | Öztürk | Pandolfi Akira, Shizuo – Osaka (JP) | Assoc Naranjo | González 2010 | Innate immunity / knockout Aguet, Michel – (CH) | EMBO mice / pathogen / signaling pathway / Adameyko, Igor – Stockholm (SE) | 1994 | Developmental pathways & cytokine → O’Neill | Mantovani | YIP 2017 | Craniofacial development / cancer / tumor cell differentiation / Ferrandon | Shao | Pasparakis cartilage / innervation / stem cells / invasion & metastasis / resistance to embryo / shape / Schwann cells / neural therapy → Birchmeier | Christofori | Akiyoshi, Bungo – Oxford (GB) | crest → Krumlauf | Stern | Zeller | Frisén | Hanahan | Trumpp | Peeper YIP 2017 | Kinetochore / mitosis / Acker-Palmer chromosome / trypanosome / Aguilera, Andrés – Sevilla kinetoplastid / centromere / Adams, Jerry M. – Parkville (AU) | (ES) | EMBO 2000 | MemC03–06 Trypanosoma brucei → Earnshaw | Assoc 2007 | Cancer / chromosome FelC13–17 | Recombination / DNA Allshire | Watanabe | Sunkel | Tanaka translocation / transgenic tumor models / repair / genetic instability / eukaryotic apoptosis / Bcl-2 → Oren | Vousden | transcription / mRNP biogenesis / DNA Aktories, Klaus – Freiburg (DE) | Mehlen | Vaux | Debatisse replication → Pellegrini | Nussenzweig | EMBO 2008 | Molecular mechanisms Halazonetis | Gorgoulis | Helleday of bacterial protein toxins / host- Adams, Ralf – Münster (DE) | EMBO pathogen interaction / G protein 2014 | Cardiovascular / angiogenesis / Aguzzi, Adriano – Zurich (CH) | EMBO signaling → Pizza | Šebo | van der Goot | endothelial cells / pericytes / 1998 | SciSocC06–06 TemC09–11 | mouse genetics / Eph / ephrin / Prion / scrapie / lymphocytes / PrP / Rappuoli | Montecucco Notch → Eichmann | Claesson-Welsh | Neurobiology / neuroimmunology / Alarcón, Balbino – Madrid (ES) | Radtke | Potente | Alitalo histopathology / Creutzfeldt-Jakob EMBO 2000 | Structure & function disease / bovine spongiform of the T cell antigen receptor / signal Aebersold, Ruedi – Zurich (CH) | → encephalopathy Wüthrich | Zurzolo | transduction / endocytosis / intracellular EMBO 2006 | PubC07–09 | Quantitative Schiavo | Iannacone | Masucci proteomics / systems biology / protein protein sorting → Sandvig | Zerial | networks / protein biomarkers → Mann | Ahringer, Julie – Cambridge (GB) | Weiss | Pelham | Walter Gavin | Cesareni | Sauer | Alon EMBO 2003 | Chromatin / transcription / epigenetics / C. elegans / RNAi / cell Alberts, Bruce – San Francisco (US) | Assoc 1993 | Drosophila / Aebi, Ueli – Basel (CH) | EMBO 1993 | polarity → Scheres | Ketting | Gasser | MemC05–08 MemC09–09 | Structure Grill | Helin microtubule cytoskeleton / centrosome / & function of cytoskeletal proteins mitotic chromosome segregation / & their supramolecular assemblies / Akam, Michael E. – Cambridge bacteriophage T4 replication & nuclear pore complex structure & (GB) | EMBO 1987 | Homeotic genes / recombination → Venkitaraman | nucleocytoplasmic transport / amyloid / pattern formation / insect development / Amon | Uhlmann | Raff | Verlhac light, electron & scanning probe arthropod evolution / segmentation / microscopy → Ban | Conti | Rey | Saibil | myriapods → Averof | Carroll | Tabin | Alessi, Dario – Dundee (GB) | EMBO Kühlbrandt Desplan | Jernvall 2005 | PubC09–09 | Protein kinases / Parkinson’s disease / cancer / PDK1 / Affolter, Markus – Basel (CH) | Akhmanova, Anna – Utrecht (NL) | LKB1 / PKB / AKT / LRRK2 / PI3-kinase / EMBO 1999 | Signal transduction / cell EMBO 2010 | FelC12–16 | Cytoskeleton / Rab GTPase → Melchior | Davis | Cohen | migration / embryonic development / microtubule organization & dynamics / Burgering | Treisman Alimonti, Andrea – Bellinzona coli → Chambers | Gaul | Millar | Ammerer, Gustav – Vienna (AT) | (CH) | YIP 2016 | Senescence / cancer / Furlong | Scheres EMBO 1994 | Yeast signal transduction / PTEN / tumor immunology / myeloid cell cycle transcription → Boguta | cells → Kruisbeek | Sibilia | Rammensee | Alt, Frederick W. – Boston (US) | Assoc Goding | Sistonen | Mellor | Thoma Amigorena | Bousso 1999 | V(D)J recombination / DNA repair / class switch recombination / lymphocyte Amon, Angelika – Cambridge (US) | Alitalo, Kari – Helsinki (FI) | EMBO development → West | Huertas | Assoc 2015 | Aneuploidy / cell cycle / 1990 | FelC94–97 | Angiogenesis / Helleday | Fischer | Hickson chromosome segregation / mitosis / lymphangiogenesis / VEGFs & meiosis → Höög | Schuh | Uhlmann | receptors / endothelial cell signalling / Amaldi, Francesco – Roma (IT) | Ellenberg | Zachariae angiopoietins → Claesson-Welsh | EMBO 1979 | FelC88–91 | Ribosome Eichmann | Adams | Potente | Hodivala- biogenesis / ribosomal protein synthesis / Amos, Linda A. – Cambridge Dilke translational regulation / cell growth (GB) | EMBO 2003 | Cytoskeleton / control → Hurt | Sinning | Jacquier | microtubules / molecular motors / Allain, Frédéric – Zurich (CH) | Volarevic | Shore electron microscopy / 3D image EMBO 2009 | CouC12–15 | NMR reconstruction → Akhmanova | Tolić | structure / protein-RNA complexes / Amaral, Margarida – Lisbon (PT) | Vale | Bullock | Mizuno splicing regulation / RNA biology / RNA EMBO 2014 | Endoplasmic reticulum editing → Sattler | Nagai | Krämer | quality control / protein (mis)folding and Andersen, Gregers Rom – Aarhus Cáceres | Valcárcel disease / secretory traffic / functional (DK) | EMBO 2011 | Crystallography / genomics / cystic fibrosis → Porteous | protein structure / innate immunity / Allen, Judith E. – Manchester (GB) | Schuldiner | Lehesjoki | Boutros | Sommer complement → Gros | Tang | Carrondo | EMBO 2018 | Macrophage / type 2 Levashina | Cusack immunity / tissue repair / helminths / Amati, Bruno – Milano (IT) | EMBO inflammation → Cao | Mantovani | 2006 | YipC11–14 | Oncogenes / Myc / Andersson, Bertil – Singapore (SG) | Kollias | Medzhitov | Broz cyclin-dependent kinases / chromatin / EMBO 1990 | Photosynthesis / structure histone acetyltransferases → Nebreda | & dynamics of thylakoid membranes / Allshire, Robin C. – Edinburgh (GB) | Timmers | Müller | Jenuwein | Thanos proteolysis & turnover of photosynthetic EMBO 1998 | FelC05–08 | Chromosome proteins / chlorophyll-binding segregation / centromeres / Amati, Paolo – Roma (IT) | EMBO 1966 | proteins → Wollman | Koncz | Shi | Schizosaccharomyces pombe / Council 87–90 | Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation / Liberek | Rutherford heterochromatin / kinetochore / mitosis / epigenetic control of cell cycle → Scherf | ncRNA → Halic | Cooper | Tanaka | Trono | Almouzni | Azorín | Navarro Andersson, Leif – Uppsala (SE) | EMBO Azorín | Gilson
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