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EMBO Long-Term Fellowships Five Advanced are selected (page ).  Long-Term and  Short-Term Fellowships are awarded. The Fellows’ EMBO Young Investigators Meeting is held in Heidelberg in June . EMBO Installation Grants New EMBO Members & EMBO elects  new members (page ), selects  Young EMBO Women in Young Investigators Investigators (page ) and eight Installation Grantees Gerlind Wallon EMBO Scientific Publications (page ). Programme Manager Bernd Pulverer

S Maria Leptin Deputy Director Head A EMBO Science Policy Issues report on quotas in academia to assure gender balance. R EMBO Director +     +     A Conducts workshops on emerging biotechnologies and on H T cognitive . Gives invited talks at US National Academy E IC of Sciences, International Summit on Human Genome Editing, I H 5 D MAN 201 O N Washington, DC.; World Congress on Research Integrity, Rio de A M Janeiro; International Scienti c Advisory Board for the Centre for Eilish Craddock IT 2 015 Mammalian Synthetic , Edinburgh. Personal Assistant to EMBO Fellowships EMBO Scientific Publications EMBO Gold Medal and Ido Amit receive the  EMBO Gold the EMBO Director David del Álamo Thomas Lemberger Medal (page ). +     Programme Manager Deputy Head EMBO Global Activities India and Singapore sign agreements to become EMBC Associate +     +     Member States. EMBO Courses & Workshops More than , participants from  countries attend  6th scienti c events (page  );  participants attend  EMBO Laboratory Management Courses (page ); rst online course EMBO Courses & Workshops recorded in collaboration with iBiology. EMBO Keynote Lectures

advancing the life sciences FEBS | EMBO Women in Plant Caroline Dean receives the  FEBS | EMBO Administration & Finance EMBO Global Activities EMBO Communications Science Award Women in Science Award. Bernhard Huber Anne-Marie Glynn Tilmann Kießling 2015 Head Programme Manager Head Birmingham The EMBO Meeting  Sixth EMBO life science conference in Birmingham, United +     +     +     United Kingdom Kingdom, provides an annual European forum for scienti c 5 – 8 September exchange. EMBO Press In an increasingly competitive publication landscape, the four EMBO scienti c publications – The EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, Molecular Systems Biology and EMBO Molecular Medicine – EMBC Information Support delivered stable publication rates and stable bibliometric EMBO Council & Committees EMBO Science Policy & Resources indicators. Gitta Bourke Michele Garfinkel Volker Wiersdorff SourceData project: As proof-of-principle, a set of more than Administrator Programme Manager Head , experiments, published in  journals, has been +     +     +     successfully processed into the SourceData standard, demon- strating that the information routinely provided by scientists for publication is suf cient.

Complete list of EMBO staff in Heidelberg on pages  . EMBO facts & figures 2015

EMBO promotes excellence in life sciences in Europe and beyond 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. 84 scientists from the EMBO membership have received the .

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 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 28 – 79 Preface 4 – 5 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 28 – 51 EMBO actions in 2015 6 – 7 Statistics 28 – 29 EMBC actions in 2015 8 – 9 Awards 2015 30 – 49 Geographical distribution 2015 50 – 51 EMBO Advanced Fellowships 52 facts & figures 2015 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 53 – 79 Statistics 53 EMBC Member States 12 – 17 Awards 2015 54 – 77 Delegates and Advisers 12 – 16 Geographical distribution 2015 78 – 79 Financial contributions 17 EMBO Young Investigators 80 – 85 EMBO Council & Committees 18 – 19 Young Investigators 2015 80 EMBO Council 2015 18 Young Investigators 2000 – 2014 81 – 82 EMBO Committees 2015 19 Applications and awards 2006 – 2015 83 EMBO Membership 20 – 23 Lectures 2015 84 – 85 EMBO Members 2015 20 – 22 EMBO Installation Grants 86 EMBO Associate Members 2015 23 Installation Grantees 2015 86

EMBO Scientific Publications 24 – 27 EMBO Courses & Workshops 87 – 93 Advisory Editorial Boards & Senior Editors of Practical Courses 2015 87 – 88 The EMBO Journal 24 Workshops 2015 88 – 89 EMBO reports 25 Conferences 2015 89 – 90 Molecular Systems Biology 26 Symposia 2015 91 EMBO Molecular Medicine 27 EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses 2015 91 Global Exchange Lecture Courses 2015 91 Laboratory Management Courses 2015 92 – 93

EMBO Women in Science 94 – 98 Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics 94 – 98

EMBO Gold Medal 99 Gold Medalists 1986 – 2015 99

EMBO Keynote Lectures 100 – 102 Keynote Lectures 2015 100 – 102

EMBO Staff in Heidelberg 104 – 105

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org 3 preface

I am pleased to present EMBO Fellows’ Meeting took place in Heidelberg in June 2015 this report on the activities and was attended by 85 fellows. and achievements of EMBO 23 young scientists were selected as EMBO Young Inves- and its community in 2015. tigators in 2015, joining a community that represents some In its 51st year, EMBO con- of the best young group leaders in the European life sciences. tinued to promote excellence With the same ratio as in the previous year for overall applica- in the life sciences in Europe tions vs. successful applications (13 percent), the Programme and beyond through fostering focused on scientific excellence as the central selection crite- talented researchers during rion. The Young Investigator Meeting has become an estab- critical career steps, promot- lished meeting for this young community. Six sectoral meet- ing scientific exchange and, in- ings, together with a Young Investigators’ PhD course and 39 Maria Leptin creasingly, through contribut- lectures approved for funding and held by EMBO Young Inves- EMBO Director ing to research and debate on tigators complemented this Programme. science policy issues. Eight Strategic Development Installation Grants were The community of EMBO Members remained at the heart awarded in 2015. These grants have proved to be effective of our organization. In 2015, 58 scientists were newly elected at supporting researchers setting up their groups in countries to the EMBO Membership and Associate Membership that looking to improve their research capacity. The Installation comprises about 1,700 scientists. It was a particular pleasure Grantees are integrated into the EMBO Young Investigator to see EMBO Members being awarded the most prestigious Programme and have access to its networking activities. The prizes, including the to Tomas Lin- 2015 grants support these researchers in relocating and setting dahl, and Breakthrough Prizes for up their laboratories in the Czech Republic, in and in and Svante Pääbo. Many Members also served on the various . committees and boards that enable the EMBO Programmes to EMBO continued to fund a large number of scientific train- do their work. As in previous years, EMBO hosted a Members’ ing events in Europe. In 2015, 94 EMBO Courses & Workshops meeting, a platform to welcome the newly elected Members were held in 24 countries, attracting more than 11,000 interna- with networking opportunities and scientific presentations. tional participants. There were 22 EMBO Laboratory Manage- The year also saw EMBO honour Sarah Teichmann and Ido ment Courses, all of which were oversubscribed. Due to the Amit with the EMBO Gold Medal 2015 and, together with demand for these hands-on courses and the excellent feed- FEBS, Caroline Dean with the 2015 EMBO | FEBS Women in back received, we are working to increase their number. Science Award. With its Global Activities, EMBO increased the global im- The number of Long- and Short-Term Fellowships could be pact of its core programmes. EMBO Global Activities helped kept at a level comparable to the previous year with 252 Long- to establish and develop bi-directional collaboration between Term and 288 Short-Term Fellowships awarded. The annual researchers in the EMBC Member States and partner countries.

4 Preface | Maria Leptin EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org To facilitate this, long-term, collaborative agreements have SourceData annotation process is scalable. The community been negotiated with India, Singapore, South Africa and the will soon be invited to take part in testing the curation tool Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology. We consider and search interface. these activities to be a strategic area for EMBO and will con- 2015 was the first year of the Indicative Scheme for 2015 – tinue to work on expanding EMBO’s reach. 2019. I would like to thank all EMBC Member states and their Science policy activities have grown in 2015, and the delegates for their continued commitment. EMBO is commit- EMBO Science Policy Programme will be further developed in ted to life science research, and it will continue to welcome the future. A report on quotas and gender balance in academia the engagement of its Members and communities. I also thank was published and workshops on emerging biotechnologies all of our Members who actively contributed and thus helped and on cognitive genomics were conducted. A symposium to shape our shared visions for life science research. session on policy and ethics in publishing at the World Con- gress on Research Integrity was organized and the Epigeum online training course in research ethics has been made avail- Sincerely able to researchers. In 2015, the EMBO Manager in charge of the programme gave invited talks at the US National Academy of Sciences’ International Summit on Human Genome Editing, Washington, DC, at the World Congress on Research Integrity, Rio de Janeiro, and at the International Scientific Advisory Board for the Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology, Edin- burgh. Together with EMBO Managers, I met with ERC Presi- dent Jean-Pierre Bourguignon in October 2015. Finally, I would like to report on progress with our Source- Data project which is being developed with financial support from the Robert Bosch Foundation. SourceData is designed as a novel, open platform for researchers and publishers who wish to make their publications discoverable based on their data content. SourceData online tools will allow scientists to find specific data, share or connect their published figures and to test existing hypotheses or generate new ones. By the end of 2015, a set of more than 10,000 experiments published in 23 journals had been processed into the SourceData standard. SourceData is currently being integrated into the live editorial pipeline of the EMBO Press journals to demonstrate that the

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org Preface | Maria Leptin 5 EMBO actions 2015

The EMBO Council met in April 2015. Major decisions are listed below along with other important EMBO actions not described elsewhere in this report.

➔➔EMBO OFFICERS & COUNCIL 2015 Council and membership elections ❚❚Carl-Henrik Heldin was elected Chair of EMBO Council for 2016, Geneviève EMBO SECRETARY GENERAL Almouzni was re-elected Vice Chair of EMBO Council for 2016. Detlef Weigel CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL ❚❚Anne Ephrussi and Paul Schulze-Lefert were re-elected to Council by the Geneviève Almouzni membership for the 2016 – 2018. Karen B. Avraham (IL), László Nagy (HU) VICE CHAIR, EMBO COUNCIL and Titia Sixma (NL) were newly elected for the same period. Pascale Cossart Victor de Lorenzo Financial matters ❚❚The EMBO Council approved the accounts for 2014 and the budget for the EMBO Caroline Dean activities for 2016. This funding comes from the EMBC and is supplemented Denis Duboule by income generated by the EMBO publications. It is also used to pilot EMBO Anne Ephrussi activities that are not part of the EMBC General Programme. Carl-Henrik Heldin ❚❚Since 2009, the EMBO and EMBC accounts have been audited by KPMG Leszek Kaczmarek (Switzerland). This audit is carried out in addition to the standard auditing Regine Kahmann by a national audit court from one of the EMBC Member States (currently the Jürgen Knoblich Netherlands). Mart Saarma Paul Schulze-Lefert Karen Vousden Other EMBO activities Dimitris Thanos Awards MEMBERS OF EMBO COUNCIL ❚❚In 2015 EMBO Council selected two scientists as the winners of the 2015 ➔➔See page 18 for a detailed list Gold Medal: Sarah Teichmann and Ido Amit. The award acknowledged Sarah of the 2015 EMBO Council Teichmann’s development of computational and experimental methods to better understand genomes, proteomes and and Ido Amit’s efforts in elucidating the regulatory networks of genes and that control the formation of cellular blood components (hematopoiesis) and the immune response (see page 99). ❚❚EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) selected plant biologist Caroline Dean of the , Norwich, United Kingdom,

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Other EMBO activities (continued)

as the winner of the 2015 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. Professor ➔➔EMBO COMMITTEE CHAIRS 2015 Dean received the award for her outstanding contributions to plant biology, in Jane Langdale particular for her work to understand how changes in temperature affect the EMBO Membership Committee molecular events that control the timing and duration of flowering in higher Sarah Bray EMBO Fellowship Committee plants. ❚❚EMBO Member , of the Institute, Hertfordshire, EMBO Course Committee United Kingdom, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist for Gisou van der Goot EMBO Young Investigator Committee mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Reinhard Jahn Meetings and training EMBO Publications Advisory Board ❚❚The EMBO Meeting 2015 was held in Birmingham, United Kingdom from 5 – 8 ➔➔See page 19 for a complete list of September. the 2015 committee members. ❚❚New EMBO Members elected in 2014 and 2015 were welcomed to the organization during the EMBO Members’ Workshop held from 28 – 30 October ➔➔EMBO Council Administrator 2015 in Heidelberg. Gitta Bourke ❚❚The 16th EMBO | EMBL Science and Society Conference took place on 5 – 6 [email protected] November 2015 at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg on T +49 6221 8891 117 F +49 6221 8891 202 Emerging Biotechnologies: Hype, Hope and Hard Reality. ❚❚EMBO and EMBL held nine joint EMBO | EMBL Symposia in the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in 2015. ❚❚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 postdocs and group leaders by organizing 22 Laboratory Management Courses.

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO actions 7 EMBC actions 2015

➔➔EMBC OFFICERS 2015 The EMBC Delegates met in formal session in November 2015. The EMBC Finance Gerrit Van Meer NETHERLANDS Committee met in June 2015 and the EMBC Strategic Working Party met in PRESIDENT November 2015; the decisions and actions resulting from these meetings are Fabio Iannaccone listed below. Charalambos Savakis VICE-PRESIDENTS Financial matters Patrick Cramer ❚❚EMBC noted the reports of the external auditors and accepted the accounts for SECRETARY GENERAL 2014. Kalervo Hiltunen FINLAND FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR ❚❚EMBC approved the budget for 2016. Hemma Bauer AUSTRIA ❚❚EMBC reappointed the Netherlands’ Central Government Audit Service as FINANCE COMMITTEE VICE CHAIR External Auditors for EMBC and EMBO for the financial years 2016, 2017 and 2018. ➔➔STRATEGIC WORKING PARTY 2015 Ahmet Ademoğlu TURKEY EMBC decisions and actions Lucia Banci ITALY ❚❚In May 2015 Singapore signed an agreement with EMBO/EMBC under which Hemma Bauer AUSTRIA Singapore gained EMBC Associate Member State status. Patrick Cramer GERMANY ❚❚In November 2015 India signed an agreement with EMBO/EMBC under which Josiane Entringer LUXEMBOURG India gained EMBC Associate Member State status.

Charalambos Savakis GREECE ❚❚EMBC accepted Lithuania’s application for EMBC Membership. Following Jean-Michel Heard Lithuania’s accession to the EMBC Agreement, Lithuania will become the 29th Kalervo Hiltunen FINLAND EMBC Member State. Fabio Iannaccone ITALY ❚❚EMBC selected Austria, Belgium, , , Poland, , and the Mark Palmer UNITED KINGDOM Netherlands as non-permanent members of the Finance Committee for the Jeannette Ridder-Numan years 2016 – 2019. NETHERLANDS Boris Turk SLOVENIA Gerrit Van Meer NETHERLANDS CHAIR Volker Wiesenthal GERMANY ➔➔See pages 12 – 16 for a list of all EMBC Delegates

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Election of officers for 2016 ➔➔FINANCE COMMITTEE ❚❚Gerrit van Meer (NL) was re-elected President of EMBC for 2016. Eirikur PERMANENT MEMBERS Steingrimsson (IS) and Charalambos Savakis (GR) were elected for a first and France second term, respectively, Vice Presidents for 2016. Germany ❚❚Patrick Cramer (DE) was re-elected Secretary General of EMBC for 2016. Italy ❚❚Troels Tvedegaard Rasmussen (DK) and Lovorka Baraç Lauc (HR) were elected new United Kingdom Chair and new Vice Chair, respectively, of the EMBC Finance Committee. ELECTED MEMBERS (2016 – 2019) Austria Belgium Croatia Denmark Poland Portugal ➔➔EMBC MEMBER STATES Netherlands The following countries are Member States of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC): ➔➔For the scale of contributions by the individual EMBC Member States, ❚❚Austria ❚❚Greece ❚❚Poland see page 17. ❚❚Belgium ❚❚Hungary ❚❚Portugal ❚❚Croatia ❚❚Iceland ❚❚Slovak Republic ➔➔EMBC Administrator ❚❚Czech Republic ❚❚Ireland ❚❚Slovenia Gitta Bourke ❚❚Denmark ❚❚Israel ❚❚Spain [email protected] T +49 6221 8891 117 ❚❚Estonia ❚❚Italy ❚❚Sweden F +49 6221 8891 202 ❚❚Finland ❚❚Luxembourg ❚❚Switzerland ❚❚France ❚❚Netherlands ❚❚Turkey ❚❚Germany ❚❚Norway ❚❚United Kingdom

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | embc.embo.org EMBC actions 9 facts & figures 2015

EMBC Member States 12 – 17

EMBO Council & Committees 18 – 19

EMBO Membership 20 – 23

EMBO Scientific Publications 24 – 27

EMBO Fellowships 28 – 79

EMBO Young Investigators 80 – 85

EMBO Installation Grants 86

EMBO Courses & Workshops 87 – 93

EMBO Women in Science 94 – 98

EMBO Gold Medal 99

EMBO Keynote Lectures 100 – 102

EMBO staff in Heidelberg 104 – 105

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A President, two Vice Presidents and a Secretary General lead the EMBC, the intergovernmental Gerrit Van Meer 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 Prof. Marc van Montagu CZECH REPUBLIC Institute of Plant Biotechnology Outreach (IPBO) Dr. Hemma Bauer Ms Jana Bystrická IIC UGent/VIB Austrian Ministry of Science, Research Technologiepark 3 Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and Economy BE-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde Dept. of International Cooperation Unit V/3c – Life Sciences T +32 9 264 87 27 Karmelitska 7 Rosengasse 2–6 [email protected] CZ-118 12 Prague AT-1014 Vienna T +420 234 811 242 T +43 1 53120 6213 [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Zdena Palkova CROATIA Prof. Veronika Sexl Dept. of and Microbiology Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology Dr. Lovorka Baraç Lauc Charles University Chair of Institute Executive Director Vinicná 5 Veterinärplatz 1 The National Foundation for Science, Higher CZ-12844 Prague 2 AT-1210 Vienna Education and Technological Development T +420 2 2195 1721 T +43 (1) 25077-2910 Ilica 24 [email protected] [email protected] HR-10000 Zagreb T +385 51 228 692 [email protected] DENMARK BELGIUM Prof. Kresimir Paveliç Mr Troels Tvedegaard Rasmussen University of Rijeka Dr. François Guissart Dept. of Biotechnology Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Belgian Federal Science Policy Office Radmile Matej i 2 Innovation Avenue Louise 231 HR-51000 Rijeka Bredgade 40 BE-1050 Brussels T +385 51 584 550 DK-1260 – Copenhagen K T +32 2 238 34 86 [email protected] T +45 7231 8296 [email protected] [email protected]

12 EMBC Delegates EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org Prof. Jesper Velgaard Olsen FRANCE Dr. Volker Wiesenthal The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center Bundesministerium für Dr. Vincent Geli for Protein Research Bildung und Forschung Panum Instituttet Institut Jean Paoli et Irène Calmettes Referat 613 Blegdamsvej 3 Centre regional de Kapelle-Ufer 1 DK-2200 København N lutte contre le DE-10117 Berlin T +45 35325022 27, boulevard Lei Roure T +49 3018 57 5098 [email protected] FR-13273 Marseille cedex 09 [email protected] T +33 4 91 75 84 03 [email protected]

Dr. Jean-Michel Heard ESTONIA GREECE Direction générale pour la Recherche et Prof. Maia Kivisaar l’Innovation Dr. Nikos Prekas Institute of Molecular and Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, University of Tartu la Recherche Sport and Culture Ülikooli 18 1, rue Descartes GSRT EE-50090 Tartu FR-75231 Paris Cedex 5 International Organisations Division T +372 737 5036 T +33 1 55 55 90 30 14–18 Mesogeion Avenue [email protected] [email protected] GR-115 10 Athens Dr. Elena Hoffert T +30 210 7458115 Dr. Toivo Räim [email protected] Ministry of Education and Research Ministère de l’Education Nationale, de Tallinn Office l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Prof. Charalambos Savakis Tõnismägi 11 Direction Générale pour la Recherche et Institute of Cell & EE-15192 Tallinn l’Innovation BSRC Alexander Fleming T +372 735 0125 Département des Grandes Infrastructures de 34 Alexander Fleming Street [email protected] Recherche – SPFCO-B4 GR-16672 Vari 1, Rue Descartes T +30 210 8976 404 FR-75231 Paris Cedex 05 [email protected] T +33 1 55 55 80 88 FINLAND [email protected]

Prof. Kalervo Hiltunen HUNGARY Faculty of and Mol. Medicine University of Oulu GERMANY Prof. Làszlò Patthy Aapisti e 7 B Institute of Enzymology Prof. Patrick Cramer FI-90220 Oulu Biological Research Centre T +358 294 481150 MPI for Biophysical Chemistry Karolina ut 29 [email protected] Dept. Molecular Biology HU-1113 Budapest Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 T +36 1 209 3537 Dr. Jarmo Wahlfors DE-37077 Goettingen [email protected] Director, Health Research Unit T +49 89 218076965 Academy of Finland [email protected] Hakaniemenranta 6, PO Box 131 Dr. Jan Grapentin FI-00531 Helsinki T +358 29 533 5126 Bundesministerium für [email protected] Bildung und Forschung Kapelle-Ufer 1 DE-10117 Berlin T +49 30 18 57 5439 [email protected]

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | embc.embo.org EMBC Delegates 13 ICELAND ITALY NORWAY

Dr. Eiríkur Steingrímsson Prof. Lucia Banci Prof. Oddmund Bakke Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology CERM – Centro di Ricerca di Risonanze University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine Magnetiche Dept. of Molecular Biosciences University of Iceland Università di Firenze Kristine Bonnevies hus Vatnsmyrarvegur 16 Via Luigi Sacconi 6 Blindernveien 31 IS-101 Reykjavik IT-50019 Sesto Fiorentino NO-0371 Oslo T +354 525 4270 T +39 055 4574263 T +47 22855787 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Mr Fabio Iannaccone Dr. Jacob E. Wang Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze Research Council of Norway IRELAND Ragioneria Generale dello Stato Drammensveien 288 I.G.A.E. Uff. IX NO-0283 Oslo Dr. Marion Boland Via XX Settembre no 97 T +47 22 03 73 25 Science Foundation Ireland IT-00187 Roma [email protected] Wilton Park House T +39 06 476 13656 Wilton Place [email protected] IE-Dublin 2 T +353 1 607 3284 POLAND [email protected] LUXEMBOURG Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek Mr Brian Dalton Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology Office of Science, Technology & Innovation Ms Josiane Entringer Nencki Institute Dept. of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation Deputy Director Pasteura 3 23 Kildare Street Ministry of Higher Education and Research PL-02-093 Warsaw IE-Dublin 2 20, Montée de la Petrusse T +48 22 6503001 T +353 1 631 2197 LU-2327 Luxembourg [email protected] [email protected] T +352 247 85217 [email protected] Ms Maria Klimkiewicz Department of International Cooperation 20 Hoza St. ISRAEL PL-00-529 Warsaw NETHERLANDS T +48 22 5017 852 Dr. Yossi Kalifa [email protected] Director of Life Sciences Dr. Jeannette Ridder-Numan Ministry of Science, Technology and Space Ministry of Education, Culture and Science Haqirya Hamizrahit, Bldg 3 IPC 4100 P.O. Box 49100 Rijnstraat 50 PORTUGAL IL-91490 Jerusalem NL-2515 XP Den Haag T +972 2 5411126 T +31 70 412 3662 Prof. Maria Carmo-Fonseca [email protected] [email protected] Faculdade de Medicina Instituto de Medicina Molecular Prof. Joel Sussman Prof. Gerrit van Meer Av. Prof. Egas Moniz Dept. of Structural Biology Bureau Faculteit Bètawetenschappen PT-1649-028 Lisboa Codes The Israel Structural Proteomics Center Budapestlaan 6 - kamer 001A T +351 21 799 94 11 Weizmann Institute of Science NL-3584 CH Utrecht [email protected] IL-76100 Rehovot T +31 30 253 4628 T +972 8 9344531 [email protected] [email protected]

14 EMBC Delegates EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org Ms Ana Castro SLOVENIA Dr. Maria Thuveson Department of International Relations Swedish Research Council Mr Andrej Ograjensek Foundation for Science & Technology (FCT) Västra Järnvägsgatan 3 Ministry of Education & Science Science Division SE-101 38 Stockholm Av. D. Carlos I, 126-7° Science Directorate T +46 8 546 44 193 PT-1249-074 Lisbon Ministry of Education, Science and Sports [email protected] T +351 21391 15 29 Masarykova 16 [email protected] SI-1000 Ljubljana T +386 1 478 46 34 Prof. Cláudio Sunkel [email protected] SWITZERLAND Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC) Prof. Boris Turk University of Porto Dr. Isabella Beretta Rua do Campo Alegre 823 Dept. of Biochemistry and State Secretariat for Education, Research & PT-4150-180 Porto Molecular and Structural Biology Innovation SERI T +351 22 607 49 00 J. Stefan Institute International Research & Innovation Programmes [email protected] Jamova 39 Einsteinstrasse 2 SI-1000 Ljubljana CH-3003 Berne T +386 1 477 37 72 T +41 58 462 84 17 [email protected] [email protected] SLOVAK REPUBLIC Prof. Damian Brunner Ms Anna Juríková Institute of Mol. Life Sciences Department of International Cooperation in SPAIN University of Zurich Research & Development Building/Room: Y55-L-66 Dr. Cristina Bauluz Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Winterthurerstrasse 190 Sports of the Slovak Republic Subdirección General de Relaciones CH-8057 Zurich Stromová 1 Internacionales T +41 44 635 4457 SK-813 30 Bratislava Secretaría General de Ciencia Tecnología e [email protected] T +421 2 59374717 Innovación [email protected] C/Albacete, 5-P5N D10 ES-28027 Madrid Dr. Silvia Pastoreková T +34 91 603 88 67 TURKEY Institute of Virology [email protected] Slovak Academy of Sciences Prof. Ahmet Ademoglu Prof. M. Angela Nieto Dubravska cesta 9 Biomedical Engineering Institute SK-845 05 Bratislava Head of Developmental Neurobiology Bogazici University T +421 2 59 30 24 04 Institute of CSIC-UMH Bebek [email protected] Avda. Ramon y Cajal s/n TR-34342 Istanbul ES-03550 San Juan de Alicante T +90 212 259 64 18 Prof. Ján Turna T +34 965 919243 [email protected] Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical [email protected] Information Lamacska cesta 8/A SK-811 04 Bratislava T +421 2 69 25 31 02 SWEDEN [email protected] Prof. Björn Andersson CMB, Karolinska Institutet Berzelius väg 35 SE-17177 Stockholm T +46 8 546 44193 [email protected]

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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 2015 | www.embo.org EMBC Member States financial contributions [email protected]

EMBC Member State 2015 % of total contributions Austria 2.12 Belgium 2.58 Croatia 0.32 Czech Republic 0.94 Denmark 1.67 Estonia 0.10 Finland 1.28 France 14.91 Germany 19.17 Greece 1.36 Hungary 0.59 Iceland 0.06 Ireland 0.98 Israel 1.29 Italy 10.82 Luxembourg 0.18 Netherlands 4.19 Norway 2.60 Poland 2.62 Portugal 1.08 Slovak Republic 0.46 Slovenia 0.24 Spain 7.39 Sweden 2.82 Switzerland 3.55 Turkey 3.02 United Kingdom 13.66 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 2015 for one additional term of office.

EMBO Council members Elected term(s) of office Name Country – Town 2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Geneviève Almouzni VICE CHAIR FR-Paris 2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015 Pascale Cossart FR-Paris 2012 – 2014, 2015 – 2017 Caroline Dean UK-Norwich 2014 – 2016 Victor de Lorenzo ES-Madrid 2012 – 2014, 2015 – 2017 Denis Duboule CH-Geneva 2013 – 2015 Anne Ephrussi DE-Heidelberg 2015 – 2017 Carl-Henrik Heldin SE-Uppsala 2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2014, Leszek Kaczmarek PL-Warsaw 2015 2014 – 2016 Regine Kahmann DE-Marburg 2015 – 2017 Jürgen Knoblich AT-Vienna 2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Mart Saarma FI-Helsinki 2013 – 2015 Paul Schulze-Lefert DE-Koeln 2011 – 2013, 2014 – 2016 Dimitris Thanos GR-Athens 2015 – 2017 Karen Vousden UK-Glasgow 2010 – 2012, 2013 – 2015 Detlef Weigel CHAIR DE-Tuebingen

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 Gerrit van Meer 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 2015 for three years and may serve on the committee beyond the usual four years.

Course Committee Young Investigator Committee Science Policy Advisory Group* FEBS | EMBO Women in Science 2009 Frank Uhlmann UK CHAIR 2011 Gisou van der Goot CH CHAIR 2012 Geneviève Almouzni FR Committee* 2012 Frédéric Allain CH 2013 Christer Betsholtz SE 2012 Ioannis Economidis BE** 2013 Cecilia Arraiano PT 2014 Nils Brose DE 2015 Enrico Coen UK 2013 Anne Ephrussi DE 2013 Ingrid Grummt DE 2012 Søren Brunak DK 2012 Michael Hall CH 2012 Toivo Maimets EE** 2014 Johanna Ivaska FI** 2014 Javier Cáceres UK 2012 Robert Kaptein NL 2012 Claudio Sunkel PT 2012 Oscar Marin ES 2013 Christian Lehner CH 2014 Karim Labib UK 2012 UK 2014 Sean Munro UK 2015 Zoi Lygerou GR 2015 Laura Machesky UK 2013 IT 2012 Paul Schulze-Lefert DE 2015 Yitzhak Pilpel IL EMBO | EMBL Symposia 2014 Gerrit van Meer NL 2013 Anne Spang CH 2013 Dietmar Schmucker BE Committee* 2014 Maciej Zylicz PL 2014 UK 2013 Maria Sibilia AT 2010 Maria Leptin DE CHAIR 2015 Núria Verdaguer ES 2008 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL CHAIR Internal Auditor EMBL 2011 Isabelle Vernos ES Membership Committee 2008 Anne Ephrussi DE, EMBL Tomasz Smolarek 2014 Arturo Zychlinsky CH 2009 Jane Langdale UK CHAIR 2013 Anne-Claude Gavin DE, EMBL 2015 Johan Auwerx CH 2015 Henrik Kaessmann CH External Auditors Fellowship Committee 2015 Jiri Bartek DK 2013 Jan Korbel DE, EMBL Central Audit Service Netherlands 2012 Sarah Bray UK CHAIR 2013 UK 2015 Michele Labouesse FR 2011 Frauke Melchior DE 2013 Andres Aguilera ES 2012 Nils Brose DE EMBO Audit 2012 Anna Akhmanova NL 2014 Tim Clausen AT 2013 Ramesh Pillai FR, EMBL** KPMG 2013 Claudia Bagni BE 2013 Maria Pia Cosma ES 2014 Frank Uhlmann UK 2012 Naama Barkai IL 2012 Carlos Dotti BE 2013 Michael Boutros DE 2014 Urs Greber CH Publications Advisory Board* 2013 Elena Conti DE 2014 Edith Heard FR 2010 Reinhard Jahn DE CHAIR * Committee includes 2012 Liam Dolan UK 2015 Caroline S. Hill UK 2010 Peer Bork DE, EMBL EMBO Members and 2013 Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna IT 2013 Jacques Pouysségur FR 2013 Pietro De Camilli US ** external advisers 2013 Santiago F. Elena ES 2012 Hans-Georg Rammensee DE 2009 Ivan Dikic DE 2015 Paloma Mas ES 2015 Maria Rescigno IT 2014 Ari Helenius CH 2014 Eric Miska UK 2014 Philippe J. Sansonetti FR 2011 Robert Kiley UK** 2011 Thomas Nystroem SE 2013 Michel O. Steinmetz CH 2010 Iain Mattaj DE, EMBL 2013 Luca Scorrano CH 2013 Giulio Superti-Furga AT 2014 Jo McEntyre UK** 2015 Michael Sixt AT 2012 Olivier Voinnet CH 2014 Tom Misteli US** 2011 Nektarios Tavernarakis GR 2015 Sabine Werner CH 2013 Frank Uhlmann UK 2014 Antoine Triller FR 2014 Kenneth H. Wolfe IE 2013 Pierre Vanderhaeghen BE 2015 Jörg Vogel DE

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Scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the life sciences are nominated and elected annually by the membership. More than 1500 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 Amparo Acker-Palmer Goethe University | Frankfurt, Germany and MPI für Cell interactions at the neurovascular interface Hirnforschung | Frankfurt, Germany Detlev Arendt EMBL | Heidelberg, Germany and Centre for Organismal Evolution of the nervous system Studies | Heidelberg, Germany Jean-Louis Bessereau Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 | Villeurbanne, France Biology of the synapse in C. elegans Monica Bettencourt-Dias Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência | Oeiras, Portugal & cilia biogenesis and function Ralph Bock MPI für molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie | biology and biotechnology in plants Potsdam-Golm, Germany Magdalena Boguta Institute of Biochemistry and | PAS, Poland Control of tRNA biosynthesis in yeast and University of Technology | Warsaw, Poland John Briggs EMBL | Heidelberg, Germany Cryo-electron tomography of viruses and vesicles Simon Bullock MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, mRNA localisation and cytoskeletal transport United Kingdom Dirk Bumann Biozentrum | University of Basel, Switzerland Pathogen subpopulations in disease and control Carlos Caldas Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute | Cambridge, Breast cancer functional genomics United Kingdom Laurent Duret Université de Lyon | Lyon, France Evolutionary Genomics and Sandrine Institut Pasteur | Paris, France Cell polarization and migration Etienne-Manneville Ehud Gazit Tel Aviv University, Israel Molecular self-assembly of proteins and peptides Vassilis G. Gorgoulis University | Athens, Greece and University of and genome stability control Manchester, United Kingdom Joost Gribnau Erasmus University MC | Rotterdam, Netherlands Activation of X inactivation John Hardy University College London, United Kingdom Genetics of the dementias Thomas Helleday Karolinska Institutet | Stockholm, Sweden DNA damage and repair in cancer Emilio Hirsch Università | Torino, Italy Functional analysis of PI3K signaling Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke Queen Mary | , United Kingdom Understand the roles of tumour blood vessels

20 EMBO Members elected in 2015 EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org Name Institute Research interest Philipp Holliger MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Cambridge, Synthetic genetics United Kingdom Casper Hoogenraad , Netherlands Molecular mechanisms of neuronal development Veit Hornung Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany Nonself recognition by the innate immune system Johanna Ivaska Centre for Biotechnology | Turku, Finland Integrin traffic and activity in cancer The Sainsbury Laboratory | Norwich, United Kingdom Plant-pathogen interactions Susan M. Lea Sir William Dunn School | Oxford, United Kingdom Structural basis of host-pathogen interactions Alison Lloyd MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology | London, Cell biogenesis and tissue regeneration United Kingdom Jan Lohmann Universität | Heidelberg, Germany Regulatory networks of plant stem cell control Javier Martinez Austrian Academy of Sciences | Vienna, Austria Biology and pathology of mammalian tRNA splicing Jean-Claude Martinou University of Geneva, Switzerland Activity of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier Rebecca Matsas Hellenic Pasteur Institute | Athens, Greece Stem cells for modeling and treating CNS pathology Pura Muñoz-Cánoves Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain Tissue regeneration in aging and disease Georg Nagel University | Würzburg, Germany Photoreceptors for optogenetic applications Magnus Nordborg Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology | The genetic basis of adaptation Vienna, Austria Duncan T. Odom Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute | Cambridge, Transcriptional regulatory evolution in mammals United Kingdom Sharon Peacock , United Kingdom Applying genome sequencing to bacterial pathogens Lucas Pelkmans University of Zurich, Switzerland Quantitative mammalian single-cell biology Luca Pellegrini University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication and repair Graça Raposo-Benedetti Institut Curie | Paris, France Cellular mechanisms of skin pigmentation Weizmann Institute of Science | Rehovot, Israel Nutrition and gut microbes in human individuals Ralf Sommer MPI für Entwicklungsbiologie | Tübingen, Germany Integrative Evolutionary Biology in nematodes Alexander Stark IMP | Vienna, Austria Understanding gene regulatory DNA sequences. Amos Tanay Weizmann Institute of Science | Rehovot, Israel and genome regulation Simon Tavaré Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute | Cambridge, Statistics and in cancer United Kingdom Nicolas Thomä Friedrich Miescher Institute | Basel, Switzerland Structure and function of macromolecular machines Maria Elena Torres Padilla Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology Epigenetics and cell fate in mammalian (IGBMC) | Illkirch, France development

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Members elected in 2015 21 Name Institute Research interest Henrique University | Lisbon, Portugal Environmental sensing by immune cells Veiga-Fernandes Danièle Werck-Reichhart CNRS IBMP | University of Strasbourg, France and Plant cytochromes P450 Université | Strasbourg, France Anne E. Willis MRC Toxicology Unit | Leicester, United Kingdom Post-transcriptional control of Mihaela Zavolan Biozentrum | University of Basel, Switzerland Regulation of gene expression Chiara Zurzolo Institut Pasteur | Paris, France GPI-protein sorting and prion-like spreading

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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. 132 of the world’s leading life scientists are EMBO Associate Members.

Name Institute Research interest Angelika Amon Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Causes and consequences of aneuploidy Cambridge (MA), United States Lewis C. Cantley Weill Cornell Medical College | New York, United States Cancer metabolism and phosphoinositide signaling Xuetao Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences | Beijing, China and Innate signaling and ; immunotherapy National Key Laboratory of Medical | Shanghai, China Sean B. Carroll University of Wisconsin | Madison, United States and The development and evolution of animal form Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Chevy Chase, United States Edward F. DeLong University of | Honolulu, United States Marine microbiology and metagenomics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge (MA), United States Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science & Technology | Comparative and evolutionary genomics of Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and National Institute of Genetics organisms (NIG) | Mishima, Paul Rainey Massey University | Auckland, New Zealand and MPI für Ecological and evolutionary genetics Evolutionsbiologie | Plön, Germany Feng Shao National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS) | Beijing, Bacterial virulence & anti-bacterial innate immunity China

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www.embo.org/scientific-publications

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 2015 | 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 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 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 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.

Advisory Editorial Board 2015 | EMBO reports embor.embopress.org | [email protected]

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 Martina Rembold Facundo Batista Magdalena Götz Rob Martienssen Arie Rip Beverly Wendland Esther Schnapp 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

Molecular Systems Biology, the leading systems biology research journal, publishes high-quality research in the fields of systems biology, synthetic biology and systems medicine. Molecular Systems Biology is an open access journal.

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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 Senior Editors Anne-Claude Gavin Norbert Perrimon Ruedi Aebersold Ronald Germain Joshua Rabinowitz Peer Bork Mark Gerstein Nikolaus Rajewsky George Church Anne-Claude Gingras Rama Ranganathan Leroy Hood Alexander Hoffmann Edison Liu Frank Holstege Uwe Sauer Laurence D. Hurst Eric Schadt Chief Editor Terence Hwa Luis Serrano Thomas Lemberger 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

EMBO EMBO Molecular Medicine is dedicated to research that connects the clinical sciences and molecular cell Molecular biology. The journal is the leading open access journal for translational research. Medicine

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Adriano Aguzzi Doug Hilton Richard Schilsky Senior Editors Kari Alitalo Jan Hoeijmakers Nicholas J. Schork Dario Alessi Russ. B. Altman Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil Yosef Shiloh Giulio Cossu Stylianos Antonarakis Nancy E. Hynes Gerald Shulman Uta Francke Alan Ashworth Alain Israel Austin G. Smith Fred H. Gage Karen B. Avraham Barbara B. Kahn Bruce Spiegelman Matthias Hentze Andrea Ballabio Cynthia Kenyon Deepak Srivastava Gökhan S. Hotamişlıgil Yann Barrandon Robert S. Kerbel Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara Joan Massagué Anton Berns Jean-Pierre Kinet Giulio Superti-Furga Philippe Sansonetti Cédric Blanpain Jonathan K. C. Knowles Elaine I. Tuomanen Bart de Strooper Clara D. Bloomfield Guido Kroemer Axel Ullrich Pico Caroni Andreas E. Kulozik Chief Editor Vivian G. Cheung Christopher J. Marshall Inder M. Verma Stefanie Dimmeler 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 David del Alamo 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– 2015 Year Applications Awards Success rate % Year Applications Awards Success rate % 2015 1549 252 16 1992 626 142 23 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 789 178 23 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

28 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships: Statistics Applications and awards 2011 – 2015 Country from Applications % of total Awards % of total Success rate % Austria 105 1 25 2 24 Belgium 146 2 23 2 16 Croatia 48 1 5 <1 10 Czech Republic 73 1 7 1 10 Denmark 46 1 8 1 17 Estonia 28 <1 2 <1 7 Finland 80 1 7 1 9 France 938 12 122 10 13 Germany 830 10 204 17 25 Greece 106 1 22 2 21 Hungary 77 1 4 <1 5 Iceland 4 <1 2 <1 50 Ireland 55 1 4 <1 7 Israel 447 6 91 8 20 Italy 587 7 92 8 16 Luxembourg 4 <1 2 <1 50 Netherlands 294 4 50 4 17 Norway 10 <1 2 <1 20 Poland 188 2 31 3 16 Portugal 266 3 38 3 14 Slovak Republic 42 <1 3 <1 7 Slovenia 20 <1 0 0 0 Spain 1083 13 90 8 8 Sweden 161 2 14 1 9 Switzerland 93 1 18 2 19 Turkey 75 1 13 1 17 United Kingdom 246 3 47 4 19 Eastern Europe 180 2 29 2 16 USA/Canada 375 5 93 8 25 Others 1423 18 151 13 11 Total 8030 100 1199 100 15

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 29 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Mikl, Austrian IMP | Vienna, Austria Eran Segal Weizmann Institute of Dissecting the complexity and cell-to-cell Martin Science | Rehovot, Israel variability of alternative splicing regulation using a systematically designed library of 50.000 splice site sequences Gloggnitzer, Austrian Gregor Mendel Institute of Joao Matos ETH Zurich, Switzerland Controlled chromosomal breakage as a Jiradet Molecular Plant Biology | safeguard of genome stability Vienna, Austria Plaschka, Austrian MPI für biophysikalische Kiyoshi Nagai MRC Laboratory of Cryo-EM of the spliceosome Clemens Chemie | Göttingen, Molecular Biology | Germany Cambridge, United Kingdom Arnoldini, Austrian ETH Zurich | Dübendorf, Terence Hwa University of California Towards a predictive understanding of Markus Switzerland San Diego | La Jolla, United bacterial ecology in the gut States Breuss, Austrian IMP | Vienna, Austria Joseph Gleeson Rockefeller University | The genetic, cellular and molecular basis of Martin New York, United States pontine tegmental cap dysplasia (PTCD) Beets, Belgian Katholieke Universiteit | Mario de Bono MRC Laboratory of Genetic dissection of a tonically active neural Isabel Leuven, Belgium Molecular Biology | circuit Cambridge, United Kingdom Barbier, Belgian University | Namur, Sarah Fortune Harvard School of Public Functional characterization of small- in Thibault Belgium Health | Boston, United Mycobacterium tuberculosis States Chávez García, Belgian Free University of Maxence Nachury Stanford University School Dissecting the role of intraflagellar transport Edison Marcelo Brussels, Belgium of Medicine, United States in Hedgehog signaling Jourdain, Belgian University of Geneva, Vamsi Mootha of MIT A systems and synthetic biology approach to Alexis Andre Switzerland and Harvard | Cambridge, mitochondrial DNA segregation United States Green, British University of Cambridge, Benjamin Developmental Biology Cellular and molecular basis of ovipositor Jack United Kingdom Prud'homme Institute of Marseilles- evolution in suzukii, an invasive Luminy (IBDML) | pest species Marseilles, France Sojo, British University College London, Dieter Braun Ludwig-Maximilians- A hydrothermal reactor to study prebiotic Victor United Kingdom Universität | München, synthesis and the first cellular membranes at Germany the origin of life Wong, British MRC Laboratory of Darren Gilmour EMBL | Heidelberg, Determining the role of cell trafficking Mei Wai Mie Molecular Biology | Germany architecture in regulating cell state Cambridge, United transitions within migrating tissues Kingdom Hayes, British , Ronald Pierik Utrecht University, Investigating the mechanism and functional Scott United Kingdom Netherlands significance of salt-mediated inhibition of plant shade-avoidance

30 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Hewitt, British Monash University | Alex Whitworth MRC Mitochondrial Directing mitochondrial traffic in Victoria Melbourne, Australia Biology Unit | Cambridge, United Kingdom Best, British Newcastle University, Benjamin University of Toronto, Systematic identification and Andrew United Kingdom Blencowe Canada characterisation of the direct and indirect regulators of a neural-specific class of 'micro-exons' Taylor, British | Karlene Cimprich Stanford University, Mechanisms of cellular responses to Martin London, United Kingdom United States replication stress relevant to the aetiology of hereditary polycystic kidney diseases Watkinson, British MRC Laboratory of Benhur Lee Icahn School of Medicine How do Paramyxovirus matrix proteins Ruth Molecular Biology | at Mount Sinai | New York, exploit ubiquitin and SUMO pathways for Cambridge, United United States matrix trafficking and viral replication? Kingdom Wilkinson, British University of Cambridge, Hiromitsu Stanford University, Exploring valine sensitivity in Adam United Kingdom Nakauchi United States haematopoietic stem cells Haberle, Croatian Imperial College | London, Alexander Stark IMP | Vienna, Austria Assessing sequence-encoded and context- Vanja United Kingdom dependent and core- activities and specificities in human Popovic, Croatian Goethe University | Lucas Pelkmans University of Zurich, Investigation of mechanisms that regulate Doris Frankfurt, Germany Switzerland spatial patterning and local of mRNAs Loft, Danish University of Southern Stephan Herzig Helmholtz Zentrum Epigenomic remodeling in diabetic Anne Denmark | Odense, München | Neuherberg, hyperglycemia through chromatin modifiers Denmark Germany and its role in glycemic memory Mentink, Dutch Hubrecht Institute | Miltos Tsiantis MPI für A compounded case: local growth repressing Remco Utrecht, Netherlands Züchtungsforschung | effects of the RCO gene shape leaf Köln, Germany development Middelkoop, Dutch Hubrecht Institute | Stephan Grill Technische Universität | A biophysical approach to explore an early Teije Utrecht, Netherlands Dresden, Germany role of the in zebrafish left-right patterning Van Heesch, Dutch Hubrecht Institute | Norbert Hubner Max-Delbrück-Centrum | Dissecting the genetic basis of translational Sebastiaan Utrecht, Netherlands Berlin, Germany regulation in heart failure Vlijm, Dutch Delft University of Stefan W. Hell Deutsches Chromosome structure during Rifka Technology | Delft, Krebsforschungszentrum visualized at super-resolution Netherlands (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, Germany Meijer, Dutch Harvard Medical School | Bert Janssen Utrecht University, Teneurin interactions in the neuronal Dimphna Boston, United States Netherlands synapse Van Teeseling, Dutch Radboud University | Felipe Cava Umeå University, Sweden The curved morphology of Vibrio bacteria: Muriel Nijmegen, Netherlands Straightening out molecular mechanisms and function

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 31 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Swarts, Dutch Wageningen University, Martin Jinek University of Zurich, Repurposing prokaryotic Argonaute proteins Daniel Christianus Netherlands Switzerland for genome editing Honarmand Dutch Delft University of Fraser Armstrong , How to restrict a wide range of viruses? Ebrahimi, Technology | Delft, United Kingdom Learning from radical-SAM enzymes Kourosh Netherlands Sinnige, Dutch Utrecht University, Christopher M. University of Cambridge, Timing of molecular chaperones in protein Tessa Netherlands Dobson United Kingdom aggregation Stapels, Dutch University Medical Sophie Helaine Imperial College | London, Intracellular survival and persistence Daphne Centre (UMC) | Utrecht, United Kingdom mechanisms of Salmonella in immune cells Netherlands Van Erp, Dutch University Medical Charles MRC Centre for Improving cell replacement therapy in Susan Centre (UMC) | Utrecht, Ffrench-Constant Regenerative Medicine neurodegenerative diseases by promoting Netherlands | Edinburgh, United axonal outgrowth Kingdom Sahtoe, Dutch Netherlands Cancer University of Washington | Computational design of resistance proteins Danny Institute | Amsterdam, Seattle, United States for infectious diseases in plants Netherlands Snijder, Dutch Utrecht University, David Veesler University of Washington | Understanding Ebolavirus polymerase Joost Netherlands Seattle, United States (L) by way of single particle cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction Dekkers, Dutch Utrecht University, Walter and Eliza Hall A novel approach modeling BRCA1- Florijn Netherlands Institute | Parkville, dependent human breast tumorigenesis Australia Sitsel, Estonian Aarhus University, Simon Newstead University of Oxford, Structural and functional studies of organic Oleg Denmark United Kingdom anion transporters Puumalainen, Finnish University of Zurich, Thomas Helleday Karolinska Institutet | Targeting cellular oxidative DNA damage Marjo-Riitta Switzerland Stockholm, Sweden response to battle against highly pathogenic hemorrhagic RNA viruses Ahlqvist, Finnish University of Helsinki, Sean Morrison University of Texas | Deciphering the mitochondrial fingerprint of Kati Finland Dallas, United States hematopoietic stem cell aging Dorard, French Institut Curie | Orsay, Manuela Max F. Perutz Laboratories Regulation of YAP protein stability by Coralie France Baccarini | University of Vienna, chaperone-mediated autophagy in cancer Austria Raphaël, French Université Lille 1 Cédric Blanpain Free University of Deciphering the Maylis Sciences et Technologies | Brussels, Belgium regulating epithelial to mesenchymal Villeneuve d'Ascq, France transition Duboué-Dijon, French IBENS | INSERM 1024 – Pavel Jungwirth Institute of Organic In vivo effects of ions and neurotransmitters Elise CNRS 8197 | Paris, France Chemistry and on insulin self-association in secretory Biochemistry AS CR | granules: Molecular modeling guides the Prague, Czech Republic experiment

32 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Hafner, French Interdisciplinary Institute Erin M. Schuman MPI für Hirnforschung | Unraveling the composition of newly Anne-Sophie for (IINS) | Frankfurt, Germany synthesized AMPA-type glutamate receptor Bordeaux, France complexes in dendrites Fabre, French University of Cambridge, Aaron Technion | Haifa, Israel Unravel KPC1 functions and its role in tumor Bertrand United Kingdom Ciechanover growth inhibition Garric, French Université | Jeroen Bakkers Hubrecht Institute | Towards a biological cardiac pacemaker: Laurence Toulouse, France Utrecht, Netherlands Characterization of the pacemaker cell differentiation network Diss, French Université Laval | Québec, Ben Lehner Centro de Regulación Massive scanning of protein Guillaume Canada Genómica (CRG) | interaction interfaces for synthetic, Barcelona, Spain structural and evolutionary biology Gallaud, French Université de Rennes 1 | Clemens Biozentrum | University of Mechanisms and function of centrosome Emmanuel Rennes, France Cabernard Basel, Switzerland asymmetry in the developing fly brain Poli, French CNRS Institute of Human Susan Gasser Friedrich Miescher Exploring laminopathies in worms: Genomic Jérôme Genetics | Montpellier, Institute | Basel, instability in degenerative disease France Switzerland Chaigne, French Collège de France | Paris, Ewa Paluch MRC Laboratory for Mechanical constraints and embryonic stem Agathe France Molecular Cell Biology | cell division London, United Kingdom Charoy, French Université Claude Bernard Christiana University College London, Molecular control of boundary cap Camille Lyon 1 | Villeurbanne, Ruhrberg United Kingdom development and stem cell function France Husson, French Institute of Biology of the Ewan St John University of Cambridge Molecular mechanisms of neuronal Zoé Margot ENS | Paris, France Smith | Cambridge, United tolerance to hypoxia in a naturally resistant Kingdom mammal: The naked mole-rat Adam, French Université Diderot (Paris Daniel Durocher Mount Sinai Hospital | Elucidating the mechanism of BRCA1- Salomé 7) | Paris, France Toronto, Canada independent homologous recombination Albrengues, French Institute for Research on Mikala Egeblad Cold Spring Harbor Regulation of breast cancer dormancy by the Jean Cancer and Aging (IRCAN) Laboratory, United States microenvironment | Nice, France Becuwe, French Institut Jacques Monod | Tobias Walther Harvard School of Public Mechanisms of lipid droplet formation Michel Henri Paris, France Health | Boston, United States Grossier, French Institut Curie | Paris, Claude Desplan New York University, Building retinotopy in the Drosophila optic Jean-Philippe France United States lobes Guillot, French Developmental Biology Olivier Pourquié Harvard Medical School | Role of cell signaling in posterior body axis Charlene Institute of Marseilles- Boston, United States formation Luminy (IBDML) | Marseilles, France Jegu, French Institute of Plant Sciences Jeannie Lee Massachusetts General Role of long noncoding RNAs in 3D Teddy Paris-Saclay | Orsay, Hospital | Boston, United organization of mammalian France States

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 33 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Laffleur, French University of Limoges | Uttiya Basu | Role of RNA exosome in antigen receptor Brice Limoges, France New York, United States recombination and translocations Leran, French National Institute for Gloria Coruzzi New York University, Nutrient signaling in plants: 'Hit and Run' Sophie Agronomical Research United States model as a master regulatory mechanism (INRA) | Montpellier, France Redin, French Institute of Genetics and Michael Talkowski Harvard Medical School | Brain somatic mosaicism as a genetic cause Claire Molecular and Cellular Boston, United States of autism and epilepsy Biology (IGBMC) | Illkirch, France Vaccaro, French Paris Tech ESPCI | Paris, Dragana Rogulja Harvard Medical School | Unraveling mechanisms of sleep Alexandra France Boston, United States deprivation-induced morbidity and mortality using Zalc, French Institut de Myologie | Joanna Wysocka Stanford University, How cranial neural crest cells molecular Antoine Paris, France United States identity is established in absence of Hox genes Bauer, German Harvard Medical School | Jan-Michael IMP | Vienna, Austria Elucidation of the molecular mechanism of Benedikt Boston, United States Peters -loading Schweizer, German Instituto de Biologia Jens Lüders Institute for Research in Dissecting gamma-TuRC composition and Nina Molecular e Cellular Biomedicine | Barcelona, activity by single molecule pull-down (IBMC) | Porto, Portugal Spain Voss, German Ludwig-Maximilians- Yenan Bryceson Karolinska Institutet | Genetic dissection of cytotoxic lymphocyte Matthias Universität | München, Stockholm, Sweden exocytosis Germany Feller, German Adolf-Butenandt-Institut | Ruedi Aebersold ETH Zurich, Switzerland Quantifying changes in complete chromatin Christian München, Germany composition maps by new proteomic methods to identify regulators of Kintscher, German Charité – Ralf Swiss Federal Institute of Unlearn the memory: Control of fear Michael Universitätsmedizin | Schneggenburger Technology | Lausanne, extinction by inhibitory plasticity Berlin, Germany Switzerland Moser Von Filseck, German University of Nice Sophia Aurélien Roux University of Geneva, How membranes, cargo and ESCRT-III Joachim Antipolis | Nice, France Switzerland proteins join forces in membrane fission Munz, German McGill University | Botond Roska Friedrich Miescher The role of transient circuits in cortical Martin Montreal, Canada Institute | Basel, development Switzerland Seltmann, German Universität Leipzig, Sabine Werner ETH Zurich, Switzerland Effect of humidity on cutaneous Kristin Germany inflammation – molecular mechanisms and relevance for the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis Wild, German Goethe University | Joao Matos ETH Zurich, Switzerland Regulation of anti-recombinogenic Philipp Frankfurt, Germany pathways during meiosis

34 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Balcerowicz, German University of Cologne, Philip Wigge University of Cambridge, Deciphering the mechanisms by which light Martin Germany United Kingdom and temperature interdependently control plant development Buetfering, German Deutsches Michael Häusser University College London, Probing principles of neural coding with all- Christina Krebsforschungszentrum United Kingdom optical interrogation in behaving mice (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, Germany Feldmann, German Friedrich Miescher Robert Klose University of Oxford, Understanding how distinct vertebrate Angelika Institute | Basel, United Kingdom promoter classes co-ordinate cis-regulatory Switzerland input Füllgrabe, German Karolinska Institutet | David C. Institute for Medical Mapping the transcriptional kinetics of Jens Stockholm, Sweden Rubinsztein Research (CIMR) | autophagy Cambridge, United Kingdom Gerth, German Universität Leipzig, Greg Hurst University of Liverpool, Using host shifts and experimental evolution Michael Germany United Kingdom to define the symbiont/host interface Hess, German Goethe University | Renee Elizabeth University of Nottingham, Bioenergetics of the predatory lifestyle of Verena Frankfurt, Germany Sockett United Kingdom Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus Paul, German Universität | Heidelberg, Harvey T. MRC Laboratory of Membrane fusion driven by protein David Germany McMahon Molecular Biology | insertions Cambridge, United Kingdom Scheffler, German Institut Curie | Paris, Melina Schuh MRC Laboratory of Mechanisms underlying pronuclear Kathleen France Molecular Biology | migration in mouse zygotes Cambridge, United Kingdom Stingele, German MPI für Biochemie | The Francis Crick Institute The fucntion of the SPRTN protease in DNA- Julian , Germany | London, United Kingdom protein crosslink repair and maintenance of genome stability Unterweger, German University of Alberta | Ashleigh Griffin University of Oxford, Killing and social behaviour of Pseudomonas Daniel Edmonton, Canada United Kingdom aeruginosa Weber, German Center for Regenerative Kristian Franze University of Cambridge, The impact of mechanical signals on Isabell Paula Therapies | Dresden, United Kingdom neuronal regeneration in the injured spinal Germany cord Winz, German Universität | Heidelberg, David Tollervey Centre Deciphering the chromatin-associated Marie-Luise Germany | Edinburgh, United protein:RNA interactome in yeast Kingdom Hein, German MPI für Biochemie | Jonathan University of California Systematic mapping of cytomegalovirus Marco Yannic Martinsried, Germany Weissman San Francisco, United function and virus-host interactions through States CRISPR-based screening

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 35 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Hovestadt, German Deutsches Bradley Bernstein Massachusetts General In-depth characterization of glioblastoma Volker Krebsforschungszentrum Hospital | Boston, United intra- and inter-tumor heterogeneity using (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, States single-cell transcriptome profiling Germany Jens, German Max-Delbrück-Centrum | Christopher Burge Massachusetts Institute Decoding post-transcriptional regulation Marvin Berlin, Germany of Technology (MIT) | with high-throughput protein binding Cambridge (MA), United affinity data States Leppek, German Zentrum für Molekulare Maria Barna Stanford University, Mechanistic characterization of 5'UTR RNA Kathrin Biologie (ZMBH) | United States elements that confer translational specificity Heidelberg, Germany to shape vertebrate embryonic development Mass, German Universität Bonn, Frederic Memorial Sloan-Kettering Molecular analysis of tissue-resident Elvira Germany Geissmann Cancer Center | New York, macrophage development during United States embryogenesis Mayer, German MPI für experimentelle Arnold Kriegstein University of California Similarities in the cellular and molecular Simone Medizin | Göttingen, San Francisco, United mechanisms underlying the migration of Germany States human neural progenitor cells and brain tumour stem cells Melzer, German Deutsches Bernardo Sabatini Harvard Medical School | Fear-induced neuromodulation in the Sarah Krebsforschungszentrum Boston, United States insular cortex (DKFZ) | Heidelberg, Germany Mende, German EMBL | Heidelberg, Edward F. DeLong University of Hawaii | Molecular evolutionary dynamics of marine Daniel Richard Germany Honolulu, United States microbial populations Nechanitzky, German MPI für Immunbiologie Tak Mak University of Toronto, Elevated levels of ROS shape distinct Robert und Epigenetik | Freiburg, Canada oxidation-dependent functions of HMGB1 in Germany malignant melanoma Rodenfels, German MPI für molekulare Karla Neugebauer Yale University | New Investigation of RNA-metabolic enzyme Jonathan Zellbiologie und Genetik | Haven, United States interactions during embryonic development Dresden, Germany of Danio rerio Steckelberg, German University of Cologne, Jeffrey Kieft University of Colorado Structural and functional analyses of a Anna-Lena Germany Denver | Aurora, United pathogenic subgenomic flavivirus RNA States Winstel, German Universität | Tübingen, Olaf Schneewind University of Chicago, Protein secretion across the envelope of Volker Germany United States Staphylococcus aureus Bald, German Universität Bonn, Mark Smyth The Queensland Institute The role of adenosine A2B receptor signalling Tobias Germany of Medical Research | in melanoma pathogenesis and therapy Brisbane, Australia Zacharogianni, Greek Hubrecht Institute | Epaminondas Biomedical Research A systematic approach to identify mTor Margarita Utrecht, Netherlands Doxakis Foundation | Athens, complex-specific substrates using chemical Greece genetics, genome editing and proteomics

36 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Zalachoras, Greek University Medical Centre Carmen Sandi Swiss Federal Institute of The role of CRH signaling in mediating the Ioannis | Leiden, Netherlands Technology | Lausanne, effects of peripubertal stress on anxiety and Switzerland depression Bitsikas, Greek MRC Laboratory of Alexander Schier Harvard University | The function of uncharacterised signalling Vassilis Molecular Biology | Cambridge, United States proteins in zebrafish Cambridge, United Kingdom Trakala, Greek Centro Nacional Angelika Amon David Koch Institute Relevance of the aneuploid Marianna de Investigaciones of Integrative Cancer microenvironment in cancer progression and Oncológicas (CNIO) | Research at MIT | Boston, metastasis Madrid, Spain United States Pancsa, Hungarian Free University of M. Madan Babu MRC Laboratory of Increasing functional versatility of proteins Rita Brussels, Belgium Molecular Biology | by regulated unfolding and exposing Cambridge, United disordered regions Kingdom Jónsson, Icelander University | Copenhagen, Richard Durbin Sanger Institute | Demography inference in a spatial context Hákon Denmark Cambridge, United using genome-wide variation (GENE-SPADE) Kingdom Brien, Irish Trinity College | Dublin, Scott Armstrong Memorial Sloan-Kettering A combination of proteomic and genomic Gerard Ireland Cancer Center | New York, approaches for the identification of United States therapeutic targets in synovial sarcoma Stack, Irish Cardiff University, United Jorge E. Galan Yale University School of The study of typhoid toxin using novel Gabrielle Marian Kingdom Medicine | New Haven, animal models United States Aychek, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Gérard Eberl Institut Pasteur | Paris, The roles of ILC2 in the development and Tegest Science | Rehovot, Israel France regulation of the innate and adaptive immune systems Davidi, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Chris Bowler Institute of Biology of the Characterization of iron-starvation Lital Science | Rehovot, Israel ENS | Paris, France induced proteins (ISIPs) in iron uptake and metabolism in marine diatoms Kepten, Israeli Bar-Ilan University | Edith Heard Institut Curie | Paris, Live cell imaging of X chromosome Eldad Ramat Gan, Israel France inactivation Lefler, Israeli Hebrew University | Tiago Branco MRC Laboratory of Computation of innate threats and defensive Yaara Jerusalem, Israel Molecular Biology | behaviour in the mouse Cambridge, United Kingdom Obolski, Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Sunetra Gupta University of Oxford, Interactions between vaccination and Uri United Kingdom antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae Ast, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Vamsi Mootha Broad Institute of MIT Dissecting intracellular mitochondrial Tslil Science | Rehovot, Israel and Harvard | Cambridge, heterogeneity United States

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 37 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Aviner, Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Judith Frydman Stanford University, Remodeling of host protein synthesis Ranen United States machinery by dengue virus Engelhard, Israeli Hebrew University | David Tank Princeton University, The role of dopaminergic neurons in Ben Jerusalem, Israel United States information processing and learning Finkelstein, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Karel Svoboda Janelia Farm Research Investigating the neural basis of sensory- Arseny Science | Rehovot, Israel Campus | Ashburn, United motor learning in cortical networks States Golan, Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Jonathan Stanford University, Understanding disease biology by David Pritchard United States integrating genome-wide association studies with thousands of functional annotations Golub, Israeli Hebrew University | Akif Tezcan University of California | Metal-directed assembly of protein-based Eyal Jerusalem, Israel San Diego, United States compartments Helman, Israeli Hebrew University | Douglas A. Melton Harvard University | Using biological manipulations to generate Aharon Jerusalem, Israel Cambridge, United States immune-tolerant stem cell derived-β cells Levo, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Thomas Gregor Princeton University, Uncovering regulatory dynamics in living Michal Science | Rehovot, Israel United States embryos; from enhancer looping to bursting Rimon, Israeli The Hebrew University | Mark Johnson Brown University | Characterization of gamete fusion Ben Jerusalem, Israel Providence, United States mechanism and identification of elements which blocks multiple pollen tubes from entering an ovule Saar Dover, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Mark M. Davis Stanford University School High-dimensional analysis of CD4 T-cell Ron Science | Rehovot, Israel of Medicine, United States and antigen specificity from tuberculosis patients Shpilka, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Cole Haynes Memorial Sloan-Kettering The role of ATFS-1 during L1 arrest Tomer Science | Rehovot, Israel Cancer Center | New York, United States Krenn, Italian MPI für molekulare Jürgen Knoblich IMBA | Vienna, Austria The role of spindle orientation in human Veronica Physiologie | Dortmund, cortical development Germany Scaramuzzino, Italian Italian Institute of Frédéric Saudou Grenoble Institut des HTT phosphorylation and the neurotrophin Chiara Technology | Genova, Italy Neurosciences | La retrograde axonal signaling Tronche, France Lanna, Italian University College London, Erika Pearce MPI für Immunbiologie Metabolic control of T cell receptor signalling Alessio United Kingdom und Epigenetik | Freiburg, Germany Patron, Italian Università di Padova, Italy Thomas Langer University of Cologne, Mitochondrial Ca2+ dysfunctions in the Maria Germany dominant spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA28): a functional link between AFG3L2 and the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter (MCU) complex

38 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Stanganello, Italian Institute of Technology | Casper Utrecht University, Molecular mechanisms of neuronal Eliana Karlsruhe, Germany Hoogenraad Netherlands polarisation and subsequent pathological failures in Alzheimer's disease Botta, Italian Friedrich Miescher Rui M. Costa Champalimaud Centre Dissecting specific amygdala-striatal circuits Paolo Institute | Basel, for the Unknown | Lisbon, for exploration Switzerland Portugal Comoglio, Italian ETH Zurich, Switzerland Anthony R Green University of Cambridge, JAK/STAT signaling to chromatin via tyrosine- Federico United Kingdom unphosphorylated STAT proteins during normal and malignant hematopoiesis Deidda, Italian Italian Institute of Vincenzo Crunelli Cardiff University, United Unravelling the role of thalamic and cortical Gabriele Technology | Genova, Italy Kingdom neuronal population in absence seizures Dona, Italian EMBL | Heidelberg, Gregory Jefferis MRC Laboratory of Developmental genetic basis and behavioral Erika Germany Molecular Biology | significance of sexually dimorphic circuits Cambridge, United Kingdom Militti, Italian Centro de Regulación Jernej Ule University College London, Understanding the interplay between Cristina Genómica (CRG) | United Kingdom Staufen1 and PKR during using Barcelona, Spain hiCLIP Catania, Italian Wellcome Trust Centre Hiten Madhani University of California The role and function of Polycomb in Sandra | Edinburgh, United San Francisco, United Cryptococcus neoformans Kingdom States Ciceri, Italian Instituto de Neurociencias Lorenz Studer Memorial Sloan-Kettering Mechanisms controlling the developmental Gabriele | San Juan de Alicante, Cancer Center | New York, timing of mouse and human neuronal Spain United States maturation Comazzetto, Italian EMBL | Monterotondo, Sean Morrison University of Texas | A potential novel stem cell growth factor Stefano Italy Dallas, United States Di Pilato, Italian Centro Nacional de Thorsten Mempel Massachusetts General Intravital microscopy analysis of regulatory Mauro Biotecnología (CNB) | Hospital | Boston, United and cytotoxic T cell interactions with tumor- Madrid, Spain States associated neutrophils Di Stefano, Italian Centro de Regulación Konrad Harvard Medical School | Role of alternative polyadenylation in cell Bruno Genómica (CRG) | Hochedlinger Boston, United States fate decisions Barcelona, Spain Fumasoni, Italian Istituto FIRC | Milano, Italy Andrew Murray Harvard University | Analysis of the replisome plasticity and its Marco Cambridge, United States consequences for genome evolution Gatto, Italian MPI für Neurobiologie | Martyn Goulding Salk Institute | La Jolla, Dissecting the spinal sensorimotor circuits Graziana Martinsried, Germany United States that generate aversive motor behaviors Piunti, Italian European Institute of Ali Shilatifard | Mutant H3.3 and polycomb roles in Andrea Oncology (IEO) | Milano, Chicago, United States diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas Italy Porri, Italian MPI für Ryan Lister University of Western Engineering the plant epigenome Aimone Züchtungsforschung | Australia | Crawley, Köln, Germany Australia

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 39 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Stensola, Norwegian Norwegian University Alfonso Renart Champalimaud Centre Integration of prior expectations with Hanne of Science & Technology for the Unknown | Lisbon, sensory evidence in the laminar auditory (NTNU) | Trondheim, Portugal cortical circuit Norway Chelmicki, Polish MPI für Immunbiologie Déborah Bourc'his Institut Curie | Paris, Identification of cis and trans determinants Tomasz und Epigenetik | Freiburg, France of transposon regulation Germany Chrostek, Polish Instituto Gulbenkian de Elena A. Levashina MPI für Infektionsbiologie Can native Wolbachia be harnessed for Ewa Ciência | Oeiras, Portugal | Berlin, Germany vector and malaria control? From phenotype to mechanism in a newly discovered symbiosis Gerlach, Polish EMBL | Grenoble, France Elena Conti MPI für Biochemie | Structural and functional studies of the Piotr Martinsried, Germany TRAMP/exosome complex. Understanding the mechanisms of its RNA substrates recruitment, polyadenylation and degradation Sawicka, Polish Medical University of Patrick Cramer MPI für biophysikalische The role of class I histone deacetylases Anna Vienna, Austria Chemie | Göttingen, (HDACs) HDAC1 and HDAC2 in the Germany modulation of transcriptional kinetics Marzec, Polish CNRS Institute of Human Simon Boulton The Francis Crick Institute Characterization of t-loop formation and Paulina Janina Genetics | Montpellier, | London, United Kingdom DNA repair pathway choice at dysfunctional France during cell differentiation Donczew, Polish Institute of Immunology Steven Hahn Fred Hutchinson Cancer Transcription initiation mechanism at TATA- Rafał and Experimental Therapy Research Center | Seattle, less RNA polymerase II promoters | Wroclaw, Poland United States Sienski, Polish IMBA | Vienna, Austria Whitehead Institute | Elucidating the role of ApoE4 in dysfunctions Grzegorz Cambridge, United States underlying Alzheimer's disease Raspopovic, Portuguese Centro de Regulación Patrick Müller Friedrich-Miescher- Control of cell fate decisions by morphogen Jelena Genómica (CRG) | Laboratorium der cross-talk Barcelona, Spain Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Tübingen, Germany Santos, Portuguese Instituto de Biologia Dirk Jan Slotboom University of Groningen, The mechanism of vitamin uptake by Joana Molecular e Cellular Netherlands energy-coupling factor (ECF) transporters: (IBMC) | Porto, Portugal Toppling and sharing Leitão, Portuguese Instituto Gulbenkian de Francis Jiggins University of Cambridge, The genetic and physiological basis variation Alexandre Ciência | Oeiras, Portugal United Kingdom in cellular immune responses: Parasitoid resistance in Drosophila melanogaster Melo, Portuguese Netherlands Cancer Tony Kouzarides Wellcome Trust / Cancer Understanding the role of pcRNAs in cancer Carlos Institute | Amsterdam, Research UK Gurdon Netherlands Institute | Cambridge, United Kingdom

40 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project De Oliveira, Portuguese University | Lisbon, Anna University of Wisconsin | In vivo study of the interaction between the Sofia Portugal Huttenlocher Madison, United States transcriptional co-activator FHL2 and the cytoskeletal protein mAbp1 during invasive cell migration Matias, Portuguese Institut Curie | Paris, Margaret T. Fuller Stanford University, Exploring the role of master switch Neuza France United States transcriptional repressors in regulating germline cell fate determination Lira-Navarrete, Spanish Universidad | Zaragoza, Henrik Clausen University | Copenhagen, Probing polypeptide GalNAc-transferases as Erandi Spain Denmark drug targets Garcia-Ferrer, Spanish Instituto de Biología Marco Marcia EMBL | Grenoble, France In vivo and in vitro structural investigation Irene Molecular de Barcelona on the mechanism of X-chromosome (IBMB) | Barcelona, Spain inactivation by lncRNA Xist Almuedo-Castillo, Spanish Universitat de Barcelona | Patrick Müller Friedrich-Miescher- Interpretation and scaling of Nodal signaling Maria Barcelona, Spain Laboratorium der during embryogenesis Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Tübingen, Germany Fernandez Ruiz, Spanish Universidad Complutense Antal Berényi University | Szeged, Close-loop optogenetic dissection of the Antonio de Madrid (UCM) | Madrid, Hungary role of hippocampal gamma oscillations in Spain behaving rats Alvira De Celis, Spanish Centro Nacional de Ian Collinson University of Bristol, Understanding the mechanism of membrane Sara Biotecnología (CNB) | United Kingdom protein insertion Madrid, Spain Candel Camacho, Spanish Universidad | Murcia, Lalita MRC Laboratory of Elucidating the involvement of neutrophils Sergio Spain Ramakrishnan Molecular Biology | in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis using a Cambridge, United zebrafish model Kingdom Casañal, Spanish University of Malaga, Lori Passmore MRC Laboratory of The structure and function of cleavage and Ana Spain Molecular Biology | polyadenylation factor (CPF) Cambridge, United Kingdom Herms, Spanish Institut D'Investigacions Philip H. Jones Sanger Institute | The molecular regulation of human Albert Biomèdiques August Cambridge, United epidermal stem cell fate Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) | Kingdom Barcelona, Spain Margalef Gonzalez, Spanish Hospital del Mar Medical Simon Boulton The Francis Crick Institute Characterization of RTEL1 in Pol Research Institute (IMIM) | | London, United Kingdom Hoyeraal-Hreidarsson syndrome Barcelona, Spain Munoz, Spanish Universidad de Frank Uhlmann Cancer Research UK The relationship between chromatin Sofia Salamanca, Spain London Research Institute remodelling and cohesin loading onto DNA | London, United Kingdom Perez, Spanish CSIC Institut de Biología Tristan Rodriguez Imperial College | London, Mechanisms regulating cellular fitness Salvador Molecular | Barcelona, United Kingdom during embryonic development Spain

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 41 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Rayon, Spanish Centro Nacional James Briscoe MRC National Institute for Dissecting the neural fate decision making Teresa de Investigaciones Medical Research (NIMR) | neuromesodermal precursors Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | London, United Kingdom Madrid, Spain Shahbazi Alonso, Spanish Centro Nacional Magdalena University of Cambridge, Integrative study of architectural and Marta de Investigaciones Zernicka-Goetz United Kingdom transcriptional patterns during mammalian Oncológicas (CNIO) | embryo implantation Madrid, Spain Tomas Roca, Spanish Radboud University | Seth Grant , Synaptome and proteome of normal and Laura Nijmegen, Netherlands United Kingdom pathological hindbrain Vinyoles Vergés, Spanish Hospital del Mar Medical Alfonso Martinez University of Cambridge, Role of E-cadherin and p120-catenin in Meritxell Research Institute (IMIM) | Arias United Kingdom pluripotency maintenance Barcelona, Spain Rodriguez- Spanish Universidad Autonoma | Fernando Children's Hospital Boston Clonal dynamics of tumorigenesis using Fraticelli, Madrid, Spain Camargo | Boston, United States transposon-mediated in vivo barcoding Alejo Sanchez, Spanish Universidade | Santiago Alice Ting Massachusetts Institute Mapping neural circuits by a light-gated Mateo de Compostela, Spain of Technology (MIT) | reporter Cambridge (MA), United States Soria Valles, Spanish University | Oviedo, Spain George Daley Harvard Medical School | Respecification of T cells from iPS cells for Clara Boston, United States cancer immunotherapy Vendrell Llopis, Spanish Katholieke Universiteit | Jose Carmena University of California | Long term neuroplasticity during operant Nuria Leuven, Belgium Berkeley, United States learning in a defined neuronal circuit in rodents Rasmussen, Swedish Lund University, Sweden Chris De Zeeuw Erasmus University MC | Molecular mechanisms for timing of Anders Rotterdam, Netherlands conditioned responses Sayin, Swedish University | Gothenburg, Thales New York University (NYU) Defining the therapeutic impact of targeting Volkan Sweden Papagianna- | New York, United States Nrf2-Keap1 pathway in lung cancer kopoulos Kempf, Swiss University of Zurich, Gero Miesenböck University of Oxford, Deciphering the molecular architecture of Anissa Switzerland United Kingdom the sleep homeostat in Drosophila Roest Steiner, Swiss ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michael Snyder Stanford University, Personalized longitudinal metabolomic Hannes Luc United States and microbiomic profiling of diabetes progression Eroglu Andersson, Turkish IMBA | Vienna, Austria Kenneth R. Chien Karolinska Institutet | A novel cardiac injury model in Pleurodeles Elif Stockholm, Sweden waltl to study the molecular mechanisms of cardiac fibrosis reversal Üstün, Turkish Leibniz-Institut Daniel Hofius Swedish University of Connecting autophagy and proteasome Suayib für Gemüse- und Agricultural Sciences | during plant immunity Zierpflanzenbau | Uppsala, Sweden Großbeeren, Germany

42 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Avci, Turkish Zentrum für Molekulare John Christianson Ludwig Institute for Defining networks, substrates and regulation Donem Biologie (ZMBH) | Cancer Research | Oxford, of ER-resident ubiquitin ligases Heidelberg, Germany United Kingdom Kuzuoglu Ozturk, Turkish MPI für Davide Ruggero University of California Characterization of a novel translationally Duygu Entwicklungsbiologie | San Francisco, United regulated mRNA network by the major cap Tübingen, Germany States binding protein eIF4E in cancer Saka, Turkish Universität | Göttingen, Peng Yin Harvard Medical School | Multiplexed super-resolution visualization of Sinem Germany Boston, United States the chromatin organization and epigenetics for specific gene loci

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 43 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Bagley, American University of California Jürgen Knoblich IMBA | Vienna, Austria The role of human parvalbumin interneuron Joshua San Francisco, United development in schizophrenia States Bryant, American University of Pennsylvania Artur Scherf Institut Pasteur | Paris, Role of the var intron in regulating Jessica | Philadelphia, United France monoallelic expression of virulence genes in States Plasmodium falciparum Hanson, American Massachusetts Institute Marc Lecuit Institut Pasteur | Paris, Deciphering the cell biology of microbial Melissa of Technology (MIT) | France translocation across the intestinal Cambridge (MA), United epithelium via goblet cells States Holoch, American Harvard Medical School | Raphaël Institut Curie | Paris, Toward a comprehensive understanding of Daniel Boston, United States Margueron France the mechanisms that control the genomic targeting of PRC2 Chambers, American Harvard Medical School | Simon Rumpel Johannes-Gutenberg- The effects of synapse dynamics on response Anna Boston, United States Universität | Mainz, modes of the auditory cortex Germany Echtenkamp, American University of Illinois | Johannes Buchner Technical University Understanding the patterns of Hsp90 client Frank Urbana-Champaign, of | Garching, recognition for homologous United States Germany receptors Hsu, American Cornell University | Ithaca, Marino Zerial MPI für molekulare Mapping the intra- and inter- organelle FoSheng United States Zellbiologie und Genetik | communication network between the Dresden, Germany endosomal system and cytoplasmic Karasov, American University of Chicago, Detlef Weigel MPI für Population genomics of a plant pathogen in Talia United States Entwicklungsbiologie | populations Tübingen, Germany Slattum, American University of Utah | Salt Jan Huisken MPI für molekulare Mechanisms of tumor cell invasion and clot Gloria Lake City, United States Zellbiologie und Genetik | formation in the zebrafish vasculature Dresden, Germany Gomez, American Skirball Institute | New Peter Scheiffele Biozentrum | University of Functional role of alternative splicing in Andrea York, United States Basel, Switzerland synaptic specificity Holmstrom, American University of Colorado | Ben Schuler University of Zurich, Probing the mechanisms of RNA chaperones Erik Boulder, United States Switzerland with single-molecule spectroscopy Howard, American City of Hope Medical Petr Cejka University of Zurich, Function of human CtIP in complex with the Sean Center | Duarte, United Switzerland MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 (MRN) nuclease to States initiate resection of DNA ends Gordon, American Columbia University | New Corinne Houart King's College | London, Non-nuclear functions of the splicing factor Patricia York, United States United Kingdom PSF/sfpq in motor development and maintenance Hughes, American University of Tom University of Dundee, Post-translational regulation of chromatin Amanda Massachusetts | Worcester, Owen-Hughes United Kingdom remodelling United States

44 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Peters, American University of California | Matteo Carandini University College London, Corticostriatal interactions during visually- Andrew San Diego, United States United Kingdom guided behavior González Montoro, Argentinean National University Christian University | Osnabrück, Membrane contact sites in the regulation Ayelén of Córdoba | Córdoba, Ungermann Germany of vacuole function, biogenesis and Argentina coordination with other organelles Nguyen, Australian Monash University | Jeroen Bakkers Hubrecht Institute | Examining genome wide gene expression Phong Clayton, Australia Utrecht, Netherlands changes during cardiac injury and regeneration Labzin, Australian Universität Bonn, Leo James MRC Laboratory of How does the intracellular Fc receptor Larisa Germany Molecular Biology | TRIM21 synergise with cytosolic Pattern Cambridge, United Recognition Receptors (PRRs) to tailor Kingdom the innate immune response to specific pathogens? Marchingo, Australian Walter and Eliza Hall Doreen A. Cantrell University of Dundee, Unbiased identification of the physiological Julia Institute | Parkville, United Kingdom substrates and functions of PIM kinase Australia signalling in the T cell immune response Borges-Merjane, Brazilian Oregon Health & Science Peter Jonas Institute of Science and Presynaptic calcium channels distribution Carolina University (OHSU) | Technology Austria (IST) | and impact on coupling at the hippocampal Portland, United States Klosterneuburg, Austria mossy fiber synapse Mizuno, Brazilian Universidad Miguel Mart Krupovic Institut Pasteur | Paris, Casposons, mobile elements at the origin of Carolina Megumi Hernandez | San Juan de France prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas immunity Alicante, Spain Herszterg, Brazilian Federal University of Rio Jean-Paul Vincent Francis Crick Institute | Coordination of cell fate choices and cell Sophie de Janeiro, Brazil London, United Kingdom behaviors by multiple signals during Drosophila wing vein formation Scorza Frungillo Brazilian Universidade Estadual de Steven Spoel University of Edinburgh, Redox control of hormonal cross talk in plant Lima, Campinas (UNICAMP) | United Kingdom immunity Lucas Campinas, Brazil Kostadinov, Bulgarian Harvard University | Michael Häusser University College London, Convergence of sensory and motor Dimitar Cambridge, United States United Kingdom information processing in the mouse cerebellum Rungta, Canadian University of British Serge Charpak Université Paris Descartes Astrocyte modulation of neurovascular Ravi Columbia | Vancouver, | Paris, France coupling in the olfactory bulb of the awake Canada mouse Daze, Canadian Vancouver Prostate Centre Thomas Jenuwein MPI für Immunbiologie Dissecting formation by Kevin | Vancouver, Canada und Epigenetik | Freiburg, studying H3K9me1 and chemical inhibition Germany of H3K9me1-reader proteins Quail, Canadian McGill University | Jan Brugues MPI für molekulare Self-organizing principles of transcription Thomas Montreal, Canada Zellbiologie und Genetik | factory formation Dresden, Germany

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 45 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Stairs, Canadian Dalhousie University | Thijs Ettema Uppsala University, Contributions of the salmon gut microbiome Courtney Halifax, Canada Sweden and Spironucleus pathogenecity factors on spironucleosis disease progression in farmed Atlantic salmon Jackson, Canadian University of Toronto, Bernd University of Zurich, Targeting bottlenecks in the evolution of Hartland Canada Bodenmiller Switzerland metastatic potential – modeling metastatic signaling networks with imaging mass cytometry Lau, Canadian University of British Michael Hothorn University of Geneva, Dissecting early events in UV-B plant Kelvin Columbia | Vancouver, Switzerland signalling in atomic detail Canada Prashar, Canadian University of Toronto, Maximiliano Francis Crick Institute | Defining the immune function of Rab32 in Akriti Canada Gutierrez London, United Kingdom tuberculosis Prins, Canadian University of Alberta | Tony Green University of Cambridge, The roles of CALR in haematopoiesis and Daniel Edmonton, Canada United Kingdom myeloproliferative neoplasms Hernandez, Chilean Universität Freiburg, Philippe Institut Pasteur | Paris, Innate lymphoid cells and IL-22: Functional Pedro Germany Herbomel France analysis in zebrafish Valenzuela, Chilean Universidad de Chile | Franck Perez Institut Curie | Paris, Intracellular trafficking of EphA2 and José Santiago de Chile, Chile France ephrinA1 during carcinogenesis Céspedes, Chilean Pontifical Catholic Michael Dustin University of Oxford, Studying the contribution of self-antigen Pablo University of Chile | United Kingdom citrullination in the assembly of T cell Santiago de Chile, Chile synapses that break immunological tolerance, and its effects over TCR signaling dynamics and T cell effector functions Tan, Chinese Chinese Academy of Jiri Friml Institute of Science and Molecular mechanism underlying salicylic Shutang Sciences | Shanghai, China Technology Austria (IST) | acid regulation of endocytic trafficking in Klosterneuburg, Austria Arabidopsis Long, Chinese Wageningen University, Arezki Boudaoud École Normale Supérieure 'Shaping with water': Investigating the Yuchen Netherlands | Lyon, France role of turgor pressure during plant shoot morphogenesis Guo, Chinese Tsinghua University | Ruben Fernandez- MPI für Biochemie | Structural mechanisms of tau aggregate Qiang Beijing, China Busnadiego Martinsried, Germany toxicity Jiang, Chinese University of California | Cyril Zipfel The Sainsbury Laboratory Connecting the dots in plant immune Shushu Riverside, United States | Norwich, United signaling: identification and characterization Kingdom of novel BIK1 substrates Wan, Chinese Zhejiang University | Jesper Q. Svejstrup Francis Crick Institute | Proteins that regulate the transcription- Li Hangzhou, China London, United Kingdom related DNA damage response Zhang, Hong Kong NIH | Bethesda, United Jason W. Chin MRC Laboratory of Functional analysis of RCC1 Shaofei Chinese States Molecular Biology | phosphorylations by incorporating genetic- Cambridge, United encoded phosphoserine Kingdom

46 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Yelagandula, Indian Gregor Mendel Institute of Oliver Bell IMBA | Vienna, Austria Investigating the chromatin regulators Ramesh Molecular Plant Biology | involved in spreading and memory of Vienna, Austria heterochromatin and understanding the dynamics of heterochromatin stability through cell fate changes Kumar, Indian Universität des Saarlandes Pierre Free University of Brussels, Human genome variation and brain Devesh | Homburg, Germany Vanderhaeghen Belgium development Alaganan, Indian Washington University | St. Chetan Chitnis Institut Pasteur | Paris, Signaling pathways for rhoptry release Aditi Louis, United States France during erythrocyte invasion by malaria parasites Mosalaganti, Indian MPI für molekulare Martin Beck EMBL | Heidelberg, Structural basis of triple A syndrome Shyamal Physiologie | Dortmund, Germany Germany Saha, Indian National Centre for Thomas Jentsch Max-Delbrück-Centrum | Role of vesicular ion homeostasis in Sonali Biological Sciences | Berlin, Germany endolysosomal function Bangalore, India Das, Indian Tata Institute of Karina Yaniv Weizmann Institute of Fate-specification of endothelial cells Rudra Nayan Fundamental Research | Science | Rehovot, Israel during development, regeneration Bangalore, India and tumor-induced angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis Sridhar, Indian University | Aberdeen, Miguel Godinho Instituto Gulbenkian de Understanding the mechanisms of Akila United Kingdom Ferreira Ciência | Oeiras, Portugal checkpoint inhibition at telomeres Saxena, Indian CSIR – Institute of Thomas Nyström Göteborg University, Metabolic buffering against proteostatic Kanika Genomics and Integrative Sweden stress in aging cells Biology | New Delhi, India Kumari, Indian University of Warwick | Rafal Ciosk Friedrich Miescher RNA code and determining Pooja Coventry, United Kingdom Institute | Basel, the specificity of mRNA regulation by the Switzerland TRMI-NHL protein LIN-41 Thacker, Indian University of Cambridge, John McKinney Swiss Federal Institute Lung-on-a-chip microfluidics for studying Vivek United Kingdom of Technology | Lausanne, bacterial pathogenesis Switzerland Gupta, Indian Leiden University, Hagan Bayley University of Oxford, A single-molecule approach to detect and Ankur Netherlands United Kingdom study the chemistry of reactive oxygen species Redkar, Indian MPI für terrestrische Jonathan D.G. John Innes Centre | Elucidating the mechanistic basis of Albugo Amey Mikrobiologie | Marburg, Jones Norwich, United Kingdom candida mediated immunosuppression: Germany Effectoromics from model to crop plants Chellamuthu, Indian MPI für Nanyang Technological Chromosome maintenance: Telomerase Vasuki Ranjani Entwicklungsbiologie | University Singapore, recruitment to telomeres Tübingen, Germany Singapore Kobayashi, Japanese University of Tokyo, Japan Nenad Ban ETH Zurich, Switzerland Structural study of nascent membrane Kan protein-targeting mechanism by SRP and SR

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 47 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Kin, Japanese Yale University | West Pauline Schaap University of Dundee, From genomes to cell types: Exploring the Koryu Haven, United States United Kingdom molecular basis of cell type evolution Obata, Japanese University of Tokyo, Japan Francis Crick Institute | Programming if intestinal neural networks Yuuki London, United Kingdom by the microbiota-immune system axis Ursache, Lithuanian University of Cambridge, Niko Geldner University | Lausanne, Localized Casparian strip degradation during Robertas United Kingdom Switzerland lateral root emergence Malinauskaite, Lithuanian Aarhus University, Alexandru Radu University of Oxford, The structural biology of TrkB-BDNF Lina Denmark Aricescu United Kingdom signalling Ng, Malaysian University of Western Laurent Institute of Environmental Identification and characterisation of novel Sophia Jinq Tyan Australia | Crawley, Nussaume Biology and Biotechnology phosphate regulators in plants Australia | St-Paul-lez-Durance, France Wong, Malaysian MPI für molekulare Oscar Marín King's College | London, Cortical circuit assembly in the developing Fong Kuan Zellbiologie und Genetik | United Kingdom mammalian neocortex Dresden, Germany Marquez Ortiz, Mexican Max F. Perutz Laboratories Manuel Irimia Centro de Regulación Crosstalk between alternative splicing and Yamile | University of Vienna, Genómica (CRG) | RNA-editing in the mammalian central Austria Barcelona, Spain nervous system Rodriguez Verdugo, Mexican University of California | Martin ETH Zurich | Dübendorf, Evolution of metabolic interactions in Alejandra Irvine, United States Ackermann Switzerland multispecies biofilms exposed to fluctuating environments Grand, New Massey University | Dirk Schübeler Friedrich Miescher binding as a function of Ralph Zealander Auckland, New Zealand Institute | Basel, chromatin Switzerland Farcas, Romanian University of Oxford, Jürg Müller MPI für Biochemie | Towards an understanding of the molecular Anca Madalina United Kingdom Martinsried, Germany architecture and repressive mechanism of Polycomb repressive complex 1 Shlyueva, Russian IMP | Vienna, Austria Kristian Helin Biotech Research and Identification and functional Daria Innovation Centre (BRIC) | characterization of active enhancers in acute Copenhagen, Denmark myeloid leukemia Murina, Russian University of Zurich, Andrew P. Jackson University of Edinburgh, Elucidating the role of human RNase H2 in Olga Switzerland United Kingdom maintaining genome stability Pai, Taiwanese National Tsing Hua Josef Penninger IMBA | Vienna, Austria Is AAK1 involved in the etiology of Tsung-Pin University | Hsinchu, Parkinson's disease by regulating alpha- Taiwan synuclein degradation? Baranova, Ukrainian CIC biomaGUNE | San Martin Loose Institute of Science and Reconstitution of bacterial cell wall synthesis Natalia Sebastian, Spain Technology Austria (IST) | Klosterneuburg, Austria Karpenko, Ukrainian Université de Strasbourg | Kai Johnsson Swiss Federal Institute Mapping neural circuits in vivo using semi- Iuliia Illkirch, France of Technology | Lausanne, synthetic sensor proteins Switzerland

48 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 | Non-EMBC Member States’ nationals Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Obal, Uruguayan Institut Pasteur | Nicolas Reyes Institut Pasteur | Paris, Molecular mechanisms of NPC1 transport Gonzalo Montevideo, Uruguay France and receptor functions Dang, Vietnamese University of Calgary, Sarah O'Connor John Innes Centre | Biosynthesis of monoterpene indole Thi Thu Thuy Canada Norwich, United Kingdom alkaloids in Indian snakeroot (Rauvolfia serpentina)

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 49 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 2015: Geographical distribution

Applications US-American/ Canadian Other nationalities Eastern European 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 3 2 1 4 2 1 5 1 2 3 1 10 35 Belgium 7 3 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 10 30 Croatia 1 1 Czech Republic 1 2 1 1 2 7 Denmark 1 6 1 3 3 1 1 1 11 28 Estonia 1 1 Finland 1 2 1 1 6 11 France 4 1 4 10 1 2 4 21 1 4 18 1 3 5 11 43 133 Germany 1 1 1 1 2 12 12 2 1 1 1 9 12 7 2 1 15 3 1 4 5 18 52 164 Greece 2 1 3 Hungary 1 1 2 4 Iceland 0 Ireland 1 1 1 2 5 Israel 2 1 1 6 4 1 1 1 3 1 6 27 Italy 1 5 5 8 19 Luxembourg 1 1 The Netherlands 1 1 1 1 4 5 2 2 8 2 2 1 6 1 1 1 6 13 58 Norway 1 1 1 3 Poland 1 2 3 Portugal 2 1 2 1 1 7 2 3 19 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 1 1 Spain 3 3 3 1 3 1 1 5 1 21 42 Sweden 1 1 4 4 6 2 3 2 3 1 8 1 1 3 1 7 25 73 Switzerland 1 2 1 1 4 16 15 3 2 9 4 1 3 3 8 2 3 3 8 9 36 134 Turkey 1 4 5 UK 3 2 1 4 1 3 4 19 23 1 4 1 2 10 18 9 8 7 1 46 6 1 2 2 9 21 85 293 EMBL 1 2 1 6 10 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 3 18 3 5 2 1 4 84 50 8 2 6 45 35 16 17 8 1 54 9 4 6 22 1 1 405 Others 2 1 1 5 4 2 1 1 4 2 4 1 1 5 34 Total 16 31 9 18 10 5 17 174 146 17 12 1 12 66 122 1 49 1 50 36 10 5 187 25 12 16 36 38 76 351 1549

50 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 2015: 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 1 1 1 1 1 4 10 Belgium 1 1 2 Croatia 0 Czech Republic 1 1 Denmark 1 1 2 Estonia 0 Finland 0 France 3 1 1 1 4 7 17 Germany 1 1 2 4 3 1 1 1 1 7 3 25 Greece 1 1 Hungary 1 1 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Israel 1 1 1 3 Italy 0 Luxembourg 0 Netherlands 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 Norway 0 Poland 0 Portugal 1 1 1 3 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 0 Spain 1 1 1 3 Sweden 1 1 1 2 1 1 7 Switzerland 1 1 2 6 1 1 2 5 5 24 Turkey 0 UK 1 1 1 3 12 1 1 2 4 4 1 2 11 1 1 1 3 5 14 69 EMBL 1 1 1 3 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 2 3 1 11 12 2 2 11 8 2 2 2 4 1 1 2 4 70 Others 1 1 1 1 4 Total 5 4 2 0 1 1 2 23 34 4 1 1 2 16 19 0 14 1 7 6 0 0 19 2 2 5 9 8 23 41 252

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 51 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 2015 Name Nationality Host laboratory Group leader Project Hudry, French MRC Clinical Sciences Centre | London, Irene Cellular context of sex chromosome regulation Bruno United Kingdom Miguel-Aliaga Martincorena, Spanish Sanger Institute | Cambridge, United Peter Campbell Unravelling the extent of somatic mutation in normal Inigo Kingdom tissues and its role in the progression to cancer Bharat, Indian MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Jan Löwe High-resolution in situ imaging of plasmid segregation Tanmay Cambridge, United Kingdom by the ParMRC system Kato, American IMP | Vienna, Austria Manuel Zimmer Decision making by nonlinear brain dynamics in C. Saul elegans Ichim, Romanian Beatson Institute for Cancer Research | Stephen Tait Revisiting old paradigms: Mitochondria and caspase Gabriel Glasgow, United Kingdom activation as oncogenic drivers

52 EMBO Advanced Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships ➔➔ EMBO Short-Term Fellowships: Statistics Applications and awards 1977– 2014 Applications and awards 2000 – 2015 Year Applications Awards Success rate % Country from* Applications % of total Awards % of total Success rate % 2015 557 288 52 Austria 80 1 41 1 51 2014 548 284 52 Belgium 114 2 80 2 70 2013 560 280 50 Croatia 53 1 25 1 47 2012 585 312 53 Czech Republic 109 2 66 2 61 2011 506 281 55 Denmark 37 1 22 1 59 2010 421 219 52 Estonia 11 <1 7 <1 64 2009 495 255 52 Finland 50 1 26 1 52 2008 395 213 54 France 311 5 197 6 63 2007 409 211 52 Germany 429 7 260 8 61 2006 393 194 49 Greece 203 3 116 4 57 2005 383 201 52 Hungary 144 2 82 3 57 2004 301 167 55 Iceland 16 <1 11 <1 69 2003 289 138 48 Ireland 68 1 39 1 57 2002 252 170 67 Israel 199 3 134 4 67 2001 233 124 53 Italy 951 16 502 16 53 2000 274 176 64 Luxembourg 2 <1 2 <1 100 1999 230 138 60 Netherlands 191 3 118 4 62 1998 279 143 51 Norway 17 <1 8 <1 47 1997 339 188 55 Poland 249 4 129 4 52 1996 316 180 57 Portugal 179 3 97 3 54 1995 325 187 57 Slovak Republic 21 <1 13 <1 62 1994 369 203 55 Slovenia 62 1 32 1 52 1993 376 209 55 Spain 1174 19 620 19 53 1992 351 213 61 Sweden 56 1 37 1 66 1991 344 194 56 Switzerland 70 1 45 1 64 1990 346 211 61 Turkey 139 2 53 2 38 1989 331 199 60 United Kingdom 222 4 140 4 63 1988 351 211 60 Eastern Europe 390 6 175 5 45 1987 301 212 70 Others 1054 17 436 14 41 1986 309 215 70 Total 6601 108 3513 108 53 1985 304 221 73 1984 320 226 71 * “Country from” refers to nationality 1983 335 223 67 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 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 53 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Kouidmi, Algerian University of Montreal, Typas, Nassos European Molecular High-throughput bacterial genetics to study Imene Canada Biology Laboratory, the biology of the Gram-negative bacterial Heidelberg, Germany envelope with an optimized phenotypic assay Alonso, Argentinian Center of Johannisson, Swedish University of Dynamic of tyrosine phosphorylation in Carlos Agustín Pharmacologycal and Anders Agricultural Sciences, bicarbonate and cAMP-induced capacitation Botanical Studies, Buenos Uppsala, Sweden Aires, Argentina Bueno, Argentinian Argentinean National Sparwasser, Tim Centre for Experimental Epigenetic modulation of dendritic cells Carlos Research Council, Buenos and Clinical Infection during murine cytomegalovirus infection Aires, Argentina Research, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany D'Ambrosio, Argentinian National University of Mar Andersson, Mats University of Gothenburg, Unraveling the role of Phosphatidylinositol- Juan Martín del Plata, Argentina Sweden phosholipase C 2 (AtPLC2) in defense against non-adapted and adapted pathogens in Arabidopsis thaliana Darino, Argentinian Institute for Genetics Thordal- University of Copenhagen, Identification of effector proteins expressed Martin Ewald A. Favret, Buenos Christensen, Hans Denmark in haustoria of Puccinia sorghi Aires, Argentina Dellafiore, Argentinian Institute of Investigation Eritja, Ramón Institute for Advanced Synthesis and properties of siRNA modified Maria Andrea in Genetic Engineering Chemistry of Catalonia, with 2’-deoxy-2’-C-methylpyrimidines and Molecular Biology, Barcelona, Spain Buenos Aires, Argentina Denita Juarez, Argentinian Leloir Institute, Buenos Bassi, Andrea Polytechnic University of Imaging Ca+2 and Reactive Oxygen Species Silvina Paola Aires, Argentina Milan, Italy (ROS) dynamics in single plants cells using biosensors coupled to Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) Emiliani, Argentinian Photosynthetic and Rodriguez- Centre for Research in The role of isoprenoids in the protection Julia Biochemical Research Concepcion, Agricultural Genomics, against UV-B radiation Centre, Rosario, Argentina Manuel Barcelona, Spain Fina, Argentinian Photosynthetic and Beemster, Gerrit University of Antwerp, Role of plant in the inhibition of Julieta Biochemical Research Belgium maize leaf growth by UV-B radiation Centre, Rosario, Argentina Giovannoni, Argentinian University of Buenos Aires, Hemmerich, Peter Leibnitz Institute for Age Exploring the intrinsic antiviral role of PML Federico Argentina Research, Jena, Germany against dengue virus Giulianelli, Argentinian Experimental Medicine Helguero, Luisa A. University of Aveiro, Proteomic analysis of the ERa interactome Sebastian and Biology Institute, Portugal after ligand-independent activation Buenos Aires, Argentina Grodzielski, Argentinian University of Buenos Aires, Balduini, University of Pavia, Italy Effect of ITP auto-antibodies on the signaling Matías Argentina Alessandra pathways downstream their megakaryocytic targets during thrombopoiesis

54 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Loos, Argentinian National University of Mar Brehm, Klaus University of Wurzburg, Genetic knockdown of catalytic isoforms of Julia Alexandra del Plata, Argentina Germany AMP-Activated Protein Kinase and/or Target of Rapamycin in Echinococcus multilocularis Mangano, Argentinian Leloir Institute, Buenos Blazquez, Miguel Institute for Molecular Identification of transcription factors Silvina Aires, Argentina and Cellular Plant Biology, relevant for ROS-mediated polarized growth Valencia, Spain in hair root in plants Mayta, Argentinian Institute of Molecular and Hajirezaei, Leibniz Institute of Plant Evaluating tobacco plants with delayed leaf Martín Cell Biology of Rosario, Mohammad-Reza Genetics and Crop Plant senescence Argentina Research, Gatersleben, Germany Metz, Argentinian Institute of Biotechnology Lara Pandis, University of Neuchatel, Influence of climate on microbial eukaryotic Sebastián Darío and Molecular Biology, Enrique Miguel Switzerland diversity as determined by environmental Chascomús, Argentina high throughput sequencing Paparini, Argentinian University of Buenos Aires, Aplin, John D. University of Manchester, Effect of VIP on vascular transformation Daniel Esteban Argentina United Kingdom through the modulation of macrophage- trophoblast interactions at early pregnancy Ponce, Argentinian University of Cordoba, Allen, Judith E. University of Edinburgh, Characterization of the impact of cardiac Nicolás Eric Argentina United Kingdom macrophage profiles manipulation during helminth infection-induced myocarditis Quarracino, Argentinian Institute of Cardiologic Rodríguez Achucarro – Basque Characterization of human astrocytic Cecilia Research, Buenos Aires, Arellano, José Julio Center for Neuroscience, alterations: from animal models to patients Argentina Zamudio, Spain Romanowski, Argentinian Leloir Institute, Buenos Weigel, Detlef Max Planck Institute for Temperature effects on alternative splicing Andres Aires, Argentina Developmental Biology, in land plants Tubingen, Germany Tossi, Argentinian National University of Mar Kaiserli, Eirini University of Glasgow, Study of the interactions between Nitric Vanesa Eleonora del Plata, Argentina United Kingdom oxide (NO), Abscisic Acid (ABA) and UVR8, the Arabidopsis UV-B photoreceptor Zárate, Argentinian University of Buenos Aires, Stevnsner, Tinna V. Aarhus University, Role of long-term ovarian hormone Sandra Argentina Denmark deprivation and early hormone replacement treatments on Base Excision Repair mechanisms in synaptic and non-synaptic mitochondria from the cortex and hippocampus Bargehr, Austrian University of Cambridge, Murry, Charles E. University of Washington, Human stem cell derived epicardium in Johannes United Kingdom Seattle, United States myocardial graft development Korber, Austrian University of Technology, Schneiter, Roger University of Fribourg, Regulation of steryl ester metabolism in the Martina Graz, Austria Switzerland yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Nikalayevich, Belarusian Institute Pierre and Marie Stemmann, Olaf University of Bayreuth, Phosphorylation-dependent cleavage of Elvira Curie, Paris, France Germany meiosis-specific cohesin Rec8 Cox, Belgian University of Leuven, Andoniadou, King’s College London, Pituitary deficiency and regeneration: in Benoit Belgium Cynthia United Kingdom search of underlying mechanisms and therapeutic targets with a focus on Wnt/Lgr5

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 55 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Krols, Belgian University of Antwerpen, McMahon, Harvey Medical Research Council Deciphering the molecular defect of Michiel Belgium Laboratory of Molecular mutations in ATL3 disrupting ER shape and Biology, Cambridge, dynamics United Kingdom Laoui, Belgian Free University of Brussels, De Palma, Swiss Federal Institute Targeting tumor angiogenesis to enhance Damya Belgium Michele of Technology Lausanne, cancer immunotherapy: Effector Switzerland mechanisms Yague Sanz, Belgian University of Namur, Morillon, Antonin Curie Institute, Paris, Characterization of the role of pol II CTD Carlo Belgium France phosphorylation in the remodelling of the chromatin landscape at pol III targets loci Caixeta Pereira, Brazilian Leibniz Institute for Berven, Frode University of Bergen, Improved enrichment of glycoproteins and Vanessa Analytical Sciences, Norway glycopeptides for neurological diseases Dortmund, Germany research Cerqueira, Brazilian Ben-Gurion University of Scorrano, Luca University of Padova, Italy In vivo and in vitro role of the neuronal Fernanda the Negev, Beer-Sheva, deubiquitinase UCH-L1 on mitochondria- Israel endoplasmatic reticulum tethering and mitophagy Buckley, British University of Sheffield, Soldati, Thierry University of Geneva, Deciphering the roles of phosphatidylinositol Catherine United Kingdom Switzerland phosphate effector proteins in macropinosome and phagosome maturation Clark, British University of Oxford, Filipe, Sergio New University of Lisbon, Molecular mechanisms of bacterial cell- Laura United Kingdom Portugal wall-mediated pathogenicity Czyzewicz, British University of Nottingham, Gevaert, Kris Flanders Interuniversity A phosphoproteomics approach to identify Nathan Loughborough, United Institute for components downstream of the CLE26 Kingdom Biotechnology, Ghent peptide University, Belgium Lopez-Moya, British Ramón Margalef Talbot, Nicholas J. University of Exeter, Determining the role of oxidative stress Federico University, Alicante, Spain United Kingdom and plasma membrane homeostasis in the response of Magnaporthe oryzae and Pochonia chlamydosporia to chitosan Lucas, British Sabanci University, Buggs, Richard Queen Mary University of Developing molecular tools for analyzing Stuart Istanbul, Turkey London, United Kingdom cold adaptation in the Betulaceae Mason, British University of Cambridge, Gazit, Ehud Tel Aviv University, Israel Microfluidic techniques in probing Tom United Kingdom biomechanical properties of peptide aggregates Michelini, British King's College London, Loo, Sandra K. University of California, Investigating pathways to remission and Giorgia United Kingdom Los Angeles, United States persistence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder using electroencephalography- based measures of brain functional connectivity Reeve, British University of Oxford, Lenz, Oliver Technical University of Structure-function insight into NAD+/NADH Holly United Kingdom Berlin, Germany cycling flavo-enzymes

56 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Spagnoletti, British University College London, Fani, Renato University of Florence, Development of a phylogenomic strategy Matteo United Kingdom Italy for mining functional diversity of antibiotic resistance genes in metagenomic data Tatum, British Durham University, Kamerlin, Lynn Uppsala University, Dynamic simulation of novel ethionamide Natalie United Kingdom Sweden boosters for tuberculosis drug development Enchev, Bulgarian Institute of Biochemistry, Deshaies, Ray California Institute of Molecular mechanism of Cullin-RING ligases Radoslav Swiss Federal Institute Technology, Pasadena, deneddylation by the COP9 signalosome of Technology, Zurich, United States Switzerland Ntsomboh Cameroonian Institute of Agricultural Arondel, Vincent Membrane Biogenesis Study of the genetic variability of fatty acids Ntsefong, Research for Development, Laboratory, Bordeaux, composition of palm oil (Elaeis guineensis Godswill Douala, Cameroon France Jacq.) towards improvement of its dietary quality Hsieh, Canadian University of Edinburgh, Osborne, Timothy Sanford Burnham Prebys Macrophage-hepatocyte crosstalk Wei Yuan United Kingdom Medical Discovery through 25-hyrdoxylase generation of Institute, Orlando, United 25-hydroxycholesterol in the liver States Sanders, Canadian University of British Korbel, Jan European Molecular Characterizing structural variants using Ashley Columbia, Vancouver, Biology Laboratory, integrative sequencing technologies to Canada Heidelberg, Germany explore normal variation in the human genome Liang, Chinese Institute of Biophysics, Gasser, Susan M. Friedrich Miescher Structural insights into the role of H2A.Z Xiaoping Chinese Academy of Institute for Biomedical and Mps3 in relocating DSBs to the nuclear Sciences, Beijing, China Research, Basel, envelope Switzerland Wang, Chinese University of Copenhagen, Parrinello, Swiss Federal Institute Exploring the coupling of ligand binding and Yong Denmark Michele of Technology in Zurich, protein dynamics using metadynamics Lugano, Switzerland Yuan, Chinese Nanjing Normal Hausser, Michael Wolfson Institute The functional neural circuit of mouse Ti-Fei University, Nanjing, China for Biomedical claustrum and its roles in integrating cortical Research,University information College London, United Kingdom Cuesta Astroz, Columbian Research Center Rene Jensen, Lars Juhl University of Copenhagen, An integrative approach to unravel the Yesid Rachou, Belo Horizonte, Denmark human-Schistosoma mansoni interactome: Brazil Who, when and where Muñoz Lasso, Columbian Príncipe Felipe Research Pook, Mark Brunel University London, Study of dynamics of axonal growth of Diana Carolina Center, Valencia, Spain Uxbridge, United Kingdom sensory neurons from YG8sR mouse model for Friedreich's ataxia Mlinac Jerković, Croatian Croatian Institute for Schnaar, Ronald L. Johns Hopkins University Lipid rafts and brain insulin resistance in Kristina Brain Research, Zagreb, School of Medicine, Croatia Baltimore, United States

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 57 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Acanda de la Rocha, Cuban Center for Applied Medical Laterra, John J. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Role of Sox2 and its transcriptional networks Arlet Maria Research, Pamplona, Baltimore, United States in high-grade brain tumors Spain Arguelles Oliva, Cuban Center for Genetic Stark, Lesley University of Edinburgh, Study of the role of COMMD1 in the Brizaida Maylin Engineering and United Kingdom cytotoxic effect of peptide CIGB552 in Biotechnology, Havana, human colorectal cancer. Implications of the Cuba inhibition of NF-kappaB activity by CIGB552 Hervis Valdés, Cuban University of Havana, Steinhoff, University of Osnabruck, Membrane topological study of sticholysin Yadira de la Patria Cuba Heinz-Jürgen Germany I, actinoporin from Stichodactyla helianthus, by site-directed spin labeling coupled to EPR spectroscopy Ortiz Miranda, Cuban Center of Molecular Graca, Luis University of Lisbon, In vivo modulation of regulatory T cells Yaquelín Immunology, Havana, Portugal through IL-2 signal blockade: proliferation Cuba inhibition or functional inactivation? Pavlou, Cypriot University of Cyprus, Martínková, Charles University in Studies on the intraprotein/interdomain Andrea Nicosia, Cyprus Markéta Prague, Czech Republic interaction on a model sensor protein, the globin-coupled histidine kinase from Anaeromyxobacter sp. strain Fw109-5 Cegan, Czech Institute of Biophysics Benes, Vladimir European Molecular Silene latifolia sex chromosome specific Radim of the Czech Academy Biology Laboratory, genomics of Sciences, Brno, Czech Heidelberg, Germany Republic Geleticova, Czech Palacky University in Nissen, Poul The Danish Research Human Na+,K+-ATPase alpha3 expression in Jaroslava Olomouc, Czech Republic Institute of Translational S. cerevisiae Neuroscience, Aarhus, Denmark Hampl, Czech Charles University in Richards, Thomas University of Exeter, Reconstruction of the genome complement Vladimir Prague, Czech Republic United Kingdom of the Last Eukaryotic Common ancestor using the up-to-date set of eukaryotic genomes Janečková, Czech Institute of Animal Tucker, Abigail King’s College London, Impact of matrix metalloproteinases on Eva Physiology and Genetics, United Kingdom tooth development Brno, Czech Republic Liskova, Czech Charles University in Hardcastle, University College London, Unravelling the molecular genetic cause of Petra Prague, Czech Republic Alison J. United Kingdom posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy Groenberg, Danish University of Copenhagen, Argüello, José M. Worcester Polytechnic Deciphering copper and interaction Christina Denmark Institute, United States complexes of copper-transporting P-type ATPases O'Sullivan, Danish Aarhus University, Dickinson, California Institute of The neuromuscular basis of multifunctional Angela Denmark Michael Technology, Pasadena, motor control during courtship song and United States flight in Drosophila

58 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Aleyd, Dutch VU University Medical Mocsai, Attila Semmelweis The role of auto-antibodies and Fc receptors Esil Center, Amsterdam, University School of in rheumatoid arthritis Netherlands MedicineBudapest, Hungary Jongsma, Dutch Sanquin Research, Huppa, Johannes Medical University of Characterize the lacto-glycosphingolipid Marlieke Amsterdam, Netherlands Vienna, Austria influence on MHC class I cell surface organization Meijboom, Dutch University of Oxford, Raoul, Cédric The Neuroscience Targeting CPP-PMOs to motoneurons as a Katharina United Kingdom Institute of Montpellier, therapy for spinal muscular atrophy France Middelbeek, Dutch Radboud University Trepat, Xavier Institute for Tensional regulation of breast cancer Jeroen Nijmegen Medical Centre, Bioengineering of progression by TRPM7 Netherlands Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain van Riel, Dutch Utrecht University, Steinmetz, Michel Paul Scherrer Institute, Autoinhibtion mechanism of KIF21A Wilhelmina Netherlands O. Villigen, Switzerland and KIF21B Verbon, Dutch Utrecht University, Liberman, Louisa Duke University, United Deciphering the genetic signalling Eline Netherlands States pathways within the Arabidopsis thaliana root in response to the beneficial microbe Pseudomonas simiae Willemsen, Dutch Institute for Molecular Zwart, Mark P. Wageningen University, Predicting the stability of gene insertions in Anouk and Cellular Plant Biology, The Netherlands a plant RNA virus Valencia, Spain Saar, Estonian University of Cambridge, Weitz, David Harvard University, Screening phototrophic organisms for their Kadi-Liis United Kingdom Cambridge, United States exoelectrogenic ability for improving the performance of biological solar cells Paavola, Finnish Minerva Foundation Hugues, Abriel University of Bern, TRPM4 in cardiac electrophysiology Jere Institute for Medical Switzerland Research, Helsinki, Finland Tähtinen, Finnish University of Helsinki, Umansky, Viktor German Cancer Research Enhancing T-cell therapy with cytokine- Siri Finland Center, Heidelberg, armed adenoviruses for the treatment of Germany melanoma Avanzi, French Swiss Federal Institute of Krause, Johannes Eberhard Karls University, Toward the complete variome of M. leprae Charlotte Technology in Lausanne Tubingen, Germany strains from Europe Switzerland Bailleul, French University Paris 6, France Vardi, Assaf Weizmann Institute of Dinoflagellates inhibit diatom's Benjamin Science, Rehovot, Israel photosynthesis Bonnet, French Jacques Monod Institute, De Almeida, University of Lisbon, A role for introns in the maintenance of Amandine University Paris Diderot, Sergio Portugal genetic stability in human cells Paris, France

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 59 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Dujardin, French Center for Genomic Proudfoot, Sir William Dunn School Interconnection between R-loop formation Gwendal Regulation, Barcelona, Nicholas of Pathology, University of and alternative splicing Spain Oxford, United Kingdom Durand, French Marseille University, Pilhofer, Martin Swiss Federal Institute Native structure of the type VI secretion Eric France of Technology Zurich, system within intact cells by electron Switzerland cryo-tomography Graindorge, French Curie Institute, Paris, Taipale, Mikko University of Toronto, Systematic identification of lincRNA Antoine France Canada interaction partners by a novel quantitative in vivo approach Louveaux, French École Normale Supérieure Weijers, Dolf Wageningen University, Cell division plane orientation: trade-off Marion de Lyon, France The Netherlands between two polarizing cues, auxin and mechanical stress Ors, French Bilkent University, Ankara, Dimitrov, Stefan Albert Bonniot Institute, Role of histone variant H2AZ and H3.3 in Aysegul Turkey Grenoble, France the liver Rey, French Centre of Plant Structural Roessner, Ute The University of Interaction between a host plant genome Elodie and Functional Genomics, Melbourne, Australia and introgressed chromatin Olomouc, Czech Republic Rolhion, French Pasteur Institute, Paris, Gewirtz, Andrew University Atlanta, United Effect of a Listeria monocytogenes Nathalie France States putative bacteriocin on mouse microbiota composition Baumdick, German Max Planck Institue of Chin, Jason Medical Research Council Conformational fluctuations of receptor Martin Molecular Physiology, Laboratory of Molecular tyrosine kinases Dortmund, Germany Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom Bruhn, German IFOM – FIRC Institute Hinnebusch, Alan National Institutes of Dissecting the crosstalk between the DNA Christopher of Molecular Oncolgy Health Clinical Center, damage response and translational control Foundation, Milan, Italy Bethesda, United States during aging Diepold, German University of Oxford, Christen, Swiss Federal Institute Coordinating virulence and cell cycle – Andreas United Kingdom Matthias of Technology Zurich, Integration of the type III secretion system Switzerland within the c-di-GMP regulation system Gebhardt, German Curie Institute, Paris, Bianco, Isaac University College London, Neural substrates of binocular vision in the Christoph France United Kingdom zebrafish Hacke, German Center for Molecular Rothman, James E. Yale School of Medicine, Ebola glycoprotein oligomerization and lipid Moritz Biology, University of New Haven, United States interaction in model membranes Heidelberg, Germany Junghans, German Technical University of Vukojevic, Karolinska Institute, Investigation of targeting and distribution Cornelia Berlin, Germany Vladana Stockholm, Sweden of Na,K-ATPase in specific membrane compartments by FCS - significance for human health and disease Pader, German Karolinska Institutet, Schmidt, Edward Montana State University, Studying the function of TRP14 in cellular Irina Stockholm, Sweden Bozeman, United States redox networks using genetically modified mice

60 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Rempel, German University of Groningen, de Gier, Stockholm University, Engineering an Escherichia coli strain for the Stephan Netherlands Jan-Willem Sweden identification and characterization of new bacterial vitamin B12 uptake systems Schlackow, German Sir William Dunn School Steinmetz, Lars European Molecular Genome-wide analysis of co-transcriptional Margarita of Pathology, University of Biology Laboratory, processing events in mammalian cells at Oxford, United Kingdom Heidelberg, Germany single nucleotide resolution Schmolka, German University of Lisbon, Helwk, Aleksandra Wellcome Trust Centre The role of microRNAs in the differentiation Nina Portugal for Cell Biology, University of pro-inflammatory gamma delta T-cell of Edinburgh, United subsets Kingdom Straube, German Max Planck Institut for Deshaies, California Institute of Quantitative mathematical modelling of the Ronny Dynamics of Complex Raymond J. Technology, Pasadena, cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase (CRL) cycle Technical Systems, United States Magdeburg, Germany Streubel, German Trinity College Dublin, Pasini, Diego European Institute of The role of novel Polycomb Repressive Gundula Ireland Oncology, Milan, Italy Complex 2 associated proteins in the mono-, di- and trimethylation of Histone H3 at lysine 27 Thaa, German Karolinska Institutet, Polacek, Charlotta Technical University of Cellular stress response upon infection with Bastian Stockholm, Sweden Denmark, Frederiksberg, the globally important porcine virus PRRSV Denmark Wallroth, German Leibniz Institute for Weisman, Lois University of Michigan, Phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate Alexander Molecular Pharmacology, Ann Arbor, United States in endolysosomal membrane traffic and Berlin, Germany nutrient signalling Zerbes, German Institute for Biochemistry Ryan, Michael Monash University, Characterization of the human Ralf and Molecular Biology, Melbourne, Australia mitochondrial contact site and cristae Freiburg, Germany organizing system Chanoumidou, Greek Foundation for Research Ahlenius, Henrik Lund University, Sweden GRG5: A novel player in neural commitment Konstantina and Technology – Hellas, and generation of Induced Neuronal Cells? Heraklion, Greece Drimyli, Greek Biomedical Sciences Roman, Gregg University of Houston, Differential response of a single receptor to Efstathia Research Center United States odorant isotopes Alexander Fleming, Athens, Greece Kalamida, Greek University Hospital of Harris, Andrian Weatherall Institute Monitoring tumor stroma and lung cancer Dimitra AlexandroupolisMedical of Molecular Medicine, cells metabolic co-operation by 3D cell School, Greece University of Oxford, culturing United Kingdom Pavloudi, Greek Hellenic Centre for Marine Friedrich, Michael University of Bremen, Concurrent activity of sulfate reducing Christina Research, Heraklion, W. Germany and denitrifying bacteria in the Namibian Greece Oxygen Minimum Zone identified by RNA stable isotope probing

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 61 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Savvaki, Greek University of Crete, Merbs, Shannath Wilmer Eye Institute, Studying the role of Contactin-2 in retinal Maria Heraklion, Greece L. Johns Hopkins School pathology in mice of Medicine, Baltimore, United States Cseh, Hungarian University of Pecs, Scorrano, Luca University of Padua, Italy The role of PARP inhibition on mitochondrial Anna Mária Medical School, Hungary dynamics Kovács, Hungarian University of Debrecen, Arndt-Jovin, Max Planck Institute for Determination of the effect of changing the Tamás Hungary Donna Biophysical Chemistry, dipole potential on the clustering of ErbB Gottingen, Germany proteins and their signaling efficiency Nyerges, Hungarian Biological Research Held, Martin Swiss Federal Institute of Exploring the determinants of cross- Ákos Centre, Hungarian Technology Zurich, Basel, resistance on the antimicrobial peptide Academy of Sciences, Switzerland sequence space Szeged, Hungary Papp, Hungarian Institute of Experimental Herry, Cyril Magendie Neurocenter, Basal forebrain control of prefrontal cortical Orsolya MedicineHungarian Bordeaux, France function during fear learning Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Szántai, Hungarian University of Szeged, Madonna, G. d'Annunzio University Investigation of cardiocytoprotection Ágnes Hungary Rosalinda of Chieti-Pescara, Italy of cardiac stem cell-derived cardiac myocytes in vitro, in simulated ischemia/ reoxygenation test system Varjú, Hungarian Semmelweis University, Longstaff, Colin National Institute for Neutralization of released Imre Budapest, Hungary Biological Standards and in inflammation-related thrombosis: Control, South Mimms, destabilization of neutrophil extracellular United Kingdom traps using heparin derivatives Ahmad, Indian All India Institute of Mohan, Madan Medical Research Council Intrinsically disordered proteins and Javeed Medical Sciences, New Babu Laboratory of Molecular mycobacterium tuberculosis: pathogenesis, Delhi, India Biology, Cambridge, comparative analysis of H37Rv and H37Ra United Kingdom strains Ansari, Indian University of Malaya, Schmidt, Reinhold Hannover Medical School, Deciphering the iNKT cell dysfunction in HIV Abdul Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E. Germany infection Bidchol, Indian Manipal University, India Newman, William University of Manchester, Unraveling the genetic etiologies of Abdul Mueed United Kingdom Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome and Teebi hypertelorism syndrome by exome sequencing More, Indian International Center for Choudhary, Jyoti Wellcome Trust Sanger Quantitative proteomic and Kunal Genetic Engineering and Institute, Cambridge, phosphoproteomic analysis of merozoite Biotechnology, New Delhi, United Kingdom stage of human malaria parasite India Plasmodium falciparum Nanekar, Indian University of Oulu, Ciruela, Francisco University of Barcelona, Interaction studies between human Rahul Finland Spain adenosine receptor and dopamine receptor

62 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Prakash Bangalore, Indian National Centre for Bader, Michael Max-Delbrück-Center Role of serotonin in reprogramming of Megha Biological Sciences, for Molecular Medicine, mouse fibroblasts Bangalore, India Berlin, Germany Rathore, Indian SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Minczuk, Michal Wellcome Trust – Medical Identification of a new ribosome biogenesis Sorbhi Sweden Research Council factor in human mitochondria Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Shaik, Indian Leibniz Research Institute Gartner, Anton University of Dundee, To exploit the anti-aging effect of reducing Anjumara for Environmental United Kingdom frataxin expression as a possible tumour- Medicine, Düsseldorf, suppressor strategy Germany Thomas, Indian National University of Marchetti- Vienna University of To evaluate the efficacy of a tunable Dilip Ireland Galway, Ireland Deschmann, Technology, Austria microgel cell delivery platform to promote Martina angiogenesis in a hind-limb ischemia (HLI) mouse model Upadhyay, Indian Umea University, Sweden Lill, Roland Philipps University of Viperin biogenesis and antiviral effect Arunkumar Marburg, Germany against TBEV Maher, Irish The Weatherall Rajpert-De Meyts, Copenhagen University Identifying clones of mutant spermatogonia Geoffrey Institute of Molecular Ewa Hospital, Denmark in human testes Medicine,University of Oxford, United Kingdom Murphy, Irish University of Innsbruck, Bredy, Timothy University of California, Viral manipulation of an extinction-specific Conor Austria Irvine, United States miRNA candidate in the Basolateral amygdala and its effect on fear extinction in impaired S1 and normally extinguishing S6/ BL6 mice Afanzar, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Berry, Richard University of Oxford, Study of single CheY molecules with respect Oshri Science, Rehovot, Israel United Kingdom to binding of the flagellar motor and Baron - Becher, Israeli Technion – Israel Institute Klein, Allon Harvard Medical School, Single-cell analysis of pancreatic Maayan of Technology, Haifa, Israel Boston, United States development under normal and diseased states Burgsdorf, Israeli University of Haifa, Israel Handley, Kim M. The University of Auckland, From free living existance to intracellular Ilia New Zealand symbiosis: genomic features of the facultative symbiont Candidatus Synechococcus feldmannii Fridman, Israeli Technion – Israel Institute Rappaport, Institute of Physical and The role of viral photosystem I genes in Svetlana of Technology, Haifa, Israel Fabrice Chemical Biology, Paris, cyanobacterial photosynthesis France Haimovich, Israeli Technion – Israel Institute Meinhard, Justus Liebig University Regulation of iron homeostasis in the male Yael of Technology, Haifa, Israel Andreas Giessen, Germany reproductive tract in health and during bacterial infection

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 63 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Knebel, Israeli Tel Aviv University, Israel Gabbiani, Fabrizio Baylor College of Inducing walking patterns in the locust Daniel Medicine, Houston, by optically stimulating its higher motor United States centers Qvit, Israeli Stanford University, Zilberstein, Dan Technion – Israel Institute Development of novel peptidesiInhibitors of Nir School of Medicine, of Technology, Haifa, Israel essential enzymes targeting Leishmaniasis; United States host-free system Schatz, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Schroeder, Declan Marine Biological Exploring novel replication strategies of Daniella Science, Rehovot, Israel Association, Plymouth, large dsDNA viruses and their ecological United Kingdom relevance during host-virus dynamics within oceanic algal blooms Schleyer, Israeli Weizmann Institute of Piel, Joern Institute of Microbiology, Deciphering the Metabolic Landscape Guy Science, Rehovot, Israel Swiss Federal Institute during host-virus interactions of the Bloom- of Technology Zurich, Forming Phytoplankton Emiliania huxleyi Switzerland Bernardi, Italian University of Pisa, Italy Heinzer, Raphael University of Lausanne, Consciousness in the wake-sleep transition: Giulio Switzerland a high-density EEG study Bianchi, Italian Institute of Genetic Skottman, Heli University of Tampere, Establishment of a novel human 3D cornea Arianna Medicine, Newcastle Finland model using induced pluripotent stem cells University, Newcastle (iPSC) upon Tyne, United Kingdom Callegari, Italian Swiss Federal Institute of Mazza, Davide Centre for Experimental Quantitative FRAP (qFRAP) assessment of Andrea Technology in Lausanne, Imaging, San Raffaele p65-NFkB binding kinetics in living cells Switzerland Scientific Institute, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy Cappelletti, Italian Edmund Mach Picotti, Paola Institute of Biochemistry, Large scale mass spectrometry-based Valentina Foundation of San Swiss Federal Institute analysis of protein structural changes during Michele all'Adige, Italy of Technology Zurich, the unicellular-to-multicellular epigenetic Switzerland transition in natural yeast Cordella, Italian National Institute of Valitutti, Centre de Looking at a melanoma cell and its Martina Health, Rome, Italy Salvatore Physiopathologie de microenvironment Toulouse Purpan, France Corso, Italian Free University of Brussels, Costa, Alex University of Milan, Italy Study of intracellular calcium dynamics and Massimiliano Belgium stress response mediated by CCX2 and CAX1 genes in Arabidopsis Corvino, Italian University of Naples, Italy Pastore, Annalisa Maurice Wohl Institute, Fragment-based de novo design of a Angela King’s College London, cystathionine gamma-lyase selective United Kingdom inhibitor blocking hydrogen sulfide production Cristofani, Italian University of Milan, Italy Schiavo, University College London, Deficits in axonal retrograde transport in Riccardo Maria Giampietro United Kingdom motor neuron diseases

64 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Cuomo, Italian Anton Dohrn Zoological Hinman, Veronica Carnegie Mellon Evolution of a gene regulatory network for Claudia Station, Naples, Italy University, Pittsburgh, gut development United States De Pascalis, Italian Pasteur Institute, Paris, Trepat, Xavier Institute for Assessing the role of Intermediate Filaments Chiara France Bioengineering of in collective cell migration through forces Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Di Bartolomeo, Italian University of Technology, Becker, Thomas University of Freiburg, Functional and topological characterization Francesca Graz, Austria Germany of phosphatidylserine decarboxylase 1 (Psd1p) from the yeast di Martino, Italian University of Naples Foulkes, Nicholas Karlsruhe Institute of Role of YBX-1 protein in the timing of cell Orsola Federico II, Naples, Italy S. Technology, Institute of proliferation during zebrafish development Toxicology and Genetics, Germany Fagnocchi, Italian National Institute of Stunnenberg, Radboud University Transcriptional and epigenetic Luca Molecular Genetics, Milan, Henk Medical Centre, Nijmegen, characterization of a Myc-induced Italy The Netherlands epigenetic memory in mouse embryonic stem cells Fraioli, Italian Polytechnic University Dalby, Matthew University of Glasgow, Engineering novel orthopedic surfaces: Nano Roberta of Catalonia, Barcelona, United Kingdom features and integrin-binding compounds Spain anchored to Ti to instruct stem cell response Gallo, Italian University of Milan, Italy Bellipanni, Temple University, Investigating the in vivo function of Haspin Guido Roberto Carlo Gianfranco Philadelphia, United during zebrafish development by both States knock-down and knock-out strategies Gounari, Italian San Raffaele Scientific Jumaa, Hassan University Clinic of Ulm, Dissecting the role of antigen stimulation Maria institute, Milan, Italy Germany vs autonomous signaling in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Lauria, Italian Institute of Biophysics, Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh, RiboWaves: development of a mathematical Fabio Povo, Italy Guido United Kingdom model of eukaryotic translation integrating ribosomes and RNA binding proteins occupancies by multi-dimensional profiles Loviglio, Italian University of Lausanne, Katsanis, Nicholas Duke University, Durham, The 16p11.2 genomic rearrangements: a Maria Nicla Switzerland United States paradigm to identify pathways associated with intellectual disability, head size , as well as autistic and BMI traits Magri, Italian Pablo de Olavide Lemaire, Patrick University of Montpellier, Comparative analysis of regulatory Marta Silvia University, Seville, Spain France landscapes among chordates Mele, Italian University of Coimbra, Barberis, Andrea Italian Institute of Structural and molecular alterations in Miranda Portugal Technology, Genova, Italy GABAergic synapses in epileptogenesis: synaptic organization and GABAA receptor dynamics

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 65 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Melloni, Italian Center for Genomic Zeggini, Eleftheria Wellcome Trust Sanger Next generation association studies in Giorgio Science of IIT@SEMM, Institute, Hinxton, United isolated populations Milan, Italy Kingdom Menga, Italian University of Bari Aldo Mazzone, Flanders Interuniversity Unraveling the molecular mechanisms Alessio Moro, Italy Massimiliano Institute for underlying the oncosuppressive role of Biotechnology, University slc25a26 in cervical cancer of Leuven, Belgium Neri, Italian Human Genetics Stunnenberg, Radboud University Mechanisms of DNA methylation in early Francesco Foundation, Torino, Italy Hendrik G. Medical Centre, Nijmegen, mouse development The Netherlands Nicolai, Italian University of Rome Tor Malewicz, Michal University of Leicester, Functional characterization of ZNF281 and Sara Vergata, Italy United Kingdom DNA-PK interaction Ottaviani, Italian University of Padova, Italy Cheetham, Mike University College London, Protein kinase CK2 phosphorylates Daniele United Kingdom the HSJ1 chaperone and modulates its neuroprotective function Palmieri, Italian University of Bari Aldo Mazzone, Flanders Interuniversity Glutamine synthetase activity as a Erika Mariana Moro, Bari, Italy Massimiliano Institute for modulator of M2 immunosuppressive and Biotechnology, University pro-tumor phenotype: a functional approach of Leuven, Belgium Paoli, Italian University of Trento, Italy Galizia, Giovanni Univertisy of Konstanz, Identification of molecular vibration-sensing Marco Germany odour receptors Piccinini, Italian University of Bologna, Horvath, Peter Biological Research Label-free automatic in vitro cell tracking Filippo Italy Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary Pinamonti, Italian International School for Noé, Frank Free University of Berlin, RNA base fraying: a molecular dynamics Giovanni Advanced Studies, Trieste, Germany study analyzed with Markov state models Italy Populin, Italian University of Padova, Moing, Annick French Institute for Metabolomic profiling of developing apple Francesca Legnaro, Italy Agricultural Research, fruit (Malus domestica) Bordeaux-Rennes, France Romano, Italian Telethon Institute of Zeviani, Massimo Wellcome Trust – Medical Mitochondrial ROS-dependent caspase-9 Alessia Genetics and Medicine, Research Council activation: implication for genetic disorders Pozzuoli, Italy Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Rosini, Italian University of Insubria, Neri, Dario Swiss Federal Institute A targeted enzymatic therapy based on Elena Varese, Italy of Technology Zurich, oxidative stress: a promising tool for cancer Switzerland treatment Russo, Italian University of Padova, Italy Cookson, Mark R. National Institutes of Exploring LRRK2-related signaling pathways Isabella Health Clinical Center, in microglia cells: relevance for Parkinson’s Bethesda, United States disease

66 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Sepe, Italian IFOM – FIRC Institute Lazzerini Denchi, The Scripps Research Study of the effects of anti-sense oligo (ASO) Sara of Molecular Oncolgy Eros Institute, La Jolla, United in TRF2 deficient mouse model Foundation, Milan, Italy States Simonini, Italian John Innes Centre, Hart, Darren University of Joseph 3D structure of ETT-IND-auxin complex Sara Norwich, United Kingdom Fourier, Grenoble, France Torlai Triglia, Italian Max Delbrück Center Teichmann, Sarah European Bioinformatics Regulation of single-cell gene expression Elena for Molecular Medicine, Institute & Wellcome by Polycomb repressor complexes during Berlin, Germany Trust Sanger Institute, neuronal differentiation Cambridge, United Kingdom Valentini, Italian Medical Research Council Jenal, Urs Biozentrum,University of Subcellular localisation and dynamics Martina Clinical Sciences Centre, Basel, Switzerland of c-di-GMP associated components , modulating Pseudomonas aeruginosa United Kingdom motility Vannocci, Italian King's College London, Codazzi, Franca San Raffaele Understanding disease development in Tommaso United Kingdom Universityand San Friedreich’s ataxia in a time-resolved way Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Vannozzi, Italian University of Padova, Dry, Ian CSIRO Agriculture, Transcriptional regulation of the stilbene Alessandro Legnaro, Italy Adelaide, Australia synthase pathway in grapevine (V. vinivera L.) Vascotto, Italian University of Udine, Italy Chacinska, International Institute Mapping the transport pathway of APE1 into Carlo Agnieszka of Molecular and Cell the mitochondrial matrix Biology, Warsaw, Poland Vitiello, Italian Tuscan Tumor Institute, Gravekamp, Albert Einstein College Listeria monocytogenes as a new therapeutic Marianna Pisa, Italy Caudia of Medicine, New York, tool against metastatic melanoma United States Volpe, Italian University of Turin, Italy Thevelein, Johan Flanders Interuniversity Characterization of transceptor activity of Veronica Institute for two legume phosphate transporters Biotechnology, University of Leuven, Belgium Hikita, Japanese Max-Planck-Institute for Matsuda, Kyoto University, Japan Analysis of planar cell polarity in endothelial Takao Heart and Lung Research, Michiyuki homeostasis Bad Nauheim, Germany Shrestha, Nepali Hebrew University of Inforzato, Antonio Humanitas Clinical and Effects of varying extracellular matrix Ketan Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel Research Center, Milan, constituents on the ovulatory process Italy Ambrin, Pakistani National Institute for Tommerup, Niels University of Copenhagen, Molecular characterization of multiplex Fatima Biotechnology and Denmark schizophrenia families from Pakistan Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 67 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Focht, Polish Aarhus University, Javitch, Jonathan New York State Psychiatric Investigation of the binding site specificity Dorota Denmark A. Institute, United States and functional characterization of bacterial homologue of neurotransmitter:sodium symporters - MhsT Górna, Polish University of Warsaw, De Moraes, Isabel Membrane Protein Structural studies of human mitochondrial Maria Wiktoria Poland LaboratoryDiamond Light proteins from the FASTKD family Source Ltd, Didcot, United Kingdom Gruszka, Polish University of Cambridge, Schuler, Ben University of Zurich, Tandem repeat proteins and their propensity Dominika United Kingdom Switzerland for misfolding Gumowski, Polish University of Gdansk, Hartl, Ulrich Max Planck Institute of Substrate specificity of Hsp104 chaperone Krzysztof Poland Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany Heberlein, Polish Westfalian Wilhelms Hollfelder, Florian University of Cambridge, Evolution of substrate specificity in the Magdalena University, Münster, United Kingdom alkaline phosphatase superfamily Germany Kisiel, Polish Wroclaw Medical Sivilotti, Lucia University College London, Structural determinants and the impact of Magdalena University, Poland United Kingdom neurosteroids on preactivation transitions in GABAA receptor Kosinski, Polish European Molecular Sali, Andrej University of California, Interactive graphical modeling framework Jan Biology Laboratory, San Francisco, United for integrative structural biology Heidelberg, Germany States Magiera, Polish Curie Institute, Orsay, Harkany, Tibor University of Vienna, Posttranslationnal modifications of tubulin Maria France Austria in human neurodegenerative diseases Perycz, Polish Institute of Biochemistry Lynch, Jeremy University of Illinois at DNA methylation and demethylation Malgorzata and Biophysics, Polish Chicago, United States machinery gene knock out in Nasonia insect Academy of Sciences, model with Cas9 and TALENs gene editing Warsaw, Poland systems Pirzgalska, Polish Gulbenkian Science Glass, Christopher University of California, The neuro-adipose connection and its Roksana Institute, Oeiras, Portugal San Diego, United States immune regulators Pitruska, Polish Warsaw University of Ludwig, Christian University of Birmingham, NMR spectroscopic metabolism analysis of Róza Technology, Poland United Kingdom MAF1 deletion yeast strain Pluta, Polish Center for Cooperative Cooper, Jonathan University College London, Structural characterization of the multistep Paula Research in Biosciences, B. United Kingdom catalytic mechanism of porphobilinogen Derio, Spain deaminase Skalska, Polish Institute of Rheumatology, Jorgensen, Institute for Regenerative Research on the effects of mesenchymal Urszula Warsaw, Poland Christian Medicine and Biotherapy, stem cells (MSCs) on rheumatoid Th17/Treg Montpellier, France cells function and metabolic program Socha, Polish Poznan University of Spielmann, Malte Charité University, Berlin, Coding vs. non-coding - deciphering the Magdalena Medical Sciences, Poland Germany underlying causes for the congenital limb malformations (CLMs) in a cohort of Polish patients with the use of the whole genome sequencing (WGS)

68 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Sulkowska, Polish University of Warsaw, Silhavy, Daniel National Agricultural Identification of new factors involved in Aleksandra Poland and Innovation plant NMD Center, Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Godollo, Hungary Szarzynska- Polish Institute of Human Kulozik, Andreas E. University Medical Pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic Zawadzka, Genetics Polish, Academy Center for Children and leukemia at diagnosis and relapse: genetic Bronislawa of Sciences, Poznan, Adolescents, Heidelberg, and epigenetic characteristics Poland Germany Zabczynska, Polish Jagiellonian University, Pucic Bakovic, Genos Glycoscience Glycosylation of serum glycoproteins in Marta Krakow, Poland Maja Research Laboratory, Hashimoto thyroiditis Zagreb, Croatia Figueiredo Costa, Portuguese Institute of Neuroscience Rapaport, Doron University of Tubingen, Analysis of the intracellular targeting of Bruna Guiomar of the National Research Germany spontaneously inserting tail-anchored Council, Milan, Italy proteins Goncalves, Portuguese European Bioinformatics Sauer, Uwe Institute of Molecular Systematic characterization of dynamic Emanuel Institute, Wellcome Trust Systems Biology, Swiss metabolic changes and inferring the Genome CampusHinxton, Federal Institute of signalling regulatory pathways in United Kingdom Technology Zurich, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Switzerland Loureiro, Portuguese Institute of Molecular Heutink, Peter German Center for RNA-mediated pathogenic pathways in Joana and Cell Biology, Porto, Neurodegenerative neurodegeneration Portugal Diseases, Tubingen, Germany Moreira, Portuguese New University of Lisbon, Van Dijck, Patrick Flanders Interuniversity Studies on BolA role in microbial biofilm Ricardo Oeiras, Portugal Institute for development using in vivo bioluminescence Biotechnology, University in a mouse system of Leuven, Belgium Neto, Portuguese Institute of Biomedical West, Jonathan University of One4all: microfluidic single-cell co-cultures Estrela Engineering, Porto, Southampton, United to address bone innervation Portugal Kingdom Oliveira, Portuguese Institute of Molecular Buttner, Mark The John Innes Centre, Role and molecular mechanisms of a novel Rute and Cell Biology, Porto, Norwich, United Kingdom ECF sigma factor: identification of SigG Portugal regulon Pereira Pereira, Portuguese University College London, Campisi, Judith Buck Institute for Interaction between the immune system Branca Isabel United Kingdom Research on Aging, and senescent cells Novato, United States Chimerel, Rumanian University of Cambridge, Rabot, Sylvie Micalis Institute, Paris, The role of the bacterial metabolite indole Catalin United Kingdom France in the modulation of GLP-1 secretion from enteroendocrine cells in vivo Gabdulkhakov, Russian Institute of Protein Betzel, Christian University, Investigation of the protein-pigment Azat Research, Pushchino, Germany interactions in bacterial photosynthetic Russian Federation reaction center

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 69 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Kirillova, Russian Lomonosov Moscow Technau, Ulrich University of Vienna, Developmental potential of blastomeric Anastasia State University, Moscow, Austria aggregates in germ layer and axis formation Russian Federation of Nematostella vectensis Lomakina, Russian N.N. Blokhin Russian Gautreau, Alexis Ecole Polytechnique, Role of novel Rac effectors in the control of Maria Cancer Research Center Palaiseau, France persistence of cell migration of Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation Ivani, Serbian Institute for Research in Kool, Eric T. Stanford University, Base stacking parameterization of DNA Ivan Biomedicine, Barcelona, United States force fields for MD simulations by means of Spain experimental and theoretical methods Lavrnja, Serbian University of Belgrade, Jagodic, Maja Karolinska Institute, Time- and spatial-dependent miR-21 Irena Serbia Stockholm, Sweden expression in the CNS during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis Matic, Serbian Max Planck Institute for Filipovska, Harry Perkins Institute of The structure and organization of the Stanka Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Aleksandra Medical Research, Perth, mitochondrial genome Germany Australia Bosikova Pavukova, Slovakian Institute of Animal RIebel, Katharina University Medical Center, Cognitive abilities of songbirds Eva Biochemistry and Leiden, The Netherlands GeneticsSlovak Academy of Sciences, Ivanka pri Dunaji, Slovakia Porubsky, Slovakian University Medical Center Marschall, Tobias Max Planck Institut for Use of single-cell strand sequencing and David Groningen, Netherlands Informatics, Algorithms long-read technologies to phase diploid for Computational genomes Genomics Saarbrucken, Germany Pegan, Slovenian Jozef Stefan Institute, Vandenabeele, Flanders Interuniversity Tempol interferes with TNF-alpha-induced Katarina Ljubljana, Slovenia Peter Institute for signal transduction Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium Vittori, Slovenian National Institute van Noorden, University of Amsterdam, Correlation of in vivo observation and in toto Milos of Biology, Ljubljana, Cornelis J. F. The Netherlands 3D imaging of glioblastoma development in Slovenia zebrafish embryos Zupancic, Slovenian University of Lisbon, Jung, Steffen Weizmann Institute of Dendritic cells targeted nanoplatforms Eva Portugal Science, Rehovot, Israel du Plessis, South African Stellenbosch University, Wigneshweraraj, Imperial College, London, Structure, function and inhibition of RNA Juanelle Cape Town, South Africa Sivaramesh United Kingdom polymerase in mycobacterium tuberculosis Moses, South African University of Cape Town, BatlleMorera, Centre for Genomic Identifying the precise molecular Stacey South Africa Laura Regulation, Barcelona, pathogenesis underlying the disease Spain phentoype in individuals carrying a mutation in the spliceosomal factor, PRPF8

70 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Alert, Spanish University of Barcelona, Prost, Jacques Curie Institute, Paris, Active hydrodynamics of epithelial tissues Ricard Spain France Allepuz Fuster, Spanish University of Salamanca, Hampsey, Michael Rutgers University, New- Could RNAP II regulate transcription by Paula Spain Brunswick, United States itself? Role of Rpb4/7 in gene looping Álvarez Álvarez, Spanish Cancer Research Center, Ulrich, Helle Institute of Molecular Study of PCNA deubiquitylases in Vanesa Salamanca, Spain Biology, Mainz, Germany Schizosaccharomyces pombe Amador Cubero, Spanish Center for Genomics and Cristofari, Gael University of Nice – Identification of LINE-1 interactors in Adilia Suyapa Oncological Research, Sophia-Antipolis, France pluripotent cells Granada, Spain Angulo Urarte, Spanish Duran i Reynals Hospital, Affolter, Markus University of Basel, Role of p110alpha/PI3K isoform in actin Ana L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Switzerland dynamics and vascular anastomosis Spain Armengot Spanish École Normale Supérieure Mukhtar, Shahid The University of Alabama, Interactomic approach to study the role of Martinez, de Lyon, France M. Birmingham, United Membrane Associated Kinase Regulators Laia States (MAKRs) in plants Barniol Xicota, Spanish University of Barcelona, DeGrado, William University of California, Ion channels as drug targets: Influenza A Marta Spain F. San Francisco, United V27A-S31N M2 protein characterisation States Bullich, Spanish Puigvert Foundation, Giles, Rachel H. University Medical Center Functional study on the tmem104 gene and Gemma Barcelona, Spain Utrecht, The Netherlands its potential involvement in the ethiology of autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease Caballo, Spanish Institute for Venturi, Vittorio International Centre for Bacteria-bacteria molecular interactions Eloy Mediterranean and Genetic Engineeringand within the olive knot microbiome Subtropical Horticulture Biotechnology, Trieste, La Mayora, Málaga, Spain Italy Calvo Sánchez, Spanish Ramon y Cajal Biomedical Meehan, Richard University of Edinburgh, Development of an improved methodology María Inmaculada Research Institute, Ramón United Kingdom for the regulated silencing of DNTM1 in y Cajal University Hospital, multiple cell types that will allow for the Madrid, Spain design of new experimental approaches to study the roles of this protein in vivo with basic and translational purposes Cárdenas Castelló, Spanish Miguel Hernández Milinkovitch, University of Geneva, Study of neurogenesis in reptiles using in ovo Adrián University, Alicante, Spain Michel Switzerland electroporation Covaleda Cortés, Spanish University of Barcelona, Capelo Martínez, New University of Lisbon, Development of probes for molecular Giovanni Cerdanyola del Vallés, José Luis Portugal imaging of human thrombin-activable Spain fibrinolysis inhibitor 'TAFI' Cubas Gaona, Spanish National Center for García-Sastre, Mount Sinai School of Interaction between TRIM25 and MDA5 Liliana Lilibeth Biotechnology, Madrid, Adolfo Medicine, New York, in chicken cells and their role in mediated Spain United States antiviral activity upon IBDV infection Diaz-Trivino, Spanish Wageningen University, Paz-Ares, Javier National Center for Developmental responses to phosphate Sara Netherlands Biotechnology, Madrid, starvation Spain

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 71 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Domingo Prim, Spanish Stockholm University, Marfany Nadal, University of Barcelona, Sumoylation of EXOSC10 and its role in DNA Judit Sweden Gemma Spain repair Estarellas, Spanish University of Barcelona, Gervasio, University College London, Cellular Retinol-Binding Proteins: Which Carolina Spain Francesco Luigi United Kingdom are the factors that modulate the distinct affinity for retinol in CRBP-I and CRBP-II isoforms? Fabregas Vallve, Spanish Center for Research in Fernie, Alisdair Max Planck Institute Metabolic profiling of the drought-resistant Norma Agricultural Genomics, of Molecular Plant aquad plants Barcelona, Spain Physiology, Golm, Germany Fafian Labora, Spanish University of A Coruña, van de Loo, Fons Radboud University Effect of ageing on the anti-inflammatory Juan Antonio Spain A. J. Medical Centre, Nijmegen, potential of mesenchymal stem cells derived The Netherlands exosomes Fernandez, Spanish University of Madrid, Kozlova, Elena N. Uppsala University, The dorsal root angioarchitecture in Julia Spain Sweden intact rodents and following injury and regenerative strategies Flores de los Heros, Spanish Pompeu Fabra University, Herry, Cyril Magendie Neurocenter, Neuroanatomical and optogenetic studies to Africa Barcelona, Spain Bordeaux, France evaluate the role of orexins in fear memory strengthening Garcia Pardo, Spanish University of Barcelona, Blundell, Tom University of Cambridge, Structural characterization of the full-length Javier Bellaterra, Spain United Kingdom human carboxypeptidase D García-Negredo, Spanish University of Barcelona, Pedarzani, Paola University College London, Deciphering the role of calmodulin and Gloria Spain United Kingdom Homer proteins in the mGlu5 receptor-SK2 ion channel interaction Gomez Ariza, Spanish University of Milan, Italy San Segundo de Centre for Research in Molecular impact of pathogenic and Jorge los Mozos, Blanca Agricultural Genomics, symbiotic fungi on rice flowering Barcelona, Spain Gonzalez Almela, Spanish Center of Molecular Castello, Alfredo University of Oxford, Interactome determination of sindbis virus Esther Maria Biology Severo Ochoa, United Kingdom mRNAs Madrid, Spain Gonzalez Terán, Spanish Spanish National Centre Olson, Eric University of Texas Role of p38 MAPK pathway in cardiac Bárbara for Cardiovascular Southwestern Medical regeneration Research, Madrid, Spain Center, Dallas, United States González, Spanish Institute of Biomedical Söhnlein, Oliver Ludwig Maximilians Molecular role of nod1 in early Silvia Research Alberto Sols, University, Munich, atherosclerosis development Madrid, Spain Germany Jauset Rubio, Spanish Rovira i Virgili University, Roth, Günter Albert Ludwig University Selection of aptamers by AptaSwift SELEX Miriam Tarragona, Spain Freiburg, Germany Lemus, Spanish University of Seville, Spain Reggiori, Fulvio University Medical Investigating intracellular membrane-bound Leticia Center Groningen, The structures involved in protein degradation Netherlands on an ultrastructural level using different electron microscopy techniques

72 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Lerma-Usabiaga, Spanish Basque Center on Wandell, Brian A. Stanford University, Structure and function of the brain reading Garikoitz Cognition, Brain and United States networks Language, Donostia, Spain Lobo Pecellín, Spanish Pablo de Olavide Raff, Jordan Sir William Dunn School In vivo analysis of Germline Stem Cell (GSC) María University, Seville, Spain of Pathology,University of proliferation: a role for the extracellular Oxford, United Kingdom matrix (ECM) in ovary homeostasis Lopez-Montero, Spanish National Center for Enninga, Jost Pasteur Institute, Paris, Large volume CLEM reconstruction of Noelia Biotechnology, Madrid, France membranous aggregates induced by Spain non-growing intracellular Salmonella in fibroblasts in the context of phagosome integrity Madrigal Verdú, Spanish CEU Cardenal Herrera Laman, Heike University of Cambridge, Physical and functional interaction between Pilar University, Valencia, Spain United Kingdom the Parkinson's disease protein Fbxo7/ PARK15 and the small GTPase RhoE Manrique, Spanish University of Milan, Italy Franks, Robert North Carolina State Role of the complex between SEEDSTICK, Silvia University, Raleigh, United a MADS box transcription factor, and States histone deacetylase 19 (HDA19) in ovule development in Arabidopsis thaliana Marco Brualla, Spanish University of Zaragoza, Villalba, Martín Institute for Regenerative Human tumor metabolism and sensitivity to Joaquín Spain Medicine and Biotherapy, CTL and NK cells Montpellier, France Martin-Maestro Spanish University of Madrid, Arancio, Ottavio Columbia University, New Generation of patient’s iPSC-derived neurons Rojas, Spain York, United States for the study of mitophagy alterations in Patricia Alzheimer pathology Martínez de Spanish University of Seville, Spain Deierborg, Tomas Wallenberg Neuroscience Tuning methods in microglia primary Pablos, Center, Lund, Sweden cultures for studying changes in polarization Rocío of microglial cells in response to treatment through expression of the glycoproteins WNTs Martínez Spanish University of Jaen, Spain Lefebvre, Olivier Institute of Biology and Analysing the role of Bud27 in the RNA pol III Fernández, Technology Saclay, Gif-sur- transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Verónica Yvette, France Martínez Martínez, Spanish National Center for Rubio, Ignacio University Study of Ras activation in DGK deficient Gonzalo Biotechnology, Madrid, HospitalFriedrich Schiller cytotoxic lymphocytes Spain University, Jena, Germany Martinez Solis, Spanish University of Valencia, Heckel, David G. Max Planck Institute for Functional study of two forms of ABCC2 Maria Spain Chemical Ecology, Jena, transporter from the Lepidoptera Germany Spodoptera exigua involved in resistance to Bt toxins

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 73 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Molinos-Albert, Spanish Germans Trias i Pujol Zwick, Michael B. The Scripps Research Molecular characterization of monoclonal Luis Manuel University Hospital, Institute, La Jolla, United antibodies directed against the gp41 Badalona, Spain States Membrane-Proximal External Region of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-I, isolated from chronically-infected individuals and immunized animal Montoliu-Gaya, Spanish University of Barcelona, Veerhuis, Rob VU University Medical Study of the effects of the scFv-h3D6 in Laia Spain Center, Amsterdam, The Abeta aggregation and cellular uptake, alone Netherlands or in combination with apolipoproteins E and J Muñoz-Hernandez, Spanish University Hospital Virgen Melero-Martin, Harvard Medical Microfluidic isolation of endothelial colony- Rocio del Rocío, Seville, Spain Juan School,Boston Children's forming cells from adult peripheral blood Hospital, United States Pazo-Fernández, Spanish National Center for Goda, Yukiko RIKEN Brain Science Determining the role of the hCLE-Fam98B- Alejandra Biotechnology, Madrid, Institute, Wako-Shi, HSPC117-DDX1 complex in the dendritic Spain Saitama, Japan local translation of mRNAs in neurons Perez-Rando, Spanish University of Valencia, Holtmaat, University of Geneva, Fluoxetine-induced structural plasticity in Marta Spain Anthony Switzerland the mouse cerebral cortex in vivo Pesarrodona, Spanish University of Barcelona, Rinas, Ursula Life Science University of Active FNI/II/V-p31-H6 and FNI/II/V- Mireia Spain Hannover, Germany Omomyc-H6 protein purification from Inclusion bodies Ramirez Muñoz, Spanish University of Madrid, Krummel, University of California, Dynamic regulation of the actin cytoskeleton Rocio Spain Matthew F. San Francisco, United by slingshots at the immune synapse during States T cell activation Requena Soria, Spanish Center of Molecular Mann, Richard S. Columbia University Wing primordium specification in Drosophila David Biology Severo Ochoa, Medical Center, New York, Madrid, Spain United States Rodriguez-Ubreva, Spanish Bellvitge Biomedical Kelsey, Gavin The Babraham Institute, Single-cell genome-wide bisulfite Javier Research Institute, Cambridge, United sequencing of B cell subsets of a pair of Barcelona, Spain Kingdom monozygotic twins discordant for common variable immunodeficiency Ruiz, Spanish Ramon Llull University, Shu, Xiaokun University of California, On the trail of improved genetically encoded Rubén Barcelona, Spain San Francisco, United Singlet Oxygen Generators States Sanchez-Iranzo, Spanish Spanish National Centre Azuaje, Francisco Luxembourg Institute of Characterization of fibroblast heterogeneity Hector for Cardiovascular Health, Luxembourg through transcriptomic analysis of a newly Research, Madrid, Spain established fibroblast marker line during zebrafish heart regeneration Sanz Sender, Spanish Institute for Global Health, Dinglasan, Rhoel Johns Hopkins University Function and mechanism of O-fucosylation Silvia Barcelona, Spain School of Medicine, of malaria parasite TSR-domain proteins Baltimore, United States

74 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Senserrich Velasco, Spanish University of Edinburgh, Graupera, Bellvitge Biomedical Role of CD41-derived endothelial stem cell/ Jordi United Kingdom Mariona Research Institute, progenitor population in physiological and Barcelona, Spain tumoral angiogenesis Soria-Bretones, Spanish Andalusian Center for Soutoglou, Evi Institute of Genetics and Role of sumoylation-dependent nuclear Isabel Molecular Biology and Molecular and Cellular localization of CtIP in homologous Regenerative Medicine, Biology, Strasbourg, recombination and DNA repair Seville, Spain France Stinus Ruiz de Spanish University Medical Center Luke, Brian Institute of Molecular Assessing the in vivo role of G-quadruplex Gauna, Groningen, Netherlands Biology, Mainz, Germany formation at yeast telomeres Sonia Urrios Garcia, Spanish Pompeu Fabra University, Folch, Albert University of Washington, 3D-printed microfluidic devices for Arturo Barcelona, Spain Seattle, United States implementation of biological logic circuits Valdeolivas Rojas, Spanish University of Madrid, McCormick, Peter University of East Anglia, CB2 receptor heteromerization in cellular Sara Spain Norwich, United Kingdom and murine models of Dravet syndrome Varela Guruceaga, Spanish University of Navarra, Le Lay, Soazig University of Angers, Regulation of caveolae formation by Maider Pamplona, Spain France intermittent hypoxia and the effect in endothelial nitric oxide synthase signaling Vázquez-Marín, Spanish Pablo de Olavide Wittbrodt, Centre of Organismal Analysis of YAP/TAZ-dependent Javier University, Seville, Spain Joachim Studies, Heidelberg, transcriptional response during epithelial Germany morphogenesis in teleost embryos Yeramian Hakim, Spanish Biomedical Research Fajas Coll, Lluis University of Lausanne, Metabolomic profiles of endometrial Andree Institute of Lleida, Spain Switzerland carcinoma Hunziker, Swiss The Rockefeller University, Tollervey, David Wellcome Trust Centre High resolution mapping of the RNA binding Mirjam New York, United States for Cell Biology, University site of UtpA of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Pfammatter, Swiss University Hospital of Knowles, Tuomas University of Cambridge, Development of a digital amyloid Manuela Zurich, Switzerland United Kingdom amplification assay for the ultrasensitive detection and quantification of amyloid aggregates Kao, Taiwanese Institute of Cellular Ulrich, Helle Institute of Molecular The function of histone H2B mono- Cheng-Fu & Organismic Biology, Mainz, Germany ubiquitylation in modulating DNA damage Biology,Academia Sinica, tolerance Taipei, Taiwan Lee, Taiwanese Ludwig Maximilian Pooga, Margus University of Tartu, Cell entry and Intracellular Trafficking of Dian-Jang University of Munich, Estonia Oligoaminoamide-based Polycationic siRNA Germany Vectors Lin, Taiwanese German Cancer Research Robert, Arkowitz University of Nice – Functional characterization of Mzt1 in C. Tien-chen Center, Heidelberg, Sophia-Antipolis, France albicans Germany Erdil, Turkish Sabanci University, Israely, Inbal Champalimaud Centre Probabilistic and machine learning-based Ertunc Istanbul, Turkey for the Unknown, Lisbon, Methods for automatic dendritic spine Portugal detection and analysis in microscopy images

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 75 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Kilinc, Turkish Middle East Technical Jakobsson, Uppsala University, Archaeogenomics in the Near East: Method Gulsah Merve University, Ankara, Turkey Mattias Sweden development and population genomic analysis for studying the rise of Neolithic Culture in its core region Piven, Ukranian Institute of Molecular Winata, Cecilia International Institute Eluciating the signaling function of Oksana Biology and Genetics, Kyiv, of Molecular and Cell b-catenin and plakoglobin in heart Ukraine Biology, Warsaw, Poland development using genome-wide ChIP-seq Pyrshev, Ukranian Palladin Institute of Csucs, Gabor ScopeM, Swiss Federal Studying of the local changes in plasma Kyrylo Biochemistry of the Institute of Technology membrane lipid order and viscosity of living National Academy of Zurich, Switzerland and apoptotic cells with a new FRET sensor Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, system Ukraine Adams, US American Vanderbilt University Tollervey, David Wellcome Trust Centre RNA interaction analysis of the Rebecca Medical Center, Nashville, for Cell Biology, University multifunctional RNA-dependent ATPase S. United States of Edinburgh, United cerevisiae Dbp5 Kingdom Drapek, US American Duke University, Durham, Geldner, Niko University of Lausanne, Defining a minimal gene network to root Colleen United States Switzerland endodermis differentiation Kirigin, US American New York University Bork, Peer European Molecular Functional and metabolic characterization Francis Langone Medical Center, Biology Laboratory, of microbial co-occurrence networks New York, United States Heidelberg, Germany Kvikstad, US American The Wellcome Trust MacArthur, Daniel The Broad Institute of MIT Large-scale targeted mobilome sequencing Erika Centre for Human and Harvard, Cambridge, to assess the disease-risk of transposable Genetics,University of United States elements (TEs) Oxford, United Kingdom Miguel, US American Stanford University, Typas, Nassos European Molecular Expanding the phenotypic landscape of Amanda United States Biology Laboratory, bacterial chemical genomics through genetic Heidelberg, Germany perturbations to cell morphology Steinbrenner, US American University of California, Zipfel, Cyril The Sainsbury Laboratory, Identification of a legume-specific receptor Adam Berkeley, United States Norwich, United Kingdom for the herbivore-derived peptide elicitor, inceptin Dangarembizi, Zimbabwean University of the Rummel, Justus Liebig University The anti-inflammatory effects of Rachael Witwatersrand, Christoph Giessen, Germany Perlagonium sidoides extracts on neuroglial Johannesburg, South cells stimulated with lipopolysaccharide and Africa Brewe's yeast

76 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org ERS | EMBO joint fellowships awarded in 2015 Name Nationality Home laboratory Group leader Host laboratory Project Boeck, Austrian University Hospital Basel, Floto, Andres University of Cambridge, Identification and characterization of efflux Lucas Switzerland United Kingdom pumps in Mycobacterium abscessus Froidure, Belgian Catholic University of Crestani, Bruno University of Paris Diderot, Transcriptional control of lung fibroblast Antoine Louvain, Brussels, Belgium France phenotype in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

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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 EMBL Eastern Europe USA/Canada Others Total Austria 1 1 1 1 1 5 Belgium 3 2 1 1 1 1 4 13 Croatia 1 1 Czech Republic 1 1 2 4 Denmark 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 11 Estonia 1 1 Finland 1 1 2 France 2 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 16 2 4 3 14 53 Germany 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 5 3 4 2 1 14 1 1 1 2 3 3 26 76 Greece 0 Hungary 1 1 1 1 4 Iceland 0 Ireland 1 4 5 Israel 1 1 1 1 2 6 Italy 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 4 1 3 3 7 28 Luxembourg 1 1 Netherlands 1 1 5 1 1 7 1 1 3 21 Norway 1 1 1 1 4 Poland 1 1 2 4 Portugal 1 2 1 1 3 8 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 1 1 Spain 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 1 1 17 33 Sweden 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 4 20 Switzerland 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 5 4 1 2 1 5 34 Turkey 0 UK 1 2 4 1 3 3 4 3 2 11 3 6 3 25 1 1 1 2 4 20 100 EMBL 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 12 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 2 1 1 4 6 6 3 4 3 11 4 1 2 28 1 4 1 8 1 91 Others 1 4 1 1 2 3 1 1 5 19 Total 6 7 1 8 7 0 5 17 25 14 11 0 9 11 55 0 21 1 18 14 2 6 118 6 7 8 30 3 20 15 112 557 * “From” refers to home laboratory (see list on pages 54 – 77)

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Awards

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 EMBL Eastern Europe USA/Canada Others Total Austria 1 1 1 1 4 Belgium 3 1 1 1 1 7 Croatia 1 1 Czech Republic 1 1 Denmark 1 1 1 4 7 Estonia 1 1 Finland 1 1 France 1 1 1 1 2 1 9 1 3 1 1 22 Germany 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 3 1 8 1 1 1 1 10 39 Greece 0 Hungary 1 1 1 3 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Israel 1 1 1 1 4 Italy 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 13 Luxembourg 1 1 Netherlands 1 2 1 1 5 10 Norway 1 1 Poland 1 1 2 Portugal 1 1 1 1 2 6 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 0 Spain 1 1 1 2 1 1 5 12 Sweden 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 10 Switzerland 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 4 4 1 1 1 2 24 Turkey 0 UK 2 3 1 3 1 1 2 7 3 3 14 1 1 1 3 9 55 EMBL 1 1 1 4 7 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 1 1 3 3 3 2 2 7 1 1 1 15 1 2 6 1 50 Others 1 3 1 1 1 7 Total 3 5 1 6 4 0 3 11 14 5 6 0 2 10 33 0 9 0 10 8 1 2 61 5 5 4 24 2 7 9 38 288 * “From” refers to home laboratory (see list on pages 54 – 77)

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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 2015 Name Nationality Institute Research interest Country Andrea Alimonti Italian Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), Mechanisms of senescence evasion in cancer CH Bellinzona Marek Basler Czech Biocentre, University of Basel, Basel Function of bacterial Type VI secretion systems CH Isabel Bäurle German Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Plant epigenetics and stress adaptation DE Potsdam, Potsdam Priscille Brodin French Institute Pasteur, Lille Interaction of mycobacteria with host cells FR Clemens Cabernard Swiss Biocentre, University of Basel, Basel Cellular dynamics during asymmetric cell division CH Karin De Visser Dutch Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam Breast cancer metastasis & the immune system NL Thijs Ettema Dutch Uppsala University, Uppsala Resolving the origin of eukaryotes SE Ana Eulalio Portuguese Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Würzburg miRNAs in host-pathogen interaction DE Pablo Huertas Spanish Andalusian Molecular Biology and Regenerative Regulation of DNA double strand break repair ES Medicine Centre (CABIMER), Sevilla Matteo Iannacone Italian IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano In vivo imaging of antiviral immune responses IT Shalev Itzkovitz Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Systems biology of mammalian tissues IL Martin Jinek Czech University of Zurich, Zurich RNA biology and genome editing CH Nolwenn Jouvenet French Institute Pasteur, Paris Viral attenuation and pathogenesis FR Chiea Chuen Khor Singaporean Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore Heritable basis of complex diseases SG Romain Koszul French Institute Pasteur, Paris Chromosome dynamics FR Yogesh Kulathu Indian MRC Protein Phosphorylation & Ubiquitylation Unit, Ubiquitin signalling mechanisms UK University of Dundee, Dundee Gaëlle Legube French Center for Integrative Biology in Toulouse, Paul Chromatin function in DNA double strand break repair FR Sabatier University, Toulouse Naoko Mizuno Japanese Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried -mediated cellular communication DE Paola Picotti Italian ETH Zurich, Zurich Functional & pathological protein aggregation CH Nicolas Plachta Singaporean Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology A*STAR, Imaging mammalian development SG Singapore Jochen Rink German Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Mechanisms & evolution of planarian regeneration DE Genetics, Dresden Robert Ryan Irish University of Dundee, Dundee Signalling in chronic bacterial infections UK Alessandro Vannini Italian Institute of Cancer Research, London RNA polymerase III gene transcription UK

80 EMBO Young Investigators EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO young investigators 2000 – 2014

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

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Female 32 6 37 3 32 2 34 4 39 3 57 8 57 8 59 5 64 7 64 8 Male 121 15 95 15 84 10 89 13 98 18 107 14 103 14 133 18 138 20 110 15

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Young Investigators 83 EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2015 Young Investigator Conference Location Date Alexander Stark CSHL Systems Biology: Global Gene Regulation 2015 PR-Rio Mar 28 Jan – 2 Feb Niels Mailand Gordon Research Conference: Mammalian DNA Repair US-Ventura 8 – 13 February Maya Schuldiner EMBO Conference: Mechanisms and regulation of protein HR-Dubrovnik 21 – 25 March translocation Pedro Carvalho EMBO Conference: Mechanisms and regulation of protein HR-Dubrovnik 21 – 25 March translocation Jacob Hanna Keystone Symposia: Transcriptional and Epigenetic US-Steamboat Springs 23 – 28 March Influences of Stem Cell States Sonia Garel EMBO Workshop: Cortical development in health and disease IL-Rehovot 26 April Amos Tanay IMB Workshop: Breakthroughs in Epigenetics DE-Mainz 19 – 20 May Jacqueline Jacobs EMBO Workshop: Developmental circuits in aging GR-Crete 25 – 28 May Bruno Reversade EMBO Workshop: Developmental circuits in aging GR-Crete 25 – 28 May Petra Hajkova Gordon Research Conference: Germinal Stem Cell Biology HK-Shatin 31 May – 5 June Niels Mailand IMB Conference: DNA Repair & Genome Stability in a DE-Mainz 4 – 7 June Chromatin Environment Evi Soutoglou IMB Conference:DNA Repair & Genome Stability in a DE-Mainz 4 – 7 June Chromatin Environment André Fischer EMBO/EMBL Symposium: Mechanisms of DE-Heidelberg 14 – 17 June Neurodegeneration Pedro Carvalho FEBS/EMBO Lecture Course – Biomembranes: Molecular FR-Cargèse 15 – 25 June Architecture, Dynamics and Function Petr Broz EMBO Workshop: Cell Biology of Animal Lectins IL-Rehovot 21 – 26 June Sebastian Hiller Gordon Conference: Membrane US-Waltham 21 – 16 June Lori Passmore FEBS Young Scientists’ Forum 2015 DE-Berlin 2 – 4 July Pedro Carvalho Gordon Research Conference: Molecular Membrane Biology US-Andover 12 – 17 July Jacqueline Jacobs Cell Senescence: From Physiology to Pathology ES-Santiago de 19 – 22 July Compostela Evi Soutoglou FASEB Conference on Genetic Recombination and Genome US-Steamboat Springs 19 – 24 July Rearrangements Julien Vermot FASEB Conference: The Biology of Cilia and Flagella US-Snowmass 19 – 24 July Esben Lorentzen FASEB Conference: The Biology of Cilia and Flagella US-Snowmass 19 – 24 July Jan-Willem Veening Gordon Research Conference : Microbial Adhesion & Signal US-Newport 26 – 31 July Transduction Julien Vermot Gordon Research Conference: Angiogenesis US-Newport 2 – 7 August Michael Potente Gordon Research Conference: Angiogenesis US-Newport 2 – 7 August

84 EMBO Young Investigators EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Young Investigator Lectures 2015 Young Investigator Conference Location Date Chunaram Choudhary HDAC and Sirtuins in biology, disease and aging DE-Hamburg 16 – 21 August Evi Soutoglou 24th Wilhelm Bernhard Workshop on the Cell Nucleus AT-Vienna 17 – 22 August Alexander Stark CSHL Mechanisms Of Eukaryotic Transcription US-Cold Spring Harbor 25 – 29 August Irene Miguel-Aliaga European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC) 2015 DE-Heidelberg 9 – 12 September Alexander Stark European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC) 2015 DE-Heidelberg 9 – 12 September Helen Walden EMBO Conference on Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like HR-Cavtat 18 – 22 September modifiers: From molecular mechanisms to human diseases Sascha Martens FASEB Conference: GTPases in Trafficking, Autophagy and US-Florida 18 – 23 September Disease Anna Sablina FASEB Conference: GTPases in Trafficking, Autophagy and US-Florida 18 – 23 September Disease Ines Thiele 18th Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network KR-Cheonan-si 20 – 22 September (A-IMBN) Annual Conference Yuki Nakamura 56th International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids AR-Puerto Iguazu 22 – 26 September Niels Mailand EMBO Conference on DNA damage responses in cell GR-Cape Sounio 5 – 9 October physiology and disease Jacqueline Jacobs EMBO Conference on DNA damage responses in cell GR-Cape Sounio 5 – 9 October physiology and disease Caren Norden EMBL PhD Symposium: Just by Chance? Randomness and DE-Heidelberg 22 – 24 October Variability Shaping Biology Manuel Thery Frontiers in cytoskeleton research: coordination, IN-Pune 24 – 26 October adaptation, fine tuning Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla Barcelona Conferences on Epigenetics and Cancer: Coding ES-Barcelona 29 – 30 October and non-coding functions of the genome Lionel Navarro Conference Jacques Monod: DNA methylation and FR-Roscoff 16 – 20 November demethylation Petra Hajkova Conference Jacques Monod: DNA methylation and FR-Roscoff 16 – 20 November demethylation Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla Conference Jacques Monod: DNA methylation and FR-Roscoff 16 – 20 November demethylation Victoria Cowling Second International Congress on “RNA Biology in Cancer ES-Barcelona 24 – 26 November and other diseases” Yuki Nakamura 6th International Singapore Lipid Symposium and 6th SG-Singapore 30 Nov – 4 December Asian Symposium on Plant Lipids Pavel Tolar American Society for Cell Biology (subgroup on US-San Diego 12 – 16 December cytoskeletal and membrane protein dynamics at the T cell immunological synapse)

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Young Investigators 85 EMBO Installation Grants

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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 2015 Name Nationality Moving from Moving to Research interest Çağlar Çekiç Turkish La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Bilkent University, Ankara, TR Immune cell regulation Immunology, US Sebastian Glatt Austrian EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany Jagiellonian University, Krakow, PL Translational control in neurodegenerative diseases Maria Górna Polish CeMM, Vienna, AT University of Warsaw, PL Structural studies of RNA-binding proteins Aşkın Kocabaş Turkish Harvard University, Koç University, Istanbul, TR Information processing in the nervous Cambrıdge, US system Vanessa Morais Portuguese VIB / KU Leuven, BE Institute of Molecular Medicine, Synaptic mitochondria Lisbon, PT Yongsoo Park South Korean MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TR Neurotransmitter release in psychiatric Göttingen, DE disorders Umut Şahin Turkish Université Diderot (Paris 7), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, TR PML nuclear bodies Paris, FR Ondřej Štěpánek Czech University Hospital Basel, CH Institute of Molecular Genetics, Antigenic signalling and fate decisions in Prague, CZ T cells

One award was withdrawn in February 2016.

86 EMBO Installation Grants EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses & Workshops

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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 2015 Title Organizer Location Dates Practical Courses Metabolomics bioinformatics for life scientists R. Salek UK-Hinxton 16 – 20 February EMBC Member States In vivo plant imaging M. Heisler DE-Heidelberg 9 – 15 March Single molecule and single cell fluorescence Å/ E. Lemke DE-Heidelberg 15 – 23 March nm/µm/mm-scopy Advanced optical microscopy B. Amos UK-Plymouth 8 – 18 April The characterization of post-translational M.R. Larsen DK-Odense 9 – 15 April modifications Single-cell gene expression analysis J. Dreyer-Lamm DE-Heidelberg 17 – 22 April Small angle neutron and X-ray scattering from F. Gabel FR-Grenoble 18 – 22 May proteins in solution Modern biophysical methods for protein-ligand K. Hiltunen FI-Oulu 1 – 5 June interactions Synthetic biology in action V. de Lorenzo DE-Heidelberg 8 – 20 June Advanced electron microscopy for cell biology E. Gontier FR-Bordeaux 9 – 18 June The application of transient kinetic methods to M. Geeves UK-Kent 21 – 27 June biological macromolecules Developmental neurobiology: From worms to R. Hindges UK-London 21 June – 4 July mammals High-throughput protein production and R. Vincentelli FR-Marseille 29 June – 8 July crystallization Marine animal models in evolution and D. Arendt SE-Fiskebäckskil 5 – 18 July development: Focus on neurobiology Multi-level modelling of morphogenesis S. Marée UK-Norwich 12 – 24 July Analysis of small non-coding RNAs: Per aspera V. Benes CZ-Brno 25 – 31 July ad astra

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses & Workshops 87 EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2015 Title Organizer Location Dates Practical Courses Measuring intra-species diversity using high- D. Sobral PT-Oeiras 27 – 31 July EMBC Member States throughput sequencing (cont.) Structure, dynamics and function of M. Sattler DE-Garching 31 July – 7 August biomacromolecules by solution NMR Image processing for cryo electron microscopy E. Orlova UK-London 1 – 11 September Two-photon imaging of brain function: From A. Konnerth DE-Munich 5 – 12 September spiny dendrites to circuits Insights into plant biological processes through D. Inzé BE-Ghent 13 – 19 September phenotyping Current methods in cell biology P. Neveu DE-Heidelberg 14 – 22 September Computational analysis of protein-protein V. Schneider-Gricar UK-Norwich 28 September – interactions: From sequences to networks 3 October Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data G. Rustici UK-Hinxton 19 – 24 October Targeted proteomics: Experimental design and E. Sabidó ES-Barcelona 15 – 20 November data analysis iCLIP: Genomic views of protein-RNA J. König DE-Mainz 15 – 21 November interactions

Practical Courses Computational biology: From genomes to P. Bork JP-Okinawa 17 – 22 April Non-EMBC Member systems States

Workshops Integrative perspectives on musculoskeletal E. Zelzer IL-Ein Gedi 4 – 8 January EMBC Member States development The regulation of aging and proteostasis E. Cohen IL-Ma'ale Hachamisha 15 – 20 February Modern DNA concepts and tools for safe gene M. Mezzina FR-Evry 30 March – 3 April transfer and modification Microbial sulfur metabolism N.U. Frigaard DK-Helsingør 12 – 15 April Cortical development in health and disease O. Reiner IL-Rehovot 26 – 29 April Embryonic-extraembryonic interfaces: K. Downs DE-Göttingen 6 – 9 May Emphasis on molecular control of development in amniotes SMC proteins: Chromosomal organizers from A. Losada AT-Vienna 12 – 15 May bacteria to human Dynamic kinetochore J. Nilsson DK-Copenhagen 18 – 21 May Developmental circuits in aging G.A. Garinis GR-Hersonissos 25 – 28 May

88 EMBO Courses & Workshops EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2015 Title Organizer Location Dates Workshops Cellular synapsis for cell-cell signalling I. Guerrero ES-San Lorenzo de El 26 – 29 May EMBC Member States Escorial (cont.) Macromolecular assemblies at the crossroads D. Kaganovich IL-Jerusalem 31 May – 4 June of cell stress and function Mechanisms of plant speciation C. Köhler SE-Åkersberga 9 – 13 June Cell biology of animal lectins Y. Zick IL-Rehovot 21 – 25 June Cortical interneurons in health and disease O. Marín ES-Costa d´En Blanes 22 – 25 June Neural circuits and behaviour of Drosophila B.J. Dickson GR-Kolymbari 5 – 10 July Cell and developmental systems S. Gasser CH-Arolla 18 – 22 August Cell cycle F. Uhlmann HU-Budapest 4 – 7 September Mitochondria, and cancer (MAC S. Fulda DE-Frankfurt 10 – 12 September 2015) DNA topoisomerases, DNA topology and human A. Stasiak CH-Les Diablerets 13 – 17 September health Molecular mechanisms of muscle growth and M. Ruegg CH-Ascona 20 – 25 September wasting in health and disease Mitochondrial DNA and neurodegeneration M. Sola ES-Sitges 23 – 25 September Stem cell mechanobiology in development and G. Minchiotti IT-Capri 18 – 21 October disease Cell division: Molecular machineries and cancer G. Montoya ES-Baeza, Jaén 19 – 21 October targeted therapies

Workshops Emerging concepts of the neuronal C. Gonzalez-Billault CL-Puerto Varas 22 – 26 March Non-EMBC Member cytoskeleton States Cellular and molecular mechanism of tumour– J. Kzhyshkowska RU-Tomsk 9 – 12 July microenvironment crosstalk Telomeric chromatin and fragility P. Droge SG-Singapore 7 – 10 December

Conferences Mechanisms and regulation of protein P. Rehling HR-Dubrovnik 21 – 25 March EMBC Member States translocation Chromatin and epigenetics S.A. Teichmann DE-Heidelberg 6 – 10 May Molecular chaperones: From molecules to cells J. Buchner GR-Heraklion 8 – 13 May and misfolding diseases Europhosphatase 2015: Phosphorylation J. Westermarck FI-Turku 24 – 29 June switches and cellular homeostasis

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses & Workshops 89 EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2015 Title Organizer Location Dates Conferences RNA localization and local translation E.M. Schuman GR-Hersonissos 28 June – 3 July EMBC Member States (cont.) Molecular and population biology of G. Christophides GR-Kolymbari 24 – 29 July mosquitoes and other disease vectors: Current, resurgent and emerging diseases DNA replication, and J.F. Diffley UK-Egham 27 – 31 July cell division Ribosome synthesis T. Meier BE-Brussels 19 – 23 August Aquatic microbial ecology S. Bertilsson SE-Uppsala 23 – 28 August Meiosis E. Hoffmann UK-Oxford 30 August – 4 September Physics of cells: From molecules to systems F. Rehfeldt DE-Bad Staffelstein 30 August – (PhysCell 2015) 4 September Autophagy signalling and progression in health F. Cecconi IT-Chia 9 – 12 September and disease Cell therapy today: Achievements, hopes and G. Cossu UK-Manchester 9 – 12 September hype Protein synthesis and translational control F. Gebauer DE-Heidelberg 9 – 13 September Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers: From I. Dikic HR-Cavtat 18 – 22 September molecular mechanisms to human diseases Signalling in plant development J. Friml CZ-Brno 20 – 24 September Nuclear receptors: From molecules to humans D. Picard FR-Ajaccio 24 – 28 September The multidisciplinary era of endocytic L. Johannes FR-Mandelieu-la- 27 September – mechanics and functions Napoule 2 October Genetic control of development and evolution M. Yaniv FR-Paris 29 September – 2 October The DNA damage response in cell physiology M. Tarsounas GR-Cape Sounio 5 – 9 October and disease Nuclear structure and dynamics M. Méchali FR-Isle sur Sorgue 7 – 11 October Exploring the genomic complexity and diversity T. Gabaldon ES-Sant Feliu de 17 – 22 October of eukaryotes Guixols

Conferences Neural development C.T. Chien TW-Taipei 4 – 8 December Non-EMBC Member States

90 EMBO Courses & Workshops EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses | Workshops | Conferences | Symposia 2015 Title Organizer Location Dates ESF | EMBO Symposia Bacterial Networks (BacNet 15) V. Sourjik ES-Sant Feliu de 9 – 15 May EMBC Member States Guixols Be there or die? The role of the I. Shachar ES-Sant Feliu de 16 – 21 May microenvironment in B cell behaviour in health Guixols and disease Symbiomes: Systems biology of host- C. Donati PL-Pułtusk 5 – 10 June microbiome interactions Thiol-based redox switches in life sciences J. Hermann ES-Sant Feliu de 12 – 17 September Guixols Interaction between the immune system and D. Boraschi PL-Pułtusk 4 – 9 October nanomaterials: Safety and medical exploitation

EMBO | EMBL Frontiers in stem cells and cancer H.C. Clevers DE-Heidelberg 29 – 31 March Symposium Cellular heterogeneity: Role of variability and L. Pelkmans DE-Heidelberg 15 – 18 April EMBC Member States noise in biological decision-making Mechanisms of neurodegeneration C. Haass DE-Heidelberg 14 – 17 June Enabling technologies for eukaryotic synthetic K.R. Patil DE-Heidelberg 21 – 23 June biology The mobile genome: Genetic and physiological O. Barabas DE-Heidelberg 16 – 19 September impacts of transposable elements Seeing is believing: Imaging the processes of life J. Ellenberg DE-Heidelberg 6 – 10 October New approaches and concepts in microbiology A. Typas DE-Heidelberg 11 – 14 October The non-coding genome E. Izaurralde DE-Heidelberg 18 – 21 October Biological oscillators: Design, mechanism, A. Aulehla DE-Heidelberg 12 – 14 November function

EMBO | FEBS Lecture Biomembranes: Molecular architecture, G. van Meer FR-Cargèse 15 – 25 June Courses dynamics and function EMBC Member States Mitochondria in life, death and disease K. Tokatlidis GR-Fodele 12 – 16 October

EMBO Global Structural and biophysical methods for D. Svergun TW-Taipei 4 – 10 May Exchange Lecture biological macromolecules in solution Courses Frontiers in innate immunity and drug M. Ntwasa ZA-Johannesburg 6 – 11 July Non-EMBC Member discovery States

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Courses & Workshops 91 Laboratory Management Courses 2015 Title Organizer Location Dates EMBO Laboratory EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 27 – 29 January Management (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) Courses* EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 2 – 5 February (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 17 – 19 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 16 – 19 March (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 24 – 26 March (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 20 – 22 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 4 – 7 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 15 – 17 June (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 22 – 24 June (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 13 – 16 July (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 5 – 8 October (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course: Female A. Glynn DE-Leimen 14 – 16 October Leaders in Science M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) (for independent group leaders) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn UK-Cambridge 2 – 5 November (external course for independent group leaders) M. Cairns EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 3 – 5 November (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 9 – 12 November (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg)

92 EMBO Laboratory Management Courses EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org Laboratory Management Courses 2015 Title Organizer Location Dates EMBO Laboratory EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 16 – 19 November Management (for independent group leaders) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) Courses* EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 24 – 26 November (cont.) (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE-Leimen 1 – 3 December (for postdocs) M. Cairns (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn UK-Cambridge 7 – 9 December (external course for postdocs) M. Cairns

*administered by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Laboratory Management Courses 93 EMBO Women in Science

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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 2011 – 2015 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 2015* 49 35 2010 1461 15 2011 1492 15 *2015 data represents 86% of the events i.e. 80/93 of the total 2012 1532 16 number of events 2013 1567 16 2014 1657 17 2015 1695 17

94 EMBO Women in Science EMBO facts & figures 2015 | 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 2015 Female applicants 334 60 172 60 51 Male applicants 223 40 116 40 52 Overall 557 288 52 2010 – 2015 Female applicants 1810 57 954 57 53 Male applicants 1367 43 710 43 52 Overall 3177 1644 52

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Women in Science 95 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 2015 Female applicants 773 50 118 47 15 Male applicants 776 50 134 53 17 Overall 1549 252 16 2010 – 2015 Female applicants 4597 47 622 42 14 Male applicants 5101 53 852 58 17 Overall 9698 1474 15

96 EMBO Women in Science EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org 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 2015 Female applicants 64 37 8 35 13 Male applicants 110 63 15 85 14 Overall 174 23 13 2010 – 2015 Female applicants 340 33 39 28 11 Male applicants 689 67 99 71 14 Overall 1029 138 13

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Women in Science 97 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 2015 Female applicants 27 31 3 33 11 Male applicants 59 69 6 67 10 Overall 86 9 10 2010 – 2015 Female applicants 104 32 14 30 13 Male applicants 217 68 33 70 15 Overall 321 47 15

98 EMBO Women in Science EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Gold Medal

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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 – 2015

1986 John Tooze Heidelberg, DE 1998 Adriano Aguzzi Zurich, CH 2009 Gold Medal 2009 revoked in 1987 Barbara Pearse Cambridge, UK 1999 Konrad Basler Zurich, CH January 2016 1988 Antonio Lanzavecchia Basel, CH 2000 Christof Niehrs Heidelberg, DE 2010 Jason W. Chin London, UK 1989 Hugh Pelham Cambridge, UK Daniel St. Johnston Cambridge, UK 2011 Simon Boulton London, UK 1990 Erwin Wagner Vienna, AT 2001 Matthew Freeman Cambridge, UK 2012 Jirˇí Friml Ghent, BE 1991 Patrick Stragier Paris, FR 2002 Amanda Fisher London, UK 2013 Thijn Brummelkamp Amsterdam, NL 1992 Carl-Henrik Heldin Uppsala, SE 2003 Anthony Hyman Dresden, DE 2014 Sophie Martin Lausanne, CH 1993 Jim Smith London, UK 2004 María Blasco Madrid, ES 2015 Ido Amit Rehovot, IL 1994 Paolo Sassone-Corsi Strasbourg, FR 2005 Dario Alessi Dundee, UK Sarah Teichmann Cambridge, 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

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Gold Medal 99 EMBO Keynote Lectures

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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 2015 Name Lecture Title Location Date Keynote Lectures Richard A. Flavell Midwinter Conference 2015: Advances in AT-Seefeld 17 – 21 January EMBC Member States Immunobiology Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers LS2 Annual Meeting 2015 Zurich 'Light: CH-Zurich 29 – 30 January from the basis of life to life science technologies' Fiona M. Watt Gordon Research Conference (GRC) IT-Lucca 10 – 15 May on Fibronectin, Integrins, and Related Molecules J. Victor Small Actin and microtubule cytoskeleton in cell FR-Roscoff 26 – 30 May motility and morphogenesis: An integrated view Titia K. Sixma IMB Conference 2015: DNA Repair DE-Mainz 4 – 7 June & Genome Stability in a Chromatin Environment John E. Walker From Atomic Structures to Disease FI-Helsinki 10 – 12 June Mechanisms Randy W. Schekman Biomembranes: Molecular Architecture, FR-Cargèse 15 – 25 June Dynamics and Function Klaus Aktories ETOX17, 17th European Workshop on PT-Braga 20 – 24 June Bacterial Protein Toxins Sarah A. Teichmann 40th FEBS Congress: The Biochemical Basis DE-Berlin 4 – 9 July of Life Pietro V. De Camilli Cellular Functions of Phosphoinositides UK-Cambridge 1 – 4 September and Inositol Phosphates Kai Simons 5th European Lipidomic Meeting UK-Swansea 2 – 4 September Scott Emr EPFL Life Sciences Symposium 2015 CH-Lausanne 2 – 4 September Ton Bisseling International Molecular Mycorrhiza UK-Cambridge 3 – 4 September Meeting 2015

100 EMBO Keynote Lectures EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Keynote Lectures 2015 Name Lecture Title Location Date Keynote Lectures Tomas Kirchhausen Systems Biology of Infection Symposium – CH-Ascona 6 – 10 September EMBC Member States 2nd Edition (cont.) Susan Lindquist 27th International Conference on Yeast IT-Levico Terme 6 – 12 September Genetics and Molecular Biology Eric F. Wieschaus 24th Annual European Drosophila DE-Heidelberg 9 – 12 September Research Conference (EDRC) Andrea Brand Building, repairing and evolving biological FR-Roscoff 13 – 17 September tissues François Schweisguth Development across Scales – a Matter of UK-Cambridge 14 – 14 September Genes, Cells and Numbers Tim Hunt iMed Conference 7.0 PT-Lisbon 17 – 20 September Jules A. Hoffmann Novel Concepts in Innate Immunity DE-Tübingen 23 – 25 September Regine Hengge Central European Symposium on HR-Sibenik 23 – 26 September Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance CESAR 2015 Hermona Soreq 12th International Meeting on ES-Alicante 27 September – Cholinesterases (12th ChE) And Sixth 2 October International Conference on Paraoxonases (PON6) Anthony Hyman Quantitative Biology of Signaling FR-Cargèse 28 September – 2 October Benjamin Geiger Integrated mechano-chemical signals FR-La Colle sur Loup 16 – 20 October during invasion Nenad Ban International Symposium on aminoacyl- ES-Barcelona 18 – 22 October tRNA synthetases Peter Fraser Just by chance: Randomness & Variability DE-Heidelberg 22 – 24 October Shaping Biology Andreas E. Kulozik Second International Congress on RNA ES-Barcelona 24 – 26 November Biology in Cancer and other Diseases

Keynote Lectures Nikolaus Pfanner 40th Lorne Protein Conference for Protein AU-Lorne 8 – 12 February Non-EMBC Member Structure and Function States Jean Gruenberg The 15th Hunter Cell Meeting AU-Hunter Valley 17 – 20 March Incorporating the 8th National Imaging Workshop Cecilia Maria Arraiano RNA Stability 2015 US-Estes Park 1 – 4 June Anne Ridley Regulation and Function of Small GTPases US-West Palm Beach 7 – 12 June

EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org EMBO Keynote Lectures 101 EMBO Keynote Lectures 2015 Name Lecture Title Location Date Keynote Lectures Félix A. Rey XI Argentine Congress of Virology and AR-Buenos Aires 23 – 26 June Non-EMBC Member II Latin American Congress of Virology, States IV Clinical Virology Symposium and II (cont.) Veterinary Virology Symposium Elisabetta Dejana TGF-beta Superfamily: Signaling in US-Snowmass Village 12 – 17 July Development and Disease, FASEB Science Research Conference Stephen C. West 2015 FASEB Research Conference on US-Steamboat Springs 19 – 24 July Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangements Lucia Banci The 19th International Society of Magnetic CN-Shanghai 16 – 21 August Resonance Conference Roland Kanaar 2015 International RecA and DNA repair TW-Taipei 15 – 18 September conference Kai Simons 56th International Conference for the AR-Puerto Iguazú 22 – 26 September Bioscience of Lipids Yosef Shiloh 16th Ataxia-Telangiectasia Workshop 2015 CN-Beijing 11 – 14 October Jürgen Knoblich 2015 International Stem Cell and TW-Taipei 16 – 17 October Developmental Biology Conference Ueli Grossniklaus 11th International Congress on Plant BR-Foz de Iguazu 25 – 30 October Molecular Biology, IPMB2015 Chris Bowler 2015 SAIB Annual Meeting AR-Mar del Plata 3 – 6 November Helen R. Saibil Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis ZA-Stellenbosch 15 – 20 November and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Ivan Dikic 7th Barossa Meeting: Cell Signalling in AU-Rowland Flat 18 – 21 November Cancer Biology and Therapy Maria Rescigno I Meeting LASID-FAIC-SAI AR-Buenos Aires 18 – 21 November Antonio Lanzavecchia Immunotherapy@Brisbane2015 AU-Brisbane 24 – 26 November Jörg Vogel Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and MX-Cancun 5 – 8 December Conference

EMBO Global Nikolaus Rajewsky EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series TW-Taipei 3 – 3 March Exchange Lecture Helle Ulrich EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series TW-Taipei 22 – 22 June Series Non-EMBC Member Jean-Paul Thiery EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series AU-Melbourne/ 11 – 14 October States Brisbane

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S Maria Leptin Deputy Director Head A EMBO Science Policy Issues report on quotas in academia to assure gender balance. R EMBO Director +     +     A Conducts workshops on emerging biotechnologies and on H T cognitive genomics. Gives invited talks at US National Academy E IC of Sciences, International Summit on Human Genome Editing, I H 5 D MAN 201 O N Washington, DC.; World Congress on Research Integrity, Rio de A M Janeiro; International Scienti c Advisory Board for the Centre for Eilish Craddock IT 2 015 Mammalian Synthetic Biology, Edinburgh. Personal Assistant to EMBO Fellowships EMBO Scientific Publications EMBO Gold Medal Sarah Teichmann and Ido Amit receive the  EMBO Gold the EMBO Director David del Álamo Thomas Lemberger Medal (page ). +     Programme Manager Deputy Head EMBO Global Activities India and Singapore sign agreements to become EMBC Associate +     +     Member States. EMBO Courses & Workshops More than , participants from  countries attend  6th scienti c events (page  );  participants attend  EMBO Laboratory Management Courses (page ); rst online course EMBO Courses & Workshops recorded in collaboration with iBiology. EMBO Keynote Lectures

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