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Science & Policy Meeting Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Science in The SUMMER 2014 ISSUE 27 encounters page 9 Science in the desert EMBO | EMBL Anniversary Science & Policy Meeting pageS 2 – 3 ANNIVERSARY TH page 8 Interview Jennifer E M B O 50 Lippincott-Schwartz H ©NI Membership expansion EMBO News New funding for senior postdoctoral In perspective Georgina Ferry’s enlarges its membership into evolution, researchers. EMBO Advanced Fellowships book tells the story of the growth and ecology and neurosciences on the offer an additional two years of financial expansion of EMBO since 1964. occasion of its 50th anniversary. support to former and current EMBO Fellows. PAGES 4 – 6 PAGE 11 PAGES 16 www.embo.org HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE EMBO|EMBL ANNIVERSARY SCIENCE AND POLICY MEETING transmissible cancer: the Tasmanian devil facial Science meets policy and politics tumour disease and the canine transmissible venereal tumour. After a ceremony to unveil the 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of EMBO, the 45th anniversary of the ScienceTree (see box), an oak tree planted in soil European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), the organization of obtained from countries throughout the European member states who fund EMBO, and the 40th anniversary of the European Union to symbolize the importance of European integration, representatives from the govern- Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). EMBO, EMBC, and EMBL recently ments of France, Luxembourg, Malta, Spain combined their efforts to put together a joint event at the EMBL Advanced and Switzerland took part in a panel discussion Training Centre in Heidelberg, Germany, on 2 and 3 July 2014. The moderated by Marja Makarow, Vice President for Research of the Academy of Finland. Mauro anniversary celebration recognized the science that has contributed to the Dell’Ambrogio, State Secretary for Education, success of the organizations over the years and acknowledged the roles of Research and Innovation in Switzerland, stressed EMBO, EMBC, and EMBL in policy, politics, and society. that science policy, to be effective, must not only invest in knowledge but also in peo- ple. Carmen Vela, Spain’s Secretary of State for he meeting featured the participation of internationally renowned research institutions Research, Development and Innovation, outlined European ministerial representatives, sci- in Europe and have dispersed this philosophy of how participation in EMBL had been essential Tentific talks from researchers, and pres- EMBL and EMBO across Europe,” said Schütte. for the development of science in her country. entations on policy issues focused on excellence He also discussed the crucial early roles EMBO Evarist Bartolo, the Minister of Education and and inclusion. It was also an opportunity to bring and EMBL played in helping molecular biology Employment of Malta, outlined the state of life together current and former directors of EMBO become a major, if not one of the most important, science research in his country. Malta’s appli- and EMBL as well as former committee and coun- forces in influencing the life sciences over the last cation to become a member of both EMBL and cil members who shaped the direction of both several decades. the European Molecular Biology Conference was organizations over the last decades. The importance of the scientific workforce as endorsed in the same week as the anniversary Maria Leptin, Director of EMBO, and Iain a whole and the individual scientists contribut- meeting, an excellent illustration of the roles of Mattaj, Director General of EMBL, opened the ing to research was discussed in several contexts. EMBO, EMBC, and EMBL in contributing to the meeting and welcomed more than 250 scientists, “EMBO and EMBL have shown that when Europe cohesiveness of European research. politicians, policy makers, supporters of science, combines its forces by bringing together its best The second day of the meeting focused on con- and friends of EMBO from across the world. In talents, it can lead the world in science and inno- cerns about excellence and inclusion in scientific their presentations, they summarized the past, vation,” remarked Robert-Jan Smits, Director- research. Bruno Strasser, a science historian at present and future roles of each organization. General, Research & Innovation, for the European the University of Geneva, opened by recounting “EMBO’s achievements have been possible due Commission. The development and implementa- the origins of EMBO and the European Molecular to cross-country cooperation,” said Leptin. “The tion of key infrastructures and the provision of Biology Conference. “The history of the European foundation of EMBC in 1969 had a dual aim: training have been important contributions to the Molecular Biology Conference illustrates how To secure a source of funds for the activities of European life science community. molecular biologists succeeded in bringing their EMBO and to provide a framework to establish The ability to bring highly trained individuals discipline to national and international political the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. It is together, either within a physical infrastructure agendas and gained broad intergovernmental a remarkable testament that both goals have been like EMBL, or in transnational research projects, backing.” The journey was not straightforward achieved.” will be a key contributor to advancing science and many of the barriers appear familiar for Georg Schütte, State Secretary of the German and research in Europe over the next several transnational cooperation projects. The scientists Federal Ministry of Education and Research, decades. active in the early years of EMBO and the EMBC emphasized how EMBO and EMBL have been In a scientific talk, Elizabeth Murchison learned quickly and were remarkably astute in trendsetters in the life sciences. “Many for- of the University of Cambridge described her ascertaining what was needed in the context of mer EMBL researchers are now directors of groundbreaking work to investigate two types of science policy. The foundation of the EMBC was Bruno Elizabeth Strasser Murchison Marc Heppener (left) and forum chair Carl-Henrik Heldin ©EMBL PhotoLab | M. Schupp 2 EMBOencounters | Summer 2014 | [email protected] ©2014 EMBO HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE EMBO|EMBL ANNIVERSARY SCIENCE AND POLICY MEETING European ministerial representatives an essential step for the sustainable funding of excellence and inclusion by Helga Nowotny, ERA discussed national and international science policy issues: (from left to right) the activities of EMBO, and of the laboratory that Council Forum, Austria. The promotion of excel- Evarist Bartolo | Malta, was established in 1974. lence is essential and well established in the Marc Hansen | Luxembourg, Marc Heppener of the European Space Agency European scientific landscape but challenges Roger Genet | France, explained how the ESA works as a platform for exist in ensuring that everyone benefits. “We are Carmen Vela | Spain and the inclusion of nations with emerging inter- all striving to support and promote excellence in Mauro Dell’Ambrogio | Switzerland ests in space science and space exploration. He the life sciences but we have to be acutely aware described some of the many successful projects that it must be inclusive and take into consid- that have been concluded or are in progress. eration diversity,” said Nowotny. This precise entrants to research, is exactly the intersection The meeting concluded with a talk and dis- concern, how to recognize and reward excel- where EMBO, EMBC, and EMBL will continue to cussion specifically on the relationship between lence while promoting the development of new work in the years ahead. The ScienceTree The ScienceTree project originated in the summer of 2002 when the idea of a tree to symbolize European integration was first suggested. The initial proposal was to plant a tree in soil originating from countries throughout the European Union to symbolize the importance of European integration for future generations and taking science as a leading example. ver the years, renowned European sci- entists, including three Nobel laureates Oand 16 EMBO Members, provided soil samples from their countries. It was Marc Vidal of the Harvard Medical School who helped make the project a reality. He had the idea to collect the soil samples and use them for the ScienceTree project. By May 2014, 29 sam- ples had been collected, 28 samples from the countries forming the European Union and one sample from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), which was included as an example of European integration that benefits the life sciences and to also recognize the roles of Israel, Norway and Switzerland in the sup- port of European research. “I would like to believe that this tree repre- sents first and foremost our common European commitment to progress in the life sciences for the benefit of people – consolidating our very best efforts and deploying our very best scien- tists and innovators,” commented Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General, Research & Innovation, for the European Commission at the ceremony. ©EMBL PhotoLab | M. Schupp ©2014 EMBO EMBOencounters | Summer 2014 | [email protected] 3 MEET THE SCIENTIST – EMBO MEMBERS Julius Sandra Brennecke Schmid Institute of University of Texas Molecular Biology, Southwestern Medical Center, Vienna, Austria Dallas, United States EMBO Member EMBO Associate Member Southwestern Medical Center T elected in 2014 elected in 2014 ©IMBA – Institute for Molecular Biotechnology MEET THE MEET THE ©U SCIENTIST SCIENTIST MEMBERS At 38 you are one of the
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