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42 EMBL December 2007 &cetera Newsletter of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory New faces at 2007’s Winter Council meeting Octavie Modert, Secretary of State for Culture, Higher Education and Research in Luxembourg, was present at EMBL’s Winter Council meeting in Heidelberg on 20-21 November to mark the official rati- fication of her country as EMBL’s newest member state. During the meeting, Council agreed to the appoint a working group to review the social security benefit situation for EMBL fellows. They also heard that the EC will attend EMBL Council meetings as observers in the future, and there were favourable SAC reviews of EMBL Hamburg, EBI Services and Developmental Biology. page 2 EBI hosts VIPs at official opening of new building The EBI celebrated the official opening of its new East Wing on 23 October with an opening ceremo- ny held in the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre and tours of the new facilities for VIP guests. Ian Pearson (pictured right), UK Minister of State for Science and Innovation, was one of them, and he addressed the audience about the progress of the EBI since the institute opened in 1995 and its position as the main provider of biological data resources in Europe. page 4 “We try to encourage the children to find their talents” What must it feel like to be a foreign child new to EMBL Heidelberg’s Kindergarten? You don't know a single word of English or German; nobody understands what you’re saying and you don’t have a clue what people are talking about. Luckily there are teachers like Janin Topaloglu, who take care of these lost little poppets with a safe, daily routine. In the latest of our “Behind the Scences” interviews, Janin talks about day-to-day life in the Kindergarten, and how the teachers need great patience and not a little cre- ativity to encourage the children to find where their talents lie. page 5 PETRA-III gets her top on A pattern Staff members from EMBL Hamburg, the German Synchrotron Research Centre (DESY) and a select group of VIPs braved the cold on 26 November to witness the ‘topping-out’ emerges: of the experimental hall of PETRA-III, symposium Hamburg’s new source of brilliant X-ray light. A team from EMBL Hamburg will operate success three beamlines when it opens in 2009. The traditional ‘Richtfest’ welcomed German Research Minister Dr. Annette Schavan and Hamburg’s First Mayor Ole von Beust to the DESY campus, where the new roof was cele- 133 participants from over 40 countries brated with speeches and schnaps. page 4 enjoyed the valuable insights into ‘Patterns in Biology’ offered at the 9th International EMBL PhD Student Symposium on 24 October. Leading sci- Overwhelming What the heck is Monte researchers entists from very diverse fields disclosed response for first systems biology, in new science and the patterns and models that lie behind 2 round of EIPODs 3 anyway? 4 society network any great scientific discovery. page 7 EMBL&cetera • December 2007 • page 2 here was a special guest at EMBL’s Winter to amend EMBL’s Staff Rules and Regulations ceeding according to plan; the EMBL TCouncil meeting in Heidelberg on 20-21 so fellows are now classified as established Interdisciplinary Postdocs (EIPOD) pro- November. Octavie Modert, Secretary of State members of personnel. Currently, EMBL fel- gramme has just offered its first positions (see for Culture, Higher Education and Research in lows have very limited access to social security story, below); and the rectors of the universities Luxembourg, was present to mark the official benefits, and a solution must be found that in Oslo, Helsinki and Umeå signed an agree- ratification of her country as EMBL’s newest ensures equal treatment vis-à-vis social bene- ment to establish the Nordic EMBL and twentieth member state. She gave a speech fits for all EMBL sites, while improving the Partnership for Molecular Medicine. to the assembled delegates about research present situation and complying with the EU’s Delegates also heard that the EC would like developments in Luxembourg and then European Researchers Charter. Council also to have closer interactions with EMBL and accompanied EMBL DG Iain Mattaj on a tour appointed a working group on terms and con- other intergovernmental research organisa- of the laboratory. dition of employment to review the situation. tions, and as a result will attend EMBL Council The Council delegates managed to finish a They will bring their recommendations to next meetings as observers in the future. year’s summer meeting, after which Council busy meeting in the record time of one day – a With the EU’s Seventh Framework will decide which measures to implement. day, however, that was more than 10 hours Programme (FP7) underway, the EC granting long. Of pressing interest to EMBL pre- and In addition to the financial news, Council authorities have already approved 11 projects, postdocs will be the news that Council agreed delegates heard that the ATC project is pro- three of them coordinated by EMBL scientists, and many more are still pending. Please notify the grants office about any grant applications that you have in preparation or are planning to New faces join 2007’s submit. The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) reviews of the Hamburg outstation, EBI Services and Heidelberg’s Developmental Winter Council meeting Biology were presented by the SAC chair Paul Nurse. Many of their recommendations have already been implemented: a technical steering group for the PETRA-III project in Hamburg has been appointed, for example, and a new Dean of Graduate Studies will replace Anne Ephrussi early next year. The introduction of the PANDA joint team (led by Rolf Apweiler and Ewan Birney) in EBI Services will deal with databases founded on nucleic acid and protein sequence information in an integrated way. The next SAC reviews will be of EMBL Photo: Christine Panagiotidis Monterotondo in February and the Gene Expression Unit in Heidelberg in May. Finally, in a expression of satisfaction at the way the lab has been developing, Council extended Iain’s contract until the end of October 2017. “I’m very grateful for this expression of confidence in my work, and to all Iain Mattaj with visitors Octavie of you for the ongoing support that you give Modert (left) and Josiane Entringer, the Council me and the rest of the EMBL leadership,” he representative for Luxembourg said. Overwhelming response for first round of EIPODs ixteen new interdisciplinary postdocs will pilot of the project-proposing procedure, in been involved in some very successful research Sstart work at EMBL in the coming months which group and team leaders were encour- for their PhDs ” thanks to the pleasing response to the first aged to get into twos or threes to come up with More information can be found on the post- round of applications for the EMBL interdisciplinary project ideas and hand them doc pages of the EMBL website. You can also Interdisciplinary Postdocs (EIPOD) pro- in to their Head of Units. 32 projects were pro- contact Katalin ([email protected]) Detlev gramme. posed by teams of faculty from all the EMBL ([email protected]) or Matthias Haury The new programme for postdoctoral fellow- sites and units, of which 24 were selected to be ([email protected]) for more details. ships attracted 124 applicants, of which 30 were advertised. invited for interview. The programme provides Detlev Arendt, EMBL faculty member A very successful annual selection has also internal funding for three years for up to 16 responsible for postdoc issues, was chuffed to been made for the Ministerio de Educación y postdocs per year working across at least two bits with the result. “We couldn’t have wished Ciencia-funded Spanish Postdoc programme. labs on an interdisciplinary project. for anything better,” he said. “The groups and Of 25 good-quality applicants to the initiative As well as being the first round of applica- team leaders were really happy with the many aimed at Spain-based young researchers, 8 tions, this year’s result was also a successful excellent candidates we got, most of which had have been offered a place in a lab at EMBL. EMBL&cetera • December 2007 • page 3 Flex your artistic muscle – and you could win The EMBO Journal cover prize 2008 The EMBO Journal – one of the most-read sci- molecular biology research. Images may be entific journals on molecular biology – has a light or electron micrographs, 3D reconstruc- tradition of publishing beautiful and evocative tions or models of biological specimen or mol- photography and artwork on its front cover. ecules, spectacular artefacts collected in the They’ve just announced their contest for the lab, innovative views of lab equipment, or best cover images for 2008. other images encountered in research activity and which may appeal to molecular biologists. As in the previous years, one winner will be selected from each of two categories: Best The Best Non-Scientific Cover award will be assigned to the most interesting and beautiful Scientific Cover and Best Non-Scientific image made outside the lab. Contestants may Cover. The prize for both winners will be a free submit photos or artistic impressions of one-year print- and online subscription to wildlife, plants or landscapes. Particularly wel- The deadline is 18 January 2008. See both The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports. come will be hand-drawn or computer-gener- www.embo.org/cover_contest08.html for fur- The Scientific Cover prize will be awarded to ated artwork relating to a biological or molec- ther details and more examples of previous the most captivating contribution depicting ular biology topic.
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