EMBO | EMBC annual report 2009

European Molecular European Molecular Biology Organization Biology Conference EMBO | EMBC annual report 2009 | table of contents

prefaces by Maria Leptin (EMBO) 5 by Hermann Bujard (EMBO) 6–9 by Tim Hunt (EMBO Council) 10 by Peter Weisbeek (EMBC) 11

past & present timeline 14 brief history 15 EMBO | EMBC | EMBL aims 16–18 EMBO actions in 2009 19–20 EMBC actions in 2009 21

EMBO & EMBC programmes and activities fellowships 24 courses & workshops 25 young investigators 26 installation grants 27 science & society 28 career development 29

EMBO activities The EMBO Journal 32–33 EMBO reports 34–35 Molecular Systems Biology 36–37 EMBO Molecular Medicine 38–39 The EMBO Meeting 40–41 women in science 42 gold medal 43 plenary lectures 44 global exchange 45 information support and resources 46 public relations & communications 47 European Life Sciences Forum (ELSF) | Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) 48

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appendix EMBC delegates and advisers 52–58 EMBC scale of contributions 59 EMBO council 2009 60 EMBO committees 2009 61 EMBO council 2010 62 EMBO committees 2010 63 EMBO members elected in 2009 64–75 EMBO associate members elected in 2009 76–77 advisory editorial boards & senior editors 2009 78–81 long-term fellowships 2009: awards 82–99 long-term fellowships: statistics 100–101 long-term fellowships 2009: geographical distribution 102–103 short-term fellowships 2009: awards 104–123 short-term fellowships: statistics 124–125 short-term fellowships 2009: geographical distribution 126–127 young investigators 2009 128 installation grantees 2009 129 young investigators 2000–2008 130–131 young investigators: statistics 132–133 young investigator lectures 2009 134–135 plenary lectures 136–137 courses | workshops | conference series | symposia 2009 138–142 laboratory management courses 2009 143 participation of women in EMBO activities: statistics 144–149 EMBO staff in heidelberg 150–151 events in 2010 courses | workshops | conference series | symposia 2010 154–158 global exchange lecture courses 2010 158 laboratory management courses 2010 158 other EMBO events 2010 159

www.embo.org ➔ 3 preface | Maria Leptin (EMBO)

It is only a few months now since I took up contributing to this goal; many in the broad- the role of Director at EMBO. As such, I do er scientifi c community are working just as not have a role in reporting on the work of hard. the organization in 2009. I would, however, Our contributions bring with them re- like to thank and honour the leadership of sponsibility: we, the scientists, must direct EMBO, Council and EMBC for their achieve- and account for the funding of research pro- ments over the past year. grammes, not just in our own countries but The three prefaces that follow – unusu- in Europe as a whole; we need to force a shift ally all from outgoing posts – demonstrate in scientifi c publishing, introducing more the commitment of EMBO, the EMBO Coun- transparent tools to report on our research; cil and the EMBC to the contemporary needs we must interact with the public and their of life scientists in the member states in Eu- policy makers in government to hear their Maria Leptin rope as well as in neighbouring countries and concerns and explain our results in language EMBO Director worldwide. they understand; and we need to reach out I am excited to lead EMBO, an organiza- beyond Europe to collaborate with our peers, tion that has been connected with my ca- not just those in developed countries but also reer since the funding of my postdoctoral re- those in countries rapidly advancing their re- search. The founding principles, centred on search contributions onto the world stage. the promotion of cross-border cooperation in We will have time over the coming years molecular biology research, are as relevant to discuss in depth these issues and others today as they were in the early 1960s. as they arise. I invite my colleagues in the A stream of amazing scientifi c advances EMBO community to bring to my attention over the past 50 years has broadened our their perspectives on the issues that most fi eld to where we are today with all life sci- concern them. ence research having some form of molecu- I anticipate with pleasure working with lar basis. As a result, our scientifi c research EMBO staff, the EMBO Council and the EMBC – both basic and applied – plays an important to deliver on our mission. ■ role in fi nding solutions for many of the con- cerns in our societies. Many in the EMBO community of mem- bers, young investigators and fellows are

www.embo.org ➔ 5 preface | Hermann Bujard (EMBO)

To those who follow the activities of EMBO, the former EMBO Symposia started in 1975 the past year may appear as a particularly through to the early 1980’s and later by the successful one. Indeed, while all our well- ELSO meetings organized by the European established activities – EMBO Fellowships, Life Scientist Organisation (ELSO) between Courses & Workshops, Young Investigators, 2000 to 2008. The broad-scope meeting aims Installation Grants, Science & Society and to bring together life scientists from around scientifi c journals – were running smoothly, the world to hear and discuss the latest de- we initiated several new activities, fi nalised velopments in the life sciences from leaders some policy changes and streamlined admin- in the fi eld. istrative processes. This combination of old Indeed, the high level of participation at and new will enhance the capacity of EMBO The EMBO Meeting 2009 was most inspiring to pursue its genuine goals. and set the standard for future meetings. Thus, Hermann Bujard The new policy for the election of EMBO we are looking forward to the upcoming 2010 EMBO Director Members, applied for the fi rst time in 2009 conference in Barcelona. There can be little (2007–2009) (pages 64–77), will likely have the highest doubt that we need a life science meeting of impact on EMBO as a broad-scope “academy” the highest quality in Europe, which is af- in the life sciences. It will widen the spec- fordable also for the younger generation of trum of research areas represented by EMBO researchers in all our member states, includ- Members who will then refl ect more realis- ing graduate and doctoral students as well tically the present and future state of mo- as postdoctoral fellows. This community of lecular life sciences. Since the new election young researchers that we have to date tar- process strengthens a key EMBO tradition – geted primarily through specialized events namely to judge scientifi c achievements ac- from the EMBO Courses & Workshops Pro- cording to real impact on the fi eld (not im- gramme will greatly benefi t from being ex- pact factors!), originality and scholarship – it posed to a broad spectrum of themes present- can be anticipated that colleagues working ed by the very best in their fi eld. in smaller emerging fi elds will fi nd increased An exiting addition to the programmes recognition as will researchers responsible of both EMBO and EMBL will be the for seminal advances in areas of applied bio- EMBO | EMBL Symposia that begin in 2010 logical research. (page 20). These annual series of up to six With The EMBO Meeting – held in Amster- symposia will deal with cutting-edge re- dam in late summer (pages 40–41) – EMBO search topics in a forward-looking manner. took up again the tradition of the annu- They will be held in the new EMBL Advanced al life science conferences begun fi rst with Training Centre (ATC), which accommodates

➔ 6 www.embo.org preface | Hermann Bujard (EMBO)

up to 450 participants, in an elegant and at- vailing in different areas of the world. For tractive setting at EMBL in Heidelberg. this reason, and also due to limited resourc- Food Sustainability and Plant Science: a es, the programme will focus during an initial Global Challenge was the topic of the joint phase on only a few countries. However, it EMBO | EMBL Science & Society Conference is hoped to expand the programme globally in 2009, for which we assembled an out- in subsequent years, using the model refi ned standing faculty of experts (page 28). The during the initial start-up phase. messages conveyed to the fully booked con- Major efforts have gone into our publica- ference were scientifi cally most impressive tion activities. Our new journal, EMBO Mole- but, with respect to societal implications, so- cular Medicine was launched in early 2009 as bering and alarming. I hope that this most the most visible sign of our interest in all as- important topic will remain on the agenda of pects of the life sciences where concepts and the EMBO Science & Society Programme. approaches of molecular biology have a ma- In 2009, we also started the EMBO Global jor impact (see pages 38–39). Scientifi c pub- Exchange Programme (page 45). With this lishing is in a phase of rapid transition due to initiative, EMBO responds to the requests the changing requirements and reading hab- of many life scientists around the world to its of the scientifi c community, rapidly evolv- help strengthen interactions with European ing e-publishing technologies and changing researchers. In doing so, we feel we act in the business models – keywords: open access, spirit of our founders who insisted on “defi n- submission fees, peer review, bibliometrics, ing Europe widely” which I feel translates to- online publishing. For EMBO these develop- day as looking beyond historical and political ments harbour challenges but also opportu- defi nitions of Europe. With this programme, nities at several levels. For example, we have we intensify our efforts to spread EMBO prin- to address how to maintain journals with a ciples and proven concepts, which all aim to qualifi ed, transparent and thus costly review- further the individual talented researcher and ing system while at the same time responding to foster cross-border interactions and collab- positively to researchers who, understanda- orations. The emphasis of the programme is bly, favour open access to research articles on “exchange” of people, ideas and knowl- at a cost affordable also for those working in edge as the only way that will warrant sus- member states or institutions where resourc- tainable and fruitful interactions within the es – for example, author-paid submissions – scientifi c community around the world. Ob- are tight or not available at all. Aware of the viously, this programme needs to be shaped various challenges, EMBO is in the process also according to conditions and needs pre- of thoroughly reassessing and restructuring www.embo.org ➔ 7 preface | Hermann Bujard (EMBO)

its “Scientifi c Publishing” programme. As a vising our Statutes and to the EMBO Coun- fi rst step we have conceived what we call the cil for amending the EMBO Rules accordingly. “transparent editorial process”. This novel pol- Of similar importance was the cooperation of icy, so far applied in The EMBO Journal since the European Molecular Biology Conference early 2009, has been well received by the sci- (EMBC) in revising its “Rules of Procedure” entifi c community, and other journals as well and its “Financial Rules”. The insight of the as the press have taken an interest. No doubt, EMBC Delegates allowed us to signifi cantly there are further challenges to be met, but streamline our administrative processes lead- I am confi dent that EMBO is in a good po- ing to an increased transparency and setting sition to develop paradigmatic solutions. In free capacities, which now can be focused on this context I am particularly delighted that our primary goals. Dr Bernd Pulverer, former editor in chief of In November the EMBC decided on the Nature Cell Biology, has joined us as Head Indicative Scheme, which defi nes the con- of EMBO Scientifi c Publications. At the same tribution of the Member States in support of time I would like to extend my sincere thanks the scientifi c programme proposed by EMBO to Drs Les Grivell and Pernille Rørth – who for the years 2010 to 2014. Though the Con- both left us at the end of the year – for their ference felt that the budget as proposed by dedicated and scholarly input, essential for EMBO could not be met, given the strained the success of our journals. fi nancial situation in all EMBC countries, the In the past year we believe we found a slight budget increase agreed upon should al- pragmatic solution to a long-standing prob- low EMBO to maintain its activities until bet- lem for young researchers: as of 2010 EMBO ter times Postdoctoral Fellows will be invited to join In December my almost 3-year term at a pension scheme which will allow them to EMBO ended. It was an interesting revisit take out a “portable pension”. I am confi dent after having been quite involved in the early that this new opportunity will be highly ap- seventies. EMBO still fascinates as a truly Eu- preciated by young scientists who wish to ropean scientifi c society of outstanding qual- move freely between countries to follow their ity. Its goals, wisely defi ned by its founders scientifi c interests. It would be great to see – fostering individual scientifi c talent, catalyz- the “EMBO solution” serving as a more gen- ing cross-border interactions and basing all erally applicable paradigm. decisions rigorously on scientifi c merits – are Closer to home, we have reassessed our simple and as valid as ever, particularly in organizational structures. I am very grateful times where technocratically conceived gov- to our membership for its support when re-

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ernmental programmes increasingly impede Finally, I would like to cordially thank all rather than promote original research. EMBO staff. It was a delight to work with It was a pleasure and a privilege to head such a competent, dedicated and stimulating the organization for a while and to help to group – thank you for the spirited and joyous keep EMBO going in the spirit of its founders atmosphere “on the hill”! and its membership. I am grateful for the sup- Thinking about EMBO many things come port of our members. Their engagement in all to mind: what it is, what it could or should our programmes is a prerequisite for main- be. Interesting opportunities lie ahead, and taining the undisputed quality of all EMBO so I wish my successor, Maria Leptin, all the activities. We enjoyed great support from the best and success in directing this attractive EMBO Council and I would like to extend my endeavour! ■ special thanks to Tim Hunt (page 10) for his continued and refreshing engagement and encouragement. It was a pleasure to inter- act with the EMBC and I would like to thank the delegates and the President of the EMBC, Peter Weisbeek, for a constructive coopera- tion. To have EMBL, with its Director Gen- eral Iain Mattaj, as a neighbour was truly enjoyable.

www.embo.org ➔ 9 preface | Tim Hunt (EMBO Council)

The year 2009 was very good for EMBO, seeing nals is taken by Bernd Pulverer who was pre- the completion of several important projects viously at Nature Cell Biology. We welcome and a transition to a new management team Bernd, and wish him well in a challenging for the next few years. Some of these projects assignment. Pernille Rørth retired from edit- might appear dry and dusty, but they are im- ing The EMBO Journal, and we would like portant for the smooth running of the organi- to thank her for her extreme dedication to zation. Such was the reform of our Statutes the Journal over the last four years. Her most and Rules, originally drawn up in 1964 and recent reform, of making the entire review revised in 1980 and 1982. A small working process of published papers completely pub- party, guided by lawyers, managed to achieve lic, has been much admired. this just before Christmas 2009. Additionally, EMBO gets most of its operating budget Tim Hunt EMBO was registered according to new laws from its member states via the EMBC, and EMBO Council Chair in Switzerland and the German tax authori- 2009 saw the culmination of negotiations that ties also accepted the organization’s activi- have been maturing with increasing intensi- ties as not-for-profi t. ty over the last three years. Considering the One of the activities of EMBO that was gloomy economic climate, we are extremely explicitly mentioned in the original statutes grateful to all concerned for a settlement that was the organization of an annual symposi- sees us maintain the present level of expendi- um, a gathering that had unfortunately been ture (with a small budget increase) for the allowed to lapse for some time. But at the end next fi ve years. We would have liked a con- of August, The EMBO Meeting took place in siderable increase, of course, for many excel- Amsterdam, we hope the fi rst of a long line lent young molecular biologists do not get the (2010 sees us in Barcelona and 2011 in Vi- support they deserve; but times are hard. enna). It was a great success, thanks to the December 31st, 2009 marked the end EMBO team in Heidelberg who took care of of Hermann Bujard’s reign as Director of the detailed planning and organization on EMBO, and my tenure as Chairman of the the ground, and Hans Clevers and Steve West EMBO Council. Hermann has done a mag- who arranged the scientifi c programme. nifi cent job, and it has been a complete and EMBO Molecular Medicine started pub- utter pleasure to work with him. I wish our lication in the spring of 2009 after several successors, Maria Leptin and Calle Heldin, years of gestation, and Les Grivell, who was an equally productive and amicable time largely responsible, retired from EMBO in the together. ■ autumn after long and devoted service to the organization. His place in charge of the jour-

➔ 10 www.embo.org preface | Peter Weisbeek (EMBC)

For the EMBC, 2009 was an interesting year. Director have been adapted such as to refl ect Its General Programme, with the EMBO Fel- the actual situation and responsibilities. Ad- lowships as a core element, was very much ditionally, the number of meetings and doc- in demand and as always executed expertly. uments has been reduced. It is felt by both EMBO Installation Grants performed very EMBC and EMBO that the new Rules form a well also. The programme is now in its third proper basis for the interaction between and year, is running smoothly and has seen the collaboration of both organizations in the fi rst three-year interim reports from the fi rst coming years. Installation Grantees. All grantees had done EMBC recognizes and welcomes the ac- very well and were recommended for contin- tions of EMBO to keep its scientifi c basis and ued funding for the remaining two years. actions in line with scientifi c progress. Its At the same time urgently needed deci- activities strongly strengthen the scientifi c Peter Weisbeek sions about the level of funding for the years position of EMBO within Europe and thereby EMBC President 2010 to 2014 were delayed and infl uenced the impact of the funding of the EMBC Mem- by the present fi nancial insecurities of the ber States. The EMBC would like to thank 27 member states. Discussions continued the outgoing EMBO Director, Herman Bujard, throughout the year but it was only at the No- for the effi cient way in which he executed vember meeting of the EMBC that the mem- the General Programme. The constructive ber states could agree on a budget proposal. interaction with the outgoing Chair of the This proposal provides a small increase to EMBO Council, Tim Hunt, was always much the budget for the next years over the present appreciated. level, which was considered by many dele- At the end of 2009, the EMBC elected gates as a very positive result considering the Toivo Maimets as the new president effective present situation. January 2010. ■ The EMBC also decided on its own gov- ernance and the responsibilities and duties of its offi cers. A number of the original rules and duties no longer corresponded to present-day requirements on effi ciency, transparency and responsibility. Intense discussions at several EMBC meetings have now resulted in modi- fi cation of the Rules of Procedure and of the Financial Rules. As a result, the duties of the EMBC Secretary General and of the EMBO http://embc.embo.org ➔ 11

EMBO | EMBC past & present

timeline & brief history pages 14 –15

EMBO | EMBC | EMBL aims pages 16 –18

EMBO actions 2009 pages 19 –20

EMBC actions 2009 page 21

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2009 1965 1973 1995 1999 2007 1963 1969 1975 1991 1997 2003 2001 2005

1996 2010 1964 1970 1976 1998 2002 2006 1966 1974 1986 1994 2000 2004 2008

1963 Election of fi rst EMBO offi cers 1996 EMBO Lectures and EMBO Members 2005 EMBO Conference Series – Workshop established; fi rst call for applications; 1964 EMBO incorporated as a non-profi t EMBO Fellows Network started; Award of EMBO/HHMI Startup Grants organization and appoints 200 members Science & Society Programme in support of research in Central 1965 Raymond Appleyard appointed founded Europe; Executive Secretary of EMBO EMBO and Nature Publishing Group 1997 Review of Finland Biotechnology launch Molecular Systems Biology Programme 1966 Funding for nine long-term and journal; 22 short-term fellowships and the fi rst 1998 European Biotechnology Node for Reviews of CNB and life sciences three practical courses secured by the Interaction with China (EBNIC) strategy of Spanish National Research Volkswagen Stiftung established under EMBO coordination Council (CSIC) 1969 Governments of 14 member states 1999 Sectoral meetings started; 2006 EMBO Installation Grants launched establish the European Molecular Review of Hungarian biology and fi rst awardees selected Biology Conference (EMBC) 2000 EMBO reports launched; 2007 Hermann Bujard appointed 1970 Formal ratifi cation of EMBC E-BioSci, Young Investigator Executive Director of EMBO; 1973 John Tooze appointed Programme and World Programme EMBO Molecular Medicine Executive Secretary of EMBO initiated (integrated across several Fellowships launched EMBO programmes in 2004); 2009 EMBO and Wiley-Blackwell launch 1974 EMBL established by EMBC ELSF established in conjunction with EMBO Molecular Medicine journal; other organizations 1975 EMBO Annual Symposium EMBO Fellowships pioneers pension plan (discontinued 1994) 2001 EMBO moves to new building for internationally mobile post-doctoral researchers; 1976 Statement from EMBO on 2002 EMBO Restart Fellowships initiated fi rst annual life science conference, recombinant DNA technology 1981; (integrated into long-term fellowship The EMBO Meeting, held in Amsterdam; The EMBO Journal launched scheme in 2004); EMBO Global Exchange – fi rst call for EMBO Award for Communication 1986 EMBO Gold Medal launched applications to fund lectures in India, in the Life Sciences launched China, Taiwan and Africa; 199 1 EMBO East European Fellowships 2003 Review of French Genopole System Maria Leptin appointed established (discontinued in 1994) Director of EMBO from January 2010 2004 EMBO Life Sciences Mobility Portal 1994 Frank Gannon appointed and E-BioSci go live; Executive Director of EMBO Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) 1995 Review of Austrian Molecular established in conjunction with other Biology Programme organizations

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History The origins of EMBO date back to 1963, when ing fellowships, practical courses and the a group of leading European scientists in the election of 200 scientists as the fi rst EMBO then emerging fi eld of molecular biology Members. gathered in Ravello, Italy to discuss proposals The EMBO Council secured long-term by John Kendrew and Conrad Waddington to funding for EMBO and in 1969 the govern- establish an organization and laboratory for ments of 14 member states established the cooperation in molecular biology. Both pro- European Molecular Biology Conference posals were endorsed and later, in July 1964, (EMBC). Formal ratifi cation followed in 1970. the European Molecular Biology Organiza- EMBC adopted the activities started with the tion (EMBO) was offi cially born. Volkswagen funding and these became known The Ravello meeting laid down two initial as the EMBC General Programme. Soon after goals for EMBO – the creation of a central its foundation, EMBC also accepted a propos- laboratory and the establishment of network- al by EMBO to establish a European laborato- ing activities to promote molecular biology ry. As a result, 10 EMBC Member States came in Europe and neighbouring countries and together in 1974 to form EMBL as an inde- to enhance interactions between scientists in pendent intergovernmental organization. this new fi eld of research across Europe. To Today EMBC has grown to 27 member pursue these goals, two committees were set states including most of the European Un- up. The efforts of the Laboratory Committee ion (EU) and some neighbouring countries. led to the establishment of the European Mo- EMBO has non-profi t status attributed by the lecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The Fed- German tax offi ce in Heidelberg. Thanks to eral Organization Committee became the mo- EMBC funding and the success of The EMBO tor for initiating the EMBO programmes for Journal, since its 1982 launch, EMBO has post-doctoral research and for training of sci- been able to expand its scope over the years, entists – to become known as the EMBO Fel- particularly in the past decade (see timeline lowship Programme and the EMBO Courses opposite). Every year thousands of scientists & Workshops Programme respectively. benefi t from EMBO training, career develop- The Ravello meeting also saw the elec- ment and networking activities. The organi- tion of Max Perutz as the fi rst EMBO Chair- zation also plays an increasing role in Euro- man and John Kendrew as Secretary General. pean science policy. Thanks to the efforts of another EMBO found- With a current membership of more than ing member, Eduard Kellenberger, EMBO was 1,300 of Europe’s leading life scientists and awarded offi cial legal status on 12 July 1964. over 90 associate members worldwide, EMBO The Volkswagen Foundation provided start- has become a focal point of the European life up funding for the organization and EMBO sciences community and a major catalyst for initiated its fi rst networking activities includ- high-quality research. ■ www.embo.org/aboutembo/history ➔ 15 EMBO | EMBC | EMBL | aims

EMBO The European Molecular Biology Organiza- grants or collaborations with international tion (EMBO) works with leading researchers organizations. EMBO pilots these activities to promote excellence in the molecular life to determine the potential benefi t of adding sciences in Europe. EMBO recognizes and them to the EMBC General Programme. From fosters talented scientists, empowering them 2009, an annual conference – The EMBO to advance the life sciences to understand Meeting – aims to advance the life sciences how life works. through programmes refl ecting the concepts The organization supports training and of modern biological research. From 2010, the exchange at all stages of the scientifi c career, EMBC will provide fi nancial support for the promoting collaboration across Europe and conference. The fi rst applications for EMBO worldwide. EMBO activities are funded pre- Global Exchange were invited at the end of dominantly by the European Molecular Biol- 2009. This new initiative will fund and sup- ogy Conference (EMBC) as part of the EMBC port lecture programmes initially in India, General Programme. China, Taiwan and Africa and also lectures Through EMBC, EMBO funds over 600 re- by scientists from these countries in Europe. search fellowships annually and more than 70 Scientifi c publishing is another main- practical courses, workshops and conference stay of EMBO. The EMBO Journal and EMBO series. The EMBO Young Investigator Pro- reports are well established in the scientifi c gramme promotes outstanding young group literature with reputations for quality and in- leaders across Europe, while EMBO Installa- novation. Molecular Systems Biology is set- tion Grants strengthen scientifi c development ting the same standards in the emerging in selected EMBC Member States. EMBC also fi eld of molecular systems biology. Launched fi nances the EMBO Science & Society Pro- in 2009, EMBO Molecular Medicine aims to gramme, facilitating dialogue between sci- strengthen links between basic biology and entists and other sectors of society. Many clinical research. EMBO initiatives funded by EMBC encourage EMBO takes its lead from the scientifi c international mobility. EMBC also funds the community, in particular from EMBO Mem- EMBO Life Science Mobility Consultant. bers. EMBO elects new members annually EMBO also fi nances initiatives independ- based on excellence in research. With more ently. These activities are developed based than 1,300 EMBO Members in Europe and on careful analysis of the needs of the Euro- over 90 associate members worldwide, the pean life sciences community. Start-up fund- organization works with a prestigious acad- ing comes primarily from EMBO publications emy of outstanding researchers from the life and occasionally from European Union (EU) sciences community. Fifty-three scientists

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from the EMBO membership have received The EMBO Meeting. A selection of EMBC EMBC MEMBER STATES the Nobel Prize. The membership provides Member States also fund the EMBO Installa- The following countries are member states of the European Molecular Biology valuable input to EMBO, in particular by par- tion Grants, awarded to scientists establish- Conference (EMBC): ticipating in EMBO committees. ing research groups in their countries (see Austria The EMBO Council is engaged intensely page 27). Belgium in EMBO actions and in the development of Both EMBC and EMBO are driven by a Croatia new activities and policies. Comprising 15 common commitment to quality research at Czech Republic EMBO Members, elected by the membership, the pan-European level. The actions of both Denmark Estonia the Council meets annually with EMBO man- organizations are characterised by selection Finland agement to discuss and review EMBO activi- on the grounds of quality and a strong coop- France ties. A dedicated team of managers, admin- eration with the scientifi c community. EMBC Germany istrators and editors deliver these activities has decision-making power over the fund- Greece Hungary from EMBO headquarters in Heidelberg, Ger- ing and development of EMBO activities as- Iceland many. ■ sociated with the EMBC General Programme, Ireland while EMBO has full responsibility for their Israel EMBC delivery. EMBC monitors EMBO activities, Italy Luxembourg The European Molecular Biology Conference and the overall programme is decided when Netherlands (EMBC) is the intergovernmental organi- the EMBC Delegates meet twice annually in Norway zation that contributes the core funding of conference. ■ Poland EMBO. Through the contributions of its 27 Portugal Slovak Republic member states, EMBC supports and fi nanc- Slovenia es the majority of EMBO activities, providing Spain quality scientifi c initiatives at a pan-Europe- Sweden an level. EMBC membership includes most of Switzerland Turkey the European Union (EU) and a number of United Kingdom neighbouring countries (see sidebar). Special provisions also exist for EMBC funds a wide range of EMBO ac- Cyprus. A cooperation agreement tivities as part of its General Programme (see provides for South African scientists to benefi t from EMBO opposite page). The EMBO Fellowship Pro- programmes and activities. gramme, Courses & Workshops Programme and Young Investigator Programme are the ➔ For the scale of main recipients of funding, but EMBC also contributions by the supports other important actions such as individual EMBC Member EMBO Science & Society and, from 2010, States, see page 59 http://embc.embo.org ➔ 17 EMBO | EMBC | EMBL | aims

EMBL The creation of a central molecular biology to staff, students and visitors; to develop new laboratory was one of the founding goals of instrumentation for biological research; and EMBO. The early efforts of the EMBO Lab- to transfer the benefi ts of new discoveries oratory Committee, the EMBO Council and and technologies to society. These core func- EMBC led to the subsequent establishment tions are complemented by outreach activi- of the European Molecular Biology Labora- ties in the areas of science and society and tory (EMBL). In 1974 EMBL became an in- training for science teachers. dependent entity supported by a subset of EMBL, EMBO and EMBC are independent EMBC Member States. Today 20 of the EMBC organizations but all three act in a mutually Member States are also member countries of supportive manner, both at a strategic and EMBL. practical level. Full details of EMBL activities EMBL has fi ve core missions: to conduct can be found in the EMBL Annual Report or basic research in molecular biology; to pro- on the laboratory’s website at vide essential services to scientists from its www.embl.org. ■ member states; to provide high-level training

Aerial view of EMBO and EMBL Heidelberg in Germany. The EMBC administration is also located in the EMBO Building.

➔ 18 www.embl.org EMBO | actions in 2009

The EMBO Council met on 31 March – 1 April ➔ The EMBO Rules were revised and ap- EMBO OFFICERS & COUNCIL 2009 and from 8 – 9 October 2009. The major de- proved by Council. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard cisions from these meetings are listed below ➔ The EMBO Statutes were thoroughly re- EMBO Secretary General along with other important EMBO actions that vised and approved by the EMBO Members. Tim Hunt Chair are not described elsewhere in this report. Andrea Ballabio Anton Berns Vice-Chair Council, committee and Financial matters Maria Blasco membership elections ➔ The EMBO Council unanimously approv- Patrick Charnay ➔ Carl-Henrik Heldin was elected as Chair ed the accounts for 2008 and the budget Carl-Henrik Heldin of the EMBO Council for 2010. David Shore for EMBO activities for 2010. This funding Ari Helenius was elected as Vice-Chair of EMBO Council comes from income generated by EMBO Maria Leptin for 2010. Anton Berns was elected as Secre- publications and supplements the EMBC Daniel Louvard tary General of EMBO. fi nancing of the EMBO Fellowship, Young Ferenc Nagy ➔ Ari Helenius and Daniela Rhodes were re- In vestigator, Courses & Workshops and Sci- Daniela Rhodes elected to Council by the membership for the ence & Society Programmes. It is also used to Benny Shilo period 2010–2012. Pascale Cossart, Leszek pilot EMBO activities that are not part of the David Shore Kaczmarek and Detlef Weigel were newly EMBC General Programme. Kai Simons elected for the same period. Richard Treis- Gunnar von Heijne man was appointed to replace Maria Leptin EMBO programmes, activities for the remaining two years of her term and & publications ➔ For a complete list of the Veronica van Heyningen was appointed to re- ➔ Maria Leptin was appointed by the EMBO current EMBO Council and Committee members, place Anton Berns for the remaining one year Council as the next Director of EMBO from see pages 60 – 61 of his term. January 2010. ➔ Sixty EMBO Members and six EMBO As- ➔ The EMBO Council approved the lists of sociate Members were elected in the 2009 names as suggested for the Advisory Edito- membership election. Details of the newly rial Boards for The EMBO Journal, EMBO elected members and associate members are reports, Molecular Systems Biology and EMBO listed on pages 64 –77. Molecular Medicine. ➔ Council agreed to dissolve the Publica- ➔ The EMBO Council recruited a new Head of Valeria Kaplan tions Committee and to replace it with the Scientifi c Publications (HSP), Bernd Pulverer, Administrator for the EMBO Membership “EMBO Publications Advisory Board”. for its scientifi c journals, reporting to the ➔ Council approved the launch of EMBO Director and to the EMBO Council. He is sup- Global Exchange (see page 45) and formed a ported by the newly formed EMBO Publica- new committee. tions Advisory Board (page 63).

www.embo.org ➔ 19 EMBO | actions in 2009

Bernhard Huber EMBO/EMBL Cooperation the Federation of European Biochemical So- Administraton & Finance ➔ The EMBO Council suggested three candi- cieties (FEBS), the European Science Foun- Head dates for each of two scientifi c areas to rep- dation (ESF) and the various programmes of resent EMBO on the EMBL Scientifi c Adviso- the European Commission (EC). ry Committee (SAC). Tom Muir and Reinhard ➔ EMBO continues to participate in the ac- Bärbel Traut-Laur Jahn were selected. tivities and meetings of the European Life Administraton & Finance ➔ EMBO and EMBL will hold three joint Sciences Forum (ELSF) and the Initiative for Administrator EMBO | EMBL Symposia in the new EMBL Science in Europe (ISE) (see page 48). ■ Advanced Training Centre (ATC) in 2010 (see page 157)

Other EMBO activities: Awards ➔ Olivier Voinnet of the CNRS Institute of EMBO COMMITTEE CHAIRS 2009 Plant Molecular Biology in Strasbourg (FR) Ueli Aebi won the 2009 EMBO Gold Medal in recogni- Chair | EMBO Membership Committee tion of his pioneering work on the mecha- Anthony Pugsley nisms and roles of gene silencing via RNA in Chair | EMBO Fellowship Committee plants (see page 43). Pico Caroni Chair | EMBO Course Committee Meetings Michael Bevan ➔ The EMBO Meeting 2009 was held in Am- Chair | EMBO Young Investigator Committee sterdam from 29 August to 1 September (see Wendy Bickmore pages 40 – 41), continuing the tradition of an Chair | EMBO Science & Society Committee annual life sciences conference in Europe Helen Saibil started by the former European Life Scientist Chair | EMBO Publications Committee Organisation (ELSO). Hermann Bujard ➔ New EMBO Members in 2008 were wel- Chair | The EMBO Meeting Committee comed to the organization during a special event held during The EMBO Meeting 2009 ➔ For a complete list of the current EMBO Council in Amsterdam. and Committee members, see pages 60 – 61 ➔ The EMBO Director and EMBO Manag- ers were engaged in a variety of other meet- ings and collaborations – in particular with

➔ 20 www.embo.org EMBC | actions in 2009

In 2009, two formal sessions of EMBC were ➔ The EMBC Rules of Procedure and Finan- EMBC OFFICERS 2009 held in Heidelberg (in June) and in Rome (in cial Rules were revised. Peter J. Weisbeek Netherlands November). The Financial Advisory Group, ➔ The Financial Advisory Group and the President the Audit Committee and the EMBC Strategic Audit Committee were fused into the Fi- Toivo Maimets Estonia Working Party met in May; the Finance Com- nance Committee, which has a defi ned Claudio Sunkel Portugal mittee convened in November. The decisions membership. Vice-Presidents and actions resulting from these meetings are ➔ EMBC agreed to initiate a private pension Krešimir Pavelic´ Croatia listed below. plan for EMBO Fellows. Secretary General Maria José Almeida Portugal Election of Offi cers for 2010 Chair | Finance Committee Financial matters ➔ Toivo Maimets (Estonia) was elected Pres- Paula Heppner Germany ➔ EMBC accepted the accounts for 2008 and ident of EMBC for 2010. Claudio Sunkel (Por- Vice-Chair | Finance Committee noted the reports of the external and inter- tugal) and Leszek Kaczmarek (Poland) were nal auditors. elected Vice-Presidents. ➔ For a list of all ➔ The scale of contributions for 2010 and ➔ Krešimir Pavelić (Croatia) was re-appoint- EMBC Delegates and Advisers, 2011/2012 was unanimously approved. ed EMBC Secretary General for 2010. ■ see pages 52 – 58 ➔ The indicative scheme covering the period 2010 to 2014 was approved unanimously with FINANCE COMMITTEE two countries voting ad referendum. Permanent Elected ➔ The budget for 2010 was approved. Members Members STRATEGIC WORKING PARTY 2009 ➔ The external auditors from the Offi ce of France Finland Ahmet Ademoglu Turkey the Auditor General of Norway were appoint- Germany Greece Maria José Almeida Portugal ed for a second term of three years. Italy Ireland Isabella Beretta Switzerland Spain Netherlands Oda Keppler Germany EMBC decisions and actions United Kingdom Poland Mark Palmer United Kingdom ➔ At the November meeting, EMBC heard a Portugal Julien Galabru France detailed report on the delivery by EMBO of Sweden Kalervo Hiltunen Finland the EMBC General Programme. Josiane Entringer Luxembourg ➔ The EMBC Special Project supporting Toivo Maimets Estonia Strategic Development Installation Grants Juan Modolell Spain (known as the EMBO Installation Grants Krešimir Pavelic´ Croatia Claudio Sunkel Portugal scheme) received 33 applications. Five sci- Gitta Bourke entists were selected to receive funding from Administrator for the EMBC Glauco Tocchini-Valentini Italy the participating member states as of 2010. and EMBO Council Peter J. Weisbeek Netherlands | Chair http://embc.embo.org ➔ 21

EMBO | EMBC programmes and activities

fellowships page 24

courses & Workshops page 25

young investigators page 26

installation grants page 27

science & society page 28

career development page 29

➔ 23 EMBO | fellowships

Jan Taplick Renowned for its strict attention to scientifi c excellence, the EMBO Fellowship Programme Programme Manager has supported thousands of talented young scientists since its launch in the 1960s. EMBO Fel- lowships support post-doctoral and pre-doctoral research visits of varying duration to labora- tories throughout the EMBC Member States and internationally. Liselott Maidment Administrator ▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS Long-term fellowships ■ Approximately 250 long-term fellowships ➔ EMBO Long-Term Fellowships and 250 short-term fellowships awarded 1332 applicants / 258 awards 19 % success rate Agnès Visser-de-Matteïs annually Administrator ➔ ■ Annual EMBO Fellows Meeting for fellows EMBO Short-Term Fellowships Short-term fellowships 495 applicants / 255 awards in the fi nal year of their long-term fellowship 52 % success rate ■ Biennial EMBO North American Fellows Zsuzsanna O’Donoghue ➔ EMBO Fellows Meeting Administrator Meeting for current and former fellows 11–14 June 2009 | Heidelberg | Germany working in the USA or Canada 87 participants ■ EMBO Fellows Network forging links ➔ EMBO Laboratory Management Courses between EMBO Fellows past and present for long-term fellows ■ Professional training for long-term fellows ➔ Co-funding of EMBO Long-Term Fellowship including EMBO Laboratory Management Programme by European Commission Contract signed with the European Commission and Courses (see page 25) and EMBO Media fi rst co-funded fellowships awarded in December Workshops (see page 28) 2009

■ Special conditions for EMBO Fellows with ➔ Private Pension Scheme for EMBO Fellows children (see page 42) Proposal accepted by the EMBC, Pension scheme to start in January 2010

➔ For long-term fellowship trends and statistics, see pages 82 –103

➔ For short-term fellowship trends and statistics, see pages 104 –127

http://fellowsnet.embo.org | [email protected] ➔ 24 www.embo.org/programmes/fellowships.html | [email protected] EMBO | courses & workshops

The EMBO Courses & Workshops Programme has a reputation for funding high-quality meet- Anne-Marie Glynn ings and providing scientists at all career stages with networking and training opportunities. Programme Manager The selection processes ensure that only the best and most diverse molecular biology meet- ings are funded. Anne Seller ▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS Administrator ■ Approximately 80 practical courses, ➔ EMBO Practical Courses lecture courses, workshops, conference 27 applications / 22 funded* 12 applications / 8 funded** series and symposia funded annually Lynne Turnbull ➔ Administrator ■ Maximum funding of €30,000 per meeting EMBO Workshops 34 applications / 17 funded* Online HelpDesk ■ Travel grants for eligible practical course 1 application / 1 funded** participants ➔ EMBO Conference Series ■ Joint activities, sponsored with other 30 applications / 25 funded* scientifi c organizations, such as ESF-EMBO ➔ EMBO Lecture Course Symposia, EMBO/FEBS Lecture Courses and 1 application / 1 funded*

EMBO | EMBL Symposia ➔ ESF-EMBO Symposia ■ Website, poster and registration assistance 18 applications / 3 funded* for meeting organizers (Online HelpDesk) ➔ EMBO/FEBS Lecture Courses ■ Organize Laboratory Management Courses 6 applications / 2 funded* ➔ For a list of 2009 courses, workshops, conference series, symposia and laboratory ➔ Laboratory Management Courses for postdocs and independent group leaders management courses, 5 courses for postdocs see pages 138 –143 4 courses for independent group leaders

➔ Total participant numbers ➔ For a list of 2010 courses, workshops, Approximately 6,000 researchers conference series, symposia and laboratory management courses, ➔ Online HelpDesk see pages 154 –158 51 websites, 40 posters

* Within EMBC Member States ** Outside Europe

www.embo.org/programmes/courses-workshops.html | [email protected] ➔ 25 EMBO | young investigators

Gerlind Wallon The EMBO Young Investigator Programme supports outstanding young group leaders in the Programme Manager early years of their independent careers. Launched in 2000, the programme currently sup- ports over 230 scientists in 23 EMBC Member States. The Young Investigators benefi t from training opportunities designed to raise their profi le, widen their networks and support for Kim Krynauw their research groups. Administrator

▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS ■ Approximately 20 EMBO Young ➔ EMBO Young Investigator Programme Investigators selected annually 123 applicants / 17 awards 13.8% success rate ■ Networking support through annual ➔ meetings, laboratory exchanges and EMBO 9th EMBO Young Investigator Meeting 13 – 15 May 2009 | Istanbul | Turkey Member mentorship Bogazici University ■ Promotional activities including ➔ EMBO Young Investigator Lectures sponsorship of lectures at international 29 lectures sponsored at international meetings meetings and distribution of a brochure ➔ EMBO Laboratory Management Courses and profi ling the Young Investigators Advanced Leadership Courses ■ Training opportunities such as laboratory For young group leaders and post doctoral fellows management courses, an annual PhD course ➔ 8th EMBO Young Investigator PhD Course for the Young Investigators’ students and 14–19 September 2009 | Heidelberg | Germany satellite meetings on different topics 36 participants ■ Annual award of €15,000 plus possible ➔ 3rd EMBO Young Investigator Sectoral Meeting on Neurobiology small grants from EMBO 16 May 2009 | Istanbul | Turkey ■ One year’s free subscription to EMBO ➔ 2nd EMBO Young Investigator Sectoral Meeting reports and free online access to The EMBO on DNA Repair Journal 15 – 17 October 2009 | Brno | Czech Republic

➔ For a list of EMBO Young Investigators selected in 2009, see page 128

➔ For programme statistics and EMBO Young Investigator Lectures in 2009, see pages 130 – 135

➔ For a list of programme events in 2010, see page 159

➔ 26 www.embo.org/programmes/yip.html | [email protected] EMBO | installation grants

Launched in 2006, EMBO Installation Grants aim to strengthen science in selected EMBC Mem- Gerlind Wallon ber States. Building on earlier initiatives targeting Central and Eastern Europe, the grants Programme Manager offer scientists an attractive funding package to relocate and establish their laboratories in a participating country. Awardees are closely integrated into the young investigator network, helping them to establish a reputation in the European scientifi c community. Kim Krynauw Administrator

▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS ■ 5 scientists selected in 2009 ➔ EMBO Installation Grant awards ■ 33 applicants / 5 awards Participating countries: Croatia, 15.1 % success rate the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, ➔ Poland, Portugal and Turkey 2nd EMBO European Young Scientists Forum 15–17 June 2009 | Zagreb | Croatia ■ Annual grant of € 50,000 for three to ➔ For a list of the EMBO Installation Grantees selected fi ve years in 2009, see page 129 ■ Networking support through the EMBO Young Investigator Programme (see opposite page) ▼ CURRENT PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES ■ Annual meetings to network scientists Croatia Poland in the participating countries e.g. Czech Republic Portugal EMBO/HHMI Central European Estonia Turkey Scientists Meetings Hungary

www.embo.org/programmes/installation-grants.html | [email protected] ➔ 27 EMBO | science & society

Gerlind Wallon The EMBO Science & Society Programme has been promoting and strengthening communica- Interim Programme Manager tion between life scientists and other sectors of society for over nine years. A range of initia- tives helps scientists to communicate their research more effectively, stimulate and inform public debate, and contribute to improvements in policy-making. Alessandra Bendiscioli Administrator ▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS ■ Public dialogue on scientifi c developments ➔ 10th EMBO | EMBL Joint Conference on of social concern through annual Science & Society Food, sustainability and plant science – conferences co-organized with EMBL a global challenge ■ Analysis of current issues in European life 6–7 November 2009 | Heidelberg | Germany sciences policy resulting in publications 270 participants informing policy-making ➔ 9th EMBO Media Workshop 12 June 2009 | Heidelberg | Germany ■ Science communication training for young 60 participants scientists ➔ ■ Media communication skills workshop Sessions at European scientifi c meetings The EMBO Meeting 2009 | 30 August ■ Funding of science and society speakers at Amsterdam | The Netherlands European scientifi c meetings ➔ Science & Society session – Food, sustainability and plant science The EMBO Meeting 2009 | 1 September Amsterdam | The Netherlands

➔ For a list of programme events in 2010, see page 159

➔ 28 www.embo.org/policy-and-society/science-society.html | [email protected] EMBO | career development

Since our beginning in 1964, EMBO has helped thousands of scientists advance their careers Sabine Rehberger-Schneider through training, funding and cross-border exchange. The benefi ciaries of our programmes Life Sciences Mobility Consultant and activities make signifi cant contributions to science, helping to address the challenges faced by society today.

▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS ■ EMBO Fellowships (see page 24) and ➔ Pension plan announced for post-doctoral EMBO Courses & Workshops (see page 25) researchers receiving EMBO Long-Term Fellowships (see page 24) support of researchers at all levels ➔ ■ EMBO Laboratory Management Courses Life Science Mobility Portal – annual visits increased by 26,000 visitors (see page 25) help scientists develop per month additional skills to effectively lead research – 1,700 research funding schemes referenced groups ➔ The EMBO Meeting 2009 ■ EMBO Young Investigator Programme 30 August | Amsterdam | The Netherlands (see page 26) and EMBO Installation Grants – career sessions fully attended – Life Science JobMarket posted research job (see page 27) support the academic career opportunities submitted via Life Science progression of young independent research Mobility Portal scientists ➔ Women in Life Sciences (WiLS) ■ EMBO Life Sciences Mobility Portal offers Database of more than 600 expert female the most comprehensive pan-European scientists hosted on EMBO website online resource for scientists seeking ➔ The Source Event fi nancial support, training and employment 4 December | Berlin | Germany ■ – exhibited EMBO Career Development EMBO Women in Science (see page 42) opportunities to attendees activities monitor performance of EMBO with regards to the fair treatment of women in all EMBO activities ■ Our annual conference, The EMBO Meeting (see pages 40–41), advances the European life sciences through its scientifi c programme and focus on career management and development

www.embo.org/programmes/embo-career-development.html | http://mobility.embo.org | [email protected] ➔ 29

EMBO activities

The EMBO Journal pages 32–33

EMBO reports pages 34–35

Molecular Systems Biology pages 36–37

EMBO Molecular Medicine pages 38–39

The EMBO Meeting pages 40–41

women in science page 42

gold medal page 43

plenary lectures page 44

global exchange page 45

information support & resources page 46

public relations & communications page 47

European Life Sciences Forum (ELSF) page 48

➔ 31 EMBO | scientifi c publications | The EMBO Journal

Fast | Fair | Transparent

SENIOR ADVISORS David C. Baulcombe Ari Helenius Tim Hunt Tony Hunter

HEAD OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Bernd Pulverer (from November 2009)

➔ 32 www.embojournal.org | [email protected] The EMBO Journal

The EMBO Journal has been the fl agship EMBO publication for almost 30 years and enjoys an international reputation for quality and originality. Research papers provide an exceptional level of novel insights into a diverse range of biological problems, with an emphasis on mecha- nistic understanding. Reviews and Have You Seen…? features provide context and comment 3 2 1 from leaders in the fi eld.

▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS Pernille Rørth1 ➔ ■ Broad scope spanning all areas of Transparent review process 4 Executive Editor Online publication of referee reports, rebuttals and molecular biology editorial communication, as well as manuscript 2 ■ Owned and edited by EMBO, published by handling statistics Isabel Arnold Katherine Brown3 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) ➔ Citation of the primary literature encouraged 5 Karin Dumstrei4 ■ Professional EMBO editorial team ➔ Have you seen …? Stan Gorski5 supported by an Executive Editor, Senior 46 experts comment on research articles Thomas Schwarz-Romond6 Advisors and an Advisory Editorial Board ➔ Focus Issue Hartmut Vodermaier7 ■ Effi cient online submission system Collection of nine reviews on centromeres and 6 Editors telomeres ■ Initial editorial decisions within one week of submission and within three to four ➔ EMBO Open Jana Christopher8 weeks for in-depth peer review Authors can opt for open access publication Fiona Panayi9 ➔ 10 ■ Rapid online publication and wide Rapid time to fi rst decision on manuscripts 7 Meryl Schneider Average of fi ve days following submission 11 exposure of articles through highlights Gerlinde Schuster Editorial Assistants across NPG’s subject area pages and ➔ High submission rate from outside Europe 55% of submitting authors gateways ➔ 8 Volker Wiersdorff 12 ■ Free online access after 12 months via 14 percent annual increase for e-mail alerts Monthly average of almost 97,000 registrants Graphics / web support nature.com and PubMed Central (immediate access to the developing world through the ➔ Online RSS feeds Average monthly uptake more than 97,000 HINARI initiative) 9 ➔ ■ Full archive available online More than 900 entries for annual cover contest ➔ For a list of Advisory Editorial Board members, see pages 78 –79

10 11 12

www.embojournal.org | [email protected] ➔ 33 EMBO | scientifi c publications | EMBO reports

Concise | Provocative | Engaged

HEAD OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Bernd Pulverer (from November 2009)

DEPARTURE Les Grivell

➔ For a list of Advisory Editorial Board members, see pages 78 –79

➔ 34 www.emboreports.org | [email protected] EMBO reports

EMBO reports caters to both the scientifi c community and general readers interested in the societal impact of life science advances. Short research papers describe advances in a broad spectrum of the life sciences, complemented by reviews and meeting reports. Science & So- ciety topics are analyzed in depth by news and commentaries authored by journalists and 2 1 experts.

▼ AT A GLANCE Howy Jacobs1 ■ Diverse scope and range of content ■ Full archive available online 3 Senior Editor (from April 2009) covering all areas of molecular biology ■ Dedicated to short-format reports: ■ Three sections: Science & Society, Short-format, original research papers that 2 Reviews, Scientifi c Reports report a single, ground-breaking advance in Frank Gannon 4 Senior Editor ■ Owned and run by EMBO, published by any aspect of molecular biology (until March 2009) Nature Publishing Group (NPG) ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS ■ Professional editorial team at EMBO ➔ Web focus issues draw together relevant content Holger Breithaupt 3 supported by a Senior Editor and an – Protein Modifi cation: Beyond the Usual Suspects 5 Samuel Caddick4 Convergence Research international Advisory Editorial Board – Nonia Pariente5 ■ Publication of web focus collections on ➔ Diversifi ed Advisory Editorial Board Barbara Pauly6 topics of current scientifi c and/or social New appointments to the Board refl ect the journal’s Esther Schnapp7 broad scope that now includes molecular evolution 6 Editors interest and more applied research fi elds ■ High quality editorial and graphical ➔ More commentary and opinion Uta Mackensen8 production standards Upfront editorial material complements the Graphics Editor ■ Initial editorial decision within one week scientifi c and science & society content with concise, expert views on various topics 7 of submission and within three to four Susanne Hofner-Harris9 ➔ Top downloads refl ect journal identity weeks for in-depth peer review Editorial Assistant Content from all three sections in monthly top ten ■ Rapid online publication and wide downloads exposure of articles through highlights ➔ EMBO Open 8 across NPG’s subject area pages and Authors may publish using an Open Access model gateways ➔ Rapid time to fi rst decision on manuscripts ■ Free online access after 12 months via Average of seven days following submission nature.com and PubMed Central (immediate 9 ➔ High submission rate from outside Europe access to the developing world through the Almost 50% of submitting authors HINARI initiative) www.emboreports.org | [email protected] ➔ 35 EMBO | scientifi c publications | Molecular Systems Biology

Open Access | Pioneering Research

SENIOR EDITORS Ruedi Aebersold Peer Bork George Church Leroy Hood Edison Liu

HEAD OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Bernd Pulverer (from November 2009)

DEPARTURE Les Grivell

➔ 36 www.molecularsystemsbiology.com | [email protected] Molecular Systems Biology

Molecular Systems Biology is an open-access publication dedicated to the growing fi eld of Thomas Lemberger systems biology at the molecular level. Published online since 2005, the journal provides a Editor unique forum for the publication of papers describing the molecular properties and behav- iour of complex biological systems. The journal aims to set standards in the fi eld, structuring research output and using pioneering systems biology technologies. Les Grivell Associate Editor (until October 2009) ▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS ■ Wide scope covering all aspects of ➔ 2008 Journal Impact Factor increased to 12.2* molecular systems biology ➔ Submissions increased two-fold Jana Christopher ■ Editorial Assistant Immediate free access to all content ➔ Open-access license extended online, supported by an author publication Authors can permit derivative works charge ➔ Perspectives article type ■ Professional EMBO editorial team Communicates novel concepts and innovative research directions ■ Panel of Senior Editors and Advisory Editorial Board of leading systems biology ➔ Reprint collections researchers ➔ Redesigned homepage ■ Published by Nature Publishing Group Displays thumbnails to research papers, Top 10 downloads, and links to (NPG) and jointly owned by EMBO and NPG Latest blog posts ■ Variety of article formats including ➔ The Seven Stones blog primary research papers, reviews, Instant online publishing and commenting perspectives, news & views, and editorials platform on systems and synthetic biology

■ Rapid publication and wide exposure of ➔ For a list of Advisory Editorial Board members, articles across NPG’s subject area pages and see page 80 gateways * Journal Citation Reports, Thomson ■ Enhanced support for structured data formats such as Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML)

www.molecularsystemsbiology.com | [email protected] ➔ 37 EMBO | scientifi c publications | EMBO Molecular Medicine

Molecular insight | Clinical Relevance EMBO Molecular Medicine

SENIOR EDITORS Dario R. Alessi Giulio Cossu Uta Francke Fred H. Gage Matthias Hentze Edison Liu Philippe Sansonetti Bart de Strooper

HEAD OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Bernd Pulverer (from November 2009)

DEPARTURE Les Grivell

➔ 38 www.embomolmed.org | [email protected] EMBO Molecular Medicine

EMBO Molecular Medicine, launched in April 2009, is dedicated to the rapidly growing area of Sandra Caldeira research at the interface between clinical research and basic biology. The journal provides a Editor forum for high quality and impactful translational research.

▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS Les Grivell ■ Articles offer novel molecular insight into ➔ Journal launch Associate Editor (until October 2009) the etiology of human diseases & new First issue published April 2009 perspectives for clinical application at the ➔ Over 12, 000 unique visitors levels of diagnosis, prevention and therapy. to journal website in fi rst 6 months Studies based on model organisms are ➔ Reprint Collection published: within the journal scope, provided results Celebrating Stem Cells Gerlinde Schuster Editorial Assistant are demonstrably relevant to human disease ➔ Journal indexed ■ Publishes original research and reviews in on PubMed and ISI/Thomson/Reuters molecular medicine of high interest to both ➔ International Press coverage medical and basic scientists Including BBC, Science, Financial Times, The Times of India ■ Owned and run by EMBO, published by Wiley-Blackwell ➔ Two “virtual issues” published on line on Neurodegeneration and Cancer ■ Scientifi c quality guaranteed by a ➔ professional in-house editorial team, a For a list of Advisory Editorial Board members, see page 81 renowned group of senior editors and an international advisory board with a comprehensive set of expertise ■ Expedited and fair peer review ■ Rapid publication online and in print ■ Free institutional subscriptions for the fi rst two years of publication. Authors can opt for Open Access.

www.embomolmed.org | [email protected] ➔ 39 EMBO | The EMBO Meeting

advancing the life sciences

THE EMBO MEETING ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS is administered by the ➔ The EMBO Meeting 2009 – Inaugural event ➔ The EMBO Meeting 2010 Gesellschaft zur Förderung 29 August – 1 September | Amsterdam 4–7 September | Barcelona | Spain der Lebenswissenschaften The Netherlands – Organizers Heidelberg GmbH – Organizers Luis Serrano (ES), Denis Duboule (CH) Hans Clevers (NL), Stephen West (UK) – Website designed & launched with online – Scientifi c programme with more than systems for registration & abstract submission 30 lectures & 21 workshops with 148 speakers from 16 countries, attracting over 1370 attendees ➔ The EMBO Meeting 2011 from 50 countries, 532 posters, and 48 exhibiting 10–13 September | Vienna | Austria companies – Organizers – Quality scientifi c programme and access to top Pascale Cossart (FR), Barry Dickson (AT) names in research rated highly by participants & Jane Langdale (UK) – Conference Collage produced in print and online – Website designed & launched with online highlighting 2009 speakers, participants, exhibits system for submission of workshop proposals and onsite childcare ➔ Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebens- wissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH (GFLW) was founded in February 2009 by EMBO as an offi cially registered and recognized non-profi t organization to administer The EMBO Meeting

➔ For a list of The EMBO Meeting Committee members, see page 63

➔ 40 www.the-embo-meeting.org | [email protected] EMBO | The EMBO Meeting

The EMBO Meeting is an annual conference that advances the life sciences through pro- Martin Cairns grammes refl ecting the concepts and new developments of modern biological research. Conference Offi cer Open to the broad life science community, researchers from Europe and the world over come together each year to tell and to learn of new developments, to forge new collaborations and, ultimately, to leave motivated by new ideas. The EMBO Meeting takes up the tradition of annual EMBO Symposia in the 1970s and follows on from former ELSO meetings to provide an annual European life sciences forum for scientifi c exchange beyond fi eld boundaries.

▼ AT A GLANCE TEAM MEMBERS ■ Latest research and innovations across all ■ Submitted abstracts selected for poster & Suzanne Beveridge disciplines on show in diverse programme oral presentations Hermann Bujard ■ Participant horizons expanded by special ■ Focused research discussions at specialist Kerstin Hiester lectures from eminent speakers on a range sub-group meetings Bernhard Huber Valeria Kaplan of subjects from both within and outside the ■ Sponsored symposia plus large exhibition Yvonne Kaul life sciences area generate interest for industry and Gerlind Wallon ■ High-quality programme ensured by societies EMBO Member selection of topics and ■ EMBO programmes and publications on speakers display to broad life science community ■ Scientists at all levels learn career skills to ■ EMBO Gold Medal award ceremony achieve their potential through workshops ■ Networking receptions for EMBO and mentoring sessions community ■ Dialogue between scientists, policy ■ Onsite childcare by qualifi ed carers makers and public about topical science & society issues ■ Key event for early career scientists to learn from respected leaders

www.the-embo-meeting.org | [email protected] ➔ 41 EMBO | women in science

Gerlind Wallon EMBO assesses and acts upon imbalances in the scientifi c career path, with a focus on female Manager scientists and researchers with young children. Monitoring of EMBO programmes ensures that the needs of all scientists are addressed, regardless of personal circumstances. EMBO aims to ensure family-friendly working conditions for all scientists.

▼ AT A GLANCE ■ Analysis of gender balance in EMBO ■ Extended eligibility period for female activities and the life sciences generally scientists with children applying to the ■ Strategic measures to address imbalances Young Investigator Programme and promote family-friendly conditions in (see page 26) research ■ Annual studies and statistics on ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS the participation of female scientists in ➔ FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award 2009 EMBO programmes Anne Houdusse ■ Collaboration with other scientifi c Paris | France organizations such as the FEBS Women in ➔ Joint FEBS/EMBO Women in Science session Science working group titled: Gender differences in ■ communication and show(wo)manship Re-launch of the Women in Life Sciences at The EMBO Meeting database (WILS), an initiative of the former 31 August 2009 | Amsterdam | The Netherlands ELSO Career Development Committee, ➔ 34th FEBS Congress highlighting accomplished female scientists 7 July 2009 | Prague | Czech Republic in Europe – Award ceremony for ■ Targeted events such as sessions at FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award 2009 The EMBO Meeting and the FEBS congress – Session titled: Why aren’t more women in science? ■ Special conditions for EMBO Fellows ➔ For statistics on the participation of women in with children including paid parental leave, EMBO activities, see pages 144 –149 part-time working hours, possibility of child-care support and a waiver of the requirement to move country for restart candidates

➔ 42 www.embo.org/policy-and-society/women-in-science.html | [email protected] EMBO | gold medal

The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually to a young life scientist for exceptional research carried out in Europe. Widely regarded as the most prestigious award of its kind, the prize highlights the standards being reached in molecular biology research by some of the very best young scientists in Europe.

The 2009 winner was Olivier Voinnet, from Olivier Voinnet received his award and the CNRS Institute of Plant Molecular Biol- presented a lecture on his research on 30 Au- ogy in Strasbourg, France. Voinnet was hon- gust 2009 at The EMBO Meeting in Amster- oured for his pioneering work on the mecha- dam, The Netherlands. nisms and roles of gene silencing via RNA in plants. Olivier Voinnet Winners of the EMBO Gold Medal 1986 – 2009 Gold Medal Winner 2009 1986 John Tooze Heidelberg, DE 1999 Konrad Basler Zurich, CH 1987 Barbara Pearse Cambridge, UK 2000 Christof Niehrs Heidelberg, DE 1988 Antonio Lanzavecchia Basel, CH Daniel St. Johnston Cambridge, UK 1989 Hugh Pelham Cambridge, UK 2001 Matthew Freeman Cambridge, UK 1990 Erwin Wagner Vienna, AT 2002 Amanda Fisher London, UK 1991 Patrick Stragier Paris, FR 2003 Anthony Hyman Dresden, DE 1992 Carl-Henrik Heldin Uppsala, SE 2004 María Blasco Madrid, ES 1993 Jim Smith London, UK 2005 Dario Alessi Dundee, UK 1994 Paolo Sassone-Corsi Strasbourg, FR 2006 Frank Uhlmann London, UK 1995 Richard Treisman London, UK 2007 Jan Löwe Cambridge, UK 1996 Enrico Coen Norwich, UK 2008 James Briscoe London, UK 1997 Dirk Görlich Heidelberg, DE 2009 Olivier Voinnet Strasbourg, FR 1998 Adriano Aguzzi Zurich, CH

www.embo.org/aboutembo/embo-gold-medal.html | [email protected] ➔ 43 EMBO | plenary lectures

Anne-Marie Glynn Every year, EMBO sponsors plenary lectures by EMBO Members at major international scien- Manager tifi c meetings. Plenary lectures raise awareness of EMBO activities, support EMBO Members in their collaborations with scientists from associated fi elds and promote European science Anne Seller worldwide. In 2009, EMBO sponsored 31 plenary lectures, 21 of these within EMBC Member Administrator States.

Lynne Turnbull EMBO Plenary Lectures 2009: Geographical distribution Administrator In Europe (21 lectures) Outside Europe (10 lectures) Online HelpDesk Belgium (1) Argentina (1) Croatia (1) Australia (3) Czech Republic (2) Canada (1) France (2) China (1) Germany (3) Cuba (1) Greece (1) Morocco (1) Ireland (1) Singapore (1) Italy (4) United States of America (1)

Norway (1) ➔ For a list of all 2009 plenary lectures, Spain (1) see pages 136 –137 Sweden (1) Switzerland (1) United Kingdom (2)

➔ 44 www.embo.org/programmes/courses-workshops/plenary-lectures.html | [email protected] EMBO | global exchange

The EMBO Global Exchange Programme was established in October 2009 and builds upon the Anne-Marie Glynn EMBO mission to recognize leading researchers, disseminate scientifi c information and foster Manager talented scientists, offering new forums to establish long-lasting cooperation worldwide.

In the initial phase, life scientists in India, excellence. Scientists can apply to jointly or- Gerlind Wallon China, Taiwan and Africa can participate in ganize of Global Exchange Lecture Courses Deputy Director the programme. Likewise, European research- and Lecture Series held in the participating ers can benefi t from more intense exchange countries or in Europe. with scientists in these emerging centres of Anne Seller Administrator

Lynne Turnbull Administrator Online HelpDesk

➔ For a list of 2010 Global Exchange lecture courses and lecture series, see page 158

www.embo.org/programmes/global-exchange.html | [email protected] ➔ 45 EMBO | information support and resources

Volker Wiersdorff EMBO Information Support and Resources ensures the reliability, quality and security of Head EMBO data and computing resources. The team develops software tools to improve the effi ciency of in-house workfl ows and facilitate information exchange between EMBO and its communities. Kevin Fleming Web & Database Developer ▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS ■ Support for desktop computing: ➔ EMBO membership elections standardization of hardware and software Ballot documents and supplementary online information on candidates confi gurations; staff training ➔ ■ Administration of internal fi le and EMBO General Assembly First online ballot on revision of EMBO Statutes database servers ➔ ■ XML production process for the 2009 EMBO Administration of EMBO web servers Membership List and Pocket Guide ■ Continued development of online 1,356 Members presented by name, scientifi c area application systems and information and country resources ➔ EMBO Central: an integrated application and ■ administration resource Provision of tools and data resources for Rollout of core system and subsystems for the retrieval and statistical analysis of data Long-Term Fellowships, Membership Elections, collected through EMBO activities and Membership Administration

➔ 46 www.embo.org | [email protected] EMBO | public relations & communications

EMBO Public Relations & Communications promotes the organization and its role in the Suzanne Beveridge European research community and provides information to scientists, decision makers, the Head media and the general public. A number of targeted activities support an active communica- tion channel between EMBO and its networks of members, young investigators and fellows. Martin Cairns ▼ AT A GLANCE ▼ 2009 HIGHLIGHTS Conference Offi cer ■ Regular contact with the EMBO ➔ Launch of redesigned EMBO website community, keeping scientists informed of – Homepage access to user-specifi c information; clear navigation to programme criteria; integration developments at EMBO Laura Cortesi of redesigned websites for EMBO Life Sciences Web Communications Administrator ■ Interaction with the scientifi c community Mobility Portal and EMBO fellowsnet at major European meetings & career events – Monthly visits double to reach 75,000 by Decem- ber, with repeat visits increasing, driven by new ■ Communication with the media, design and increased inbound online marketing Yvonne Kaul providing a trusted source of information on ➔ Promotion of programmes & activities Communications Offi cer EMBO activities and the life sciences New fl yers to promote EMBO Programmes ■ Up-to-date information on EMBO ➔ EMBOencounters activities, the EMBO community and the Introduction of cover articles promoting topics of Sandra Krahl life sciences through the EMBO website 10th EMBO | EMBL Science & Society Conference; Graphic Designer three issues published; supplement Conference ■ Support of web-based interaction and Collage highlighted The EMBO Meeting 2009 communication systems for EMBO ➔ Media coverage in national & international news programmes, EMBO Life Sciences Mobility Uta Mackensen & life science media Senior Graphic Designer Portal (see page 29), and EMBO fellowsNet Nature, Science, Science Careers, The Scientist, Lab (see page 24) Times, Le Figaro, Deutschlandfunk (German Public Radio) & other key publications ■ EMBOencounters newsletter, featuring the latest news from EMBO and its scientifi c ➔ Conference presence Sabine Rehberger-Schneider Web Communications Offi cer networks – 34th FEBS Congress 4–9 July | Prague | Czech Republic ■ Logistics, promotion and public relations – World Conference of Science Journalists for The EMBO Meeting (see pages 40 – 41) 30 June – 4 July | London | United Kingdom ■ Information and publicity material on – The Source Event 4 December | Berlin | Germany EMBO activities DEPARTURE ■ Print and online advertising in major Patricia Codyre scientifi c publications e.g. Nature, Science Web Communications Offi cer

www.embo.org/about_embo/news.html | [email protected] ➔ 47 ELSF | European Life Sciences Forum ISE | Initiative for Science in Europe

Luc Van Dyck The European Life Sciences Forum (ELSF) is a platform of organizations representing the life Executive Coordinator sciences in Europe. Founded by EMBO, the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), EMBL and the European Life Scientist Organisation (ELSO), ELSF aims to increase the impact of the research community in public and policy-making arenas. ELSF is also a founding member of the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) and coordinator of its activities.

▼ AT A GLANCE ■ Analyses current issues in European ■ Coordinates the input of the wider science policy, coordinating campaigns on scientifi c community on crucial issues of key topics such as research infrastructures European science policy via ISE and career development ■ Develops and maintains strong ■ Monitors the activities of the European relationships with the European Commission Research Council (ERC), structuring input and Parliament from the scientifi c community

➔ 48 www.elsf.org | [email protected] | www.initiative-science-europe.org

EMBO | EMBC appendix

EMBC delegates and advisers pages 52 – 58

EMBC scale of contributions page 59

EMBO council & committees 2009 pages 60 – 61

EMBO council & committees 2010 pages 62 – 63

EMBO members elected in 2009 pages 64 – 77

advisory editorial boards & senior editors 2009 pages 78 – 81

long-term fellowship awards 2009 pages 82 – 99

long-term fellowships: statistics and geographical distribution pages 100 –103

short-term fellowship awards 2009 pages 104 –123

short-term fellowships: statistics and geographical distribution pages 124 –127

young investigators 2009 page 128

installation grantees 2009 page 129

young investigators 2000 – 2008 pages 130 –131

young investigators: statistics pages 132 –133

young investigator lectures 2009 pages 134 –135

plenary lectures 2009 pages 136 –137

courses | workshops | conference series | symposia 2009 pages 138 –142

laboratory management courses 2009 page 143

participation of women in EMBO activities: statistics pages 144 –149

EMBO staff pages 150 –151

➔ 51 EMBC | delegates and advisers (as of May 2010)

AUSTRIA Prof. Annemarie Frischauf Dept. of Molecular Biology Hellbrunnerstrasse 34 T +43 662 8044 5779 [email protected] University of Salzburg 5020 Salzburg F +43 662 8044 144

Mag. Elisabeth Tischelmayer Federal Ministry for Rosengasse 2-6 T +43 1 53120 7120 [email protected] Science and Research 1014 Vienna F +43 1 53120 81 7120 Referat VI/1a

BELGIUM Dr Véronique Feys Belgian Federal Science 8 rue de la Science T +32 2 2383486 [email protected] Policy Offi ce 1000 Brussels F +32 2 2305912

Prof. Marc van Montagu IPBO Ghent University K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35 T +32 9 264 87 27 [email protected] 9000 Ghent F +32 9 264 87 95

CROATIA Dr Lovorka Barac´ Lauc The National Foundation for Ilica 24 T +385 51 228 692 [email protected] Science, Higher Education 10000 Zagreb F +385 51 271 085 and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia

Prof. Krešimir Pavelic´ Division of Molecular Bijenicka c. 54 T +385 1 468 0094 [email protected] EMBC Secretary General Medicine, Head POB 180 F +385 1 456 1010 Rudjer Boskovic Institute 10002 Zagreb

CZECH REPUBLIC Ms Jana Bystrická Ministry of Education, Karmelitska 7 T +420 257 139 24 [email protected] Youth and Sports 118 12 Prague F +420 257 193 790 Dept. of International Cooperation

Dr Zdena Palková Dept. of Vinicná 5 T +420 2 2195 1721 [email protected] Genetics and Microbiology 12844 Prague 2 F +420 2 2195 1729 Charles University

DENMARK Ms Edel Bregnbaek Danish Agency for Bredgade 40 T +45 35 44 62 32 bregn@fi .dk Science, Technology 1260 Copenhagen K F +45 33 32 35 01 & Innovation

Prof. Jorgen Kjems University of Aarhus C.F. Mollers Alle T +45 89 42 26 16 [email protected] Dept. of Molecular Biology 8000 Aarhus C iNANO

➔ 52 http://embc.embo.org | [email protected] EMBC | delegates and advisers (as of May 2010)

ESTONIA Prof. Toivo Maimets Dept. of Cell Biology Riia 23b-135 T +372 737 5028 [email protected] EMBC President 2010 Institute of Molecular 51010 Tartu F +372 742 0286 and Cell Biology University of Tartu

Mr Toivo Räim Ministry of Tõnismägi 11 T +372 735 0125 [email protected] Education and Research 15192 Tallinn F +372 628 1390 Tallinn Offi ce

FINLAND Prof. Kalervo Hiltunen Dept. of Biochemistry Linnanmaa, Door H4 T +358 8 553 1151 kalervo.hiltunen@oulu.fi University of Oulu 90570 Oulu F +358 8 553 1141

Dr Riitta Mustonen Vilhonvuorenkatu 6 T +358 9 7748 8220 riitta.mustonen@aka.fi 00501 Helsinki F +358-9-7748 8379

Prof. Eero Vuorio Chancellor 20014 University T +358 2 333 6100 eero.vuorio@utu.fi University of Turku of Turku F +358 2 333 5011 Kanslerinvirasto

FRANCE Prof. Frédéric Dardel Faculty of Pharmacy 4 avenue de l’Observatoire T +33 1 53 73 15 76 [email protected] University Paris Descartes 75006 Paris F +33 1 53 73 99 25

Dr Julien Galabru Ministry of Foreign 27 rue de la Convention T +33 1 43 17 82 85 [email protected] & European Affairs CS 91533 F +33 1 43 17 89 37 DGM/ATT/ENT 75732 Paris Cedex 15

GERMANY Ms Paula Heppner Federal Ministry of Education Heinemannstr. 2 T +49 1888 57 3681 [email protected] and Research (BMBF) 53175 Bonn F +49 1888 57 83681 Referat 613

Ms Oda Keppler Federal Ministry of Education Heinemannstr. 2 T +49 228 99 57 2833 [email protected] and Research (BMBF) 53175 Bonn F +49 228 99 57 2833 Referat 613

Prof. Reinhard Lührmann Max Planck Institute for Am Faßberg 11 T +49 551 201 1405 reinhard.luehrmann Biophysical Chemistry 37070 Göttingen F +49 551 201 1197 @mpi-bpc.mpg.de Cellular Biochemistry

http://embc.embo.org | [email protected] ➔ 53 EMBC | delegates and advisers (as of May 2010)

GREECE Prof. Theodore Fotsis Director, Laboratory of 45110 Ioannina T +30 2651 0 97560 [email protected] Biological Chemistry F +30 2651 0 97868 Medical School University of Ioannina

Prof. Charalambos Savakis Faculty of Medicine Vassilika Vouton T +30 2810 391114, [email protected] University of Crete and 71110 Heraklion, T +30 2810 391088 IMBB - FORTH Crete F +30 2810 391950

HUNGARY Ms Katalin Hajos Director Nador utca 7 T +36 1 411 6158 khajos@offi ce.mta.hu Hungarian Academy 1051 Budapest F +36 1 411 6160 of Sciences (MTA) Offi ce for International Cooperation

Prof. László Patthy Institute of Enzymology Karolina út 29 T +36 1 209 3537 [email protected] Biological Research Centre 1113 Budapest F +36 1 466 5465

ICELAND Dr Eiríkur Steingrímsson Biochemistry and Vatnsmyrarvegur 16 T +354 525 4270 [email protected] Molecular Biology 101 Reykjavík F +354 525 4886 Faculty of Medicine University of Iceland

IRELAND Mr Fergal Cullen Offi ce of Science, 23 Kildare Street T +353 1 631 2477 [email protected] Technology and Innovation Dublin 2 F +353 1 631 28 18 Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Dr Graham Love Science Foundation Ireland Wilton Park House T +353 1 607 3284 graham.love@sfi .ie Wilton Place F +353 1 607 3163 Dublin 2

Dr Stephen Simpson Science Foundation Ireland Wilton Park House T +353 1 607 3212 stephen.simpson@sfi .ie Wilton Place F +353 1 607 3163 Dublin 2

➔ 54 http://embc.embo.org | [email protected] EMBC | delegates and advisers (as of May 2010)

ISRAEL Prof. Joel Sussman Dept. of Structural Biology 76100 Rehovot T +972 8 9344531 [email protected] The Israel Structural F +972 8 9346312 Proteomics Center Weizmann Institute of Science

Dr Mahmoud Taya Director, Haqirya Hamizrahit, T +972 2 5411126 [email protected] Biotechnology Research Bldg 3 F +972 2 5322124 Ministry of Science and P.O. Box 49100 Technology 91490 Jerusalem

ITALY Dr Antonino Cianca Ministry of Via XX Settembre no 97 T +39 06 476 13512 [email protected] Economy and Treasury 00187 Rome F +39 06 476 16933 The State General Accounting Department Offi ce X

Prof. Glauco Tocchini-Valentini Institute of Cell Biology Campus T +39 06 906 0317 [email protected] CNR-IBC A. Buzzati-Traverso F +39 06 900 91261 Via E. Ramarini 32 00015 Monterotondo Scalo (RM)

LUXEMBOURG Ms Josiane Entringer Ministry of Culture, 20, Montée de la Petrusse T +352 247 85217 [email protected] Higher Education and 2912 Luxembourg F +352 460 927 Research

THE NETHERLANDS Dr Jeannette Ridder-Numan Ministry of Education, Rijnstraat 50 T +31 70 412 4920 [email protected] Culture and Science 2515 XP Den Haag F +31 70 412 2525 IPC 4100

Prof. Peter J. Weisbeek University of Utrecht Padualaan 8 T +31 30 253 3580 [email protected] EMBC President 2009 Dept. of Molecular Genetics 3584 CH Utrecht F +31 30 251 3655

http://embc.embo.org | [email protected] ➔ 55 EMBC | delegates and advisers (as of May 2010)

NORWAY Dr Kjersti Sletholt Research Council of Norway Stensberggata 26 T +47 22 03 71 70 [email protected] 0131 Oslo F +47 22 03 72 50

Prof. Anders Sundan Dept. of Cancer Research Olav Kyrres gt. 9 T +47 73 598 667 [email protected] & Molecular Medicine 7489 Trondheim F +47 73 598 801 Faculty of Medicine Norwegian University of Science & Technology

POLAND Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek Dept. of Molecular and Pasteura 3 T +48-22-6503001 [email protected] Cellular Neurobiology 02-093 Warsaw F +48-22-8225342 Nencki Institute

Ms Maria Klimkiewicz Ministry of Science and ul. Wspolna 1/3 T +48 22 628 32 89 [email protected] Higher Education 00-529 Warsaw 53 F +48 22 628 35 34 Dept. of International Cooperation

PORTUGAL Ms Maria Jose Almeida Foundation for Science and Av. D. Carlos I, 126-7° T +351 21 391 1529 [email protected] Technology 1249-074 Lisbon F +351 21 395 72 84

Prof. Cláudio Sunkel Institute for Molecular and Rua do Campo Alegre 823 T +351 22 607 49 00 [email protected] Cell Biology 4150-180 Porto F +351 22 609 91 57 University of Porto

SLOVAK REPUBLIC Ms Pavlína Emrichová Ministry of Education Stromová 1 T +421 2 69252237 [email protected] Division of Science and 813 30 Bratislava F +421 2 69252203 Technology Dept. of International Cooperation

Dr Silvia Pastoreková Institute of Virology Dubravska cesta 9 T +421 2 59302404 [email protected] Slovak Academy of Sciences 845 05 Bratislava F +421 2 54774284

Prof. Jan Turna Slovak Centre of Lamacska cesta 8/A T +421 2 69253 102 [email protected] Scientifi c and Technical 811 04 Bratislava Information

➔ 56 http://embc.embo.org | [email protected] EMBC | delegates and advisers (as of May 2010)

SLOVENIA Prof. Boris Turk Dept. of Biochemistry and Jamova 39 T +386 1 477 3772 [email protected] Molecular and Structural 1000 Ljubljana F +386 1 477 3984 Biology J. Stefan Institute

Dr. Marija Skerlj Ministry of Higher Education, Kotnikova 38 T +386 1 478 46 96 [email protected] Science and Technology 1000 Ljubljana F +386 1 478 4719 International Cooperation Offi ce

SPAIN Prof. M. Angela Nieto Head of Developmental Avda. Ramon y Cajal s/n T +34 96 5919243 [email protected] Neurobiology 03550 San Juan de F +34 96 5919561 Institute of Neurosciences Alicante CSIC-UMH

Mr Luis E. Ruiz López de Deputy General for C/ Albacete, 5, 7a planta T +34 91 603 83 41 [email protected] la Torre Ayllón International Large 28027 Madrid F +34 91 603 70 86 Facilities & Organizations Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Dr Benjamín Sanchez Gimeno Assistant to Deputy General for C/ Albacete, 5, 5a Planta T +34 91 603 70 44 [email protected] International Programmes 28027 Madrid F +34 91 603 70 99 & Organisms Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

SWEDEN Dr Brita Beije Swedish Research Council Klarabergsviadukten 82 T +46 8 546 44249 [email protected] Natural and Engineering 103 78 Stockholm F +46 8 546 44144 Sciences

Prof. Dick Heinegård Connective Tissue Biology BMC, C12 T +46 46 222 8571 [email protected] Lund University 221 84 Lund F +46 46 2113417

http://embc.embo.org | [email protected] ➔ 57 EMBC | delegates and advisers (as of May 2010)

SWITZERLAND Dr Isabella Beretta State Secretariat for Education Hallwylstrasse 4 T +41 31 322 84 17 [email protected] and Research 3003 Bern F +41 31 322 78 54 Multilateral Research Cooperation

Prof. Rolf Zeller Developmental Genetics Mattenstrasse 28 T +41 61 267 27 25/ [email protected] DKBW Centre for Biomedicine 4058 Basel +41 61 695 30 33 University of Basel, Medical F +41 61 267 39 59/ School +41 61 695 30 32

TURKEY Prof. Ahmet Ademog˘lu Biomedical Engineering Bebek T +90 212 259 64 18 [email protected] Institute 34342 Istanbul F +90 212 257 50 30 Bogazici University

UNITED KINGDOM Dr Alf Game Biotechnology and North Star Avenue T +44 1793 414651 [email protected] Biological Sciences Polaris House F +44 1793 413203 Research Council Swindon SN2 1UH

Dr Mark Palmer Corporate Affairs Group 20 Park Crescent T +44 20 7670 5213 mark.palmer@headoffi ce.mrc.ac.uk Medical Research Council London W1B 1AL F +44 20 7436 2665 (MRC)

Mr Nigel Watts MRC Head Offi ce 20 Park Crescent T +44 20 7670 5292 nigel.watts@headoffi ce.mrc.ac.uk London W1B 1AL F +44 20 758 06198

Mr Tim Willis Biotechnology and North Star Avenue T +44 1793 414651 [email protected] Biological Sciences Polaris House F +44 1793 413203 Research Council Swindon SN2 1UH

➔ 58 http://embc.embo.org | [email protected] EMBC | scale of contributions

Contributions from EMBC Member States 2007–2009 2010 Member State % %

Austria 2.0697 1.9968 * Luxembourg and the Slovak Republic Belgium 2.5121 2.4887 joined the EMBC in 2007 Croatia 0.2604 0.2522 Czech Republic 0.6742 0.7364 Denmark 1.5666 1.6071 Estonia 0.0479 0.0956 Finland 1.2364 1.2761 France 14.9765 14.7473 Germany 19.7377 19.1223 Greece 1.5218 1.6906 Hungary 0.6953 0.6245 Iceland 0.0836 0.0917 Ireland 1.0787 1.1536 Israel 1.0005 0.9001 Italy 12.0193 11.6811 Luxembourg* 0.1610 Netherlands 4.3041 4.3286 Norway 1.8111 2.0221 Poland 1.8467 1.9331 Portugal 1.1105 1.1102 Slovak Republic* 0.1920 Slovenia 0.2176 0.2235 Spain 7.1822 7.3128 Sweden 2.4942 2.4917 Switzerland 2.8899 2.8105 Turkey 2.3655 2.8295 United Kingdom 16.2975 16.1207 Total 100 100

[email protected] ➔ 59 EMBO | council 2009

EMBO council members 2009

elected term(s) of offi ce name country EMBO Council members are 2009 – 2011 Andrea Ballabio IT – Naples elected for a three-year term of 2005 – 2007, 2008 – 2010 Anton Berns (Vice-Chair) NL – Amsterdam offi ce and may be re-elected for one additional term of offi ce. 2008 – 2010 María Blasco ES – Madrid 2009 – 2011 Patrick Charnay FR – Paris 2008 – 2010 Carl-Henrik Heldin SE – Uppsala 2007 – 2009 Ari Helenius CH – Zurich 2004 – 2006, 2007 – 2009 Tim Hunt (Chair) UK – London 2009 – 2011 Maria Leptin DE – Cologne 2005 – 2007, 2008 – 2010 Daniel Louvard FR – Paris 2008 – 2010 Ferenc Nagy HU – Szeged 2007 – 2009 Daniela Rhodes UK – Cambridge 2006 – 2008, 2009 – 2011 Benny Shilo IL – Rehovot 2006 – 2008, 2009 – 2011 David Shore CH – Geneva 2004 – 2006, 2007 – 2009 Kai Simons DE – Dresden 2004 – 2006, 2007 – 2009 Gunnar von Heijne SE – Stockholm

ex offi cio council member Hermann Bujard EMBO Director Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard EMBO Secretary General

observers Krešimir Pavelic´ EMBC Secretary General Peter Weisbeek EMBC President Iain Mattaj EMBL Director General Paul Nurse Chair, EMBL SAC Ueli Aebi Chair, EMBO Membership Committee Pico Caroni Chair, EMBO Course Committee Michael Bevan Chair, EMBO Young Investigator Committee Anthony Pugsley Chair, EMBO Fellowship Committee Wendy Bickmore Chair, EMBO Science & Society Committee Helen Saibil Chair, EMBO Publications Committee

➔ 60 [email protected] EMBO | committees 2009

EMBO committee members 2009 course committee membership committee science & society committee auditors (EMBO Members) 2008 Karen Avraham 2005 Ueli Aebi (Chair) 2005 Wendy Bickmore (Chair) Diter von Wettstein 2006 Yehudit Bergman 2009 Geneviève Almouzni 2007 Eric Karsenti Sean Munro 2003 Pico Caroni (Chair) 2009 Peer Bork 2008 Valerio Orlando 2008 William Earnshaw 2008 József Burgyán 2006 Ðurd¯ica Ugarkovic´ internal auditor (EMBL) 2007 Isabel Guerrero 2009 Gerhard Christofori Berthold Koch 2008 Gerd Jürgens 2009 Elena Conti young investigator committee 2008 Christoph Müller 2009 Anne Ephrussi 2005 Michael Bevan (Chair) external auditor Offi ce of the Auditor General 2005 Anne Ridley 2006 Brigitte Gicquel 2009 Andrea Brand of Norway 2005 Philippe Sansonetti 2009 Michel Goedert 2009 Michael Brunner Per Anders Engeseth (responsible) 2009 Frank Uhlmann 2009 Cayetano Gonzalez 2009 Maria De Sousa 2009 Jules Hoffmann 2007 Manuel Espinosa fellowship committee 2009 Reinhard Jahn 2007 Edith Heard 2008 József Burgyán 2006 George Kollias 2007 Mehmet Öztürk 2008 Manuel Espinosa 2009 Jane Langdale 2008 Noel Lowndes 2006 Marco Foiani 2009 David Sherratt 2008 Angel Nebreda 2008 Caroline Hill 2009 Austin Smith 2008 Joel Sussman 2007 Roland Kanaar 2008 Harald Stenmark 2008 Dimitris Kioussis 2007 Juan Valcárcel The EMBO Meeting committee 2009 Rüdiger Klein 2009 Michael Way 2009 Adriano Aguzzi 2005 Jürgen Knoblich 2009 Rolf Zinkernagel 2008 Hermann Bujard 2008 Sergio Moreno 2008 Pico Caroni 2004 Anthony Pugsley (Chair) publications committee 2009 Ueli Grossniklaus 2008 Claude-Agnès Reynaud 2007 Ruedi Aebersold 2008 Tim Hunt 2009 Ben Scheres 2009 Dario Alessi 2009 Howy Jacobs 2006 Yosef Shiloh 2005 Gianni Cesareni 2009 Svante Pääbo 2006 Irma Thesleff 2008 Hans Clevers 2008 Martin Raff 2008 Anna Tramontano 2009 Ivan Ðikic´ 2008 Anne Ridley 2008 Alfonso Valencia 2009 Nancy Hynes 2008 Dale Wigley 2005 Angela Nieto 2008 David Wilkinson 2006 Stephen Oliver 2007 Helen Saibil (Chair)

[email protected] ➔ 61 EMBO | council 2010

EMBO council members 2010

elected term(s) of offi ce name country EMBO Council members are 2009 – 2011 Andrea Ballabio IT – Naples elected for a three-year term of 2008 – 2010 María Blasco ES – Madrid offi ce and may be re-elected for one additional term of offi ce. 2009 – 2011 Patrick Charnay FR – Paris 2010 – 2012 Pascale Cossart FR – Paris 2008 – 2010 Carl-Henrik Heldin (Chair) SE – Uppsala 2007 – 2009, 2010 – 2012 Ari Helenius CH – Zurich 2010 – 2012 Leszek Kaczmarek PL – Warsaw 2005 – 2007, 2008 – 2010 Daniel Louvard FR – Paris 2008 – 2010 Ferenc Nagy HU – Szeged 2007 – 2009, 2010 – 2012 Daniela Rhodes UK – Cambridge 2006 – 2008, 2009 – 2011 Benny Shilo IL – Rehovot 2006 – 2008, 2009 – 2011 David Shore (Vice-Chair) CH – Geneva 2010 – 2011 Richard Treisman UK – London 2010 – 2012 Detlef Weigel DE – Tübingen 2010 Veronica van Heyningen UK – Edinburgh

ex offi cio council members Maria Leptin EMBO Director Anton Berns EMBO Secretary General

observers Toivo Maimets EMBC President Krešimir Pavelic´ EMBC Secretary General Iain Mattaj EMBL Director General David Sherratt Chair, EMBO Membership Committee Michael Bevan Chair, EMBO Young Investigator Committee Wendy Bickmore Chair, EMBO Science & Society Committee William Earnshaw Chair, EMBO Course Committee Jürgen Knoblich Chair, EMBO Fellowship Committee Benny Shilo Chair, EMBO Global Exchange Committee Roberto Di Lauro Chair, EMBL SAC

➔ 62 www.embo.org/embo-members/embo-council.html | [email protected] EMBO | committees 2010

EMBO committee members & auditors 2010 course committee fellowship committee membership committee young investigator committee 2010 Siv Andersson 2010 Cecilia Maria Arraiano 2009 Geneviève Almouzni 2005 Michael Bevan (Chair) 2010 Silvia Arber 2010 Yinon Ben-Neriah 2009 Peer Bork 2009 Andrea Brand 2008 Karen Avraham 2008 József Burgyán 2008 József Burgyán 2009 Michael Brunner 2010 Jean Beggs 2008 Manuel Espinosa 2009 Gerhard Christofori 2009 Maria De Sousa 2010 Ana Cumano 2006 Marco Foiani 2009 Anne Ephrussi 2007 Manuel Espinosa 2009 Maria Antonietta De Matteis 2008 Caroline Hill 2009 Michel Goedert 2007 Edith Heard 2008 William Earnshaw (Chair) 2007 Roland Kanaar 2009 Cayetano Gonzalez 2008 Noel Lowndes 2007 Isabel Guerrero 2008 Dimitris Kioussis 2009 Jules A. Hoffmann 2008 Angel Nebreda 2008 Gerd Jürgens 2009 Rüdiger Klein 2009 Reinhard Jahn 2007 Mehmet Öztürk 2008 Christoph Müller 2005 Jürgen Knoblich (Chair) 2010 Hans-Dieter Klenk 2008 Joel Sussman 2009 Frank Uhlmann 2008 Sergio Moreno 2009 Jane Langdale 2008 Claude-Agnès Reynaud 2010 Poul Nissen The EMBO Meeting committee global exchange committee 2009 Ben Scheres 2010 Rino Rappuoli 2009 Adriano Aguzzi 2010 Margaret Buckingham 2009 Kirsten Skarstad 2009 David Sherratt (Chair) 2010 William Earnshaw 2010 Hermann Bujard 2006 Irma Thesleff 2009 Austin Smith 2009 Ueli Grossniklaus 2010 Stewart Cole 2008 Anna Tramontano 2008 Harald Stenmark 2010 Maria Leptin (Chair) 2010 Bertrand Jordan 2008 Alfonso Valencia 2007 Juan Valcárcel 2010 Vivek Malhotra 2010 Daniel Louvard 2008 Dale Wigley 2009 Michael Way 2008 Martin Raff 2010 Fulvio Mavilio 2008 David Wilkinson 2009 Rolf Zinkernagel 2008 Anne Ridley 2010 Félix Rey 2009 Svante Pääbo 2010 Benny Shilo (Chair) science & society committee 2010 Inder Verma 2005 Wendy Bickmore (Chair) internal auditor (EMBL) 2010 Lothar Willmitzer 2007 Eric Karsenti Berthold Koch 2008 Valerio Orlando publications advisory board (as of April 2010) external auditor The EMBO Publications Advisory Board replaces the former publications committee. Offi ce of the Auditor General of Norway 2009 Ivan Ðikic´ 2010 Linda Miller Per Anders Engeseth (responsible) 2010 Ernst Hafen 2005 Angela Nieto 2010 Reinhard Jahn 2007 Helen Saibil EMBO audit 2010 Richard Losick 2010 Alan Schafer KPMG 2010 Iain Mattaj 2010 Tadatsugu Taniguchi

www.embo.org/embo-members/embo-committees.html | [email protected] ➔ 63 EMBO | members elected in 2009

Frédéric Allain Institut for Molecular Biology ➞ NMR structure and Biophysics ➞ protein-RNA complexes ETH Zurich ➞ splicing regulation Switzerland ➞ RNA biology ➞ RNA editing

Gil Ast Dept. of Human ➞ alternative splicing Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry ➞ genomics & transcriptomics Tel-Aviv University ➞ molecular evolution Sackler School of Medicine ➞ nucleosome & epigenetics Israel ➞ neurodegenerative diseases associated with mRNA splicing

Francis Barr Cancer Research Centre ➞ membrane traffic University of Liverpool ➞ cytokinesis United Kingdom ➞ GTPases ➞ protein kinases ➞ phosphatases

Yann Barrandon Laboratory of Stem Cell Dynamics ➞ epithelial stem cell & Experimental Surgery ➞ niche Hospital Center of the ➞ reprogramming Vaudois University ➞ plasticity Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ➞ hair follicle Lausanne, Switzerland

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi Unit of Regulation of ➞ HIV Retroviral Infections ➞ SIV Pasteur Institute ➞ models of protection Paris, France ➞ immune correlates ➞ innate and adaptative immunity

➔ 64 www.embo.org/documents/press09/new_members09.pdf EMBO | members elected in 2009

Facundo Batista Lymphocyte Interaction Laboratory ➞ imaging Cancer Research UK ➞ B lymphocytes London Research Institute ➞ signalling United Kingdom ➞ activation ➞ presentation

Simon Boulton Cancer Research UK ➞ DNA repair London Research Institute ➞ recombination Clare Hall Laboratories ➞ checkpoints South Mimms, Herts, United Kingdom ➞ genome stability

Søren Brunak Center for Biological Sequence Analysis ➞ bioinformatics Dept. of Systems Biology ➞ systems biology Technical University of Denmark ➞ medical informatics Lyngby, Denmark ➞ data integration ➞ disease etiology

Julia P. Cooper Telomere Biology Laboratory ➞ telomeres Cancer Research UK ➞ DNA damage response London Research Institute ➞ fission yeast United Kingdom ➞ meiosis ➞ chromatin & nuclear organization

Patrick Cramer Gene Center ➞ gene transcription Dept. of Biochemistry ➞ RNA polymerase Ludwig Maximilians University Munich ➞ chromatin Germany ➞ nuclear processes ➞ yeast

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Geneviève de Saint Basile Necker Hospital for Sick Children ➞ cytotoxic activity Paris, France ➞ exocytosis ➞ inherited immune disorder ➞ vesicle trafficking ➞ murine model of hemophagocytic syndrome

Liam Dolan Dept. of Plant Sciences ➞ cell differentiation University of Oxford ➞ evolution of development United Kingdom ➞ plants ➞ root hairs ➞ growth

Richard Durbin Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ➞ genome Cambridge, United Kingdom ➞ bioinformatics ➞ sequence evolution ➞ genetic association ➞ human genetics

Martin Embley Institute for Cell and ➞ evolution Molecular Biosciences ➞ genomes Newcastle University ➞ mitochondria Newcastle upon Tyne, ➞ mitosomes United Kingdom ➞ hydrogenosomes

Tariq Enver MRC Molecular Haematology Unit ➞ stem cells Weatherall Institute of ➞ leukaemia Molecular Medicine ➞ transcriptional regulation John Radcliffe Hospital, ➞ lineage commitment Oxford, United Kingdom ➞ systems biology

➔ 66 www.embo.org/documents/press09/new_members09.pdf EMBO | members elected in 2009

Elizabeth Fisher Dept. of Neurodegenerative Disease ➞ mouse University College London ➞ neurodegeneration Institute of Neurology ➞ molecular genetics United Kingdom ➞ amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ➞ Down syndrome

Jonathan Flint Wellcome Trust Centre for ➞ behavior Human Genetics ➞ genetics University of Oxford ➞ mouse United Kingdom ➞ QTL ➞ mapping

Margaret Frame Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre ➞ cancer biology Western General Hospital ➞ disease modelling United Kingdom ➞ cell adhesions ➞ signalling ➞ imaging

Marcos González-Gaitán Dept. of Biochemistry ➞ Drosophila University of Geneva ➞ zebrafish Switzerland ➞ morphogens ➞ biophysics ➞ endocytosis

Iain Hagan Paterson Institute for ➞ S. pombe Cancer Research ➞ mitotic spindle University of Manchester ➞ centrosome United Kingdom ➞ mitotic commitment ➞ microtubule

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Nicholas P. Harberd Dept. of Plant Sciences ➞ DELLAs University of Oxford ➞ plant growth regulation United Kingdom ➞ land plant evolution ➞ environmental adaptation ➞ genome evolution

Bassem Hassan Dept. of Molecular and ➞ neurobiology Developmental Genetics ➞ development VIB and KU Leuven ➞ genetics School of Medicine ➞ Drosophila Leuven, Belgium

Ronald Hay Wellcome Trust Centre for ➞ SUMO Gene Regulation and Expression ➞ ubiquitin College of Life Sciences ➞ E3 ligase University of Dundee ➞ SUMO protease United Kingdom ➞ RNF4

Liisa Holm Institute of Biotechnology ➞ Dali University of Helsinki ➞ protein structure Finland ➞ evolution ➞ gene set enrichment analysis ➞ sequence alignment

Brigitte Kieffer Institute of Genetics and ➞ G protein-coupled receptors Molecular and Cellular Biology ➞ opiates (IGBMC) ➞ pain Illkirch, France ➞ addiction ➞ genes

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Thomas Lecuit Developmental Biology Institute ➞ adhesion of Marseille ➞ cytoskeleton University of the Mediterranean ➞ polarity France ➞ morphogenesis ➞ Drosophila

Ben Luisi Dept. of Biochemistry ➞ structure & function University of Cambridge ➞ macromolecular assemblies United Kingdom ➞ X-ray crystallography ➞ molecular biophysics ➞ RNA turnover & processing

Vivek Malhotra Center for Genomic Regulation ➞ protein sorting Barcelona, Spain ➞ membrane fission ➞ Golgi biogenesis

Richard Marais Section of Cell and Molecular Biology ➞ cell signalling Institute of Cancer Research ➞ BRAF & RAS Chester Beatty Laboratories ➞ melanoma London, United Kingdom ➞ transgenic models ➞ translational research

Oscar Marín Institute for Neurosciences Alicante ➞ cerebral cortex Spanish National Research Council ➞ interneuron University of Alicante ➞ migration Spain ➞ GABAergic circuits ➞ cell diversity

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Seamus J. Martin Smurfit Institute of Genetics ➞ apoptosis Trinity College ➞ caspases Dublin, Ireland ➞ cytotoxic T cells ➞ granzymes ➞ cell death

Jane Mellor Dept. of Biochemistry ➞ transcription University of Oxford ➞ chromatin United Kingdom ➞ signalling ➞ longevity ➞ Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Axel Meyer Laboratory for Zoology and ➞ gene duplication Evolutionary Biology ➞ genome evolution Dept. of Biology ➞ Hox genes University of Constance ➞ molecular evolution Germany ➞ origin of novel gene functions

Victor Muñoz Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas ➞ protein folding & aggregation CSIC ➞ protein structure prediction & design Madrid, Spain ➞ single molecule methods ➞ ultrafast kinetics ➞ nuclear magnetic resonance

Andrea Musacchio European Institute of Oncology ➞ chromosome segregation Dept. of Experimental Oncology ➞ kinetochore Milano, Italy ➞ centromere ➞ spindle assembly checkpoint ➞ X-ray crystallography

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James H. Naismith University of St Andrews ➞ membrane proteins Biomedical Sciences Research Complex ➞ enzyme mechanisms United Kingdom ➞ crystallography ➞ biological chemistry ➞ carbohydrates

Anne O’Garra Division of Immunoregulation ➞ cytokines National Institute for ➞ immune regulation Medical Research ➞ pathogens London, United Kingdom ➞ PAMPs

Stephen O’Rahilly Institute of Metabolic Science ➞ obesity University of Cambridge ➞ diabetes Addenbrooke’s Hospital ➞ insulin resistance United Kingdom ➞ genetics ➞ endocrinology

Roger Patient MRC Molecular Haematology Unit ➞ transcription networks Weatherall Institute of ➞ embryonic signalling Molecular Medicine ➞ stem cells John Radcliffe Hospital ➞ Xenopus and zebrafish Oxford, United Kingdom ➞ blood & cardiovascular development

David Porteous Medical Genetics Section ➞ psychiatric genetics University of Edinburgh ➞ cystic fibrosis gene therapy Molecular Medicine Centre ➞ public health genetics United Kingdom

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Catherine Rabouille Dept. of Cell Biology ➞ Drosophila University Medical Center Utrecht ➞ secretory pathway & transport The Netherlands ➞ epithelial cell polarity ➞ RNA localisation ➞ electron microscopy

Minoo Rassoulzadegan Faculty of Sciences ➞ heredity Center of Biochemistry ➞ epigenetics University of Nice ➞ regulatory RNA France ➞ mouse ➞ sperm

Jean-Marc Reichhart Institute for ➞ innate immunity Molecular and Cell Biology ➞ Drosophila (IBMC) ➞ Toll receptor Strasbourg, France ➞ proteolytic activation ➞ host-pathogen interaction

William Schafer MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology ➞ C. elegans Cambridge, United Kingdom ➞ sensory transduction ➞ behaviour ➞ neural circuits ➞ nociception

Dirk Schübeler Friedrich Miescher Institute ➞ chromatin Basel, Switzerland ➞ DNA methylation ➞ DNA replication ➞ transcription ➞ epigenetics

➔ 72 www.embo.org/documents/press09/new_members09.pdf EMBO | members elected in 2009

Stephen Smerdon Division of Molecular Structure ➞ DNA damage National Institute for ➞ X-ray crystallography Medical Research ➞ signal transduction London, United Kingdom ➞ phosphorylation ➞ macromolecular assemblies

Christopher W.J. Smith Dept. of Biochemistry ➞ alternative splicing University of Cambridge ➞ pre-mRNA splicing United Kingdom ➞ RNA ➞ RNA binding proteins ➞ RNA processing ➞ nonsense mediated decay

Anne Spang Focal Area Growth & Development ➞ intracellular transport Biozentrum ➞ polarity establishment & maintenance University of Basel ➞ small G proteins Switzerland ➞ protein & mRNA transport ➞ membrane dynamics

Ernst H.K. Stelzer Cell Biology and Biophysics ➞ fluorescence microscopy European Molecular ➞ three-dimensional cell biology Biology Laboratory ➞ developmental biology Heidelberg, Germany ➞ organotypic tissues ➞ organ development

Michael Stratton Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ➞ cancer Cambridge, United Kingdom ➞ genomics ➞ genetics ➞ sequencing ➞ mutation

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Nektarios Tavernarakis IMBB – FORTH ➞ ageing Heraklion, Crete, Greece ➞ cell death ➞ cell metabolism ➞ neurodegeneration ➞ sensory transduction & integration

Dan S. Tawfik Dept. of Biological Chemistry ➞ molecular evolution Weizmann Institute of Science ➞ enzymology Rehovot, Israel ➞ protein engineering ➞ in vitro evolution ➞ structural biology

Didier Trono School of Life Sciences ➞ KRAB-ZFPs Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ➞ epigenetics Lausanne, Switzerland ➞ retroelements ➞ transcription ➞ physiology

Gisou van der Goot Global Health Institute ➞ toxins Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ➞ endocytosis Lausanne, Switzerland ➞ membrane organization ➞ protein folding ➞ anthrax

Laura van ’t Veer Division of Experimental Therapy ➞ hereditary breast cancer Netherlands Cancer Institute ➞ preventive & therapeutic interventions Amsterdam, Netherlands ➞ genetic risk factors ➞ prognostic & predictive factors in colorectal cancer

➔ 74 www.embo.org/documents/press09/new_members09.pdf EMBO | members elected in 2009

Pierre Vanderhaeghen Institute of ➞ cerebral cortex Interdisciplinary Research in ➞ axon guidance Human and Molecular Biology ➞ stem cells Free University of Brussels ➞ neuronal differentiation Belgium ➞ brain evolution

Dietmar Vestweber Max Planck Institute for ➞ vascular permeability Molecular Biomedicine ➞ leukocyte trafficking Münster, Germany ➞ endothelial cell contacts ➞ VE-cadherin ➞ cell adhesion

Andrew P. Waters Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre ➞ sexual development University of Glasgow ➞ malaria United Kingdom ➞ Plasmodium ➞ (posttranscriptional) regulation of gene expression

Robert J. White Beatson Institute for Cancer Research ➞ RNA polymerase III Glasgow, United Kingdom ➞ transcription ➞ cancer ➞ chromatin ➞ tRNA

Marat Yusupov Institute of Genetics and ➞ ribosome Molecular and Cellular Biology ➞ translation (IGBMC) ➞ tRNA Illkirch, France ➞ mRNA ➞ crystallography

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Bruce Beutler Dept. of Genetics ➞ innate immunity Associate Member The Scripps Research Institute ➞ signaling La Jolla, United States ➞ genetics ➞ mouse ➞ mutagenesis

Uta Francke Dept. of Genetics ➞ microdeletions Associate Member Stanford University ➞ neurogenetic disorders School of Medicine ➞ mouse models Palo Alto, United States ➞ snoRNA ➞ imprinting

Fred H. Gage Salk Institute for ➞ differentiation Associate Member Biological Studies ➞ learning & memory La Jolla, United States ➞ neuroplasticity ➞ neurogenesis ➞ ageing

➔ 76 www.embo.org/documents/press09/new_members09.pdf EMBO | associate members elected in 2009

Keiichi Namba Graduate School of ➞ bacterial flagella Associate Member Frontier Biosciences ➞ self-assembly Osaka University ➞ motor protein Japan ➞ electron cryomicroscopy ➞ X-ray diffraction

Andreas Strasser Walter and Eliza Hall Institute ➞ cell death Associate Member of Medical Research ➞ cancer Parkville, Victoria, Australia ➞ Bcl-2 protein family ➞ lymphocyte development ➞ autoimmunity

Masatoshi Takeichi RIKEN Center for ➞ cell adhesion Associate Member Developmental Biology ➞ cadherin Kobe, Japan ➞ catenin ➞ cytoskeleton ➞ morphogenesis

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The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports | advisory editorial board & senior editors 2009

A Adriano Aguzzi D Elisabetta Dejana J Richard J. Jackson Julie Ahringer Bauke W. Dijkstra Stephen P. Jackson Kari Alitalo Ivan Ðikic´ Reinhard Jahn Geneviève Almouzni Giulio F. Draetta Stefan Jentsch Frances M. Ashcroft E Klaus Eichmann Thomas J. Jentsch B Mariano Barbacid Jean-Marc Egly Josef Jirˇicˇný Yves-Alain Barde Anne Ephrussi K Regine Kahmann David Barford F Alain Fischer Roland Kanaar Jirˇí Bartek Richard A. Flavell Eric Karsenti David C. Baulcombe G Henrik Garoff Rolf Kemler Peter Becker Susan M. Gasser Wilhelm Krek Jean D. Beggs Ingrid Grummt Robb Krumlauf Anton J. Berns H Christian Haass Werner Kühlbrandt Michael J. Berridge Alan Hall L Michel Lazdunski Heinrich Betz Stephen C. Harrison M Bernard Malissen Wendy A. Bickmore F. Ulrich Hartl Christopher J. Marshall Joël Bockaert Ari H. Helenius Carlos Martínez-A. August Böck Kristian Helin Joan Massagué Johannes L. Bos Michael O. Hengartner Iain W. Mattaj Chris Bowler Regine Hengge Marjori A. Matzke Erik Boye Matthias W. Hentze Jacopo Meldolesi Bernd Bukau Nobutaka Hirokawa Edwin Milgrom Meinrad Busslinger Tim Hunt Dino Moras C Iain D. Campbell Tony Hunter Jorge Moscat Gennaro Ciliberto Nancy E. Hynes Sean Munro Christine E. Clayton I Philip W. Ingham N Michael S. Neuberger Hans Clevers Dirk Inzé Walter Neupert Pascale Cossart Elisa Izaurralde Paul Nurse Pietro V. De Camilli O Moshe Oren

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The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports | advisory editorial board & senior editors 2009 (cont.)

P Peter J. Parker Y Ada E. Yonath Tony Pawson Z Marino Zerial Hugh R.B. Pelham Maciej Z˙ylicz Nikolaus Pfanner Jonathon Pines senior advisors Olaf Pongs The EMBO Journal R Jean-David Rochaix David C. Baulcombe S Helen R. Saibil Ari H. Helenius Philippe J. Sansonetti Tim Hunt Bertrand Séraphin Tony Hunter David J. Sherratt Ben-Zion Shilo executive editor Roberto Sitia The EMBO Journal Daniel St. Johnston Pernille Rørth T David Tollervey László Tora senior editor Anna Tramontano EMBO reports Richard Treisman Frank Gannon** Bryan M. Turner Howy Jacobs* V Joël Vandekerckhove Gerrit van Meer ** left EMBO reports in 2009 W Detlef Weigel * joined EMBO reports in 2009 Stephen C. West Eric Westhof Dale B. Wigley Alfred Wittinghofer Dieter H. Wolf Hans Wolf-Watz Richard D. Wood

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Molecular Systems Biology | advisory editorial board & senior editors 2009

A Julie Ahringer senior editors Charles Auffray Molecular Systems Biology B Ewan Birney Ruedi Aebersold Thomas L. Blundell Peer Bork D Thomas Deisboeck George Church E Jan Ellenberg Leroy Hood Michael Elowitz Edison Liu F Alan R. Fersht Stan Fields G Mark Gerstein H Frank Holstege K Sung Hou Kim Hiroaki Kitano L Doron Lancet Andrew J. Link N Jeremy Nicholson O Stephen G. Oliver P Bernhard Palsson R Rama Ranganathan S Uwe Sauer Luis Serrano Lucy Shapiro Pam Silver Michael Snyder T Janet Thornton Masaru Tomita V Marc Vidal W Hans V. Westerhoff Lothar Willmitzer Y John Yates

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EMBO Molecular Medicine | advisory editorial board & senior editors 2009

A Adriano Aguzzi O Stephen O’Rahilly Kari Alitalo Eric N. Olson Stylianos Antonarakis Albert Osterhaus Karen B. Avraham P Leena Peltonen† B Andrea Ballabio Christine Petit Anton J. Berns R Peter J. Ratcliffe C Pico Caroni Gideon Rechavi Jean-Laurent Casanova Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli Kenneth R. Chien Nadia Rosenthal Hans Clevers S Yosef Shiloh D Elisabetta Dejana Gerald Shulman Martin Eilers Austin G. Smith Alain Fischer Bruce Spiegelman G Gerardo Gamba Giulio Superti-Furga Frank G. Grosveld U Axel Ullrich H Christian Haass V Veronica van Heyningen Carl-Henrik Heldin Inder M. Verma Doug Hilton W Simon Wain-Hobson Gokhan Hotamisligil Fiona Watt Nancy E. Hynes I Alain Israel senior editors K Cynthia Kenyon EMBO Molecular Medicine Jean-Pierre Kinet Dario Alessi Jonathan K. C. Knowles Giulio Cossu Andreas E. Kulozik Uta Francke M Christopher J. Marshall Fred Gage Joan Massagué Matthias Hentze Anthony P. Monaco Edison T. Liu Salvador Moncada Philippe Sansonetti N Bernd Nilius Bart de Strooper

www.embomolmed.org ➔ 81 EMBO | long-term fellowships 2009: awards

FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Austria Blake, Austrian Cancer Research UK, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Molecular dissection of Bmi1 and Fbw7 Sophia London Research Institute, Vienna, Austria function in neural stem cells and brain UK tumour formation Kurat, Austrian University of Toronto, Institute of Greasing the cell cycle: uncovering lipid- Christoph Franz Canada Molecular Biosciences, dependent checkpoints controlling cell Graz, Austria cycle progression Schwaiger, Austrian University of Vienna, Friedrich Miescher Institute Evolution of epigenetic marks in Michaela Austria for Biomedical Research, developmental gene regulatory networks Basel, Switzerland Wieser, Austrian Marseille Luminy Institute for Biophysics, Addressing plasma membrane structure Stefan Immunology Centre, Linz, Austria at the nanoscopic length scale France Winter, Austrian Max Planck Institute of University of Vienna, CDYL function in chromatin organization Stefan Biophysical Chemistry, Austria and formation of cell type specific Göttingen, Germany heterochromatin Bushati, Austrian National Institute for National Institute for Systematic analysis and modeling of Natascha Medical Research, Medical Research, the gene regulatory network underlying London, UK London, UK neural tube patterning Neumueller, Austrian Harvard Medical School, Institute of A systems biology approach to dissect Ralph Boston, USA Molecular Biotechnology the mechanisms regulating nucleolar of the Austrian Academy of function during development and Sciences, tumourigenesis Vienna, Austria Perlot, Austrian Institute of Institute of Elucidation of the function of DDX3X in Thomas Molecular Biotechnology Molecular Biotechnology innate immunity of the Austrian Academy of of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sciences, Vienna, Austria Vienna, Austria Schiller, Austrian Max Planck Institute of Max Planck Institute of Specificity, cross-talk and cooperativity Herbert Biochemistry, Biochemistry, of the fibronectin-binding integrins αvβ3 Martinsried, Germany Martinsried, Germany and α5β1 in cellular signal transduction Schraml, Austrian Cancer Research UK, Washington University In vivo depletion of the CD8α+ dendritic Barbara London Research Institute, in St. Louis, cell lineage to define its role in priming UK USA the adaptive immune response Stefan, Austrian California Institute of European Molecular Experimental investigation and spatial Melanie Isabelle Technology, Biology Laboratory, stochastic modelling of CaMKII Pasadena, USA Hinxton, UK Winkler, Austrian Max Planck Institute of Institute of Biochemistry, Structural and functional investigations Andreas Medical Research, Graz, Germany on the light and oxygen responsive Heidelberg, Germany AppA/PpsR regulatory system Belgium Buysse, Belgian Radboud University Ghent University Hospital, Identification of the genetic and Karen Nijmegen Medical Centre, Belgium functional basis of the α-dystro- The Netherlands glycanopathies Thienpont, Belgian The Babraham Institute, Catholic University of Leuven, A study of epigenetic alterations that Bernard Cambridge, UK Belgium result in cardiac hypertrophy

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Belgium Bossuyt, Belgian M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Catholic University of Leuven, Elucidating the signalling pathway (cont.) Wouter Houston, USA Belgium that senses tissue damage and triggers regeneration Creppe, Belgian Institute of Predictive and University of Liege, A histone variant regulating cell fate Catherine Personalized Medicine of Belgium Cancer, Badalona, Spain Czech Hajdusek, Czech Institute for Institute for Molecular mechanisms of TEP1- Republic Ondrej Molecular and Cell Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, dependent Plasmodium killing in the Strasbourg, France Strasbourg, France mosquito Anopheles gambiae Varga, Czech Sir William Dunn School Max Planck Institute of Identification and characterization of Vladimir of Pathology, Molecular Cell Biology and the protein constituents of the flagella University of Oxford, Genetics, connector in Trypanosoma brucei UK Dresden, Germany Finland Kaila, Finnish The National Institute of University of Helsinki, Proton-coupled electron transfer in Ville Diabetes and Digestive and Finland enzyme catalysis Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, USA Oksanen, Finnish European Molecular Institute of Biotechnology, Detailed mechanism of aminoacyl Esko Biology Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland tRNA synthetase editing by neutron Grenoble, France crystallography Pohjoismäki, Finnish Max Planck Institute of University of Tampere, MtDNA recombination in mammalian Jaakko L. O. Heart and Lung Research, Finland heart muscle Bad Nauheim, Germany Slotte, Finnish Umeå University, University of Toronto, Evolution of incipient sex chromosomes Tanja Sweden Canada in Populus France Amiel, French Kewalo Marine Laboratory, Developmental Biology Inductive cell signaling and organizer Aldine Honolulu, USA Research – CNRS, development in spiralian early Villefranche sur Mer, France embryogenesis Bertin, French University of California French National Institute for Role of Toll-like receptors induced Samuel San Diego, Health and Medical Research, autophagy in inflammatory bowel La Jolla, USA Nice, France diseases and gastrointestinal cancers initiation Blein, French Albert Ludwigs University, French Institute for 3D and 4D analysis of the Arabidopsis Thomas Freiburg, Germany Agricultural Research, root tip as a model to quantitative Versailles, France understanding of growth processes Brochet, French Sanger Institute, Sanger Institute, Dissecting cGMP- and calcium-dependent Mathieu Cambridge, UK Cambridge, UK signalling pathways that control gliding of a malaria zoite Cavey, French New York University, Developmental Biology Identification of neural circuits mediating Matthieu USA Institute of Marseille, decision-making in Drosophila larvae France Gilleron, French Max Planck Institute of Paris Descartes University, Ultrastructural analysis of endosomal Jerome Molecular Cell Biology and France Rab-domains Genetics, Dresden, Germany

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST France James, French The Walter and Eliza The Walter and Eliza Role of Bcl-2 family proteins in (cont.) Chloe Hall Institute, Hall Institute, megakaryocyte survival and platelet Parkville, Victoria, Australia Parkville, Victoria, Australia production Lesterlin, French University of Oxford, Centre of Molecular Genetics, Chromosome dynamics and homologous Christian UK Gif sur Yvette, France recombination llense, French Curie Institute, Curie Institute, Role of Src in tissue growth and flora Paris, France Paris, France morphogenesis Milloz, French Harvard University, Jacques Monod Institute, Cell commitment: mechanisms and Josselin Cambridge, USA Paris, France variability using yeast spore germination as a case study Mouysset, French Swiss Federal Institute Center for Molecular Function and regulation of CUL4-based Julien of Technology Zurich, Neurobiology Hamburg, ubiquitin-dependent processes for Switzerland Germany mitotic progression Pontier, French Pasteur Institute, McGill University, Understanding the molecular role Stephanie Paris, France Montreal, Canada of glycosphingolipids during early Drosophila development Ribot, French Institute of Cell and Insitute of Investigating the role of CD27 in Julie Molecular Science, Molecular Medicine, regulatory T cell development and London, UK Lisbon, Portugal functions Alabert, French BRIC, BRIC, Chromatin challenges during DNA Constance University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, replication Denmark Denmark Attaiech, French Groningen Biomolecular Institute of Cell Biology and Replication stress and DNA damage Laetitia Sciences and Biotechnology Genetics (IBCG), control in Streptococcus pneumoniae: Institute (GBB), Toulouse, France the role of DnaA Haren, the Netherlands Baussand, French National Institute for National Institute for A comparative analysis of Rho-GTPase/ Julie Medical Research, Medical Research, Effector flexibility to derive determinants London, UK London, UK of target specificity Bertet, French New York University, New York University, Establishment of the color vision circuitry Claire USA USA in Drosophila Bocquet, French Friedrich Miescher Institute Friedrich Miescher Institute Structural studies of the yeast Nicolas for Biomedical Research, for Biomedical Research, topoisomeraseIII-RMI1-Sgs1 complex Basel, Switzerland Basel, Switzerland Caillaud, French John Innes Centre, University of Functional analysis of plant-pathogenic Marie-Cecile Norwich, UK Nice Sophia-Antipolis, oomycete effectors and their targets France inside plant cell Comet, French BRIC, BRIC, Role of histone variants and histone Itys University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, tail modifications in Polycomb group Denmark Denmark protein recruitment and gene silencing in embryonic stem cells Di Meglio, French Friedrich Miescher Institute Friedrich Miescher Institute Transcriptional regulation of cortico- Thomas for Biomedical Research, for Biomedical Research, ponto-cerebellar connectivity in the Basel, Switzerland Basel, Switzerland mouse brain

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST France Dimitrov, French Max Planck Insitute of Max Planck Insitute of Role of the Golgi apparatus in mitosis and (cont.) Ariane Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Cell Biology and cell cycle progression Genetics, Genetics, Dresden, Germany Dresden, Germany Ghavi-Helm, French European Molecular Institute of Biology Dissecting the role of transcriptional Yad Biology Laboratory, Technologies-Saclay repression in developmental networks Heidelberg, Germany (IBITEC-S), Gif sur Yvette, France Lebaron, French Wellcome Trust Centre Wellcome Trust Centre Ribosomal RNA maturation and Simon for Cell Biology, for Cell Biology, translation initiation University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, UK UK Lebreton, French Institute for Research in Institute for Research in Cytoskeleton and cell shape remodelling Gaëlle Biomedicine, Biomedicine, during migration and morphogenesis of Barcelona, Spain Barcelona, Spain Drosophila tracheal branches Malivert, French Cancer Research UK, Necker Hospital, Isolation and characterization of Laurent London Research Institute, INSERM, BRCA2-RAD51 complexes from Potters Bar, UK Paris, France human cells Martin, French Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Identification of genes controlling Nadine UK UK senescence in human epithelial cells: role in cancer Mercier, French Institute for Centre of Molecular Genetics, Characterization of factors involved in Romain Cell & Molecular Biosciences, Gif sur Yvette, France proliferation of Bacillus subtilis L-forms Newcastle University Medical School, UK Ramialison, French Victor Chang Cardiac Heidelberg University, Systems level modeling of the Mirana Research Institute, Germany mammalian heart gene regulatory Darlinghurst, Australia network during development and disease Rohmer, French European Molecular European Molecular NMR study of the structure and catalytic Thierry Biology Laboratory, Biology Laboratory, function of archaeal box C/D sRNP Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg, Germany Vannier, French Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research UK, Characterization of the role of RTEL1 in Jean-Baptiste London Research Institute, London Research Institute, genome stability Potters Bar, UK Potters Bar, UK Vitre, French University of California University of California Investigating the contribution Benjamin San Diego, San Diego, of centrosome amplification in La Jolla, USA La Jolla, USA tumourigenesis Germany Bauer, German William Harvey William Harvey Regulation of expression and function of Martina Research Institute, Research Institute, integrin α6β1 during leukocyte migration Queen Mary University of Queen Mary University of London, UK London, UK Beirowski, German Washington University in Washington University in Role of metabolic homeostasis in glial Bogdan St. Louis, USA St. Louis, USA polarity, myelination and axonal integrity Bieling, German University of California, European Molecular Biochemical mechanisms underlying the Peter San Francisco, USA Biology Laboratory, force response of dendritic actin networks Heidelberg, Germany

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Germany Bodenmiller, German Stanford University, Stanford University, Signalling networks of ovarian cancer (cont.) Bernd School of Medicine, School of Medicine, metastates, stem cells and maturation USA USA phenotypes Busch, German Institute of Structural Zaidin Experimental Station, Structural analysis of the novel hybrid Andreas & Molecular Biology/ Granada, Spain CupB secretion system of P. aeruginosa University of London, PAO1 UK Degenhardt, German Massachusetts Institute Massachusetts Institute A systems biology approach to reveal Tatjana of Technology, of Technology, Huntington’s disease mechanisms Cambridge, USA Cambridge, USA Farin, German Hubrecht Institute, Institute of Molecular Biology, Paneth cell-derived signals as intestinal Henner Utrecht, The Netherlands Hannover, Germany stem cell (ISC) determinants Gotthardt, German University of California, Max Planck Institute of In vitro and in vivo studies of the UPR Katja San Francisco, USA Molecular Physiology, sensor PERK Dortmund, Germany Hannich, German University of Geneva, Max Planck Institute of Ceramide functions in model organisms Thomas Geneva, Switzerland Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Hilf, German Oregon University of Zurich, Structural and functional studies of an Ricarda Health & Science University, Switzerland NMDA receptor Portland, USA Hoyer, German University College London, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Role of cadherin-11 in the formation and Susanne UK Hirosawa, Japan maintenance of inhibitory synapses Jung, German Institute for Institute for Intestinal stem cells and their role in Peter Research in Biomedicine, Research in Biomedicine, colorectal cancer disease Barcelona, Spain Barcelona, Spain Klemm, German Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Reconstitution of the tubular ER Robin Boston, USA Boston, USA network in vitro Klinge, German Swiss Federal Institute Swiss Federal Institute Structural studies of the eukaryotic 60S Sebastian of Technology Zurich, of Technology Zurich, ribosomal subunit in complex with eIF6 Switzerland Switzerland Maurer, German European Molecular European Molecular Structural and kinetic basis of Sebastian Biology Laboratory, Biology Laboratory, evolutionary conserved and divergent Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg, Germany microtubule plus end tracking mechanisms Pfeffer, German University of Max Delbrück Center for Functional role of GABAergic inhibition Carsten California San Diego, Molecular Medicine, onto GABAergic interneurons La Jolla, USA Berlin, Germany Ressl, German Stanford University, Max Planck Institute of Super-resolution photoactivated Susanne School of Medicine, Biophysics, localization microscopy (PALM) and USA Frankfurt a.M., Germany X-ray crystallographic studies of synaptic adhesion proteins Riemer, German University of Kaiserslautern, University of Kaiserslautern, Redox regulation in the intermembrane Jan Germany Germany space (IMS) of mitochondria

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Germany Rintisch, German Max Delbrück Center for Max Delbrück Center for Integrated genomic and epigenomic (cont.) Carola Molecular Medicine, Molecular Medicine, approaches to understand global gene Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany expression Röther, German University of Regensburg, Max Planck Institute of Non-coding RNAs as precursors for novel Susanne Germany Biochemistry, classes of functional small RNAs Martinsried, Germany Siegel, German Pasteur Institute, The Rockefeller University, Identification and characterization of Tim Nicolai Paris, France New York, USA non-protein-coding RNAs involved in regulating gene expression in the human- infective malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum Sieger, German European Molecular European Molecular Collective responses of microglia to cell Dirk Biology Laboratory, Biology Laboratory, death signals in the zebrafish brain Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg, Germany Stielow, German Erasmus University Institute of Molecular Targeting mechanisms of mammalian Bastian Medical Center, Biology and Tumor Research, Polycomb group complexes Rotterdam, The Netherlands Marburg, Germany Utz, German Institute for University of Barcelona, KinoMoDEL: molecular dynamics Nadine Simone Research in Biomedicine, Spain extended library for kinases Barcelona, Spain Vanselow, German University of University of Systematic characterization of the Jens Southern Denmark, Southern Denmark, differential contribution of EGFR and Odense, Denmark Odense, Denmark HER2 to the dynamics of EGF signaling networks in cancer cells Albert, German BRIC, BRIC, Characterization of epigenetic regulators Mareike University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, and transcription factors that function in Denmark Denmark glioblastoma Groß, German University of Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Role of Syk-mediated signal transduction Olaf Switzerland Switzerland in inflammasome activation Grossmann, German Carnegie Institution University of Regensburg, Structure and function of Guido for Science, Germany subcompartments in plant plasma Stanford, USA membranes Nowack, German Flanders Institute for University of Cologne, Dying for life-dissecting molecular Moritz Biotechnology, Germany networks controlling cell death during Ghent, Belgium endosperm development in flowering plants Pauli, German Harvard University, University of Oxford, Role of non-coding RNAs in zebrafish Andrea Cambridge, USA UK embryogenesis Rademacher, German The Scripps Research University of Lübeck, Relationship between microdomain Christoph Institute, Germany localization and phosphorylation in CD22 La Jolla, USA regulation of B cell signaling Reichardt, German Institute of Molecular Center for Characterization of Drosophila larval Ilka Biotechnology of the Austrian Plant Molecular Biology, neural stem cell lineages using long-term Academy of Sciences, Tübingen, Germany live cell imaging Vienna, Austria

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Germany Stricker, German Wellcome Trust Centre Wellcome Trust Centre Epigenetic reprogramming of glioma (cont.) Stefan, for Stem Cell Research, for Stem Cell Research, stem cells Heinrich University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, UK UK Veltel, German VTT Medical Biotechnology, Max Planck Institute of New insights into the regulation of the Stefan Turku, Finland Molecular Physiology, cell adhesion molecule integrin and Dortmund, Germany cancer biology Weisswange, German Heidelberg University, Cancer Research UK, Signalling pathways required for cell Ina Germany London Research Institute, migration events during eye field UK convergence and evagination in Medaka and zebrafish Greece Apostolou, Greek Biological and Institute of Molecular Biology, Differentiation hierarchy and Eftychia Biomedical Sciences, Genetics and Biotecnology, reprogramming potential in Boston, USA Athens, Greece hematopoietic cells Tatarakis, Greek Harvard Medical School, University of Crete Understanding the role of antisense Antonis Boston, USA & Institute of Molecular transcription in RNAi-mediated Biology and Genetics, heterochromatin formation Heraklion, Greece Tolia, Greek University of California, VIB Vesalius Research Center, Structure-function analysis of the Alexandra San Francisco, USA Leuven, Belgium dynamic interactions between the voltage-gated calcium channel 1 subunit (Cavα1), Cavβ and Calmodulin Androulidaki, Greek Institute for Genetics of Institute for Genetics of Cell specific role of TLR signaling and Ariadne the University of Cologne, the University of Cologne, tolerance induction in pathogenesis of Germany Germany autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes (T1D) Hungary Gaspar, Hungarian European Molecular European Molecular Mechanisms and regulation of RNP Imre Biology Laboratory, Biology Laboratory, motility: in vivo and ex vivo analysis of Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg, Germany oskar mRNA transport Hajdu, Hungarian Harvard Medical School, Institute of Genetics, System-level understanding of the Ildiko Boston, USA Szeged, Hungary regulation of hTERT expression Israel Blum, Israeli Harvard University, The Hebrew University Analysis of β-cell regeneration in mice Barak Cambridge, USA of Jerusalem, using direct cell cycle visualization Israel Jacobson, Israeli Friedrich Miescher Institute The Hebrew University Organization, plasticity and perceptual Gilad for Biomedical Research, of Jerusalem, functions of a higher forebrain circuit Basel, Switzerland Israel Kashtan, Israeli Massachusetts Institute Weizmann Institute Biological design principles of microbial Nadav of Technology, of Science, communities in the ocean Cambridge, USA Rehovot, Israel Kaufman, Israeli Montpellier Institute The Hebrew University Histone arginine methylation in Yotam of Molecular Genetics, of Jerusalem, imprinting establishment and France Israel maintenance Kopito, Israeli Brandeis University, Brandeis University, Generation of integrative behavior within Ronen Waltham, USA Waltham, USA an individual neural circuit in C. elegans

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Israel Moran, Israeli University of California, Tel Aviv University, Characterization of the effects of (cont.) Yehu Berkeley, USA Israel the mitochondrial sirtuin SIRT3 on the survival and proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells Itzkovitz, Israeli Massachusetts Institute Weizmann Institute Characterizing the dynamics of normal Shalev of Technology, of Science, and neoplastic epithelia using single cell Cambridge, USA Rehovot, Israel gene expression Karniely, Israeli University of Cambridge, The Hebrew University Characterizing mitochondria-associated Sharon UK of Jerusalem, anti-apoptotic factors encoded by the Israel human cytomegalovirus Listovsky, Israeli MRC Laboratory of MRC Laboratory of Defining Rev7/MAD2B function in DNA Tamar Molecular Biology, Molecular Biology, damage and cell cycle control Cambridge, UK Cambridge, UK Moran, Israeli University of Vienna, Tel Aviv University, Functional study of MicroRNAs in the Yehu Austria Israel starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Cnidaria; Anthozoa) Parnas, Israeli University of Oxford, The Hebrew University Gain control by excitatory local neurons Moshe UK of Jerusalem, in olfactory sensory processing Israel Polak, Israeli Beth Israel Deaconess Beth Israel Deaconess Investigation of the mechanisms by Pazit Medical Center, Medical Center, which elevated retinol binding protein 4 Boston, USA Boston, USA causes insulin resistance Ram, Israeli Massachusetts Tel Aviv University, Pursuing the role of non coding RNA in Oren General Hospital and Israel recruiting the human TrxG/PcG proteins Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Shalgi, Israeli Massachusetts Institute Weizmann Institute Post-transcriptional diversity in Reut of Technology, of Science, mammalian cells during stress – potential Cambridge, USA Rehovot, Israel source for evolvability and cancer evolution Stern-Ginossar, Israeli University of California, The Hebrew University Elucidating protein translation Noam San Francisco, USA of Jerusalem, mechanisms in virally infected cells by Israel using ribosome profiling Ulitsky, Israeli Whitehead Institute, Tel Aviv University, Comprehensive characterization of Igor Cambridge, USA Israel microRNA binding preferences Italy Cantone, Italian Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Investigating chromatin dynamics during Irene UK UK reprogramming of human lymphocytes towards pluripotency Cordero, Italian The Beatson Institute The Beatson Institute Defining the role of APC and Wnt Julia for Cancer Research, for Cancer Research, signalling in intestinal homeostasis and Glasgow, UK Glasgow, UK transformation Di Micco, Italian New York University FIRC Institute of Impact of miRNAs in melanocyte Raffaella Langone Medical Center, Molecular Oncology, differentiation during melanoma USA Milano, Italy pathogenesis Francavilla, Italian CPR, FIRC Institute of Proteomic analysis of signaling induced Chiara University of Copenhagen, Molecular Oncology, by receptor tyrosine kinase endocytosis Denmark Milano, Italy

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Italy Gargiulo, Italian Netherlands Cancer Institute, European Institute Functional genetic characterization of a (cont.) Gaetano Amsterdam, The Netherlands of Oncology, mouse model of Glioma Milan, Italy Iovino, Italian Institute of Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilian University, Role of polycomb group proteins in Nicola Montpellier, France Munich, Germany Drosophila germline stem cells Zanetti, Italian University of California, University of Oxford, Role of Sec24 in SREBP transport and Giulia Berkeley, USA UK cholesterol regulation De Angeli, Italian University of Zurich, Italian National Understanding the biophysical Alexis Switzerland Research Council, properties of plant malate transporters in Genova, Italy Arabidopsis thaliana Dello Ioio, Italian University of Oxford, University of Rome, Exploiting the Arabidopsis thaliana Raffaele UK Italy relative Cardamine hirsuta for understanding dissected leaf development Gandin, Italian McGill University, McGill University, Mechanism of microRNA action in Valentina Montreal, Canada Montreal, Canada translation and mRNA decay Guffanti, Italian University of Geneva, University of Geneva, Role of antisense RNAs in epigenetic Elisa Switzerland Switzerland modifications and gene silencing in the yeast S. cerevisiae Martino, Italian MRC Laboratory of MRC Laboratory of Structural studies on MSL1-MSL3-MOF Fabrizio Molecular Biology, Molecular Biology, dosage compensation complex bound to Cambridge, UK Cambridge, UK nucleosomes Napoli, Italian University College London, University College London, Role of Sema4F in the peripheral nervous Ilaria UK UK system Ragni, Italian University of Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Brevis radix, brevis shoot?! Unravelling Laura Switzerland Switzerland the role of the BRX family genes in shoot development Tiberi, Italian Free University of Brussels, Free University of Brussels, Studying of the mechanisms controlling Luca Belgium Belgium temporal neurogenesis with an embryonic stem cell based model Tripodi, Italian Friedrich Miescher Institute Friedrich Miescher Institute Molecular mechanisms of the assembly Marco for Biomedical Research, for Biomedical Research, of the pre-motor interneuron network Basel, Switzerland Basel, Switzerland in mice The Abeln, Dutch University of Cambridge, Institute for Atomic Structural and dynamical properties Netherlands Sanne UK and Molecular Physics, of neurodegenerative disease causing Amsterdam, The Netherlands oligomers: a computational multi-scale approach intertwined with experimental input Bussmann, Dutch Max Planck Institut of Hubrecht Institute, Role of shear forces in patterning the Jeroen Molecular Biomedicine, Utrecht, The Netherlands vascular system Munster, Germany Dinant, Dutch Institute of Cancer Biology, Institute of Cancer Biology, Role of regulatory ubiquitination in Christoffel Copenhagen, Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark the dynamic crosstalk between the chromatin-mediated DNA damage signalling and the Fanconi anemia pathway of DNA Repair

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST The Foijer, Dutch Wellcome Trust Harvard Medical School, Novel tools to identify and visualize Netherlands Floris Sanger Institute, Boston, USA events that provoke chromosomal (cont.) Hinxton, UK instability Houwing, Dutch Skirball Institute of Hubrecht Institute, Activation of transcription during Saskia Biomolecular Medicine, Utrecht, the Netherlands germline specification in Drosophila New York, USA Knoops, Dutch European Molecular Leiden University Architecture of the SecYEG-DF-YidC Kèvin Biology Laboratory, Medical Center, protein translocation machinery Grenoble, France The Netherlands Laan, Dutch Harvard University, Institute for Atomic How adaptable are polarization Liedewij Cambridge, USA and Molecular Physics, machines? Amsterdam, The Netherlands Lagarou, Dutch Institute of Molecular Erasmus University Proteomic and functional analysis of Anna Biology & Genetics, Medical Center, histone modifying complexes Vari, Greece Rotterdam, The Netherlands Luijsterburg, Dutch Karolinska Institute, Karolinska Institute, Ubiquitin-dependent chromatin Martijn Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm, Sweden remodeling and its role in the DNA damage response van Werven, Dutch Massachusetts Institute University Medical Center Molecular analysis of ageing effects on Folkert of Technology, Utrecht, meiosis Cambridge, USA The Netherlands Vernes, Dutch Research Institute of Research Institute of Transcriptional regulation of male Sonja Molecular Pathology, Molecular Pathology, courtship behaviour: understanding Vienna, Austria Vienna, Austria fruitless molecular networks Norway Skånland, Norwegian Goethe University Institute for Cancer Research, Role of linear ubiquitin in the NF-κB Sigrid Medical School, Oslo, Norway pathway Frankfurt a.M., Germany Poland Grzechnik, Polish Sir William Dunn School Institute of Mechanism of Nrd1-dependent Pawel of Pathology, Genetics and Biotechnology, transcription termination in yeast and University of Oxford, Warsaw, Poland analysis of a homologous pathway in UK human Keller, Polish Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research UK, Cell biology of processing and Anna Magdalena London Research Institute, London Research Institute, presentation of antigens derived from UK UK necrotic cells by CD8α+ dendritic cells Latos, Polish Wellcome Trust Centre for Wellcome Trust Centre Investigation of the NuRD complex Paulina Anna Stem Cell Research, for Stem Cell Research, function in genomic imprinting University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, UK UK Budzowska, Polish Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Analysis of the translesion synthesis Magdalena Boston, USA Boston, USA reaction at a site-specific lesion Kosinski, Polish University of Rome, International Institute of Functional assignment of proteins by an Jan Italy Molecular and Cell Biology, integrated computational approach Warsaw, Poland Krajewski, Polish Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research UK, Molecular aspects of regulation of Wojciech London Research Institute, London Research Institute, RecBCD/AddAB complexes by Chi Potters Bar, UK Potters Bar, UK sequences

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Poland Szymanski, Polish European Molecular German Cancer Probing conformational dynamics of (cont.) Jedrzej Biology Laboratory, Research Center, the intrinsically disordered protein Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg, Germany nucleoporin Nup98 during transport and transcription Wegrzyn, Polish University of University of Generation of a mouse model for Joanna British Columbia, British Columbia, myelodysplastic syndromes Vancouver, Canada Vancouver, Canada Wilczynska, Polish Gurdon Institute, Gurdon Institute, Molecular mechanism of post- Katarzyna Cambridge, UK Cambridge, UK transcriptional regulation of pluripotency Portugal Barros, Portuguese University of Max Planck Institute Structural analysis of the Escherichia coli Tiago California at Berkeley, of Biophysics, polymerase III holoenzyme USA Frankfurt a.M., Germany Barulho Rebocho, Portuguese John Innes Centre, Free University of Amsterdam, Characterization of RADIALIS function Alexandra Norwich, UK Netherlands and isolation of dorsoventral identity target genes in zygomorphic flowers of Antirrhinum Brito, Portuguese Gulbenkian Institute Wadsworth Center, Control of centrosome number through Daniela of Science, Albany, USA regulation of PLK4 Oeiras, Portugal Homem, Portuguese Institute of University North Carolina Identification of new factors required for Catarina Molecular Biotechnology at Chapel Hill, neuroblast self-renewal of the Austrian Academy USA of Sciences, Vienna, Austria Luis, Portuguese Institute of Institute of Host response mechanisms to malaria Vanessa Molecular Medicine, Molecular Medicine, liver infection: role of ubiquitin- Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon, Portugal proteasome pathway during Plasmodium intra-hepatic development Martins de Brito, Portuguese Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research UK, Role of Rab7 in axonal retrograde Olga London Research Institute, London Research Institute, transport and human pathologies UK UK Geraldo, Portuguese Curie Institute, MRC Centre for Role of fascin in cell migration and Sara Paris, France Developmental Neurobiology, invasion during colon cancer metastases King’s College London, UK Mancio-Silva, Portuguese Institute of Pasteur Institute, Cerebral malaria protection through a Liliana Molecular Medicine, Paris, France cholesterol-rich diet Lisbon, Portugal Marques, Portuguese The Babraham Institute, The Babraham Institute, Functional testing of epigenetic Joana Cambridge, UK Cambridge, UK reprogramming factors associated with pluripotency Matos, Portuguese Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research UK, Regulation of GEN1-mediated Holliday Joao London Research Institute, London Research Institute, junction resolution in homologous Potters Bar, UK Potters Bar, UK recombination and DNA repair Montenegro Gouveia, Portuguese Gulbenkian Institute of Erasmus University Role of microtubule regulators in Susana Science, Medical Center, centriole biogenesis and length control Oeiras, Portugal Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Portugal Rodrigues, Portuguese Cancer Research UK, Alberto Sols Biomedical New imaging methods for detecting (cont.) Tiago Cambridge Research Institute, Research Intitute, treatment response in lymphoma UK Madrid, Spain Spain Aguilar Arnal, Spanish University of California, Institute of Molecular Biology Characterization of the mechanisms Lorena Irvine, USA of Barcelona, involved in the maintenence of the H3K4 Spain methylation pattern that contribute to the correct function of the mammalian circadian clock Carvajal Gonzalez, Spanish Weill Medical College Weill Medical College of Regulation of ephitelial polarity by Jose Maria of Cornell University, Cornell University, clathrin adaptors New York, USA New York, USA del Peso Santos, Spanish Umeå University, Umeå University, Novel regulatory mechanism of an Maria Teresa Sweden Sweden unusual sigma70 dependent promoter Gonzalez, Spanish MRC Centre for Severo Ochoa Centre Mechanisms controlling the number and Maria Inmaculada Synaptic Plasticity, for Molecular Biology, location of synaptics AMPARs Bristol, UK Madrid, Spain Jimenez, Spanish Langome Medical Center, Spanish National Regulatory T cells isolation and Sonia New York University, Biotechnology Centre, characterization to determine their role USA Madrid, Spain in regulating HIV at various stages of infection Macias, Spanish Medical Research Council, Medical Research Council, Post-transcriptional regulation of miRNA Sara Edinburgh, UK Edinburgh, UK expression Marino, Spanish Institute Gustave Roussy, University of Oviedo, Autophagy and p53, a search for Guillermo Villejuif, France Spain molecular connections among autophagy, p53, cancer and ageing Moldon, Spanish Albert Einstein College Pompeu Fabra University, Development of orthogonal spliceosome Alberto of Medicine, Barcelona, Spain systems New York, USA Navarro, Spanish MRC Centre for Pasteur Institute, Analysis of the gene regulatory network Pablo Regenerative Medicine, Paris, France controlling ES cell identity Edinburgh, UK Rada-Iglesias, Spanish Stanford University, Uppsala University, Transcription factors as gene and context Alvaro School of Medicine, Sweden specific regulators of dynamic epigenetic USA memory Blanco, Spanish Cancer Research UK, Spanish National Endothelial tip cell patterning in Raquel London Research Institute, Cancer Centre, pathological angiogenesis UK Madrid, Spain Fernandez Estrada, Spanish Biozentrum, University of Seville, Identification of the determinants of the Alejandro University of Basel, Spain ARFGAP2/3 protein Glo3p of S. cerevisiae Switzerland that induces SNAREs conformational changes Guardado Calvo, Spanish Pasteur Institute, University of Santiago de Structure of cellular fusogens Pablo Paris, France Compostela, Spain Gurzov, Spanish Free University of Brussels, Free University of Brussels, Connecting ER stress to mitochondrial Esteban Belgium Belgium dysfunction: a molecular analysis of inflammatory β-cell destruction in diabetes

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Spain Lujambio, Spanish Cold Spring Hospital of Llobregat, Role of cellular senescence in fibrosis and (cont.) Amaia Harbor Laboratory, Spain cancer USA Perez, Spanish University of California, Barcelona Protein folding and structure prediction Alberto San Francisco, Supercomputing Center, USA Spain Porrúa Fuerte, Spanish Centre of Molecular Genetics, Centre of Molecular Genetics, Studies on the metabolism and function Odil Gif sur Yvette, France Gif sur Yvette, France of cryptic unstable transcripts (CUTs) in S. cerevisiae Rodriguez Folgueras, Spanish Rockefeller University, University of Oviedo, Elucidating the mechanisms underlying Alicia New York, USA Spain the transition from the long- to short- term self-renewal state of stem cells Rodriguez-Larrea, Spanish University of Oxford, University of Granada, How are polypeptides transported David UK Spain through membranes Tejada, Spanish University of Cologne, Cordoba University, Molybdate transport in animals: role of Manuel Germany Spain gephyrin Tomas Loba, Spanish Cancer Research UK, Spanish National Study of the roles of ALC1, a novel ATP- Antonia London Research Institute, Cancer Center, dependent chromatin remodelling Potters Bar, UK Madrid, Spain protein, in transcriptional regulation, tumourigenesis and neurodegeneration Sweden Boström, Swedish Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Gothenburg University, Role of cell differentiation in cardiac Pontus Boston, USA Sweden failure Ivarsson, Swedish Catholic University of Leuven, Catholic University of Leuven, Integration of protein and lipid Ylva Belgium Belgium interactions by PDZ scaffolds Söderhjelm, Swedish Swiss Federal Institute Lund University, Drug binding, studied by a combination of Pär of Technology Zurich, Sweden metadynamics and accurate potentials Switzerland Suarez Larsson, Swedish French National Center for Uppsala University, Structural studies of glycosidase-related Anna Scientific Research, Sweden proteins with alternated catalytic Marseille, France machinery Kyriakatos, Swedish Swiss Federal Institute Karolinska Institute, Voltage-sensitive dye imaging of Alexandros of Technology Lausanne, Stockholm, Sweden sensorimotor cortex during learned Switzerland whisker-dependent behaviors Switzerland Bruderer, Swiss University of Dundee, University of Dundee, Role of SUMO in stem cell differentiation Roland Marc UK UK Krattinger, Swiss The Commonwealth University of Zurich, Durable disease resistance in wheat: Simon Scientific and Industrial Switzerland similar molecular defense mechanisms Research Organization, against adapted and non-adapted Canberra, Australia pathogens Schellenberg, Swiss Wellcome Trust Centre University of Zurich, Reversible mitochondrial targeting of Barbara for Cell-Matrix Research, Switzerland Bax during anoikis Manchester, UK Thoma, Swiss Harvard Medical School, Institute of Cell Biology, Mapping changes in protein stability in Claudio Boston, USA Zurich, Switzerland cancer Bossen, Swiss University of University of Lausanne, Identification of a cis-regulatory code Claudia California San Diego, Switzerland that underpins the response of B cells to La Jolla, USA self versus non-self antigens

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST Switzerland Briers, Swiss Swiss Federal Institute Swiss Federal Institute Characterization of cell growth, division (cont.) Yves of Technology Zurich, of Technology Zurich, and pathogenicity of L-form Listeria Switzerland Switzerland monocytogenes Hollenstein, Swiss Oregon Health & Science Swiss Federal Institute Structural and functional investigation of Kaspar University, of Technology Zurich, an AMPA receptor-TARP complex Portland, USA Switzerland Turkey Colak, Turkish Weill Medical College Weill Medical College Using stem cells to delineate the role of Dilek of Cornell University, of Cornell University, small RNAs in epigenetic reprogramming New York, USA New York, USA in Fragile X Yapici, Turkish Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University, Multimodal chemosensory integration in Nilay New York, USA New York, USA Drosophila melanogaster larvae Yuce Petronczki, Turkish Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research UK, Characterizing the molecular function of Ozlem London Research Institute, London Research Institute, neurodegenerative gene, senataxin Potters Bar, UK Potters Bar, UK United Debela, British MRC Laboratory of Max Planck Institute of Molecular mechanism of double-standed Kingdom Mekdes Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, DNA translocation by FtsK Cambridge, UK Munich, Germany Gascoigne, British Whitehead Institute, Manchester University, Dissection of the kinetochore – DNA Karen Cambridge, USA UK binding interface Palfreyman, British Institute of Institute of Circuit walking through courtship Mark Molecular Pathology, Molecular Pathology, behavior Vienna, Austria Vienna, Austria Penn, British University of Bordeaux, MRC Laboratory of Activity-dependent postsynaptic Andrew France Molcular Biology, mechanisms of short-term synaptic Cambridge, UK plasticity Pinner, British Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Regulation of dendritic cell motility Sophie Boston, USA Boston, USA within stromal niches of lymph nodes Regan, British Institute of Institute of Dynamics of inflammation and Jennifer Molecular Medicine, Molecular Medicine, haemocyte diversity in the Drosophila Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon, Portugal pupa Richardson, British University of Cologne, University of Manchester, Role of EpCAM and Bmps in zebrafish Rebecca Germany UK epithelial development, wound healing and cancer Toseland, British Ludwig Maximilians National Institute for Regulation and the coordination of the Christopher University, Medical Research, molecular motor myosin-VI Munich, Germany London, UK Burke, American Medical Research Council – University of Structural and dynamic studies of the John Laboratory of Molecular California San Diego, phosphoinositide 3 kinases Biology, La Jolla, USA Cambridge, UK Sivitz, American Biochemistry & Plant Biochemistry & Plant Regulatory networks controlling iron Alicia Molecular Physiology, Molecular Physiology, uptake machinery in plants: a model for Montpellier, France Montpellier, France signal integration

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST other Cande, American Developmental Biology Developmental Biology An evolutionary perspective into the nationalities Jessica Institute of Marseille, Institute of Marseille, organization of male courtship neural France France networks in Drosophila Kallin, American Center for University of North Carolina Molecular function of PU.1 during Eric Genomic Regulation, Chapel Hill, USA immune lineage specification and Barcelona, Spain leukemia formation Onishi-Seebacher, American European Molecular European Molecular Analysis of genomic structural variation Megumi Biology Laboratory, Biology Laboratory, formation in cell populations Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg, Germany Zartman, American University of Zurich, University of Zurich, Mechanoregulation of tissue growth in Jeremiah Switzerland Switzerland the Drosophila wing Rodriguez, Argentinian University of Oxford, Biocenter University of Basel, Molecular mechanism of Tat transport Fernanda Mariana UK Switzerland Brownfield, Australian Federal Institute of Federal Institute of Molecular mechanisms in plant male Lynette Technology Zurich, Technology Zurich, meiosis and the formation of polyploid Switzerland Switzerland plants Brosnan, Australian Institute of Institute of Cell autonomous microRNA biogenesis Christopher Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Molecular Biology, and action Strasbourg, France Strasbourg, France Coquet, Australian The Netherlands The Netherlands Role of the CD27-CD70 pathway in Jonathan Cancer Institute, Cancer Institute, T helper and regulatory T cell Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands development Gentle, Australian Institute of Medical La Trobe University, Regulation of TLR3/TRIF induced Ian Mikrobiology and Hygiene, Bundoora, Australia apoptosis Freiburg, Germany Alves Meireles Filho, Brazilian Research Institute of Research Institute of Tissue-specific regulatory gene networks Antonio Carlos Molecular Pathology, Molecular Pathology, of the Drosophila circadian clock Vienna, Austria Vienna, Austria Campbell-Valois, Canadian Pasteur Institute, University of Montreal, Dissecting the role of IpaH proteins in François-Xavier Paris, France Canada dampening innate immunity response during Shigellosis: an integrated appraoch for studying host – pathogen interactions Gerrow, Canadian Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Trafficking of metabotropic GABA Kimberly Paris, France British Columbia, receptors at inhibitory synapses by lateral Vancouver, Canada diffusion Gillis, Canadian University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, Development and evolution of the Andrew UK USA vertebrate pharyngeal endoskeleton McKim, Canadian University of Oxford, University of Mechanisms regulating diversity of floral Sarah UK British Columbia, architecture Vancouver, Canada Narbonne, Canadian University of Cambridge, McGill University, Studying the process of nuclear Patrick UK Montreal, Canada reprogramming in Xenopus laevis oocytes Renault, Canadian Pasteur Institute, Dalhousie University, Genetic control of X-chromosome Nisa Paris, France Halifax, Canada inactivation choice in humans and mice

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST other Marsh, Canadian MRC Laboratory of Hospital for Sick Children, Large-scale analysis of protein flexibility nationalities Joseph Molecular Biology, Toronto, Canada and dynamics and their relation to (cont.) Cambridge, UK molecular recognition Morin, Canadian University of Basel, Laval University, Structural studies on CCR5 and its Sebastien Switzerland Quebec, Canada complexes with RANTES-derived peptides and other small-molecule inhibitors Wai, Canadian University of Cologne, McGill University, Protective effects of the i-AAA protease Timothy Germany Montreal Neurological and mitochondrial quality control against Institute, ageing and ageing-associated diseases Canada Chen, Chinese Utrecht University, National University Function of retinoblastoma-related Zhong The Netherlands of Singapore protein in Arabidopsis shoot apical Singapore meristem Acosta, Columbian University of Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Searching for new negative regulators Ivan Switzerland Switzerland of jasmonate signalling with a pJAZ10:GUSPlus reporter in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana Uluckan, Cypriot Spanish National Washington University in Cross talk between skin and bone: Ozge Cancer Centre, St. Louis, USA integration of Jun/AP-1 and MAPK Madrid, Spain signaling Bose Dasgupta, Indian University of Basel, University of Basel, Survival of M. tuberculosis inside Somdeb Switzerland Switzerland macrophages: the essential role of calcineurin in preventing phagolysosome formation Jeganathan, Indian European European In vitro reconstitution of kinetochore- Sadasivam Institute of Oncology, Institute of Oncology, microtubule attachment and spindle Milan, Italy Milan, Italy assembly checkpoint function Kishore, Indian University of Basel, Gene Center, Identification of targets of RNA-binding Shivendra Switzerland Munich, Germany proteins that modulate mRNA stability Kotak, Indian Swiss Federal Institute Institute of Unraveling the mechanisms of spindle Sachin of Technology Lausanne, Molecular Bioscience, positioning Switzerland Frankfurt a.M., Germany Matheshwaran, Indian Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research UK, Molecular and biochemical Saravanan London Research Institute, London Research Institute, characterization of Ino80 complex and its Potters Bar, UK Potters Bar, UK chromatin remodeling mechanism Chanana, Indian University of Cambridge, Max Planck Institute for Identification and functional analysis Bhavna UK Biophysical Chemistry, of target genes of the Hippo tumor Göttingen, Germany suppressor pathway using the Drosophila posterior follicle cells as an experimental system Deshmukh, Indian Max Planck Institute of Karolinska Institute, Skeletal muscle proteome analysis: Atul Biochemistry, Stockholm, Sweden focus on mediators of insulin resistance Martinsried, Germany and exercise Kulathu, Indian MRC Laboratory of MRC Laboratory of Ubiquitin as an activator of protein kinase Yogesh Molecular Biology, Molecular Biology, complexes Cambridge, UK Cambridge, UK

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST other Kumar, Indian FIRC Institute of Spanish National Mechanisms coordinating chromosome nationalities Amit Molecular Oncology, Biotechnology Centre, replication with transcription (cont.) Milan, Italy Madrid, Spain Kumar, Indian Max Planck Institute Max Planck Institute Investigation of the chaperone repertoire Niti of Biochemistry, of Biochemistry, for in vivo ribosome-nascent chain Martinsried, Germany Martinsried, Germany complexes in bacterial and yeast systems Mohan, Indian Erasmus University Biotechnology Centre, Mechanisms and functions of Renu Medical Center, Indian Institute of Technology, microtubule plus end tracking proteins Rotterdam, The Netherlands Mumbai, India in mammalian cells: development of inhibitory strategies Mukundan, Indian Max Planck Insitute of Stanford University, Studying the flagellar beat using Vikram Molecular Cell Biology USA micromachined force sensing shape and Genetics, clamps Dresden, Germany Pandey, Indian European Molecular European Molecular Mechanism of action of nuclear germline Radha Raman Biology Laboratory, Biology Laboratory, small RNAs in genome defence Grenoble, France Grenoble, France Philip, Indian University of Glasgow, UK University of Glasgow, Redefining roles of epigenetic regulators: Nisha UK ALBAs in translational control Rajagopalan, Indian University of Zurich, MRC Centre for Modulation of cellular function under Sridharan Switzerland Protein Engineering, remote control using engineered photo- Cambridge, UK switchable DARPins Handa, Japanese Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research UK, Role of RhoD and RhoA signalling during Yutaka London Research Institute, London Research Institute, the spread and pathogenesis of vaccinia UK UK virus Nojima, Japanese National Institute for Osaka University, Role of cellular tension in the induction of Hisashi Medical Research, Japan apoptosis by axin mutant cells London, UK Yonehara, Japanese Friedrich Miescher Institute Friedrich Miescher Institute Development of spatial asymmetry in Keisuke for Biomedical Research, for Biomedical Research, neural connectivity Basel, Switzerland Basel, Switzerland Lai, Malaysian FIRC Institute of Tohoku University, Replicon dynamics in response to double Mong Sing Molecular Oncology, Miyagi, Japan strand break formation Milan, Italy Phng, Malaysian European Molecular Cancer Research UK, Role of lipid signalling and membrane Li-Kun Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute, organization in regulating cell polarity Heidelberg, Germany UK transitions in migrating tissues Ruiz, Mexican Wellcome Trust Centre for Spanish National Molecular mechanisms regulated by Edgar Josué Stem Cell Research, Cancer Center, p38α involved in oncogene-induced University of Cambridge, Madrid, Spain lung cancer UK Barberan Soler, Mexican Center for University of Deciphering genetic networks of splicing Sergio Genomic Regulation, California Santa Cruz, regulation in vivo Barcelona, Spain USA Linterman, New Cambridge Institute for Cambridge Institute for Role of microRNAs in T follicular helper Michelle Zealander Medical Research, Medical Research, cell mediated humoral immunity and UK UK immune pathology

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FULL NAME NATIONALITY HOST LAB HOME LAB RESEARCH INTEREST other Crisan, Romanian Erasmus University Erasmus University Convergence of the BMP and hedgehog nationalities Mihaela Medical Center, Medical Center, signalling pathways in the generation of (cont.) Rotterdam, The Netherlands Rotterdam, The Netherlands haematopoietic stem cells in the mouse embryo Denes, Romanian University of Basel, University of Basel, Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Alexandru Switzerland Switzerland tracheal remodeling during the late larval and pupal stages in Drosophila Farcas, Romanian Swiss Federal Institute University of Oxford, Kar9-Cdc28 bistable regulatory switch Ana-Maria of Technology Zurich, UK and its role in the asymmetry of the Switzerland mitotic spindle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ermolaeva, Russian CECAD Cologne, CECAD Cologne, DNA damage and ageing Maria University of Cologne, University of Cologne, Germany Germany Choi, South University of Cambridge, Seoul National University, Testing the influence of histone variant Kyuha Korean UK Republic of Korea H2A.Z on genome-wide patterns of meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana Lee, Taiwanese University of Cambridge, Purdue University, Role of Vg1RBP-mediated mRNA Aih Cheun UK West Lafayette, USA transport in retinal growth cone guidance Tuoc, Vietnamese National Institute Max Planck Institute for Molecular mechanisms determining Tran Cong for Medical Research, Biophysical Chemistry, the potential of astrocytes for neuronal London, UK Göttingen, Germany reprogramming

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applications and awards 2000–2009

country from applications % of total awards % of total success rate % Austria 151 1.42 49 2.56 32 Belgium 170 1.59 34 1.78 20 Croatia 56 0.53 12 0.63 21 Czech Republic 101 0.95 18 0.94 18 Denmark 81 0.76 17 0.89 21 Estonia 3 0.03 0 0.00 0 Finland 118 1.11 22 1.15 19 France 2050 19.22 346 18.10 17 Germany 1169 10.96 297 15.53 25 Greece 225 2.11 49 2.56 22 Hungary 139 1.30 22 1.15 16 Iceland 15 0.14 2 0.10 13 Ireland 99 0.93 12 0.63 12 Israel 558 5.23 111 5.81 20 Italy 697 6.54 107 5.60 15 Luxembourg 1 0.01 1 0.05 0 The Netherlands 363 3.40 93 4.86 26 Norway 19 0.18 3 0.16 16 Poland 170 1.59 25 1.31 15 Portugal 204 1.91 55 2.88 27 Slovak Republic 11 0.10 2 0.10 0 Slovenia 34 0.32 2 0.10 6 Spain 1282 12.02 162 8.47 13 Sweden 430 4.03 61 3.19 14 Switzerland 175 1.64 51 2.67 29 Turkey 79 0.74 9 0.47 11 United Kingdom 506 4.74 71 3.71 14 Eastern Europe 255 2.39 25 1.31 10 USA/Canada 439 4.12 89 4.65 20 Others 1065 9.99 165 8.63 15 Total 10665 100 1912 100 18

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applications and awards 1977–2009 year applications awards success rate % year applications awards success rate % 2009 1332 258 19 1978 235 101 43 2008 1218 215 18 1977 236 94 40 2007 1288 212 16 2006 1232 222 18 2005 1236 198 16 2004 1137 163 14 2003 1080 164 15 2002 790 178 22 2001 645 147 23 2000 707 155 22 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 1992 626 142 23 1991 571 139 24 1990 526 123 23 1989 460 118 26 1988 455 141 31 1987 383 120 31 1986 333 90 27 1985 340 92 27 1984 305 112 37 1983 294 103 35 1982 276 91 33 1981 274 111 41 1980 242 108 45 1979 254 101 40

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applications ech

destination nationality Austrian Belgian Croatian Cz Danish Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Israeli Italian Luxembourgian Dutch Norwegian Polish Portuguese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Turkish British Eastern European nationalities US-American/ Canadian Other nationalities Total Austria 2 3 1111 11112 Belgium 1421141216 Croatia 11 2 Czech Republic 211 4 Denmark 325 1222 320 Estonia 1 1 Finland 1 1 111 218 France 11 11 2156 3 219 2 241 164 441230121 Germany 32 191143 125 611311121 352920106 Greece 31 4 Hungary 112 Iceland 0 Ireland 12 1 4 Israel 31 2 12 9 Italy 311 4 112111521 Luxembourg 0 Netherlands 2 1 48 1 15 1 15 1 61542 Norway 3137 Poland 112 Portugal 1217 112 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 0 Spain 21 1134 1 7 35 2611 2141973 Sweden 313 11 2 3 621 132736 Switzerland 3 21 22313 5 19 2 1 49331451129131 Turkey 224 UK 6133 1 403055 819 8 910 144535151447273 EMBL 45112511525 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 11 7 1 2 1 3 69 49 8 1 2 63 27 13 5 9 3 48 13 11 4 16 3 3 372 Others 175 2 1 2 1 1 525 Total 27 16 6 12 5 2 14 203 150 21 19 0 8 80 91 0 39 1 28 43 5 13 159 36 21 17 37 31 58 190 1332

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awards ech

destination nationality Austrian Belgian Croatian Cz Danish Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Israeli Italian Luxembourgian Dutch Norwegian Polish Portuguese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Turkish British Eastern European nationalities US-American/ Canadian Other nationalities Total Austria 2 1 111 118 Belgium 11 11 4 Croatia 0 Czech Republic 0 Denmark 21 1 1 5 Estonia 0 Finland 1 1 France 1112111113115222 Germany 3 1341 11 1 211423 Greece 1 1 Hungary 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Israel 0 Italy 134 Luxembourg 0 Netherlands 1121 139 Norway 0 Poland 0 Portugal 415 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 0 Spain 112 12 7 Sweden 1113 Switzerland 33 14 121 22726 Turkey 0 UK 31 1 105 35 2 55 6 211 51267 EMBL 22 1 1 11 8 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 31 16431 103 3 21 81322 54 Others 28 1 11 Total 1240200432354200161601119120021573841535258 www.embo.org/programmes/fellowships | [email protected] ➔ 103 EMBO | short-term fellowships 2009: awards

NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Medjahed, Algerian National Institute of Medical University Paris Descartes, Study of the virulence of Mycobacterium abscessus: Halima Sciences and Nutrition, Paris, France role of the glycopeptidolipids Mexico City, Mexico

DeFlorio, American University of Nice, University of Heterotrimeric G-protein regulation of Reagan France Illinois at Chicago, chemotropism in yeast USA

Lutz, American Medical Research Council, University of Heidelberg, Coupling of transcription and mRNA export Sheila Cambridge, UK Germany by the conserved CID motif in human TREX-2 (Transcription Export complex-2)

Schaeffer, American The New University of Lisbon, University of Texas Health 5'-end dependency of exosome endoribonuclease Daneen Oeiras, Portugal Science Center at Houston, activity USA

Wojcik, American Center for Molecular University of Chicago, Effects of a novel protein inhibitor of Abl SH2 John Medicine of the Austrian USA domain-phosphopeptide interactions an cAbl and Academy of Sciences, Bcr-Abl function Vienna, Austria

Alló, Argentinian Centre for Genomic The Laboratory of Physiology Search for endoganous small RNAs driven Mariano Regulation, and Molecular Biology, alternative splicing in cancer Barcelona, Spain Buenos Aires, Argentina

Barrionuevo, Argentinian National Science and Argentine Museum of Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Telmatobius Jose Sebastian Technology Museum, Natural Sciences (Anura: Ceratophryidae): a molecular approach Madrid, Spain “Bernardino Rivadavia”, with emphasis on Argentinean species Buenos Aires, Argentina

Distéfano, Argentinian Institute for Molecular Institute of Biotechnology, Construction of a full-length infectious cDNA clone Ana Julia Biology of Plants, Buenos Aires, Argentina of cotton leafroll dwarf virus for the study of plant- Strasbourg, France polerovirus interaction and production of a cDNA library expressing Gossypium hirsutum phloem proteins for yeast-two hybrid screening

Lario, Argentinian Centre of Molecular Photosynthetic and Cell cycle dependent transcriptional regulation Luciana Daniela Biology Severo Ochoa, Biochemical Research Center, of Arabidopsis genes involved in DNA repair and Madrid, Spain Rosario, Argentina chromating remodelling

Mongelli, Argentinian Institute for Biotechnology Institute from Determination of the subcellular localization Vanesa Claudia Molecular Biology of Plants, the National Institute for of non-structural proteins of unknown function Strasbourg, France Agricultural Technology of encoded by Mal de Rio Cuarto virus (Medical Argentina, Research Council) Buenos Aires, Argentina

Pagnussat, Argentinian University of Bonn, National University of Mar Analysis of the sunflower LTP Ha-AP10´s Luciana Germany del Plata, Argentina intracellular localization

Reynoso, Argentinian University of University of Buenos Aires, HIV infection and cellular pathogenesis: evaluation Rita Paola Natural Resources and Argentina of parameters related to ageing process Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Rodriguez, Argentinian Max-Planck-Institute for National University of Cuyo, Exploring novel interactions between membrane Juan Facundo Biophysical Chemistry, Mendoza, Argentina fusion-controlling proteins Göttingen, Germany

Stern, Argentinian University of Agricultural Institute for Research in Determination of the three-dimensional structure Ana Laura Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden Biotechnology, National of transaldolase from Trypanosoma cruzi and University of San Martín, elucidation of nature of observed isoenzyme forms. Argentina

Diesner, Austrian National Institutes of Health, Medical University of Vienna, Influence of sphingosine-1-phosphate on Susanne Bethesda, USA Austria sensitization in a murine model of food allergy

Koch, Austrian Weizmann Institute University of Vienna, Dynamics of mRNAs encoding the peroxisomal Johannes-P. of Science, Austria membrane protein PEX11 in human cells Rehovot, Israel

Mazid, Bangladeshi Telethon Insitute of University of Dhaka, Metabolic regulation and roles of Md. Abdul Genetics & Medicine, Bangladesh glycerophosphoinositols in immune cells Naples, Italy

De Storme, Belgian University of Birmingham, University of Ghent, Cytological analysis of meiosis in Arabidopsis giant Nico UK Belgium pollen mutants

Jorissen, Belgian University Medical Center Center for Human Genetics, Function of ADAM10 in neurodevelopment Ellen Hamburg-Eppendorf, Leuven, Belgium Germany

Rotthier, Belgian University Hospital Zurich, University of Antwerp, Functional characterization of mutations in SPTLC1 Annelies Switzerland Belgium and SPTLC2 associated with hereditary sensory neuropathies

Van der Henst , Belgian Centre of Immunology of University of Namur, Immunolocalization pattern using electron Charles Marseille-Luminy, Belgium microscopy of an essential polar histidine kinase in France Brucella abortus within infected macrophages

Vandecaetsbeek, Belgian University of Aarhus, Catholic University of Leuven, Upscaling the purification and initializing Ilse Denmark Belgium crystallization attempts of the high affinity Ca2+ pump SERCA2b

Vanhee, Belgian Centre for The Switch Laboratory, In silico peptide design for the fibroblast growth Peter Genomic Regulation, Brussels, Belgium factor receptor Barcelona, Spain

Vanwalleghem, Belgian Leibniz Institute for Institute of Molecular Characterization of T. brucei chloride channels and Gilles Molecular Pharmacology, Biology and Medicine, H. sapiens Apolipoprotein L-1 by electrophysiology Berlin, Germany Gosselies, Belgium in Xenopus oocytes

Zaharenko, Brazilian University of Leuven, Centre of Electrophysiological characterisation of sea André Belgium Biotechnology, anemone peptides over voltage-gated sodium and Sáo Paulo, Brazil potassium channels in transfected cells

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Zuccherato, Brazilian University of Leicester, The Federal University of Patterns of diversity at copy number variation loci Luciana Leicester, UK Minas Gerais, (β-defensins and immunoglobulin-receptor) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil native American populations: how do these loci evolve and biomedical implications

Beard, British Carnegie Mellon University, Imperial College London, Membrane organization of G-protein coupled Gemma Pittsburgh, USA UK receptor into functional microdomains; novel insights into the mechanisms determining receptor fate

Carvill, British University of Geneva, Insitute of Infectious Disease Investigating whole-genome DNA Methylation Gemma Switzerland and Molecular Medicine, profiles in patients positive for mutations in Cape Town, South Africa X-linked Mental Retardation (XLMR) genes

Cockburn, British Institut Pasteur, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Visualizing CD8+ T cell killing of malaria infected Ian Paris, France School of Public Health, hepatocytes Baltimore, USA

Holmes, British University of Edinburgh, University of California, Deciphering the RNA features governing Npl3- Rebecca UK San Francisco, USA mediated RPG processing

Liu, British Max Planck Institute of University College London, Biochemical characterisation of the effect of Tao-1 Tao Molecular Cell Biology and UK kinase on microtubule dynamics Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Morgan, British German Cancer University of Manchester, Expression and characterization of redox probes in Bruce Research Centre, UK Saccharomyces cerevisiae Heidelberg, Germany

Sonnen, British Max Planck Institute of University of Oxford, Investigating the mechanism of pore-formation Andreas Biochemistry, Munich, UK by perforin and cholesterol-dependent cytolysins Germany employing cryo-electron tomography

Karabencheva, Bulgarian Autonomous Universtity University of Bristol, Computational analysis of the interactions of G Tatyana of Barcelona, UK protein-coupled receptor kinase-2 (GRK2) with G Spain protein Gß and G subunits

Ngando Ebongue, Cameroonese Laboratory of Institute of Agricultural Cloning and characterization of a recombinant oil Georges Frank Membrane Biogenesis, Research for Development palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) mesocarp lipase Bordeaux, France of Cameroon (IRAD), Douala, Cameroon

Awatramani, Canadian Friedrich Miescher Institute Dalhousie University, Multimodal optogenetic techniques for Gautam for Biomedical Research, Halifax, Canada vision restoration in a mouse model of retinal Basel, Switzerland degeneration

Carswell, Canadian IBS Grenoble, University of Ottawa, Crystallographic study of CfrA from Campylobacter Casey France Canada jejuni, a potential therapeutic target

Cancino, Chilian Scientific Consortium Pontifical Catholic Live-cell and ultra-structural anlalysis of Jorge Mario Negri Sud, University of Chile, TGN-to-recycling endosome traffic in epithelial cells Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy Santiago, Chile

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Hua, Chinese National Heart, Lung, and Technological Advances for Genome-wide study of GATA4 associated Guoqiang Blood Institute, Genomics and Clinics (TAGC transcriptional network in breast cancers Bethesda, USA INSERM U928), Marseille, France

Zhong, Chinese Plant Molecular Biology – University of Nottingham, Use of single cell ploidy measurement to investigate Silin CNRS, UK the role of mRNA methylation in cell cycle Grenoble, France regulation

Zi, Chinese University of Humboldt University Berlin, Mathematical modeling and experimental analysis Zhike Colorado-Boulder, Germany of TGF-β signaling pathway USA

Benitez Paez, Columbian University of The Prince Felipe Analysis of RNA modification through mass Alfonso Southern Denmark, Research Centre, spectrometry Odense, Denmark Valencia, Spain

Deban, Croatian University of Helsinki, Humanitas, Rozzano, Italy Structural characterization of factor H interaction Livija Finland with Neisseria meningitidis antigens

Dembic, Croatian University of Massachusetts University of Modena Mechanism of transcriptional regulation of the Maja Medical School, and Reggio Emilia, FSHD region gene 1 (FRG1) gene Worcester, USA Modena, Italy

Rudic,* Croatian University of Paris, General Hospital, Role of angiotensin 2 and oxidative stress product Milan France Zadar, Croatia (4-hydroxy-2-nonenal) in the pathophysiology of otosclerosis

Pons Hernãndez, Cuban Spanish National Cancer University of Havana, Large-scale in silico study of the interactions Tirso Research Centre (CNIO), Cuba between pore-forming-toxins and model lipid Madrid, Spain membranes

Rodriguez Alfonso, Cuban Medical School Hannover Centre of Marine Application of peptidomics tools to the discovery of Armando Alexei (Immunology), Bioproducts (CEBIMAR), new bioactive peptides from two different natural Germany Havana, Cuba sources.

Torres Domínguez, Cuban Max von Pettenkofer Institut, National Center for Characterization of cag Pathogenicity Island (cag Lino Ernesto Munich, Germany Scientific Research, PAI) and VacA cytotoxin from Cuban Helicobacter Havana City, Cuba pylori isolates

Altmannova, Czech University of California, Masaryk University, Effect of sumoylation on homologous Veronika Davis, USA Brno, Czech Republic recombination and its physical monitoring

Brejchova, Czech Institute of Ophthalmology, Charles University , Viability, cultivation potential and immunogenicity Kristyna London, UK Prague, Czech Republic of limbal stem cells obtained from human corneal tissue: the effect of storage method and duration

Hrstka, Czech Institute of Molecular Masaryk Memorial Role of chaperones in p53 and p53/47 folding Roman Genetics–INSERM U940, Cancer Institute, Paris, France Brno, Czech Republic

Rohlena, Czech The Beaston Insitute for Czech Academy of Role of mitochondrial complex II in the regulation of Jakub Cancer Research, Sciences, citric acid cycle metabolite levels and induction of Glasgow, UK Prague, Czech Republic apoptosis by redox-silent vitamin E analogues

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Srubarova, Czech University of London, Academy of Sciences of Cytogenetic analysis of synthetic Tragopogon Hana London, UK the Czech Republic, allotetraploids Brno, Czech Republic

Lund, Danish University of Lund University, Proton fluctuation mechanisms in biological Mikael New South Wales, Sweden systems Canberra, Australia

Thorgrimsen, Danish The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Identifying pathogen effectors triggering SOA5- Stephan Norwich, UK Denmark dependent hypersentive response in Arabidopsis

Carette, Dutch Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Whitehead Institute for Haploid genetics screens to identify host genes Jan Freiburg, Germany Biomedical Research, required for bacterial pathogens Cambridge, USA

Raz, Dutch The Hebrew Leiden University Setting-up a physiological relevant OPMD model in Vered University of Jerusalem, Medical Center, C. elegans Israel The Netherlands

Spaapen, Dutch Imperial College London, Maastricht University Dynamic chromatin signatures underlying Frank UK Medical Centre, chondrogenic differentiation The Netherlands

Tanenbaum, Dutch European Molecular Uniververisty Medical Center Molecular dissection of Kif15-TPX2 function using Marvin Biology Laboratory, Utrecht, The Netherlands an in vitro approach Heidelberg, Germany

Van der Waal, Dutch University of Pennsylvania, University Medical Center, Contribution of INCENP to the function of Aurora B Maike Philadelphia, USA Utrecht, The Netherlands in the mitotic checkpoint

van Horssen, Dutch Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Radboud University Role of metabolic proteins in invadopodia Remco Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy Nijmegen Medical Centre, formation The Netherlands

van Roosmalen, Dutch Weizmann Institute Leiden University, Screening for new potential anti-cancer drug Wies of Science, The Netherlands targets using high content imaging and a Rehovot, Israel knockdown approach against components of matrix-adhesion mediated signaling pathways.

Kivistik, Estonian Zaidin Experimental Station – University of Tartu, Identification of target genes of Pseudomonas Paula Ann Spanish National Reseach Estonia putida ColRS two-component system with Council, genome-wide DNA microarray Granada, Spain

Leppänen, Finnish Paul Scherrer Institut, University of Helsinki, Structural studies on the VEGF family growth factor Veli-Matti Villigen, Switzerland Finland C and its receptors

Liljeroos, Finnish Max Planck Institute of Institute of Biotechnology, Cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram Lassi Biochemistry, Helsinki, Finland averaging of measles virus Martinsried, Germany

Becam, French University of Cambridge, Insitute for Research Analysis of new roles of Notch for the inhibition of Isabelle Cambridge, UK in Biomedicine, Serrate signaling ability and for regulation of its Barcelona, Spain recycling

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Bruck, French Istituto Mario Negri, Institute of Genetics and Cross-talk between the non-genomic and genomic Nathalie Milan, Italy Molecular and Cellular effects of Retinoic Acid (RA): dysregulation and RA Biology, resistance Illkirch, France

Chapgier, French The Rockefeller University, Institute of Child Health, Hira-mediated histone deposition during ES cell Ariane New York, USA London, UK differentiation mimicking gastrulation events

D'Haene, French Center for Bioenergy and VU Univeristy, IsiA with different carotenoid composition to study Sandrine Photosynthesis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands their role Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Demarsy, French CNRS UPR 3082–FRC 3115, University of Lausanne, Structural study of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 and Emilie Gif-sur-Yvette, France Switzerland its putative kinase substrate PKS4

Elbaz, French University of Washington, The Hebrew University of Structure determination of the neurotransmitter Yael Seattle, USA Jerusalem, Israel transporter VMAT2 (vesicular monoamine transporter 2)

Fakhouri, French Imperial College London, Necker Hospital, Effect of purified human factor H in factor-H Fadi London, UK Paris, France deficient mice

Gandemer, French University of Ulm, University of Rennes, Analyses of signatures of miRNA expression in Virginie Germany France TEL/AML1-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia : potential regulation of CD9 and LSP1 expressions

Guibal, French National Autonomous University College London, Comparison of the sequence and regulation of Christophe University of Mexico, UK hemoglobin between the cave-dwelling and Mexico City, Mexico surface-dwelling forms of the Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus

Lanet, French University of Verona, French National Center Analysis of post-transcriptional regulations of Lhc Elodie Italy for Scientific Research, genes expression under light stress in Arabidopsis Marseille, France thaliana

Medioni, French European Molecular Institue of Axonal growth and mRNA transport: in vivo and in Caroline Biology Laboratory, Developmental Biology real time analysis Heidelberg, Germany and Cancer of Nice, France

Mozziconacci, French University of Turin, University of Cambridge, Inferring tissue sequential differentiation during Julien Italy UK development from gene expression micro arrays

Roubinet, French Max Planck Institute of University Paul Sabatie Precisely and statistically decipher the sequence Chantal Molecular Cell Biology UMR5547–CNRS, of events regulating bleb formation and retraction and Genetics, Toulouse, France during cell division Dresden, Germany

Schoumacher, French University of Michigan, Institut Curie, Role of filopodia in cancer cell migration and Marie Ann Arbor, USA Paris, France invasion

Shalom-Feuerstein, French University of Leicester, U898 INSERM, In vivo study of the role of p63, p63 isoforms and Ruby Leicester, UK Nice, France micro RNAs in corneal stem cells and development

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Beck, German University of Dundee, Swiss Federal Institute Regulation of Aurora B by Cullin3-mediated Jochen UK of Technology Zurich, ubiquitination in mitosis Switzerland

Berge, German European Molecular Swiss Federal Institute Long-term and high-resolution multi-channel Ulrich Biology Laboratory, of Technology Zurich, recording of single MDCK cells developing into Heidelberg, Germany Switzerland multi-cellular cysts using single plane illumination microscopy (SPIM)

Bit-Avragim, German University of Innsbruck, Charité University Medical Role of Agtrl1/apelin signalling in cardiovascular Nana Austria School of Berlin, Germany development in zebrafish

Cabrera-Aguirre, German University of Geneva, Bernhard-Nocht Institute Comparative interspecies survey of two conserved Ana Lidia Switzerland for Tropical Medicine, apicomplexan inner membrane complex protein Hamburg, Germany members

Doehlemann, German Stanford University, Max Planck Institute for Molecular studies on the biotrophic interaction of Gunther USA Terrestrial Microbiology, Ustilago maydis with maize Marburg, Germany

Dopfer, German Autonomous University University of Freiburg, In vivo investigation of a molecular tyrosine-based Elaine-Pashupati Madrid, Germany switch at the TCR-CD3epsilon cytoplasmic tail Madrid, Spain

Engel, German Centre for Molecular Biology Royal College of Imaging proteasome inhibition during seizure- Tobias Severo Ochoa, Surgeons in Ireland, induced cell death and epileptogenesis using a Madrid, Spain Dublin, Ireland transgenic mouse model

Fleck, German University of Edinburgh, University of Freiburg, Light regulation of the Arabidopsis thaliana's Christian UK Germany circadian clock

Frenz, German Harvard University, University of Strasbourg, Development of an integrated microfluidic chip to Lucas Boston, USA France screen gene libraries compartmentalized in pL-droplets

Friedel, German Institute of Human Genetics – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Rfa1-t11 affects the interaction with Sgs1 and Anna Maria CNRS UPR 1142, Basel, Switzerland destabilizes replisome components at stalled Montpellier, France replication forks

Germer, German Institute of Structural Biology, Botanisches Institut der Structural characterization of the [NiFe] Frauke Grenoble, France Christian-Albrechts- hydrogenase from Synechocystis PCC 6803 by X-ray Universität zu Kiel, crystallography Germany

Heyse, German Medical Research Council, University Witten/Herdecke, Regulation of telomeric G-quadruplex structure Katharina Cambridge, UK Witten, Germany

Klepsch, German Enzymology Groningen University of Stockholm, Identification of the substrates of the Opp and Dpp Mirjam Institute for Biomolecular Sweden peptide transporters from Escherichia coli Sciences & Biotechnology, The Netherlands

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Lorenz, German University of Rochester University of Würzburg, Characterization of the ERK1/2/GÎÎ interface Kristina School of Medicine and Germany as potential target for the treatment of cardiac Dentistry, hypertrophy Rochester, USA

Meyer-Baese, German EMBL, Heidelberg, Florida State University, Hyperbolic-SOM determined 3D active contours Anke Germany Tallahassee, USA for membrane bilayer-bound surfaces

Pasternack, German University of Toronto, Institute of Human Genetics, Identification of binding partners of the Sandra Canada Bonn, Germany G protein-coupled receptor p2y5

Pollex, German Institut Curie, German Cancer Investigation of the role of RNAi pathways in Tim Paris, France Research Center, X chromosome inactivation Heidelberg, Germany

Radozkowicz, German University of Saarland, Tel-Aviv University, Proton transfer in non homogenous environment Limor Saarbrücken, Germany Israel

Said, German University of Cambridge, Max Planck Institute for sRNA-mediated mRNA decay through RNase E Nelly UK Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Thurley, German University of Cambridge, Max-Delbrück Centre for Quantifying stochastic models of intracellular Kevin UK Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Ca2+ dynamics Germany

Weissenborn, German Royal Brisbane Hospital, University Hospital HPV infections in the development of Sönke Australia of Cologne, non-melanoma skin cancer Germany

Drineas, Greek Democritus University Rensselaer Genome-wide analysis of population genetic Petros of Thrace, Polytechnic Institute, structure in European and worldwide human Alexandroupoli, Greece Troy, USA populations

Farmaki, Greek Karolinska Institute, University of Athens Regulation of PERK by the endoplasmic reticulum Elena Stockholm, Sweden Medical School, escort chaperone ERp29 Greece

Gazi, Greek Institute of Structural University of Crete, Structural studies of the Pseudomonas syringae Anastasia Biology Jean-Pierre Ebel, Heraklion, Greece type III secretion system Grenoble, France

Georgitsi, Greek Erasmus Medical Center, University of Patras, Characterization of genetic determinants to lithium Marianthi Rotterdam, The Netherlands Greece treatment response of bipolar patients

Gouti, Greek University of Cambridge Biomedical Research Inducible gene expression and directed neural Mina Hospitals NHS Foundation of the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells Foundation Trust, Academy of Athens, UK Greece

Koumandou, Greek University of Alberta, University of Cambridge, Evolutionary reconstruction of the retromer Vassiliki Lila Edmonton, Canada UK complex

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Kyratzi, Greek University of Ottawa, Academy of Athens, Test of the selective neuroprotective effects of Elli Canada Greece the S18Y polymorphic variant of UCH-L1 against oxidative insults in vivo

Pavlopoulos, Greek Humboldt University of University of Cambridge, Comparative cell lineage analysis of serially Anastasios Berlin, Germany UK homologous appendages using 4-D microscopy on genetically labeled crustacean embryos

Polychronidou, Greek The Netherlands Georg-August-University Role of Kugelkern in genome stability Maria Cancer Institute, of Göttingen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Germany

Saitakis, Greek Spanish National Center University of Crete, Preparation of T cell clones for two-dimensional Michail of Biotechnology-Spanish Heraklion, Greece characterization of TCR/pMHC binding National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

Stathopoulou, Greek Medical Research Council, University of Patras, Study of the in vivo role of Geminin in enteric neural Athanasia London, UK Greece precursor cells

Adrienn, Hungarian University of Sheffield, Eötvös University, Cross-regulation of the PI3K and MAPK pathways Angyal UK Budapest, Hungary via tribbles-Gab interaction

Bihari, Hungarian University of Edinburgh, Hungarian Western palearctic phylogeography of a parasitoid Péter UK Academy of Sciences, wasp of oak galls: Torymus auratus (Hymenoptera: Szeged, Hungary Torymidae)

Czimmerer, Hungarian University of Leicester, University of Debrecen, Investigation of importance of GPS2-SMRT and Zsolt UK Hungary TBL1-SMRT interactions during the SMRT/NCoR mediated gene silencing

Dome,* Hungarian Medical University of Vienna, National Koranyi Role of lymphatic/vascular endothelial progenitor Balazs Austria Institute of Pulmonology, cells in human non-small cell lung cancer Budapest, Hungary

Ecsedi, Hungarian International Agency for University of Debrecen, Investigation of genetic and epigenetic background Szilvia Research on Cancer, Hungary of gene expression alterations in human primary Lyon, France malignant melanoma

Györi, Hungarian The Babraham Institute, Semmelweis University, Structure-function studies on DAP12 in primary Dávid Cambridge, UK Budapest, Hungary murine osteoclasts using a retroviral reconstitution approach

Kovacs, Hungarian University of North Carolina, Hungarian Studying the regulation of ryanodine receptors by Erika Chapel Hill, USA Academy of Sciences, sphingosylphosphorylcholine, focusing on the role Budapest, Hungary of calmodulin

Lozsa, Hungarian Consiglio Nazionale Agricultural Characterization of the tomato yellow leaf curl Rita Bernadett delle Ricerche, Biotechnology Centre, virus (TYLCV) V2 silencing suppressor protein in Torino, Italy Gödöllö, Hungary planta

Pécsi , Hungarian Infectious Disease Hungarian In vivo functional analysis of key enzymes in the Ildiko Research Institute, Academy of Sciences, thymidylate synthesis pathway in Mycobacteria London, UK Budapest, Hungary

*recipient of the 2009 EMBO Molecular Medicine Sabbatical

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Dutta, Indian Ernst-Moritz Arndt Indian Institute of NMR structural and thermodynamic studies of Samit Kumar University of Greifswald, Chemical Technogy, drug-DNA interactions: a potential anticancer C2- Germany Hyderabad, India fluoro substituted PBD agent and its complex with DNA

Johnston, Indian Leibniz Institute of Plant Swiss Federal Institute Gametic cell fate mechanisms in plants Amal Genetics and Crop Plant of Technology, Research (IPK), Zurich, Switzerland Gatersleben, Germany

Panse, Indian Boston University Imperial College London, Role of Follistatin-like 3 in the heart during cardiac Kalyani School of Medicine, UK stress USA

Parsi, Indian Institute of Institute of Genetics and Purification and characterization of the nuclear Krishan Mohan Molecular Oncology, Biophysics – CNR, specific DICER protein complex from mammalian Varkiza, Greece Naples, Italy cells

Prabhu, Indian University of Münster, University of Mysore, Role of polygalacturonase-inhibitor proteins (PGIPs) Ashok Germany Manasagangotri, in pearl millet – Sclerospora graminicola interaction: Mysore, India a unique host-pathogen system

Sen, Indian University of Basel, Tata Institute of Role of empty spiracles in the development of Sonia Switzerland Fundamental Research, Drosophila olfactory receptor neurons Bangalore, India

Dunleavy, Irish University of Institut Curie – CENP-A and the epigenetic inheritance of Elaine California, Berkeley, UMR218 CNRS, centromere identity during the cell cycle in San Francisco, USA Paris, France mammals

Jefferies, Irish Beth Israel Deaconess Royal College of Investigate innate immune signaling pathways in Caroline Medical Center, Surgeons in Ireland, the human disease lupus Boston, USA Dublin, Ireland

Adamovich, Israeli Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Weizmann Regulation of PGC-1 protein stability through Yaarit Boston, USA Institute of Science, a unique metabolically regulated proteasomal Rehovot, Israel degradation pathway

Adamovich, Israeli Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Weizmann Regulation of PGC-1 protein stability through Yaarit Boston, USA Institute of Science, a unique metabolically regulated proteasomal Rehovot, Israel degradation pathway

Arbel, Israeli UCLA David Geffen Ben-Gurion University in Solving the structure of the native VDAC protein Nir School of Medicine, the Negev, Los Angeles, USA Beer-Sheva, Israel

Baranes-Bachar, Israeli National Cancer Institute, University of Tel Aviv, Identification of novel players in the interface Keren Bethesda (Maryland), USA Israel between the DNA damage response and the ubiquitin system using high-throughput RNAi screens

Bardoogo- Israeli Washington State University, Technion-Israel Institute of Iron transport through the blood – testis barrier is Leichtmann, Pullman, WA, USA Technology, misregulated in mice lacking the iron regulatory Yael Haifa, Israel protein 2

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Ben-Shitrit, Israeli University of Geneva, University of Tel Aviv, Roles of Elg1 and Stn1 in telomere length Taly Switzerland Israel maintenance

Coster, Israeli Yale University The Hebrew University Regulation of V(D)J recombination by MDC1 Gideon School of Medicine, of Jerusalem, New Haven, USA Israel

Elishmereni, Israeli Finnish Institute of The Hebrew University Analyzing mast cell-eosinophil interactions in an in Moran Occupational Health, of Jerusalem, vivo atopic dermatitis model Helsinki, Finland Israel

Lugassi, Israeli Heinrich-Heine University, Ben-Gurion University, Using markers in the fil mutant to study the Nitsan Düsseldorf, Germany Beer Sheva, Israel interactions between inflorescence meristem organization and floral organ identity and morphology

Sade (Edelbaum), Israeli German Collection of The Hebrew University Identification of genes / proteins involved in circular Dagan Microorganisms and of Jerusalem, transmission of begomoviruses in whiteflies Cell Cultures, Rehovot, Israel Braunschweig, Germany

Steinitz, Israeli Plant Genetics Institute, The Hebrew University Quantifying dispersal processes in an expanding Ofer Firenze, Italy of Jerusalem, population of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) by Israel analysis of genetic polymorphism

Stern-Ginossar, Israeli Heinrich-Heine-University, The Hebrew University Generation of HCMV miRNAs deleted viruses for Noam Düsseldorf, Germany Hadassah Medical School, elucidating miRNA functions Jerusalem, Israel

Zimmerman, Israeli University of Berkeley, The Hebrew University Delineating the molecular mechanism(s) of Toll-like Gabriel USA of Jerusalem, Receptor 9 effects on anxiety and neurogenesis Israel

Aria, Italian University of Zurich-Irchel, Consiglio Nazionale Does the human TIM-1/Tipin complex establish a Valentina Zurich, Switzerland delle Ricerche, direct physical/functional interaction with any of Naples, Italy the replicative DNA polymerases?

Borroni, Italian Institut Pasteur, University of Milan, Understanding the molecular basis of chemokine Elena Monica Paris, France Italy receptors CXCR4 and D6 trafficking properties

Bracciali, Italian University of Cambridge, University of Pisa, Model checking for the analysis of anti-HIV drug Andrea UK Italy therapies and HIV – tubercolosis dynamics

Butelli, Italian Spanish National John Innes Centre, High levels of anthocyanins result in tomato fruit Eugenio Research Council, Norwich, UK with delayed ripening and increased shelf life Valencia, Spain

Camarca, Italian University of Oslo, Institute of Generation of HLA-DQ2 tetramers specific for a Alessandra Norway Food Sciences, novel immunodominant gliadin epitope in celiac Avellino, Italy disease patients

Carletti, Italian Biological Research Center, Catholic University of Oxidative stress in Medicago truncatula mutants Giorgia Szeged, Hungary Piacenza, Italy affected in flavonoid metabolism

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Cerutti, Italian Genomic Vision, FIRC Insitute of Molecular Impact of oncogene activation on DNA replication Aurora Paris, France Oncology Foundation, in human fibroblast Milan, Italy

Cogliati, Italian University of Birmingham, University of Verona, Interaction studies of bile acids with nuclear Clelia UK Italy receptors and cytoplasmic transporters involved in the cholesterol and bile acids homeostasis: characterization of transport mechanisms

Colozza, Italian University of Cambridge, University of Siena, Molecular and Functional characterization of Gabriele UK Italy Drosophila nucleoporin Nup154

Conigliaro, Italian University of California, University Sapienza of Rome, Identification of the role of resident liver stem cells Alice San Diego, USA Italy (RLSC) as precursors of hepatic stellate cells

De Bernardi, Italian University of Lausanne, University of Varese, Studying catecholamine exocytosis in human Sriti Elisabeth Switzerland Italy lymphocytes with imaging technologies

Faraco, Italian VU University, University of Salento, In vivo study of plant SNAREs specifity and function Marianna Amsterdam, The Netherlands Lecce, Italy

Ferrantini, Italian Faculty of Medicine University of Pisa, Cultivation in cell line and genomic Filippo UMR 6020, Italy characterization of protist-borne Rickettsiae Marseille, France

Franci, Italian The Nijmegen Centre for Second University of Naples, Effect of epidrugs on DNA binding proteome by Gianluigi Molecular Life Sciences, Italy SILAC and mass spectrometry in breast cancer cells The Netherlands

Ganassi, Italian King’s College London, University of Modena Investigation of the role of covalent modifications Massimo UK and Reggio Emilia, of Mef2C protein in the formation and Italy differentiation of vertebrate skeletal muscle cells in zebrafish

Guarnera, Italian Max Planck Institute for University of Catania, In silico and cristallography X-ray investigations Andrea Developmental Biology, Italy in the VDAC isoforms: a deep insight in the Tübingen, Germany structure – function correlation of the eukaryotic porins

Guerra, Italian Research Centre for Plant Council of Experimental Identification of target proteins of stress-regulated Davide Biotechnology and Genomics Research in Agriculture ring finger E3 ubiquitin ligases (CBGP-UPM-INIA), Centre for Genomic Research, Madrid, Spain Fiorenzuola d’Arda, Italy

Imperi, Italian University of Nottingham, University Roma Tre, PPK-mediated control of iron uptake mechanisms Francesco UK Italy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a transcriptomic investigation

Langellotto, Italian Massachusetts Anton Dohrn Zoological Functional analysis of heme binding proteins in Fernanda General Hospital, Station of Naples, renal hematopoiesis Boston, USA Italy

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Lirussi, Italian European Molecular University of Udine, Membrane targeting by lipid-binding domains in Lisa Biology Laboratory, Italy yeast Heidelberg, Germany

Mercadante, Italian University of Cambridge, UK The University of Auckland, Molecular determinants of the biological activity of Davide New Zealand the phytopathogen pectin methylesterase

Merlini, Italian Swiss Federal Institute University of Milan-Bicocca, Regulation of septin dynamics by Rho1 GTPase Laura of Technology Zurich, Italy Switzerland

Orlacchio, Italian European Molecular Biogem S.C.A.R.L. , Collective migration in thyroid development, a Arturo Biology Laboratory, Ariano Irpino, Italy translational approach integrating murine and Heidelberg, Germany zebrafish models

Paoletti, Italian National Institute for European Brain Structural determination of recombinant mouse Francesca Medical Research, Research Institute – NGF and proNGF by NMR London, UK “Rita Levi-Montalcini” Foundation, Rome, Italy

Papetti, Italian Alfred Wegener Institute for University of Padova, Mitochondrial functionality in ND6 lacking Chiara Polar and Marine Research, Italy notothenioids Bremerhaven, Germany

Poletto, Italian European Molecular University of Udine, Biochemical methods to the charting of Mattia Biology Laboratory, Italy protein – lipid interaction Heidelberg, Germany

Proietti De Santis, Italian Institute of University of Tuscia, Genome-wide profile of cocakyne syndrome Luca Genetics and Molecular and Viterbo, Italy B protein/DNA association using chromatin Cellular Biology, immunoprecipitation and massive parallel Illkirch, France sequencing

Sarno, Italian Bioscience Institute, Spanish National Effect of microinjected transformer-2 dsRNA on the Francesca University of São Paulo, Research Council, sexual development of Anastrepha obliqua (fruit fly) Brazil Madrid, Spain

Schiavi, Italian Institute of Molecular University of Rome Modeling Friedreich Ataxia in C. elegans: the role of Alfonso Biology and Biotechnology, ‘Tor Vergata’, autophagy in response to frataxin deficiency Heraklion, Greece Italy

Sertic, Italian University of Sussex, University of Milan, Human exonuclease 1 role in response to UV Sarah Brighton, UK Italy irradiation

Vanzulli, Italian University of Zurich, State University of Milan, Characterization of LMW59, a putative target of Silvia Switzerland Italy AGL23

Vicario, Italian Johns Hopkins University, University of Trieste, Identification of RNA binding proteins involved in Annalisa Baltimore, USA Italy BDNF mRNA recognition and trafficking

Zanoni, Italian Harvard Medical School , University of Milan-Biccocca, Study of the mechanisms through which CD14 Ivan Boston, USA Italy controls the TLR4 TRAM-TRIF pathway

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Melko, Lebanese Women’s and Children’s Institute of Molecular and Molecular pathology of fraxe mental retardation Mireille Hospital, Cellular Pharmacology – Adelaide, Australia CNRS UMR6097, Valbonne, France

Armalyte, Lithuanian University of Groningen, Vilnius University, Role of Spx-like regulators in concerted bacterial Julija Haren, The Netherlands Lithuania response to multiple stress conditions and in antimicrobial resistance

Fornelos, Luxembourgish University of Jyväskylä, Catholic University of Leuven, Protein p6 is an activator of the lytic switch in the Nadine Finland Belgium temperate tectiviral phage pGIL01

Phng, Malaysian Goethe University, Cancer Research UK, Defining the molecular signaling networks of the Li-Kun Frankfurt, Germany London Research Institute, Notch-regulated ankyrin repeat protein (Nrarp) UK during sprouting angiogenesis role of Foxo transcription factors

Garcia Solache, Mexican European Molecular University Museum Quantifying gap gene expression in the basal fly Monica Adriana Biology Laboratory, of Zoology, Clogmia albipunctata Barcelona, Spain Cambridge, UK

Preciado Lopez, Mexican University of Tokyo, The Dresden University Purification and biochemical characterization Magdalena Japan of Technology, of the motor protein axonemal dynein from the Germany biflagellate algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Toledo-Ortiz, Mexican University of Texas, Centre de Role of the basic-helix-loop-helix (bHLH) Gabriela Austin, USA Recerca Agrigenomica, transcription factor PIF1 in the transcriptional Barcelona, Spain regulation of carotenogenesis by light

Hussain, Pakistani University of Basel, Agricultural Biotechnology Suppressors of RNA silencing encoded by cotton leaf Khadim Switzerland Division National Institute curl Burewala virus, a resistance breaking species for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Rehman, Pakistani University of Copenhagen , National Institute for Gene identification and their functional analysis for Shoaib ur Denmark Biotechnology and autosomal recessive Mental Retardation (ARMR) in Henetic Engineering, consanguineous Pakistani families Faisalabad, Pakistan

Bobis-Wozowicz, Polish Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Jagiellonian University Production in a large scale an AAV-COL1A1- Dublin, Ireland Medical College, inactivating vector – the first step of gene therapy Krakow, Poland for osteogenesis imperfecta

Graczyk, Polish Institute of Biology Polish Academy of Sciences, Role of CK2 kinase in Maf1-dependent RNA Damian Technologies Saclay, Warsaw, Poland polymerase III transcription regulation Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Kraszewska, Polish University Medical Center Institute of Human Genetics – Point mutations in NOTCH1 and FBXW7 and Monika Rotterdam, The Netherlands Polish Academy of Sciences, internal tandem duplication (ITD) in FLT3 gene in Posen, Poland patients with T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL)

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Orlowski, Polish University of Manchester, International Institute of Automatic matching biological data with web Jerzy Manchester, UK Molecular and Cell Biology, services that can process it Warsaw, Poland

Samolska Klein, Polish The Hebrew University Centro Hispano-Luso de Evaluation of the plant root colonization capacity of Ilanit of Jerusalem, Investigaciones Agrarias, different T. harzianum CECT 2413 strains mutated Rehovot, Israel Salamanca, Spain in two genes potentially involved in Trichoderma- plant interactions

Trzaskowski, Polish International Institute of California Institute First principles predictions of the structure and Bartosz Molecular and Cell Biology, of Technology, function of CCR5 chemokine receptor Warzaw, Poland Pasadena, USA

Wojciechowicz, Polish Columbia University, Durham University, A developmental study of skin adipogenesis in vivo Kamila New York, USA UK and control of adipocyte differentiation in three dimensions in vitro

Pinto Desterro , Portuguese Friedrich Miescher Institute Molecular Medicine Institute, Is microRNA-mediated translational repression Maria Joana for Biomedical Research, Lisbon, Portugal involved in auto-regulation of heterodimeric Basel, Switzerland splicing factor U2AF?

Barros, Portuguese Imperial College London, National Institute Mechanism and consequence of Rac1/PAK1- Patrícia UK of Health ‘Dr. Ricardo Jorge’, regulated BCL-6 dependent transcriptional Lisbon, Portugal repression

Carvalho, Portuguese The Weizmann Institute of Molecular EGFR et al – involvement in basal-like tumours Silvia Institute of Science, Pathology and Immunology Rehovot, Israel of the University of Porto, Portugal

Casimiro, Portuguese University of Virginia, Faculty of Medicine from RANKL plays a role in migration and invasion of Sandra USA Lisbon University, human breast cancer cells by up-regulating MMP1 Portugal

Correia, Portuguese University of Bonn, New Univsersity of Lisbon, Effect of Friedreich Ataxia mutations on the Ana Germany Portugal biogenesis and stability of human frataxin

Correia, Portuguese Centre for Genomic Institute of Molecular Prediction of the impact of missense mutations Joana Regulation, Pathology and Immunology in E-cadherin stability and dynamics, and its Barcelona, Spain of the University of Porto, relevance in gastric cancer development Portugal

Roque, Portuguese King's College London, European Molecular Functional analysis of debrin in neuronal Helio UK Biology Laboratory, differentiation and growth cone pathfinding Heidelberg, Germany

Sipos, Romanian European Molecular Institute of Genetics, Monte Carlo simulation of sequence evolution in Botond Biology Laboratory, Szeged, Hungary the R statistical computing environment Hinxton, UK

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Afonina, Russian Institute of Russian Academy Cryo-electron microscopy analysis of Zhanna Genetics and of Molecular of Sciences, eukaryotic polysomes and Cellular Biology, Pushchino, Russia IGBMC – UMR 7104, Strasbourg, France

Antonina, Russian Institute of Molecular Russian Cancer Actin filament reorganisation during early adhesion Aleksandrova Biotechnology GmbH, Research Center, formation in migrating cells Vienna, Austria Moscow, Russia

Ivankov, Russian Centre for Genomic Russian Academy Mode of natural selection acting on compensatory Dmitry Regulation, of Sciences, substitutions of residues critical for structural Barcelona, Spain Pushchino, Russia stability in protein – protein interactions

Sarskikh, Russian Innsbruck Medical University, Russian Academy Kinetic studies of interaction of ribosomal protein Alena Austria of Sciences, L4 and its mutant form with specific fragments of Pushchino, Russia mRNA and rRNA and crystallization of stable L4- RNA complexes

Foo, Singaporean European Molecular National University of Fluorescence (cross-) correlation spectroscopy Yong Hwee Biology Laboratory, Singapore, Singapore in zebrafish embryos for the investigation of Heidelberg, Germany developmental biology questions

Lee, Singaporean Harvard Medical School, University of Lausanne, Biosynthesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Xiaoyun Boston, USA Switzerland antimetabolite L-2-amino-4-methoxy-trans-3- butenoic acid (AMB)

Lim, Singaporean Heidelberg Institute Univeristy of Melbourne, Glutathione metabolism in Arabidopsis Benson for Plant Science, Australia Germany

Bauerová, Slovakian University of Cardiff, Institute of Molecular Biology, Purification, characterisation and crystallization of Vladena UK Bratislava, Slovakia N-terminal domains of human ryanodine receptor 2 for heart

Gullerova, Slovakian Harvard Medical School, University of Oxford, Relationship of chromatin structure and gene Monika Boston, USA UK orientation to transcription

Hruska-Plochan, Slovakian University of Aarhus, Institute of Animal Generation of a porcine model of Huntington's Marian Denmark Physiology and Genetics, disease Libechov, Czech Republic

Jandzik, Slovakian University of Cambridge, Comenius University, Development and evolution of vertebrate David UK Bratislava, Slovakia appendages: analysis of posterior Hox and Shh pathway gene expression patterns during bichir fin development

Rajman, Slovakian University of California, San Weizmann Institute of Proteomic analysis of regenerating nerve axons Marek Francisco, USA Science, Rehovot, Israel

Vidova, Slovakian University of Denmark, Institute of Molecular Biology, Structure – function relationships in the Barbora Kongens Lyngby, Denmark Bratislava, Slovakia carbohydrate-binding domain family CBM45

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Anderluh, Slovenian University of Oxford, University of Ljubljana, Structural studies of human perforin by cryo- Gregor UK Slovenia electron microscopy

Frajman, Slovenian University of Vienna, Biotechnical Faculty, Using molecular markers to reveal phylogenetic and Bozo Austria Ljubljana, Slovenia phylogeographic patterns within the Heliosperma pusillum group (Sileneae, Caryophyllaceae)

Jevnikar, Slovenian University of Lausanne, University of Ljubljana, Interaction of cathepsin X with β2 integrins Zala Epalinges, Switzerland Slovenia

Semenic, Slovenian University of Tel Aviv , University of Ljubljana, Expression of cspA gene during temperature cycling Tina Israel Slovenia in bacteria Escherichia coli

Bhoola, South African University of Hamburg, University of the Unfolded protein response (UPR) in cultured cells Nimisha Harshadrai Germany Witwatersrand, expressing either wild-type or mutant HBeAG of Johannesburg, South Africa Hepatitis B virus

Adrover, Spanish Medical Research Council, University of Balearic Islands, Testing the hypothesis of frataxin as a gate-keeper Miguel London, UK Palma of Mallorca, Spain of FE–S cluster formation in eurkaryotes

Aguera-Gonzalez, Spanish National Institute of University of Cambridge, Lipid microenvironment of MHC class I Chain Sonia Allergy and Infectious UK related molecules (MICs): implications for immune Diseases, recognition Rockville, USA

Arman Albert, Spanish Nanyang Technological University of Edinburgh, Genome-wide transcriptional profile analysis of Monica University, UK platelet-mediated clumping Plasmodium falciparum Singapore parasites

Banon, Spanish King's College London, Spanish National Importance of WIP in actin reorganization of Inmaculada UK Bioltechnology Centre, dendritic cells Madrid, Spain

Castellsagué, Spanish University of Michigan, Catalan Institute Expression analysis of APC gene in carriers of Ester Ann Arbor, USA of Oncology, Ashkenazi Jewish mutation I1307K. Study of its Barcelona, Spain contribution to tumourigenesis

Castillo, Spanish Medical Research Council , Hospital Duran i Reynals, Identification and characterization of cancer Sandra London, UK Barcelona, Spain initiating cells from lung cancer cell lines

Etxebeste, Spanish Institute for University of the Study of study of the signalling complex associated Oier Applied Life Sciences, Basque Country, to the apical growth machinery in Aspergillus Karlsruhe, Germany Donostia-San Sebastián, nidulans Spain

Fernandez-Pilar, Spanish University of Nottingham, Zaidin Experimental Station, Identification of a novel cell-cell signalling system Regina UK Granada, Spain in Pseudomonas putida KT2440

Hernandez Vega, Spanish Vanderbilt University, Spanish National Enhancer trap screening for zebrafish early Amayra Nashville, USA Research Council, developmental expression Barcelona, Spain

Ibiricu Urriza, Spanish Harvard Medical School, Max Planck Institute of Role of clathrin during Herpes simplex virus 1 Iosune Boston, USA Biochemistry, secondary envelopment and exit from host cells Martinsried, Germany

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Lopez Sanchez, Spanish University of Washington, Polytechnic University of Analysis of the nuclear dynamics of RdDM pathway Ana Saint Louis, USA Valencia, Spain components during plant-pahogen interaction

Martin Jaular, Spanish The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Barcelona Centre for Immunogenic properties of exosomes in Lorena School of Public Health, International Health reticulotcyte-prone non lethal maleria Baltimore, USA Research, Spain

Martin, Spanish University of Sussex, Centre for Characterization of a novel pre-ternary complex Maria Jose Falmer, UK Molecular Biology involving a prokaryotic NHEJ polymerase Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain

Merino Morillo, Spanish Biozentrum, Cajal Institute, Analysis of p75ICD participation in the apoptosis Sandra University of Basel, Madrid, Spain mechanism induced by TrkA and TrkC Switzerland

Molina, Spanish University of Oxford, University of Granada, Effect of the presence of Bacillus pumilus on the Carlos Alfonso UK Spain bacterial gut community of the mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) larvae

Monserrat, Spanish University of Oxford, University of Amsterdam, Role of MARCH-II in the CD1d pathway Verónica UK The Netherlands

Monturus de Spanish French National Center Spanish National Comparison of the replication patterns Carandini, for Scientific Research – Research Council, in differentiated and non differentiated Estefania UPR 1142 (CNRS), Madrid, Spain erythroleukemia cells Montpellier, France

Ortega Roldan, Spanish Vrije Universiteit Brussels, University of Granada, Role of dynamics in the complex between the third Jose Luis Belgium Spain SH3 domain of CD2AP and ubiquitin studied by NMR residual dipolar couplings

Ortega-Villasante, Spanish University of Umeå, Autonomous Characterization of the elements involved in Cristina Sweden University of Madrid, N-glycoprotein trafficking to the chloroplast Spain through the endomembrane system

Palomino del Castillo, Spanish Swiss Federal Institute Spanish National In vitro study of the role of specific residues of Carmen of Technology Zurich, Biotechnology Centre – protein FimH and the activation of FimD type 1 Switzerland Spanish National Research fimbriae biogenesis Council, Madrid, Spain

Perales Viejo, Spanish Institut Pasteur, Spanish National Insights into the mechanism of lethal mutagenesis Celia Paris, France Research Council – using differential DNA denaturation PCR (3D-PCR) Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

Perez-Gonza¡lez, Spanish University of Massachusett, Spanish National Study of the functional relevance of the hCLE Alicia Worcester, USA Research Council, protein in localized translation in polarized cells Madrid, Spain

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Purswani, Spanish Helmholtz Centre for University of Granada, Molecular biology of the t-amyl methyl ether Jessica Environmental Research, Spain (TAME) degradation pathway in Acinetobacter Leipzig, Germany calcoaceticus M10

Rabadan, Spanish University College London, Spanish National Locomotion of neural crest cells Angeles UK Research Council, Barcelona, Spain

Refolio Carnicero, Spanish Center for Cancer Research, University of Salamanca, Study of the protein Ddc2 Role in the Meiotic Esther Hortensia Bethesda, USA Spain Recombination Checkpoint

Resa Infante, Spanish Harvard Medical School, Spanish National Functional dissection of an RNA synthesis machine: Patricia Boston, USA Research Council, the domain structure of the vesicular stomatitis Madrid, Spain virus L protein

Rivas Peña, Spanish Developmental Biology University Pablo de Olavide, Study of competition between ABD-B and cofactors Maria Luisa Institute of Marseille-Luminy, Seville, Spain EXD and HTH from a biochemical point of view Marseille, France

Ruiz-Saenz, Spanish Erasmus University Centre for Molecular Biology Role of protein 4.1R in microtubule dynamics and Ana Medical Center Rotterdam, Severo Ochoa, stabilization at the leading edge of migrating cells The Netherlands Madrid, Spain

Sala, Spanish University of Lausanne, Rovira and Virgili University, In silico methodologies for design functional food in Esther Switzerland Tarragona, Spain order to prevent cardiovascular diseases

Terriente, Spanish Erasmus Medical Centre Autonomous University of Mechanisms of EGFR target genes regulation by Ana Rotterdam, The Netherlands Madrid, Spain the BAP and PBAP complexes in the Drosophila melanogaster wing

Varela-Alvarez, Spanish University of Liège, University of Granada, Characterization by stopped-flow folding kinetics Lorena Belgium Spain of partially-folded amyloidogenic states of the SH3 domain

Villar, Spanish Graz University of Technology, Autonomous University of Computational assesment of transcription factor Diego Austria Madrid, Spain cooperation on hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) responsive enhancers: integration of in-depth sequence analysis and ChIP-chip data

Segerstolpe, Swedish University of Edinburgh, Stockholm University, In vivo mapping of binding sites for Mrd1p on pre- Åsa UK Sweden ribosomal RNA

Croset, Swiss European Molecular Center for Integrative Phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis of iGluRs/ Vincent Biology Laboratory, Genomics, Lausanne, IRs Heidelberg, Germany Switzerland

Gursoy-Yuzugullu, Turkish Institut Albert Bonniot, Bilkent University, Characterization of the role of p53-249ser mutant S. Ozge Grenoble, France Ankara, Turkey in hepatocellular carcinoma

Hatirnaz, Turkish Erasmus University Istanbul University, Gene expression profiling of Turkish T-ALL patients Özden Medical Center, Turkey Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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NAME NATIONALITY HOST LABORATORY HOME LABORATORY RESEARCH INTEREST Yelboga, Turkish Istituto di Chimica del Istanbul Technical University, Structural characterization of D195S, N187E, Emrah Riconoscimento Moleculare, Turkey N147R, H13E, Q105R mutants of Candida methylica Milan, Italy FDH by using circular dichroism and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Gorbenko, Ukrainian University Medical Center, Institute of Molecular PTEN – FABP4 interaction – missing link in cell Olena Utrecht, The Netherlands Biology and Genetics, signalling and differentiation Kiew, Ukraine

Lucic, Yugoslavian Imperial College London, International Centre for Cryo-EM studies on the human RECQ1 Helicase Bojana UK Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy

Sjekloca, Yugoslavian European Molecular Medical Research Council , Structure determination of FMRP, the protein Ljiljana Biology Laboratory, London, UK responsible for fragile X mental retardation Grenoble, France

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applications and awards 2000–2009

country from applications % of total awards % of total success rate % Austria 28 1 15 0 54 Belgium 64 2 45 2 70 Croatia 28 1 14 1 50 Czech Republic 71 2 41 2 58 Denmark 23 1 12 1 52 Estonia 4 0 3 0 75 Finland 32 1 21 1 66 France 221 6 135 7 61 Germany 238 7 134 7 56 Greece 127 4 71 4 56 Hungary 84 2 50 3 60 Iceland 12 0 7 0 58 Ireland 36 1 20 1 56 Israel 134 4 92 5 69 Italy 524 15 264 14 50 Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 0 The Netherlands 94 3 59 3 63 Norway 13 0 6 0 46 Poland 126 4 57 3 45 Portugal 69 2 38 2 55 Slovak Republic 7 0 6 0 86 Slovenia 42 1 19 1 45 Spain 554 16 294 16 53 Sweden 38 1 26 1 68 Switzerland 53 1 34 2 64 Turkey 72 2 28 2 39 United Kingdom 140 4 91 5 65 Eastern Europe 239 7 107 6 45 Others 351 10 160 9 46 Total 3424 100 1849 100 54

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applications and awards 1977–2009 year applications awards success rate % year applications awards success rate % 2009 495 255 52 1979 344 243 71 2008 395 213 54 1978 349 244 70 2007 409 211 52 1977 294 213 72 2006 393 194 49 2005 383 201 52 2004 301 167 55 2003 289 138 48 2002 252 170 67 2001 233 124 53 2000 274 176 64 1999 230 138 60 1998 279 143 51 1997 339 188 55 1996 316 180 57 1995 325 187 57 1994 369 203 55 1993 376 209 55 1992 351 213 61 1991 344 194 56 1990 346 211 61 1989 331 199 60 1988 351 211 60 1987 301 212 70 1986 309 215 70 1985 304 221 73 1984 320 226 71 1983 335 223 67 1982 321 213 66 1981 339 235 69 1980 357 242 68

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applications ech

to from Austrian Belgian Croatian Cz Danish Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Israeli Italian Luxembourgian Dutch Norwegian Polish Portuguese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Turkish British Eastern European nationalities US-American/ Canadian Other nationalities Total Austria 1 1 1 1 1 131212 Belgium 1 1 3 1 2 8 Croatia 1 1 Czech Republic 1 1 Denmark 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 8 Estonia 0 Finland 1 1 1 1 4 France 1 1 1212 7 2 21 10 21336752 Germany 2 2 3 4 5 1 2 4 1 1 6 2 15 48 Greece 2114 Hungary 1 1 Iceland 0 Ireland 1 1 1 3 Israel 1 2 1 1 1 6 Italy 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 18 Luxembourg 0 The Netherlands 1 4 2 6 1 3 1 2 3 1 1 25 Norway 1 1 2 Poland 1113 Portugal 11 24 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 0 Spain 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 6 1 1 2 2 1 3 2 1 14 41 Sweden 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 11 Switzerland 1 1 2 1 8 1 1 6 2 5 28 Turkey 1 1 UK 1 31 7836 115 4 122120111 121091 EMBL 1 4 1 2 1 1 10 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 2 2 15821 31117 4 2 323 3 10 1199 Others 2 4 1 1 2 1 3 14 Total 382911523331011051981016111133979510728142266495

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awards ech

to from Austrian Belgian Croatian Cz Danish Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Israeli Italian Luxembourgian Dutch Norwegian Polish Portuguese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Turkish British Eastern European nationalities US-American/ Canadian Other nationalities Total Austria 1 1 1 2 1 6 Belgium 213 Croatia 0 Czech Republic 0 Denmark 1 1 11 15 Estonia 0 Finland 1 1 1 3 France 1 1 2 1 1 4 1 1 3 21213327 Germany 2 1 2 4 2 1 2151829 Greece 213 Hungary 1 1 Iceland 0 Ireland 1 1 Israel 1 2 1 1 1 6 Italy 2111 1129 Luxembourg 0 The Netherlands 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 11 Norway 1 1 Poland 1 1 Portugal 1 1 Slovak Republic 0 Slovenia 0 Spain 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 4 16 Sweden 1 1 1 3 Switzerland 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 3 1 3 17 Turkey 0 UK 1 31 2626 8 2 1121811 1249 EMBL 1 3 1 2 1 1 9 Eastern Europe 0 USA/Canada 1 1 4511 195 1 1 8 1 7 46 Others 2 2 1 1 2 8 Total 28061121319790216340804634333732071027255 www.embo.org/programmes/fellowships | [email protected] ➔ 127 EMBO | young investigators 2009

young investigators 2009

name nationality institute research interest country Bettencourt-Dias, Mónica Portuguese Gulbenkian Institute, Oeiras Centriole and cilia biogenesis Portugal Blanpain, Cédric Belgian Free University of Brussels Stem cells Belgium Carleton, Alan French University of Geneva Migration of adult-born neurons Switzerland Gerlich, Daniel German ETH Zurich Mechanisms of cell division Switzerland Hoogenraad, Casper Dutch Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam Synaptic protein transport The Netherlands Jovine, Luca Italian Karolinska Institute, Huddinge Protein complexes in egg-sperm recognition Sweden Marston, Adèle British University of Edinburgh Mechanism of chromosome segregation United Kingdom Martin, Sophie Swiss University of Lausanne Cell polarization Switzerland Meraldi, Patrick Swiss ETH Zurich Chromosome movement during cell division Switzerland M. Madan, Babu Indian MRC-LMB, Cambridge Computational genomics United Kingdom Odom, Duncan American Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Control of transcription in mammals United Kingdom Polo, Simona Italian IFOM Foundation-FIRC Institute, Milan Regulatory roles of ubiquitin Italy Ricci, Romeo Swiss/Italian ETH Zurich Signal transduction in the metabolic syndrome Switzerland Roska, Botond Hungarian Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel Neural circuit function Switzerland Schratt, Gerhard German University of Heidelberg microRNA function in synaptic development Germany Sorek, Rotem Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Microbial genomics and transcriptomics Israel Walther, Tobias German MPI for Biochemistry, Martinsried Lipid biology Germany

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installation grant recipients 2009

name nationality moving from moving to research interest Baena-González, Elena Spanish Harvard Medical School, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Stress adaptation in plants Boston, MA, United States Oeiras, Portugal Barˇinka, Cyril Czech National Cancer Institute, Institute of Biotechnology, Biochemistry of glutamate Frederick, MD, United States Prague, Czech Republic carboxypeptidase Bednarek, Paweł Polish MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Antimicrobial molecules in plants Cologne, Germany Poznan, Poland Chacinska, Agnieszka Polish University of Freiburg, IIMCB, Mitochondrial proteins Germany Warsaw, Poland

Zíková, Alena Czech Seattle Biomedical Institute of Parasitology, FoF1-ATP synthase in parasitic protozoa Research Institute, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic WA, United States

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young investigators 2000–2008

A Adams, Ralf C Casares, Fernando F Fankhauser, Christian K Kaessmann, Henrik Agami, Reuven Cavaillé, Jérôme Fernández-Capetillo, Ketting, René Allain, Frederic Chin, Jason Óscar Khakh, Baljit Alon, Uri Chiti, Fabrizio Fernandez-Chacon, Klaholz, Bruno Antonny, Bruno Christoforidis, Savvas Rafael Knoblich, Jürgen Arber, Silvia Clausen, Tim Friml, Jirí Köhler, Claudia Arkowitz, Robert Collinson, Ian Fuks, François Konieczny, Igor Arribas, Joaquin Conradt, Barbara G Gerhardt, Holger Kunji, Edmund Ashe, Hilary Cosma, Maria Pia Gil, Jesús L Labib, Karim Averof, Michalis Costanzo, Vincenzo Glotzer, Michael Längst, Gernot B Barkai, Naama Cramer, Patrick Gönczy, Pierre Lappalainen, Pekka Barr, Francis Currie, Peter González-Reyes, Lecuit, Thomas Barral, Yves D d’Adda di Fagagna, Acaimo Lemaitre, Bruno Barre, François-Xavier Fabrizio Gotta, Monica Levashina, Elena A. Batista, Facundo Davis, Daniel H Hajnal, Alex Leys, David Baum, Buzz de Gier, Jan-Willem Hardingham, Giles Logan, Malcolm Behrens, Axel Del Pozo, Miguel Harkany, Tibor Lohmann, Jan Beja, Oded Delledonne, Massimo Hassan, Bassem Löwe, Jan Bellaïche, Yohanns Dessen, Andrea Haucke, Volker Lygerou, Zoi Ben-Yehuda, Sigal Dickson, Barry Helariutta, Ykä Berger, Frédéric Dominguez, Maria Helms, Volkhard Bertolotti, Anne Donaldson, Anne Hidalgo, Alicia Bertrand, Edouard Dutzler, Raimund Hirst, Judy Blazquez, Miguel E Einsle, Oliver Holstege, Frank Bochtler, Matthias Elena, Santiago Hopfner, Karl-Peter Boulton, Simon Etienne-Manneville, Hoppe, Thorsten Bousso, Philippe Sandrine Hummel, Thomas Boutros, Michael I Ivaska, Johanna Briscoe, James J Janke, Carsten Bujnicki, Janusz Jansen, Ralf Bumann, Dirk Jensen, Torben Heick

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young investigators 2000–2008 (cont.)

M Malnasi Csizmadia, O Oldroyd, Giles S Sahai, Erik T Taipale, Jussi Andras Otzen, Daniel Salecker, Iris Tamagnone, Luca Mansuy, Isabelle Owen, David Santos, Manuel Tanaka, Tomoyuki Manzanares, Miguel Owen-Hughes, Tom Saudou, Frédéric Tapon, Nicolas Marin, Oscar Oxenius, Annette S Schärer, Orlando Tavernarakis, Marine, P Palková, Zdena Schedl, Andreas Nektarios Jean-Christophe Palmer, Ruth Schleper, Christa Teichmann, Sarah Martin-Bermudo, Pasero, Philippe Schlötterer, Christian Telford, Maximilian Maria Dolores Peeper, Daniel Schneitz, Kay Thérond, Pascal Martín-Serrano, Juan Pellizzoni, Livio Schnittger, Arp Trouche, Didier Martinez, Javier Peracchi, Alessio Schübeler, Dirk Trumpp, Andreas Más, Paloma Perrakis, Anastassis Schulze, Almut Tsiantis, Miltos Mattevi, Andrea Peters, Antoine Schwappach, Blanche Tuschl, Thomas Mehlen, Patrick Peters, Jan-Michael Scorrano, Luca U Uhlmann, Frank Meier, Pascal Philpott, Dana Segal, Eran Ulrich, Helle Milán, Marco Pierre, Philippe Seoane, Joan Ungermann, Miska, Eric Pilpel, Yitzhak Simons, Mikael Christian Mitchell, Kevin Poirazi, Panayiota So, Eric V van Aalten, Daan Møller, Simon Geir Posas, Francesc Sourjik, Victor Van den Ackerveken, Morillon, Antonin R Radtke, Freddy Spahn, Christian Guido Mosialos, George Reich , Ziv Spang, Anne van der Goot, Gisou Mota, Maria Rescigno, Maria Stancheva, Irina van Steensel, Bas Musacchio, Andrea Robinson, Robert Stock, Daniela Vendruscolo, Michele N Nagy, Laszlo Rodriguez, Ivan Sträßer, Katja Vinkemeier, Uwe Nehrbass, Ulf Rouse, John Strick, Terence Viola, Antonella Neuhauss, Stephan Stumpf, Michael Voinnet, Olivier Nichols, Benjamin Suomalainen-Wartio- W Wimmer, Ernst Nissen, Poul vaara, Anu Wutz, Anton Noselli, Stephane Szabò, Ildikò Z Zeeman, Samuel Zernicka-Goetz, Magdalena

Zimmermann, Pascale www.embo.org/programmes/yip | [email protected] ➔ 131 EMBO | young investigators: statistics

young investigators applications and awards 2000–2009

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 country appl. aw. appl. aw. appl. aw. appl. aw. appl. aw. appl. aw. appl. aw. appl. aw. appl. aw. appl. aw. Austria 95301000313130211020 Belgium 80203021103062612061 Croatia 20100000101000000000 Czech Republic 2 0 0 1 6 0 14 0 4 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Denmark 51000022001030201000 Estonia 00000000000000000000 Finland 92104130902052802020 France 72 5 17 4 26 4 26 2 17 3 14 2 16 4 8 3 11 1 11 0 Germany 52 7 22 4 17 4 15 3 30 3 23 4 27 2 19 3 21 1 17 2 Greece 82124130416040402020 Hungary 21106071501030003010 Iceland 00000010000010100010 Ireland 60300000311020000010 Israel 132714051503151214061 Italy 22 1 6 3 14 3 11 1 14 0 14 1 11 3 9 1 4 0 15 1 Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The Netherlands 10 2 6 2 3 0 4 0 3 1 5 1 8 0 5 1 7 0 7 1 Norway 20101010000000000000 Poland 131208160812000001010 Portugal 91612021304020101021 Slovak Republic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Slovenia 30000000102010000010 Spain 40 4 26 1 18 2 26 2 21 1 17 1 16 0 18 3 12 1 8 0 Sweden 23 1 3 0 15 0 7 1 8 0 3 1 10 0 14 1 3 0 3 1 Switzerland 21 6 11 3 12 3 5 1 8 1 8 3 5 2 4 0 5 2 11 6 Turkey 80 10 20 20 10 00 00 20 30 10 United Kingdom 75 14 30 1 23 4 21 5 20 7 13 2 22 5 26 3 32 7 24 3 Others 10000000300010000000 Total 415 55 150 23 169 23 163 21 172 20 128 17 153 21 131 18 116 12 123 17 Female 94 13 44 4 45 4 47 7 39 4 32 2 32 6 37 3 32 2 34 4 Male 321 42 106 19 124 19 116 14 133 16 96 15 121 15 94 15 84 10 89 13

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general statistics for all young investigators upon selection 2000 –2009

average age, post-doctoral years and publications age 35.2 post-doctoral years 4.7 total number of publications 22 last-author publications 3.9 fi rst-author publications 9.6

no. % of total pre- and/or post-doctorate spent in USA USA 137 60.0

no. % of total post-doctoral fellowships received from EMBO 72 32.0 international agencies HFSP 57 25.0 EU TMR 25 11.0

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young Investigator Harkany, 12th Meeting of the HU – Budapest 22 – 24 January lectures 2009 Tibor Hungarian Neuroscience Society Boulton, Keystone Symposium US – New Mexico 1 – 6 March Simon Genome Instability and DNA Repair Costanzo, Keystone Symposium US – New Mexico 1 – 6 March Vincenzo Genome Instability and DNA Repair Gerhardt, 2nd Workshop on CA – British Columbia 16 – 19 March Holger Vascular Matrix Biology and Bioengineering Scorrano, Keystone Symposium CA – British Columbia 22 – 27 March Luca Molecular and Cellular Biology Etienne-Manneville, Gordon Research Conference US – Texas 30 March – 3 April Sandrine Gradient Sensing and Directed Cell Migration Sahai, Gordon Research Conference US – Texas 30 March – 3 April Erik Gradient Sensing and Directed Cell Migration Fernandez-Capetillo, EC funded FP6 integrated project: GR – Crete 20 – 23 April Oscar DNA Damage Response and Repair Mechanisms Pasero, EC funded FP6 integrated project: GR – Crete 20 – 23 April Philippe DNA Damage Response and Repair Mechanisms Bellaïche, ESF-EMBO Symposium on ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 23 – 28 May Yohanns Cell Polarity and Membrane Traffic Ben-Yehuda, Gordon Research Conference IT – Barga 24 – 29 May Sigal Chromosome Dynamics Scorrano, Gordon Research Conference US – New Hampshire 7 – 12 June Luca Molecular and Cellular Bioenergenetics: From Crystal Structures to Disease Ivaska, Molecular and Cellular FR – Corsica 8 – 19 June Johanna Membrane Biology Schulze, BACR/EACR Symposium 2009 – UK – Cambridge 8 – 10 July Almut Transcription and Cancer Hoppe, 8th International Conference on CA – Toronto 12 – 16 July Thorsten AAA Proteins

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young Investigator Peters, Gordon Research Conference US – New Hampshire 12 – 17 July lectures 2009 Antoine Fertilization and the Activation of Development (cont.) Harkany, Gordon Research Conference US – Maine 2 – 7 August Tibor Cannabinoids in CNS Function Schulze, American Association for Cancer Research – US – La Jolla 13 – 16 September Almut Metabolism and Cancer Schübeler, Gordon Research Conference CH – Switzerland 13 – 18 September Dirk Stem Cells and Cancer Hoppe, EMBO Conference on IT – Riva del Garda 22 – 26 September Thorsten Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like Modifiers Schnittger, 9th International Congress on US – Missouri 25 – 30 September Arp Plant Molecular Biology Barre, International Symposium on IN – Kolkata 25 – 27 October François-Xavier “Fifty years of cholera toxin: a tribute to S.N. De” Tapon, 2nd Annual Melbourne AU – Melbourne 12 – 13 November Nicolas Cell and Developmental Biology Meeting Gotta, Frontiers in Cancer Stem Cell Research: NO – Oslo 2 – 4 December Monica From Basic Science Towards a Cure Sahai, 49th Annual Meeting of the US – San Diego 5 – 9 December Erik American Society for Cell Biology

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plenary lectures 2009 Janet Thornton 3rd International Biocuration Meeting DE – Berlin 16 – 19 April EMBC Member States Jeff Errington Young Microbiologists Mini-Symposium: IE – Cork 22 – 23 April Microbe Signalling and Pathogenesis Genevieve Almouzni 2009 Gordon Research Conference on IT – Lucca 24 – 29 May Chromosome Dynamics Ari Helenius Molecular and Cellular Membrane Biology FR – Cargèse 8 – 19 June Iain Mattaj Advances in Molecular Mechanisms NO – Oslo 10 – 12 June of Disease Michael Levitt 3DSIG: Structural Bioinformatics SE – Stockholm 27 – 28 June & Computational Biophysics Kirsten Sandvig 14th European Workshop on FR – Obernai 27 June – 2 July Bacterial Protein Toxins Richard A. Flavell International Congress of Developmental CZ – Prague 28 June – 4 July and Comparative Immunology Dirk Inzé 34th FEBS Congress: CZ – Prague 4 – 9 July Life’s Molecular Interactions Evelyn Fox Keller The Darwin 2009 Festival UK – Cambridge 5 – 10 July Harold Varmus The Darwin 2009 Festival UK – Cambridge 5 – 10 July Olivier Pourquié ISSCR 7th Annual Meeting ES – Barcelona 8 – 11 July Moshe Oren International MDM2 Worshop V BE – Ghent 23 – 26 August Laurence Hurst 12th Congress of the IT – Turin 24 – 29 August European Society for Evolutionary Biology Wilhelm Krek Glucose Transporter Biology and IT – Lucca 6 – 11 September Diabetes Meeting Aaron Ciechanover EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course GR – Spetses 7 – 17 September Proteins and their networks – from specific to global analysis Konrad Sandhoff FEBS Advanced Course on IT – Ortona 9 – 15 September Lipids Signalling and Disease Roel Nusse 2nd Gordon Conference on CH – Les Diablerets 13 – 18 September Stem Cells and Cancer Joel Sussman 10th International Meeting on HR – Sibenik 20 – 25 September Cholinesterases Philip Cohen Signal Transduction and Disease DE – Aachen 27 – 30 September

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plenary lectures 2009 Ari Helenius 11th International EMBL PhD Student DE – Heidelberg 29 – 31 October EMBC Member States Symposium (cont.) plenary lectures 2009 Murray Stewart 34th Lorne Conference on AU – Lorne 8 – 12 February outside Europe Protein Structure and Function Michel Georges 30th Lorne Conference on AU – Lorne 15 – 18 February Organisation and Expression of the Genome Angus Lamond The 9th Hunter Meeting AU – Pokolbin 24 – 27 March Olivier Voinnet Third SMBBM MA – Marrakech 20 – 25 April International Congress of Biochemistry Paolo Sassone-Corsi EURO GOLD – 20 Years of EMBO Gold Medal SG – Singapore 4 – 6 May Winners James Briscoe Gordon Research Conference in US – Andover 21 – 26 June Developmental Biology Bernd Bukau 8th International Conference on AAA Proteins CA – Toronto 12 – 16 July Aaron Ciechanover 21st IUBMB and 12th FAOBMB International CN – Shanghai 2 – 7 August Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Harald zur Hausen Biotecnologia Habana 2009: Medical CU – Havana 2 – 5 November Applications of Biotechnology Philippe Sansonetti XLV Annual Meeting of the Argentine Society for AR – Tucuman 10 – 13 November Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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practical courses 2009 Next generation sequencing: M. Yaspo DE – Berlin 1 – 13 February EMBC Member States ChIP-seq and RNA-seq Advanced optical microscopy B. Amos UK – Plymouth 25 March – 4 April Mass spectrometry and proteomics O. Nørregaard Jensen DK – Odense 15 – 22 April MicroRNA profiling: from in situ hybridization to V. Benes DE – Heidelberg 18 – 24 April next-generation sequencing Fluorescence (cross-) correlation spectroscopy M. Knop DE – Heidelberg 18 – 23 May (FCS/FCCS) for cell biology applications Light microscopy in living cells N. Moreno PT – Oeiras 29 May – 5 June Electron tomography in life science B. Koster NL – Leiden 1 – 7 June Molecular genetics with the fission yeast I. Hagan UK – Manchester 13 – 25 June Schizosaccharomyces pombe EMBO / MAX-INF2 Practical Course C. Mueller-Dieckmann FR – Grenoble 15 – 19 June Structure determination in macromolecular crystallography High throughput methods for protein R. Owens UK – Oxford 17 – 25 June production and crystallization Molecular approaches to evolution and D. Arendt SE – Fiskebaeckskil 29 June – 10 July development Developmental neurobiology from worms to C. Houart UK – London 1 – 15 July mammals Single molecule analysis of DNA protein T. Strick FR – Paris 5 – 18 July interactions Structure, dynamics and function of M. Sattler DE – Garching 27 July – 3 August biomacromolecules by solution NMR Two-photon imaging of brain cell dynamics F. Helmchen CH – Zurich 6 – 13 September Image processing for cryo-electron microscopy E. Orlova UK – London 7 – 17 September Networks in biology analysis, modelling and G. Romeo IT – Bologna 22 – 25 September reverse engineering Quantitative FRET, FRAP and FCS V. Sourjik DE – Heidelberg 23 – 28 September Current methods in cell biology M. Kaksonen DE – Heidelberg 8 – 16 October Advanced analysis and informatics of A. Brazma UK – Hinxton 12 – 17 October microarray data

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practical courses 2009 The combination of electron microscopy J. Navaza FR – Grenoble 18 – 24 October EMBC Member States and x – ray crystallography for the structure (cont.) determination of large biological complexes High throughput microscopy for systems biology R. Pepperkok DE – Heidelberg 8 – 13 November practical courses 2009 Advanced methods for phylogenetic analysis of M. Embley BR – Rio de Janeiro 9 – 15 March outside Europe molecular sequences FRET, FLIM, FCS, FRAP & 3 – D imaging: S. Ahmed SG – Singapore 13 – 24 April application to cell and developmental biology II International School of C. Cameron BR – Rio de Janeiro 3 – 14 August Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology Current tools in cell biology: probing normal and pathological cell functions DNA microarray – analysis and applications P. Vincent IN – Tamil Nadu 16 – 20 August Computational biology: from (meta)genomes to P. Bork CN – Shanghai 16 – 22 August phenotype and environment Bioinformatics and comparative genome F. Tekaia CN – Hong Kong 17 – 29 August analyses Advanced bioinformatic methods in the study of J. McInerney CO – Medellin 23 – 30 August gene and genome evolution Structure and dynamics of biomolecules by NMR C. Fernandez AR – Rosario 21 – 30 September spectroscopy lecture course 2009 Mitochondrial medicine: from genetics to V. Carelli IT – Bologna 18 – 22 April EMBC Member States biological mechanisms and beyond workshops 2009 The multiple faces of lamins in R. Foisner AT – Vienna 6 – 9 January EMBC Member States aging and disease New functions of regulatory RNAs in R. Schroeder AT – Vienna 14 – 15 January pro- and eukaryotes Visualizing immune system complexity L. Alexopoulou FR – Marseille 15 – 17 January Model organisms in cell death research A. Villunger AT – Obergurgl 31 January – 4 February Beta cell differentiation and regeneration K. Docherty UK – Peebles 26 February – 1 March EMBO-FEMS Workshop I. Cardoso Pereira PT – Tomar 15 – 18 March Microbial sulfur metabolism bHLH transcription factors F. Guillemot UK – London 7 – 8 May Blood and lymphatic vasculature: K. Alitalo FI – Helsinki 4 – 5 June from models to human disease

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workshops 2009 Cortical interneurons in health and disease O. Marin ES – Mallorca 21 – 25 June EMBC Member States RUNX transcription factors in development and M. de Bruijn UK – Oxford 16 – 19 August (cont.) disease Developmental systems I. Rodriguez CH – Arolla 18 – 22 August Frontiers of prokaryotic cell biology J. Löwe UK – Oxford 24 – 27 August Wnt signalling in development and disease J. Huelsken CH – Arolla 26 – 29 August 2009 EMBO Molecular Medicine Workshop P. Comoglio IT – Torino 10 – 12 September Invasive growth: a genetic programme for stem cells and cancer Messenger RNA 3’ ends and gene expression N. Proudfoot UK – Oxford 16 – 20 September Mitochondria, apoptosis and cancer J. Neuzil CZ – Prague 1 – 3 October Evo-Devo meets marine ecology: new frontiers in I. Arnone IT – Ischia (Napoli) 9 – 11 October ocean science through integrative biology workshop 2009 Amoebiasis: molecular approaches in an J. Verweij MX – Guanajuato 24 – 27 February outside Europe important but neglected disease conference series 2009 Spatial 2009 M. Fainzilber IL – Maale Hachamisha 15 – 19 March (1st in a series) Overcoming distance in signaling networks EMBC Member States Cancer Proteomics 2009 W. Gallagher IE – Dublin 8 – 11 June Mechanistic insights, technological advances and molecular medicine Helicase and NTP-driven nucleic acids motors: P. Linder CH – Les Diablerets 27 June – 2 July structure, function, mechanism and roles in human disease Population and molecular biology of vectors C. Louis GR – Kolymbari 19 – 26 July 8th International Conference on H. Tschochner DE – Regensburg 26 – 30 August Ribosome Synthesis Physics of cells: from the edge to the heart A. Smith HR – Primosten (Split) 6 – 13 September (Physcell2009) Meiosis B. de Massy FR – Isle sur la Sorgue 19 – 23 September Morphogenesis and dynamics of D. Brunner DE – Heidelberg 2 – 6 October multicellular systems Endocytic machineries in control of cell H. Stenmark GR – Chania 3 – 8 October signalling and tissue morphogenesis Comparative genomics of eukaryotic E. Louis ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 17 – 22 October microorganisms: diversity of life

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conference series 2009 Autophagy – cell biology, physiology and M. Peter CH – Ascona 18 – 21 October (1st in a series) pathology EMBC Member States (cont.) conference series 2009 Tackling and imaging the complexity of the B. Malissen IT – Capo Caccia 20 – 24 April (2nd in a series) immune system EMBC Member States Frontiers of plant research C. Gutierrez ES – Cadiz 6 – 9 May

Chromatin and epigenetics W. Reik DE – Heidelberg 13 – 17 May Cellular protein homeostasis in H. Kampinga HR – Dubrovnik 23 – 28 May disease and ageing Advances in stem cell research: A. Smith UK – Cambridge 15 – 17 June stem cells, systems and synthetic biology Europhosphatases 2009 J. den Hertog NL – Egmond aan Zee 14 – 18 July Protein phosphatases in development and disease Protein synthesis and translational control M. Hentze DE – Heidelberg 9 – 13 September Antigen receptor signaling: from lymphocyte C. Baldari IT – Certosa di Pontignano 12 – 16 September development to effector function Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers in health T. Sommer IT – Riva del Garda 23 – 27 September and disease Nuclear receptors: from molecular mechanisms L. Nagy HR – Dubrovnik 25 – 29 September to molecular medicine Nuclear structure and dynamics G. Cavalli FR – Isle sur la Sorgue 30 September – 4 October The assembly and function of neuronal circuits P. Caroni CH – Ascona 5 – 8 October Host genetic control of infectious diseases M. Yaniv FR – Paris 7 – 10 October Legionella 2009 C. Buchrieser FR – Paris 13 – 17 October

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ESF-EMBO Spatio-temporal radiation biology: Y. Gauduel ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 16 – 21 May Symposia 2009 transdisciplinary advances for biomedical applications Cell polarity and membrane traffic A. Spang ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 23 – 28 May Biological surfaces and interfaces J. Gold ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 28 June – 3 July EMBO/FEBS Molecular and cellular membrane biology G. van Meer FR – Cargese 8 – 19 June Lecture Courses 2009 Proteins and their networks – A. Fersht GR – Spetses 7 – 17 September from specific to global analysis

➔ 142 www.embo.org/programmes/courses-workshops | [email protected] EMBO | laboratory management courses 2009

laboratory management EMBO Laboratory Management Course G. Wallon DE – Leimen 27 – 29 January courses 2009 (for postdocs) K. Bell (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course G. Wallon DE – Leimen 16 – 19 February (for independent group leaders) K. Bell (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course G. Wallon DE – Leimen 1 – 3 April (for postdocs) K. Bell (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course G. Wallon UK – Ware 5 – 8 May (for independent group leaders) K. Bell (Hertfordshire) EMBO Laboratory Management Course G. Wallon UK – Ware 11 – 13 May (for postdocs) K. Bell (Hertfordshire) EMBO Laboratory Management Course G. Wallon DE – Leimen 6 – 8 July (for postdocs) K. Bell (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 14 – 17 September (for independent group leaders) A. Seller (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 7 – 9 October (for postdocs) A. Seller (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 12 – 14 October (for postdocs) A. Seller (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn UK – Ware 10 – 13 November (for independent group leaders) A. Seller (Hertfordshire)

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EMBO membership (including associate members) courses and workshops year total number of members % women % female % female 2001 1092 12.9 participants speakers 2002 1126 13.1 2001 Practical Courses 44 23 2003 1162 13.3 Workshops 40 26 Lecture Courses 63 20 2004 1191 13.7 2005 1223 13.8 2002 Practical Courses 51 23 Workshops 39 25 2006 1271 13.8 Lecture Courses 58 19 2007 1305 14.3 2003 Practical Courses 49 22 2008 1357 14.4 Workshops 41 24 2009 1416 14.8 Lecture Courses 48 13

2004 Practical Courses 56 27 Workshops 40 25 Conferences 40 21 Lecture Courses 50 29

2005 Practical Courses 53 27 Workshops 41 22 Conferences 40 26 Lecture Courses 60 25

2006 Practical Courses 45 22 Workshops 45 24 Conferences 45 n.a. Lecture Courses 52 20

2007 Practical Courses 52 28 Workshops 39 25 Conference Series 40 22 Lecture Courses 65 18

2008 Practical Courses 50 24 Workshops 48 25 Conference Series 44 29 Lecture Courses 37 16

2009 Practical Courses 54 20 Workshops 51 27 Conference Series 45 25 Lecture Courses 60 37

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short-term fellowships applications awarded success rate % 2001 Female applicants 130 (55.7%) 70 (56.4%) 53.8 Male applicants 103 (44.2%) 54 (43.5%) 52.4 Overall 233 124 53.2

2002 Female applicants 148 (53.4%) 81 (53.3%) 54.7 Male applicants 129 (46.6%) 71 (46.7%) 55.0 Overall 277 152 54.9

2003 Female applicants 139 (53.7%) 72 (52.2%) 51.8 Male applicants 120 (46.3%) 66 (47.8%) 55.0 Overall 259 138 53.3

2004 Female applicants 161 (53.7%) 84 (52.2%) 52.2 Male applicants 140 (46.3%) 83 (47.8%) 59.3 Overall 301 167 55.5

2005 Female applicants 190 (49.6%) 88 (44.0%) 46.3 Male applicants 193 (50.4%) 112 (56.0%) 58.0 Overall 383 200 52.2

2006 Female applicants 204 (52.0%) 100 (51.8%) 49.0 Male applicants 188 (48.0%) 93 (48.2%) 49.4 Overall 392 193 49.3

2007 Female applicants 212 (51.8%) 117 (55.5%) 55.2 Male applicants 197 (48.2%) 94 (44.5%) 47.7 Overall 409 211 47.2

2008 Female applicants 219 (55.4%) 126 (59.1%) 57.5 Male applicants 176 (44.6%) 87 (40.9%) 49.4 Overall 395 213 53.9

2009 Female applicants 286 (57.8%) 142 (55.7%) 49.7 Male applicants 209 (42.2%) 113 (44.3%) 54.1 Overall 495 255 51.5

2001 – 2009 Female applicants 1689 (54.0%) 880 (52.9%) 52.1 Male applicants 1455 (46.0%) 783 (47.1%) 53.8 Overall 3144 1663 52.9

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long-term fellowships applications awarded success rate % 1996 – Female applicants 1746 (40.3%) 315 (34.7%) 18.0 spring 2001 Male applicants 2584 (59.7%) 594 (65.3%) 22.9 Overall 4330 909 21.0

autumn 2001 Female applicants 168 (47.2%) 32 (39.1%) 19.0 Male applicants 188 (52.8%) 50 (60.9%) 26.6 Overall 356 82 23.0

2002 Female applicants 347 (43.4%) 68 (40.5%) 19.5 Male applicants 453 (56.6%) 100 (59.5%) 22.1 Overall 800 168 21.0

2003 Female applicants 469 (43.4%) 64 (36.4%) 13.6 Male applicants 611 (56.6%) 112 (63.6%) 18.3 Overall 1080 176 16.3

2004 Female applicants 533 (46.9%) 65 (39.9%) 12.2 Male applicants 604 (53.1%) 98 (60.1%) 16.2 Overall 1137 163 14.3

2005 Female applicants 589 (47.7%) 89 (44.9%) 15.1 Male applicants 647 (52.3%) 109 (55.1%) 16.8 Overall 1236 198 16.0

spring 2006 Female applicants 294 (50.2%) 48 (44.9%) 16.3 gender blinding Male applicants 292 (49.8%) 59 (55.1%) 20.2 Overall 586 107 18.3

autumn 2006 Female applicants 299 (45.9%) 39 (34.5%) 13.0 gender blinding Male applicants 352 (54.1%) 74 (65.5%) 21.0 Overall 651 113 17.4

spring 2007 Female applicants 275 (45.2%) 39 (37.5%) 14.2 Male applicants 333 (54.8%) 65 (62.5%) 19.5 Overall 608 104 17.1

autumn 2007 Female applicants 307 (45.1%) 43 (39.8%) 14.0 Male applicants 373 (54.9%) 65 (60.2%) 17.4 Overall 680 108 15.9

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long-term fellowships (cont.) applications awarded success rate % 2007 Female applicants 582 (45.2%) 82 (38.7%) 14.1 Male applicants 706 (54.8%) 130 (61.3%) 18.4 Overall 1288 212 16.5

2008 Female applicants 590 (48.4%) 81 (37.7%) 13.7 Male applicants 628 (51.6%) 134 (62.3%) 21.3 Overall 1218 215 17.6

2009 Female applicants 657 (49.3%) 115 (44.6%) 17.5 Male applicants 675 (50.7%) 143 (55.4%) 21.2 Overall 1332 258 19.4

1996 – 2009 Female applicants 6274 (44.8%) 998 (38.4%) 15.9 Male applicants 7740 (55.2%) 1603 (61.6%) 20.7 Overall 14014 2601 18.6

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young investigators applications awarded success rate % 2000 – 2001 Female applicants 138 (24.4%) 17 (21.8%) 12.3 Male applicants 427 (75.6%) 61 (78.2%) 14.3 Overall 565 78 13.8

2002 Female applicants 45 (26.8%) 4 (17.4%) 8.9 Male applicants 123 (73.2%) 19 (82.6%) 15.4 Overall 168 23 13.8

2003 Female applicants 47 (28.8%) 7 (33.3%) 14.8 Male applicants 116 (71.2%) 14 (66.7%) 12.1 Overall 163 21 12.8

2004 Female applicants 38 (22.1%) 4 (20.0%) 10.5 Male applicants 134 (77.9%) 16 (80.0%) 11.9 Overall 172 20 11.6

2005 Female applicants 32 (25.0%) 2 (11.8%) 6.3 Male applicants 96 (75.0%) 15 (88.2%) 15.6 Overall 128 17 13.3

2006 Female applicants 32 (21.1%) 6 (28.6%) 18.8 Male applicants 120 (78.9%) 15 (71.4%) 12.5 Overall 153 21 13.7

2007 Female applicants 37 (28.0%) 3 (16.7%) 8.1 Male applicants 95 (72.0%) 15 (83.3%) 15.8 Overall 132 18 13.6

2008 Female applicants 32 (27.6%) 2 (16.7%) 6.3 Male applicants 84 (72.4%) 10 (83.3%) 11.9 Overall 116 12 10.3

2009 Female applicants 34 (27.6%) 4 (23.5%) 11.8 Male applicants 89 (72.4%) 13 (76.5%) 14.6 Overall 123 17 13.8

2000 – 2009 Female applicants 435 (25.3%) 49 (21.6%) 11.3 Male applicants 1284 (74.7%) 178 (78.4%) 13.9 Overall 1719 227 13.2

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installation grantees applications awarded success rate % 2006 Female applicants 28 (37.8%) 1 (10.0%) 3.6 Male applicants 46 (62.2%) 9 (90.0%) 19.6 Overall 74 10 13.5

2007 Female applicants 17 (37.8%) 3 (33.3%) 17.6 Male applicants 41 (62.2%) 6 (66.7%) 14.6 Overall 58 9 15.5

2008 Female applicants 7 (21.8%) 1 (14.3%) 14.3 Male applicants 25 (78.2%) 6 (85.7%) 24.0 Overall 32 7 21.9

2009 Female applicants 13 (39.4%) 3 (60.0%) 23.1 Male applicants 20 (60.6%) 2 (40.0%) 10.0 Overall 33 5 15.1

2006 – 2009 Female applicants 65 (32.9%) 8 (25.8%) 12.3 Male applicants 132 (67.1%) 23 (74.2%) 17.4 Overall 197 31 15.7

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Eilish Craddock personal secretary to the EMBO Director

EMBO staff in Heidelberg Director Hermann Bujard** EMBO Director

Director’s Offi ce Eilish Craddock Personal Secretary to EMBO Director [email protected]

EMBC and EMBO Council Gitta Bourke Administrator [email protected]

EMBO Membership Valeria Kaplan Administrator [email protected]

Courses & Workshops Programme, Anne-Marie Glynn Programme Manager [email protected] World Activities and Plenary Lectures Anne Seller Administrator [email protected] [email protected] Lynne Turnbull Administrator Online HelpDesk [email protected]

Fellowship Programme Jan Taplick Programme Manager | EMBO Deputy Director [email protected] [email protected] Liselott Maidment Administrator Long-term Fellowships [email protected] Agnès Visser-de Matteïs Administrator Short-term Fellowships Zsuzsanna O’Donoghue Administrator Long-term Fellowships [email protected]

Science & Society Programme Gerlind Wallon Interim Programme Manager [email protected] [email protected] Alessandra Bendiscioli Administrator [email protected]

Young Investigator Programme, Gerlind Wallon Programme Manager | EMBO Deputy Director [email protected] Installation Grants and Kim Bell Administrator [email protected] Women in Science [email protected]

Administration & Finance Bernhard Huber Head Administration & Finance [email protected] Bärbel Traut-Laur Administrator [email protected] Seán Bourke Administrator [email protected] Kerstin Hiester Administrator [email protected]

Public Relations Suzanne Beveridge Head Public Relations & Communications [email protected] & Communications Martin Cairns Conference Officer [email protected] [email protected] Uta Mackensen Senior Graphic Designer [email protected] Sandra Krahl* Graphic Designer [email protected] Patricia Codyre** Web Communications Officer Sabine Rehberger-Schneider Web Communications Officer [email protected] Laura Cortesi Web Communications Administrator Yvonne Kaul Communications Officer [email protected]

Information Support Volker Wiersdorff Head Information Support & Resources [email protected] & Resources Kevin Fleming Web & Database Developer [email protected]

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Kerstin Hiester Seán Bourke organizes travel at EMBO and welcomes visitors at the EMBO reception assists with meetings desk and takes care of building matters

EMBO staff in Heidelberg (cont.) Scientifi c Publications Les Grivell** Publications Manager Bernd Pulverer* Head Scientific Publications [email protected] Thomas Lemberger Deputy Head Scientific Publications [email protected]

The EMBO Journal Isabel Arnold Editor [email protected] [email protected] Katherine Brown Editor [email protected] Karin Dumstrei Editor [email protected] Stan Gorski Editor [email protected] Thomas Schwarz-Romond Editor [email protected] Hartmut Vodermaier Editor [email protected] Jana Christopher Editorial Assistant [email protected] Fiona Panayi Editorial Assistant [email protected] Meryl Schneider Editorial Assistant [email protected] Gerlinde Schuster Editorial Assistant [email protected]

EMBO reports Les Grivell** Associate Editor [email protected] Holger Breithaupt Editor [email protected] Samuel Caddick Editor [email protected] Nonia Pariente Editor [email protected] Barbara Pauly Editor [email protected] Esther Schnapp Editor [email protected] Uta Mackensen Graphics Editor [email protected] Susanne Hofner-Harris Editorial Assistant [email protected]

EMBO Molecular Medicine Sandra Caldeira Editor [email protected] [email protected] Les Grivell** Associate Editor Gerlinde Schuster Editorial Assistant [email protected]

Molecular Systems Biology Thomas Lemberger Editor [email protected] [email protected] Les Grivell** Associate Editor Jana Christopher Editorial Assistant [email protected]

European Life Sciences Forum (ELSF) Luc Van Dyck Executive Coordinator ELSF [email protected]

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practical courses 2010 EMBC Member States pages 154 –155

practical courses 2010 outside Europe page 155

lecture courses 2010 EMBC Member States page 155

lecture course 2010 outside Europe page 155

workshops 2010 EMBC Member States pages 155 –156

conference series 2010 1st in a series EMBC Member States page 156

conference series 2010 2nd in a series EMBC Member States page 157

conference series 2010 3rd in a series EMBC Member States page 157

ESF-EMBO Symposia 2010 EMBC Member States page 157

EMBO/FEBS Lecture Courses 2010 EMBC Member States page 157

EMBO|EMBL Symposia 2010 EMBC Member States page 157

global exchange lecture courses 2010 outside Europe page 158

global exchange european lecture series 2010 page 158

global exchange lecture series 2010 outside Europe page 158

laboratory management courses 2010 Europe page 158

other EMBO events 2010 page 159

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practical courses 2010 Genomic approaches to evolution and E. Furlong DE – Heidelberg 7 – 11 February EMBC Member States development Phosphoproteomics M. Røssel Larsen DK – Odense 28 March – 2 April Advanced optical microscopy 2010 B. Amos UK – Plymouth 7 – 17 April In silico systems biology: network reconstruction, V. Schneider UK – Hinxton 10 – 13 April analysis and network based modelling Methods for miRNA discovery and analysis: V. Benes IT – Monterotondo Scalo 10 – 16 April from in situ hybridization to new generation sequencing Computational RNA Biology K. Nieselt FR – Cargese 26 April – 1 May Computational molecular evolution A. Stamatakis GR – Heraklion (Crete) 3 – 12 May Scientific programming and data visualization D. Panne DE – Heidelberg 5 – 7 May for structural biology Lipid rafts: methods for studying membrane K. Simons DE – Dresden 23 – 31 May organization Structural characterization of C. Petosa FR – Grenoble 31 May – 5 June macromolecular complexes The DT40 cell line as a model vertebrate C. Morrison IE – Galway 14 – 19 June genetic system Electron microscopy and stereology in N. Roos NO – Oslo 17 – 27 June cell biology Application of transient kinetic methods to M. Geeves UK – Canterbury 27 June – 3 July biological macromolecules Biomolecular simulation M. Nilges FR – Paris 27 June – 4 July High-throughput RNAi and data analysis M. Boutros DE – Heidelberg 28 June – 2 July Single-molecule manipulation and analysis of T. Strick FR – Paris 11 – 25 July DNA-protein interactions Marine animal models in evolution and D. Arendt SE – Fiskebackskil 12 – 23 July development Animal models for physiology and disease V. Cunliffe UK – Sheffield 19 – 30 July Multi-level modelling of morphogenesis S. Maree UK – Norwich 19 – 30 July Ubiquitin and SUMO H. Ulrich HR – Split 29 July – 4 August Multidimensional NMR in structural biology C. Griesinger IT – Castelvecchio Pascoli 1 – 6 August (Lucca)

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practical courses 2010 Post-translational modifications of proteins: J. Johansson SE – Uppsala 22 – 24 August EMBC Member States from discovery to functional analysis (cont.) Viral vectors in gene therapy: M. Mezzina FI – Kuopio 26 August – applications and novel production methods 4 September Cryo-electron microscopy and 3-D image J. Briggs DE – Heidelberg 29 August – analysis 5 September Protein expression, purification and J. Mueller – Dieckmann DE – Hamburg 31 August – crystallization (PEPC – 7) 8 September Computational aspects of protein J. Watson UK – Cambridge 6 – 10 September structure determination and analysis: from data to structure to function Anatomy and embryology of the mouse A. Marusic HR – Split 11 – 19 September Microscopy, modelling and biophysical methods L. Hufnagel DE – Heidelberg 20 September – 2 October 3D developmental imaging G. Martins PT – Oeiras 1 – 9 October Advanced analysis and informatics of G. Rustici UK – Hinxton 18 – 23 October microarray data Solution scattering from biological D. Svergun DE – Hamburg 25 October – macromolecules 1 November practical courses 2010 Mass spectrometry in protein analysis and C. Cervenansky UY – Montevideo 16 – 26 March outside Europe characterization Microscopy: M. Mhlanga ZA – Pretoria 31 May – 12 June from genome scale to the single molecule lecture course 2010 Virus – host: partners in pathogenicity C. Ramirez CR – San Jose 23 – 26 February outside Europe workshops 2010 Protein and lipid function in secretion and S. Tooze AT – Goldegg am See 12 – 17 January EMBC Member States endocytosis Visualizing biological data (VizBi) S. O’Donoghue DE – Heidelberg 3 – 5 March Hedgehog signaling: P. Therond FR – St. Jean Cap Ferrat 27 – 31 March from developmental biology to anti-cancer drugs Proteolysis and neurodegeneration M. Rodriguez ES – Madrid 4 – 7 May (5th INPROTEOLYS Meeting) Viruses and innate immunity C. O’Farrelly IE – Dublin 5 – 7 May 2010 EMBO Molecular Medicine Workshop: L. Tamagnone IT – Portofino Vetta 6 – 9 May Cell guidance signals in cancer (Camogli) RNA quality control M. Kiebler AT – Vienna 10 – 13 May www.embo.org/events/calendar | [email protected] ➔ 155 EMBO | courses | workshops | conference series | symposia 2010

workshops 2010 Tumour suppressors M. Sanchez – Cespedes ES – L’Hospitalet de 10 – 11 May EMBC Member States Llobregat (Barcelona) (cont.) Advanced light microscopy techniques and their R. Pepperkok DE – Heidelberg 18 – 21 May applications Emerging themes in infection biology P. Cossart FR – Nice 1 – 4 June Genomic approaches to interactions between P. Accotto IT – Fenestrelle 12 – 16 June plant viruses, their hosts and their vectors Disease, development and stem cells in the M. Lohr SE – Stockholm 14 – 16 June pancreas Chromosome segregation and aneuploidy B. Earnshaw UK – Edinburgh 19 – 23 June Development of cortical networks and Y. Ben – Ari NL – Amsterdam 30 June – 2 July neurological disorders Systems biology of development E. Hafen CH – Ascona 16 – 19 August Interface between the ubiquitin family and the Y. Shiloh HR – Red Island, Rovinj 1 – 5 September DNA damage response From fetomaternal tolerance to O. Parolini IT – Brescia 3 – 6 October immunomodulatory properties of placenta-derived cells in cell therapy RNA control of cell dynamics Y. Arava IL – Kibbutz Ein Gedi 14 – 17 November conference series 2010 Catalytic mechanisms by biological systems: V. Lamzin DE – Hamburg 5 – 7 May (1st in a series) at the interface between chemistry and biology EMBC Member States Microtubules: C. Janke DE – Heidelberg 2 – 5 June structure, regulation and functions C. elegans development and gene expression J. Ahringer DE – Heidelberg 17 – 20 June Gene transcription in yeast: P. Cramer ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 19 – 24 June from mechanisms to functional genomics Chemical Biology 2010 C. Schultz DE – Heidelberg 22 – 25 September Experimental approaches to evolution and L. Steinmetz DE – Heidelberg 29 September – ecology using yeast 3 October Towards a comprehensive understanding of M. Schuldiner ES – Gerona 3 – 8 October endoplasmic reticulum functions

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conference series 2010 Cellular signaling and molecular medicine E. Van Obberghen- HR – Cavtat (Dubrovnik) 21 – 26 May (2nd in a series) Schilling EMBC Member States Replication/repair and segregation of P. Graumann DE – Munzingen (Freiburg) 13 – 17 June chromosomes Telomeres and the DNA damage response L. Harrington FR – Marseille 14 – 17 September From functional genomics to systems biology E. Furlong DE – Heidelberg 13 – 16 November conference series 2010 Recombination and connections to M. Foiani IT – Castelvecchio Pascoli 17 – 21 May (3rd in a series) SUMO and ubiquitin modifications (Lucca) EMBC Member States The molecular and developmental A. Ephrussi GR – Kolymbari 20 – 26 June biology of Drosophila Molecular and cellular basis of K. Echeverri PT – Sesimbra 26 – 30 September regeneration and tissue repair Cell biology meets microbiology I. Dikic PL – Krakow 9 – 14 October ESF – EMBO B cells and protection: back to basics R. Carsetti ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 18 – 23 April Symposia 2010 Antiviral applications of RNA interference B. Berkhout ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 30 May – 4 June EMBC Member States Emergent properties of the cytoskeleton: M. Peckham ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 3 – 8 October molecules to cells Functional neurobiology in minibrains: M. Louis ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 17 – 22 October from flies to robots and back again Molecular perspectives on protein – protein J. Piehler ES – Sant Feliu de Guixols 21 – 26 November interactions EMBO/FEBS The cytoskeleton in development and pathology R. Karlsson SE – Djurhamn 19 – 24 June Lecture Courses 2010 Host – microbes interactions P. Cossart GR – Spetses 1 – 9 September EMBC Member States Molecular and cellular cognition R. Brambilla IT – Venice 14 – 19 October EMBO | EMBL Human variation: cause and consequence A. Wilkie DE – Heidelberg 20 – 23 June Symposia 2010 Structure and function of neural circuits B. Dickson DE – Heidelberg 5 – 8 September The non-coding genome E. Izaurralde DE – Heidelberg 13 – 16 October

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global exchange Systems neuroscience of the Drosophila larva: K. VijayRaghavan IN-Bangalore 21 – 27 July lecture courses 2010 genetic and circuit bases of behavior outside Europe Molecular and evolutionary genetics of malaria A. Das IN-New Delhi 21 November – 4 December Molecular mechanism of protein transport V. Malhotra IN-Bangalore 30 November – 8 December Bioinformatics and comparative genome F. Tekaia TN-Tunis 13 – 18 December analyses

global exchange european S. Mayor Germany, September lecture series 2010 The Netherlands, United Kingdom global exchange A. Spang Taiwan November lecture series 2010

laboratory management EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 16 – 19 March courses 2010 (for independent group leaders) A. Seller (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn UK – Ware 24 – 26 March (for postdocs) A. Seller (Hertfordshire) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 14 – 16 June (for postdocs) A. Seller (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 21 – 23 June (for postdocs) A. Seller (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 5 – 7 October (for postdocs) A. Seller (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 12 – 15 October (for independent group leaders) A. Seller (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn UK – Ware 2 – 5 November (for independent group leaders) A. Seller (Hertfordshire) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 15 – 18 November (for independent group leaders) A. Bendiscioli (near Heidelberg) EMBO Laboratory Management Course A. Glynn DE – Leimen 29 November – (for postdocs) A. Bendiscioli (near Heidelberg) 1 December

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The EMBO Meeting Annual life sciences conference S. Beveridge ES – Barcelona 4 – 7 September M. Cairns G. Wallon V. Kaplan membership EMBO Member & EMBO Young Investigator M. Leptin ES – Barcelona 5 September Reception at The EMBO Meeting G. Wallon V. Kaplan New EMBO Members Workshop M. Leptin DE – Heidelberg 27 – 29 October G. Wallon V. Kaplan fellowship EMBO Fellows Meeting J. Taplick DE – Heidelberg 17 – 20 June programme Z. O’Donoghue (EMBL) science & society Science Communication Skills Workshop A. Bendiscioli DE – Heidelberg 18 June programme at the EMBO Fellows Meeting G. Wallon (EMBL) Session on A. Bendiscioli IT – Torino 4 July Matching food demand and food supply L. Van Dyck at Euroscience Open Forum 2010 G. Wallon Session on A. Bendiscioli IT – Torino 4 July Can science and technology help fi nd L. Van Dyck sustainable solutions to feed nine billion people G. Wallon at Euroscience Open Forum 2010 Science Communication Skills Workshop A. Bendiscioli ES – Barcelona 4 September at The EMBO Meeting G. Wallon Science & Society Session A. Bendiscioli ES – Barcelona 5 September at The EMBO Meeting G. Wallon 11th EMBL/EMBO Joint Conference on H. Stefansson DE – Heidelberg 5 – 6 November Science & Society: G. Wallon (EMBL) The difference between the sexes – A. Bendiscioli from biology to behaviour young investigator Annual EMBO Young Investigator Meeting G. Wallon DE – Heidelberg 10 – 12 May programme K. Bell Young Investigator PhD Course G. Wallon DE – Heidelberg 20 – 25 September K. Bell global exchange EMBO Global Exchange & the Wellcome Trust/ A. Glynn ES – Barcelona 4 September programme DBT India Alliance meeting: G. Wallon Life Science Research in India (Satellite meeting at The EMBO Meeting)

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