EMBL Reception Participants 7 September 2015, Birmingham First name Surname Position Affiliation Status Drinks Dinner reception Cielo 5-7pm 8pm

Asifa Akhtar Director Max Planck Institute EMBL Alumna x x Molecular Immunologists

Barry Thompson Senior Group The Francis Crick Institute, EMBL Alumnus x Leader UK

Bernd Pulverer Chief Editor EMBO, EMBO Staff x x

Claudio Sunkel Director Institute for Molecular and EMBL Council x Cell Biology (IBMC), Portugal Chair

Daniel Gerlich Senior Scientist Institute of Molecular EMBL Alumnus x x Wolfram Biotechnology (IMBA), Austria

Eugenia Piddini Group Leader University of , The EMBL Alumna x x Gurdon Institute, UK Ewan Birney Joint Director EMBL-EBI EMBL staff x x

Geneviève Almouzni Director Institute Curie, France EMBL SAC x x

Irmi Sinning Professor University of , EMBL Alumna x x Biochemistry Center

Manlio Vinciguerra Senior Lecturer University College London, EMBL Alumnus x x UK

Maria Leptin Director EMBO, Germany EMBO Staff x

Mark Marsh Director MRC-LMCB, UCL EMBL Alumnus x

Mary Todd Bergman Senior EMBL-EBI EMBL Staff x x Communications Officer Matthias Hentze Director EMBL, Germany EMBL Staff x x

Mehrnoosh Rayner Head of Alumni EMBL, Germany EMBL Staff x x Relations Nicolas Le Novere Group leader The Babraham Institute, UK EMBL Alumnus x x

Paras Anand Lecturer Imperial College London EMBL Alumnus x

Pavel Tomancak Group Leader MPI Molecular Cell Biology EMBL Alumnus x x and Germany EMBL Reception Participants 7 September 2015, Birmingham Peter Winn Group Leader University of Birmingham, EMBL Alumnus x x UK

Rafael Carazo Group Leader University of Cambridge, UK EMBL Alumnus x x Edgardo Salas Roberto Buccione Scientific Editor EMBO, Germany EMBO Staff x x

Sarah Teichmann Group Leader EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK EMBO Staff x

Sir Paul Nurse Chief Executive Francis Crick Institute EMBL SAC x and Director

Stella Hurtley Senior Editor SCIENCE Magazine (Europe EMBL Alumna x office)

Vinay Bulusu Research Institute of Cancer Sciences, EMBL Alumnus x Associate University of , UK