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How do the brain’s genome and epigenome shape development, memory, ageing, and disease?
A recent EMBO workshop explored key discoveries in neuroscience, genomics, and epigenetics.
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ALT Conference Key Visual showing neurons and chromatins. Credit: Gloria Fuentes/EMBL
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With partners in Luxembourg, EMBL is looking at how freshwater microbiomes respond to environmental change. They sampled soils along the Mosel and Rhine rivers in a pilot project aimed at providing a way to track ecosystem stress and pollution.
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Congratulations, Gautam Dey and Omaya Dudin!
The two collaborators have received the 2026 EMBO Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of evolutionary cell biology.
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EMBL is coordinating STARDAST, a new €8M Horizon Europe project to strengthen data stewardship careers, FAIR data practices, and open science across Europe.
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ALT Photgraph showing some of the many European partners that are taking data stewardship to the next level (from right to left): representatives from EMBL (Nina Habermann and Isabela Paredes Cisneros), Merck (Boris Adryan), University of Freiburg (Anika Erxleben), and University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives(Kim Clugston). Credit: Joseph Franciosa/EMBL
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Meet Neeya Jacob 🇮🇳🇨🇦🇮🇹, the new Head of Administration at EMBL Rome.
Read about her vision for building a stable and supportive environment that optimises operations, grounded in the principles of clarity, consistency, and compliance.
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How do the physical properties of embryos affect their development?
New research from EMBL scientists and collaborators shows that tissue mechanics actively influence developmental signalling – revealing new links between physics and embryogenesis.
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ALT This is a confocal microscopy section of an embryo where in one half (right; cells with cyan nuclei), adhesion is decreased by using an optogenetic tool. The left half is epithelialised with tricellular contacts, while in the right half, there are large pores/intercellular spaces. An adhesion protein is tagged, shown in pink-orange. Credit: Laura Rustarazo-Calvo/EMBL
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A unique EMBL-UNESCO fellowship programme broadened fellows’ research capacity while providing new perspectives to their collaborators and EMBL host research groups.
Participants in the programme provided brief reflections from their experiences.
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🔬✨ The first WoW Award at @embl celebrated the beauty and impact of scientific imaging.
The award-winning works are now lighting up the “Window of Wonder” at the EMBL Imaging Centre.
Full article 👉 shorturl.at/z2RyX
#Imaging #Microscopy #ScienceCommunication
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Researchers at @embl have tracked in real time nascent RNA structure formation, functionally characterizing up to 8 different types of RNA molecules.
Learn how they accomplished this with multicolor single-molecule #FluorescenceMicroscopy experiments: bit.ly/4mxAa5d
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May 21
The EMBO Workshop 'Brain (epi)genome' welcomed 138 on-site and 92 virtual participants from 21 – 24 April 2026.
A total of 83 posters were presented during the #EMBOBrainEpi poster sessions, showcasing cutting-edge research from across the field. We are thrilled to introduce our three poster prize winners:
🏅 Ruoqing Feng, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany @fngruqng2
🏅 Camilla Lyons, EMBL Rome, Italy
🏅 Can Yildiz, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Find out more about their research: s.embl.org/brg26-01-posters
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Here is a list of all the winning images and their explanation. Check it out! embl.org/about/world-of-mole…
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PhD students and postdocs from across the EMBL Australia community built practical project management skills through tailored training led by @EMBL’s International Centre for Advanced Training.
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Despite its name, SNOR, a newly discovered protein, is hardly asleep on the job.
EMBL researchers’ newest technologies allowed them to discover this tiny protein with a big role that awakens cells from dormancy to restart protein synthesis.
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Daiichi Sankyo is EMBL’s newest Corporate Partnership Programme associate partner.
The fundamental research of many EMBL scientists has important implications for drug development. Daiichi Sankyo is specifically exploring ways to collaborate on this.
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The Marquez team at EMBL Grenoble created AXIS, an AI-driven training method for automated crystal screening and identification.
Thanks to a lab-in-the-loop approach, the method is simple and effective, speeding up fragment-based drug design.
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From DNA Days to ocean nanoplastics to science videos in Catalan – EMBL scientists are finding new and interesting ways to engage the public and make the wonders of scientific discoveries more accessible to everyone.
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Open science accelerates discovery & ensures that scientific knowledge can be reused and built upon by the global community.
Bastian Drees, Head of OSIM, talks about the steps EMBL is taking to implement open science practices at all levels.
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ALT Photograph of Bastian Drees, who heads EMBL's Office of Scientific Information Management. Credit: Massimo del Prete/EMBL
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Biology is built on patterns too complex for us to easily interpret. AI can help bridge the gap, but it’s a two-way exchange: biology inspires AI, and AI delivers back.
Here are 7 key takeaways from a recent EMBO | EMBL symposium on AI in life sciences: embl.org/news/science-techno…
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