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Meet Maria Cerezo, Scientific Curator at EMBL-EBI. In this interview, she talks about her role, how she combines it with her position as co-chair of the Staff Association, and what she believes has been EMBL's biggest achievement in its first 50 years. European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI https://lnkd.in/es5dvwAx

#FlashbackFriday!  EMBL celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024 & we are revisiting past impactful moments. In 2005, EMBL Hamburg opened Europe’s largest high-throughput crystallisation facility with DESY – a collaboration that has only grown. https://lnkd.in/envwYQqY

Celebrate #EMBL50 with us! New month, new theme! In May, we celebrate EMBL training for scientists, students, and visitors at all levels.   For our #EMBL50 celebration, we’d love to hear the stories of how EMBL training has supported you in your work and career.   Did you receive training as an EMBL predoc or postdoc? Have you gained useful skills or knowledge at one of the EMBL courses that shaped your work or career? Or maybe you’re a teacher who participated in our Learning LABs training? Tell us using #EMBL50 & tagging us @EMBL

Scientists in the Hackett group at EMBL Rome, in collaboration with the Bork and the Zimmermann groups at EMBL Heidelberg, found that disrupting the gut microbiome of male mice increases the risk of disease in their offspring by inducing placental defects. They showed that the effect is reversible, following withdrawal of antibiotics or other dysbiosis-inducing drugs. Their findings suggest that a father’s environment prior to conception can have lifelong effects on offspring. https://lnkd.in/eYjZP5GW #GutMicrobiome #Microbiome

In 2015, scientists at EMBL envisioned an imaging centre with top technology and world-class experts. Today – thanks to critical support from private and public donors – it's a reality. Learn more in this 4th instalment of EMBL's 12 Moments in Philanthropy. #EMBL50 https://lnkd.in/eMR2eSYK Matthias W. Hentze Heidelberg Materials

Great to see our colleagues at the European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI contributing their data wrangling expertise and cutting-edge technical infrastructure to support such an exciting project that brings together quantum computing and genomics. #genomics #bioinformatics #quantumcomputing

SpatialData is a tool developed by EMBL scientists in cooperation with multiple research institutions to unify and integrate data from different omics technologies in a spatial environment, providing holistic insights into health and disease. “There is a strong need in the community to establish solutions for the management and storage of spatial omics data. One direction we will take is to develop new data standards and computational foundations that allow for unifying analysis approaches across the full spectrum of different spatial omics technologies that are emerging,” said Oliver Stegle, Group Leader at EMBL in the Genome Biology Unit, and head of the Computational Genomics and Systems Genetics division at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). “A first major step in this direction is SpatialData, a data standard and software framework that bridges and adapts previous data management concepts from single-cell multi-omics to the spatial domain.” Researchers all over the world can now freely access and use SpatialData for their own datasets. https://lnkd.in/ex8Pg-7c

The EMBL-coordinated project BIOcean5D ran its first workshop for teachers, helping to bring inland communities closer to marine science and ocean literacy. The participants captured detailed images and movies of microscopic samples using the Curiosity microscope, a remarkable tool that combines simplicity with high resolution technology. Joining forces with EMBL TREC, BIOcean5D will generate data and knowledge to sustainably measure, understand, value, and predict biodiversity across marine ecosystems. BIOcean5D is co-funded by the European Union (Horizon Europe). https://lnkd.in/dNmbaaje

#FlashbackFriday!  EMBL celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024, & we are revisiting some past impactful moments. In 2001, EMBL’s commitment to providing important services to member states was made clear as it opened its genomics and proteomics core facilities – with support from industry collaborations that made these projects possible. #EMBL50 https://lnkd.in/eZtFCY8p

This week sees the launch of a new EMBL public engagement project focused on nature’s molecular wonders – proteins. Unfold Your World is a science and art project for 14–18-year-olds, open across all EMBL member states from now until 31 August. EMBL Science Education & Public Engagement Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ePfXJJBS