Dorota Badowska

Collage of three photos: 1) the EMBL TREC fleet is driving next to the coast; 2) three scientists are taking samples on a grassy field; 3) a scientist is cryo-preserving samples. Behind her, there is a lab bench with equipment visible.

With its scientific expeditions, EMBL is pioneering a new era of field-based molecular life sciences. 🚌🔬

Supported by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung & many partners, these ‘labs on wheels’ enable the study of life in context across Europe, with a view to global impact. 🌍🧬

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Caption+Credit: EMBL’s AI Strategy aims to transform life sciences by integrating AI across research areas like genomics, drug discovery, and imaging. Creative team/ EMBL

🌐 EMBL’s new initiative is set to transform life science research through full AI integration – from genomics to drug discovery.

💡 Funding from the Hector Foundation is dedicated to attracting interdisciplinary talent, boosting infrastructure, training, & innovation.

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📢 Applications are now open for the #ARISE2 Fellowship Programme

With funding from MSCA, the programme trains scientists to become leaders in research infrastructures and innovate in the life sciences. 🧪

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Stakeholders attending EMBL Grenoble's 50th anniversary. Credit: UtopikPhoto

This year, our French site is celebrating its 50th anniversary 🎂
We're proud to celebrate with partners, alumni, and collaborators who are part of our scientific journey.
Thank you for insightful discussions & reflections on past and future achievements.

Here's to the next 50 years of discovery! 🥂

EMBL Hamburg scientists have discovered a group of microbial cold-loving molecules, ‘cryorhodopsins’, with extraordinary abilities.

They are the first observed molecules that can act as both on and off switches for electrical activity in cells.
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The future of European life sciences | EMBL EMBL’s position paper outlines its key recommendations for European Commission’s upcoming ‘Strategy for European Life Sciences’.

We are pleased to present our position paper outlining EMBL’s recommendations for European Commission’s upcoming ‘Strategy for European Life Sciences'.

Our recommendations span several interconnected areas, e.g. research infrastructures, data resources, AI & training.

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What are the exciting topics in AI for life sciences right now? Find out in the article below 👇

Group photo of the conference participants taken in front of the EMBL Imagine Centre in Heidelberg.

How is AI transforming life sciences – and what’s holding it back?

Participants of the 5th EMBL Partnership Conference share insights on data challenges, validation hurdles, and why collaboration is key.

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#EMBLAIOneHealth

👇 Check out our series of short stories that spotlight proteins through the eyes of scientists.

It highlights the human side of science—the beauty and joy that researchers find in molecules. 🤩

Chromosomes with a red glowing spot to indicate genetic variation. DECIPHER is EMBL's database for genetic and phenotypic data, which helps further our understanding of rare diseases.

EMBL-EBI data resources help deliver thousands of genetic diagnostics to patients every month.

Eye with genomic data and optical coherence tomography (OCT) image in the background. Image and genomic data analysis uncovered new information about rare retinal dystrophies.

(2/2) On Rare Disease Day, we’re highlighting EMBL's molecular biology research & services in this area.

Check out our collection of stories:
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EMBL-EBI is part of the Solve-RD consortium, a project for rare disease data collection and harmonisation

Scientists identified a novel mechanism driving osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer in children, to help predict patient outcomes.

Visual metaphor showing the transport of vitamin B1 in the body. Structural biologists revealed how mutations in a key protein cause vitamin B1 deficiencies in the brain, leading to rare neurological diseases.

(1/2) On Rare Disease Day, we’re highlighting EMBL's molecular biology research & services in this area.

Check out our collection of stories:
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The analogy of omics data normalization and cooking:
some processing is usually necessary, overcooking makes it bland, highly over-processed foods are unhealthy, and the quality of the ingredients matters.

Big thanks to Isabel Romero Calvo for the cute illustration and creative brainstorming, as well as to @myleneand.bsky.social, @oanastroe.bsky.social, @beacasati.bsky.social and others for great team work on this series.

Find more cute stories here: lnkd.in/dr9VeEQg

I really love this story!
I remember blushing with excitement, as my colleague Yehudi Bloch at EMBL Hamburg was telling me about all about the quirkiness of this cute protein.
Thanks a lot, Yehudi!

I had the pleasure to contribute this story to the EMBL cycle about cute proteins.

Read it to learn astonishing facts about a tiny but remarkable (and cute!) protein that prevents snow fleas from freezing on the snow.

Cute molecules and the scientists who adore them: Yehudi Bloch | EMBL Yehudi Bloch, ARISE Fellow at EMBL Hamburg, talks about the quirky protein that allows snow fleas to survive in sub-zero temperatures.

Science is about facts and logic. But it’s also about awe for nature's design.

Yehudi Bloch, ARISE Fellow at EMBL Hamburg, talks about a quirky molecule that keeps amusing him: the antifreeze protein found in snow fleas.

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Personally, I'm a fan of yerba mate, which added to my excitement about this new stdy that mapped the yerba mate genome.

This research, which involved my colleagues at EMBL Hamburg, could enable creating new yerba mate varieties in the future. I'd definitely love to see a decaf version one day 🧉🌿🤞

A cup of yerba mate on a wooden surface and some dried yerba mate next to it.

Scientists at University of Buenos Aires, EMBL Hamburg, and others mapped yerba mate’s genome, providing surprising facts about its biochemistry and evolution of caffeine biosynthesis. 🧉🧬🧪

Find out more: www.embl.org/news/science...

@spcembl.bsky.social

Several curvy strings, representing protein chains, have glowing balls, representing the labels, attached to each other their ends. The distance between the glowing balls is measured by rulers. A ray of light representing X-rays shines at them from the top left.

Protein clumps in the brain are tied to neurodegenerative diseases, but measuring them is difficult.

EMBL Hamburg’s SAXS team and @lemkelab.bsky.social developed an approach to quantitatively characterise clumping with anomalous X-ray scattering in solution.

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A group picture of the event participants in front of a slide displaying text: "Shaping Europe's AI Leadership: Insights from Science; 14 January 2025 | Brussels".

EMBL Director General Edith Heard (left) and ELLIS President Bernhard Schölkopf (right) are signing the Memorandum of Understanding between EMBL and ELLIS.

EMBL Director General Edith Heard is speaking to microphones. The slide behind her displays text: "Shaping Europe's AI Leadership: Insights from Science; 14 January 2025 | Brussels".

Four panelists are talking at a stage, observed by the audience. The slide behind them displays text: "Shaping Europe's AI Leadership: Insights from Science; 14 January 2025 | Brussels; Panel Session 1: AI in Science: Data to Insights and Back".

EMBL and @ellis.eu signed a Memorandum of Understanding to drive AI in European science research, training and tech.

The agreement will promote interdisciplinary training and develop innovative projects that address pressing challenges in human and planetary health.

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It was a delight to interview Maria Costanzo, a former predoc at EMBL Barcelona. She spoke about a cute protein that helps cells 'tap their way through darkness'.

👇 Read her story below.

Thanks Isabel Romero Calvo for the wonderful visual! Working with her made this project even more enjoyable.

Cute molecules and the scientists who adore them: Maria Costanzo | EMBL Maria Costanzo, former predoc at EMBL Barcelona, talks about YAP, her favourite protein in the shape of a heart.

Cellular proteins have the power to make the hearts of molecular biologists beat faster.

For Maria Costanzo, predoc at EMBL Barcelona, such a protein is YAP, a molecule that enables the cell to ‘tap its way through darkness’.

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Congratulations to @beacasati.bsky.social and Isabel Romero Calvo for this fabulous short story.

Watch this space for more stories about scientists and cute proteins they adore.

It's a beautiful garden!

I'm delighted to invite you to the first of our stories about EMBL scientists & cute proteins they love.

Watch this space for more cute proteins coming soon!

Big thanks to Sofia and my colleagues in the EMBL Comms Team for fantastic creative teamwork that made this project so much fun!

#SciComm

For many molecular biologists, #proteins are not only objects of study, but also dear friends (or enemies).

Sofia Rucli from EMBL Rome talk about her relationship with the protein OGT, a molecular ‘candy man’ of the cell.

🧶 #MolBiol #SciComm @sofiarucli.bsky.social
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Computational methods in biology opened a new world of insights and breakthroughs. 🌍 🖥️

EMBL has been at the forefront of innovations which have propelled the field forward and opened up access to bioinformatics data and resources for the entire scientific community.

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Scientific Services EMBL provides life science researchers in Europe and beyond with access to the very latest in scientific technologies, infrastructure, and data resources.

Scientific services are at the heart of EMBL missions 💚

We provide access to the latest scientific technologies, infrastructure, and data resources.

🖥️ over 40 data resources
🧪 more than 20 experimental services
🔬 explore the services that best suit your research needs!
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Are you looking for career-planning resources?

EMBL Fellows’ Career Service has launched online resources for early-career researchers, providing #careers guidance to life scientists.

🧪💡https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/new-online-career-planning-resources-for-life-science-researchers/

European Molecular Biology Laboratory With 29 member states, laboratories at six locations across Europe and thousands of scientists and engineers working together, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory is a powerhouse of biological e...

EMBL is Europe’s life sciences laboratory. 🧬🧪

At our sites in Barcelona,​​ Grenoble, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Hinxton, and Rome, we seek to understand life in context, from molecules to ecosystems. 🔬🌍

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