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Our oceans are home to over 200,000 known species, most too tiny to be seen.
Christopher Rhodes, an ARISE Fellow in the Pepperkok Group at EMBL Heidelberg, combines AI and microscopy to study phytoplankton – a group comprising some of the ocean’s most vital organisms.
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EMBL Sabbatical Programme is a great opportunity to expand your scientific horizons in an international and interdisciplinary environment!
You could receive up to €15,000 and be based at any of the EMBL’s six sites for 3-6 months.
🔗Apply: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com…
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Sickness is a whole-brain state.
EMBL scientists recently found that more evolved sections of the brain, and not just primal ones, activate to alert us when we fall sick.
Full article 👉embl.org/news/science-techno…
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Decoding the Raw Materials of Life at EMBL Rome!
Students, researchers and industry professionals came together to explore emerging technologies and cutting-edge research in epigenetics, neuroscience and AI.
A day of discovery & innovation!
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EMBL researchers Robert Prevedel and Simone Mattei now jointly lead the EMBL Imaging Centre.
The two look forward to boosting tech development and continuing EMBL's push to advance microscopy image analysis through machine learning & other tools.
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EMBL scientists uncovered more about how molecular machines interact, revealing new aspects of bacterial protein production, transport, and folding – and a new way to study ‘communities’ of molecular machines.
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🔬A new study by EMBL researchers, published in Science, about the pre-ribosome assembly pathways inside intact human cells, reveals — at molecular resolution — in-cell structural snapshots and novel configurations.
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Svante Pääbo, Nobel Laureate and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, will deliver the 2026 Kafatos Lecture on Friday 9 October 2026, at IMBB-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Learn more: embl.org/news/people-perspec…
ALT Photograph of Svante Pääbo, who is going to deliver the 2026 EMBL Kafatos Lecture on 9 October at IMBB-FORTH in Heraklion, Greece. © Frank Vinken
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Today we welcomed Dr Michiel Scheffer, President of the EIC Board, to EMBL Heidelberg. We explored how to strengthen the path from frontier research to innovation— and how EMBL science and EIC instruments can work together to turn scientific excellence into breakthrough ventures.
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There is still time to apply for the EMBL International PhD Programme! 📢
Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research.
Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! bit.ly/4x9Edss
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Are you a senior scientist looking to expand your scientific horizons through a sabbatical? 🔬
Then the EMBL Sabbatical Programme is for you!
You could receive up to €15,000 and be based at any of EMBL’s six sites for 3 to 6 months.
🔗Apply here: bit.ly/sabbatical26
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Curiosity is always a key ingredient for major scientific breakthroughs.
Following his 2026 Lennart Philipson Award, Stephen Cusack reflects on his time at EMBL Grenoble, AlphaFold, and the future of the field.
Read the full interview 👉 embl.org/news/people-perspec…
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