Halle,
22 May 2014
Matthias Wilmanns elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
On the 22nd of May, Head of EMBL Hamburg, Matthias Wilmanns was officially inaugurated as member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The ceremony took place at the National Academy of Sciences in Halle as part of the Academy’s annual life sciences symposium.
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Stockholm,
20 May 2014
Strengthening ties with Swedish research institutes
On Tuesday 20th May, Head of EMBL Hamburg Matthias Wilmanns joined other representatives from Hamburg science research institutions, including DESY Director Helmut Dosch and Dean of the UKE Medical Faculty Uwe Koch-Gromus, on a visit to Stockholm in Sweden. Headed by Hamburg’s first Mayor Olaf Scholz and Hamburg’s science senator Dorothee Stapelfeld, the main focus of the delegation was to strengthen ties with Swedish research institutes.
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Hamburg,
5 May 2014
EMBL and UKE sign collaboration agreement
In a celebratory symposium on Tuesday 29th April, representatives from EMBL and the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg met on the UKE campus to kick start a new era of collaboration between the two institutes. The main aim of this new collaboration is to join forces in biomedical research and training activities by way of a strategic bilateral partnership.
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Grenoble,
2 April 2014
EMBL Hamburg and EMBL Grenoble celebrate 10 years of successful bilateral meetings
On the 2nd of April scientists, engineers and technicians from EMBL Hamburg and Grenoble met in Grenoble to celebrate 10 years of successful collaborations. Every year the units hold a bilateral meeting with the aim of supporting the active collaboration on projects and instrumentation design by those working on the EMBL beamlines at the ESRF and DESY campuses. The celebratory symposium, organized by the Heads of the EMBL Units – Matthias Wilmanns from EMBL Hamburg, and Stephen Cusack from EMBL Grenoble - showcased and acknowledged the efforts made by the meeting participants over the years and highlighted success stories of the work done by members from both sites.
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Hamburg,
17 March 2014
EMBL Hamburg welcomes new group leader
EMBL Hamburg is pleased to welcome a new member to their team. Christian Löw joined EMBL in February as new group leader following four years postdoctoral research at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. His work at EMBL Hamburg will focus on the structure, function and dynamics of cell membrane proteins – in particular the proton coupled transporters of the PEPT family responsible for the uptake of a range of different di- and tripeptides derived from the digestion of dietary proteins.
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Hamburg,
13 January 2014
Head of EMBL Hamburg appointed founding director of new centre
Matthias Wilmanns, head of EMBL Hamburg has been appointed founding director of the new Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) currently being built on the DESY campus in Hamburg, Bahrenfeld. In a meeting on the 10th of January, the CSSB scientific committee, comprising representatives from each of the nine partner institutions, was established and Wilmanns named as the new founding director.
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