EMBL Events

Ready to explore what's next in the life sciences? 🧬🔍 Then check out our new 2026 EMBL Annual Poster 👉 s.embl.org/2026-poster Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026? #EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology @embl @EBItraining

💻 Did you know that most of our conferences are in a hybrid format? Even if you are unable to travel, you have a few more days to register to attend 'Cellular mechanisms driven by phase separation' virtually! #EESPhaseSeparation • Access talks at your convenience, live or later • Ask questions • Network The symposium will bring together scientists from cell biology, biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology, structural biology, developmental biology, polymer physics, and soft matter physics to study condensates in biology and disease. 🧬🦠 📅 19 – 22 May 2026 ⏰ Register by 12 May: s.embl.org/ees26-08-x

Join us to explore how new research is transforming our understanding of the past and shaping the future of genetic variation studies. #EESHuman 📩 Submit your abstract by 9 June 2026 🔗 s.embl.org/ees26-10-x 📌 EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics' 🗓️ 15 – 18 September 2026 Session topics - Our closest living and extinct relatives - Reconstructing the genetic history of human populations - Research practices, data curation, and ethical considerations in paleogenomics - New methods, avenues, tools, and resources for paleogenomic data analysis - From selection signals to function, health, and disease - Evolution of human pathogens and microbiomes

#EMBLDataIntegration participants got hands-on training in peptide and protein identification and database searching 💻✨

Last Thursday, we wrapped up the first edition of the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Sex differences in health and disease'. 🎉 As a new addition to our programme, this symposium was an amazing opportunity to bring together a brilliant and engaged community. A huge thank you to all our participants and speakers for sharing your insights, expertise, and energy, and for helping make this meeting such a success. A special thank you to our scientific organisers: 🔸 Brian Aguado, University of California San Diego, USA 🔸 Kristina Haase, EMBL Barcelona, Spain 🔸 Edith Heard, The Francis Crick Institute, UK 🔸 Irene Miguel-Aliaga, The Francis Crick Institute, UK And to our conference organiser: 🔸 Lucía Minutta, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany See you soon at another EMBL event 👉 embl.org/events/ #EESSexDifferences #EMBLEvents

#EMBLDataIntegration is underway! Bringing together researchers for learning and connecting.💻🧬

📣 Attention early-stage researchers in the life sciences with an immediate need to apply super-resolution microscopy techniques! We are offering a 6-day course on STED & MINFLUX nansocopy which will train you in both techniques and combines scientific lectures with hands-on sessions ➡️ Apply today: s.embl.org/abi26-01-x Session topics include: 🔸 Theory and applications of STED and MINFLUX microscopy 🔸 Sample preparation for STED and MINFLUX super-resolution imaging 🔸 2D and 3D STED imaging as well as multicolour, live cell, tissue, and fluorescence lifetime STED imaging 🔸 2D and 3D MINFLUX imaging 🔸 MINFLUX tracking 🔸 STED and MINFLUX microscopy data handling Apply today so you can plan an experiment, prepare your own sample, aquire images using optimal conditions and settings, and analyse them using approprate methods and tools 🔬 #EMBLSTED_MINFLUX 📅 23 – 28 November 2026 📍 EMBL Heidelberg ⏰ Apply by 27 July 2026

Wrapping up #EESSexDifferences on a high note as we announce our poster prize winners 🏅👏 Join us in congratulating these brilliant researchers: 🔹 Ithai Waldhorn, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 🔹 Rayyan Gorashi, University of California San Diego, USA 🔹 Alessia Karasani, Technical University of Munich, Germany Thanks for joining us and following along! #SexualDimorphism #SexHormones #GeneticVariation #SexChromosomes #EMBLEvents

For four days I was an event reporter in science and sex differences especially 💜💚 at EMBL Advanced training centre, Heidelberg. The conf was incredibly precisely on time, included vegetarian day (yay!) #EESSexDifferences @EMBLEvents Thank you all, including the organisers!

How does life build itself? Mechanics. Forces. Cells. Join EMBL Mechanobiology 2026 (@EMBLEvents) 📍 Heidelberg | 📅 June 9–12 🧬 Across cells → tissues → organisms 💡Keynote speakers: Caren Norden & Manu Prakash 🔗 embl.org/about/info/cou…

🌊 ⛵️Are you planning to join the EMBL Conference 'A new view of plankton in the global ocean: celebrating 10 years of Tara Oceans'? We've got great news! We've secured more travel grants and fee waivers for both on-site and virtual participants. You can apply for financial assistance directly when submitting your abstract. Find more details on the website under "Practical information": s.embl.org/pgo26-01-x ✍️ You now have until 26 May to submit your abstract to present your research as a short talk or a poster 🗓️ 1 – 4 September 2026 📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual Don't miss the chance to join #EMBLPlanktonDiscoveries and contribute to advancing plankton research. 🎥 Learn more from our scientific organiser Chris Bowler.

Xiaohong Xu from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, had a fascinating talk about how sex differences affect firing neurons and therefore also behaviour, especially mating circuit or aggression 👏 #EESSexDifferences @embl

This week has been a big one for sex differences research 🎉 Yesterday, #EESSexDifferences participants explored the immunological control of host physiology with keynote speaker Yasmine Belkaid (Institut Pasteur, France). And there’s more to come! See you later for poster session 2 and the conference party! 🥂

🦠🧫 Do you want to learn key tools and state-of-the-art concepts in microbial community dynamics? #EMBOMicroCom Apply now for the EMBO Practical Course 'Metabolite and species dynamics in microbial communities', taking place in both Heidelberg and Bangalore 👉 s.embl.org/mcd26-01-x Course modules include: • Experimental design, culture set-up, and sampling • 16S analysis of bacterial communities using Nanopore sequencing technology • Metabolite changes during community growth using Metabolomics • Interaction mapping plating experiment (optional) • Computational analysis introduction using R-studio/Python • 16S and metabolomics data analysis (computational) • Metabolic modelling of community interactions (computational) ✍️ Apply by 5 July 🗓️ 4 – 9 October 2026 📍 EMBL Heidelberg, Germany and BRIC inStem Bangalore, India

Last Friday, we wrapped up a brilliant week at the EMBO Practical Course 'Ultrastructure expansion microscopy: from cells to tissue' 🧫🔬 A huge thank you to our incredible scientific organisers, trainers, and support teams who made this course possible – your expertise and dedication created an environment where real learning could happen. To our participants: thank you for your curiosity, enthusiasm, and willingness to dive into both theory and hands-on work. We hope you leave not only with new technical skills, but also with new connections and the confidence to apply and share these methods in your own research environments. 💡 Looking forward to seeing how this community continues to grow and push the boundaries of imaging science. #EMBOExM #Microscopy #ExM #expansionmicroscopy #superresolution

Welcome to Day 1 of the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Sex differences in health and disease'! 🎉🧬 We’re off to a great start with a keynote lecture by Arthur Arnold (University of California, USA) on the general theory of sexual differentiation. Looking forward to an inspiring week at #EESSexDifferences. Stay tuned! 👀

🧬 Happy DNA Day! 🧬 Today we celebrate the discovery of DNA's double helix and the completion of the Human Genome Project – two milestones that continue to inspire ground-breaking research 🧫🔬 Want to stay at the forefront of genomics and molecular biology? Don't miss our upcoming training opportunities and meetings where the future of genetic science is being shaped. From CRISPR to ancient genomics, the next wave of innovation starts with connection and collaboration. Join us at: • EMBL Conference 'Transcription and chromatin' • EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'The complex life of RNA' • EMBL-EBI Course 'Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing' • EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to human health' ...and other events. Find out more and register now: embl.org/events/ #DNADay #DNADay2026 #DNA #Genetics #Genomics #CRISPR #Biotech #GeneEditing

#EMBOBrainEpi has come to a close! The EMBO Workshop 'Brain (epi)genome' took a closer look at the brain’s remarkable cellular diversity, bringing together leaders in genomics, neuroscience, and epigenetics 🧠 Thank you to our amazing participants, speakers, and organisers! We hope to see you again at the next edition 👋 🔹 Scientific organisers Roberto Bonasio, University of Pennsylvania, USA Mathieu Boulard, EMBL Rome, Italy Kyung-Min Noh, Aarhus University, Denmark Anne Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany 🔹 Conference organiser Adéla Graf, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

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It's a busy day for our #EMBOExM participants! From practicals in the Imaging Centre to fascinating talks in the ATC. Up now: 'A Guide to Processing and Visualizing UExM Data' by Niccolo Banterle 🔬

📣 If you missed the deadline to submit your oral presentation for #EMBLPlanktonDiscoveries - we have good news for you! The deadline just got extended to 28 April 🙌 Don't wait any longer and submit now: s.embl.org/pgo26-01-x Join leading researchers that focus on the new fields of plankton science enabled by 10 years of Tara Oceans research and learn about ecological and evolutionary insights into oceanic plankton on a global scale 🌍