EMBO has played an important role throughout Sascha Martens’ scientific career: It has supported him with a postdoctoral long-term fellowship during his time at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge. Also, more recently, he has received a Young Investigator Award that has supplied him with additional resources and network opportunities to establish his lab at the Perutz.
“Being an elected EMBO member is a great honour for me and for my research. As a new member of this community, I am looking forward to helping promote and support the next generation of life scientists in Europe”, says Sascha Martens.
EMBO was founded in 1964 - with Max Perutz elected as the first Chairman and John Kendrew as Secretary General - with the goal to create a central European laboratory for life sciences and increase scientific interactions between researchers in Europe. Today the organization has more than 1.800 members elected by their peers; 88 Nobel Laureates have or have held EMBO Membership. Funded by its member states, the organisation supports research fellowships, courses, workshops, conferences, and science policy initiatives.
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Gene regulatory mechanisms governing human development, evolution and variation
Regulation of Cerebral Cortex Morphogenesis by Migrating Cells
Phage therapy for treating bacterial infections: a double-edged sword
Suckers and segments of the octopus arm
Using the house mouse radiation to study the rapid evolution of genes and genetic processes
CRISPR jumps ahead: mechanistic insights into CRISPR-associated transposons
SLiMs and SHelMs: Decoding how short linear and helical motifs direct PPP specificity to direct signaling
Title to be announced
Enigmatic evolutionary origin and multipotency of the neural crest cells - major drivers of vertebrate evolution
Visualising mitotic chromosomes and nuclear dynamics by correlative light and electron microscopy
Engineered nanocarriers for imaging of small proteins by CryoEM
Bacterial cell envelope homeostasis at the (post)transcriptional level
Title to be announced
Hydrologic extremes alter mechanisms and pathways of carbon export from mountainous floodplain soils
Dissecting post-transcriptional gene expression regulation in humans and viruses
Prdm9 control of meiotic synapsis of homologs in intersubspecific hybrids
Polyploidy and rediploidisation in stressful times
Title to be announced
RNA virus from museum specimens
Programmed DNA double-strand breaks during meiosis: Mechanism and evolution
Title to be announced