Heidelberg, 20 May 2015 – EMBO today announced that 58 outstanding researchers in the life sciences were elected to its membership. Fifty of the scientists reside in Europe and neighbouring countries; eight Associate Members were elected from China, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.
The latest scientists to join EMBO come from 19 different countries and include 18 female scientists recognized for their contributions to life science research. The EMBO Membership currently comprises more than 1700 life scientists.
“EMBO Members influence the future direction of science and help to strengthen research communities by encouraging interactions between countries,” EMBO Director Maria Leptin remarked. “We welcome these exceptional scientists to EMBO and look forward to their input.”
EMBO Members serve on selection committees for EMBO programmes, mentor young scientists, and provide suggestions and feedback on the activities of EMBO.
New EMBO Members and Associate Members are invited to present their research at the EMBO Members’ Meeting from 28-30 October 2015 in Heidelberg.
The newly elected members and associate members are:
NEW EMBO MEMBERS 2015
| Amparo Acker-Palmer | Goethe University Frankfurt & Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, DE |
| Detlev Arendt | European Molecular Biology Laboratory & Heidelberg Centre for Organismal Studies, DE |
| Jean-Louis Bessereau | Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, FR |
| Monica Bettencourt-Dias | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT |
| Ralph Bock | Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, DE |
| Magdalena Boguta | Polish Academy of Sciences & Warsaw University of Technology, PL |
| John Briggs | European Molecular Biology Laboratory, DE |
| Simon Bullock | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK |
| Dirk Bumann | University of Basel, CH |
| Carlos Caldas | University of Basel, CH |
| Carlos Caldas | Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, UK |
| Laurent Duret | Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, FR |
| Sandrine Etienne-Manneville | Institut Pasteur, FR |
| Ehud Gazit | Tel Aviv University, IL |
| Vassilis G. Gorgoulis | University of Athens & Academy of Athens, GR |
| Joost Gribnau | Erasmus University Medical Center, NL |
| John Hardy | UCL Institute of Neurology, UK |
| Thomas Helleday | Karolinska Institutet, SE |
| Emilio Hirsch | Università di Torino, IT |
| Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Philipp Holliger | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK |
| Casper Hoogenraad | Utrecht University, NL |
| Veit Hornung | University Hospital, University of Bonn, DE |
| Johanna Ivaska | University of Turku, FI |
| Sophien Kamoun | John Innes Centre, UK |
| Susan M. Lea | University of Oxford, UK |
| Alison Lloyd | University College London, UK |
| Jan Lohmann | University of Heidelberg, DE |
| Javier Martinez | Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT |
| Jean-Claude Martinou | University of Geneva, CH |
| Rebecca Matsas | Hellenic Pasteur Institute, GR |
| Pura Muñoz-Cánoves | Pompeu Fabra University, ICREA & CIBERNED, ES |
| Georg Nagel | Julius-von-Sachs-Institut für Biowissenschaften, DE |
| Magnus Nordborg | Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, AT |
| Duncan T. Odom | University of Cambridge & Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK |
| Sharon Peacock | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Lucas Pelkmans | University of Zurich, CH |
| Luca Pellegrini | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Graça Raposo-Benedetti | Institut Curie, FR |
| Eran Segal | Weizmann Institute of Science, IL |
| Ralf Sommer | Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, DE |
| Alexander Stark | Vienna Biocenter, AT |
| Amos Tanay | Weizmann Institute, IL |
| Simon Tavaré | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Nicolas Thomä | Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, CH |
| Maria Elena Torres Padilla | Institut Génétique Biologie Moléculaire Cellulaire, FR |
| Henrique Veiga-Fernandes | Universidade de Lisboa, PT |
| Danièle Werck-Reichhart | Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes & University of Strasbourg, FR |
| Anne E. Willis | MRC Toxicology Unit, UK |
| Mihaela Zavolan | University of Basel, CH |
| Chiara Zurzolo | Institut Pasteur, FR |
NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
| Angelika Amon | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US |
| Lewis C. Cantley | Weill Cornell Medical College, US |
| Xuetao Cao | Zhejiang University School of Medicine & National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, CN |
| Sean B. Carroll | University of Wisconsin-Madison & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US |
| Edward F. DeLong | University of Hawaii & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US |
| Takashi Gojobori | National Institute of Genetics, JP & Computational Bioscience Research Center, KAUST, Saudi Arabia |
| Paul Rainey | Massey University, NZ |
| Feng Shao | National Institute of Biological Sciences, CN |