Astrid Gall
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👩🏼💻 Science communication & media relations @embo.org | 🎓 Senior Associate @lucycavcoll.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk | 🦠 PhD in Molecular Virology |📍Heidelberg, Germany | Views my own https://www.linkedin.com/in/astrid-gall-ab4787138/
I am pleased to see my former tutee and collaborator Bridget Bannerman receive the Faculty for the Future Impact Prize. She is one of nine women scientists and engineers honoured. Congratulations all, well deserved! 🎉 schlumbergerfoundation.com/schlumberger... www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/news/lucy-al...
Schlumberger Foundation Honors Nine Women Scientists and Engineers with the 2026 Faculty for the Future Impact Prize - Schlumberger Foundation
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For the first time ever, the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum is coming to Dubrovnik, #Croatia, 28–30 October 2026. 🧪 Sign up now! Early bird registration deadline: 15 July 2026 https://event.fourwaves.com/eysf #EYSF2026 #LifeSciences #EarlyCareerResearchers
EMBO is #hiring a Head of Information Support and Resources! 🧪 Apply by 2 August 2026: https://www.embo.org/vacancy/head-of-information-support-and-resources/
🏅Thrilled to see @yehumoran.bsky.social elected to the membership of @embo.org! Yehu was instrumental in forming an #ecology & #evolution advisory board for our journals while serving as Academic Editor, where he now continues as an advisor. #EMBOMembers2026 www.embo.org/press-releas...
Seventy-one leading scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO
The new EMBO Members and Associate Members are recognized for their outstanding achievements in the life sciences
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Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026
EMBO spoke with science journalists across #Europe about the future of the field and how the Maria Leptin | EMBO #ScienceJournalism Fellowship can support it, while gathering fellows' ideas on sustaining journalism’s essential role: https://www.embo.org/features/the-future-of-science-journalism/ 🧪
Remembering parasitologist Bridget Ogilvie. As a director of the Wellcome Trust and charity founder, the labs she built sequenced the human genome and more. go.nature.com/4nVWHt6
Bridget Ogilvie obituary: parasitologist who championed biomedical labs and scientific evidence
As a director of the Wellcome Trust and charity founder, the labs she built sequenced the human genome and more.
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EMBO supports excellence in the #LifeSciences through its programmes, publishing, policy and innovation across #Europe and globally. 🧪 Our focus this week: #UnitedKingdom https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/embo-communities-by-country/focus-on-the-united-kingdom/
Iconic British naturalist David Attenborough, whose work has shaped science for decades, turns 100 today go.nature.com/4dbRFUB
A life in pictures: Celebrating Attenborough at 100
As the British naturalist celebrates a milestone birthday, we take a look at how his work has shaped science.
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Happy 100th birthday to the living legend and national treasure that is Sir David Attenborough. Few figures alive have done as much for nature and conservation as Sir David, and we've been very lucky to work with him over the years. #DavidAttenborough #Attenborough100 #Nature #PlanetEarth
We’re excited to launch a brand-new opportunity at the Sanger Institute, funded by GoogleDeepMind. This fully funded 3-year Fellowship is designed for exceptional early-career researchers ready to apply AI/ML to some of the most important challenges in genomics. 🧬 Apply here ⤵️ bit.ly/4uBuZUT
From a printed #newsletter launched in 2004 to a print and digital magazine, EMBO Encounters now transforms into a quarterly digital newsletter on LinkedIn. 🧪 Subscribe now: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/embo-encounters-7444360755275186177/
"The conditions enabling excellent science […] do not emerge spontaneously. They are built, negotiated and sustained by scientists willing to step into governance roles." Read more from the interview with Nektarios Tavernarakis, EMBC President and Delegate for #Greece: www.embo.org/people/why-i...
DANEMO is heading to EMBL Heidelberg. 2 days on AI, data, and life science — talks, labs, and people. Open to Master’s, PhDs, and postdocs in Denmark. Travel (up to 3,000 DKK) + accommodation covered. Worth a look if you’re curious about where research is going. dtu.events/danemoexcurs...
Data visualisation can change the way we see the world, from the warming of our planet to the spread of disease. Watch our video with #BBCIdeas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wtmCXgNqG4
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Congratulations to Asifa Akhtar, EMBO Member, for being honored with Baden-Württemberg’s Order of Merit! More information here: https://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6125128/2026_03_27_Akhtar_Verdienstorden_BaWu_en Read our interview with Asifa here: https://www.embo.org/people/science-without-borders/
Apply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Installation Grants Programme is now open with a deadline of 15 April 12:00 midday CEST. 🧪 More information can be found here: https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/installation-grants/ #LifeSciences #research #funding
Terry O’Connor, who runs the Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellowship scheme, tells us about the importance of #ScienceJournalism for science and society: https://www.embo.org/features/why-we-support-science-journalism/ 🧪 #LifeSciences #research #fellowship
The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports group leaders setting up their laboratories in #Chile, #India, #Japan, #Singapore and #Taiwan. Apply now with a deadline of 1 May 14:00 CEST. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/global-investigator-network/ #LifeSciences
Last month, we released our hugely popular online tutorial dedicated to sustainable computing: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... Developed in collaboration with the Cambridge Sustainable Computing Lab. It was supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust Foundation and the University of Cambridge. 🧬🖥️🌱
Don't miss out – Submit your applications for EMBO Courses & Workshops by 1 March 2026. 🧪 Learn more about the eligibility criteria and application process here: https://www.embo.org/funding/funding-for-conferences-and-training/ #EMBOevents
It was a pleasure to talk to David Pellman about #scicomm, challenges scientists face toady, his career as a paediatric oncologist and more. Thank you! 🧪 #science #wisskomm
EMBO@embo.org · 6mo ago"We are now in a period with much more scepticism about science," says David Pellman, EMBO Associate Member at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 🧪 Read more: https://www.embo.org/people/cancer-communication-and-connecting-continents/ #LifeSciences #science #research
Join us for #GenomeAnalysis26 training across Asia-Pacific🌏 Learn how to apply next gen bioinformatics approaches, as well as AI & other research tools, to understand complex biological problems Google DeepMind sponsored 🗓️18-22 May 2026 Apply by 2 March ➡️ bit.ly/49KYJWo @astar-gis.bsky.social
Apply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Installation Grants Programme is now open with a deadline of 15 April 12:00 midday CEST. 🧪 More information can be found here: https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/installation-grants/ #LifeSciences #research #funding
Apply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is now open with a deadline of 1 April 12:00 midday CEST. 🧪 More info here: https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/young-investigator-programme/ #LifeSciences #research #funding
Twelve scientists from Chile, India, Nigeria, Singapore and Taiwan have been selected as new EMBO Global Investigators – Congratulations to the new cohort! 🧪 Read the press release: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twelve-scientists-become-embo-global-investigators/ #funding #training
François Blanquart et al. dive into the genetic basis of HIV virulence with very cool statistical methods. They show that viral load is shaped by host-dependent HLA escape variants with large effects, alongside many additional variants whose effects are too subtle to reach genome-wide significance.
The genetic architecture of HIV-1 virulence
Abstract. The virulence of HIV-1 is partly determined by viral genetic variation. Finding individual genetic variants affecting virulence is important for
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Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/
Violence against women must end, now! This nonverbal Signal for Help is a way to discreetly communicate when you need help. But, of course, a hand sign isn’t enough.
