This fonds contains material that is produced and/or received, from or by any of the EMBL sites, in the course of delivering training. The subfonds "External" contains material related to the delivery of training activities to persons external to EMBL, such as through conferences and courses, whereas the subfonds "Internal" contains material related to the delivery of training activities to persons internal to EMBL, such as through the graduate programme.

This fonds contains material relating to Jacques Dubochet and his 2017 Nobel award for his work cryo-electron microscopy.

This fonds contains photographic slides from Karsenti's work at EMBL and his first EMBL laboratory notebook.

This fonds contains scientific and administrative material from Kafatos' tenure as Director General of EMBL, as well as several files relating to his time at Imperial College and the European Research Council.

This fonds holds material from Graham Cameron relating, in particular, to the development of the EMBL Data Library and the establishment EMBL-EBI, the European Bioinformatics Institute, in Hinxton, GB.

This fonds contains material from Edmond Baudoin, who illustrated a book which included Leó Szilárd as a protagonist. Szilárd, after whom the EMBL Szilárd Library is named, was involved in the early development of EMBO, the European Molecular Biology Organization, which went on to found EMBL.

This fonds contains material relating to Ernst Stelzer's development of confocal microscopy and imaging. Dates are approximate.

The papers contained in this fonds provide an in-depth insight into the scientific career of Max Birnstiel, starting with his work on the isolation of the gene, which he was the first to achieve. The first paper in P-BIR-2 explains how this was achieved and what makes a gene, and P-BIR-7 provides an overview of gene isolation.