A new look and feel for EMBL’s official WWW pages (see Page 2)
It was a (very short) dark and stormy night... (see Page 8)
A talk with Harold Varmus (see Page 4)
Alumni meeting update: New advertisement for the alumni meeting taking place on October 21-23, 1999 in Heidelberg.
Photographs: Image of the solar eclipse and picture of Harold Varmus
Page 2:
A much-needed overhaul of EMBL’s website: Feedback from inside EMBL is requested to launch afterwards the official website for external users.
Image: Aspect of new EMBL website
Page 3:
FAQs fearfully anticipated questions: questions that may arise regarding the new developed EMBL website.
EBI Hinxton – the BioInformer: Publicity about this website that keeps up-to-date on what is happening in EBI outstation.
Image: BioInformer home page.
Pages 4 and 5:
A talk with Harold Varmus: Interview by Russ Hodge of Varmus which was was the Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Photographs of Harold Varmus
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Hamburg Outstation. Future structural biology with a Free Electron Laser: Announcement of a new linear collider called TESLA with a projected centre-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. It would complement DESY’s particle storage ring facilities. X-FEL facility is also planned. Written by Matthias Wilmanns (EMBL Hamburg Outstation).
Kids @ EMBL: A second-grade class of the Gaiberg elementary school visits EMBL Heidelberg.
Photographs: Kids at EMBL and artwork by the kids (also on Page 7.)
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The EMBO corner: EMBO offers short-term and long-term fellowships. The article is an explanation of the application and evaluation processes. Written by Frank Gannon, Executive Director of EMBO.
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From the sister sciences... – When small things pass in front of the sun: Article about the 1760 transit of Venus.
cooey! anyone out there?: EMBL was contributing to a USA initiative to search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Written by Freddy Frischknecht & Sarah Sherwood.
Photograph: Image of the solar eclipse
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Science & society: EMBL has organized a panel discussion for Monday 4 October to talk about the expansion of the application of intellectual property rights (IPR) and their protection in patents.
Administrative announcement – unresolved legal dispute to oblige the registration of all EMBL personnel in the German Central Government
People @ EMBL – New people at EMBL and new Group leaders
Page 10
Announcements: Safety Office now on the intranet, late or weekend work and the new library newsletter called “Simply Szilárd”
Blunt ends & fill-ins: EBI has decided to launch a new database in which protein structures will be represented by various shapes and sizes of noodles.
Space links: links related to articles in Page 8.
False Positives: Winners of Medline competition.
...but are you ready for Y10K?: Dates in the SWISS-PROT, PROSITE and SWISS-2DPAGE databases are stored as ASCII text strings using four digits and there should be no problem until December 31, 9999.
[Index kindly prepared by EMBL alumna Patricia Resa-Infante.]
Exodus. Groups of Kai Simons, Tony Hyman, Marino Zerial and Carlos Dotti left EMBL in the beginning of 2001. This issue includes several pictures of farewell party. (see Page 2-3)
Science and Society at the EBI (see Page 4)
An A above middle C (see Page 10)
First EMBL PhD (see Page 7)
A new voice for the life sciences (see Page 8)
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Addressing the ethical consequences of genome research. Picture of Alan Robinson and Halldór Stefánsson. Written by Sarah Sherwood
Lab coats and business suits. New start-up biotech companies based out of EMBL: CellZome, Gene Bridges, Electa, Anadys.
Announcement of welcome-session.
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Taking the senior scientists’ show on the road. First of a series of senior scientist meetings to be held at the other EMBL sites. Written by Russ Hodge
Bridging the gap between molecules and diseases. Report on minisymposia on Molecular Medicine. entitled “Structural and Bioinformatic Approaches to Disease”
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Consortium pledges to complete Anopheles genome sequence
Completing the genome(s): a revolution with subtle effects. Written by Peer Bork and Richard Copley
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EMBL awards its first degree. It was obtained by Joep Muijrers Written by Sarah Sherwood and Katrin Weigmann
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Introducing the ELSF: a voice for the Life Sciences in Europe. Interview to Luc Van Dyck (by that time, ELSF Manager) by Russ Hodge. Includes pictures.
Page 10:
From the sister sciences. Perfect pitch: use it or lose it. Written by Lena Reunis
Page 11:
The EMBO corner
From the Szilárd library
From the Staff Association
Pages 12:
People @ EMBL: New people at EMBL and new Group leaders
Awards, Honors & Etcetera: Marco Milán was awarded the research prize awarded by the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn-Stiftung.
False Positives: winners of Medline competition.
[Index kindly prepared by EMBL alumna Patricia Resa-Infante.]
