EMBL
Grenoble, France
EMBL is among the world’s highest ranked scientific research organisations aimed to explore the secrets of life. EMBL integrates 29 member states and has six research sites in Heidelberg, Barcelona, Grenoble, Hamburg, Cambridge (Hinxton) and Rome. EMBL, in addition to being a centre of excellence in research, has during its 50 year history contributed important technological and engineering advances to support life science research.
EMBL has been at the forefront of numerous engineering and microscopy breakthroughs, significantly advancing imaging technologies and enabling new biological discoveries. Some of the key innovations developed at EMBL include confocal and light-sheet microscopy to enable high resolution biological imaging; cryo-electron tomography improvements for visualizing intracellular macromolecular structures at near-atomic resolution, and synchrotron beamline instrumentation that allow determination of protein structures at atomic resolution. ...