EMBO fellowsNet

EMBO fellowsNet is the web-based portal where our fellows, scientists who have benefited from funding and support for post-doctoral research from EMBO Long-Term Fellowships, can stay connected with the EMBO community. Once registered, you can receive news updates from EMBO, upload your contact information and publication records, and communicate with other EMBO Fellows.

Making the Write Move

EMBO invites entries for the 2009 EMBO Write Move Competition, an initiative of EMBO Life Sciences Mobility Portal now in it's fifth year year.

The competition theme is mobility. In the context of the competition mobility describes the international movement of a scientist during his/her career. Life scientists may submit non-scientific articles or stories describing personal experiences of life beyond the comfort zone of their home laboratory.

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Before it was a discipline in its own right, Molecular biology brought together individuals from multiple contributing disciplines. Naturally, those who joined in the early days had the openness of mind that allowed them to cross the boundaries of their discipline of origin. It is the same spirit that prompted some of them to subsequently cross new boundaries.
I was one of them. Having started out as a theoretical physicist, I became an EMBO Fellow in 1967-68, but soon moved on from molecules to evermore complex systems. My current interest is in human learning.

Following an extensive period of work for UNESCO as Director for Learning Without Frontiers, I established in 1999 the Learning Development Institute , or LDI for short.  LDI has a highly networked structure, bringing independently based researchers and innovative thinkers and practitioners together around significant issues. LDI’s mission and activities are based on the premise that learning must be more broadly defined. It recognizes that huge uncharted areas of human learning urgently await exploration.

Dear Fellows,

Prof. Roy McWeeny, Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (www.iaqms.org ) and Emeritus Professor in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Pisa, has dedicated many years of voluntary work to developing a series of Basic Books in Science that are freely available via the Internet to users around the world, having in mind particularly the needs of those who live in places where access to quality sources for learning is difficult or impossible.
Information about this effort is available at www.learndev.org/ScienceWorkBooks.html .