Alumni Association News 2006

The EMBL Alumni Association local chapters serve as important platforms for scientific exchange, in organising scientific meetings, seminars, expertise and resource sharing, and social gatherings. They can also provide a unified and powerful voice to local and national politicians and funding bodies, and help to further science in their regions.

Each chapter is headed by EMBL alumni who voluntarily coordinate activities and events in their area. The Austrian chapter, coordinated by Silke Pichler and Anne-Marie Frischauf (also EMBL Council's Austrian Delegate), will have their next meeting in Salzburg at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on 25-27 September (www.ogbm.org/Jahrestagung/).

The German chapter head, Claudia Koch-Brandt, would like to encourage all EMBL alumni in Germany to attend the Staff Association Summer Party on 22 July, where she will be gathering feedback to organise the next German local chapter meeting.