Since the European Research Council (ERC) launched in 2007, many innovative and ambitious projects by EMBL scientists have been awarded financial support by the ERC. The ERC promotes frontier research by outstanding scientists and selects projects based solely on scientific excellence.
During their time at EMBL, the following scientists have been awarded funding across the three ERC core grant schemes: starting, consolidator and advanced grants.
Inspired by the ERC’s tenth anniversary in 2017, we asked some of EMBL’s ERC grantees to look ahead another ten years and share their vision for their field of research.
Advanced Grants
Detlev Arendt
NeuralCellTypeEvo | 2018 – 2023
Cellular innovation driving nervous system evolution
BrainEvoDevo | 2012 – 2017
A neuron type atlas of the annelid brain: development and evolution of chemosensory-motor circuits
Peer Bork
MicrobioS | 2016 – 2021
Exploring the human gut microbiome at strain resolution
Cancerbiome | 2011 – 2016
Characterisation of the cancer-associated microbiome
Stephen Cusack
vRNA | 2013 – 2018
Two facets of viral RNA: mechanistic studies of transcription and replication by influenza-like viral polymerases and detection by the innate immune system
Jan Ellenberg
COREMA | 2017 – 2021
Cell division and the origin of embryonic aneuploidy in preimplantation mouse development
Eileen Furlong
CisRegVar | 2013 – 2018
Cis-regulatory variation: Using natural genetic variation to dissect cis-regulatory control of embryonic development
DeCRyPT| 2019 – 2024
Deciphering Cis-Regulatory Principles of Transcriptional regulation: Combining large-scale genetics and genomics to dissect functional principles of genome regulation during embryonic development
Cornelius Gross
COREFEAR | 2014 – 2019
Functional wiring of the core neural network of innate fear
Edith Heard
XPRESS | 2019 – 2020
Exploring mechanisms of gene repression and escape during X-chromosome inactivation
Matthias Hentze
REM Networks | 2012 – 2017
Exploring the interface between cell metabolism and gene regulation: from mRNA interactomes to ‘REM Networks’
Takashi Hiiragi
SelforganisingEmbryo | 2017 – 2022
Self-organisation across the scales in early mammalian development
Christoph Müller
POL1PIC | 2014 – 2019
Dynamic architecture of the RNA polymerase I transcription initiation machinery
Lars Steinmetz
COMPLEX_TRAITS | 2012 – 2017
High-throughput dissection of the genetics underlying complex traits
SystGeneEdit | 2017 – 2022
Dissecting quantitative traits and their underlying genetic interactions via systematic genome editing
Consolidator Grants
Theodore Alexandrov
METACELL | 2018 – 2023
Metabolism of a cell pictured by single-cell approach
Martin Beck
ComplexAssembly | 2018 – 2023
The birth of protein complexes
John Briggs
MembraneFusion | 2015 – 2020
Structure and mechanism of viral and cellular membrane fusion machineries
Christian Häring
CondStruct | 2016 – 2021
Structural basis for the coordination of chromosome architecture by condensin complexes
Jan Korbel
MOSAIC | 2019 – 2024
Edward Lemke
SMPFv2.0 | 2015 – 2020
Next generation single molecule protein fluorescence
Robert Prevedel
Brillouin4Life | 2020 – 2025
Development of advanced optical tools for studying cellular mechanics at high spatial and temporal resolution
Jonas Ries
CellStructure | 2017 – 2022
Structural cell biology in situ using superresolution microscopy
Sarah Teichmann
ThDEFINE | 2016 – 2020
Re(defining) CD4+ T cell identities one cell at a time
Nassos Typas
uCARE | 2019 – 2024
Understanding & circumventing antibiotic resistance
Starting Grants
Alexander Aulehla
Oscillations | 2015 – 2020
Oscillatory signaling dynamics – a quantitative approach to reveal their origin and function in development
Martin Beck
NPC Atlas | 2013 – 2018
Atlas of cell-type specific nuclear pore complex structures
Pedro Beltrao
PhosFunc | 2015 – 2020
Dissecting the functional importance of eukaryotic protein phosphorylation
Markus Heisler
MHDVPatterning | 2011 – 2015
The establishment and function of dorsiventral boundaries in plant organs
Maja Köhn
PP1tools | 2014 – 2018
Development of chemical biology tools for the elucidation of protein phosphatase-1 substrates and druggability
Jan Korbel
ChromothriPSiS | 2014 – 2019
Dissecting the molecular mechanism of catastrophic DNA rearrangement in cancer
Julia Mahamid
3DCellPhase | 2018 – 2023
In situ structural analysis of molecular crowding and phase separation
Dónal O'Carroll
ncRNA | 2013 – 2017
Non-coding RNA pathways and the mammalian male germline
Francesca Peri
FPMicroglia | 2010 – 2014
Towards a dynamic quantitative understanding of neuronal microglial interactions
Ramesh Pillai
pisilence | 2011 – 2016
Small RNA-guided complex machinery for epigenetic silencing
Christiane Schaffitzel
ComplexNMD | 2012 – 2017
NMD complexes: eukaryotic mRNA quality control
Rocio Sotillo
MadCIN | 2012 – 2017
Defining the impact of chromosome instability in tumour initiation, maintenance and relapse
Synergy Grants
Ewan Birney
IndiGene | 2019 – 2024
Wolfgang Huber
DECODE | 2019 – 2025
Oliver Stegle
DECODE | 2019 – 2025