Barcelona, 28 March 2019 Lab-warming Party!! It’s 7 months since we moved into our new spaces here at the PRBB in Barcelona. Although I must say that it feels a lot more! Maybe it seems a bit late for a lab-warming party, but believe me – we’ve been busy during those months… more

Barcelona, 19 December 2018 Growing bio-inspired shapes with hundreds of tiny robots Hundreds of small robots can work in a team to create biology-inspired shapes – without an underlying master plan, purely based on local communication and movement. To achieve this, researchers from EMBL Barcelona, CRG and Bristol Robotics Laboratory introduced the biological principles of self-organisation to swarm robotics. Science Robotics publishes the results on 19 December. more

Barcelona, 29 October 2018 ¡Hola, Barcelona! At EMBL Barcelona, biologists, physicists and computer scientists work together to understand and simulate the multi-scale connections between genes, cells and tissues. On 15 October, EMBL Barcelona hosted its Inauguration Symposium to officially introduce itself to the city. At this event, journalists, politicians and scientists got the chance to peek inside EMBL Barcelona’s new lab spaces and meet the researchers. more

Barcelona, 22 August 2018 Welcome: Jim Swoger For years, Jim Swoger – a physical engineer – has helped biologists see inside their samples. Now he brings his 20 years of expertise to EMBL’s Barcelona site, where he heads the Mesoscopic Imaging Facility. more

Barcelona, 3 August 2018 Welcome: Vikas Trivedi Vikas Trivedi will join EMBL in October as a group leader in Barcelona. His group will combine engineering and biology to understand how groups of cells, such as developing embryos, self-organise. more

Barcelona, 9 July 2018 Welcome: Miki Ebisuya Miki Ebisuya will join EMBL Barcelona in July 2018. She creates complex cell cultures with edited genetics to mimic – and further understand – what happens during development. more

Barcelona, 20 June 2018 New theory deepens understanding of Turing patterns A team of researchers at EMBL Barcelona's Sharpe group have expanded Alan Turing’s seminal theory on how patterns are created in biological systems. This new theoretical model, published 20 June in Physical Review X, may answer whether nature’s patterns are governed by Turing’s mathematical model and could have applications in tissue engineering. more

Heidelberg, Barcelona, 26 April 2018 The rise of GPU computing in science A couple of years ago, researchers at EMBL Barcelona did something quite radical. They threw away their carefully crafted software and started again from scratch. The reason, indirectly, was computer gaming. more

Barcelona, 16 February 2018 Women in Science Day School Event Neus Martinez and Xavi Diego, members of the Sharpe Group at EMBL Barcelona, visited the Eulàlia Bota Primary School, in the north of the city, to talk about women, science and curiosity with 6-year-old children. The objective of the event was to awake the Einstein and Marie Curie in them and try to share the idea that anyone could be a scientist as long as they are curious! more

Barcelona, 29 May 2017 James Sharpe appointed Head of EMBL Barcelona James Sharpe, who invented a 3D imaging technique for looking at tissues and organs, will be the first Head of EMBL Barcelona. The new EMBL site will focus on tissue biology and disease modelling, and make state-of-the-art imaging technologies like Sharpe’s available to scientists worldwide. Sharpe, who currently leads the Systems Biology Programme at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, is expected to start his lab at EMBL this Autumn. more