New EMBO Courses & Workshops Programme Manager

In October 2007, Maria Barbosa joined EMBO as Courses & Workshops Programme Manager. Maria comes to us from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, where for the past year she was working as a post-doc researcher. Earlier, in 2003, Maria obtained her PhD from Wageningen University. Before returning there she also did post-doctoral work at both the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the Institute of Experimental and Technological Biology (IBET) in Portugal.

Explaining her motivation behind this career move, Maria says: “I firmly believe that high-quality scientific courses and meetings contribute to the quality and competitiveness of life sciences worldwide.”

The EMBO Courses & Workshops Programme brings two important components together. First, it provides the scientific community with state-of-the-art scientific knowledge and technology while highlighting the role young scientists will play as future leaders in the field. Second, it promotes open scientific discussions and the establishment of scientific networks and cooperation.

EMBO has an ongoing commitment towards Molecular Medicine and therefore designates one workshop each year to be the “EMBO Molecular Medicine Workshop”. Maria is happy to announce that the EMBO Workshop, “MHC Class I molecules at the interface between biology and medicine”, to be held in Porto, Portugal in July 2008, has been recognised by EMBO and awarded this title.  

The programme is now accepting 2009 meeting applications. Maria encourages submissions and looks forward to receiving and discussing proposals with the organisers and their committees.

For more information on the programme and events, please visit: http://www.embo.org/courses_workshops/

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