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t EMBL Barcelona, biologists, physicists and computer scientists work together to understand and simulate the multi-scale connections between genes, cells and tissues. In 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. Donald Ingber, the founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, also gave a keynote lecture, which inspired visitors and researchers alike. Here, we catch up with some of EMBL Barcelona’s newest recruits. READ ONLINE: BIT.LY/embl-92-24a
Miki Ebisuya Group Leader, EMBL Barcelona
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Since I was a child, I’ve really liked science. After entering the lab at university, I also started to like the process of science. I learned to make a hypothesis, try the experiment, repeat it and then fail! Only once in a while do we succeed, but I really enjoy this process. In my lab, we alter the genetics of cells to recreate and understand what happens during animal development. To do this, we’ve built artificial gene circuits, where genes are inserted into the genome of cells. Creating these gene circuits is really difficult and in almost all cases it fails. I want researchers in my lab who don’t give up – even if they fail a hundred times. This is also why you need to think about your results and plan experiments carefully. If you don’t, you can lose a lot of time.
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