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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[apologies for the mass email, please forward to members of your labs and anyone you think
could be interested, we are trying to reach as broad an audience as possible]</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear Metabolism enthusiasts,</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Following the EMBO Developmental Metabolism workshop, there was strong interest—and clear
recognition of the need—for an international forum to sustain momentum and connection. We’re launching
<b>Metabolism in Development and Physiology</b>, a monthly online seminar series to connect our community at the intersection of metabolism, developmental biology and organismal physiology.</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Format</b></span></p>
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<b>When:</b> <b>Second Thursday</b> of each month, <b>16:00 CET</b></li><li class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<b>Format:</b> Two talks per session</li><ol start="1">
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<b>State-of-the-Field / Overview</b> (25 min + 5min Q&A)</li><li class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<b>Trainee / Ongoing Research</b> (25 min + 5min Q&A)</li></ol>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Inaugural session — Thursday, 13 November 2025, 16:00 CET</b></span></p>
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<b>State-of-the-Field:</b> <b>Prof. Alexander Aulehla</b> (EMBL)</li><li class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<b>Research talk: Christopher Bell </b>(University of Oxford)</li></ul>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>What you need to do now (=1 min)</b></span></p>
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Please complete the <b>google doc sign-up</b> with your <b>name, email, and country/time zone</b> so we can send joining links and updates:
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Next steps</b></span></p>
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We’ll circulate <b>calls for abstracts</b> for the monthly ongoing research slot.</li><li class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
We’ll invite <b>speaker suggestions</b> for the State-of-the-Field talk (leaders, emerging topics, cross-disciplinary views welcome).</li></ul>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Warm regards,</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mirjam, Marc, Simone, Kristina, Eleni, Anupama</span></p>
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<b>Organisers:</b></span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Anupama Hemalatha, Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) , Basel.</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Eleni Kafkia, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Kristina Stapornwongkul, Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Vienna.</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Simone Gasparato, PhD student, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
(Dresden, Germany)</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-Marc Amoyel, Associate Professor, University College London.</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-Mirjam Verbeek, PhD Student, The Francis Crick Institute, London.</span></p>
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