May 9, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
"DDX19 Binds PAIP1 to Link mRNA Export with Poly(A)-Binding Protein Remodeling"
Daan Overwijn (group Hondele)
"Finding novelties across the protein universe in the post-AlphaFold era"
Joana Maria Soares Pereira (group Schwede) |
April 11, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
"In vivo imaging using protein binders"
Sophie Schnider (group Affolter)
"Hide and seek with Staphylococcus aureus in the bones"
Florian Marro (group Bumann) |
March 21, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
"Cutting through the noise: Removing measurement errors to learn from biological fluctuations"
Björn Kscheschinski (group van Nimwegen)
"Decoding X chromosome organization: A single-cell perspective"
Aude Andriollo (group Mango) |
February 28, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
"Wiring regulatory elements to their target genes"
Guest speaker: Prof. Maria Cristina Gambetta
University of Lausanne
Host: Susan Mango
Her team aims to understand the molecular basis of gene regulation specificity in Drosophila using genetics, genomics, biochemistry and live-imaging tools. |
February 21, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
"The design of evolution and the evolution of design"
Guest speaker: Prof. Andreas Plückthun
Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich
Host: Laetitia Rozic
Plückthun's research focuses on protein engineering and directed evolution, especially of antibodies, engineered binding molecules and membrane proteins. |
February 14, 2025 (11:45 am, lecture hall U1.111; MEM)
"A neuroimmunological take on the mind-body problem"
Guest speaker: Prof. Asya Rolls
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Rolls focus her research on specific neuronal networks in the brain, e.g. the reward system, and on general changes in brain activity and analyze their effects on immune activity. |
February 7, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
"The DBM Bioinformatics Core Facility"
Robert Ivanek
"Engineering biosensors to track small molecules in vivo"
Andreas Kaczmarczyk (group Urs Jenal) |
January 31, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
"Decoding the complexity: Navigating computational challenges and technologies in spatial biology"
Guest speaker: Prof. Raphael Gottardo
CHUV Lausanne University Hospital
His group focuses on developing novel computational tools, statistical methods and machine learning algorithms for the analysis of high-throughput and high-dimensional datasets. |
January 20, 2025 (lecture hall U1.131)
"The vacuole guard hypothesis and evolutionarily-conserved restriction of intracellular pathogens"
Guest speaker: Prof. Ralph Isberg
Tufts University
Isberg's team investigates drug resistance in nosocomial pathogens emphasizing a systems biology and network analysis approach. |
December 20, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
“Inflammasomes - multi-protein complexes controlling anti-microbial immunity and pyroptotic cell death”
Guest speaker: Prof. Petr Broz
University of Lausanne
Broz' research focuses on host defense mechanisms, inflammasomes and the induction of pyroptosis, a lytic, inflammatory cell death. |
December 6, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
"Neonatal Spontaneous Activity Shapes Adult Cortical Processing"
Susanne Falkner (group Peter Scheiffele)
"The phenotype space of Vibrio cholerae biofilms"
Eva Jiménez Siebert (group Knut Drescher) |
November 22, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
"Killers, Cannibals and Kinship: Exploring the evolution of behaviour using a predatory nematode"
Guest speaker: Dr. James Lightfoot
Max Planck Institute for the Neurobiology of Behaviour, Bonn, Germany
The Lightfoot lab explores the divergent behaviours observed between the free-living round worms, C. elegans and P. pacificus. |
November 1, 2024
"Memory aids on the chromatin - Epigenetic mechanisms for memory encoding"
Guest speaker: Prof. Johannes Gräff
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
The interests in his lab are memory consolidation/reconsolidation, Alzheimer’s disease, and long-lasting traumatic memories. |
October 25, 2024
"Tag with caution - How protein tagging influences the formation of condensates and membraneless organelles"
Kerstin Dörner (group Maria Hondele)
"Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis"
Yinan Wan (group Alex Schier) |
September 27, 2024
"What's New at the PCF"
Alex Schmidt (Proteomics Core Facility)
"Some Like It Tagged: The effect of tagging on coronin protein localization and function"
Roko Gvozdenica Sipic (group Jean Pieters) |
September 24, 2024
"Purinosome: assembly mechanism and interplay with mitochondria"
Guest speaker: Ruey-Hwa Chen
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Her research focuses on the role of protein degradation and exosomal secretion in controlling cancer cell signaling and tumor immune microenvironment. |
September 13, 2024
"Dissecting the ecology and evolution of gut microbial communities"
Guest speaker: Prof. KC Huang
Stanford University, USA
Huang's team employs diverse interdisciplinary methods to understand the relationships among cell shape detection, determination, and maintenance in bacteria. |
July 5, 2024
"More than one way to move across the border: Mechanisms of lipid transport and cell wall synthesis"
Farewell Lecture - Prof. Camilo Perez
University of Georgia, USA
Host: Alex Schier
Perez' lab aims to elucidate the mechanism of transporters, flippases and polymerases involved in the assembly of the bacterial cell wall. |
June 28, 2024
"Targeting polyamine uptake in liver cancer"
Christoph Müller (group Michael Hall)
"To move or not to move? Brain circuits for movement licensing"
Antonio Falasconi and Harsh Kanodia (group Silvia Arber) |
June 14, 2024
"Probing the structure and function of the brain with X-rays, electrons and light"
Guest speaker: Dr. Adrian Wanner
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI); Villigen, Switzerland
In his research, the Structural Neurobiologist explores synchrotron imaging applications for neuronal circuit reconstruction. |
May 31, 2024
"Evolution of gene content and structure in bacteria"
Marco Molari (group Richard Neher)
"Evolutionary dynamics of ESBL E. coli during long term intestinal colonization"
Leonardo Rocha (group Médéric Diard) |
May 24, 2024
"Building patterns in cells during development"
Guest speaker: Prof. Jessica Feldman, Stanford University, USA
The Feldman Lab studies the mechanisms that regulate cell patterning events during development. |
May 17, 2024
"New players in the molecular arms race between bacteria and phages"
Guest speaker: Prof. Michael T. Laub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
Laub's team studies the biological mechanisms and evolution of how bacterial cells process information to regulate their own growth and proliferation. |
April 19, 2024
"Lighting up the central dogma to dissect how sharp developmental patterns are established"
Guest speaker: Prof. Mounia Lagha, University of Montpellier, France The Lagha lab uses quantitative imaging to uncover the mechanisms regulating gene expression in space and time during development. |
April 12, 2024
"Chimeric antibiotics target a conserved site in outer membrane insertase"
Roman Jakob (group Timm Maier)
"Spatio-temporal regulation of adult neural stem cells for transient neurogenesis in mothers"
Zayna Chaker (group Fiona Doetsch) |
April 5, 2024
"How the zebrafish makes its guts: stochastic switching in endodermal fate decision making"
Guest speaker: Prof. Caroline Hill, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK The Hill lab wants to understand how cells communicate with each other and their environment as an organism develops and is working out how this communication breaks down as cancer develops. |
March 22, 2024
"And the switch is on: Codon optimality unleashes differential mRNA stability above a threshold length"
Sayanur Rahaman (group Attila Becskei)
“The Muscle Strikes Back: Novel Mechanisms and Targets to Combat Cancer-Induced Muscle Wasting”
Volkan Adak (group Christoph Handschin) |
March 15, 2024
"Mitochondrial behavior"
Guest speaker: Prof. Jodi Nunnari, University of California, Davis, and Altos, California, USA
Nunnari is a pioneer in the field of mitochondrial biology. The research in her lab is devoted to understanding how the behavior of mitochondria is controlled in cells. |
March 8, 2024 (lecture hall U1.131)
“Adjusting organ size during development”
Guest speaker: Prof. Pierre Léopold
Institut Curie and French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm), Paris
Léopold is a developmental biologist and investigates the genetic mechanisms of the mechanisms of growth coordination allowing the maintenance of organ proportions. |
March 1, 2024
"The importance of rare states in RNA biology"
Guest speaker: Prof. Dina Grohmann
University of Regensburg, Germany
Grohmann’s research focuses on biological heterogeneity and diversity and aims to understand how heterogeneity drives the function of molecular machineries. |
February 16, 2024
"Capturing transcription factors in their native chromatin environment"
Alicia Michael (group Ben Engel)
"A Glitch in the Matrix: how changes in the extracellular matrix impact the regenerative properties of muscle stem cells"
Timothy McGowan (group Markus Rüegg) |
February 9, 2024
"Intrinsic and extrinsic regulators of choanoflagellate cell biology"
Guest speaker: Prof. Nicole King; University of California, Berkeley, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), USA
King's research focuses on choanoflagellates, unicellular and flagellate eukaryotes that are the closest living relatives of animals. Her laboratory studies these organisms as a way to reconstruct the origin of many-celled animals. |
February 1, 2024
"Capillary attraction underlies bacterial collective dynamics"
Guest speaker: Prof. Ned Wingreen. Princeton University, USA
Wingreen is a theoretical physicist at Princeton University. His current research focuses on modelling intracellular networks in bacteria and other microorganisms, as well as studies of microbial communities. |
January 31, 2024
"The (40 years long) Hox timer"
Guest speaker: Prof. Denis Duboule, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Duboule from the University of Geneva has a longstanding interest in the function and regulation of Hox genes, a family of genes responsible for the organization and evolution of animal body plans. |
January 30, 2024
Molecular sightseeing on a tomographic tour through the cellular landscape
Prof. Ben Engel
Biozentrum, University of Basel |
January 29, 2024
"Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Control"
Guest speaker: Sir Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Nurse is a geneticist and cell biologist. His research focuses on the molecular machineries that control cell reproduction, cell growth, and cell form. The Nobel laureate discovered how the cell controls its cycle of growth and division. |
December 8, 2023
"ER stress switches PDIA6 from client folding condensates to UPR signaling"
Anna Leder (group Sebastian Hiller)
"The regulatory landscape of 5′ UTRs in translational control during zebrafish embryogenesis"
Madalena Pinto (group Alex Schier) |
December 1, 2023
"The origin of eukaryotes"
Guest speaker: Prof. Laura Eme; University of Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
Eme is interested in evolutionary microbiology. She has a strong background in evolutionary bioinformatics and examined problems related to the origin and genome evolution of eukaryotic microbes and archaea. |
November 17, 2023
"Machine-learning guided sequence design for mRNA and gene therapy applications"
Guest speaker: Prof. Georg Seelig, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
The Seelig group is interested in understanding how biological organisms process information using complex biochemical networks and how such networks can be engineered to program cellular behavior. |
November 10, 2023
"Identification of a novel mTORC1 substrate"
Stefania Battaglioni (group Michael Hall)
"Encasing carbon fixation: the PyShell in marine diatoms"
Manon Demulder (group Ben Engel) |
November 3, 2023
"Design principles of tissue organization: how single cells cross biological scales"
Guest speaker: Prof. Prisca Liberali; Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biochemical Research, Basel
Liberali studies the dynamics of self-organization, and how cellular signaling dictates its spatial-temporal regulation. |
October 27, 2023
"Discovery and characterization of splicing regulatory networks implicated in brain disorders"
Guest speaker: Prof. Benjamin Blencowe; Donelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Canada
Blencowe’s research team studies the mechanisms by which genes are regulated and coordinated to provide critical functions in mammalian cells. His work primarily focuses on a step in gene expression referred to as RNA splicing. Link |
October 20, 2023
“Exploring the role of alternative splicing in neuronal plasticity and learning”
Oriane Mauger (group Peter Scheiffele)
"10 years into super-resolution microscopy - Upgrade to structured illumination microscopy 2.0"
Oliver Biehlmaier (IMCF) |
October 6, 2023 (lecture hall U1.131)
"How does the tumour suppressor p53 protect us from cancer?"
Guest speaker: Prof. Andreas Strasser, University of Melbourne, Australia
His laboratory investigates the molecular mechanisms that cause cancer and those that determine the response of malignant tumour cells to diverse anti-cancer agents. Link |
September 29, 2023 (lecture hall U1.131)
"Persistence of infant memories in the adult brain"
Maria Lahr (group Flavio Donato)
"Catalytic cycling of human mitochondrial Lon protease"
Niko Schenck (group Jan Pieter Abrahams) |
September 1, 2023 (lecture hall U1.131)
"Finding your place: transcription factors as sensors and modifiers of chromatin"
Guest speaker: Prof. Dirk Schübeler, Director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel
Dirk Schübeler has done important work in epigenomics and regulatory genomics, in particular with the dynamics of genome-wide methylation patterns, their role in gene regulation, and the interplay between chromatin state and the actions of transcription factors. Link |
August 18, 2023
"Translation-dependent mRNA localization during epithelial morphogenesis"
Cristina Tocchini (group Susan Mango)
"How bacteria make complex sugars: insights into the biosynthesis of a glucan virulence factor"
Jaroslaw Sedzicki (group Christoph Dehio) |
| June 30, 2023 "Exploring the human condition with organoid and single-cell technologies"
Guest speaker: Dr. Gray Camp; group leader at the Institute of Human Biology (IHB), pRED, Roche, Basel
Camp's research focuses on using single-cell genomic and imaging technologies, together with stem-cell-derived organoids, to understand human development, disease, and evolution. Link |
May 12, 2023
“The small GTPase Arf1 maintains mitochondrial bioenergetics by modulating fatty acid metabolism”
Ludovic Enkeler (group Anne Spang)
“The chosen ones: How a few specialized nuclei maintain the muscle synapse”
Alexander Ham (group Markus Rüegg) |
May 5, 2023
"Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells"
Guest speaker: Prof. Ibrahim Cissé; Director of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
Cissé's research focuses on live cell super-resolution imaging and single molecule characterisation. Link |
April 28, 2023
"Engineering epithelial organoid development"
Guest speaker: Prof. Matthias Lütolf; Scientific Director of the Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering and a Professor of Bioengineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
Lütolf is specialized in biomaterials, and in combining stem cell biology and engineering to develop improved organoid models. Link |
April 21, 2023
"Invincible? Surviving Staphylococcus aureus in human deep-seated infections"
Vishwachi Tripathi (group Dirk Bumann)
"Lost in 'co' translation: How a once thought tissue-specific RP paralog widely affects protein stability and degradation"
Arka Banerjee (group Mihaela Zavolan) |
March 24, 2023
"The functional cycle of the human Hsp70 chaperone BiP at atomic resolution"
Guillaume Mas (group Sebastian Hiller)
"Engineered kinases as a tool for phosphorylation of selected targets in vivo"
Katarzyna Lepeta (group Markus Affolter) |
February 24, 2023
"Mitochondrial proteostasis in aged skeletal muscle"
Laura de Smalen (group Christoph Handschin)
"Dynamic mechanism of the nuclear pore complex permeability barrier"
Toshiya Kozai (group Rod Lim) |
January 27, 2023
"Research acceleration with sciCORE scientific support services"
Geoffrey Fucile (sciCORE)
“Cortical control of forelimb movement”
Wuzhuo Yang (group Silvia Arber) |
December 16, 2022
"Probing principles of gene regulation and genome architecture"
Guest speaker: Prof. Bas van Steensel, group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
Van Steensel studies chromatin genomics to gain fundamental insights that are essential for a comprehensive understanding of cancer. Link |
December 9, 2022
"Development and evolution of visual projections"
Guest speaker: Prof. Alain Chédotal, group leader at INSERM and coordinator of the Department of Development, Vision Institute, Paris
A main focus of his research is the development of retinal connection and optic nerve regeneration. |
December 2, 2022
"Single-cell analysis of bacterial gene expression dynamics during starvation"
Théo Gervais (group Erik van Nimwegen)
" 'I’m A Survivor': The mechanisms of drug tolerance in a human pathogen"
Isabella Santi (group Urs Jenal) |
November 4, 2022
"TreeKnit: Inferring Ancestral Reassortment Graphs of influenza viruses"
Pierre Barrat (group Richard Neher)
“Adipose mTORC2 is essential for sensory innervation in white adipose tissue”
Irina Frei (group Mike Hall) |
September 30, 2022
"Keeping the balance: A role for Bone Morphogenic Proteins in controlling neuronal networks"
Zeynep Okur (group Peter Scheiffele)
"Genomics Facility Basel - Technologies, Applications & Opportunities"
Christian Beisel (Genomics Core Facility) |
September 23, 2022
"Stem cell-derived organoids model human disease"
Guest speaker: Prof. Hans Clevers, Head pRED Roche, and group leader at the Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Clever is a pioneer in organoid research. His lab developed a technique to grow stem cells into organoids. Link |
August 19, 2022
"Polarized secretion from killer cells of the immune system"
Guest speaker: Prof. Gillian M. Griffiths; group leader at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, UK
Griffiths was one of the first to show that immune cells have specialized mechanisms of secretion, and identified proteins and mechanisms that control cytotoxic T lymphocyte secretion. Link |
June 17, 2022
"Exploring behavioral functions of human sleep disorder genes"
Will Joo (group Alex Schier)
“Give it a shot! – A bacterial nanoweapon for a silent spread inside eukaryotic cells”
Miro Plum (group Marek Basler) |
June 3, 2022
"Nanobacteria: Key players in the earth’s carbon cycle"
Guest speaker: Prof. Stephen Giovannoni, Head of the Oregon State University Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, USA
The marine microbiologist studies how biology interacts with the atmosphere and the oceans to change global patterns in the movement of carbon and other elements. Link |
May 13, 2022
"Studying host-microbiome ecology in humans using mathematical models and data collected from hospitalized patients"
Guest speaker: Dr. Joao Xavier; group leader at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Xavier combines computation and experiment to investigate how cells interact with each other to produce complex cell group behaviors. Link |
April 22, 2022
"SEEDing the genome to manipulate the proteome. A novel method for scarless gene tagging"
Gustavo Aguilar (group Markus Affolter)
"Setting an Evolutionary Trap with Phages"
Anouk Bertola (group Médéric Diard) |
April 1, 2022
"Decoding Transcriptional Processes and Kinetics with Single-Cell Transcriptomics"
Guest speaker: Prof. Rickard Sandberg, group leader at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Sandberg’s team is studying global aspects of gene regulation by combining genome-wide experimental and computational techniques to deepen the understanding of the molecular nature of cell identities in development and disease. Link |
March 25, 2022
“An AAV/CRISPR tool for functional gene interrogation in adult skeletal muscle”
Marco Thürkauf (group Markus Rüegg)
"T3 Pharma - bugs as drugs"
Christoph Kasper (T3 Pharmaceuticals) |
March 18, 2022
"Spatial transcriptomics/genomics: dissecting the neurobiology of olfaction"
Guest speaker: Prof. Bogdan Bintu, group leader at the Department of Bioengineering and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, USA
Bintu develops and applies new imaging tools to understand how gene regulation information propagates across scales from the molecular events within the nucleus to the organization of cells into tissues, organs and organisms. Link |
February 25, 2022
"Emergent properties of bacterial swarming behavior"
Hannah Jeckel (group Knut Drescher)
"Mechanistic insights into the regulation of Neurofibromin, a molecular switch of cellular proliferation"
Malik Chaker-Margot (group Timm Maier) |
November 25, 2021
“Germ cell migration: Finding the path toward immortality”
Guest speaker: Prof. Ruth Lehmann, Director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Lehmann studies the biological origins of germ cells, and how they transmit the potential to build a completely new organism to their offspring. Link |
November 19, 2021
“Mapping high-resolution cell states in single-cell RNA-seq data”
Pascal Grobecker (group van Nimwegen)
"How microRNAs regulate stem cell proliferation and fate decisions in the adult stem cell niche"
Fabrizio Favaloro (group Doetsch) |
October 29, 2021
“Cooperation, competition and warfare in bacteria: from model systems to the microbiome”
Prof. Kevin Foster, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, |
October 22, 2021
"Shortening of 3’ UTRs in most cell types composing tumor tissues implicates alternative polyadenylation in protein metabolism"
Dominik Burri (group Zavolan)
“Cryo-ET: The Power of Visualizing Cellular Processes in situ at Nanoscale”
Dr. Ashraf Al-Amoudi (group Maier) |
October 15, 2021
"The RNA exosome complex: the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of RNA degradation"
Prof. Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Host: Camilo Perez |
September 24, 2021
“Mechanistic basis of choline import involved in pneumococcal teichoic acid modification"
Natalie Baerland (group Perez) "Midbrain locomotor region involved in more than just locomotion"
Harsh Kanodia (group Arber) |
June 25, 2021
"From bacteriophage defense systems to novel genetic tools and back"
David Bikard, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
June 18, 2021
"Deciphering mechanisms of human brain size determination using cerebral organoids"
Madeline Lancaster, MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, Cambridge |
June 11, 2021
"Sense, aim and fire - bacterial response to cell-cell contact"
Lin Lin (Basler group)
"Diving into the zone of uncertainty, its role in fear learning"
Ed Li (Zan group) |
May 28, 2021
"Mitotic chromosome mechanics"
Daniel Gerlich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Vienna, Austria |
May 21, 2021
"Barcoding the structural proteome"
Paola Picotti, ETH Zurich |
April 30, 2021
"Topogenesis of membrane proteins: more than hydrophobicity"
Marco Janoschke (Spiess group)
"Karyopherin composition alters nuclear pore complex barrier function"
Joanna Kalita (Lim group) |
April 16, 2021
"Brain mitochondria and metabolism on the links between stress, anxiety and motivation"
Carmen Sandi, EPFL, Lausanne |
April 9, 2021 - cancelled
"Explorations of brain dynamics in reptilian sleep and cuttlefish camouflage"
Gilles Laurent, Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt a. M., Germany |
March 26, 2021
"Combinatorial action of temporally segregated transcription factors as a mechanism for cell diversification"
Luisa Cochella, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria |
March 19, 2021
"Tasting from within: a new sensory interface with the cerebrospinal fluid"
Claire Wyart, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle epiniere, ICM, Paris |
March 12, 2021
" 'Zoom'ing in on organelle communication - systematic exploration of contact sites"
Maya Schuldiner, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
March 5, 2021
"Manipulation of host protective immune activation by pathogenic mycobacteria"
Tan Hop Huynh (Pieters group)
"Gene families with stochastic exclusive gene choice underlie cell adhesion in mammalian cells"
Simone Faravelli (Becskei group) |
February 19, 2021
"Genome regulation during developmental transitions: New views of old questions"
Eileen Furlong, EMBL Heidelberg |
February 12, 2021
"A switch protein generates bimodal distribution of nucleotide second messenger"
Margo van Berkum (Jenal group)
"Research Instrumentation - A new core for the NBZ"
Ludovit Zweifel (Biophysics Facility) |
February 5, 2021
"Synthetic Developmental Biology - Interspecies comparison and manipulation of organoids"
Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona |
January 29, 2021
"Cell-type specialization is encoded by specific 3D genome structures"
Ana Pombo, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin |
December 11, 2020
"Inhibitor or substrate? Getting the answer through structural biology"
Dongchun Ni (Stahlberg group)
"Unleashing the therapeutic potential of mTOR inhibition"
Stefan Imseng (Aukera) |
November 20, 2020
"A tale of two fish: how gene family evolution underlies cell type diversification"
Dr. Max Shafer (Group Schier)
"Chopsticks to produce bacterial second messenger"
Dr. Raphael Teixeira (Group Schirmer) |
October 16, 2020
"Distinct roles of Dpp/BMP morphogen dispersal and signaling during Drosophila wing development"
Dr. Shinya Matsuda (Affolter group)
"Arginine promotes liver cancer"
Dr. Dirk Mossmann (Hall group) |
September 18, 2020 (
"Transient interactions in the early wiring of cortical circuits: from neuronal guideposts to immune cells"
Sonia Garel, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superiore, IBENS, Paris |
September 11, 2020
"From membrane repair to metabolism – unexpected insights from a muscular dystrophy"
Dr. Regula Furrer, Group Christoph Handschin
"High pressure switches ß1-adrenergic receptor to the active state in the absence of G protein"
Dr. Layara Abiko, Group Stephan Grzesiek |
July 3, 2020
Ninja Warrior: How a bacterial pathogen hijacks host signaling
Dr. Isabel Sorg, Group Christoph Dehio
The dynamic brain of a future mother: adult neurogenesis during pregnancy
Dr. Zayna Chaker, Group Fiona Doetsch |
June 19, 2020
Diverse organization & lamina-induced stretching of embryonic chromosomes
Dr. Ahilya N. Sawh, Group Susan Mango
Technology news from Biophysics, FACS and Imaging Core Facilities
Tim Sharpe, Janine Bögli and Alexia Loynton |
June 5, 2020
Eating and self-eating: targeting autophagy to endosomes
Dr. Valentina Millarte, Group Martin Spiess
The dynamic mechanism of 4E-BP1 recognition by mTORC1
Dr. Raphael Böhm, Group Sebastian Hiller |
May 15, 2020
Restoring muscle scaffolding for a stable future: Towards a gene therapy for LAMA2 neuromuscular disease
Dr. Judith Reinhard, Group Markus Rüegg
FERARI: a platform involved in endocytic recycling
Harun-Or Rashid, Group Anne Spang |
February 21, 2020
Proteomics is coming of age - can it retire the Western Blot?
Dr. Alexander Schmidt, Head Proteomics Core Facility
Bacterial kinase activation by second messenger induced domain liberation
Elia Agustoni, Group Tilman Schirmer |
December 6, 2019
Less is more when it comes to mTORC1 and muscle aging,
Dr. Daniel Ham, Group Markus Rüegg
The transcriptional biography of developing tissues
Dr. Yiqun Wang, Group Alex Schier |
November 28, 2019
"Sorting of small RNAs for secretion in human exosomes"
Nobel laureate Prof. Randy Schekman, University of California, Berkeley |
November 8, 2019
Observing bacterial pathogen evolution with long read sequencing,
Dr. Nicholas Noll, Group Richard Neher
Control of neuronal synapse specification by alternative splicing,
Dr. Lisa Traunmüller, Group Peter Scheiffele |
October 21, 2019
"Dynamic structural biology: Bringing the structures of nucleic acids to life"
Prof. Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, Duke University |
October 4, 2019
"Heterogeneity in host-pathogen encounters: single cell activities of Salmonella in infected host tissues", Francesca Cianfanelli, Group Dirk Bumann
"Identifying a good animal model for age-related muscle loss in humans", Anastasiya Börsch, Group Mihaela Zavolan |
September 27, 2019
"The self-assembling brain - through the eye of a fly", Prof. Robin Hiesinger, Institute of Biology, Free University Berlin, Host: Peter Scheiffele |
September 6, 2019
"A.I. in microscopy: Deep learning in image restoration and analysis", Oliver Bielmaier, IMCF
"Targeting Coronin 1 to kill and tolerate", Rajesh Jayachandran, Group Jean Pieters |
June 21, 2019
"The first steps in vision: cell types, circuits and repair", Prof. Botond Roska, Director Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) Host:Fiona Doetsch |
June 7, 2019
"Brainstem circuits for diversification of skilled forelimb movements", Ludwig Ruder, Group Silvia Arber
"Finding n.e.m.o. RNAi" Jadiel Wasson, Group Susan Mango |
May 3, 2019
"Going too fast to notice anything", Thomas Julou, Group Erik van Nimwegen
"When death is not enough: The evolution of the T6SS as a lytic weapon in microbial warfare", Andrea Vettiger, Group Marek Basler |
March 29, 2019
"The structure of discoidal high-density lipoprotein particles", Stefan Bibow, Group Sebastian Hiller
"PERsuading muscle to move around the clock", Julien Delezie, Group Christoph Handschin |
February 22, 2019
"Fat, friend or foe?: Regulation of glucose homeostasis", Mitsugu Shimobayashi, Group Michael Hall
"Fat: friend and foe! How cholesterol fine tuning is required for development", Carla Cadena del Castillo, Group Anne Spang |
February 1, 2019
"Long-term single cell quantification: New tools for old questions", Prof. Timm Schroeder, D-BSSE, ETH Zurich, Host: Prof. Fiona Doetsch |
December 7, 2018
"Should I stay or should I go: Bacterial decision-making for host colonization", Benoit Laventie, Group Urs Jenal
"Motivation to socialize: Recognizing others through reward", Hanna Hörnberg, Group Peter Scheiffele |
November 27, 2018
"How synapses work: Architecture and mechanisms of neurotransmitter receptors and transporters", Eric Gouaux, Vollum Institute, OHSU, USA, Host: Camilo Perez |
