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Laura de Smalen, PhD Student, Group Handschin Why did you decide to do a PhD? During my bachelor's in Nutrition and Dietetics, I developed a strong interest in the causes and mechanisms that underlie the human diseases that…

Biozentrum Excellence Scholarship for Master's Study in Physics of Life The Biozentrum offers a limited number of scholarships for international candidates who are applying for the MSc Physics of Life with outstanding…

Stealing nature’s tricks to build better biosensors Recent years have seen the development of a broad class of optical and electrochemical sensors in which the binding of a specific molecular target is signaled via a…

C3: Molecular Mechanisms of Development – 13166 (2 hrs/week; 2 CP; Fall 2025) A. Schier , Grayson Camp This course explores the fundamental processes by which cells, tissues, and organisms develop and change over time, from…

The population biology of bacterial pathogenicity: insights from Escherichia coli E. coli is a commensal of the human gut but also a major opportunistic pathogen causing of the order of a million deaths worldwide each year.…

The population biology of bacterial pathogenicity: insights from Escherichia coli E. coli is a commensal of the human gut but also a major opportunistic pathogen causing of the order of a million deaths worldwide each year.…

Dynamic RNA biology at the single-molecule level: Watching how interconnected processes work in real-time Speaker: Prof. Dr. Olivier Duss Olivier Duss studied Chemistry at the ETH Zurich, did his PhD with Fred Allain at the…

Prof. Anissa Kempf on sleep We do it every night and from time to time during the day, too. We sleep. But why actually? And what makes us fall asleep, how does the brain control our sleep? Prof. Anissa Kempf investigates…

Cryo-FIB milling Application A specialized technique for TEM specimen preparation to mill a bulk specimen with focused gallium (Ga) ions. The target region of the specimen can be selectively thinned down to a desired shape…

Bacterial traits of antibiotic treatment failures Antibiotic development and treatment are based on in vitro measures of bacterial growth inhibition, with growth indicating drug resistance. Much less is known about the…