Events
D-BSSE seminar
Prof. Virgine Uhlmann: title tba (Quantitative microscopy image analysis across scales and modalities)
Prof. Virgine Uhlmann ( University of Zürich)
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV No.: 67912-01
Dr. Ali Seleit: Heterochrony of axis segmentation underlies extreme morphogenesis in the Japanese eel
Dr. Ali Seleit, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Host: Dr. Joaquin Navajas Acedo (group Schier)
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Courtney Stairs: Stealing and Dealing: Eukaryotic Strategies to Live without Oxygen
Prof. Courtney Stairs, University Uppsala, Sweden
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
October 16, 2026
09:00 - 13:00
Location: : ETH Zürich, D-BSSE, Klingelbergstrasse 48, 4056 Basel, Room D 65.2
Cost down, precision up and a streamlined workflow
Single-cell Multiomics the SMART way
Feel free to register via the QR link in the flyer attached or the following link: Single-Cell Multiomics the SMART way: Cost down, precision up and a streamlined workflow – Fill out form
Further information
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182-01
Dr. Valentin Flury: Epigenome maintenance (across cell divisons)
Valentin Flury, Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Prof. Xavier Trepat: Programming Shape in Living Tissues
Prof. Xavier Trepat , Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Host: Prof. Dr. David Brückner
Abstract
Lecture series: Genetic Approaches in Biomedical Research VV 79113-01
Dr. Marco Osterwalder: Wiring the Heart: Gene Regulation in Cardiac Development and Disease
Dr. Marco Osterwalder, University of Bern
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Program
FMI Seminar
Prof. Cantas Alev: Towards reconstituting human embryonic development and organogenesis in vitro
Prof. Cantas Alev (Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
October 19, 2026
14:00 - 12:30
Location: University Hospital, Klinikum 1, Spitalstrasse 21, 4031 Basel, Auditorium: Hörsaal 2 / 2nd floor
Basel Breast Consortium, October 19 -21, 2026
International Annual Meeting on Breakthroughs in breast cancer research and treatment
The early bird registration with abstract submission is extended until September 15, 2026
Late registrations without abstract submission will be possible until October 05, 2026.
FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LECTURE
Prof. Dr. Antonio Giraldez: ChromGEM reveals the ultrastructure of active and silent chromatin during genome activation
Farewell lecture
Prof. Georg Holländer: tile tba
Prof. Georg Holländer (BRCCH, Univ. of Basel, ETHZ, Univ. of Oxford)
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Dr. Daniel Müller: Title tba
Prof. Daniel Müller, DBSSE Basel
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Seminar Series: C2 Graduate Teaching Lecture: Functional Organisation of the Cell Nucleus
Prof. Susanne Wegmann: Nuclear Actions of the Microtubule Associated Protein Tau
Susanne Wegmann, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, Charité, Berlin, Germany
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dimitris Dimitrakopoulos: Vascular Niche Regulation of Adult Neural Stem Cells & Dibya Saha: Make it or Break it: How Biofilms Survive Antibiotics
Dimitris Dimitrakopoulos (group Doetsch) & Dibya Saha: (group Hondele)
Lecture series: Genetic Approaches in Biomedical Research, VV 79113-01
Prof. Anton Wutz: Identification of critical amino acids in endogenous mouse genes by hap loid genomics
Prof. Anton Wutz, ETH
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Program
D-BSSE seminar
Prof. Hagan Bailey, FRS :title tba (Polypeptide translocation and sequencing)
October 27, 2026
19:00 - 19:45
Location: Biozentrum, Lecture hall Maurice E. Müller Saal, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056 Basel
Einblicke Biozentrum: Aktuelles aus der Forschung, lecture in English
Prof. Yuping Li - From Basic Biology to Phage Therapy
Dr. Laura Fuchs: Feeling Blue - Blue Mussels and Blue Carbon
Spearker: Dr. Laura Fuchs, IOW Leibnitz-Institut für Ostseeforschung
Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi
Abstarct
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01 Prof. Sigrid Milles, FMP, Berlin, Germany https://leibniz-fmp.de/research/research-section/structural-biology/sigrid-milles
Prof. Sigrid Milles: Title tba
Prof. Sigrid Milles, FMP, Berlin, Germany
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dr. Marta Zlatic: postponed to 2027
Dr. Marta Zlatic,University of Cambridge, UK
Host: Prof. Dr. Alex Schier
Lecture series: Genetic Approaches in Biomedical Research, VV 76078-01
Dr. Katharina Behr: Altered GABAergic signalling in mouse models of neurodevelopmen tal disorders: from synapse formation to symptoms
Dr. Katharina Behr Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel
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Program
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Martin Pilhofer; Title tba
Prof. Martin Pilhofer, ETH Zürich
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
D-BSSE seminar
Prof. Pere Roca-Cusachs:title tbaa (cellular and molecular mechanobiology)
Prof. Pere Roca-Cusachs (University of Barcelona)
Keynote Speakers: Dr Mounia Lagha igmm-Institut de Génétique Molléculaire de Montpellier, France & Prof. Thomas Gregor, Institut Pasteur, Paris
12th Tri-Regional Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Meeting
FMI Young Investigator Seminar Series
Dr. Michael Winding: Title tba
Dr. Michael Winding (Social circuits and connectomics lab) Francis Crick Institute, London)
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Prof. Nadine Vastenhouw: Title tba
Prof. Nadine Vastenhouw (University of Lausanne )
Host: Prof. Susan Mango
Lecture series: Genetic Approaches in Biomedical Research, VV 79113-01
Dr. Antoine Peters: Towards understanding mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance
Dr. Antoine Peters, FMI, Basel
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Program
D-BSSE seminar
Prof. Victor Greiff : title tba (human immune repertoire)
Prof. Victor Greiff (University of Oslo)
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV 67912-01
Dr. Dafni Hadjieconomou: Mind the gut”: How ovarian signals trigger maternal gut expansion
Dr. Dafni Hadjieconomou, Brain Institute, ICM, Paris, France
Host: Dr. Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Group Schier)
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Magda Bienko: Title tba
Prof. Magda Bienko, Human Technopole Milano, Italy
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182-01
Dr. Alexander von Appen: Nuclear self-assembly
Alexander von Appen, MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
FMI Young investigator seminarseries
Dr. Kai Fenzel: title tba
Dr. Kai Fenzel ( EMBL, Heidelberg) Steinmetz group
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga: The sex and geometry of organs
Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Crick Institute, London, UK
Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi
Lecture series: Genetic Approaches in Biomedical Research, VV 79113-01
Prof. Verdon Taylor: Analysis of Notch signaling in the reg-ulation of neural stem cell fate
Prof. Verdon Taylor, DBM, Basel
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Program
FMI seminar
Dr. Ximena Soto: Tuners and controllers: how microRNA modulate dynamic gene expression in development and regeneration
Dr. Ximena Soto (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV 67912-01
Dr. Núria Ros i Rocher: Title tba
Dr. Núria Ros i Rocher, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Host: Dr. Alexey Baldin (Group Pieters)
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Prof. Philip Tinnefeld: Towards Optical Dynamic Structural Biology with Graphene Energy Transfer and pMINFLUX
Prof. Philip Tinnefeld, LMU München, Germany
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182-01
Dr. Ramona Jühlen: Chromatin Dynamics in Mitosis
Ramona Jühlen, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Host: Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog, Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dr. Sam van Beljouw: Title tba & Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog: Title tba
Dr. Sam van Beljouw (group Li) & Dr. Birthe Fahrenkrog (group Lim)
Lecture series: Genetic Approaches in Biomedical Research, VV 79113-01
Prof. Gerald Schwank: In vivo genome editing for inherited metabolic disease: lessons from obe sity and citrin deficiency
Prof. Gerald Schwank, UZH
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Program
D-BSSE seminar
Prof. Christopher Yau: title tba (Bioinformatics and Machine Learning)
Prof. Christopher Yau (University of Oxford) lab
November 24, 2026
18:15 - 19:15
Location: Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Basel BSS E 27
Besuch der Cleanroom Facility Basel
Reinraum: Mikrotechnologie für die Biomedizin
November 24, 2026
19:00 - 19:45
Location: Biozentrum, Lecture hall Maurice E. Müller Saal, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056 Basel
Einblicke Biozentrum: Aktuelles aus der Forschung
Prof. Alex Schier: Genesis: Vom Ei zum Embryo
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV No.: 67912-01
Dr. Ludovic Enkler: Studying prostate cancer across scales
Dr. Ludovic Enkler, LabEx "MitoCross", Strasbourg, France
Host: Dr. Debdatto Mookherjee (Group Spang)
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Dr. Thomas Lemmin: Protein Modeling and Design in the Era of Deep Representation Learning
Dr. Thomas Lemmin, University of Bern
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Graduate Teaching Cycle C2, VV 13182
Prof. Patrick Onck: Computational microscopy: visualizing nuclear transport at amino-acid resolution
Patrick Onck, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Host: Birthe Fahrenkrog
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Prof. Aleksandra Walczak: Title tba
Prof. Aleksandra Walczak, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Host: Anne Moor
Lecture series: Genetic Approaches in Biomedical Research, VV 79113-01
Prof. Dr. Marc Aurel Busche: Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of early Alzheimer’s Disease
Prof. Dr. Marc Aurel Busche, DBM, Basel
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Program
Cell Biology Lecture Series I, VV No.: 67912-01
Dr. Yonghua Li-Beisson: Title tba
Dr. Yonghua Li-Beisson, CEA Cadarache, France
Host: Fanny Le Blanc (Group Engel)
Lecture series: Genetic Approaches in Biomedical Research, VV 79113-01
Dr. Regula Furrer: From molecules to medals: Muscle adaptation to exercise
Dr. Regula Furrer, Biozentrum, Basel
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Program
Einblicke Biozentrum: Aktuelles aus der Forschung
Prof. David Brückner: Physik trifft Biologie - Wie Zellen sich selbst organisieren
Graduate Teaching Lecture Cycle D5, VV 32793-01
Dr. Andreas Kuglstatter: Title tba
Dr. Andreas Kuglstatter, Roche, Basel
Host: Profs. Timm Maier, Sebastian Hiller, Ben Engel
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Dr. Maren Ketterer: title tba & Three technology talks: protein binders, proteomics, light sheet microscopy
Dr. Maren Ketterer (group Dehio) & Prof. Sebastian Hiller, Alex Schmidt and Oliver Biehlmaier
Cell Biology Lecture Series II, VV 67912-01
Prof. Jan Zylicz: Title tba
Prof. Jan Zylicz, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Uni Copenhagen, Denmark
Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi
Biozentrum Discovery seminar - Discoveries in Life Sciences VV 62641
Prof. Iñaki Ruiz: Title tba
Prof. Iñaki Ruiz (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona
Host: Prof. Dr. Jean Pieters