In a refreshing change of scenery, the researchers of our institute stepped out of their labs and gathered at the uptown Basel area for the 2025 Biozentrum Symposium. This year’s organizing committee, headed by Prof. Silvia Arber and Prof. Ben Engel, provided an exciting and diverse program. This event, bringing together about 300 Biozentrics, showcased the broad range of cutting-edge research across the institute, while fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in an inspiring environment.
Insights into latest research
The Biozentrum Symposium serves as a networking platform for the entire research community and celebrates outstanding scientific achievements. In this spirit, numerous speakers from various research fields at the Biozentrum gave a well-balanced potpourri of presentations, providing the audience with an overview of the diverse research projects and offering fascinating insights into different concepts and methods employed. In their keynote lectures, Prof. Prisca Liberali from the FMI and the D-BSSE, ETH Zürich, and Prof. Gaia Pigino from Human Technopole Milan offered new insights into tissue-level coordination and the structural biology of cilia, respectively.
In addition, one-minute flash talks and the poster sessions offered young researchers a great opportunity to present their own work. The contributions were actively rated by the other participants throughout the meeting. The poster sessions culminated in an award ceremony at the end of the day. The prize for the best poster went to Eva Jiménez Siebert (group Knut Drescher), the best flash talk was given by Celina Hartman (group Fiona Doetsch), and the winner of the poster game was Maryam Mohammadi (group Thomas Braun).
