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June 09, 2020
New Assistant Professor appointed to the Biozentrum
In autumn 2020, Maria Hondele will join the Biozentrum of the University of Basel as a new Assistant Professor. The biochemist, currently working at…
May 15, 2020
Electron microscope virtuoso and Biozentrum founding member
In commemoration of the 100th birthday of the physicist Prof. Eduard Kellenberger, who was a founding member of the Institute of Molecular Biology at…
May 04, 2020
Protective shield: How pathogens withstand acidic environments in the body
Prof. Camilo Perez's team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has elucidated an important mechanism by which certain bacteria, including the…
April 28, 2020
Silvia Arber and Alex Schier elected to the “National Academy of Sciences”
Prof. Silvia Arber, neurobiologist at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), as well…
April 01, 2020
Apply now for the Biozentrum PhD Fellowships
With its prestigious and much sought after PhD Fellowships, the Biozentrum enables ambitious and highly motivated young scientists to do their PhD at…
March 26, 2020
Awards for Biozentrum junior researchers
In the past months, the achievements of many young scientists at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, have once again been recognized in the form of…
March 20, 2020
Tracing the coronavirus with Nextstrain
Labs and seminar rooms are empty, lectures are being held online. Even research at the Biozentrum has been reduced to the minimum. However, for Prof.…
March 16, 2020
Measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus
Due to the increasingly rapid spread of the coronavirus, the management of the University of Basel has decided on far-reaching measures. As a…
March 11, 2020
Sabotage attack: How a bacterial protein tricks our innate immune response
Upon sensing an infectious agent our immune system triggers inflammation in order to clear the infection. Prof. Christoph Dehio’s team at the…
March 10, 2020
Prof. Peter Scheiffele participates in EU-funded research project CANDY
The CANDY project investigates the biological links between neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring somatic illnesses and how treatment of…