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A3: New Approaches to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

A3: New Approaches to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance – 14466 (1 hr/week; 1 CP; Fall 2026) Urs Jena l , Marek Basler, Dirk Bumann, Christoph Dehio, Médéric Diard, Knut Drescher This lecture series was redesigned in the scope of…


Irena and Björn Burmann

She says, he says: With kit and caboodle to Sweden February 2024 Both are researchers at the University of Gothenburg: he is a professor; she is a senior scientist. They both once worked at the Biozentrum and are a couple.…


How the key protein mTOR controls cell growth

Cells proliferate by dividing repeatedly. Each cell division produces two daughter cells, which must first grow to a certain size before they can divide, too. This requires an increased production of cell components,…


Heat stress reduces lifetime of mRNA molecules

The coronavirus pandemic and the development of the novel vaccines has brought mRNA into the public eye. mRNAs are transcripts of DNA. They serve as a template for protein production and are degraded after a certain time.…


Living in Basel

Living and working in Basel Basel is one of the top fifteen cities with the highest quality of living worldwide according to the 2023 Mercer study . It is located in the heart of Europe and embedded in Europe’s most…


Tackling the Achilles' heel of pneumonia-causing bacteria

According to the WHO, more than one million people worldwide die of pneumococcal infections every year. Young children, elderly and immunocompromised persons are particularly affected. After the introduction of…


«We need to learn how to deal with AI tools like ChatGPT because they will not disappear.»

Did the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool like ChatGPT surprise you personally? I think we were all surprised by the rapid pace of this development and above all by the quality and versatility of this chat…


Gottfried Eisner

Always on duty for the environment December 2018 Springtails, earthworms, midges, zebrafish, bees and bacteria – they all have an important job at Innovative Environmental Services (IES) Ltd. With their help, the company can…


Alumni Portraits

Alumni Portrait Anne Grahl, Investment Manager at Pureos Bioventures May 2026 “Out of hundreds of start-ups, we invest in just a handful” Anne Grahl took a leap into the unknown, moving from a postdoc at the Biozentrum into…


Michael Hall receives the Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Today, the BBVA Foundation announced that Prof. Michael Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and Prof. David Sabatini from the MIT, USA, have been awarded the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category…