A challenging journey… Yuping Li, new Professor of Infection and Immunity at the Biozentrum, is a rather quiet person. The pressure and stress she has experienced in her life are not immediately apparent. Particularly, being…

Well prepared for life July 2018 What a coincidence. Shortly, after we sent out our request for an interview, Harvard Professor Anna Mandinova replied that she is currently traveling through Europe and Switzerland.…

2024 Celebrating the 2024 International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we recognize women's important roles and achievements in science. This day underscores the need for gender equality in science and the ongoing…

“Many things just worked out that way” May 2022 Four years ago. Alumninews took up contact with Britta Hartmann. At this time, however, she was in the middle of a career change. Today, the biologist is the Head of the…

Research Projects Our team is comprised of people with different training: Some team members are trained in physics or mathematics, some are trained in molecular biology, and others are trained in interdisciplinary sciences…

Always driven by curiosity May 2016 As a teenager he translated hieroglyphics and built a liquid engine. Later, as a PhD student in Walter Gehring’s lab, he bred some weird flies with eyes on their legs. Georg Halder has…

Terra incognita. November 2017 One can hardly imagine a more exotic place to do a doctorate. Serej Ley spent four years in Papua New Guinea studying tuberculosis and experienced things that most of us only know from books or…

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. By endowing a professorship, the Georg H. Endress Foundation is helping the University of Basel expand its research into the biophysical foundations of…

When biology becomes a life’s passion December 2020 He cherishes Walter Gehring’s Drosophila strains, an old PCR machine from the Biozentrum, his love for the Basel “Fasnacht” and a key to one of Basel’s old city gates, the…

Kadjita Asumbisa, Postdoctoral Fellow What brought Kadjita Asumbisa to the Biozentrum? He shares how the institute’s world-class labs, Basel’s vibrant scientific community, and the city’s welcoming lifestyle make it the…