Marcin Koltunski is an architect working for the Burckhardt Architecture cabinet in Basel, where he specialized in the design and development of public buildings. His academic path led him to study in multiple countries…

Currently available systems for sample preparation, LC-MS and data analysis In the PCF, we closely follow latest proteomics technolgies and methods and do our best to provide them to our users. Therefore, we do have…

Publications

"The Biozentrum is an institute that has always attracted good researchers. By providing the Biozentrum PhD Fellowships program, we also have a unique tool to actively recruit outstanding, international junior scientists,"…

Walking, breathing, or writing – these movements would not be possible without our muscles. The instructions are given by the nerves that communicate with the muscles through neuromuscular junctions. Damage to or loss of…

From uncharted sequence space to de novo proteins From uncharted sequence space to de novo proteins Biological proteins form mostly tightly clustered families in the pool of possible combinations of canonical amino acids.…

You are what you eat, and the influence of the neighbours: the biology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the cystic fibrosis airways Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic human pathogen, and displays a particular…

Mutational hotspots drive rapid evolution of bacterial defenses against protistan predation Soils are a hotspot of microbial predation, with numerous bacterivorous protists scavenging for bacterial prey. Despite this…

Exploring New Chemical Space for Antibiotics with Active Learning and Bacterial Phenotypic Profiling Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat, yet no antibiotics with a novel mode of action have been approved…

Mapping the gut microbiome: from spatial ecology to disease resistance The gut is home to diverse microbial communities that protect against pathogens, with mucus-lined epithelia being a particularly dense area of…