The kick off for this year’s “Biozentrum Lectures” series will be presented by the distinguished developmental biologist and Nobel laureate Prof. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental…

CV of Prof. Dr. Christoph Handschin ORCID 0000-0003-0603-1097 Google Scholar Google Scholar Nationality Swiss Positions: Since 2015 Full Professor in Pharmacology (tenured), Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland 2009…

Past SBBS speakers A warm thank you to all the great scientists that presented their research in the previous editions of our SBBS seminar series. 2024 (10) Kresten Lindorff-Larsen Marta Carroni Richard Neutze Peter Mace…

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…

Prof. Richard Neher, who was just recently appointed to the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, and Prof. Trevor Bedford competed successfully with their open access website “ nextstrain.org ” against two other teams in…

The restrictions resulting from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic impact each of us in our daily work. But the crisis also sparks resourcefulness. The Biozentrum Symposium, for example, was completely re-designed and moved to…

Young scientists make a major contribution to research: They are the foundation, innovative force and future of universities and research institutions. Almost half of the staff at the Biozentrum are PhD students and…

In order to combat diseases, different therapies strive to intervene in pathological processes that occur in the cell nucleus. Chemotherapies, for example, target biochemical reactions that are involved in the proliferation…

The protein complex mTORC2 plays a crucial role in the regulation of cellular metabolism. It stimulates, for example, the production of lipids and fatty acids, but it also controls carbohydrate metabolism. In the past,…

The arms and legs tremble incessantly, the muscles become weaker and the movements slower − these are typical symptoms that many Parkinson's patients suffer from. More than six million people are affected worldwide. In these…