Childhood dream: Becoming a scientist June 2025 Since she was a child, Ina Sonnen dreamed of becoming a cancer researcher. Although her academic career took a slightly different path, the topic of cancer has never quite left…

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Interview with Alexander Kuznetsov From a medical degree in pediatrics to a Master in Bioinformatics, from industry to academia, and from Moscow, via Armenia, to Basel. Alexander Kuznetsov considers things carefully before…

Jump in at the deep end December 2015 With her Master’s in Biochemistry still warm in her hand, market analyses, pricing strategies and product launches were already waiting for her. Gabriela Güntherodt, at that time a…

Exploring new horizons November 2016 Christian Sengstag had never imagined that he would one day do anything other than research. But then he was presented with a fait accompli: His research institute was to be closed down.…

IMCF guidelines 1. General booking Rules: The user can book a microscope only after having received the appropriate introduction. The instruments can be booked up to 14 days in advance. During daily working hours (9-17h),…

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) and urinary tract infections (UTIs) Deciphering UPEC in-vivo physiology To truly understand how UPEC behave inside the human bladder, we go straight to the source – analyzing urine…

Research Projects Biophysical Principles of Chaperone Function Molecular chaperones play a key role in cellular processes, including protein homeostasis, but also in membrane protein transport and biogenesis. We employ…

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…

Prof. Ben Engel on recognizing our connection with the environment Ben Engel about his childhood in California, his love of nature, and the importance of scientific communication. You grew up in California - how would you…