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Career Event

Career Event Big Decisions, Bold Moves Roche CEO Interview & Panel with Leaders from Roche and McKinsey & Company Join us on October 22 at 17:30 in the Maurice E. Müller Saal (Biozentrum) for an exclusive opportunity to…


Obituary for Max Burger

Born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1933, Max Burger studied medicine at the University of Zurich. After practicing medicine for several years, he moved his focus to basic research and graduated in biochemistry at Washington…


Research Group Dirk Bumann

Single-cell activities of bacterial pathogens during infection and treatment Bacterial infections are a major threat to human health. New antibiotics and vaccines are urgently required but progress has been slow. A major…


Research Projects

Module: Research Projects During the course of study, students carry out two research projects, each worth 10 CP, under the responsibility of a member of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Science or the teaching staff of…


Research Group Jean Pieters

The coronin pathway and cell population size control T cells require the protein coronin 1 to reach and maintain their cell population size. The movie illustrates T cells dividing until their appropriate density has been…


First Biozentrum Retreat

On 22 June 2022, the scientists of the Biozentrum left their labs and seminar rooms for a three-day retreat on the Sursee campus. Around 300 researchers from a wide variety of disciplines took the time to get to know each…


Research Group Maria Hondele

Formation and function of membraneless organelles Life ultimately depends on the tight control of gene expression, which requires ordered and efficient processing of various RNA molecules. Yet, we know very little about the…


Projects

Structure, function, and evolution of genome-wide regulatory networks Most projects that we pursue concern the functioning and evolution of genome-wide regulatory systems in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. The…


Flavio Donato awarded ERC Starting Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) recently announced that Prof. Flavio Donato is one of 408 young top researchers to receive one of the much coveted grants. According to the ERC, a total of 621 million euros have been…


LAMA2 MD

LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy (LAMA2 MD; also called MDC1A) Congenital muscular dystrophies (CMDs) are a group of genetic muscle diseases with onset at birth or very early infancy. The more than 30 known forms of these…