Each year, EMBO selects some of the very best junior life science researchers in Europe to join the Young Investigator Program. With her nomination, Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi becomes a member of a high-ranking network of…

What is it like to work as a scientist? How does a research group work? And what questions do scientists face on a day-to-day basis while driving forward a scientific research project? The opportunity to get to the bottom of…

Blood vessels run throughout the entire body, delivering nutrients and oxygen through the circulating blood. During vessel formation, cells first form local lumens, which then fuse to form a continuous tubular network. The…

Research is a team effort! May 2025. Interested in joining the Drescher group? Our research group focuses on understanding bacterial multicellular development and functions. We use methods from physics, molecular biology,…

Advancing biology through single cell phenomics Bart Deplancke and his team focus on understanding gene regulation, cellular differentiation, and tissue biology using advanced single-cell and high-throughput techniques,…

Hall of fame Name Position Moved to Pauline Crausaz MSc student SDS Schweiz Seraina Eigenmann MSc student Merck Kazuki Nosho Postdoc Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo Takuya Ohmura Postdoc Assistant Professor,…

“The ball is rolling” December 2024 This also describes Henri Saenz’s life. We met the Biozentrum alumnus in Allschwil, in the Alba building. On the 9th floor. The view is breathtaking – from the Black Forest to the Vosges,…

The Ambizione fellow Dr. Janani Durairaj , project leader in the research group of Prof. Torsten Schwede, will study the protein universe of viruses in more detail. Viruses have evolved diverse pathogenic mechanisms and…

Cell receptor dynamics and signaling G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a large family of membrane proteins crucial for cell signaling and the target of about 35 percent of all drugs. Despite that the knowledge of GPCRs…