Congenital muscular dystrophy is a rare hereditary disease which cannot be cured. The more than 30 known forms of this neuromuscular disease differ in the type of genetic defect and in the severity of disease progression.…

Neurobiologist and stem cell biologist Prof. Fiona Doetsch has been awarded the 2026 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. She receives the prize for her pioneering work uncovering the identity and functions of neural stem cells…

Cell signaling and dynamics in bacterial growth, adaptation, and persistence Our studies aim at understanding the molecular and cellular principles involved in the growth, differentiation and behavior of bacterial cells. We…

CV of Prof. Dr. Susan Mango ORCID 0000-0002-2146-3237 Nationality : USA Positions: Since 2019 Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland 2009 - 2019 Professor, Dept. of…

CV of Dr. Oliver Biehlmaier ORCID 0000-0003-0825-8500 LinkedIn BiehlmaierO Nationality : Swiss & German Positions: Since 2011 Head of the Imaging Core Facility at the Biozentrum of the University Basel, Switzerland 2008 –…

CV of Prof. Dr. Médéric Diard ORCID 0000-0001-5914-8059 Nationality : French Positions: 06/2018 - Present Assistant Professor University of Basel, Switzerland Biozentrum, Focal Area Infection Biology Funding: SNF…

HR & Finances The University of Basel places great value on offering its employees motivating and transparent employment conditions and providing an environment in which development and a high level of flexibility is…

ELN: Electronic Lab Notebooks We provide a wiki-based Electronic Lab Notebook solution (ELN-Wiki) to the research groups at the Biozentrum and other life science groups at the University of Basel. The spectrum of digital…

Until recently, it was assumed that vertebrates share similar mechanisms controlling sleep behavior. That's why researchers have been using fish in the past 20 years as a model organism to study sleep and its regulation. Now…

The brain is malleable well into adulthood. Brain plasticity is not only due to the formation of new nerve connections. Stem cells present in the adult brain also generate new nerve cells. For more than a hundred years,…