Honorary Professors Prof. Dr. Michael Hennig CEO, leadXpro AG Email: michael.hennig leadXpro com Prof. Dr. Dominic Hoepfner Director Genomic Sciences Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research Email: dominic.hoepfner…

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Proteomics Across Deep Evolutionary Time Nearly half of human genes arose from ancestral versions dating back to the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) roughly 1.5 billion years ago. Many current genetic diseases and…

Optimal regimes of regulatory sequence Cellular gene expression programs are encoded in the DNA by regulatory sequences – each containing multiple short motifs where transcription factors bind. Despite extensive…

Synopsis Antibiotic resistance has re-emerged as a critical problem of contemporary medicine. I will discuss the biological processes contributing to the spread of antibiotic resistance. In this talk, I will ask how…

Interview with Talia Ulmer First the bachelor's degree, then the master's and now a PhD. For Talia Ulmer, the Biozentrum and Basel were the perfect match right from the start. And so, she stayed. She started her PhD without…

A new pathway for collagen secretion and wound healing control The concept of receptor-mediated trafficking of secretory cargo through small coated vesicles is well established, with notable examples including clathrin,…

The Biozentrum is mourning the death of Joachim Seelig, emeritus Professor of Structural Biology and former Chairman of the Department Biozentrum. Joachim Seelig passed away on August 15, 2024, at the age of 82 years. With…

We study the cellular organization and regulation of metabolism by large macromolecular assemblies as well as giant microbial biosynthetic assembly lines. Our research builds on hybrid use of state-of-the-art cryo electron…