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Cell Biology Lecture Series

Cell Biology Lecture Series The "Cell Biology Lecture Series" is a joint effort of the Research Groups Engel, Hall, Hondele, Keller, Rüegg, Schier and Spang to monthly host international speakers to talk about current…


Catherine Brun

Leaving the comfort zone November 2019 Leaving your own comfort zone can sometimes be quite daunting but above all it is one thing, enriching and in any case a chance to try something completely new. Catherine Brun speaks…


Biozentrum Discovery Seminar Series

Biozentrum Discovery Seminars Biozentrum Discovery (BZD) is a seminar series, which alternates between talks by renowned guest speakers and seminars given by graduate students and postdocs from the Biozentrum. The seminars…


New vaccine concept tackles harmful bacteria in the intestine

The issue of intestinal bacteria is a complex one. On the one hand, we are dependent on the microorganisms because they are the ones that digest the food in our intestine. On the other hand, there are also numerous pathogens…


Hall of fame

Name Achievements Position and Years Radu Cristian Leonte Developed IVA Prime, a tool for automated primer design in in vivo assembly cloning PhD Student Since 2025 Fengjie Wu SNF Ambizione Fellowship 2024 Project Leader…


Lab news

Lab news February 2020 Benoit Laventie is the « National winner » of the Wiki Science Competition 2019 . Congratulations to Benoit for his first price in the Category «Microscopy images»…


Teaching Cycles

Graduate Teaching Program The Biozentrum offers a broad selection of lectures on current topics in molecular, cellular and systems biology at the master's and PhD level. This Graduate Teaching Program enables you to expand…


Obituary for Prof. em. Joachim Seelig (1942 – 2024)

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…


Architecture of cellular control center mTORC2 elucidated

The protein complex mTORC2 plays a crucial role in the regulation of cellular metabolism. It stimulates, for example, the production of lipids and fatty acids, but it also controls carbohydrate metabolism. In the past,…


Electron microscope virtuoso and Biozentrum founding member

May 15th, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Eduard Kellenberger. The physicist has not only gone down in the history and textbooks as a pioneer of electron microscopy but also as an early representative…