As EMBO announced on June 11, 2019, Prof. Susan Mango is now a newly elected member. Including Susan Mango a total of 27 scientists have been recognized for their achievements with an EMBO Membership since the foundation of…

Ribosomes produce all the body’s proteins and are therefore also referred to as "protein factories". Their architecture and function have largely remained unchanged over millions of years, highlighting their importance for…

Speaking from the soapbox November 2014 Brisk and sometimes bracing walks from his flat to and from the Biozentrum - this is the first thing that comes to mind to the famous Californian. In the early 1980ies the Nobel Prize…

Internships for school children To get a taste for research and have the opportunity to use their own hands, or a pipette as the case may be, and slip into the role of a scientist, is also made possible for school children…

Imaging Core Facility Light microscopy is of great importance in all fields of biological research. The Imaging Core Facility of the Biozentrum is a technology platform for the use of highly developed light microscopes. Our…

Jump in at the deep end December 2015 With her Master’s in Biochemistry still warm in her hand, market analyses, pricing strategies and product launches were already waiting for her. Gabriela Güntherodt, at that time a…

Learning ‒ teaching ‒ sparking enthusiasm May 2015 She definitely didn’t want to become a teacher. Yet she is one. For 15 years, Anja Renold has been teaching at the Gymnasium Bäumlihof in Basel. Since 2008, she is also the…

Soon children's voices will fill the Biozentrum. Again this year, for the third time, school children will become young research scientists. Wearing white coats, armed with pipettes, pens and notebooks, they will eagerly…

In response to last year’s call for SNSF Advanced Grants 232 researchers submitted applications. 24 of these projects were awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation grant, totaling 50 million Swiss francs in funding.…

Testimonial Victoire Tribout EPFL Lausanne, Research Group Sebastian Hiller Where do you come from and what are you studying? I grew up in Paris and now I study in Lausanne in the French part of Switzerland. I have just…