Laura de Smalen, PhD Student, Group Handschin Why did you decide to do a PhD? During my bachelor's in Nutrition and Dietetics, I developed a strong interest in the causes and mechanisms that underlie the human diseases that…

Lucia Du, Postdoc, Group Schier Can you provide us some insights into your research? Development is a remarkably robust process that results in the generation of organs with reproducible size, shape and functions. My…

Jadiel Wasson, Postdoc, Group Mango What is your research about? My research centers around understanding how different types of environmental inputs have intergenerational effects in a process known as epigenetic…

Generative AI for modeling single-cell dynamics & response Advances in single-cell genomics have enabled the large-scale construction of organ atlases, providing unprecedented insights into cellular states and their…

Yuping Li, Professor for Infection and Immunity February 11th is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Do you think it is important that we celebrate this day? I think it is very important to celebrate the…

International Day of Women and Girls in Science February 11th is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This day was declared by the UN in 2015 in order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in…

What can the ecology and evolution of pollutant-degrading bacterial communities bring to infection biology? Medical microbiology has traditionally studied pathogens in isolation, for example to understand how they evolve…

Beyond structures: Dynamics rule at physiological temperatures – Insights from single-molecule FRET & nanopores Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sonja Schmid Sonja Schmid did her undergrad in Nanosciences at the University of Basel before…

Probing the dynamics and interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins with single-molecule FRET Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ben Schuler, University of Zurich Ben Schuler studied chemistry and biochemistry and did his PhD in…

Superresolution microscopy for dynamic structural cell biology Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jonas Ries Jonas Ries studied Physics, did his PhD with Petra Schwille in Dresden, was a postdoc at the ETH in Zurich with Vahid Sandoghdar, a…