Conference registration & hotel booking Invited and self-paying participants have to register on the Congressi Stefano Franscini (CSF) online platform (see instructions below). For the self-paying participants , the CSF…

Prof. Dr. Andreas Engel, Emeritus 1986 - 2010 | Professor of Structural Biology Andreas Engel was professor of Structural Biology at the Biozentrum from 1986 to 2010. He established the biological use of molecular mass…

Roughly eight in every million children are born with a particularly severe form of muscle weakness known as LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy. In Switzerland, 18 cases are currently known. This rare hereditary disease is…

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…

G5: Translational Control and Post-Translational Protein Modification – 18367 (2 hrs/week; 2 CP; Fall 2026) J.Chao , M. Hall, A. Schmidt This course will describe the components of the translational apparatus and their…

Testimonial of Míriam Condeminas Rodríguez University of Barcelona, Spain, Research Group Torsten Schwede Where do you come from and what do you study? I come from Barcelona in Spain. I am studying chemistry and have just…

A challenging journey… Yuping Li, new Professor of Infection and Immunity at the Biozentrum, is a rather quiet person. The pressure and stress she has experienced in her life are not immediately apparent. Particularly, being…

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…

Thin Sectioning Application To determine the ultrastructure of whole tissues and cells at ~2nm resolution by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Method Tissues or cells are chemically fixed, dehydrated, embedded in resin…

The frequent and sometimes careless use of antibiotics leads to an increasingly rapid spread of resistance. Hospitals are a particular hot spot for this. Patients not only introduce a wide variety of pathogens, which may…