Prof. Dr. Simon Bernèche 2008 − 2015 I Professor of Biophysics The Canadian Simon Bernèche studied physics at the University of Montreal. In 2003, he completed his PhD in the field of Biophysics and Physiology at the Weill…

Prof. Dr. Kelly Tan 2014 – 2021 | Professor of Neurobiology Kelly Tan studied biology at the University of Bordeaux II Victor Segalen in France. She earned her PhD at the University of Bern in 2007, subsequently she moved to…

A Swiss globetrotter May 2013 He is a scientist, founder of a company, businessman and currently CEO of the biotechnology company Cytos. He lives in Switzerland, the USA and Germany. The Biozentrum alumnus Christian Itin…

What is a shogun doing in a laboratory? May 2013 Shogun in the history of Japan was the title applied to a military general leading an army of samurais. Today, a certain shogun and his samurais seem to play an important role…

BC2 - Basel Computational Biology Seminar Series - Fall Semester 2019 16.09.2019 | Timothy Vaughan, ETH Zürich Timothy Vaughan Computational Evolution Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich Basel,…

BC2 - Basel Computational Biology Seminar Series - Spring Semester 2018 18.02.2019 | Michael Manhart, ETH Zürich Michael Manhart Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich Zürich, Schweiz High-resolution dynamics of…

This event brings together researchers from the Biozentrum and the Roche Division “Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development” (pRED) and provides them with a platform for scientific exchange, to explore new collaboration…

Human Frontier Science Program: In search of conserved mRNA localization and anchoring mechanisms We have started a new international collaborative program with Prof. Chris Brown (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)…

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…

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…