Living in Basel Basel is one of the top cities with the highest quality of living worldwide. It is located in the heart of Europe and embedded in Europe’s most important Life Sciences hub. The Biozentrum is embedded in…

Join our international research community Scientists from around the world are welcome to pursue their career at Swiss research institutions, including the Biozentrum. Switzerland and Basel offer a stable, well-supported…

Sara Congedi, Polymechanic Apprentice The mechanical workshop has been training polymechanics for several decades. The current head of the workshop, Patrick Schlenker, began his training here over 25 years ago. Sara Congedi…

Live and Work in Basel Selection of Funding Opportunities in Switzerland and the EU University of Basel Research Fund University of Basel : funding for excellent junior researchers (Contact: Grants office ) Swiss National…

Biozentrum Community We are a lively and dynamic community with over 30 research groups, 260 young scientists and a total of 500 employees. And we are very international – the Biozentrists come from more than 40 countries.…

Emergence of globular protein folds from random amino acid sequences The origin and evolution of protein folds are among the most challenging, long-standing problems in biology. Emphasizing the challenge, evolutionary…

How cells agree on making an embryo During development, an orderly structure progressively emerges as cells acquire more specialized identities and rearrange in space. Successive steps in this continuous process can draw on…

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…

Venue and travel information Copyright Alessandro Dellabella History of Monte Verità In 1900 a group of idealists from Northern Europe settled on the hilltop above Ascona. Their vision was to start a new life, an ideal…

With its Starting Grant, the ERC supports outstanding young researchers who lay the foundation for an independent research program with their innovative projects. One of this year’s awardees is physicist Prof. David…