07 Feb 2023

GROUP LEADER POSITIONS in the FMI

Two open Junior Group Leader Positions (Tenure-Track), in Multicellular Systems and in Structural Biology, for which applications are invited (deadline March 19th, 2023). Link to https://www.fmi.ch/education-careers/positions/

09 Dec 2022

BSCN MEMBER PUBLICATION

Sebastian Kaluscha*, Silvia Domcke*, Christiane Wirbelauer, Michael Stadler, Sevi Durdu, Lukas Burger and Dirk Schübeler  “Evidence that direct inhibition of transcription factor binding is the prevailing mode of gene and repeat repression…

12 Sep 2022

BSCN Bruno Speck Awards 2022

Basic research: Ana C. Delgado; group Fiona Doetsch, Biozentrum Clinically oriented research: Lina Acevedo Rua; group Andrea Barbero/Ivan Martin, Department of Biomedicine For details:…

07 Jul 2022

Prisca Liberali awarded EMBO Gold Medal 2022

Prisca Liberali, a research group leader at the FMI and Adjunct Professor at the University of Basel, receives the Gold Medal of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

19 Apr 2022

MULTIPLE TREATMENTS TO SLOW AGE-RELATED MUSCLE WASTING

Everyone wants to stay fit and healthy as they grow old. But as we age, our body degrades, our muscles shrink and strength declines. Some older people suffer from excessive muscle loss, a condition known as sarcopenia. Researchers from the…

08 Dec 2021

CONTINUED FUNDING FOR ALLEN DISCOVERY CENTER

Prof. Alex Schier from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and colleagues at the University of Washington and the California Institute of Technology launched the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing in 2017. They address…

30 Nov 2021

DIVERSITY IN THE BRAIN: NEW GENES CREATE NEW CELL TYPES

Through duplication of genetic material cells can acquire new functions. This process may give rise to new cell types with unique properties. Prof. Alex Schier’s research group at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has now been able to…

11 Nov 2021

BSCN MEMBER GROUP PUBLICATION

«Asymmetric requirement of Dpp/BMP morphogen dispersal in the Drosophila wing disc” Shinya Matsuda, Jonas V. Schaefer, Yusuke Mii, Yutaro Hori, Dimitri Bieli, Masanori Taira, Andreas Plückthun  & Markus Affolter Nature Communications…

10 Sep 2021

BRUNO SPECK AWARDS 2021

Ilya Lukonin; group of Prisca Liberali FMI “Phenotypic landscape of intestinal organoid regeneration” Nature 2020. Cameron S. Cowan and Magdalena Renner; group Botond Roska, IOB  “Cell types of the human retina and its organoids at…

10 Sep 2021

BSCN MEMBER GROUP PUBLICATION

“Engineered nasal cartilage for the repair of osteoarthritic knee cartilage defects” Lina Acevedo Rua, Marcus Mumme et al. group of I. Martin & A. Barbero. Science Translational Medicine 13 (2021), doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaz449. Weblink