News
August 27, 2024
New Assistant Professor appointed to the Biozentrum
In August 2025, Claudia Keller Valsecchi will join the Biozentrum of the University of Basel as a new Assistant Professor. The molecular biologist,…
August 21, 2024
Obituary for Prof. em. Joachim Seelig (1942 – 2024)
The Biozentrum mourns the loss of Joachim Seelig, Professor emeritus of Structural Biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel.
August 19, 2024
Biozentrum Retreat: Fostering Science and Community
From August 14 to 16, 2024, the second Biozentrum Retreat took place at the Campus Sursee, bringing together around 250 researchers, from master's…
August 14, 2024
The brain creates three copies for a single memory
A new study from Prof. Flavio Donato at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, now published in “Science”, reveals that the memory for a specific…
August 14, 2024
Ribosomal component helps cells find their identity
The "protein factories" of the cell, the ribosomes, consist of up to eighty components. Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have…
July 30, 2024
Precise Genetics: New CRISPR method enables efficient DNA modification
The research group led by Prof. Markus Affolter at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has developed a new method that further improves the existing…
July 30, 2024
Summer Vacation in the Lab
Even though summer took its time arriving in Basel this year, the Summer Science Academy 2024 started right on time at the beginning of the holidays.…
July 10, 2024
Apply now! Biozentrum PhD Fellowships
With its prestigious and much sought after PhD Fellowships, the Biozentrum enables ambitious and highly motivated young scientists to do their PhD at…
July 02, 2024
Two new Professors appointed to the Biozentrum
Yuping Li and David Brückner have been appointed by the University Council to be new Professors at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. Yuping…
June 10, 2024
Lung organoids unveil secret: How pathogens infect human lung tissue
How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, the team led by Prof. Urs Jenal at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has…