2023

Eliana Bianco (Peter Lab) successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Molecular mechanisms balancing ribosome biogenesis and degradation" on November 30th. BML congratulates her and wishes her all the best for her future career!

Tatjana Kleele (D-BIOL) is one of the 2023 SNSF Starting Grant awardees. Her project entitled "The role of mitochondrial biogenesis and quality control for cell fate decision and neuronal homeostasis" will run from 01.01.2024 to 31.12.2028 and has been awarded 1'681'437 CHF: well done!

The Golden Owl honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching and motivates them to continue with their excellent teaching. The Owl is awarded by the VSETH, ETH Zurich’s students association.  

Alexander Laitner from the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology (D-BIOL) at ETHZ joins BML. The Leitner group uses different cross-​linking methods in combination with mass spectrometric analysis to learn about the structural organization of protein and protein-​RNA complexes. Cross-​linking can provide important spatial information that can be combined with other experimental and computational methods in integrative structural biology.

Another great BML day long meeting took place on 06.10.2023 with a great line-up of invited speakers: Charlotte Aumeier (Uni. GE), Francesco Stellacci (EPFL), Sophie Martin (Uni. GE) and Guillaume Salbreux (Uni. GE).

At its meeting of 20 and 21 September 2023 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board promoted Paola, a "founding member" of BML from Associate Professor as Full Professor of Molecular Systems Biology in the Department of Biology. Our warmest congratulations for a well deserved promotion!

Dr. Hamed Almohammadi, BML alumnus, and former member of the Mezzenga Lab, is the recipient a SNSF Postdoc.Mobility fellowship for his postdoctoral work in the Aizenberg Research Group at Harvard.

Dr. Sandro Meier, BML alumnus, and former member of the Barral Lab, is the recipient of both a SNSF Postdoc.Mobility and EMBO fellowship for his postdoctoral work in the Jarosz Lab at Stanford University.  

Anastasiia Kovalenko (Peter Lab) has received a Böhringer Ingelheim Fonds fellowship to carry out her PhD project entitled "Novel approaches to identify and characterize reversible protein amyloids under stress conditions".  She expects to find conserved principles regulating functional amyloid formation and disassembly, which may offer crucial insight into the mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases.  

Dr. Gea Cereghetti, BML alumna, and former member of the Peter Lab, is the recipient of the SAIS (Society of the Italian Academics in Switzerland) prize for the best doctoral thesis in the fiel of Life Sciences and of the prestigious EMBO fellowship for her postdoctoral work in the Knowles Lab at the University of Cambridge.

The Dufresne lab is relocating to Cornell and we are really sad to see Eric and part of his group leaving, but we wish them all the best in their future endevours! We are also very happy that Gianna and Rob have decided to remain at ETHZ and thus in BML!

Chiara Morelli (Arosio Lab) and Dorota Pfizenmaier (Peter Lab) win the best poster prize at the Cellular Matters Conference that took place in June in Ascona.

On May 11th, Cristina Nguyen successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Hybrid method for studying dynamic conformational ensemble of multidomain proteins: SRSF1 tandem RRMs in the free and bound states". The whole BML congratulates her and wishes her all the best for her future endevors!

At its meeting of 8 and 9 March and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board promoted Paolo Arosio to Associate Professor of Biochemical Engineering in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences.

Another fantastic addition to the BML ranks: Tatjana Kleele, an Assistant Professor, in the department of Biology/Institute of Biochemistry.

On January 20th, Sandro Meier (Barral Group) successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "The Role of +Tip Phase Separation on Budding Yeast Microtubule Function". The whole BML congratulates him! He will soon move to the lab of Dan Jarosz in Stanford to work on the role of prions in host-microbiome interactions for his postdoc.