2024

Gea received 1MEUR to realize her research on "Antibiotic Resistance Solutions" by the Fondation Jean-Jacques et Felicia Lopez-Loreta pour excellence académique. BML congratulates her and wish her a great success!  

Our warmest congratulations to Veera Vainio (Kroschewski Lab) and Cathy Marulli (Picotti Lab) on their thesis defenses and best wishes for their future.

An article on the first appointment of the "Cook the Science" Lecture Series organized by Thomas Michaels has appeared today on the first page of the Tages Anzeiger!

BML welcomes Xiaohua Qin from the Institute for Biomechanics (D-HEST), Michelle Frei from the Laboratory from the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry (D-CHAB), and Peter Fischer from the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health (D-HEST) who have joined BML in the past four months.

Kirsten and Thomas have secured from SNSF 1,293,110 CHF in fundings for their joint project "Problems and solutions: theory and experiments to understand why pollen tube tip-growth fails in polyploids, and how to fix it" that will run 01.01.2025 – 31.12.2028.  

The public lecture series at ETH Zurich on the science of cooking is off to a great start: The first three appointments will feature famous chefs and food producers including Rebecca Clopath (Biohof Taratsch), Jens Jung (John Baker) and Markus Stöckle (Restaurant Rosi).

On Oct. 1st BML organized a tour for the general public on the topic of condensates. The tour entintled "Die Magie lebendinger Materialien" (in German) was part of the Fall 2024 ETH Public tour series and has been very well received by the public.

BML is happy to share its research with the general public with a tour on "The magic of living materials" (in German only) that will take place on October 1st at 18:15 at the Hönggerberg Campus.

On June 13th, in occasion of the BML Day, we had a poster session with 30 contributions of great quality: it was very difficult to decide which one should be awarded a prize but at the end the public vote decided to award it to Marina Kunzi (Neurohr Group) for her poster entitled "How is Intracellular Density Regulated?".

The BML Day on 13.06 2024 with ~70 BML scientists, ~10 from ETHZ at large and 4 externals participants has seen oral and poster presentations with ~40 contributions.

Starting in Fall 2024, an innovative public lecture series will see renowned chefs and ETH Zurich's finest scientists collaborate to unravel the fascinating science behind everyday cooking.

Thomas partecipates in the show "Il Giardino di Albert" by the Radio della Svizzera Italiana (RSI) and talks about "La Fisica della Vita" (Physics of Life).

Franziska Elsässer (Picotti Lab) successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Proteome-wide, in situ structural analysis of dynamic protein assemblies" on February 29th. BML congratulates her and wishes her all the best for her future career!

BML extends its warmest congratulations to two of its former junior members, Dr. Miriam Linsenmeier (Arosio Lab) and Dr. Hamed Almohammadi (Mezzenga Lab), for receiving the 2023 ETHZ Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Medal!  

BML welcomes Stephanie Crane Weber, an Associate Professor in Biology at McGill University, that will be a visiting professor for the next 6 months in the Barral Lab. Steph is particularly interested in the regulation of ribosome biogenesis, structure and function of the nucleolus.

A warm welcome to the Bomblies Group: Another great addition to BML this time from the D-BIOL/Institute of Molecular Plant Biology!