Fluorescent and Bioluminescent Probes for Imaging and Diagnostics (Prof. Kai Johnsson)
In November 2022, Professor Kai Johnsson, Director of the Department of Chemical Biology at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for […]
Harnessing the chemistry of plants (Prof. Sarah O’Connor, MPI for Chemical Ecology)
Plants, which make thousands of complex natural products, are outstanding chemists. Through the concerted action of enzymes that are assembled […]
Margot Riggi, scientific visualization, University of Utah
Current position: Margot Riggi is a postdoc in the group led by Prof. Janet Iwasa at the University of Utah […]
Thomas Hannich, Head of Metabolomics, Molecular Discovery Platform, CeMM
Current position: Head of Metabolomics, Molecular Discovery Platform at CeMM, Research Center for Molecular Medicine of […]
Vaccines: 13 questions to test your knowledge!
The topic of vaccines is more than ever on the agenda! It is a subject that particularly interests several NCCR […]
A university course to teach life science students how to debate
A pilot project in the Faculty of Science at the University of Geneva aims to strengthen life science students’ skills […]
Debate: patenting an invention… or not?
Patenting an invention is generally considered for granted: it is conducive to economic development and necessary to protect innovators from […]
Olalla Vázquez, University of Marburg (Germany)
Inspired by nature, Olalla Vázquez pursues multidisciplinary research focused on the synthesis of novel photosensitive molecules to sense biological processes […]
Super-resolution microscopy: ready to test your knowledge?
Over the past 10-15 years, new technologies have gone beyond the diffraction limit of optical microscopy. These “super-resolution” microscopies rely […]