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This is the official account of the ETH-Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE). https://bsse.ethz.ch

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πŸŽ“ New PhD projects in #nanobiology, #nanochemistry & #nanophysics at the SNI PhD School! Apply now to join our #interdisciplinary community. πŸ§ͺ
πŸ“Œ Info: nanoscience.unibas.ch/en/forschung...
@unibas.ch @biozentrum.unibas.ch @eth-bsse.bsky.social
@psich.bsky.social @scisonja.bsky.social #nanoscience

05.08.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Organoide: wie Mini-Organe aus dem Labor die Medizin revolutionieren Ein winziges StΓΌckchen Hirn, ein Mini-Tumor: Forscher kΓΆnnen immer originalgetreuere Gewebe im Labor herstellen. Sie ermΓΆglichen ein tieferes VerstΓ€ndnis vieler Krankheiten, individuelle Behandlungen ...

D-BSSE in the media @nzz.ch
Winzige Organe aus dem Labor retten schon heute Leben. Und Forscher sehen in ihnen noch mehr Potenzial #organoid #BarbaraTreutlein
> www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft...

25.09.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Minimising biases in #viralsurveillance data from #wastewater: A study led by the groups of Niko Beerenwinkel and Tanja Stadler @ethz.ch as well as their collaborators at @eawag.bsky.social developed a mathematical tool to factor in 'shedding' >https://u.ethz.ch/zUQBP

23.09.2025 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Earlier this evening the inaugural lecture of our new faculty staff member Na Cai, Head of the Computational Medical Genomics group, took place at @ethz.ch. Na spoke on the genetics of depression (find the recording here > u.ethz.ch/1byi4). Great to have you at the D-BSSE!

22.09.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s site visit of the #NextGenBioeng programme @ethz.ch | #Roche #teamIHB explored the D-BSSE based Good Manufacturing Practice (#GMP) facility and quality control unit. Big thanks to the Head of Facility Paul Zajac πŸ™πŸ½ our 10 fellows enjoyed this exciting tour!

22.09.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A warm welcome to our 76 new Master students at D-BSSE in #Basel @ethz.ch, enrolled in our #Biotechnology (36 students) and #Computational Biology & #Bioinformatics (40) Master’s degree programmes. Have a great start and enjoy your time at D-BSSE!
> u.ethz.ch/6DY3f

15.09.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to welcoming young science enthusiasts at our labs in Basel 🀩 Don't miss the registration on 1- 5 September!

28.08.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI is revolutionising palaeontology | New @NatureRev paper by @ethz.ch & UZH shows how #AI tools are transforming the analysis of complex fossil data and evolutionary patterns – unlocking new insights across deep time > u.ethz.ch/BjDtR
@tanjastadler.bsky.social

26.08.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🧬Gene editing is going in vivo: A review from Randall Platt’s lab explores the potential of #CRISPR use inside living organisms – enabling real-time insights into how genes work in biological systems. A massive shift for basic science and medical breakthroughs > u.ethz.ch/Y4Y5F
#GeneEditing #CRISPR

11.08.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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At their annual retreat, fellows of the
@ethz.ch & #pRED #teamIHB #Roche | #NextGenBioeng programme showcased how organoids, CRISPR screens & spatial omics are reshaping translational #bioengineering. A hub of ideas, data & new collaborationsπŸš€ > u.ethz.ch/1gMXI

11.08.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ‘πŸ§  NEW: The human retina has its own built-in timing fix!
A Nature Neuroscience study led by @ethz.ch | BEL Lab, IOB Basel, @unibas.ch shows that photoreceptor signals – even those that travel farther – arrive in sync! >https://u.ethz.ch/S4DvU
#Retina #Neuroscience #Bioengineering #ETHZurich

06.08.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 #breaking technology developed by the group of #BarbaraTreutlein πŸ‘‡πŸ½

11.07.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From Lab Bench to Bell Ring – Marc Gitzinger on BioVersys' road to IPO Marc Gitzinger's path with BioVersys didn't begin on the trading floorβ€”it began in the Swiss startup trenches. As a student at ETH Zurich, he joined the Venture Challenge semester course in 2007 to le...

Exciting journey from bio-technological innovation at @ethz.ch to a successful company: read the inspiring interview with our alumnus Marc Gitzinger, CEO of D-BSSE spinoff company #Bioversys πŸ‘‡πŸ½

www.venturelab.swiss/From-Lab-Ben...

09.07.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🧠 New light on human brain development: Using long-term live imaging, Barbara Treutlein's team reveals how brain #Organoids grow and self-organize β€” and how the extracellular matrix shapes regional brain identity
> u.ethz.ch/PjOni
@ethz.ch

19.06.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations, Mustafa Khammash, on receiving an Advanced Grant for the third time!!! Looking forward to your achievements in designing novel genetic controllers 🧬⏱️
@ethz.ch #ERCAdG
> u.ethz.ch/HBxAi

18.06.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Antibiotic resistance needs innovative solutions resulting from strong interdisciplinary & interinstitutional collaborations, this is the great strength of @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social ! Thanks for visiting the D-BSSE @ethz.ch and the Cleanroom Facility Basel 🦠

16.06.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great advancements in personalized cancer treatments πŸ‘‡πŸ½
*Tumour Profiler Study*
Part of the consortium: the #Beerenwinkel Lab and the #GenomicsFacilityBasel

03.06.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assessing genetic heterogeneity in circulating #tumour cellsβ€―(CTCs) | Researchers #NikoBeerenwinkel in collab. with colleagues #NicolaAceto, β€―characterise the composition of #CTC clusters in liquid #biopsies which may eventually replace traditional tissue biopsies > u.ethz.ch/tADrD
@ethz.ch

02.06.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Huge congrats to our 2024 Graduates πŸŽ‰ and the ETH Medal and Willi Studer Prize Awardees πŸ‘πŸ½
> u.ethz.ch/RqsZ4
Wishing you a bright future ✨
🫢 Happy to hear back from you!
@ethz.ch @vmb-eth.bsky.social

28.05.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Continuing a wonderful tradition: today, the faculties have come together at the annual β€œD-BSSE ❀️ Biozentrum” meeting, to learn about the research of new group leaders on campus and to foster collaboration and innovation. Thank you, @biozentrum.unibas.ch for your visit & the fruitful exchanges!

26.05.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‘πŸ½ Big congrats to Costanza Borrelli who studied cell-cell interactions in the Lab of @andreasmoor.bsky.social, and Antonio Santinha from the lab of Randall Platt, inventor of a novel technology for single-cell CRISPR screening, received the 2024 #ETHmedals🀩
> u.ethz.ch/ZOnc3
@ethz.ch

26.05.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Public Event @ethz.ch and #Swiss3RCC: Animal models and their alternatives in neuroscience |
The event on 21 June features engaging lectures, amongst the speakers: Barbara Treutlein working on brain 🧠 organoids 🧬
> u.ethz.ch/gBEeC

26.05.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@humancellatlas

Two groundbreaking open-access papers on integrated atlases of human #organoids are out: researchers at #Roche |s Institute of Human Biology(#teamIHB),
@ethz.ch, @www.helmholtz-munich.de, and collaborators have built detailed atlases of #brain, #gut, and #lung organoids > u.ethz.ch/6Rjq

19.05.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸš€ Fantastic achievement contributing to the Human Cell Atlas! Congrats to Barbara Treutlein, Gray Camp, Quan Xu, Fabian Theis, Lennard Halle on your Nature Genetics publication πŸ‘πŸ½
@ethz.ch

13.05.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An integrated transcriptomic cell atlas of human endoderm-derived organoids - Nature Genetics The human endoderm-derived organoid cell atlas (HEOCA) presents an integrative analysis of single-cell transcriptomes across different conditions, sources and protocols. It compares cell types and sta...

Integrated Organoid Atlas benchmarks new protocols, even more impressive as a Highly Variable Cohort for comparison against perturbation and disease models: nature.com/articles/s41... Lead by @quanxu.bsky.social, in collaboration with Lennard Halle and @fabiantheis.bsky.social

12.05.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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Β«CEO TalkΒ» mit Marc Gitzinger, CEO Bioversys Antibiotika-Resistenzen sind ein immer grΓΆsseres Problem. Sie erschweren die Behandlung vieler Infektionen, fΓΌhren zu lΓ€ngeren oder auch schwereren KrankheitsverlΓ€ufen. Laut Weltgesundheitsorganisatio...

Interview with alumnus Marc Gitzinger, CEO of the D-BSSE spinoff Bioversys, specialised on combating #antimicrobial resistance and β€˜hospital infections’ #ETHstartup @ethz.ch >
www.telezueri.ch/ceo-talk/ceo...

12.05.2025 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big thanks to the #SingleCellFacility and #LabAutomationFacility for hosting today’s ETH #PublicTour, a fascinating journey into the microscopic (and nanoscopic!) world and the secrets of life!
Don’t miss our next public event > u.ethz.ch/thWr2
@ethzurich.bsky.social

06.05.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#bs2basel is coming up - with strong πŸš€contributions from D-BSSE and ETH Zurich computational biologists and bioinformaticians!
@ethzurich.bsky.social

22.04.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Upcoming Public Tour:πŸ”¬πŸ€– Fascination Microcosm & Robotics
Join us on 6 May 2025, 6:15pm, for an exciting public tour exploring the microscopic world and cutting-edge lab robotics (tour in German). @ethzurich.bsky.social
πŸ“Registration > u.ethz.ch/c4F8Y

17.04.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are hiringπŸ‘‡. Join us if you are interested in a PhD project on biological clocks that time development. Genomics, genetics, quantitative microscopy, computational analysis, ... grosshanslab.org. 2.5 weeks left to apply www.fmi.ch/education-ca... @fmiscience.bsky.social

14.04.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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