BEL News
Best poster award for Manon Murdeu at TERMIS conference
Manon Murdeu receives poster award at Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) EU conference in Mallorca, Spain.
Visit of delegation of city of Wuxi (China)
Delegation of city of Wuxi (Jiangsu province, China) visited BEL on Friday, April 24, attending presentation of BEL activities, particularly in field of neuroeelectronic interfacing.
In-sensor cryptographic signature generation to obviate data manipulation
Monolithic cryptographic sensor system integrating a sensor with hashing unit and cryptographic signature unit was developed that uploads signed hashes to trusted public repository to obviate data forgery and manipulation.
A. Hierlemann voted on 3rd place for ETH Dandelion awards
A. Hierlemann voted on 3rd place for the Dandelion award in the category "The Inspirer & Entrepreneurial Educator" by student and research bodys of ETH Zurich.
Preconfigured neuronal firing sequences in human brain organoids
Firing patterns in human and murine brain organoids do not arise in experience-dependent manner, but are constrained by preconfigured architecture established during neurodevelopment.
Co-culturing of microtissues with recirculating suspension cells
Open microfluidic platform developed that enables co-culturing of 3D tissue spheroids and circulating cells over days. Fluid flow to recirculate cells and promote distribution of cell-secreted factors and nutrients established by device tilting.
Two prizes for Manon Murdeu at EUROTOX 2025 in Athens
Manon Murdeu received Gerhard Zbinden Early Career Award (ECA) and IN2TOX speciality section award for best poster presentation at EUROTOX 2025 in Athens for contribution "Human-based placenta-embryo chip for developmental toxicity assessment of nanoparticles and drugs."
Review article on large-scale electrophysiology with high-density microelectrode arrays
New comprehensive review article "Advances in large-scale electrophysiology with high-density microelectrode arrays" written in group effort and published in journal Lab on a Chip by Royal Society of Chemistry.
Synchronization of visual perception within the human fovea
To perceive events on unified time scale, synchronization in human visual system begins in fovea centralis - a retinal region used for reading and recognizing faces - as could be shown by combining HD-MEA and behavioral experiments with modeling.
Neurons connect to each other through homophilic wiring
Formation of neuronal networks in the brain is based on homophilic generative wiring principle, in which neurons form connections to other neurons that are spatially proximal and have similar connectivity patterns.