News & Events

Carson Cole, Ph.D., has been awarded the ETH Zürich Postdoctoral Fellowship. He joins Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Müller’s Biophysics group at D-BSSE to develop biomimetic peptide fibrils to study fibrosis. His work aims to understand fibrotic tissue remodeling and enables innovative in vitro models for therapeutic testing. This prestigious fellowship supports independent, high-impact research for postdoctoral scholars seeking faculty positions.

Congratulations to Krishna, who defended his PhD thesis "Engineering novel tools for mechanotyping and mechanocontrol of neurons from the central nervous system" on 19th May 2023. As Krishna's thesis was a collaborative project with Andreas Hierlemann's group, he was also awarded a collaborative hat. Thank you very much for the great apero and party and congrats again!

Congratulations to Nina on defending her PhD thesis! Nina defended her PhD thesis "Characterization of folding pathways of polytopic transmembrane proteins" on 28th April 2023. She received the our group's first recycable and edible PhD hat. Thank you very much for the apero and the real Linzertorte!

The first international conference Ethics of Engineering Life is taking place from 26th to 27th Septemeber 2022 in Rome, Italy.

Our group enters the world-renowned Locarno Film Festival from August 7–17, 2019. NCCR members Daniel Müller, biologist Barbara Treutlein, and ethicist Ralf Stutzki will discuss "The ethical challenges of engineering life and the effects on human identity". The event will also be broadcast live on the internet and traditionally attracts considerable media attention. Participating in the festival, Selen, from our group will participate in the ‘BaseCamp laboratory of ideas’.  

From 16-18 November 2020 our group together with the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering (www.nccr-mse.org), the pontifical academy of life (PAL) of the Vatican, and the Babino Gesu Children Hospital, organizes an international conference on the engineering of molecular and cellular systems for a better life. Internationally outstanding experts will discuss the topic from scientific, social, historic, ethical, legal and religious perspectives.