News & Events

Congratulations to Xiaole Wang on defending her doctoral thesis titled “Characterizing the role of extracellular matrix area and compression to early mammalian cell adhesion”! Thank you so much for your Chinese buffet-style apero - what a culinary treat! Once again, the Müller Force crafted an XL-sized hat for Xiaole.

Congratulations to Ilaria Incaviglia on defending her doctoral thesis with the title “Nanotools to Simultaneously Measure Mass and Mechanical Properties of Cellular Systems”.  Ilaria was awarded a ginormous Müller Force hat reminiscent of her recent experiments with huge cantilevers able to balance a spheroid. Thank you for inviting us to a culinary trip to Italy at your apero!

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.

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.