Congratulations to Prof. Nenad Ban (IMBB) from our department on being appointed as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Academy of Arts & Sciences! A well deserved honor! bangroup.ethz.ch/research.html

ETH researchers have developed bacteria that efficiently utilize methanol, offering a sustainable alternative to producing valuable products currently derived from fossil fuels. 🛢️ D-BIOL @ ETH Zurich #FossilFuels #ClimateNeutral brnw.ch/21wJ52g

Plants with multiple sets of chromosomes have advantages over their relatives with a double set. But they often start out infertile. Why? Biologists at ETH Zurich have now discovered a new reason.

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D-BIOL @ ETH Zurich Kirsten Bomblies #polyploids

The Allain lab found that the choice of buffer and pH strongly affect the phase separation of the SARS-CoV-2 Nucleoprotein, e.g., the protonation state of a single histidine can change the phase separation of the protein. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

The D-BIOL is very delighted that our professor Julia Vorholt from Microbiology_ETH is this year's winner of the Feodor Lynen Medal!

The Allain lab w/co-1st author Leonidas Emmanouilidis & collaborators found that FUS droplets grow over time a rigid shell with a beta sheet fibrillar structure playing a critical for droplet function and could propose a mechanism for its formation.
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Congratulations to Kleele lab (D-BIOL) and Gerhart Schratt (D-HEST) for winning one of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grants @CZI within its Neurodegeneration Challenge Network! They collaborate on the regulation of #mitochondrialhomeostasis by #microRNAs in human neurons.

Our congratulations to the promotions of two of our department members! Nicola Aceto (IMHS) was promoted to Full Professor of Molecular Oncology, Martin Pilhofer (IMBB) to Full Professor of Cryo-​Electron Microscopy.

A new method by the Allain and Leitner groups ETH Zurich, called LLPS-CLIR-MS, allows to obtain structural information on protein-RNA complexes within biomolecular condensates, and reveals the preservation of sequence-specific contacts therein. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

A study by the Kirsten Bomblies lab ETH Zurich Zurich, published in Science Magazine, identifies a cause of sterility in plants that have undergone genome duplication and identifies two genes where naturally evolved alleles likely fix the problem. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

The Dept of Biology ETH Zürich invites applications for a professorship in #integrated #immunology as well as an assistant professorship (tenure track) in #tissue #damage and #repair . 👉 skintegrity.ch/vacancies

@PicottiLab unravels mechanisms of protein thermal stabilization by osmolytes Nature Chemical Biology. They found that osmolytes thermally stabilize a large fraction of human and bacterial proteomes. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

New study by Werner Lab ETH & Wennemers Group in Matrix Biology unveils a chemical probe to track #collagen changes during #woundhealing .
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The paper by Korkhov Lab, together with Picotti Lab, Alexander Leitner and Federico Uliana, now out in EMBO Reports, describes the cryo-EM- and structural proteomics-based analysis of adenylyl cyclase AC8 and its macromolecular complexes. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex is a key metabolic mega-enzyme. Researchers from the Glockshuber group ETH Zurich Zürich uncover the assembly mechanism of the complex which involves dimerization of a small 5 kDa domain. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

How do bacteria release a potpourri of virulence factors? A recent study by the Pilhofer Lab ETH Zürich shows that Tc toxins are expressed only in a subpopulation alongside other virulence factors and released via the action of a phage-like lysis cassette. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

The yearly 'MINT' week is on at MNG Rämibühl, one-day-visit today ETH Zurich. Sam Zeeman, Director of Studies, introduced the biology curriculum to the students who visited D-BIOL and 8 PhDs from the IMB Microbiology_ETH gave tours in their lab to present their research. Thank you all!

Good CAF or bad CAF, that is the question! A recent study by the Bodenmiller group demonstrate that cancer-associated fibroblast heterogeneity is an independent prognostic factor for patient prognosis in NSCLC. It also correlates with therapeutic success. biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

🔬 Delighted to share our lab's debut paper in nature. We unveil the first proof of autoreactive CD4+and CD8+ #Tcells infiltrating and targeting peripheral nerves in #Guillain -Barré Syndrome patients, reshaping our understanding of #GBS #autoimmunity . 👉 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Next week Tuesday (Jan. 16), Prof. Dr. med. Sabine Eming (Universität zu Köln) will come to Switzerland to deliver the SKINTEGRITY.CH Annual Lecture.
Come join us at 5 PM in UZH RAA-G-01!