Best of luck to Prof. Christophe Lacroix as you depart from ETH Zurich! How exciting to get a summary of a lifetime of #microbiome research 🔬 (And props to Laura Nyström for a great intro!)

We have a new Postdoctoral Research position in precision oncology at the University of Bern. Come take on a new challenge! bit.ly/3SWrjxe

There are many ways to measure DNA damage, yet no responsive biomarkers! Vakil Takhaveev Shana Sturla ETH Zurich Laboratory of Toxicology ETH Zurich are using novel DNA-damage-sequencing methods in mouse models to discover mechanistic biomarkers implicated in aging. They are hiring a PhD student!

📢Permanent position open📢 We offer a permanent contract with a competitive salary for a Senior Research Scientist with high motivation and proven experience in functional genomics. Contact: [email protected] cnio.es/empleo/researc… Come join us CNIO Stop Cancer

Our department is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor on microbial interactions linked to the NCCR Microbiomes ! Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, ambitious department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31!

We are hiring!

🔥🔥🔥Looking for a POSTDOC position in a stimulating environment, in a great team, doing inspiring discovery science? 🧬🧬🧬We are hiring! igsad.de/postdoc-positi…

Excited to share our latest work on mapping chemical modifications genome wide for new single nucleotide resolution insight on where the glioblastoma drug temozolomide likes to alkylate DNA and how it is influenced by repair biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Vakil Takhaveev Maureen McKeague

Happy Holidays from our research group to you! 건배!

Congratulations to Nikolai Püllen for a successful doctoral defense and amazing day of celebration! Kudos for assembling an awesome committee of experts including Vakil Takhaveev and Anna Poetsch Cheers! 🥂

Our latest collaboration is published- Baricitinib and tofacitinib off‐target profile, with a focus on Alzheimer's disease - Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tr…

19 ETH labs certified by GreenLabs for their sustainability efforts! – Staffnet | ETH Zurich - Kudos to Jasmina Büchel for leading the effort on our lab being included in this action! ethz.ch/staffnet/en/ne…

Check how one molecule can be a diagnostic and drug for precision oncology. Our paper with Kook Son, Vakil Takhaveev and Shana Sturla elucidating the mechanism of the anticancer drug trabectedin is out in Nat Commun today. link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Our story revealing the mechanism of trabectedin, a unique anticancer drug, is out! Check out how this drug could also be a basis of diagnostics, mapping DNA-repair activity genome-wide. Orlando D. Schärer Shana Sturla ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Laboratory of Toxicology nature.com/articles/s4146…

How a Natural Compound from Sea Squirts Combats Cancer ibs.re.kr/cop/bbs/BBSMST…

Acrolein is envrnmntl toxicant & gut microbial metabolite. But hard to do in vitro tox! we developed acrolein biosynthesis system compatible with human cell culture.Awesome team effort including student projects & mentor- congrats!! ⁦Chem. Res. Toxicol.⁩ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to share our latest preprint on two innovative click-chemistry-aided methods: Click-Fluoro-Quant and Click-Code-Seq, enabling precise sequencing of DNA oxidation and nucleobase loss at single-nucleotide resolution in the human genome. 1/4 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Rigi 🏔️Workshop 2025: Microbiome Meets Metabolism: Linking microbial biotransformations to human and environmental health - workshop 2 - 4 Feb 2025. Rigi Kulm in 🇨🇭! 30 Phd-students and post-docs in Swiss research institutions. apply by 30 October 2024 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop25

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