Thank you so much for hosting me ⌬Michel Rickhaus it was a great pleasure to lecture Faculty of Science | UNIGE and to meet the faculty and students - here’s cheers to more chemical Geneva friendships! 🫶🏽🇨🇭

The CHEMINA is growing! Sandra Hernández Escobar has joined us for her Master’s thesis! With a mix of Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering, Sandra aims to push aptamer biosensing one step closer to the clinic! Welcome Sandra!🧬🧠

I didn’t know I was a procrastinator until I spent the last hour fiddling with a logo no one will notice instead of working on the core text of a grant. Please send help!🙈🧬

The CHEMINA is growing exponentially…we barely fit in the meeting space now! Today we enjoyed Moon Cakes that Lianxin brought us with our speciality oatmilk cappuccinos to show off our coffee breaks to some special guests!🥮☕️

Thank you for visiting Campus Biotech Tobias Ruff and for giving a beautiful seminar on Biohybrid Neural Interfaces! It was fun to show you our institute Neuro-X Institute and to see you try Ethiopian food for the first time (one of my fave Geneva spots)! 🇪🇹

The CHEMINA welcomes Yide Jiao, a master’s student in Microengineering at EPFL. With a background in microfabrication, biosensing, and DNA separation techniques, he will work on nanoscale aptamer biosensors in our group. We’re happy to have you join the team, Yide! 🧬🧑🏻‍🔬

We are so happy your experiment worked and are happy to adopt you for a QCM-D day/coffee break whenever you need Perrine Robin! All the best for your PhD defense! 😊

The CHEMINA has a new postdoc member! Emily comes from a bioelectronics background, using organic materials to build new biosensors. She's excited to take this work a step further by integrating our aptamers into devices for studying the brain and all of its complexity! 🧠🧬

SO well deserved! Big congratulations Maartje Bastings - your talk blew me away when I first saw it and I’m looking forward to the exciting future research from your lab!!! 🧬🧬🧬

Excited to see the future of EPFL led by Anna Fontcuberta i Morral! I’m especially happy to see Stephanie P. Lacour take on this important leadership role after serving as director of Neuro-X Institute! The future is bright and I’m honored to be a part of it!✨

Congratulations to Neuro-X Institute professor Nako Nakatsuka! She has just been named a MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 for Asia Pacific 2024, for her work on nanopipette sensors that can directly detect #neurotransmitters in complex media. #TR35 mittrchina.com/news/detail/13…

Looking forward to seeing you in person in Lausanne or on zoom for my Inaugural Lecture today. For more info: memento.epfl.ch/event/inaugura… 🧠🧬✨

The CHEMINA just welcomed (another) new postdoc this week! Jacob comes from a background in engineering and materials science in bioelectronics, and is excited to advance the frontiers of biomedical sensing of brain biomarkers! 🧬🧠

Rethinking Academia: What’s Broken and How We Can Fix It | #1 with Prof. Nako Nakatsuka In this special podcast episode, we're exploring the challenges of academia with Prof. Nakatsuka. Nako Nakatsuka, Neuro-X Institute, CHEMINA. In your ideal academic world, how would

A huge thank you to everyone who came to my Inaugural Lecture! I really appreciate my whole CHEMINA for showing up, the big turnout from my ETH friends who came all the way from Zurich, the very thoughtful intro by Stephanie P. Lacour, and to friends and colleagues who attended!🫶🏽🧬

Rare occasion of collecting the Geneva CHEMINA on Lausanne campus EPFL ❤️🧬

Hey Philippe Schwaller (he/him) - this is right outside our office, when are you coming by? Daryl Yee is in for a PATT face off! Loser buys drinks hehe🏓😎

Joana Malvar has joined CHEMINA for an industry-based Masters Thesis with Neurosterix! With a background in Life Sciences Engineering, she’s focusing on allosteric modulators for CNS disease treatment and aiming to apply our biosensor technologies along the way! Welcome!🧬🧠

Saying goodbye to summer students and welcoming the new! Last time we had a team dinner we were a group of four. Now we have to pre-reserve to find a long enough table for fondue! 🫕🥂🍾

The weather is horrendous and I’m drowning in grants but my office flowers brighten up even the darkest of days! 💐