First CHEMINA excursion lunch to of course… Ramen! 😻🍜 This time, Umamido was chosen by nick - we will venture out of Campus monthly to find the good om nom nom spots in Geneva! 🤤🫶

Very proud of Team Aptamer Nanopores for this book chapter where we cover the theory, fabrication methods, and recent exciting innovations in solid-state nanopores for applications beyond DNA sequencing towards protein sequencing and biomolecular analysis! link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

CHEMINA received our first instrument today - Focal Molography from Lino Biotech! Amazing to see the evolution from postdocs and PhDs working on this technology at LBB, to a startup, and now to a new tool in our lab! Thanks Volker and Andreas for entrusting us to do cool science!

Loving this team photo of CHEMINA at Neuro-X Institute (Thank you Titouan!📸) We may be small but we are preparing to host our lab opening apero event next week! Grateful for Jessica and Nick - couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to jump start a lab! 🧬🍷

1st cover from CHEMINA! 🤩 So proud of Annina who led this work and learned illustrator to step up to this challenge. As a lover of art, this image really makes me happy! Thank you to the community, Minteer Lab, and ACS for Authors for supporting Aptamer Nanopipettes! 🧬🍷

A big turnout for Nako Nakatsuka’s tour of the new CHEMINA. With a healthy dose of networking to foster collaborations at the institute 👍

An awesome turnout at our CHEMINA Apero that we couldn’t fit everyone in the picture (sorry for those who are cut 🥲). A great evening getting to know colleagues and students Neuro-X Institute with even some guests from the Lausanne campus! Thank you all for joining us! 🍷🥂🍾

I am all about cool team gear…so CHEMINA was a proud supporter of these Neuro-X Institute hoodies designed by the NeuroStudents' NetworX! We now have our go-to team meeting outfit! 🧠🧬

CHEMINA is super excited to introduce Lianxin Xu, our new PhD student hailing from China. With a multidisciplinary background in Chemical & Pharmaceutical Engineering + Biomaterials, he aims to bridge the gap between the lab and clinic to impact human health Neuro-X Institute!🧠

"I realize that I’m a bit of an outlier at the Neuro X Institute. But I’m sure that my biosensors can be of great use to labs here and EPFL in general. I’m always looking for collaborations," says EPFL School of Engineering Prof Nako Nakatsuka (aka Nako Nakatsuka) actu.epfl.ch/news/once-you-…

Starting the second day of #IWOSMOR2024 by the plenary lecture on aptamer based biosensors for small molecule detection by of Nako Nakatsuka Nako Nakatsuka IDM Universitat Politècnica de València

CHEMINA is excited to welcome Jiamin Yang, a master’s student joining us from the E3 Program EPFL School of Engineering! With a background in synthetic biology, drug delivery, and biomaterials, she aims to advance aptamer-based detection systems during her stay. Welcome Jiamin!🧬🧠

CHEMINA feels full today with our usual Campus Biotech members plus Annina plus two E3 Excellence in Engineering summer master’s students who just joined us… somehow has a big team vibe already! 🥹🧬

1st CHEMINA Retreat in the books! We enjoyed two days packed with discussing lab values, brainstorming how to tackle unsolved challenges in our field, cooking pizzas as a highly competitive activity, hiking in beautiful fall landscape, and picnicking in the woods! ✨

A big congratulations to Emily Schafer, PhD for the Neuro-X Institute Postdoc Fellowship! We are excited to support you in your research and career alongside Stephanie P. Lacour’s LSBI lab! 🧠

CHEMINA end of year Fondue Chalet - a beautiful day to walk to the lakeside and it was wise to fill up on truffle fondue at lunch with the rest of the day to digest. Thank you to all for an amazing year! 🧠🧬🫕🥂🍾

The CHEMINA is super happy to welcome Alexandra as a new PhD student! She is a chemical engineer passionate about brain chemistry and excited to study neurotransmitter biosensing. She is hoping to contribute to a better understanding of neurodegenerative diseases 🧠🧬

The CHEMINA is super happy to welcome Sandra back since her master’s thesis! With a materials and biomedical engineering background, Sandra is now taking on the PhD challenge with us! Excited to have her on board!🧬🧠

Thanks to the generous funding from the Fondation Pierre Mercier, the CHEMINA is hiring a postdoc for the detection of blood-based biomarkers for early Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis in clinical samples.🩸🧠 Please share with your network, thank you! careers.epfl.ch/job-invite/150…

We’re excited to kick off APTAWINS – a multidisciplinary project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the ANR! We consolidated a transdisciplinary team uniting EPFL with Bordeaux INP and CNRS 🌍. We just welcomed the whole team for the first strategy meeting at Campus Biotech!🧠🧬