Congratulations to Adwait Salvi on defending his PhD earlier this month. His research looked at how DNA is organized inside cells and how that structure changes as certain cartilage cells in mice lose their specialized identity. Well done, Dr. Salvi! 🎓
The FMI is proud to be part of @eu-life.bsky.social, uniting top life science centers across Europe. This series highlights our shared priorities — today: #Mission! Stay tuned for the FMI’s story 💡
#WeAreEULIFE
In this interview, @juliabatki.bsky.social, FMI’s newest group leader, reflects on the early curiosity that drew her to science, why FMI is the right home for her lab, how studying cell clearance could help us understand disease, and her love of improv.
www.fmi.ch/news-events/...
Today at the FMI we had a great webinar on neurodiversity with Camilla Pang—author, scientist, and science communicator. She challenged the usual “deficit” view and showed how designing work environments for different ways of thinking can make our systems stronger 🧠
#Neurodiversity
Happy to be invited to the @fmiscience.bsky.social Basel for the "FMI Young Investigator Seminar Series" last week, and to talk to PhDs and postdocs about career choices.
www.fmi.ch/courses/yiss/
Only one week left to apply!
Close-up of a laboratory instrument with a needle near a metal funnel, surrounded by text mentioning Mittler Lab and a job title for scientists in proteomics at Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics
Text listing tasks in the research group of Gerhard Mittler including organisational tasks for the Nanodiag BW project, creating proteomics workflows, and advancing LC-MS methods for histone analysis
Text listing reasons to love the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg including collaborative culture, epigenetics research, competitive grants, international network, public benefits, family support, relocation service, social life, and Freiburg location
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💥 Mass spec expert with passion for #epigenetics?
Our #Proteomics Facility is hiring a scientist (m/f/d)! Develop cutting-edge proteomics workflows (with a focus on histone analysis) to drive innovation in cancer diagnosis & treatment (@nanodiagbw.bsky.social project)
Apply here: s.gwdg.de/EHNeAs
Spring is finally springing on campus 🌸 Perfect time to step outside, whether it’s getting active in the street workout area behind our building or just enjoying a walk around campus ☀️🚶♂️
Last week, some of our scientists traded the lab for the stage and enjoyed a fun afternoon of improv theater. No experience, no pressure: just curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to play.
A great reminder that exploration doesn’t happen only in the lab 💡🎭
🎓 Just ~2 weeks left! Apply now for our PhD & MD-PhD programs in Basel—Europe’s life sciences hub—and be part of cutting-edge research in a vibrant, international environment: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
🗓️ Deadline: April 20
Such a pleasure to spend the day with everyone at @fmiscience.bsky.social today.
Thx for having me.
Today we hosted the inaugural Friedrich Miescher Lecture with Omaya Dudin, recipient of this year’s Friedrich Miescher Prize, which we're proud to sponsor. He delivered a fascinating talk on the evolution of multicellularity, with exciting insights into expansion microscopy 🦠🔬 @dudinlab.bsky.social
To learn more about this transformative method, read our feature article: www.fmi.ch/news-events/...
Once considered impractical, electron microscopy–based connectomics is now transforming neuroscience—earning Nature Methods' 2025 Method of the Year. At the FMI, researchers map neural circuits in 3D at nanometer scale to reveal how brain networks work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZg...
Big turnout for FMI–Novartis Microscopy Day! This week’s event brought ~70 participants to a joint workshop with experts that came all the way from Japan, followed by one of our best-attended microscopy courses and an FMI–BR mini symposium with about 100 attendees🔬
Sometimes the most meaningful paths aren’t planned but emerge as we walk them. The new stone walkway to the FMI building began as an informal trail and was later proposed by our community as a permanent path. Like science, it was shaped by steps that ventured beyond the set route 🚀
From spring 2026, Switzerland will support six new National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs). In an interview, @snf-fns.ch Research Council President Torsten Schwede explains how projects are selected and why the new NCCRs matter for Switzerland’s research landscape ⬇️
Last week at the FMI, the @twist-basel.bsky.social panel unpacked how non-EU scientists can build careers in Swiss pharma. From career paths to networking, lots of practical insights shared with an engaged crowd. Thanks to the organizers, panelists & everyone who joined!
1/3 New paper accepted at ICRL World Model workshop: Dreamer-CDP: Improving Reconstruction-free World Models for RL. We introduce a Dreamer variant that learns world models without reconstructing pixels. arxiv.org/abs/2603.07083
Last week at the FMI we had a Chess & Cheese night 🧀♟️ It was brie-lliant!
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@eu-life.bsky.social l, uniting top life science centers across Europe. This series highlights our shared priorities — today: #IExcellence! Stay tuned for the FMI’s story 💫
#WeAreEULIFE
Don't miss this career event taking place this afternoon at the FMI!
Come see our Cosyne 2026 posters! Friday: 2-069 (Atena & Manu), 2-096 (Julian), Saturday: 3-091 (Julia)
More info zenkelab.org/2026/03/cosy...
Non-EU scientist aiming for Swiss pharma? Join the @twist-basel.bsky.social panel at the FMI next week for tips on career paths, networking, LinkedIn visibility & standing out. Register here: www.twistbasel.com/events-1/nav...
🧠 Nicht verpassen: Woche des Gehirns nächste Woche! FMI-Gruppenleitende halten spannende Vorträge: Silvia Arber erklärt, wie das Gehirn Bewegungen steuert und @georgkeller.bsky.social zeigt, was passiert, wenn das Gehirn „aus dem Takt gerät“.
Mehr Infos: neuronetwork.unibas.ch/en/das-hirn-...
🧠 Don’t miss Woche des Gehirns (Brain Week) next week! FMI group leaders will give fascinating talks: Silvia Arber on how the brain controls movement and @georgkeller.bsky.social on what happens when the brain “falls out of sync”. Free entry!
More info: neuronetwork.unibas.ch/en/das-hirn-...
🚀 The #BaCell3D2026 speaker lineup is here!
We are excited to welcome an outstanding group of experts in organoids and advanced 3D cellular systems to Basel this June!
⏳Our meetings tend to fill up quickly, so we encourage you to secure your spot early: conferences.unibas.ch/frontend/ind...
We are #hiring! #GroupLeader positions open at #IRBBarcelona in #ChemicalBiology and #StructuralBiology.
Application deadline: May 22, 2026
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𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
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#IRBJobs #Jobs #AcademicSky
We’re excited to share our latest preprint on Fractal: our approach towards FAIR bioimage analysis at scale with OME-Zarr-native workflows.
Fractal defines interoperable tasks on OME-Zarr and provides a platform for TB-scale image analysis.
(1 / 10🧵)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Warm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain.
Karolinska Institutet
HHMI
#Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026
