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IMSB reached the milestone of 30 mass spectrometers in operation! These are key for the analysis of proteins, metabolites, and lipids in complex systems. This makes IMSB one of the worldwide largest research units of this kind, and a premier site for systems biology.

A shiny Agilent 6546 QTOF was just installed! This is part of a long-standing collaboration with Agilent.

The IMSB labs of Paola Picotti, Uwe Sauer and Mattia Zampieri are part of the just granted National Center of Competence in Research to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria (NCCR AntiResist). It is a collaboration with colleagues at the Biozentrum and University Hospital Basel and the ETH Department of Biosystems in Basel. The aim is to find new antibiotics and develop alternative strategies to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria by linking basic research directly with clinical research.

The paper, published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics, reports on a smart phone compatible biosensor-device that uses engineered yeast cells to detect endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the environment. Congratulation to Nadine Lopsiger, Jonathan Venetz and colleagues on this nice piece, which emanated from a fruitful collaboration with the group of Prof. W. Stark.

Congratulations to Paola and her great team, whose amazing work in recent years made this possible!

Ruedi Aebersold delivered his farewell lec­ture in an almost complete Audimax, entitled “Opportunities created, opportunities seized, and opportunities missed”. 

At the D-BIOL master graduation ceremony five of our students were from the major in systems biology. Congratulations to all of them!

Our non-tenure track Assistant Professor Manfred Claassen will start as a tenured Professor at the University of Tübingen (Germany) January 2020. We will miss you Manfred! 

Ruedi Aebersold on his 30-years long journey dedicated to advancing protein research.