HEIA-FR on a visit to the Bellinzona Institutes of Science

Bellinzona, Feb. 2, 2023 – Last Feb. 2, the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and the Institute of Oncology Research (IOR) had the pleasure of welcoming a delegation of professors from the Electrical Engineering Department of the Haute Ecole d’Ingegnerie et d’Architecture of the Canton of Fribourg (HEIA-FR) who were in Ticino for an […]

Identification of a new PLK1-mediated pathway to limit homologous recombination

Homologous recombination (HR) could be deleterious when cells are about to undergo division. The Cejka laboratory at the IRB identified a new PLK1-mediated mechanism, which down-regulates DNA end resection late in the cell cycle and hence prevents undesirable HR initiation. Bellinzona, February 8, 2023 – DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair is initiated by DNA end […]

Valentina Cecchinato and Jonathan Muri honored with the Biotest Award 2022

Bellinzona, January 28, 2023: 25th Allergy and Immunology Update (AIU), Grindelwald, Switzerland. Jonathan Muri, Valentina Cecchinato, Mariagrazia Uguccioni and Davide Robbiani won the Biotest Award 2022 for their outstanding study titled «Anti-chemokine antibodies after SARS-CoV-2 infection correlate with favorable disease course». This award recognizes scientific or clinical studies that enhance our knowledge of disease mechanisms […]

Gut microbes and microbiota-specific T cells in lupus

IRB Special Seminar Dr. Daniel F. Zegarra Ruiz Postdoctoral Research Associate, Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US) Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 2 – 5 pm Bios+ Seminar Room Contact: Prof. Davide Robbiani

Mentoring immunity: Fibroblastic stromal cells

IRB Special Seminar Dr. Jovana Cupovic Senior postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (D) Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 2 – 5 pm Bios+ Seminar Room Contact: Prof. Davide Robbiani

Selection Events in Germinal Centres

IRB Special Seminar Dr. Oliver Bannard Associate Professor, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford (UK) Monday, February 6, 2023 at 4:30 – 6 pm Bios+ Seminar Room Contact: Prof. Davide Robbiani