New paper by the Grassi Lab on a regulatory circuit in the gut, which controls immune system response to commensals to promote a beneficial ecosystem for host metabolic homeostasis
on March 21, 2017 The intestine of mammals is colonized by trillions of commensal bacteria. These bacteria contribute to the metabolic balance of the organism, for example by influencing energy harvest from food or by generating useful substances. The intestine is patrolled by cells of the immune system, which are equipped to defend our body […]
Fiorenza Fumagalli awarded PhD
on March 16, 2017 Fiorenza Fumagalli successfully defended her PhD thesis, which was presented at the University of Bern on March 16th, 2017. Her thesis title was “Unraveling the molecular pathways controlling recovery from a transient ER stress in mammalian cells” and the work has been done in the Protein Folding and Quality Control laboratory […]
New paper by the Lanzavecchia Lab
on March 15, 2017 Social network architecture of human immune cells unveiled by quantitative proteomics. The immune system is unique in its dynamic interplay between numerous cell types. However, a system-wide view of how immune cells communicate to protect against disease has not yet been established. We applied high-resolution mass-spectrometry-based proteomics to characterize 28 primary […]
New paper by the González Lab
on March 15, 2017 The inflammatory process initiated in the lymph node after vaccine administration is crucial to develop a protective response against the pathogen. In this work, we describe the mechanism by which one of the most relevant cells involved in the inflammatory process, the lymph node macrophages, initiate this response. These cells die […]
Prof. Lanzavecchia’s Farewell lecture at the ETH
on February 24, 2017 On Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at ETH Zurich, Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia will give his farewell lecture on “Dissecting human antibody responses: useful, basic and surprising findings”. Antonio Lanzavecchia was Full Professor of Immunology, from 2009 until January 31, 2017, at the Institute of Microbiology at the ETH Zurich. The farewell lecture […]
New paper by the Monticelli Lab
on February 8, 2017 This work was performed by Cristina Leoni, Sara Montagner et al. in the lab of Silvia Monticelli – watch the movie by Cristina explaining her paper in four minutes, which also won the second place at the GCB Slam 2017 in Bern! Leoni et al. showed how DNA methylation regulates gene […]
IRB study awarded with a Pfizer Research Foundation Prize
on January 27, 2017 At the 26th Pfizer Research Prize Foundation awards ceremony, held in Zurich on the evening of January 26th, three researchers from the Institute of Research in Biomedicine (IRB, Università della Svizzera italiana) received a prize for their research in the category Infectious diseases, Rheumatology and Immunology. The awardees, Joshua Tan, Kathrin […]
Prof. Petr Cejka received the 2017 Friedrich Miescher Award
on January 11, 2017 The LS2 section for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, formerly the Swiss Society for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, has the honor to continue to present the annual Friedrich Miescher award. This year’s award recognizes the outstanding research accomplishments of Professor Petr Cejka. The Friedrich Miescher prize is awarded every year to a […]
New paper by the Uguccioni Lab on the defect in migration of CCR6+ lymphocytes in HIV-1+ patients, and its correlation with a state of chronic immune activation
on December 15, 2016 The work published in the Journal of Immunology on November 28th by Valentina Cecchinato et al. in the group of Mariagrazia Uguccioni, is the results of a collaboration with the Divisions of infectious diseases of the Regional Hospital of Lugano and of the University of Zurich, and the German primate Center […]
Viola Puddinu awarded PhD
on December 14, 2016 Viola Puddinu successfully defended her PhD thesis, which was presented at the University of Bern on December 13th, 2016. Her thesis title was “Role of the atypical chemokine receptor 3 in diffuse large B cell lymphoma” and the work has been done in the Signal Transduction laboratory of Marcus Thelen. Her […]
