IRB PhD student Marco Fabbro won the best poster award at the Swiss Autophagy Meeting 2024

Marco Fabbro (Molinari Group) won the best poster award at the Swiss Autophagy Meeting 2024, held in Lausanne on September 12-13, 2024, with the poster entitled “Evaluating ER-phagy activity through endogenously tagged ER-phagy receptors.” Marco Fabbro is a second-year doctoral student at IRB Bellinzona studying the mechanisms regulating ER-phagy in the Protein Folding and Quality control […]

Researchers from IRB discovered the function of the BRCA1 anti-cancer protein

Despite the known involvement of the BRCA1 protein in breast and ovarian cancer prevention, its precise function was poorly understood. A new study from the Cejka laboratory published in Nature shows that BRCA1 directly functions in DNA break repair by Homologous Recombination, preventing genetic instability. Bellinzona – September 11 2024 – Mutations in the BRCA1 […]

Human Immunity: One Cell At A Time

International PhD Program in Immunology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry 2024/2025 Prof. Sarah Teichmann Cambridge Stem Cell Institute – UK Thursday, 26 September 2024 at 12 pm Bios+ Seminar Room Contact: Dr. Silvia Monticelli

Protein Phase Separation in Immunology and Aging

IRB Special Seminar Dr. Gea Silvia Sofia Cereghetti Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge Tuesday, 10 September 2024 at 11 am  Bios+ Seminar Room