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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
IRB, associate member of the NCCR ‘RNA & Disease’
on November 25, 2016 Silvia Monticelli was awarded a grant from the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) ‘RNA & Disease’. The NCCR ‘RNA & Disease’ is a research instrument of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and is a coordinated, interdisciplinary research program aiming at identifying disease mechanisms resulting from aberrant RNA functions. Silvia […]
New paper by the Molinari Lab on maintenance of organellar size and function published in Nature Cell Biology
on November 11, 2016 A work published in the November issue of Nature Cell Biology by Fiorenza Fumagalli, Julia Noack, Timothy J. Bergmann et al. in the group of Maurizio Molinari identifies the translocon protein Sec62 as the autophagy receptor that regulates destruction of excess or damaged portions of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), an intracellular […]
