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The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), affiliated with @unibas.ch and @novartis.bsky.social, conducts research at the forefront of biomedicine and trains the next leaders in the life sciences.
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Season’s Greetings from the FMI! 🎄
Thank you to our researchers, staff, alumni, friends, and partners for an inspiring 2025. Wishing you happy holidays and a 2026 full of joy and exciting discoveries! 💫
Thank you to our researchers, staff, alumni, friends, and partners for an inspiring 2025. Wishing you happy holidays and a 2026 full of joy and exciting discoveries! 💫
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Season’s Greetings from the FMI! 🎄
Thank you to our researchers, staff, alumni, friends, and partners for an inspiring 2025. Wishing you happy holidays and a 2026 full of joy and exciting discoveries! 💫
Thank you to our researchers, staff, alumni, friends, and partners for an inspiring 2025. Wishing you happy holidays and a 2026 full of joy and exciting discoveries! 💫
Earlier this month, we welcomed 8th-grade students from Privatschule BZB. From learning how viruses replicate and how they’re visualized by electron microscopy to practicing cryo-EM sample prep and operating microscopes, our young visitors enjoyed a day of science in action!🔬
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Earlier this month, we welcomed 8th-grade students from Privatschule BZB. From learning how viruses replicate and how they’re visualized by electron microscopy to practicing cryo-EM sample prep and operating microscopes, our young visitors enjoyed a day of science in action!🔬
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I’m very grateful to the FMI, the tenure committee, inspiring colleagues, and all the hidden supporters who made this possible. Huge thanks to past and present group members for their curiosity and creativity. Excited for the next chapter.
Huge congratulations to @fzenke.bsky.social on his promotion to Senior Group Leader! His team uses AI-powered models of neural networks to uncover how dynamic brain connections enable new memories. Learn more about his research in this video👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xDu...
How AI can help reveal the workings of the brain
YouTube video by The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
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December 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I’m very grateful to the FMI, the tenure committee, inspiring colleagues, and all the hidden supporters who made this possible. Huge thanks to past and present group members for their curiosity and creativity. Excited for the next chapter.
The Friedrich Miescher Award, which we sponsor, recognizes outstanding research—congratulations to Prof. Omaya Dudin for his innovative work on the origins of multicellular life 🏅🏆 @dudinlab.bsky.social
Congratulations to Prof. Omaya Dudin for receiving the Friedrich Miescher Award 2026!
Find out more: www.ls2.ch/awards/fried...
Prof. Dudin will present his award lecture at the LS2 Annual Meeting 2026 in Zurich: annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2026
@dudinlab.bsky.social @fmiscience.bsky.social
Find out more: www.ls2.ch/awards/fried...
Prof. Dudin will present his award lecture at the LS2 Annual Meeting 2026 in Zurich: annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2026
@dudinlab.bsky.social @fmiscience.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The Friedrich Miescher Award, which we sponsor, recognizes outstanding research—congratulations to Prof. Omaya Dudin for his innovative work on the origins of multicellular life 🏅🏆 @dudinlab.bsky.social
At the FMI, Antoine Peters and his team study how information beyond the DNA sequence guides early development and how errors can block gene activity, potentially causing infertility. To learn more, watch the video below or read our story: www.fmi.ch/news-events/... youtu.be/aDQXmxEJgIg
Deciphering life’s hidden instructions
YouTube video by The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
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December 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
At the FMI, Antoine Peters and his team study how information beyond the DNA sequence guides early development and how errors can block gene activity, potentially causing infertility. To learn more, watch the video below or read our story: www.fmi.ch/news-events/... youtu.be/aDQXmxEJgIg
Huge congratulations to @fzenke.bsky.social on his promotion to Senior Group Leader! His team uses AI-powered models of neural networks to uncover how dynamic brain connections enable new memories. Learn more about his research in this video👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xDu...
How AI can help reveal the workings of the brain
YouTube video by The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Huge congratulations to @fzenke.bsky.social on his promotion to Senior Group Leader! His team uses AI-powered models of neural networks to uncover how dynamic brain connections enable new memories. Learn more about his research in this video👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xDu...
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A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research, writes @alexkwan.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
#neuroskyence
How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research, writes @alexkwan.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
#neuroskyence
Proud to have our Nicolas Favre spotlighted by @eu-life.bsky.social ✨
💡Welcome to #EULIFEspotlight!
This month we celebrate Nicolas Favre, Head Patents & Licensing and EU-LIFE main representative at @fmiscience.bsky.social, who led the organisation of the latest EU-LIFE Strategy Meeting and ensured a welcoming environment for productive discussions 🔗 bit.ly/48ycwAg
This month we celebrate Nicolas Favre, Head Patents & Licensing and EU-LIFE main representative at @fmiscience.bsky.social, who led the organisation of the latest EU-LIFE Strategy Meeting and ensured a welcoming environment for productive discussions 🔗 bit.ly/48ycwAg
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Proud to have our Nicolas Favre spotlighted by @eu-life.bsky.social ✨
Proud to see EM-based connectomics—which uses electron microscopy to map neural circuits in 3D—named @natmethods.nature.com’ Method of the Year, and even prouder that our group leader Rainer Friedrich leads one of the pioneering labs in this breakthrough 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Method of the Year 2025: electron microscopy-based connectomics - Nature Methods
A large network of interconnected neurons serves as the basis of brain function and of behavior. Methodological advances have enabled the reconstruction of large-scale and even whole-brain connectomes...
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Proud to see EM-based connectomics—which uses electron microscopy to map neural circuits in 3D—named @natmethods.nature.com’ Method of the Year, and even prouder that our group leader Rainer Friedrich leads one of the pioneering labs in this breakthrough 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
From the traditional director’s speech to a fun winter-themed photobooth, plus unforgettable cakes and meme competitions… the FMI year-end party was such a vibe, as usual ✨
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
From the traditional director’s speech to a fun winter-themed photobooth, plus unforgettable cakes and meme competitions… the FMI year-end party was such a vibe, as usual ✨
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Today is #Nobel Day! 🏅
Watch the festive ceremony with speeches - a true celebration of blue sky discovery and scientific curiosity!
🎥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPSK...
Philippe Aghion, funded by EU via the ERC, is among the 2025 laureates!
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Congratulations to all!
Watch the festive ceremony with speeches - a true celebration of blue sky discovery and scientific curiosity!
🎥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPSK...
Philippe Aghion, funded by EU via the ERC, is among the 2025 laureates!
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Congratulations to all!
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today is #Nobel Day! 🏅
Watch the festive ceremony with speeches - a true celebration of blue sky discovery and scientific curiosity!
🎥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPSK...
Philippe Aghion, funded by EU via the ERC, is among the 2025 laureates!
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
🇪🇺
Congratulations to all!
Watch the festive ceremony with speeches - a true celebration of blue sky discovery and scientific curiosity!
🎥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPSK...
Philippe Aghion, funded by EU via the ERC, is among the 2025 laureates!
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
🇪🇺
Congratulations to all!
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Join us for the second seminar in the online Metabolism in Development and Physiology series next Thursday.
Two exciting talks lined up from different career stages.
Two exciting talks lined up from different career stages.
We’re back with the Metabolism in Development & Physiology online seminar series 🎉
Thu 11 Dec 2025, 16:00 CET
Speakers:
Heather Christofk (Professor, UCLA)
Yuanlingzi Tian (PostDoc, University of Glasgow)
Thu 11 Dec 2025, 16:00 CET
Speakers:
Heather Christofk (Professor, UCLA)
Yuanlingzi Tian (PostDoc, University of Glasgow)
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Join us for the second seminar in the online Metabolism in Development and Physiology series next Thursday.
Two exciting talks lined up from different career stages.
Two exciting talks lined up from different career stages.
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Please repost - position of Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs available at our Institute in the heart of Europe (Basel, Switzerland) 👇
📢 Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Please repost - position of Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs available at our Institute in the heart of Europe (Basel, Switzerland) 👇
FMI group leader Margherita Turco has been awarded more than 1 million USD from the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social to explore how micronutrients such as folate and iron could prevent life-threatening complications caused by a malfunctioning placenta. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...
Margherita Turco wins 1M grant to study how nutrients support placental health
FMI group leader Margherita Turco has been awarded more than 1 million USD from the Gates Foundation to explore how micronutrients such as folate and iron could prevent life-threatening complications ...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
FMI group leader Margherita Turco has been awarded more than 1 million USD from the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social to explore how micronutrients such as folate and iron could prevent life-threatening complications caused by a malfunctioning placenta. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...
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Job opening for one of the most important positions at our institute.
📢 Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Job opening for one of the most important positions at our institute.
📢 Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
📢 Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
Last week, FMIers got together for a board-game night with snacks, drinks, and lots of laughs. Thanks to everyone who brought their favourite games and made it such a fun mid-week break. We can’t wait for the next one!
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Last week, FMIers got together for a board-game night with snacks, drinks, and lots of laughs. Thanks to everyone who brought their favourite games and made it such a fun mid-week break. We can’t wait for the next one!
We are saddened by the passing of former FMI group leader Christoph Moroni, a distinguished physician-scientist who advanced cancer, microbiology, and virology research, and led the Institute of Medical Microbiology at @unibas.ch. Our thoughts are with his family.
@biozentrum.unibas.ch
@biozentrum.unibas.ch
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
We are saddened by the passing of former FMI group leader Christoph Moroni, a distinguished physician-scientist who advanced cancer, microbiology, and virology research, and led the Institute of Medical Microbiology at @unibas.ch. Our thoughts are with his family.
@biozentrum.unibas.ch
@biozentrum.unibas.ch
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Webinar: Learn how the planned ERC Plus Grants are being designed and what they aim to achieve.
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏰ 15.00 (CET)
Details 👉 buff.ly/QreV44K
#ChooseEuropeforScience
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏰ 15.00 (CET)
Details 👉 buff.ly/QreV44K
#ChooseEuropeforScience
Webinar on the new ERC Plus Grants
The ERC Plus Grants are a new funding scheme to support outstanding principal investigators with bold ideas and a vision for transformative research that goes beyond the scope o
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November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Webinar: Learn how the planned ERC Plus Grants are being designed and what they aim to achieve.
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏰ 15.00 (CET)
Details 👉 buff.ly/QreV44K
#ChooseEuropeforScience
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏰ 15.00 (CET)
Details 👉 buff.ly/QreV44K
#ChooseEuropeforScience
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1/6 New preprint 🚀 How does the cortex learn to represent things and how they move without reconstructing sensory stimuli? We developed a circuit-centric recurrent predictive learning (RPL) model based on JEPAs.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Led by @atenagm.bsky.social @mshalvagal.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Led by @atenagm.bsky.social @mshalvagal.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
1/6 New preprint 🚀 How does the cortex learn to represent things and how they move without reconstructing sensory stimuli? We developed a circuit-centric recurrent predictive learning (RPL) model based on JEPAs.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Led by @atenagm.bsky.social @mshalvagal.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Led by @atenagm.bsky.social @mshalvagal.bsky.social
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SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
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Emergence and Self-organisation across biological scales! I hope you are ready for next year conference! It will be an incredible event April 20-22 2026. The first of many #LakeConference organised by
@ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org
@ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org
#CellBio community, this one is for you! Applications are open for the #LakeConference on Modeling Life from Cells to Tissues – co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel!
📆 April 20-22, 2026
📍 Seattle, USA
🔬 All career stages welcomed.
Apply to attend by 12/12: alleninstitute.org/events/aics-...
📆 April 20-22, 2026
📍 Seattle, USA
🔬 All career stages welcomed.
Apply to attend by 12/12: alleninstitute.org/events/aics-...
2026 Lake Conference
Join the Allen Institute for Cell Science and Circuit Neuroscience Basel in Seattle, Washington, April 20–22, 2026, for a 3 day conference, Modeling...
alleninstitute.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Emergence and Self-organisation across biological scales! I hope you are ready for next year conference! It will be an incredible event April 20-22 2026. The first of many #LakeConference organised by
@ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org
@ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org
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One of the most promising approaches to making headway in understanding the cortical algorithm that I have seen in a long time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Understanding cortical computation through the lens of joint-embedding predictive architectures
Tracking prey or recognizing a lurking predator is as crucial for survival as anticipating their actions. To guide behavior, the brain must extract information about object identities and their dynami...
www.biorxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
One of the most promising approaches to making headway in understanding the cortical algorithm that I have seen in a long time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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honoured to help organise the 1st Systems -IN- Action meeting next March 2026 in Alicante-Spain. A new forum created to set the direction for the next wave in brain circuits, systems, behaviour, with AI & computation. Registration is now open until 15/1 and limited to 120 people!
🚨 Registration open for the 1st Systems-IN-Action neuroscience meeting on Circuits, Systems, Behaviour, and Computation at the @neuroalc.bsky.social in Alicante (Spain)
Deadline: Jan 15 or until 120 participants!
Orgs: @kardamakis.bsky.social, Ramón Reig & Isabel Pérez Otaño
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Deadline: Jan 15 or until 120 participants!
Orgs: @kardamakis.bsky.social, Ramón Reig & Isabel Pérez Otaño
systems-in-action.umh.es
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
honoured to help organise the 1st Systems -IN- Action meeting next March 2026 in Alicante-Spain. A new forum created to set the direction for the next wave in brain circuits, systems, behaviour, with AI & computation. Registration is now open until 15/1 and limited to 120 people!
Elena Testoni, a PhD student in the @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social lab, explores how enhancers and promoters control gene activity, and leads efforts to promote sustainable lab practices. In this Q&A, she shares her passion for genome regulation and greener science. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...
Elena Testoni: Exploring the language of DNA and sustainability in science
Elena Testoni, a PhD student in the Giorgetti lab, studies how enhancers and promoters — DNA elements that control when and how genes are activated — regulate gene expression. Alongside her research, ...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Elena Testoni, a PhD student in the @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social lab, explores how enhancers and promoters control gene activity, and leads efforts to promote sustainable lab practices. In this Q&A, she shares her passion for genome regulation and greener science. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...