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Functional Genomics Center Zurich
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Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ) is a joint platform of the ETH Zürich and the University of Zurich. #genomics #proteomics #metabolomics
Check us out on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/fgczlinkedin
Our proteomics experts Sibylle Pfammatter and Christian Panse attended HUPO 2025 in Toronto, presenting 3 posters on #glycosylation, #phosphorylation & integrative #PTM analysis. Great reconnecting with the community! #HUPO2025
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
First #Spatial #Proteomics course complete! 🎉 Hands-on #LCMS & #MALDI-MS training for young researchers 🔬👩‍🔬 Thanks to our instructors Sibylle Pfammatter, Antje Dittmann, Claudia Fortes as well as all students for joining.

Stay tuned for future FGCZ training courses! 📢
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🧬 Join us Nov 4, 14:00-16:30pm CET at FGCZ for a seminar on AVITI24™ sequencing!

Discover Direct In-Sample Sequencing (no library prep!) & new multiomics applications.

🎤 Speaker: Wilfred van IJcken, PhD
📍 Y59-G30, FGCZ
🥐 Refreshments provided

Details & registration: tinyurl.com/49bxkffy
October 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🚀 FGCZ hosts 10x Genomics User & Tech Day!

Join us to discover how single-cell, spatial, and in situ tech can advance your research and see cutting-edge applications.

Free but registration required!

📅 Sep 17, Office hours 9-12, lunch & seminar 12-17
📍 UZH Irchel Y59-G30
🔗 tinyurl.com/vhypvnu3
September 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🎉 New Illumina MiSeq i100 now live at Genome Engineering & Measurement Lab (GEML) at @ethz.ch Hönggerberg

Ready for walk-up access - book via B-Fabric for amplicons, plasmids & small genomes

📍ETH Hönggerberg, HCI
🗓 Booking: fgcz-bfabric.uzh.ch/bfabric/
📧 Questions: sequencing@fgcz.ethz.ch
August 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🔬Ever wondered what goes on inside one of Switzerland's leading #omics core facilities? Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Functional Genomics Center Zurich! Supporting researchers from @ethz.ch, UZH, and beyond across #genomics, #proteomics & #metabolomics.

🔗 fgcz.ch
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🎉 Second Student-on-Stage event was a huge success! Congrats to:

🥇 Priska Flury
🥈 Emma Alessandri
🥉 Andrea Roggo

& all other brilliant presenters who delivered amazing talks! Thanks to organizers Sibylle & Martina, jury & helpers.

Already excited for year 3! 🔬✨ We hope to see you then. 🔍
June 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🚀 Students on Stage event next week!

📆Wed June 11, 8:30-14:30
📍FGCZ (UZH Irchel, Y59)

Students presenting cutting-edge research from #spatialtranscriptomics to #cancer #therapeutics.

Register: tinyurl.com/unead4e8

Thanks to sponsors Nikon & Felfel!
#Science #Research
June 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🧬 New study in Gen. Bio.! We tested how RNA input & PCR cycles affect duplication rates across 4 sequencers. ↘️ RNA = ↗️ duplicates = ↘️ diversity. Key for optimizing RNA-seq protocols! Thanks + congrats to @catharineaquino.bsky.social @nataliazajac.bsky.social + collaborators!

🔗 tinyurl.com/bdcuen59
May 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
📢 Announcing our GEO Uploader tool! Simplifies deposition of sequencing data to GEO repository by automating aggregation, upload & metadata entry in one place.

Use it now for FGCZ-generated data:
geo-uploader.fgcz.uzh.ch

And stay tuned: we will be open-sourcing the code soon.
March 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Join EuPA Open Lab Days! Virtual tour of 8 European #proteomics #core facilities in #Proteopolis. Discuss lab management, protocols, data analysis & more.

Register now!
🔗 tinyurl.com/EuPACore4Life
📅 25/02/2025, 15:00 CET
February 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We're excited to announce our NEW #Omics in #Oncology course, aimed to foster interaction within the oncology community between Switzerland and the Netherlands!
🔬FGCZ/Utrecht University
📅 Feb-Apr 2025
🌍 Online collab
🧬 Omics & bioinformatics
Info: tinyurl.com/bdes8sm6
January 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🎉 We wrapped up our final 2024 course: "NGS Applied to Metagenomics"! Participants explored #metagenomics & gained hands-on #bioinformatics skills.

Many thanks to our experts Anna, Jonas, Natalie, Maria, & Witold, and to all participants for your efforts! Stay tuned for future courses.
December 19, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Huge congratulations to Dr. Enni Markkanen & Mikiyo Weber (UZH) on their newly published cross-omics study! 🎉 🐾 With help from our experts, L. Kunz, L. Opitz, and W. Wolski, they revealed tumor-exclusive features in feline FSA for potential diagnostics/therapy.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/3wnxxpdk
December 18, 2024 at 12:42 PM
#Metabolomics is fun! 🎉 Our 2024 Mass Spec Metabolomics course was a hit! Participants mastered #LCMS, solved metabolic puzzles with creativity & #AI tools like ChatGPT. Huge thanks to our fantastic team & guest lecturers for making it a success! 🙌

tinyurl.com/3p3nv7zp
December 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM
We extend a warm welcome to our Core For Life | C4L colleagues visiting Zürich for our annual #C4L meeting. We thank you for the fruitful discussions yesterday, and look forward to the same today!

#genomic #proteomics #metabolomics #bioinformation #omics #automation
November 26, 2024 at 10:02 AM