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Rachel Hevey
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Science, animals, travel 💕 | PI @ University of Basel | co-founder Swiss Women in Chemistry | #GlycoTime #ChemicalBiology #MicrobialVirulence | Proudly 🇨🇦 but settled in 🇨🇭 to escape the humiliation of hating 🥅 🏒 | 🌈 she/her
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🚀 Exciting News! 🚀

Our project developing therapeutic carbohydrate-based molecules to reduce risk of organ transplant rejection has been 🌟 awarded ca. 1 million CHF 🌟 from @snsf-ch.bsky.social 🎉 🥂

We are so excited to embark on this journey over the next 4 years!

@unibas.ch #GlycoTime
April 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Join us next Thursday for more #GlycoTime 🟨🟢🔺!!

Our next EGC webinar takes place Feb 27th @ 4pm CET, featuring Prof. Gordan Lauc and Dr. Anabel Torrente López. Mandatory (free) registration for the webinar via the link in comments or QR code in the image​​.

We hope to see you there!
February 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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A very warm 👋welcome👋 to new @unibas.ch PhD student Victoria who joined our team earlier this month! Victoria carried out a 6mo. internship with us last year during her MSc @unistra.fr & will continue her work on developing #GlycoTime anti-virulence therapies thanks to 💰 support @snsf-ch.bsky.social
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February 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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🌟 Big welcome to our new team member, Arnaud! 🌟

We're thrilled to have Arnaud join our team @unibas.ch for his MSc Pharmacy project, where he will be 🔍 investigating the role of some new glycan structures in regulating bacterial virulence 🦠🧪 #GlycoTime #DrugDevelopment
Picture of our new team member, Arnaud, wearing a long black jacket and black hat, standing on a rocky beach with a coastline dense with buildings visible in the background.
January 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Lovely evening for a ride! 😍☃️

#Lapland #Finland 🇫🇮
View from a dog sled being pulled by huskies passing along a snowy forest trail. The sky is dark with the last moments of a pink sunset sinking below the horizon.
December 27, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Merry Christmas!! 🎄☃️
Best wishes to you and yours, and a happy and healthy start into 2025 🥂
December 25, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Enjoying a quiet Arctic Christmas this year 💕🎄

#HappyHolidays #Finland🇫🇮
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December 24, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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**Holiday mode activated** 🥂☃️

#Rovaniemi #Finland
December 23, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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#Caturday #ChristmasEdition ☃️🎄
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December 21, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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😂🤷🏻‍♀️

#PhDLife #AcademicChatter
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December 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Happy #Caturday 🐈💕🐈‍⬛💕
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December 14, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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🎄☃️ Happy happy holidays!! ☃️🎄
#Illuminarium #Zurich🇨🇭
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December 11, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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🎄Christmas🎄 celebrations came a few weeks early this year 🎁☃️

Grateful for my 🇨🇭 family @mitchabelle.bsky.social & a partner that works magic in the kitchen, because I'm definitely a #ChemistsWhoDontCook
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December 8, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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Happy #Caturday (for one of us at least 😂)
A photo of me reading while hugging a cat with a facial expression indicating that she is less than impressed ...
December 7, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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This week we are so excited to welcome (back) to our team Pierre! 🤩

Pierre formerly spent a year with us during his MSc developing glycomimetics for a target of interest in transplant rejection 👨‍🔬 💊 He's returned to help us out with a few tasks before transitioning into a new role later next year 💪
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December 3, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Sometimes doing nice things leads to receiving nice things 😁🥰

A big thank you to #SwissWomenInChemistry & #SwissChemicalSociety for the kind words and appreciation 🥰 I look forward to seeing what the new SWC committee has planned! And of course staying involved as member 😊
#WomenInSTEM #Mentorship
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December 2, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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📢 Calling all #GlycoTime enthusiasts!!

Our last EGC webinar of the year takes place next Thursday, featuring glycochemists Dr Natalia Baranova (CIC biomaGUNE 🇪🇸) & Prof Yves Blériot (University of Poitiers 🇫🇷)

📝Registration link in comments
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Slide advertising a glycoscience webinar on December 5th at 16h hosted by the European Glycoscience Community. Illustrated are photos of the two speakers on the left-hand side, in the middle their names and titles of their talks, and on the right-hand side their institute logos. Speaker #1 is Dr. Natalia Baranova from CICbiomaGUNE in Spain, talk title "A cross-talk between FtsZ treadmilling dynamics and peptidoglycan synthesis." Speaker #2 is Prof. Yves Blériot from the University of Poitiers in France, talk title "Merging superacids and carbohydrates: a new tool to characterize and tame elusive species." The top and bottom of the slides features organizer logos and the registration information for the webinar.
November 29, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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Christmas market season is officially under way! 🫕🎄❄️
#Basel #TisTheSeason
November 28, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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A big thank you to fellow #GlycoTime colleague (and former postdoc supervisor!) Prof.em. Beat Ernst for sharing his experience over many decades unraveling the complexities of carbohydrate-based drugs, and his future perspectives for the field. 💡

Dpt. Pharmaceutical Sciences, @unibasel.bsky.social
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November 28, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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#HappyCaturday 💕
November 23, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Welcome! 👋👋👋 A comparably snowy view from Basel this morning ❄️ Miss seeing you around, and hope you've been settling well into the new space!
Snow covered apartment buildings and balconies in Basel, Switzerland in the early morning light.
November 22, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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Love #GlycoTime? 💕

Looking forward to chair this afternoon's exciting EGC session featuring:
🦠 Dr. Giorgia Greter @ Swiss biotech start-up Baxiva
🏥 Prof. Lara Mahal @ University of Alberta

Registration is still open!
Link: unibas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Advertisement for the European Glycoscience Webinar on November 21st at 16h CET. The slide features profile photos on the left-hand side of the two speakers, Dr. Giorgia Greter and Prof. Lara Mahal, as well as their webinar titles and institute logos on the right-hand side.
November 21, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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📢 PhD Opportunity in Carbohydrate Chemistry & Drug Discovery!

🔬 Join our Molecular Pharmacy team at the University of Basel to drive developments in glycan-based therapies 💊

🗓️ Start: Feb 2025
📍 Basel, Switzerland
💼 4-year funded
🔗 Application Link in Comments (below)
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October 30, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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New academic year, new cohort!! 🧑‍🔬👥🙌

A huge thank you to all Basel-area mentors & mentees for a successful kick-off event last night 🥂 & of course a thank you to the Swiss Chemical Society for $$$ supporting the mentoring program 🙏🙏🙏

#Mentorship #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
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November 29, 2023 at 12:18 PM
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What could possibly go wrong?? 😂
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November 20, 2023 at 5:53 PM