Lab News & Updates

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Johannes Tossounidis and Felix Theiss  to our research team on November 1st! Jannis is a clinician-scientist and was awarded the Alfred Gasche Fellowship by the Faculty of Medicine for a 1-year research rotation in our lab. Felix joins us from the University of Bochum as a PhD student. Their expertise and enthusiasm will bring fresh perspectives and energy to our ongoing research - Welcome aboard !

Are you new to the metabolism field and wondering which is the most suitable technology for your next experiment? Petya and Eileen recently published an insightful review connecting the worlds of haematology  and metabolism.  We discussed approaches to test metabolism at the genomic, transcriptomic, protein, metabolite and functional level. From NGS over mass spectrometry up to flow cytometry and Seahorse, we comment on the strengths and recent developments. We point out the

At the end of June, the BCIM lab participated in the annual Stem Cell retreat, which unites groups interested in stem cell research across Switzerland since 2000. This year, Petya, Massimo, Tatjana, Jerneja and Michal presented the BCIM research. Together with groups from EPFL, Uni Lausanne, and ETH they spent 3 days in sunny (and very hot) Solothurn. Besides science, there was time for a swim in the Aar river of Solothurn, a city tour and drinks.

We congratulate Darja , who recently defended her master thesis on the role of metabolic pathways shaping the interaction between acute myeloid leukemia cells and immune cells . She successfully graduated from the M.Sc . program in Molecular Biology at the University of Basel. During her time in the lab, Darja established and optimized CRISPR/Cas9 nucleofection for gene editing of leukemia cells and developed flow cytometry panels for the analysis of surface expression of i