Andrea Ablasser’s research aims to understand how the cells of our immune system detect the presence of pathogens and to dissect the fundamental mechanisms that provide host defense.

The Aumeier lab explores the biochemistry and biophysics of the cytoskeleton. Her research addresses questions around how the cytoskeleton is organised and regulated in space and time, resulting in functional architecture.

Bruno Correia lab is driven by the passion of expanding nature’s repertoire by designing novel functional proteins to be used for practical purposes such as therapeutics, vaccines, biosensors and others. An innovative research from a new field called immunoengineering.

Lyndon Emsley’s main research field is solid-state NMR spectroscopy, specifically the development of new spectroscopic methods for the determination the atomic-level structure, the dynamics and the reactivity of a wide range of materials and molecular systems, that have been inaccessible with other analytical methods.

Pioneering in the development of novel (bio)chemical methods to map cellular protein-lipid interaction networks, the Gavin group has a strong research interest in the study of lipid metabolism and the regulation of cellular membranes homeostasis, with a special focus on the machinery involved in the creation and maintenance of lipid gradients in eukaryotic cells, and the study of mechanisms by which lipid signatures are sensed and “read” by effector proteins.

Gonzalez-Gaitan main research interest is the biophysics and cell biology of endocytic trafficking during morphogenetic signalling and asymmetric cell division, to understand how cells talk to each other during development in physical and molecular terms and how the shape and final size of a tissue is achieved during embryogenesis.

Gotta lab focuses on cell division processes in C. elegans embryo and in human cells, with a focus on asymmetric cell division, regulation of cell division timing and spindle assembly and orientation.

Sascha Hoogendoorn lab aims to study and perturb cellular signalling, with a particular interest in the primary cilium and the Hedgehog signalling pathway. Her research combines organic chemistry with cell biology and CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing to develop molecules that enable further dissection and manipulation of ciliary signalling.

Marko Kaksonen is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Geneva. His lab studies the molecular mechanisms of clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

Pablo Rivera-Fuentes is tenure-track assistant professor of chemical biology at EPFL. He leads the laboratory of chemical and biological probes.

With expertise in cell biology and biophysics, Aurélien Roux main research interest is to study the role of lipid membrane mechanical properties in several cell processes. His long-term goal is to understand how protein and lipid assemblies coordinate to perform cell functions involving membranes: endocytosis, cell division, cell migration and others.

Gisou van der Goot research interests are focused on protein folding, protein-membrane interactions and signaling which her lab investigates through the study of bacterial toxins such as Anthrax toxin and their receptors on target cells. The role of palmitoylation in ER function and the mechanisms behind the compartimentalization of mamalian cells and cell membranes are other topics of interest.

The principal focus of the research conducted by the Waser group is the development and application of new catalytic methods for the synthesis of bioactive compounds. His lab harnesses the power of modern catalysis to promote C-C or C-X bond formation, allowing for a rapid and efficient enhancement in molecular complexity.