FMI news archive

2011
Dec 01, 2011	In the media Helge Grosshans: Regulating the Regulators, Genome Technology.
Nov 21, 2011	Neuronal filters for broadband information transmission in the brain
Oct 27, 2011	Controlling patterns of DNA methylation
Oct 27, 2011	The workings of GW182, a protein crucial for microRNA repression
Oct 24, 2011	Botond Roska elected as member of EMBO
Oct 03, 2011	FMI scientists describe mechanism for rare muscle disease
Sep 09, 2011	FMI PhD student receives Debiopharm Award
Sep 02, 2011	Controlling self-renewal of stem cells
Aug 08, 2011	Computational biology: Untangling the life sciences
Jul 13, 2011	Position of telomeres in nucleus influences length
Jul 07, 2011	New breast cancer model of mutant PI3K recapitulates features of human breast cancer
Jun 09, 2011	FMI PhD student honored by Swiss Society for Neuroscience
May 23, 2011	At the forefront of optogenetics
May 11, 2011	Chromatin environment regulates PRC2 activity
Apr 19, 2011	Keeping retinoic acid in check
Mar 25, 2011	Identification of key regulator of synapse plasticity and its role in enhancing memory
Mar 17, 2011	New insights for a therapeutic approach in glioblastoma
Mar 07, 2011	New functional understanding outlines therapy for untreatable breast cancer
Feb 28, 2011	Discovery of schedule for circuit formation in the hippocampus
Jan 12, 2011	Kick-off of Nicolas Thomä's ERC grant study on Cockayne Syndrome

2010
Nov 26, 2010	FMI PhD student honored by University of Basel
Nov 23, 2010	Marc Bühler selected as EMBO Young Investigator
Oct 19, 2010	FMI celebrates 40th Anniversary
Oct 07, 2010	Barbara Hohn honored with Ludwig-Wittgenstein-Preis
Jul 26, 2010	Scent explained mathematically
Jul 02, 2010	Histone modifications control accessibility of DNA
Jun 21, 2010	Identification of a novel tumor suppressor
Jun 18, 2010	Basel Life Sciences Week 2010, the meeting place for scientists from industry and academia
May 20, 2010	The epigenetic influence of the father
May 17, 2010	MicroRNA expression and turnover are regulated by neural activity in the retina and brain
Apr 19, 2010	Impact of nuclear chromatin localization on differentiation and transformation
Apr 09, 2010	Strengthening stem cell research in Switzerland
Mar 08, 2010	Helge Grosshans receives ERC grant for his microRNA research
Jan 19, 2010	Dicer shuttles to nucleus and accumulates to form heterochromatin
Jan 18, 2010	Silvia Arber receives prestigious ERC research grant

2009
Nov 04, 2009	Botond Roska selected 2009 EMBO Young Investigator
Oct 20, 2009	Dirk Schübeler, a newly elected EMBO member
Sep 16, 2009	Mohamed Bentires-Alj awarded prestigious European Research Council Grant
Sep 11, 2009	Protected fear memories
Aug 28, 2009	Visualizing brain processes with new techniques
Jun 15, 2009	Tage der Genforschung am FMI
May 29, 2009	FMI receives prestigious Swiss systems biology project
May 28, 2009	Patrick Matthias elected President of the Forum for Genetic Research
May 20, 2009	Mechanism of avoidance regulates specificity of synaptic connections
Apr 22, 2009	FMI News: The nature of neuroscience
Apr 01, 2009	Tage der Genforschung im FMI: 10./11. Juni, 2009
Mar 30, 2009	Pico Caroni: Basic mechanism for neurodegenerative diseases
Mar 23, 2009	Rainer Friedrich: Transformation of odor representations
Mar 03, 2009	Nancy Hynes: Major cancer prize
Jan 29, 2009	Antoine Peters: Genome architecture and gene regulation
Jan 05, 2009	Nico Thoma: DNA damage recognition - the first FMI structure
Jan 05, 2009	Botond Roska: Watching the activity of brain circuits

2008
Nov 05, 2008	Antoine Peters: 2008 EMBO Young Investigator Award
Nov 03, 2008	Susan Gasser: DNA damage is processed for repair at nuclear pores
Sep 10, 2008	Dirk Schübeler: Formatting the genome for cell differentiation
Sep 03, 2008	Saibal Chatterjee wins an INSA Medal for Young Scientists
Jul 11, 2008	Andreas Lüthi: Switching on and off fear neuronal circuits
May 16, 2008	Barbara Hohn elected as member of The Royal Society
Apr 28, 2008	Blind mice recover vision: Press release April 27
Apr 27, 2008	Blind mice recover vision: Press pictures
Apr 26, 2008	Botond Roska: Nanomedicine - blind mice recover vision
Apr 23, 2008	Silvia Arber lectures at the "Children's University!"
Mar 19, 2008	Marc Bühler awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship
Mar 18, 2008	FMI News: Stopping Sonic Hedgehog
Feb 05, 2008	Dirk Schübeler wins prestigious European Research Council Award
Feb 04, 2008	Rafal Ciosk awarded a Schlumberger Foundation Prize
Jan 23, 2008	Silvia Arber wins the prestigious Friedrich Miescher Award

2007
Nov 01, 2007	Connecting neurons to muscles
May 25, 2007	Suvendra Bhattacharyya wins HFSPO Career Development Award
May 01, 2007	Andrea Scrima awarded the Otto Hahn Medal
Jan 25, 2007	Dirk Schübeler awarded Friedrich Miescher Prize 2007