We want to understand the molecular mechanisms of health and disease
We train and mentor PhD students and postdocs
We work on biological mechanisms that enable biomedical application
Our 20 research groups
are supported by cutting-edge
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The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), based in Basel, Switzerland, is a world-class biomedical research institute, affiliated with the University of Basel and Novartis Biomedical Research.

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May 22, 2025 - 10:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Neural Mechanisms of Insect Navigation

  Seminar - Antoine Wystrach, CBI Toulouse, France
May 23, 2025 - 14:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Learning new infectivity mechanisms from old endogenous retroviruses

  Seminar - Maya Voichek, IMBA, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
Jun 12, 2025 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Functional characterization reveals an ancestral and complex antiviral program in Cnidaria

  Seminar - Yehu Moran, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Huge congratulations to Lisa Stoos on successfully defending her PhD! Her work uncovered how a special group of proteins, called bHLH transcription factors, manage to bind DNA even when it’s all tightly wrapped up 🧬

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— FMI science (@fmiscience.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM