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
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Sep 28, 2026

New tool tracks a hidden protein involved in viral infection and cell cleanup

Ubiquitin is a small protein that usually works by attaching itself to other proteins. But it can also exist freely, on its own or in chains, and this form has been hard to study. FMI researchers and their collaborators have now developed a tool called UBiP10 that can pick out and reveal this free ubiquitin in cells and influenza A virus particles. Using it, they found that free ubiquitin gathers around protein aggregates, offering a new way to study its role in viral infection and the cell’s protein-cleanup systems.

Sep 24, 2026

Mapping how the brain organizes movement
Sep 16, 2026

Former FMI group leader Botond Roska receives world’s largest vision award

About the FMI

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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Oct 06, 2026 - 13:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

Mapping neural circuits with synapse-resolution connectomics

  Seminar - Zhihao Zheng, Princeton University, USA

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Oct 08, 2026 - 11:00 - Fab24 0.60/61

When the embryo goes viral: retrotransposon activation in development and disease

  Seminar - Juliane Glaser, MPI Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany

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Oct 08, 2026 - 16:00 - Biozentrum

Basel Neuroscience Seminar
Neural circuit reconfiguration: from synapses to human behaviour
(Biozentrum, room U1.131)

  Seminar - Tim O`Leary, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Latest Publications

Sep 25, 2026

A designed ubiquitin-binding protein selectively enriches and visualizes unanchored ubiquitin.

Shi S, Bendel A, Kempf G, Sanchez J, Majima S, Iesmantavicius V, Hess D, Seebacher J, Huang Y, Ghosh S, Cao C, Matthias G, Bode J, Yamauchi Y, Diss G, Matthias P, Wang L

Sci Adv
Sep 23, 2026

Projection-defined modules reveal mouse motor cortex architecture.

Falasconi A, Kanodia H, Lusk N, Yao S, Costa RM, Zeng H, Arber S

Cell
Sep 10, 2026

Representational learning by optimization of neural manifolds in an olfactory memory network.

Hu B, Temiz NZ, Chou CN, Rupprecht P, Meissner-Bernard C, Titze B, Chung S, Friedrich RW

Nat Neurosci
Aug 20, 2026

Visuomotor mismatch EEG responses over occipital cortex of freely moving human subjects.

Solyga M, Zelechowski M, Keller GB

Elife

Post of the Week

Congratulations to Devico Haojun Shi, who successfully defended his PhD this week! Devico studied how DNA is packaged in mouse and human sperm, mapping where it remains wrapped around the protein structures that help organize the genome. 🧬🎓

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— FMI science (@fmiscience.bsky.social) September 18, 2026 at 10:56 AM

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