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
technology platforms
Genome Regulation
 Multicellular Systems
 Neurobiology
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May 13, 2025

Geetika Sapra: The digital heart of FMI

Meet Geetika Sapra, FMI’s digital information officer, who has built a career around making science more accessible. In this Q&A, she shares how the FMI library collection has evolved, what resources researchers might be missing out on, and her love for stats and painting.

May 07, 2025

How the brain detects surprises — and why it could matter for mental health
Apr 22, 2025

A taste for innovation

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

Neural Mechanisms of Insect Navigation

  Seminar - Antoine Wystrach, CBI Toulouse, France
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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
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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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May 6, 2025

Niclosamide: CRL4(AMBRA1) mediated degradation of cyclin D1 following mitochondrial membrane depolarization.

Coomar S, Gasser JA, Slabicki M, Donovan KA, Fischer ES, Ebert BL, Gillingham D, Thomä NH

RSC Med Chem
Apr 21, 2025

Chromatin regulation of neuronal activity-dependent gene programs in circuit formation and plasticity.

Pumo G, Rijli FM

Curr Opin Neurobiol
Apr 14, 2025

A holistic approach to advancing women's health.

Turco M, Kraft O

Nat Rev Bioeng
Apr 3, 2025

A comprehensive Schizosaccharomyces pombe atlas of physical transcription factor interactions with proteins and chromatin.

Skribbe M, Soneson C, Stadler MB, Schwaiger M, Suma Sreechakram VN, Iesmantavicius V, Hess D, Moreno EPF, Braun S, Seebacher J, Smallwood SA, Bühler M

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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

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