• Schools of Engineering
    & Life Sciences

    Boosting Enzyme Engineering With DNA Recorders and Epistasis-Aware AI

    Machine learning (ML) has revolutionized prediction and design of protein structure, but creating new protein function remains very challenging. Researchers from the Jeschek Lab (Laboratory of Synthetic and Applied Microbiology LSAM, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering and Institute of Bioe…

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    Elisa Oricchio and Andrew Oates elected EMBO Members

    The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has elected 69 new life scientists to membership, joining more than 2100 of the best researchers in Europe and the world. Among the new members is Professors Elisa Oricchio and Andrew Oates at EPFL’s School of Life Sciences.

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  • Schools of Engineering
    & Life Sciences

    Li Tang Wins RSC Biomaterials Science Lectureship

    Li Tang, head of the Laboratory of Biomaterials for Immunoengineering (LBI) in EPFL’s Institue of Bioengineering and Institute of Materials (both part of the School of Engineering), has received the 2025 Biomaterials Science Lectureship from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

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  • Schools of Engineering
    & Life Sciences

    Designing Life With Artificial Intelligence

    “Designing Life with AI” is a cross-disciplinary MAKE project in which EPFL students get a chance to explore the research process by designing proteins. A total of eight research labs are involved.

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  • Schools of Engineering
    & Life Sciences

    Two engineering professors win Melexis grants

    Adrian Ionescu and Hatice Altug will receive funding from Melexis to develop sensors in the field of digital health. They were selected following a call for projects conducted as part of the industrial affiliation program offered by the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering (IEM).

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Uncovering neural architectures enabling robust and flexible motor control in Drosophila 29.8.2025 – 17:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Femke Imreh HURTAK Place: SV 1717 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Imaging of chromatin and epigenetics reveals cell identity and biological age 3.9.2025 – 10:00 > 11:00 Speaker: Dr. Alexey V. Terskikh Professor, FHRI Distinguished Fellow, Harry Perkins Institute & University of Western Australia https://perkins.org.au/person/professor-alexey-terskikh Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Inaugural lecture: Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language 5.9.2025 – 17:15 > 18:15 Speaker: Prof. Maartje Bastings, Programmable Biomaterials Laboratory Place: SV 1717 Category Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture Read more
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Dynamics and Coordination of Protein Synthesis and Protein Decay in Mammalian Cells 8.9.2025 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker: Benjamin Joao Clément Antonin Hadrien MARTIN Place: SV 1717 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Honorary Lecture | Hilal Lashuel | Decoding Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Journey Through Complexity, Collaboration, and Reverse Engineering Disease Mechanisms 12.9.2025 – 16:00 > 19:00 Speaker: Prof. Hilal Lashuel Place: SV 1717 Category Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture Read more
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Gravitational and acoustic micromanipulation platforms for high-content histological analysis of organoids and spheroids 12.9.2025 – 17:30 > 00:00 Speaker: Emilie VUILLE-DIT-BILLE Place: MED 0 1418 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Inaugural Lecture | Sara Gallini | Uncovering tumor suppression mechanisms through in vivo two-photon imaging 16.9.2025 – 17:15 > 19:00 Speaker: Sara Gallini Place: SV 1717 Category Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture Read more
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Statistical physics of living systems 16.9.2025 – 00:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Place: BCH 2103 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Prof. Judith Zaugg’s Seminar 17.9.2025 – 11:00 > 12:00 Speaker: Prof. Theodore Alexandrov, Departments of Pharmacology and Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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SUPER SANDWICH SEMINAR 18.9.2025 – 12:00 > 13:00 Speaker: Laure Le Blanc – Persat Lab; Armelle Tollenaere, Suter Lab; Dessislava Ilieva,  Gönczy Lab Place: SV 1717 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Heterostructures for Electrical, Optical and Plasmonic Applications 9.10.2025 – 12:15 > 13:00 Speaker: Prof. Alois Lugstein, Institute for Solid State Electronics, Vienna Institute of Technology, Vienna (AT) Place: BM 5202 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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Experimental Characterization of an Adhesion GPCR Mechanotransduction 10.10.2025 – 16:00 > 00:00 Speaker: Gabriele GAMBARDELLA Place: MXF 1 Category Thesis defenses Read more
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Photonics Day 2025 23.10.2025 – 08:30 > 18:00 Speaker: Place: RLC E1 240 Category Conferences – Seminars Read more
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PhD candidates: Welcome to EPFL! 6.11.2025 – 16:00 > 18:00 Speaker: Place: RLC E1 240 Category Convention Read more

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