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We have applied this approach to design new-to-nature FGFR isoform-specific agonists that direct stem cell fate toward arterial over venous identity, and TrkA agonists that retain neurotrophic activity while reducing nociceptive signaling commonly observed in the natural binding partner NGF. These studies demonstrate that signaling bias can be encoded directly into the molecular architecture of de novo designed agonists, and we propose that integrating such growth factor mimetics into stem-cell differentiation workflows will unlock new opportunities in regenerative medicine and disease modeling.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u><strong>Bio:</strong></u><br>\r\nThomas Schlichthärle is a German scientist specializing in AI-guided protein design, synthetic biology, and cellular signaling.<br>\r\nHe studied Molecular Medicine at the University of Tübingen and Molecular Bioengineering at TU Dresden. Following research at Harvard's Wyss Institute, he completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, working on super-resolution microscopy and computational analysis.<br>\r\nHe subsequently spent nearly five years as a postdoctoral researcher in David Baker's laboratory at the University of Washington, developing computationally designed synthetic growth factors.<br>\r\nIn June 2025, he joined TUM as a tenure-track assistant professor. His laboratory uses deep learning and generative AI to engineer proteins that control signaling pathways, cellular differentiation, and therapeutic responses.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>STUDENT SPEAKER:</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>High-throughput sequence-function mapping for transcription factor-based biosensors</strong><br>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/ricardo.farreramuro?lang=en\">Ricardo Javier Farrera Muro</a>, </strong><a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lsam/\">Jeschek Lab</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>BioEngineering Talks mandatory EDBB Seminar Attendance (1st-Year PhD Students)</strong>\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li> Attendance sheet to print <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kusGxCFPAvWaRD8eUGEBkSVzD1ppMf1g/edit\" target=\"_blank\">HERE </a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>The BioEngineering Student Seminar Series</strong> is an official course for which students can register and earn credits.\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Register <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"https://edu.epfl.ch/studyplan/fr/ecole_doctorale/biotechnologie-et-genie-biologique/coursebook/bioengineering-student-seminar-series-BIOENG-613\" target=\"_blank\">HERE</a></li>\r\n\t<li>Attendance sheet to print <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZGrPnt8LlLuWOApzx32s6L5UPPH8Hyoo/edit\" target=\"_blank\">HERE</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>General information:</strong><br>\r\nIn-person attendance is preferred to support your fellow students. 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Her research on the architecture of US empire focuses on the built environment of the Philippine Islands. Her first book, <em>Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the United States' Imperial Project in the Philippines </em>(Duke University Press, 2025), exposes the immense impact of a single (hybrid) material on the United States colonial project in the Philippines. In doing so, she links the history of US empire to the political, social, economic, and environmental transformations that simultaneously took place in the colony and the metropole. She is currently working on the manuscript for a second book, <em>Master Plans: The Colonial Roots of Urban Renewal, </em>which presents a history of colonial planning in the Philippines as a major pivot point in the history of early 20th century city planning in the United States.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>About the 2026 \"South X Craft: Matters of Making\" Lecture Series:</u><br>\r\nCraft is often used to evoke nostalgia and has been employed in the language of othering and fetishizing ‘Global Southern’ communities. At the same time craft holds the potential to re-ground design in ecological and social specificities and attend closely to materiality. We thus seek to use it as a critical lens towards the built environment. We ask how craft can be engaged rigorously and ethically: attentive to the political economies of who makes, whose knowledge is valorized, and how traditional practices are being reshaped by contemporary conditions. ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-11-09T10:00:37", "last_modification_date": "2026-11-09T16:28:47", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Foyer SG", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%20294.22", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof Diana Martinez", "organizer": "<u>The South X Initiative,</u> housed within ENAC, aims to bring together voices from across the “Global South” to collectively think about our built environment. It reappropriates the phrase “Going South”—both an orientation and a colloquialism for worsening conditions—as a generative and creative exercise to understand how ecological systems, social inequalities, and histories of conquest have spatial manifestations at the building, urban, and territorial scales. Instead of taking the categorization of the Global North and South as given, the initiative puts it under pressure. 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Doctoral candidates are exposed to the academic and non-academic sector to develop competences for innovation and to enhance employability.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThere are 3 sub schemes for the MSCA DNs:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Standard</strong> → PhD students must be enrolled for doctoral studies, the doctoral program includes secondments to project partners.</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Industrial</strong> → PhD students must be enrolled for doctoral studies; they must spend 50% of their time in the non-academic sector.</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Joint Doctorates</strong> → PhD students must be enrolled for doctoral studies which lead to a “joint doctoral degree”. EPFL can only participate if the following institutions (other than EPFL) participate in the project: ENS Lyon, UCLouvain and ETHZ.</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>RAISE DN </strong>→ for MSCA-DNs with a sole focus on AI in science, please check document nr. 1.2 in <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PsMroA250LXIZv9fCBKRlw-oncIA00ND\">the toolkit</a> for more information.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Duration and Funding</strong><br>\r\nThe consortium applies for a project with a duration of 4 years (exception for Joint Doctorates, duration is 5 years). The financial contribution covers the salaries of doctoral candidates for the duration of 3 years (4 years for Joint Doctorates) and research, training and networking costs covering the whole project duration. Doctoral candidates (DCs) may not have lived or worked in the country of the host organization for more than 12 months within the last 3 years prior to the employment of the DC on the project.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Call information</strong><br>\r\nOpening: 28 May 2026<br>\r\nDeadline: 24 November 2026, 17:00 CET<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Support and information</strong><br>\r\nThe <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PsMroA250LXIZv9fCBKRlw-oncIA00ND\">EPFL toolkit</a> provides useful information for the proposal preparation (will be updated upon call opening).<br>\r\nContact <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">[email protected]</a> for any question and assistance with the proposal preparation.<br>\r\nThe MSCA National Contact Points organize an <a href=\"https://www.euresearch.ch/en/our-services/inform/events/msca-spotlight-on-the-doctoral-networks-call-2026-1486.html?date=1067\">online information event on 09 June 2025, 09:00 – 09:45</a>.<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2025-12-03T16:45:20", "last_modification_date": "2026-06-01T12:55:18", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/118897/", "category": { "id": 16, "code": "PROP", "fr_label": "Appel à proposition", "en_label": "Call for proposal", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/140/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72281, "title": "Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? / ARCHIZOOM x CRCL", "slug": "do-robots-dream-of-construction-sites-archizoom--6", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/do-robots-dream-of-construction-sites-archizoom--6", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33549/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33549/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33549/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-24", "end_date": "2026-11-24", "start_time": "17:30:00", "end_time": "18:15:00", "description": "<strong>Tuesday 24 November</strong><br>\r\n<strong>5.30pm –</strong> Guided tour of the exhibition by Stefana Parascho, director of the CRCL – Lab for Creative Computation at EPFL<br>\r\n<strong>6.30pm –</strong> Followed by the opening of the exhibition <em>The Extraction of Value</em> with Paolo Tombesi<br>\r\n<br>\r\nWhat if robots didn’t replace us, but worked alongside us? Robots are capable of assembling, analysing, experimenting and learning from their mistakes. Could they take on construction work without replacing human labour? Research carried out by the CRCL explores a form of collaboration between humans and machines that departs from the traditional promise of automation. It opens the way to more inclusive building sites and non-standardised, more environmentally friendly architecture that goes beyond the mere logic of replacement and productivity. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nCan we trust a robot on a building site? 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Does our professional identity determine our needs and methods? By comparing the measuring traditions of different actors, the lecture will clarify objectives and characteristics of the ruling tools in use. The idea is to show how measuring has always responded to multiple instrumental ideas of accuracy, which have in turn affected the production of information and the organization of work.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Paolo Tombesi</strong><br>\r\nAn architect by training and a collector by nature, Paolo Tombesi has a long-nurtured interest in the relationship between the intellectual dimension of building and the socio-technical aspects of its construction. Several decades ago, upon the completion of a PhD on the distribution of technical knowledge in building, he started to collect rulers – a compulsion maintained while working at EPFL as professor of construction and architecture since 2016. Between 2017 and 2020, he directed the university’s Institute of Architecture and the City. 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