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"description": "<p>What happens when science meets illustration, journalism, writing, and visual communication?<br>\r\n<br>\r\nJoin us for the next <strong>Biotech Chats on Science Communication</strong>, organized by BSNL (BioScience Network Lausanne), and learn what career opportunities exist beyond the lab bench!<br>\r\n<br>\r\nEvent details:\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Date</strong>: Tuesday, October 6, 2026</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Time</strong>: 6 p.m.</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Location</strong>: EPFL Campus, SV building, Room 1717</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Register <a href=\"https://forms.gle/tT8QcCJMMNhgmGzAA\">here</a></strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Speakers</strong>:\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http://joanaccarvalho.com\">Joana Carvalho</a>, designer and scientific illustrator currently working at AITHYRA Research Institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence in Vienna.</li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http://www.klarasoukup.com\">Klara Soukup</a>, a freelance science journalist who 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For decades, aging research has focused on the brain's own cells. But our bodies also carry a second, powerful system that changes with age: the immune system. Best known for fighting infections, the immune system also reaches into the brain and helps shape how it works. My research aims to answer a simple but underexplored question: as the immune system ages, does it stop protecting the brain and start harming it, and if so, can we intervene?<br>\r\n<br>\r\nI will share how I have used engineered proteins, delivered directly into the brain, to precisely target specific immune cells and rebalance their behavior. Building on this work, my lab is now developing a toolkit of precision tools, each aimed at a different brain immune cell type. 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At Stanford she investigated changes in the aging brain, with a particular focus on immune cells and strategies to target them using engineered proteins.<br>\r\nPaloma is now an Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, where she leads a research group investigating how the aging immune system contributes to the decline of brain function.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n============================================<br>\r\n<strong>Prof. Florian Schüder</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Programming DNA for Multiplexed Super-Resolution Microscopy</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nFluorescence microscopy is one of the most widely used tools in biological research, allowing us to visualize the organization of cells and their molecular components. 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This process allows memories to remain persistent while also becoming sufficiently flexible to guide behavior in novel situations. In this seminar, Gisella Vetere will discuss how memory engrams are reorganized from learning to remote recall and how distinct neuronal ensembles contribute to the balance between memory specificity and generalization. Combining activity-dependent neuronal tagging, circuit manipulations, and brain-wide analyses, her research seeks to uncover how memories are transformed over time and how these transformations shape adaptive—and potentially maladaptive—behavior.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-18T13:21:09", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-22T14:03:25", "link_label": "Web page", "link_url": "https://veterelab.weebly.com/", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64813563657", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Gisella Vetere, ESPCI, Paris, France", "organizer": "BMI SV Host: Johannes Gräff", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121862/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/19/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/88/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72637, "title": "EPFL BioEngineering Talks", "slug": "epfl-bioengineering-talks-8", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/epfl-bioengineering-talks-8", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33882/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33882/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33882/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-26", "end_date": "2026-10-26", "start_time": "12:15:00", "end_time": "13:45:00", "description": "<p>Weekly BioEngineering Talks (Lunch Provided)<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>INVITED SPEAKER:</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Advancing Multidimensional Single-Molecule localization microscopy: development and applications in nuclear organization</strong><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://institut-curie.org/person/bassam-hajj\"><strong>Dr. Bassam Hajj</strong></a>, Institut Curie, Paris<br>\r\nHost: <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/aleksandra.radenovic?lang=en\">Prof. Aleksandra Radenovic</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u><strong>Abstract:</strong></u><br>\r\nSingle-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) has revolutionized our understanding of biological processes by providing access to spatial scales beyond the diffraction limit of conventional optical microscopy. In the study of the cell nucleus, SMLM has offered unique insights into its organization and function at the nanoscale. Nuclear architecture is structured across multiple spatial scales in three dimensions and is highly dynamic. Understanding the mechanisms that govern nuclear organization therefore requires imaging approaches capable of capturing molecular dynamics across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales and in diverse biological contexts. Although SMLM can routinely achieve spatial resolutions in the tens-of-nanometers range, many biologically relevant structures and processes remain beyond its reach. For example, resolving the precise organization of DNA at the molecular scale remains challenging, as it would require a substantial improvement in spatial resolution over conventional SMLM, while also addressing the high density and degree of molecular compaction within the nucleus. <br>\r\nOver the years, we have developed complementary strategies to address these challenges by introducing additional dimensions and observables into SMLM measurements. In this presentation, I will first discuss our approaches to three-dimensional single-molecule imaging, including multifocus microscopy and volumetric light-sheet excitation, which enable fast and sensitive imaging over extended volumes and in complex biological samples such as cell colonies. While these approaches provide access to the three-dimensional and temporal dimensions required to investigate nuclear organization, spatial resolution alone is not always sufficient to distinguish molecular arrangements. We have therefore extended SMLM further by implementing polarization-resolved multifocus microscopy (PolMFM), which combines three-dimensional localization with information on molecular orientation.<br>\r\nI will illustrate how these multidimensional approaches can provide new insights into nuclear organization, with examples spanning different biological systems. In particular, I will present evidence for a long-range, crystal-like organization of DNA within the nuclei of mature sperm cells from crickets, demonstrating how multidimensional imaging can reveal structural features that remain inaccessible to conventional localization microscopy.<br>\r\nFinally, I will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with visualizing, analyzing, and interactively exploring the multidimensional datasets generated by these approaches. Together, these developments illustrate how extending SMLM beyond conventional two-dimensional localization can provide new ways to interrogate the organization and dynamics of biological systems at the nanoscale.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u><strong>Bio:</strong></u><br>\r\nBassam Hajj is a physicist and CNRS researcher at Institut Curie in Paris, where he is a member of the Physics of Cells and Cancer unit and co-leads the “Light-based Observation and Control of Cellular Organization” team. His research focuses on the development of advanced optical microscopy techniques, particularly single-molecule localization microscopy, 3D imaging, and multidimensional approaches for studying cellular organization at the nanoscale.<br>\r\nAfter completing his PhD at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan on electro-optical microscopy, Bassam joined Janelia Research Campus as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on multifocus microscopy for fast and sensitive single-molecule imaging. He subsequently returned to Institut Curie and joined the CNRS as a permanent researcher in 2016.<br>\r\nHis current research combines innovative microscopy, quantitative image analysis, and data visualization to investigate molecular organization and dynamics, with a particular focus on nuclear organization.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>STUDENT SPEAKER:</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Transcription Factor Dose in Stem Cell Reprogramming: Insights from Single-Cell Multi-Omics</strong><br>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/angelika.gebhart?lang=en\">Angelika Gebhart</a>, </strong><a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/deplanckelab/\">Deplancke 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.<br>\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. Zoom is mainly for students on remote campuses; please notify <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"mailto:[email protected]\" target=\"_blank\">Fiorella Ghisays</a> in advance and join using your full name.<br>\r\nIf attending in person, have your sheet signed after the talk and keep the original, as no copy is retained.<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-22T14:23:42", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-22T14:43:05", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68746410793", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Invited Speaker and Student Speaker", "organizer": "Institute of Bioengineering", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=EPFL%20BioE%20Talks%20Series\">Fiorella Ghisays</a>, Institute of Bioengineering", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": "https://memento.epfl.ch/public/upload/files/BioEngineeringTalkMemento_u0lzmcg.jpg", "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121879/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/434/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72640, "title": "EPFL BioEngineering Talks", "slug": "epfl-bioengineering-talks-11", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/epfl-bioengineering-talks-11", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33885/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33885/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33885/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "12:15:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<p>Weekly BioEngineering Talks (Lunch Provided)<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>INVITED SPEAKER:</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>De novo design of light-responsive proteins</strong><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/alexander.hilditch?lang=en\"><strong>Dr. Alexander Hilditch</strong>,</a> EPFL Laboratory of Protein Design & Immunoengineering <br>\r\nHost: <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/bruno.correia?lang=en\">Prof. Bruno Correia</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.<br>\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. Zoom is mainly for students on remote campuses; please notify <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"mailto:[email protected]\" target=\"_blank\">Fiorella Ghisays</a> in advance and join using your full name.<br>\r\nIf attending in person, have your sheet signed after the talk and keep the original, as no copy is retained.<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-22T15:48:04", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-29T15:50:23", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68746410793", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Invited Speaker and Student Speaker", "organizer": "Institute of Bioengineering", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=EPFL%20BioE%20Talks%20Series\">Fiorella Ghisays</a>, Institute of Bioengineering", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": "https://memento.epfl.ch/public/upload/files/BioEngineeringTalkMemento_u0lzmcg.jpg", "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121882/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/434/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72680, "title": "Novel modulators of paracrine activin signaling and their roles in mouse melanoma models", "slug": "novel-modulators-of-paracrine-activin-signaling--2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/novel-modulators-of-paracrine-activin-signaling--2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33906/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33906/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33906/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "18:00:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. D. Constam,<br>\r\nMolecular Life Sciences doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11085<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-25T15:00:29", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-25T15:00:31", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<strong>Olga EGOROVA</strong>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<strong>Olga EGOROVA</strong>", "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": "EDMS", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121939/", "category": { "id": 12, "code": "SOUTE", "fr_label": "Soutenances de thèses", "en_label": "Thesis defenses", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72726, "title": "Bad neighbours, antisocial behaviour, and party animals; the secret life of microbes", "slug": "bad-neighbours-antisocial-behaviour-and-party-anim", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/bad-neighbours-antisocial-behaviour-and-party-anim", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33944/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33944/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33944/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-20", "end_date": "2026-10-20", "start_time": "12:15:00", "end_time": "13:15:00", "description": "<p>In this talk, I'll take a look at three \"microbial vignettes\". In the first, I'll examine how the presence of co-habiting microbes profoundly affects the biology of a human pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This is important, because in diseased human airways - where P. aeruginosa is an unwelcome, but common inhabitant - the pathogen invariably shares the infection site with a variety of other microbes. It turns out that these microbial neighbours interact with one another and that these interactions are perturbed by the loss of a quorum sensing \"master regulator\" (LasR) in P. aeruginosa. In the second \"short\", I'll talk about how we are now able to manipulate the rate of evolution of the organism, either by \"stepping on the gas pedal\" or by \"slamming on the brakes\". The ability to do this, in an experimentally-controlled manner, is allowing us to access some novel evolutionary trajectories, and to address some truly fundamental biological questions. Finally, I'll take a fresh look at bacterial biofilms and in particular, examine whether the exopolysaccharide \"bioglue\" that holds these structures together might have additional - possibly more important roles. It turns out that it does, and that the exopolysaccharide matrix acts as a \"net\" to selectively sequester secreted proteins, potentially conferring novel functionalities on the biofilm.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBrief Speaker Bio. <br>\r\nAfter reading for a degree in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, Martin completed a PhD on bacterial chemotaxis at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), where he was awarded the Wolf Prize for his contributions to the field. Leavuing Israel with a PhD and a [German] wife, he then moved to Toulouse (supported by a long-term EMBO fellowship) where he learned the dark art of x-ray crystallography and solved the structure of a signaling complex involved in bacterial chemotaxis. He then moved back to the UK to take up a post-doctoral position at the University of Cambridge working on quorum sensing in the fascinating plant pathogen, Pectobacterium atrosepticum. There, he developed skills in molecular genetics and demonstrated (for the first time) that quorum sensing molecules bind directly to their cognate LuxR homologs in a range of bacteria. This advance allowed him to secure a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to start his own group - where he learned the hard way that prospective students don't like any project with the word \"plant\" in, and when offered projects on the plant pathogen <em>versus </em>a mammalian pathogen, always went for the latter. Since around 2000, his team's focus has been on understanding better the link between metabolism and virulence in the opportunistic human pathogen, <em>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</em>. He is now Professor of Microbial Physiology and Metabolism at the University of Cambridge.</p>", "image_description": "Welch", "creation_date": "2026-10-01T10:27:10", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-01T10:27:10", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<strong>Martin Welch</strong>, University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry", "organizer": "Cauã Antunes Westmann", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122009/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/53/?format=api" ] } ] }
