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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lectures SV - Paloma Navarro\, Florian Schüder
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Paloma Navarro\nProf. Florian Schüder\nDate: Wednesday 
 November 11\, 2026\nProgram: \n\n	17:15 - 17:25 Introduction by the Dean a
 nd Director GHI\n	17:25 - 17:55 Prof. Paloma Navarro\n	18:00 - 18:10 Intro
 duction by the Dean and Director IBI\n	18:10 - 18:40 Prof. Florian Schüde
 r\n	18:40 - 18:45 Closure\n	18:45 Apéritif in SV Hall\n\nLocation: SV1717
 \nRegistration: Click here\n\n============================================
 \nProf. Paloma Navarro\n\nEngineering Precision Immunotherapies for the Ag
 ing Brain\n\nAbstract\nAs we age\, our brains slowly change memory can fal
 ter\, thinking can slow\, and the risk of diseases like Alzheimer's rises.
  For decades\, aging research has focused on the brain's own cells. But ou
 r 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\, do
 es it stop protecting the brain and start harming it\, and if so\, can we 
 intervene?\n\nI will share how I have used engineered proteins\, delivered
  directly into the brain\, to precisely target specific immune cells and r
 ebalance 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. The goal is to translate this work into "aging immunotherapies": tr
 eatments that restore balance to the aging immune system\, strengthen the 
 brain's resilience\, and reduce the risk of neurodegenerative disease.\n\n
 About the speaker\nPaloma Navarro Negredo studied Natural Sciences with an
  emphasis in Pharmacology at St John's College\, University of Cambridge\,
  before earning her Master's and PhD in Clinical Biochemistry\, also at Ca
 mbridge. In the laboratory of Prof. Margaret S. Robinson she studied how p
 roteins are sorted and trafficked inside cells. She then moved to Stanford
  University for postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Anne Brun
 et\, supported by a Human Frontier Science Program fellowship. At Stanford
  she investigated changes in the aging brain\, with a particular focus on 
 immune cells and strategies to target them using engineered proteins.\nPal
 oma is now an Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences at EPFL\,
  where she leads a research group investigating how the aging immune syste
 m contributes to the decline of brain function.\n\n=======================
 =====================\nProf. Florian Schüder\n\nProgramming DNA for Multi
 plexed Super-Resolution Microscopy\n\nAbstract\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. Over 
 the past two decades\, the development of super-resolution microscopy has 
 revolutionized the field by making it possible to visualize structures far
  smaller than previously thought possible with light microscopy.\nMy resea
 rch combines these advanced imaging techniques with tools from DNA nanotec
 hnology to further expand what we can see and measure inside cells. In thi
 s presentation\, I will introduce recent developments in DNA-based super-r
 esolution microscopy and show how these approaches can enable high-resolut
 ion imaging of many different molecular targets within the same sample\, a
 nd discuss how these technologies can be used to address biological questi
 ons at the molecular scale.\n\nAbout the speaker\nFlorian Schueder studied
  Physics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Wyss Institute 
 at Harvard University from 2009 to 2015. He then pursued a Ph.D. in Biophy
 sics at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry from 2015 to 2020. From 2
 021 to 2025\, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cell Biolo
 gy and the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale School of Medicine
 . In 2025\, he was a Visiting Scientist at ETH Zurich. In 2026\, Florian s
 tarted his own lab as an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Science
 s at EPFL.
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717
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