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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 - Giorgi-Cavaglieri 
 Chair in Immunology of the Aging Brain\n	18:00 - 18:10 Introduction by the
  Dean and Director IBI\n	18:10 - 18:40 Prof. Florian Schüder\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 Aging Brain\n\nA
 bstract\nAs we age\, our brains slowly change memory can falter\, 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 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 simpl
 e but underexplored question: as the immune system ages\, does it stop pro
 tecting the brain and start harming it\, and if so\, can we intervene?\n\n
 I 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 p
 recision tools\, each aimed at a different brain immune cell type. The goa
 l is to translate this work into "aging immunotherapies": treatments that 
 restore balance to the aging immune system\, strengthen the brain's resili
 ence\, and reduce the risk of neurodegenerative disease.\n\nAbout the spea
 ker\nPaloma Navarro Negredo studied Natural Sciences with an emphasis in P
 harmacology at St John's College\, University of Cambridge\, before earnin
 g her Master's and PhD in Clinical Biochemistry\, also at Cambridge. In th
 e laboratory of Prof. Margaret S. Robinson she studied how proteins are so
 rted and trafficked inside cells. She then moved to Stanford University fo
 r postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Anne Brunet\, supported
  by a Human Frontier Science Program fellowship. At Stanford she investiga
 ted changes in the aging brain\, with a particular focus on immune cells a
 nd strategies to target them using engineered proteins.\nPaloma is now an 
 Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences at EPFL\, where holds t
 he Giorgi-Cavaglieri Chair in Immunology of the Aging Brain\, leading a re
 search group investigating how the aging immune system contributes to the 
 decline of brain function.\n\n============================================
 \nProf. Florian Schüder\n\nProgramming DNA for Multiplexed Super-Resoluti
 on Microscopy\n\nAbstract\nFluorescence microscopy is one of the most wide
 ly used tools in biological research\, allowing us to visualize the organi
 zation of cells and their molecular components. Over the past two decades\
 , the development of super-resolution microscopy has revolutionized the fi
 eld by making it possible to visualize structures far smaller than previou
 sly thought possible with light microscopy.\nMy research combines these ad
 vanced imaging techniques with tools from DNA nanotechnology to further ex
 pand what we can see and measure inside cells. In this presentation\, I wi
 ll introduce recent developments in DNA-based super-resolution microscopy 
 and show how these approaches can enable high-resolution imaging of many d
 ifferent molecular targets within the same sample\, and discuss how these 
 technologies can be used to address biological questions at the molecular 
 scale.\n\nAbout the speaker\nFlorian Schueder studied Physics at Ludwig Ma
 ximilian University of Munich and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
  from 2009 to 2015. He then pursued a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the Max Planc
 k Institute of Biochemistry from 2015 to 2020. From 2021 to 2025\, he was 
 a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cell Biology and the Department
  of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale School of Medicine. In 2025\, he was a 
 Visiting Scientist at ETH Zurich. In 2026\, Florian started his own lab as
  an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at EPFL.
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717
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