monthly Grad Student Mini-Symposium (IBI-EDBB)

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Date 07.11.2025
Hour 16:4518:15
Speaker EDBB grad students & MAKE project students
Location Online
Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language English
MIND THE STARTING TIME - 15' EARLIER THAN USUAL!

Alissa Agerova
 (Dal Peraro Lab) -- Label-Free Single-Molecule Detection and Discrimination of Cyanotoxins Using Aerolysin Nanopore


followed by a special 30’ session showcasing MAKE Project Designing Life With AI:

SV Ma1 students Christos Konstantinidis, Yanni Fikiru Kale Ab Ourgessa & Matteo Simonet -- Engineering Next-Generation Immunotherapies Through Protein Design

SV Ma1 student Tolga Semiz & CGC Ba3 student Tuna Karasu -- EPFL Alternative Protein Project


followed by:

Ekaterina Pyatova (Correia Lab) -- Conformational Stabilization of De Novo β-Barrels by Internal Peptide Binding


Session Chair/ moderator: Nikita Norkin (Sakar Lab and Lutolf Lab)


Mini-symposium format: (see web page)
  • Monthly (first Friday of the month - with the occasional exception...), but skipping August-September
  • Where and when? EPFL seminar room SV1717 or AI 1 153 | usually 17:00 (sharp), with occasional exceptions
  • Broadcasting on Zoom as well (for students on satellite campuses!)
  • Back-to-back presentations by two doctoral students enrolled in the EDBB Program (usually in their 2nd or 3rd year)
  • Presentation time 25′ (plus 5′ Q&A)
  • Followed by social get-together (pizza & beer, sponsored by the Institute of Bioengineering) --> please volunteer to organize it!
  • Note: IBI-EDBB MiniSymp are an official course in which you can enroll and earn credits (download ‘BIOENG-600’ course attendance sheet – pdf, 197 kB)

Practical information

  • Informed public
  • Free

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