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Visualizing the native cellular organization by coupling cryofixation with expansion microscopy (Cryo-ExM)
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Cryofixation has proven to be the gold standard for efficient preservation of native cell ultrastructure compared to chemical fixation, but this approach is not widely used in fluorescence microscopy owing to implementation challenges. The Guichard-Hamel‘s group developed Cryo-ExM, a method … Continue reading
Mini Symposium at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Special event: January 20-21 and February 2, 2022, 9:00-12:00 The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is hosting an online Mini Symposium. Please register to attend by Zoom : https://formulaire.unige.ch/outils/limesurveyfac/sciences/index.php/295149
Paul Guichard receives the Friedrich Miescher Award 2022
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Congratulations to Paul Guichard who receives the Friedrich Miescher Award 2022 for his work on centriole assembly mechanisms. The Friedrich Miescher Prize is awarded once a year to a young scientist for outstanding achievements in biochemistry. The award lecture will … Continue reading
Inauguration of the Dubochet Center for Imaging (DCI) on the campuses of UNIGE, UNIL and EPFL
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In the 1940s and 1950s, the University of Geneva was renowned for having built some of the first electron microscopes in Europe. With this infrastructure, Antoinette Ryter, together with Eduard and Grete Kellenberger, optimized tools to visualize biological samples at … Continue reading
SUMO orchestrates multiple alternative DNA-protein crosslink repair pathways
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Endogenous metabolites, environmental agents, and therapeutic drugs promote formation of covalent DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs). Persistent DPCs compromise genome integrity and are eliminated by multiple repair pathways. It remains obscure how cells choose between diverse mechanisms of DPC repair. Using the … Continue reading