LIBN at EPFL

📢 Join tomorrow's SCS Lectureship Award 2026 at @EPFL_en! "Complex-and-Diverse Compounds Lead to Microbiome Sparing Antibiotics" 🗣️ By Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother (University of Illinois) ⏰🇨🇭 16:15 › 17:15 🌐 More info: bit.ly/3MOjVjy @AngelaSteinauer

For our 2026 lab retreat we went into the mountains earlier this week for some team building and great discussions about science, with a nice lunch sandwiched in-between. We all returned to the lab energised and ready to get results in the coming year!

We are excited to welcome 4 students joining us for a project this semester in the LIBN. Ben and Alberic will do project 1B, Pauline has joined for an internship, and Coline for her Master's Thesis. We wish them all a great stay!

You can now also find us on BlueSky and LinkedIn: bsky.app/profile/libn-e… linkedin.com/in/libn-epfl-4…

We are happy to announce that May has joined the LIBN. She previously studied Biotechnology at Mahidol University (Thailand), and we are very excited that she will now start her PhD journey here with us at EPFL! 🎉

Last week was great at the GRC on Physics of Viruses & Protein Cages in Tuscany! Learned a lot, enjoyed the exchanges. #ProudPI moment, my group showed up with posters that clearly belonged to the same lab.

Had a lovely time in beautiful Champéry with great science and scenery @SNE_ChemBio retreat! Congrats to Louise on presenting her master’s thesis work.

Our retreat concludes with an inspiring Session 4: 🔹 Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes (@UZH_en): Single-Molecule Protein Fingerprinting 🔹 Prof. Angela Steinauer (@EPFL_en): Engineered Protein Cages for RNA Delivery 🔹 Prof. Robbie Loewith (@unige_en): High Resolution of TOR Signaling

Session 2 at the #SNEChemBio retreat is packed with innovation! Talks include: 🔹Prof. Tommaso Patriarchi (@UZH_en) on GPCR function 🔹Prof. Serina Robinson (@EawagResearch) on C-F bond cleavage in microbiomes 🔹Prof. Rachel Hevey (@UniBasel_en) on glycans & microbial virulence

Pint of Science was again a great success in Lausanne, with >500 people attending our events! Kudos to co-coordinators @miriamlisci and @JSLuneau, and to the fantastic team of 19 volunteers at the bars 🥳! #PINT25 #scicomm

👉🏽 Join tomorrow's 🆓 #chembio seminar @EPFL_en: “Mitochondrial transporters and the control of cellular metabolism ” by Prof. Nora Kory (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) ⏱️🇨🇭16:15 › 17:15 📢 bit.ly/3MOjVjy @AngelaSteinauer

🚨 Register now for the SNE #ChemBio Retreat 2025! 🗓️ June 2–3, 2025 📍 Hôtel Suisse, Champéry, Valais 🌟 Talks by top speakers: Ward, Milton, Steinauer, Rivera-Fuentes, Nash, Loewith 🏆 Poster contest 🏔️ Science & networking in the Alps ⏳ Limited spots: bit.ly/3C1y5Mh

🎓🌟 Congrats to this year’s grads! Wishing our 6 incredible master's students in #ChemicalBiology all the best in their future adventures! #MasterThesis #ChemBio @unige_en @EPFL_en

RNA interactions and structures are determined with a chemical labeling and crosslinking method go.nature.com/3HoUAK5 rdcu.be/d5fN9

For readers interested in lipid nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery, here's an article by Cullis and Felgner on the evolution of the field over the past 60 years nature.com/articles/s4157… rdcu.be/d5tXp

🧪 Thinking about a future in #ChemBio? The Master’s program in Chemical Biology (@unige_en in collaboration with @EPFL_en) offers an exceptional opportunity to dive deep into the latest advancements in the field. 🚀 Shape your career: bit.ly/3AzzicY #Master #Scholarship

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

Happy that this is finally online! Genetic code expansion approaches to decipher the ubiquitin code @ACSChemRev Many congratulations to Vera, Max and Marco! @VeraWanka @MaxFottner @MarkoCigler 🥂🎉🥳 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Chemical and topological design of multicapped mRNA and capped circular RNA to augment translation go.nature.com/47EXbfq