Bio Networking [VIRTUAL] Event
Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
The online match-making event brings together new and old Alumni, Masters & Ph.D. students, as well as PostDocs of the Department of Biology at ETH Zurich. Schedule 1-on-1 meetings to get career advice, make business contacts, or to simply catch up all through this b2match website.
You will have a chance to take virtual lab tours to learn about the current, cutting-edge research in the Department of Biology!
Meet us here virtually on the 29th of September at 18:30-22:00!
Registration EXTENDED! We try to keep Students/PhD/Postdoc/Alumni participant proportions somewhat equal so register today to reserve your virtual spot!
- Admission fee: 10 chf
This is to help defray our online hosting costs to provide you with the best virtual experience possible. - Free for Masters Students
Why participate?
- As Alumni - See old friends and make new connections with new Alumni, Meet the current faces of the Department of Biology and learn about what's going on at the different institutes.
- As Ph.D. Student or PostDoc - Meet Alumni for career advice or Masters students looking to do their thesis and help advance your research.
- As Masters Student - Meet Alumni for career advice or talk to Ph.D. Students/PostDocs to find an exciting opportunity for your thesis.
Lab Tours:
Members of two labs will take you on a virtual journey through the labs followed by a live Q&A session. Catch one or both of the tours!
19:00 Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy Platform (Gossert Lab)
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a method for the characterisation of molecules at atomic resolution in solution. Its application in biological and pharmaceutical research is very diverse and includes metabolomics studies, screening efforts to identify potential drug candidates, or the determination of structures of biological macromolecules.
NMR Spectroscopy is deeply rooted at ETH Zürich and in the past a total of three researchers affiliated with ETH have been awarded the Nobel Prize for significant contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance. Today, many groups in D-BIOL and D-CHAB are actively developing and improving NMR methodology and are using NMR as a standard technique for their research to answer a diverse set of scientific questions, making ETH a prime location to learn about this technique.
During the lab tour, you will be able to see the modern instrumentation of the NMR facility and its usage in biological research.
20:00 Cryo-electron microscopy (Pilhofer Lab)
We in the Pilhofer lab are focusing on macromolecular machines that mediate cell-cell interactions. Cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) with its both modalities, namely high-resolution single particle cryoEM and whole cell tomography play a key role in our research, which aims to make cell-cell interaction visible in their cellular environment at molecular scale.
In the recent years, there have been rapid developments in cryo-EM, and today the technology can be used to produce extremely high-resolution, three-dimensional images of molecular complexes and whole cell structures. This development was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three pioneers in the field who have significantly advanced the development of cryoEM.
During our lab tour, you will get to (virtually) meet the heart of the lab, our high-end cryo-electron microscopes and also some state-of-the-art sample preparation tools, which enable us to open up even more research fields to the intriguing technique of cryoEM.
