| 29.01.2024 | We are delighted to announce the acceptance of our manuscript manuscript "Identification of HDV-Like Theta Ribozymes Involved in tRNA-based Recoding of Gut Bacteriophages" by Kasimir Kienbeck, Lukas Malfertheiner, Susann Zelger-Paulus, Silke Johannsen, Christian von Mering and Roland Sigel (coming soon). |
| 26.01.2024 | Besim Fazliji presented his work Dissecting the Exon Binding Mechanism in Group II Intron Splicing at the NCCR RNA & Disease Swiss RNA workshop in Bern. Very nice talk and exciting results congratulations! |
| 22.01.2024 | Federico Held finished his master project in Business Chemistry (WiChem) in the NMR subgroup: Exploring the Structure and Stability of the BCL-2 RNA G-Quadruplex with 19F NMR Spectroscopy. Congratulations and many thanks for your contribution. |
| 01.11.2023 | Congratulations to Chantal Balmer on the successful completion of her master's thesis titled: Influence of Substrate Structure on the Self-Cleavage of tRNA-Associated Ribozymes. |
| 23.10.2023 | A joint group event with the Freising lab at Wasserfallen. We did a fun farm challenge, enjoyed good food, and ended the day by racing down the mountain on big scooters. It was so much fun! |
| 01.10.2023 | Welcome back, Melodie Hadzic, for another collaborative autumn/winter session with the Sigel Lab. We're excited to continue our work together! |
| 26.09.2023 | Susann Zelger-Paulus gave a talk at the 28th International Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy organized by PicoQuant in Berlin. |
| 24.09.2023 | Kasimir Kienbeck recently presented his research results in the form of a poster at the annual RiboClub meeting (24.-28.09.) in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. We're pleased to share that he was awarded a poster prize. Congratulations, well done! |
| 18.09.2023 | A warm welcome to Minako Narita an exchange student for 1 year joining the Sigel lab. Minako is currently pursuing her studies in Engineering with a focus on Chemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Tokyo. |
| 01.09.2023 | Congratulations to Esra for successfully completing her PhD entitled: A Tale of Two Self-Splicing Pathways. Well done Dr. Esra Ahunbay! |
| 25.08.2023 | Congratulations to Kasimir Kienbeck for winning the Best Oral Presentation Award in section Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology at the SCS Fall Meeting 2023. |
| 01.07.2023 | Welcome to Abdul Sadiq, who starts his PhD in the smFRET subgroup. All the best for your project! |
| 28.06.2023 | We are very proud to announce that three of our group members were considered for an UZH Grant! Carla Ferreira Rodrigues and Kasimir Kienbeck received an UZH Candoc Grant and Niko Lindlar was one of the UZH Postdoc Grant recipients. Very well done! |
| 22.06.2023 | "You win again!" The Sigel Lab, with some helping feet/hands, successfully defended its title at this year's ChemCup. Congratulations! |
| 15.06.2023 | Again, our long-standing collaboration with Prof. Mike Hannon, University of Birmingham, has borne fruit. Read our latest joint publication in JACS. |
| 01.03.2023 | The Sigel Lab is joined by new forces! Welcome Federico Held, Alex Jud, Nirusan Sivanantharasa and Chantal Balmer! These four young researchers will pursue their Master thesis in our group. We wish you a very good start and lots of success with your projects. |
| 01.02.2023 | Congratulations to Maria Reichenbach for winning the best oral presentation award at the CMSZH Retreat 2023 in Charmey! |
| 01.12.2022 | We welcome Soumyadip Jana, our new PhD student, who completed his MSc at IISER Bhopal. He joins the NMR subgroup where he works on the NMR structural elucidation of small HDV-like ribozymes. Lots of success with your project! |
| 28.10.2022 | Welcome back Mélodie for an autumn-winter session on MASH-FRET! |
| 20.10.2022 | Maria Reichenbach successfully participated in MoTEC in Indianapolis. She not only gave a presentation, but also received a poster prize for her excellent work. Very well done Maria! |
| 17.10.2022 | We are pleased to have Nirusan Sivanantharasa with us in the lab for the next two months. He will be working on a research project as part of his Biochem. studies. |
| 11.10.2022 | Carla Ferreira Rodrigues represented the Sigel Lab at the symposium on the occasion of the inauguration of the Swiss High-field NMR Facility with a presentation. |
| 30.09.2022 | We participated in a blind benchmark study of analysing smFRET Data with our software package MASH-FRET. For more details, read the corresponding article in Nature Comm. Congrats to Mélodie Hadzic and Richard Börner! |
| 12.09.2022 | We left the city to clear our heads and make room for new research approaches: At the SF-Lab Retreat in Castasegna Bergell |
| 08.09.2022 | Congratulations to Esra for winning the poster prize at the SCS Fall Meeting and for receiving the opportunity to publish an article in CHIMIA. Great job! |
| 26.08.2022 | Read our newest publication in Angewandte Chemie (int. Ed.). Congrats to Silke and Roland as well as all the collaborators! |
| 08.08.2022 | Welcome to Katrin M. Egger, who will be conductiong a research project as part of her biology degree in our group. |
| 02.08.2022 | Today we welcome Niko Lindlar, our new postdoc. He graduated from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in 2021 (summa cum laude) and will now complement our research group with his skills. Niko, we look forward to your contributions and wish you much success with your projects! |
| 04.07.2022 | Welcome to Francesco Pelizzari from the University of Milan, who joins our lab in the scope of The Zurich Biology Undergraduate Summer School (BUSS). |
| 09.06.2022 | Last week, the second block course on Applied RNA Methodology (BIO446) came to an end. We are happy to have hosted the excellent students of UZH-MNF who showed enthusiasm for state-of-the-art RNA science. Big thanks to the SigelLab members who worked very hard to make it a successful course: Silke, Sofia, Susann, Maria, Carla, and Besim. |
| 08.06.2022 | Lindian Ajdini successfully presented his master thesis on RNA folding using smFRET today. We wish him all the best for the final exam and his future career at Lonza! |
| 02.05.2022 | And again! Congratulations to Esra Ahunbay for receiving the Travel Award of the Graduate School of Chemical and Molecular Sciences Zurich (CMSZH)! Very well done! |
| 17.04.2022 | Esra Ahunbay has received the SCS Travel Award for her contribution "Watching the self-splicing of a wild-type group II intron with single-molecule resolution"). Congratulations Esra, we are very happy for you! |
| 01.04.2022 | Special thanks to Mélodie for another autumn/winter season of working together on MASH-FRET! |
| 14.03.2022 | We are pleased to announce that our group has published another book chapter collaborating with Richard Börner. Many thanks to Melodie for this detailed description of how to analyze smFRET data. Available online |
| 01.03.2022 | The book chapter on Chemical Dual End-labeling of Large Ribozymes from Esra Ahunbay and Fabio D. Steffen is finally published (MiMB, DNAzymes) and available online! Congrats, well done! We are curious to see how the protocol will be used in the community. |
| 16.02.2022 | Richard Cunha did an excellent job in the physical chemistry CHE 153 course as his students selected him for the CMSZH Teaching Award. Congratulations, and thank you for your efforts! |
| 03.01.2022 | We welcome Kasimir Kienbeck. After his time in industry, he is now looking for new challenges and is taking up his doctoral studies. We wish you every success in this endeavor. |
| 22.12.2021 | Today we say goodbye to our long-time colleague Zenghui Wang. Thank you very much for your commitment and all the best for your future career. |
| 10.12.2021 | We have finally moved into the new building of UZI5. Many thanks to all who contributed and for all the careful planning in advance. |
| 04.10.2021 | Today we welcome our new MSc student Besa Maloku. Have a good start and lots of success with your project! |
| 16.08.2021 | A warm welcome to Philipp Vierig from the Laser Institute at the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida. Philipp will stay with us for a two-months research internship. |
| 03.08.2021 | Esra Anhunbay has once again demonstrated her poster presentation skills. We are therefore proud to announce that she won the Poster Award at the RNA 2021 (26th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society). In addition, she achieved 2nd place of the Poster Award competition at the Doktorandentag 2021. Keep it up! |
| 19.07.2021 | Congratulations to Zenghui Wang who successfully passed his PhD exam after a competent presentation in the scope of his public defence. Very well done Dr. sc. nat. Wang! |
| 17.06.2021 | Thanks to the efforts of Adhil the Sigel Lab is now on Twitter! Follow us for more news, research facts and insights into Sigel Lab life. |
| 16.06.2021 | Congratulations to Maria Reichenbach for receiving a Forschungskredit for her project "Investigation of the molecular basis of the Moco Riboswitch". May this award boost your research and lead to some great results! |
| 01.06.2021 | We welcome Carla Ferreira Rodrigues, our new PhD student. After having successfully completed her MSc at ETH Zurich, she is now pursuing her PhD project in our NMR Subgroup. Have a good start and lots of success in your research! |
| 01.03.2021 | Today, we have the pleasure to welcome two new members in our lab: First, Dr. Haibo Wang from the University of Hong Kong who joins our team as Postdoctoral Fellow. Second, Sujeni Ragavan who will pursue her 3 months bachelor project in the smFRET subgroup. We wish both of them a very good start! |
| 01.02.2021 | Welcome to Lindian Ajdini, our new MSc student! |
| 11.01.2021 | After well-known circumstances have postponed his arrival, we are very happy to finally welcome Adhil Kurukkan in our labs. Having completed his MSc at IISER Bhopal, he now joins us to pursue his PhD studies in our smFRET subgroup. Adhil, we wish you a good start and lots of success with your project. |
| 15.12.2020 | Moritz Durtschi apparently did a great job as assistant in the MEP as his students chose him to receive a CMSZH Teaching Award. Congratulations! |
| 02.11.2020 | A warm welcome to Torben Falk from the University Lübeck, who will stay with us for the next three months in the scope of his SEMP internship. |
| 27.10.2020 | We congratulate Ilaria Przytula-Mally on skillfully defending her PhD thesis and on successfully passing her doctoral examination. Good job Dr. sc. nat. Przytula-Mally! |
| 01.10.2020 | We welcome Dr Hannah Rosenbach. Having recently been promoted to Dr. rer. nat. by the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, she is now starting her postdoctoral career in our laboratory. We wish you every success for your NMR project(s)! |
| 10.09.2020 | Congratulations to Fabio Steffen, who successfully defended his dissertation and passed his doctoral examination with flying colours! Very well done Dr. sc. nat. Steffen! |
| 01.07.2020 | A warm welcome to Maria Reichenbach. After successfully completing her MSc studies at ETH, she will now continue her academic career path as PhD student in our lab. We wish you lots of success with your PhD project! |
| 18.06.2020 | Congratulations to Esra Ahunbay for having been awarded with an UZH Forschungskredit for her project "Monitoring the self-catalyzed splicing of a group II intron with single-molecule sensitivity". |
| 12.05.2020 | Anna Ilaria Przytula-Mally was selected to give an oral presentation at the first RNA Online Meeting (25th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society). Congratulations and good luck! |
| 02.03.2020 | A heartly welcome to Besim Fazliji, who, after a detour into industry, is returning to his Alma Mater and to our lab in order to conduct his doctoral studies. We wish you all the best and lots of success! |
| 28.02.2020 | We say goodbye to Fabio Amadei! He joined our Lab in 2015 as a PhD student and successfully defended his thesis in April 2019. After 10 months as PostDoc in our Lab he will now continue a new chapter of his work life for which we wish him the very best. Thank you for everything Fabio! |
| 06.01.2020 | A warm welcome to Philip Punt from the TU Dortmund. As part of his doctoral studies, he will complete a three-month internship in our lab. |
| 11.11.2019 | Ross Egan from the University of Birmingham joins us for a short scientific visit in the scope of his PhD studies. Welcome! |
| 08.11.2019 | Silke's expertise in NMR as well as her valuable collaboration skills were again rewarded! This time by the successful publication in Nature Communications. Congratulations, also to Olivia and the Luedtke Group! |
| 29.10.2019 | About a month ago, Richard Börner left our lab and opened up a new chapter in his academic life. Now that we have gotten used to the fact of his absence, it is time to officially say goodbye. Richard joined UZH in 2013 as a PostDoc. He has since then successfully developed and driven the research of our group, especially in the area of single-molecule spectroscopy. In 2014 he became our smFRET subgroup leader and was promoted to senior researcher (Habilitant) in 2016. Now, after nearly 7 years, Richard will move on to start his own research group as an independent PI. We sincerely wish him all the best for his new position as Professor of Biophotonics and Physical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida and hope this professorship will allow him to fully develop his potential. Richard, we thank you for everything you have done for us over the years. You were a valuable member of our group and always a great colleague! |
| 02.09.2019 | Welcome to Prof. Ioannis Vakonakis from the University of Oxford. He will stay with us for his six-months-sabbatical and we are looking forward to many inspiring scientific discussions. |
| 01.07.2019 | Anastasia Mikhailova from the Lomonosov Moscow State University joins our lab in the scope of The Zurich Biology Undergraduate Summer School (BUSS). Welcome! |
| 25.06.2019 | Congratulations to Richard Cunha for having been awarded with an UZH Forschungskredit for his project "Biomolecular SimulationExperiment Mutualism: An Integrated Approach to RNA and Metal Ions". |
| 20.06.2019 | iSTAR v2.2. (M. Erat et al. CCR 2012) - an iterative procedure to calculate conditional stability constants from NMR chemical shift data - went online again. Go to software and check it out. |
| 10.06.2019 | A warm welcome to Jevon Marsh from the Queen`s University in Kingston, Canada. He will pursue a three-months "ThinkSwiss Scholarship" research stay in our labs. |
| 27.05.2019 | Today, we welcome Joana Weiler from the University of Lübeck, who will pursue a two-months internship in our lab. |
| 27.05.2019 | We have a new release (v.1.2) of our software package MASH-FRET, check it out! |
| 04.04.2019 | Fabios review about fluorescence labeling strategies of RNAs was accepted for publication in Chimia - well done! |
| 01.04.2019 | A warm welcome to Moritz Durtschi. He successfully completed his MSc at EPFL and now continues his academic career as PhD student in our lab. |
| 27.03.2019 | Silke's successful collaboration with the Leumann-Group led to a publication in Nucleic Acids Research. It is now available online! Congratulations! |
| 11.02.2019 | Today we welcome two newcomers in our lab: Esra Ahunbay, who will start her PhD studies, and Kevin Kraft, who will work on his MSc project and thesis. We wish them a good start and a lot of success! |
| 01.02.2019 | We welcome Dr. Michal Shoshan, SNFS Ambizione Fellow, who will start her own group at the Department of Chemistry. All the best for your future as PI! |
| 24.01.2019 | Richard Börner has been invited to give a talk at the Norddeutsche Biophysiker Tagung 2019 in Borstel. |
| 07.01.2019 | We welcome Christine Bernecker from the University of Konstanz, who will pursue a three-months internship in our lab. |
| 06.11.2018 | Ericas and Richards manuscript on "Optimal molecular crowding accelerates group II intron folding and maximizes catalysis" went online (PNAS.org) today - congrats! This was another fruitful collaboration with the Rueda lab at Imperial. Many thanks to Bishnu |
| 21.09.2018 | Fabio Steffen won the Best Oral Presentation Award in section Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology at this year's SCS Fall Meeting. Well done! |
| 14.08.2018 | Zenghui Wang has been awarded with an EuroBIC14 Travel Award. Congratulations! |
| 14.08.2018 | Richard Börner has been selected to give a talk at the Biennial Meeting 2018 of the German Biophysical Society. |
| 13.08.2018 | Welcome to Nora Grundmann who will pursue her Summer Internship in our labs. |
| 10.08.2018 | Irina Markova was chosen to give a talk on the Isotope Labelling Satellite Workshop at ICMRBS 2018 in Dublin. Congratulations!!! |
| 02.07.2018 | We welcome Lukas Eberlein from the TU Dortmund, who will pursue his RESOLVE Internship in our lab. |
| 22.06.2018 | Zenghui Wang has been selected to give an oral presentation at the EuroBIC14 in Birmingham, UK. Congrats! |
| 21.06.2018 | Congratulations to Ilaria Przytula-Mally, who has received the UZH Forschungskredit for her project "Structural studies of different RNA ribozymes and G-quadruplexes using X-ray crystallography"! |
| 14.05.2018 | Fabio Steffen receives the CMSZH travel award 2018 (Merck) Congratulations! |
| 09.05.2018 | Mélodie Hadzics manuscript on Reliable State Identification and State Transition Detection in Fluorescence Intensity-Based Single-Molecule FRET Data was accepted in J. Phys. Chem. B - great job! |
| 06.04.2018 | Fabio Steffen was selected to give an oral presentation in the NCCR RNA and Disease seminar series, ETHZ. Way to go! |
| 05.04.2018 | Fabio Steffen was selected to give oral presentations in the 23rd RNA Society meeting in Berkeley, US and 4th FB3 conference in GLasgow, UK. Congratulations and good luck! |
| 05.04.2018 | Richard Börners, Danny Kowerkos and Mélodie Hadzics manuscript on Simulations of Camera-Based Single-Molecule Fluorescence Experiments was accepted in PLOS ONE- congrats! |
| 23.03.2018 | Susann Zelger-Paulus successfully defended her PhD thesis today. Congratulations and all the best in your future endeavors. |
| 20.03.2018 | Congratulations to Ilaria Przytula-Mally, Fabio Amadei and Fabio Steffen for each being awarded travel grants from the RNA Society! |
| 20.03.2018 | Fabio Amadei receives the LS2 travel grant. Great job! |
| 07.02.2018 | Jonathan Lamprecht gave an interesting Master thesis defense today. Congratulations and good luck for the next steps in finishing your MSc! Do pass by the lab from time to time! |
| 01.02.2018 | A big welcome to our new Postdoc, Dr. Richard André Cunha, who is joining us after a successful PhD defense in the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Italy. |
| 22.01.2018 | Richard Börner was selected to give an oral presentation at the Swiss RNA Workshop in Bern. Congratulations! |
| 08.12.2017 | Our Research and Publications sections have been fully revamped and updated. Thanks to all members for your contribution, and particularly to Ramona. |
| 09.11.2017 | The "Double, site-specific labeling of large RNAs for single-molecule FRET." by Meng Zhao, Fabio D. Steffen, Richard Börner, Michelle F. Schaffer, Roland K.O. Sigel* and Eva Freisinger* has been accepted in Nucleic Acids Research. Great job! |
| 01.11.2017 | Thank you Besim Fazliji for all your hard work and positive energy in your time with us while doing your master thesis and then as a research assistant. Good luck on the future! |
| 27.10.2017 | Prof. Miguel Barceló Oliver's three month visit has come to an end. It was a fruitful stay and good luck t your lab back in Mallorca! |
| 29.09.2017 | We must now bid farewell and good luck to Joana Palou Mir who joined us for 3 months. All the best for the rest of your PhD! |
| 30.08.2017 | The BUSS program has ended this year, it was interesting to meet you Koshiro Kiso and we hope you enjoyed your stay with us! |
| 24.08.2017 | Simon Gartmann will now continue to finish his master at ETHZ. It was great having you with us, we wish you all the best for you and your career! |
| 07.08.2017 | Fabio Steffen will be giving oral presentations at the SCS meeting (Switzerland) (21-22.08.17) and the the MAF 2017 (Belgium) ( (10-13.09.2017). Good luck! |
| 04.08.2017 | Zenghui Wang has won the Best Oral Presentation in ICBIC 18. Congratulations! |
| 01.08.2017 | Welcome to Prof. Miguel Barceló Oliver from the University of Balearic Islands, who will be joining the lab until October. |
| 31.07.2017 | Goodbye to Anna Zemann, thanks for your hardwork and cakes. Come visit us again sometime! |
| 21.07.2017 | Elena Alberti has successfully passed her viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Alberti! |
| 06.07.2017 | Fabio Steffen recieved the UZH Forschungskredit for his project "Single-molecule FRET guided modeling of non-coding RNAs". Congratulations! |
| 01.07.2017 | Welcome to Joana Palou Mir coming from the University of Balearic Islands, who will be joining us for 3 months |
| 26.06.2017 | Melodie Hadzic has successfully passed her viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Hadzic! |
| 18.06.2017 | Fabio Amadei gave a talk and was awarded the poster prize at the Tenth Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzyme Conference |
| 03.06.2017 | Welcome to Koshiro Kiso from the University of Cambridge who will be joining the lab as part of the BUSS program |
| 11.05.2017 | Zenghui Wang has been selected to give an oral presentation and awarded a travel grant for ICBIC 2018 Florianópolis, Brazil. Congratulations! |
| 10.05.2017 | Congratulations to Fabio Amadei FEBS 2017, Ilaria Przytula-Mally ISBC 2017 for being awarded travel grants! |
| 09.05.2017 | Richard Börner was selected to give oral presentations in the NCCR RNA and Disease seminar series, ETHZ. Way to go! |
| 09.05.2017 | Fabio Steffen has been awarded the CMSZH 2017 by Bruker. Way to go! |
| 11.04.2017 | Mokrane Khier has successfully passed his viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Khier! |
| 30.03.2017 | It is time to bid farewell to Dr. Alicia Dominguez-Martin. Enjoy the sun in Spain! |
| 21.03.2017 | Pallavi Choudhary's paper "Tb3+-Cleavage Assays Reveal Specific Mg2+ Binding Sites Necessary to Pre-fold the btuB Riboswitch for AdoCbl Binding" has been accepted in Frontiers in Chemistry Congratulations! |
| 20.03.2017 | Welcome to Jonathan Lamprecht who is joining the lab to perform his Master thesis in collaboration with the ETH spin-off CellSpring under supervision of Roland Sigel. |
| 06.03.2017 | Besim Fazliji finished his Master thesis (Title: "Following the splicing process of an encapsulated group II intron by smFRET") successfully with a great talk. Good luck on the final exam! |
| 13.02.2017 | Simon Gartmann has joined the lab as an FGP student. Welcome! |
| 01.02.2017 | A big welcome to Anna Zemann who will joining as the lab technician for 6 months! |
| 29.11.2016 | Marianthi Zampakou has successfully passed her viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Zampakou! |
| 07.11.2016 | Anna Ilaria Przytula-Mally has joined the lab as a PhD student. Welcome! |
| 19.10.2016 | Manuela Zimmermann finished her Bachelor thesis in our lab. Great success! We wish you all the best for your master studies! |
| 03.10.2016 | Elena Alberti won the poster award at the 11th Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium. Congratulations! |
| 05.09.2016 | Helena Guiset Miserachs manuscript on distinct differences in metal ion specificity of RNA and DNA G-quadruplexes has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. Congrats! |
| 01.09.2016 | Irina Markova has joined the lab as a PhD student! Welcome! |
| 26.08.2016 | Fabio Steffens manuscript on carbocyanine photophysics in the realm of RNA has been accepted in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics - congrats! |
| 15.07.2016 | Manuela Zimmermann started her Bachelor thesis in our lab. Christopher Zhang and Novotny Bala'zs join the SF lab as BUSS students. Welcome and have a good time! |
| 12.06.2016 | Fabio Steffen was awarded the semester prize of the Faculty of Science, University of Zürich for his master thesis -- congratulations! |
| 08.06.2016 | Elena Alberti, Maya Gulotti-Georgieva, Susann Zelger-Paulus, Fabio Amadei and Fabio Steffen are attending the Chemistry Doktorandentag Zurich 2016. Have fun! |
| 01.06.2016 | Richards and Dannys review on RNA heterogeneity revealed by smFRET studies has been accepted in Coordination Chemistry Reviews - congrats! |
| 01.06.2016 | Maya Gulotti-Georgieva and Fabio Amadei were each awarded a Forschungskredit grant -- congratulations! |
| 06.05.2016 | Richard Börner and his colleagues Ulrike Rieder, Natasha Arora, Nikolas Friedrich and Juan Miguel Escobar Restrepo were awarded a GRC Grant of the Graduate Campus -- way to go! |
| 15.04.2016 | Richard Börner was awarded a VAUZ Tagungsfond for the prolongation of the PostDocDay project - way to go! |
| 15.04.2016 | Elena Alberti's manuscript on covalent and non-covalent binding of metal complexes to RNA has been accepted in J. Inorg. Biochem. - way to go! |
| 07.04.2016 | Our new homepage is online - any corrections are welcome. |
| 04.04.2016 | A big welcome to our new Master student Besim Fazliji |
| 23.03.2016 | Bhaumik Dave has successfully passed his viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Dave! |
| 16.03.2016 | Roland K. O. Sigel and Richard Boerner as co-applicant received a research grant from the Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der UZH - congrats! |
| 08.03.2016 | Simona Bartova's paper on the "metal ion binding to an RNA internal loop" has been accepted in Inorg. Chim. Acta - congrats! |
| 03.03.2016 | Richard's paper on "Single Molecule 3D Orientation in Time and Space: A 6D Dynamic Study on Fluorescently Labeled Lipid Membranes" has been accepted for publication and will be online soon in the Journal of Fluorescence! |
| 11.02.2016 | Ilija Vukadin finished his master thesis with a nice talk. Well done! We wish you all the best for your master exams! |
| 01.01.2016 | A big welcome to our new PhD candidate Fabio Steffen |
| 07.12.2015 | Helena Guiset Miserachs has successfully passed her viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Guiset Miserachs! |
| 03.12.2015 | Ramona Erni has successfully passed the exams for her Federal Diploma of higher Education - congratulations, Executive Assistant Erni! |
| 27.11.2015 | Erica Fiorini has successfully passed her viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Fiorini! |
| 18.11.2015 | Fabio Steffen successfully passed his master exams - congratulations, M.Sc. Steffen! |
| 16.11.2015 | Susann Zelger-Paulus and Richard Börner have been both accepted for the 10th Microscopy Winterschool 2016 - Practical Course in Advanced 3D Light & Electron Microscopy in Zurich. |
| 05.11.2015 | Anastasia Musiari has successfully passed her viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Musiari! |
| 05.10.2015 | Fabio Steffen wins the 1st poster prize at the 10th Annual Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium and the Albert Hofmann Award Lecture - congratulation! |
| 01.10.2015 | Roland K. O. Sigel has been elected Secretary of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) 2016-2020! |
| 16.09.2015 | A big welcome to our new PhD candidate Zenghui Wang |
| 11.09.2015 | Danny Kowerko, Postdoc, subgroup leader smFRET, daddy and our friend is leaving the Sigel lab! We wish you all the best for your scientific career. It was a pleasure to work with you! |
| 28.08.2015 | Manuela Zimmermann, Hugo Scharfenstein, and Severin Koch leave the lab to continue their studies - thank you very much for being in our lab and your good work! |
| 13.08.2015 | Fabio finished his master thesis with a nice talk. Well done! Fabio - we wish you all the best for your master exams! |
| 02.07.2015 | Two BUSS students, Manuela Zimmermann and Hugo Scharfenstein, as well as Severin Koch as UZH summer student, join the lab for a summer internship - welcome! |
| 03.06.2015 | Elena, Susann, Alicia and Richard were each awarded a Forschungskredit scholarship -- congratulations. |
| 21.05.2015 | The Post Doc Day for Life Sciences 2015, organized by Ulrike, Juan and Richard, was a great success. Well done! |
| 20.05.2015 | Maria's, Daniela's, and Vero's work on the pH dependent base-pair change, unprecedented in group II introns, has been accepted as a Very Important Paper (VIP, top 5%!) in Angewandte Chemie - congratulation, great job! |
| 04.05.2015 | A big welcome to our new PhD candidate Fabio Amadei |
| 09.04.2015 | Anita's and Susi's paper on the labelling of large RNAs by using fluorescent high-affinity PNAs has been accepted for publication in ChemBioChem -- and chosen for an Inside Cover: Great collaboration with the Gasser Group! Congratulation! |
| 01.04.2015 | A fruitful cooperation of Danny Kowerko and his former calculus teacher Prof. Albrecht B?ttcher from Chemnitz University of Technology resulted in a common paper about "Explicit analytic equations for multimolecular thermal melting curves" which was accepted for publication at Biophys. Chem.! Thanks to Prof. B?ttcher again. |
| 16.03.2015 | Ilija Vukadin, University of Zurich, is joining the group for his MSc project. Welcome! |
| 02.03.2015 | Maya Gulotti-Georgieva has started her PhD in our lab - welcome! |
| 26.02.2015 | Ericas and Richards manuscript about biomacromolecular folding in crowding environment has been accepted for publication in Chimia - well done! |
| 17.02.2015 | Our paper linking molecule-to-molecule variations and cation binding site occupation has been accepted for publication in PNAS - way to go! |
| 19.12.2014 | Michelle has successfully passed her viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Schaffer! |
| 02.12.2014 | Good luck Natascha Mux! We enjoyed having you here. Don't forget to pass by and say hello sometime! |
| 07.11.2014 | Guanya has successfully passed his viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Peng! |
| 01.11.2014 | Richard Börner was awarded a Tagungsfond of the VAUZ -- congratulations. |
| 11.10.2014 | Richard Börner was awarded a GRC Grant of the Graduate Campus -- congratulations. |
| 01.10.2014 | Fabio Steffen, University of Zurich, is joining the group for his MSc project. Welcome! |
| 19.09.2014 | Anita has successfully passed her viva - congratulations, Dr. Sc. nat. Schmitz! |
| 11.09.2014 | Erica Fiorini wins the SCS-DSM Best Poster Prize in the category Medical and Biological Chemistry at the SCS Fall meeting 2014 - congratulation! |
| 01.09.2014 | Natascha Mux, University of Zurich, has joined the lab for her specialized MSc - welcome! |
| 28.08.2014 | Bhaumik Dave wins the EuroBIC 12 poster prize for his contribution "Influence of Hg(II) on the intercalation of [Ru(bpy)2(dppz)]2+ to DNA" - congratulations! |
| 15.08.2014 | Miriam has successfully passed her viva - congratulations, Dr. sc. nat. Skilandat! |
| 08.08.2014 | Kenneth Adea, University of Geneva, has started his PhD in our lab - welcome! |
| 10.07.2014 | Bhaumik, Marianthi and Mokrane are selected to participate in the Summer School "Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems", Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 7th to 14th 2014 - Congratulations! |
| 09.06.2014 | Yu Ito, a PhD student from Tokyo Institute of Technology, has joined the lab for a three month exchange - welcome! |
| 05.06.2014 | Miriam's structure of a DNA cleavage site recognition complex has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Biological Chemistry - way to go, Miriam! |
| 21.05.2014 | Sebastian was awarded the prize of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Zurich for his doctoral dissertation -- congratulations. |
| 19.05.2014 | Mélodie Hadzic, Alicia Dominguez and Richard Börner were each awarded a Forschungskredit scholarship - congratulations! |
| 16.04.2014 | Miriam's and Magda's solution structure of the CPEB ribozyme has been accepted for publication in JBIC - congratulations! |
| 14.04.2014 | Meng Zhao from Sun Yat-sen University (PR China) has joined the lab as a postdoc - welcome! |
| 06.03.2014 | Sebastian Kö?nig successfully passed his viva - congratulations Dr. rer. sci. K?önig! |
| 31.01.2014 | Daniela's and Miriam's structure of the 5' splice site recognition complex in group II introns has been accepted for publication in RNA - congratulations! |
| 03.12.2013 | Pallavi's and Sofia's study on Tb3+-mediated cleavage and in-line probing of the btub riboswitch has been accepted for publica |
| 13.11.2013 | Our paper on the use of bootstrapping in the analysis of smFRET data has been accepted for publication in PLoS ONE! |
| 08.11.2013 | Joachim Schnabl successfully passed his viva - congratulations Dr. rer. sci. Schnabl! |
| 21.10.2013 | Pallavi Choudhary successfully passed her viva - congratulations Dr. rer. sci. Choudhary! |
| 10.10.2013 | Anita Schmitz wins the Poster prize (1st place) at the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium 2013 - congratulation! |
| 01.10.2013 | Magdalena Rowinska-Zyrek is awarded a Marie-Curie-IEF Fellowship to continue her postdoc in our lab - congratulation! |
| 23.09.2013 | Elena Alberti, University of Milan, joins the lab to pursue a PhD - welcome! |
| 20.09.2013 | Susi's and Jay's RNA 3-way junction is selected as top 5% VIP paper and highlighted on the front cover of the October issue of Angewandte Chemie - congratulation! |
| 15.09.2013 | Simona Bartova from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic joins the lab for a three months PhD internship - welcome! |
| 01.09.2013 | Philipp Schineis from the University of Vienna joins the lab to do his Bachelor thesis - welcome! |
| 01.07.2013 | Two BUSS students, Cristina Batlle Carreras and Mateo Rovere, as well as two UZH summer students, Adrian Kaiser and Fabio Steffen, join the lab for a summer internship - welcome! |
| 01.07.2013 | Susann, M?élodie, Helena, Daniela Donghi, and Danny were each awarded a Forschungskredit scholarship -- congratulation. |
| 03.06.2013 | Serranda Gashi, University of Lancester, joins the lab to pursue her PhD - welcome! |
| 24.05.2013 | Miriam is selected for the EMBO Practical Course "Structure, Dynamics and Function of Biomacromolecules by solution NMR", Basel, Switzerland, July 20-27, 2013 -- congratulation!! |
| 07.05.2013 | Danny Kowerko, Helena Guiset Miserachs, Mélodie Hadzic and Susann Paulus were awarded the Forschung |
| 03.05.2013 | Alicia Dominguez, Universidad de Granada, joins the lab as a postdoc - welcome! |
| 15.04.2013 | Silke and Sebastian are selected to participate in the Summer School "Metals in Biology", Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, May 12-19, 2013 -- congratulation!! |
| 01.03.2013 | Richard Börner, University of L?übeck, joins the lab as a postdoc - welcome! |
| 08.02.2013 | Maria Pechlaner succesfully defends her PhD thesis -- congratulations Dr. rer. nat. Pechlaner! |
| 06.02.2013 | The Pictures section is up to date again. |
| 21.12.2012 | Dania Marthaler successfully defends her Master's thesis -- congratulations! |
| 01.11.2012 | Daniela's and Miriam's structure of the EBS1*-IBS1* complex is accepted for publication in RNA - congratulations! |
| 27.09.2012 | Marianthi Zampakou, University of Thessaloniki, has joined the lab to pursue her PhD - welcome! |
| 16.09.2012 | Daniela Donghi wins a Poster Award at the EuroBIC-11 conference in Granada -- congratulation!! |
| 13.09.2012 | Sebastian wins the 2nd prize for his talk at the Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society -- congratulation!! |
| 01.07.2012 | Mokrane Khier and Mélodie Hadzic successfully completed their Master and start their PhD in our lab. |
| 01.06.2012 | Sebastian was awarded a prolongation of the Forschungskredit and the CMSZH Travel Award. |
| 01.06.2012 | Magdalena Rowinsky-Zyrek, University of Wroclaw, is starting her Postdoc supported by a Sciex Fellowship - congratulation and welcome! |
| 01.06.2012 | Sebastian was awarded a prolongation of the Forschungskredit and the CMSZH Travel Award -- congratulation. |
| 01.06.2012 | Magdalena Rowinska-Zyrek, is awarded a Sciex Fellowship to do her postdoc in our lab - congratulation! |
| 11.05.2012 | Silke's paper on the acid base properties of the imidazole nucleotide is accepted for publication in Chem. Biodiv - congratulation! |
| 08.05.2012 | At the first Management Committee meeting of the COST Action CM1105, Eva is elected as WG2 Coordinator and Roland as STSM manager. |
| 20.04.2012 | Maxi's paper on a NMR structure and Mg2+ binding of a mgtA riboswitch domain is accepted for publication in Chem. Biodiv - congratulation |
| 18.04.2012 | Daniela Donghi wins the first Poster Prize at the Eurasia-12 meeting showing her and Maria's k-z structure - congratulation! |
| 16.04.2012 | Susann Paulus is back in the lab pursuing a PhD - welcome! |
| 16.04.2012 | Maxi is leaving the lab starting a position in Munich in patent business - all the best! |
| 31.03.2012 | Lucia Cardo is leaving the lab after 2 successful years as postdoc, going back to rainy UK - good luck! |
| 01.03.2012 | Joachim Schnabl has been selcted to give an oral presentation at the Eurasia-12 Meeting in Corfu, Greece - congratulation! |
| 20.02.2012 | Dania Marthaler, University of Zurich, joins the group to do her masters project - welcome! |
| 30.01.2012 | Melodie Hadzic, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure, starts her Masters project - welcome! |
| 13.01.2012 | Mokrane Khier, University of Orléans, joins the group for his masters project - welcome! |
| 09.01.2012 | Helena Guiset Miserachs, University of Barcelona, starts her PhD - welcome! |
| 05.12.2011 | Miriam Skilandat wins the 1st Poster Prize at ISABC-11 in Barcelona. Congratulation! |
| 02.12.2011 | Erica Fiorini, University of Parma, is starting her PhD - welcome! |
| 14.11.2011 | Anastasia Musiari, University of Parma, joins the group to pursue her PhD - welcome! |
| 31.10.2011 | Bhaumik Dave, University of Leicester, joins the group to pursue his PhD - welcome! |
| 10.10.2011 | Miriam Skilandat wins a poster prize at the 6th Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium. Congratulation! |
| 12.09.2011 | Alicia Dominguez Martin joins us for an exchange until Christmas, coming from the University of Granada. Welcome! |
| 25.08.2011 | Eva Freisinger has been awarded a two-year extension of her SNF-Fö?rderungsprofessur. Congratulation!! |
| 18.08.2011 | Daniela Donghi has been awarded an Ambizione fellowship by the SNF and will start her independent research career in December 2011. Congratulation!! |
| 26.07.2011 | Maxi defends succesfully her Ph.D. thesis -- congratulations! |
| 05.07.2011 | Alessia D?ürst and Sonja Giger, both University of Zurich, are back and join the lab for the summer 2011. Welcome back! |
| 01.07.2011 | Melanie Rohner, both University of Zurich, joins the lab for the summer as a BUSS 2011 student. |
| 28.06.2011 | Carolin Sigel Freisinger is born. Carolin, as well as mother, father and brother are all healthy and very happy! |
| 26.04.2011 | Sebastian K?önig was awarded the Forschungskredit scholarship and has been accepted for the BASF In |
| 08.02.2011 | The new website goes officially online :-) |
| 03.02.2011 | The sections "internal" and "course material" are now functional and protected. |
| 01.02.2011 | Michelle Schaffer, University of Zurich, joins the lab as a PhD. |
| 01.02.2011 | Guanya Peng, joins the lab as a PhD in cooperation with the Paul Scherrer Institute. |
| 03.01.2011 | Danny Kowerko, University of Chemnitz, joins the lab as a post doc |
| 14.12.2010 | Silke Johannsen has been awarded a 2 year Marie-Heim-Vögtlin fellowship by the SNF. Congratulation!! |
| 11.10.2010 | Sebastian Koenig, Ecole Sup?rieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, joins the lab as a PhD |
| 30.08.2010 | Roland is awarded a highly competitive ERC Starting grant for the project "MIRNA - Metal Ions and Metal Ion Complexes Guiding Folding and Function of Single RNA Molecules" |
| 29.08.2010 | After a long series of farewell dinners, Miquel sadly leaves the SF-Lab, going back to sunny Mallorca -- see you soon again!! |
| 04.08.2010 | The SF-Labs make a boat trip on the river Aare followed by BBQ at Eva's and Roland's place |
| 19.07.2010 | Sonja Giger, University of Zurich, joins the lab as a summer student |
| 19.07.2010 | Miriam Skilandat, University of L?beck, joins the lab as a Ph.D. student, working on NMR |
| 12.07.2010 | Dania Guler, University of Zurich, joins the lab for a summer practicum |
| 05.07.2010 | Anita Schmitz, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, joins the lab as a Ph.D. student, working on B12 |
| 28.06.2010 | Fawzia Al-Sogair, a visiting professor from Kuwait, joins the lab for three months |
| 19.06.2010 | Alessia Dürst, University of Zurich, who has been working part time in the lab during the semester, stays as a summer student |
| 01.06.2010 | Silke defends succesfully her Ph.D. thesis -- congratulations! |
| 01.04.2010 | Lucia Cardo, University of Birmingham, joins the lab as a postdoc |
| 12.03.2010 | The SF-Lab goes skiing for a looooong weekend in Obersaxen - what beautiful sun and snow!! |
| 04.01.2010 | Silke's metal-modified DNA structure is published in Nature Chemistry: The first structure of metallated DNA moleculer wire ever |
| 01.11.2009 | Daniela Donghi, University of Milano, joins the lab as a postdoc with a Marie-Curie Fellowship |
| 01.11.2009 | Siriporn can't get enough of Zurich and is back again for three weeks |
| 01.10.2009 | Miquel Barcelo Oliver, University of the Balearic Islands, joins the lab as a postdoc with a Fellowship Jose Castillejo |
| 28.09.2009 | Silke is awarded a poster prize at the 10th ISABC conference in Debrecen, Hungary |
| 20.09.2009 | Joachim Schnabl is awarded a poster prize at the 2009 FEBS course in Bioinorganic Chemistry, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
| 04.09.2009 | Roland receives the Alfred Werner Prize 2009 of the Swiss Chemical Society at the 2009 Fallmeeting of the Swiss Chemical Society |
| 01.07.2009 | Alessia Dürst and Johanna Penner (via BUSS) join the lab as undergraduate students |
| 01.06.2009 | Lukas Kopp (University of Zurich) joins the lab as a Ph.D. student |
| 03.02.2009 | Yuppeee ... another young researcher is born: Sebastian Johannsen - Mother and child (and father) are happy and fine!! |
| 01.01.2009 | Roland is promoted to Extraordinarius (Associate Professor) |
| 08.12.2008 | Sofia succesfully defends her Ph.D. thesis -- congratulations! |
| 01.11.2008 | Maria Pechlaner (University of Vienna) joins the lab as a Ph.D. student |
| 14.10.2008 | Daniela defends succesfully her Ph.D. thesis -- congratulations! |
| 01.10.2008 | Pallavi Choudhary (Pune University, India) joins the lab as a Ph.D. student |
| 01.10.2008 | Siriporn is here again and will stay until Christmas |
| 11.09.2008 | Silke is awarded a poster prize at the 2008 Fallmeeting of the Swiss Chemical Society |
| 06.09.2008 | Roland receives the EUROBIC9 Medal 2008 "in recognition of his contributions to further the basic understanding of metal-ion interactions with nucleic acids" |
| 05.07.2008 | Miriams smFRET studies on group II intron folding are published in PNAS: The largest protein-free RNA ever studied by smFRET |
| 01.07.2008 | Siriporn Phongtongpasuk, from Mike Hannons group at the University of Birmingham, visits our lab on a COST D39 Short Term Scientific Mission |
| 01.07.2008 | Maya Leutwiler and Frederic Greandjean join the SF-Labs for two months via BUSS |
| 01.06.2008 | Joachim Schnabl (Dipl. Chem. UZH) joins the lab as a Ph.D. student |
| 01.06.2008 | Daniela Donghi, a visiting postdoctoral student from the University of Milano/Italy, joins the lab for three months |
| 09.05.2008 | Sofia is awarded a poster prize at the 3rd Annual Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium |
| 05.05.2008 | Miriam defends succesfully her Ph.D. thesis -- congratulations! |
| 01.04.2008 | Roland's 2007 article in Chem. Rev. is featured as one of the Most-Cited ACS Articles 2007 |
| 01.04.2008 | Eva Freisinger (Sigel) is awarded a SNF-F?rderungsprofessur and Assistant Professorship, which she will start June 1, 2008 -- congratulations!! |
| 15.01.2008 | Mischl leaves the lab with a SNF-fellowship for her postdoc with Iain Campbell at Oxford University, UK |
| 05.11.2007 | Mischl defends her Ph.D. thesis mit Auszeichnung (summa cum laude) -- congratulations!! |
| 15.10.2007 | Cinzia leaves the lab, starting a job with CIBA SC, Basel |
| 01.10.2007 | Mischl's Domain 6 structure is selected for the December picture of the Wiley-VCH calendar 2008 |
| 01.08.2007 | Stefan Markovic, Chemistry student/UZH, joins the lab for a three-months summer internship |
| 17.07.2007 | Yuppeee ... another young researcher is born: Samuel Sigel (Freisinger) - Mother and child (and father) are happy and fine!! |
| 01.07.2007 | Maximiliane "Maxi" Korth (Ms. Sci. in Chemistry) joins the lab as a Ph.D. student, coming from the Technical University Munich |
| 01.07.2007 | Ariel Mucha, a visiting Ph.D. student from the University of Wroclaw/Poland, joins the lab for six months with a fellowship of the Foreign Exchange Office UZH |
| 27.04.2007 | Silke is awarded a poster prize at the 2nd Annual Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium -- congratulations!! |
| 01.03.2007 | Mischl's Domain 6 structure is selected for Cover Illustration of ChemBioChem, issue 3/2007 -- congratulations!! |
| 01.03.2007 | Mischl is selected to participate in the 2007 Roche Symposium for Leading Scientists of the Next Decade, Basel, Switzerland -- congratulation!! |
| 31.10.2006 | Sadly, Maya leaves the lab to live with her family in the Swiss Alps in beautiful Graubünden - she soon starts working with Hamilton AG, Bonaduz |
| 01.10.2006 | Joachim Schnabl, Chemistry/UZH, joins the lab for his Diploma Thesis |
| 01.08.2006 | Cinzia is awarded an EMBO fellowship for an EMBO Practical NMR Course, Lucca, Italy |
| 01.07.2006 | Susann Paulus (Bachelor Biotech.) joins the lab as a technician |
| 01.06.2006 | Emina Besic, Biochemistry/UZH, joins the lab for her Master Thesis |
| 01.05.2006 | Roland is selected as an SNF-associated member of the NCCR Structural Biology |
| 01.04.2006 | Silke Johannsen (Dipl. Chem.) joins the lab as a Ph.D. student, coming from the University of M?ünster |
| 01.03.2006 | Veronika Zelenay, Chemistry/UZH, joins the lab for her Master Thesis |
| 07.02.2006 | Yuppeee ... Emina Heinz (Furler), our youngest researcher is born: Mother and child (and father) are happy and fine!! |
| 01.02.2006 | Cinzia Finazzo, Dr. sc. nat. ETHZ, joins the lab as a postdoc and is awarded fellowships from the Roche-Research-Foundation and the Novartis Stiftung -- congratulation!! |
| 01.12.2005 | Sofia is awarded a 2 year fellowship from the Forschungskredit-UZH for her PhD studies -- congratulations!! |
| 01.09.2005 | Mischl is awarded an EMBO fellowship for an EMBO Practical NMR Course, Biocentre, Basel |
| 01.08.2005 | Veronika Zelenay, Chemistry student/UZH, joins the lab for a three-months summer internship |
| 01.04.2005 | Daniela is awarded a 2.5 year Boehringer-Ingelheim fellowship for her PhD studies -- congratulation!! |
| 01.01.2005 | Andrea Muntean, University of Graz, joins the lab for a three-months summer internship |
| 01.11.2004 | Sofia Gallo (Dipl. Biol.) joins the lab as a Ph.D. student, coming from the ETH Zürich |
| 01.10.2004 | Daniela Kruschel (Dipl. Chem.) joins the lab as a Ph.D. student, coming from the University of Münster |
| 01.07.2004 | Emina Besic, Stefan Markovic, Joachim Schnabl, and Veronica Zelenay participate in the 7th Student Parabolic Flight Campaign (7th SPFC) of the European Space Agency (ESA), Bordeaux/France with their Project "Ribozyme Folding at Zero Gravity" |
| 01.07.2004 | Miriam Steiner (Dipl. Biol.) joins the lab as ka Ph.D. student, coming from the ETH Zürich |
| 01.06.2004 | Evren Saban, Bilkent University, joins the lab for a two-months summer internship |
| 01.04.2004 | Bernd Knobloch (Dr. rer. nat) joins the lab as a psotdoc, coming from the University of Vienna |
| 01.02.2004 | Maya Furler (Dipl. Biol.) joins the lab as a senior technician, coming from the ETH Zürich and Esbatech |
| 25.01.2004 | Michèle "Mischl" Erat (Dipl. Biol.) joins the lab as a first Ph.D. student, coming from the ETH Zürich |
| 01.06.2003 | Siran "Rikko" Lu, Oxford University, joins the lab for a three-months summer internship |
| 01.04.2003 | Roland is awarded a SNF-Fö?rderungsprofessur and Assistant Professorship |
| 01.02.2003 | Roland gets a call as a Alfred-Werner-Assistantprofessor by the Alfred Werner Foundation |