Master in #ChemicalBiology - Application deadlines
🌍 Foreign Bachelor: Feb 28, 2026
🇨🇭 Swiss Bachelor / no visa: Apr 30, 2026
🎓 UNIGE Science students: No deadline (SNE admission form required)
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3TWR6pB
#Scholarship #ChemBio

🧪 How can chemistry help us understand biology?
The Master in Chemical Biology combines interdisciplinary training with hands-on research.

Meet coordinator Paraskevi Linardou at @unige_en’s Soirée des masters, 29 Oct at Uni Mail!
🔗 bit.ly/4zpCH6O

Meet the 8 Master's students in the 2026 Chemical Biology Programme class! 🧪

Get to know Norah, Peter, Sergio, Sara, Bereniç, Alireza, Luke and Kaushik 👇
sne-chembio.ch/news/meet-our-…

#ChemicalBiology

The work of @CarloBalda97 , Carolin Veras and @TinVTNguyen1 on the synthesis of 3,3-diarylpropylamines from cyclopropanes using either copper- or photo- catalysis is now accepted at Chemical Science!
doi.org/10.1039/D6SC06…

Happy to share our preprint: "A Unified 3D Generative Model for Synthesizable Structure-Based Drug Design". Highlights, preprint, and code below: 🧵1/10

The #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2026 recognises discoveries that have enabled chemists to drive chemical reactions that lead to homochirality.

Life’s chemistry is what chemists call homochiral, after the Greek words for “same” and “hand”. Like hands, all amino acids exist as two only one of them is found in the proteins in your cells. The other is rarely found in nature.

For a long time, chemists wondered how homochirality can emerge. When they began to experiment with chemical reactions that can form two mirrored molecules, they always obtained equal proportions of both in their test tubes. However, chemists strived to produce only one of these mirror images, because in the development of molecules that will interact with living beings – such as in pharmaceuticals – only one mirror image will have the desired effect.

Thanks to laureates Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai, we now know how homochirality can emerge. Their discoveries have been decisive for chemists who design reactions for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

Tomorrow at @EPFL_en!

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Jeongyoon Choi (University of Oxford) for a #ChemicalBiology Seminar:

🧬 Chromatin structure of the inactive X chromosome revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography
📅 Sep 22 | 🕓 16:15
🔗 Details: bit.ly/3MOjVjy

📣 Seminar tomorrow at @sciences_UNIGE!

Join us for “Making materials that speak the cellular language” with Maartje Bastings (@BastingsLabEPFL).

📅 18 Sep | 10:00–11:00
📍 Sciences III, room 0019
🎟️ Free entry

Hosted by UNIGE’s Section of Chemistry & Biochemistry.

I just started my laboratory @IBECBarcelona for developing Enzyme Sensors and Chemical Probes. Find me on LinkedIn for job opportunities!

#chembio #peptides #enzymes

Tomorrow at @EPFL_en!

Join us for a #ChemicalBiology Seminar with Prof. Christian Olsen (University of Copenhagen):

🧪 Chemical tools for investigating histone deacetylases (HDACs)
📅 Sep 18 | 🕓 16:15
🔗 Details: bit.ly/3MOjVjy

Tomorrow at @EPFL_en!

We are excited to welcome Prof. Stefan Kubicek (CeMM) for a #ChemicalBiology Seminar:

🧬 Regulation of chromatin metabolism by subcellular proteome dynamics
📅 Sep 17 | 🕓 16:15
🔗 Details: bit.ly/3MOjVjy

Tomorrow at @EPFL_en!

Join us for a #ChemicalBiology Seminar with Prof. Shinsuke Sando (University of Tokyo):

🗣️ Understanding and Predicting the Membrane Permeability of Macrocyclic Peptides Based on Large-Scale Data
📅 Sep 15 | 🕓 16:15
🔗 Details: bit.ly/3MOjVjy

Hiring at @LcsoLab is nearly complete for 2027, with only one position left for a PhD student or a postdoc starting in Fall 2027. Applications will be considered until September 30, 2026. More information on our website:
epfl.ch/labs/lcso/grou…

📢 Join tomorrow's #chembio seminar with Prof. Nir London (Weizmann Institute of Science) @EPFL_en!
🎯 "New applications for Covalent Ligand Directed Release chemistry"
🗓️ 🇨🇭 16:15 › 17:15 | Free & in-person!
🔗 Details: bit.ly/3MOjVjy

We've updated our group page with a new design and the latest research.

bolandlab.org

Using nanopore technology and AI, a UNIGE team has developed a rapid and reliable method for identifying proteins, paving the way for faster diagnostics and personalised medicine. ow.ly/hsFm50Zi5aq

A big thank you to everyone who presented a poster at #SNERetreat!

Poster Prize Winners:

🥇 Fabian Willenborg (@ETH_en)
🥈 Mishika Virmani (external)
🥉 Bhumi Davda (@unige_en)

Congratulations to the winners, and well done to everyone for showcasing such exciting science! 🎉

Prof. Danica Fujimori (@UCSF) wrapped up Session 4 of the #SNERetreat with an inspiring keynote on targeting aberrant chromatin regulation in cancer. 🔬

A fantastic conclusion to two days of great science, stimulating discussions, and new connections.

We started the final session of #SNERetreat with exciting talks from

🔬Prof. Amy Fraley on Therapeutic natural products via a bio-based approach
🔬PhD student Mélissa Ruiz on Lipid mapping of cellular membranes at leaflet resolution

Session 3 of #SNERetreat kicked off! 🔬

• Prof. Deliz Liang: Expanding the genetic code with histidine-like ncAA
• Prof. Luciani: Biogenic and bioinspired materials to treat fibrosis
• PhD student Quargnali: BioPipelines: Accessible computational protein and ligand design