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FMI director Susan Gasser receives highly esteemed Inserm International Prize
Dec 2011. Susan Gasser, director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research of the Novartis Research Foundation, receives today the highly esteemed Inserm Prix International in Paris, for her outstanding scientific contributions to the field of epigenetics. She is honored for her lifetime achievements, which contribute to our understanding of the genetic processes that drive cancer, cell type differentiation and aging. Since 2004, the Inserm Prix International has been awarded by the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médical in Paris.
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Medically Relevant Systems Biology
A comment by Nico Battich, University of Zurich
The conference provided an opportunity for people around the world to discuss current and future research involving systems and synthetic biology.
In the first section of the conference two talks particularly highlighted the challenges and the potentials of a systems biology approach to medicine.
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Synthetic Biology
A comment by Sven Dietz
The synthetic biology session covered a variety of topics ranging from fundamental research to industrial applications. Of particular interest in this session was the broad range of applications of synthetic biology methods showing how advances produced over the past years are successfully being applied to solve real world problems and opening possibilities for research and industry.
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Open Position: IT Technician, Basel
Nov 2011. As part of InfectX and in collaboration with SyBIT, both funded by SystemsX.ch, the Dehio group at the Biozentrum, Basel, is looking for an IT technician to provide data and IT maintenance support, to operate data processing tools, and to support microscope based data generation. The position is integrated within, and should support, a group of Image Analysis and Data Processing experts. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team which is part of the InfectX consortium made up of 11 research groups. This position is initially for one year, with the possibility of extension depending on project requirements.
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