📢Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at https://t.co/XqdRB4SQfz

Season’s Greetings from the FMI! 🎄 Thank you to our researchers, staff, alumni, friends, and partners for an inspiring 2025. Wishing you happy holidays and a 2026 full of joy and exciting discoveries!💫

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Earlier this month, we welcomed 8th-grade students from Privatschule BZB. From learning how viruses replicate and how they’re visualized by electron microscopy to practicing cryo-EM sample prep and operating microscopes, our young visitors enjoyed a day of science in action!🔬

@PetersLabFMI

At the FMI, Antoine Peters and his team study how information beyond the DNA sequence guides early development and how errors can block gene activity, potentially causing infertility. Read more at: https://t.co/DhAQlXqBb3

Huge congratulations to @hisspikeness on his promotion to Senior Group Leader! His team uses AI-powered models of neural networks to uncover how dynamic brain connections enable new memories. Learn more about his research in this video👇

Proud to see EM-based connectomics—which uses electron microscopy to map neural circuits in 3D—named @naturemethods’ Method of the Year, and even prouder that our group leader Rainer Friedrich leads one of the pioneering labs in this breakthrough 🧠

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From the traditional director’s speech to a fun winter-themed photobooth, plus unforgettable cakes and meme competitions… the FMI year-end party was such a vibe, as usual ✨

1/6 New preprint 🚀 How does the cortex learn to represent things and how they move without reconstructing sensory stimuli? We developed a circuit-centric recurrent predictive learning (RPL) model based on JEPAs. Led by @AtenaGMohammadi @manu_halvagal 🔗 https://t.co/QWFTsuQvaH

📢Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at https://t.co/XqdRB4SQfz

FMI group leader Margherita Turco has been awarded more than 1 million USD from the @gatesfoundation to explore how micronutrients such as folate and iron could prevent life-threatening complications caused by a malfunctioning placenta. Read more: https://t.co/5jHfZX94aX

The plan was clean. The escape? Not so much. Midway City doesn’t play fair. Wishlist this 4-player coop heist FPS on Steam today.

Last week, FMIers got together for a board-game night with snacks, drinks, and lots of laughs. Thanks to everyone who brought their favourite games and made it such a fun mid-week break. We can’t wait for the next one!

We are saddened by the passing of former FMI group leader Christoph Moroni, a distinguished physician-scientist who advanced cancer, microbiology & virology and led the Institute of Medical Microbiology at @UniBasel_en. Our thoughts are with his family. @biozentrum

This has been a great collaboration with @Qianqian0v0 @AxelLaborieux @hisspikeness @CompNeuro_WS & João Sacramento, excited to finally share this work! Check https://t.co/UsMF7Xtbpk for the paper.

Emergence and Self-organisation across biological scales! I hope you are ready for next year conference! It will be an incredible event April 20-22 2026. The first of many #LakeConference organised by @EdouardHannezo @AllenInstitute @_JamesSharpe

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Elena Testoni, a PhD student in the Giorgetti lab, explores how enhancers and promoters control gene activity, and leads efforts to promote sustainable lab practices. In this Q&A, she shares her passion for genome regulation and greener science. https://t.co/vGR2DcmH8a

Only a few days left for abstract submission at the brand new EMBO|EMBL Symposium Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function and evolution. We have stellar speakers in cell, animal collectives & beyond @priscaliberali @icouzin @ricard_sole https://t.co/IcoQG69GJ3

In this first-person account, FMI’s senior communications manager describes taking part in an early human trial that adapts previous experiments in mice to explore how the human brain responds when visual and auditory information suddenly fall out of sync. https://t.co/VylLmSvTpf

Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay — a moment to honor the contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals in science and to acknowledge the progress still ahead. At the FMI, we remain committed to building an environment where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to succeed.🌈

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Last week, we hosted the EU-LIFE Strategy Meeting, bringing together Directors and key reps of the 17 member institutes to discuss priorities for 2026. Participants also met leaders from the Basel life science cluster, heard from FMI group leaders & toured the Novartis Pavillon.