June 2024
OUTREACH Our lab participated in Science and Nature Festival 2024 that took place on 6th June at Irchel Campus. We welcomed visitors to our lab and conducted a tour showcasing where exciting data is born. At our department's exhibition booth, we performed hands-on demonstrations of the phenomena we are studying. We are delighted that many of our visitors enjoyed the experiments, and we had a great time talking to science enthusiasts!
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May 2024
CELEBRATION Surprise Birthday celebration for Magda from the team. Wishing you another fruitful and successful year ahead!
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April 2024
PARTY Farewell party for Martina. Thank you very much for your two years of hard work, heartful dedication, and a lot of protein purification. We will miss you!
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CELEBRATION Congratulations Julian for successfully defending your Master's thesis. It was our pleasure to have you in our lab. We wish you all the best for your future journey.
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March 2024
GRADUATION Congratulations to Aurelie for your wonderful work and successfully defending your PhD thesis. We are delighted to see that your hard work and dedication to science has borne fruit here. You made us proud!
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GRADUATION Congratulations to Elena for your huge accomplishment and successfully defending your PhD dissertation. It has been wonderful witnessing your achievements in the making and beautiful presentations at the meetings. We are very proud of you!
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February 2024
RETREAT We had a DQBM departmental meeting in Interlaken. Creative minds got together and totally enjoyed a lot of scientific exchange, brain storming, social gathering, and simply chatting. Perfect teaming up opportunity.
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PARTY Farewell party for Pierre. It was great to have you at the lab. We wish you the best of luck in your new endeavor!
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January 2024
CELEBRATION Congratulations again, Victoria and Alexandra, for the successful defence of your Master's thesis. We wish you continued success on your future journey.
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GREETINGS Happy New Year from the PolyLab! We started the year with Magda's State of the Lab address. Successes and achievements of the previous year were summed up and Magda shared her aspirations and vision for the new year.
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December 2023
CELEBRATION Our traditional White Elephant Party. We had a wonderful time celebrating the success and achievements of the year.
Happy Holidays from the PolyLab!
Happy Holidays from the PolyLab!
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CELEBRATION Congratulations to Tamara for absolutely acing her Master thesis defense and exam! We are very proud of you.
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November 2023
CELEBRATION Enjoying outdoor-foudue and Kegeln at DQBM Christmas Dinner. We had a truly fun time in the clear winter breeze and warm indoor atmosphere.
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SYMPOSIUM It was a great pleasure to have an opportunity to share our research at the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Symposium: Frontotemporal Dementia at Stanford, USA.
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CELEBRATION Our paper is accepted in Nature! Great work, Marian and the whole team!! Celebration is in order with full respect for nature.
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CELEBRATION Congratulations to Jennifer for successfully defending the Master thesis. All the best for your future!
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September 2023
RETREAT Our lab retreat in Greece combined exciting science with fun cultural and social activities! It was great to connect with scientists from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and explore possibilities for future collaborations.
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PARTY Celebrating 10th anniversary of the lab. Very proud of all the members for their contribution to the success of our lab!
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OUTREACH Our lab participated in Scientifica23 that took place on 2nd and 3rd September. We had so much fun interacting with all the visitors who came to the lab. Talking to our young science enthusiasts at our Department's exhibition booth at the Lichthof in Irchel was so entertaining. Everyone loved our ProteinGo video game and learnt alot about the multiple phases of TDP-43!
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August 2023
PARTY Farewell party for Julien. Thank you very much for your heartful dedication to the lab for 6 years- We will miss you!
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June 2023Saying goodbye to Manuela - we will miss you!
It was great to reconnect with former colleagues at the Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry Meeting in Singapore.
May 2023Magda is teaching some old tricks to the new generation of the PolyLab!
Celebrating the new Center of Motor Neuron Disease at the University of Chicago at the Inaugural Symposium!
March 2023 |
We had a wonderful time at the Annual Packard Meeting in Baltimore again this year! Fantastic science and lots of feedback on our work from the scientific community!
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December 2022
We had a wonderful time celebrating the season on top of Zurich!
Happy Holidays from the PolyLab!
Happy Holidays from the PolyLab!
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November 2022
Manu's Defence Apero!
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Saying Goodbye to Tomas!
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October 22
Celebrating the acceptance of our paper on anti-poly-GA immunotherapy. Finally in press!
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June 2022
The first ever DQBM retreat was pure fun! Truly creative presentations and activities - both scientific and social.
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We celebrated our ERC-CoG in style on a sunny day by lake Zurich!
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At the Science and Nature Festival we thoroughly enjoyed discussing our research with our visitors. The tour in our lab was also a big success!
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April 2022
At our DQBM celebration the team surprised Magda with wonderful and fun presents for our success with the ERC Consolidator’s Grant!
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March 2022
We very much enjoyed our first in-person meeting in Baltimore! Auri, Vera and Magda presented the team’s work at the 22nd Annual Robert Packard Center for ALS Research Symposium.
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December 2021
Our white elephant party with gluhwein was super-fun. Happy holidays everyone!
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November 2021
Celebrating the acceptance of our paper on TDP-43 strains.
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Celebrating Ruben's Master Thesis!
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October 2021
Lunch gathering with Tariq!
September 2021
Moving to UZI5!
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August 2021
Saying goodbye to our dear Sonu. She will be moving to Germany for her next exciting career step. We will miss her!
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July 2021
We started July celebrating our new publications and our fully vaccinated status with a lab BBQ.
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June 2021
Filming the NCCRWomenCampaign video!
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December 2020
Celebrating the holidays season with our traditional-becoming White elephant party!
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July 2020
Celebrating Sonu's and Kathi's PhD defences!
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December 2019
Celebrating the Holidays season in good company!
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July 2019
Celebrating Mélanie's PhD Defense! Congratulations to Dr. Jambeau for a job very well-done!
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December 2018
PolyLab Christmas Fondue!
November 2018
It was great to see Florent in Zurich again and celebrate the acceptance of our manuscript on TDP-43 strains!
July 2018
Celebrating the acceptance of our paper on FUS cytoplasmic translocation in neurons!
June 2018
Graduation ceremony of Evi and Zuza with very nice company!
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March 2018
Congratulations on successfully defending your PhD Dr. Maniecka! We very much enjoyed your presentation and the graduation party.
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February 2018
The first PhD student of the PolyLab graduated! We are all very proud of you Dr. Hock!
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October 2017
Goodbye Tariq and good luck in Lausanne!
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September 2017
Saying Goodbye to Florent!
July 2017
Saying Goodbye to Sarah and Myriam!
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May 2017
At Julia’s goodbye party: postdocs against the youngest PolyLab member… :-)
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Julien joins the lab! |
April 2017
Celebrating the acceptance of our paper on TDP-43 oligomerization!
The PolyLab and the Mueller lab go for a retreat in Caprino, a small village on the southern shore of Lake Lugano.
January 2017
Congratulations to our first Master student Larissa for defending her thesis with flying colors! We are all proud of you for achieving a perfect 6.0!
December 2016
Happy holidays from the PolyLab !
June 2015
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Larissa Gilhespy joins the lab as our first Master student. |
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May 2015
We welcome little Paulina to our lab-family and wish Julia lots of strength for her new role as a mother.
April 2015
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Vanessa Orlowski joins us to take over the Lab Manager responsibilities of Julia, who is going on her maternity leave in May.
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Sarah Erni joins the lab as Lab technician.
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February 2015
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Sonu Sahadevan M.K. joins the lab as PhD student.
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November 2014
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Tariq Afroz joins the team as a postdoctoral fellow.
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September 2014
We say Goodbye to Paulina.
August 2014
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Marian Hruska-Plochan joins the team as a postdoctoral fellow.
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July 2014
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Our first ERASMUS summer student, Paulina Cieslik joins the lab.
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May 2014
Happy Birthday Magda!
April 2014
Lab Warming Party!
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February 2014
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The group now has 5 members and enjoys the first gathering of IMLS during the institute retreat.
The group moves into the new renovated lab.
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Florent Laferriere joins the team as the first postdoctoral fellow.
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January 2014
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Eva-Maria Hock joins the lab as PhD student.
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Julia Luedke starts working as the lab manager.
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November 2013
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Zuzanna Maniecka joins the lab as the first PhD student.
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Construction work for the new lab starts.
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