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März 2012

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QUEST – Hunt for entangled particles



Professor Christian Schönenberger recently has received an “ERC Advanced Investigator Grant” from the European Research Council (ERC). Within the project worth 2 Million Euro, Christian Schönenberger investigates entangled electron pairs. In the next five years he plans to establish an efficient and   more...

We introduce...

Excellent starting position for nanotechnology - Interview with Dr. Dieter Scholer



Dr. Dieter Scholer is a medical doctor. He held leading positions at Ciba and Novartis Pharma over two decades, contributed fundamentally to building-up the pharmaceutical start-up company Speedel AG and today is member of several boards and commissions including the University Council of the University   more...

Events

SNI at the MUBA



After the great success of SNI workshops at traditional Swiss fairs like OLMA and MUBA in 2010, the SNI again takes part at the TuN Basel, a special exhibition at the MUBA 2012. At the TuN Basel a broad audience, especially children and families, can experience technology and natural sciences in interactive   more...

Natural Sciences and Gender Studies

In the context of the lecture series “Natural Sciences and Gender Studies” Professor Dr. Petra Lucht from the Institute of Sociology, RWTH Aaachen, Germany, talks about

“Cyborgs und Assembler im Zwergenreich: Gender Studien zur Nanotechnologie”.

Wednesday, 11 th April 2012
6.15 – 8.00 p.m., Kollegienhaus University of Basel, Hörsaal 120

Argovia Projects

New Argovia projects



End of last year the Argovia board approved eight new Argovia projects. Now the projects have started we introduce BIOPRINT, FILTRELEC, NANOCURE and nanoFACTs.

BIOPRINT
Within the project BIOPRINT, scientists under the leadership of Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Schumacher from the University   more...

Awards

Bill Whelan Lifetime Achievement Award for Christoph Gerber

On February 26th, during the Miami Winter Symposium 2012 – a “Nature” Conference - Professor Dr. Christoph Gerber received the Bill Whelan Lifetime Achievement Award.

He was honoured for his groundbreaking research in scanning probe microscopy and for the development of biochemical sensors   more...

Farewell to Ueli Aebi



On Thursday 26th January, many internationally distinguished scientists came together to participate in the farewell symposium honouring Prof. Dr. Ueli Aebi, Professor of Structural Biology at the Biozentrum, University of Basel and former Director of the Maurice E. Müller Institute for Structural Biology.   more...

Recent press releases

EU grant for Christian Schönenberger

Basel, 27.01.2012. Prof. Dr. Christian Schönenberger, Director of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel, received an „ERC Advanced Investigator Grant“ from the European Research Council (ERC) worth 2 Million Euro. In the planned project the physicist and his team will examine   more...

Election of the endowed Georg-H.-Endress professor for experimental physics

Basel, 21.12.2011. The endowed Georg-H.-Endress professorship for experimental physics at the University of Basel will be filled with the Swiss physicist Patrick Maletinsky, currently working at Harvard University. The professorship is directed towards nano-sensor technology. It bears the name   more...





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Recent publications

Single-molecule transport across an individual biomimetic nuclear pore complex
Stefan W. Kowalczyk1, Larisa Kapinos2, Timothy R. Blosser1, Toma´s Magalha˜es1, Pauline van Nies1, Roderick Y. H. Lim2* and Cees Dekker1*
Nature Nanotechnology
Nuclear pore complexes regulate the selective exchange of RNA and proteins across the nuclear envelope in eukaryotic cells1. Biomimetic strategies offer new opportunities to investigate this remarkabl
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Synthetic Protein Targeting by the Intrinsic Biorecognition Functionality of Poly(ethylene glycol) Using PEG Antibodies as Biohybrid Molecular Adaptors
Janne T. Hyotyla, Jie Deng, and Roderick Y. H. Lim
Acsnano
Biointerfaces capable of biological recognition and specificity are sought after for conferring bioinspired functionality onto synthetic biomaterials systems. This is important for biosensing, biosepa
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