LIBN at EPFL

News from Angela Steinauer's lab at @EPFL. Account managed by PhD students. #chemicalbiology #proteinengineering #directedevolution

[SNE ChemBio @SNE_ChemBio]

📢 Join tomorrow's SCS Lectureship Award 2026 at @EPFL_en!

"Complex-and-Diverse Compounds Lead to Microbiome Sparing Antibiotics"
🗣️ By Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother (University of Illinois)
⏰🇨🇭 16:15 › 17:15
🌐 More info: https://t.co/mJ7y0eXBuC

@AngelaSteinauer

[LIBN at EPFL @SteinauerLab]

For our 2026 lab retreat we went into the mountains earlier this week for some team building and great discussions about science, with a nice lunch sandwiched in-between. We all returned to the lab energised and ready to get results in the coming year!

[LIBN at EPFL @SteinauerLab]

We are excited to welcome 4 students joining us for a project this semester in the LIBN. Ben and Alberic will do project 1B, Pauline has joined for an internship, and Coline for her Master's Thesis. We wish them all a great stay!

[LIBN at EPFL @SteinauerLab]

You can now also find us on BlueSky and LinkedIn:
https://t.co/dNX3PyxheK
https://t.co/tB6aDHTMqo

[LIBN at EPFL @SteinauerLab]

We are happy to announce that May has joined the LIBN. She previously studied Biotechnology at Mahidol University (Thailand), and we are very excited that she will now start her PhD journey here with us at EPFL! 🎉

[Angela Steinauer @AngelaSteinauer]

Last week was great at the GRC on Physics of Viruses & Protein Cages in Tuscany! Learned a lot, enjoyed the exchanges. #ProudPI moment, my group showed up with posters that clearly belonged to the same lab.

[Angela Steinauer @AngelaSteinauer]

Had a lovely time in beautiful Champéry with great science and scenery @SNE_ChemBio retreat! Congrats to Louise on presenting her master’s thesis work.

[SNE ChemBio @SNE_ChemBio]

Our retreat concludes with an inspiring Session 4:
🔹 Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes (@UZH_en): Single-Molecule Protein Fingerprinting
🔹 Prof. Angela Steinauer (@EPFL_en): Engineered Protein Cages for RNA Delivery
🔹 Prof. Robbie Loewith (@unige_en): High Resolution of TOR Signaling

[SNE ChemBio @SNE_ChemBio]

Session 2 at the #SNEChemBio retreat is packed with innovation! Talks include:

🔹Prof. Tommaso Patriarchi (@UZH_en) on GPCR function
🔹Prof. Serina Robinson (@EawagResearch) on C-F bond cleavage in microbiomes
🔹Prof. Rachel Hevey (@UniBasel_en) on glycans & microbial virulence

[Carlos Moreno-Yruela @CarlosMYruela]

Pint of Science was again a great success in Lausanne, with >500 people attending our events!
Kudos to co-coordinators @miriamlisci and @JSLuneau, and to the fantastic team of 19 volunteers at the bars 🥳!

#PINT25 #scicomm

[SNE ChemBio @SNE_ChemBio]

👉🏽 Join tomorrow's 🆓 #chembio seminar @EPFL_en:

“Mitochondrial transporters and the control of cellular metabolism ” by Prof. Nora Kory (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
⏱️🇨🇭16:15 › 17:15
📢 https://t.co/mJ7y0eXBuC

@AngelaSteinauer

[SNE ChemBio @SNE_ChemBio]

🚨 Register now for the SNE #ChemBio Retreat 2025!
🗓️ June 2–3, 2025
📍 Hôtel Suisse, Champéry, Valais

🌟 Talks by top speakers: Ward, Milton, Steinauer, Rivera-Fuentes, Nash, Loewith
🏆 Poster contest
🏔️ Science & networking in the Alps
⏳ Limited spots: https://t.co/pIfmCtrA2y

[SNE ChemBio @SNE_ChemBio]

🎓🌟 Congrats to this year’s grads! Wishing our 6 incredible master's students in #ChemicalBiology all the best in their future adventures!

#MasterThesis #ChemBio
@unige_en
@EPFL_en

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

RNA interactions and structures are determined with a chemical labeling and crosslinking method https://t.co/4k49tg73Fq
https://t.co/FjUsaHsMFp

[Nature Reviews Drug Discovery @NatRevDrugDisc]

For readers interested in lipid nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery, here's an article by Cullis and Felgner on the evolution of the field over the past 60 years
https://t.co/ZvOnJehjze
https://t.co/yW2JJVi6v3

[SNE ChemBio @SNE_ChemBio]

🧪 Thinking about a future in #ChemBio? The Master’s program in Chemical Biology (@unige_en in collaboration with @EPFL_en) offers an exceptional opportunity to dive deep into the latest advancements in the field.
🚀 Shape your career: https://t.co/i1B9xDWtEr
#Master #Scholarship

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

[Kathrin Lang @klanglab]

Happy that this is finally online!
Genetic code expansion approaches to decipher the ubiquitin code @ACSChemRev
Many congratulations to Vera, Max and Marco!
@VeraWanka @MaxFottner @MarkoCigler 🥂🎉🥳

https://t.co/Y5oZ89bKgv

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

Chemical and topological design of multicapped mRNA and capped circular RNA to augment translation https://t.co/3PhWBooVL4