Our paper on “to swim or not to swim during starvation” published in Nature Microbiology
During carbon starvation, motility may help bacteria to swim out of trouble, but at great energetic cost. Marine bacteria have developed two strategies…
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Eperimental Microfulidics: a Short Course
When: In Person 16-20 June 2025, Online 16-19 June 2025 – Explore the fundamental principles of microfluidic technology and gain hands-on experience through…
Enhancing Fish Passage Efficiency: New Study for Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) by Dr. Luiz Silva’s Ecohydraulics Team
Our Ecohydraulics Team has completed a study for the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) aimed at assessing the efficiency of fish…
Our paper on bacterial ixotrophy published in Science
How do microbes survive and thrive in heterogeneous environments where nutrient concentrations fluctuate in space and time? In collaboration with Martin Pilhofer’s group…
Numerical modeling of column experiments to study arsenic immobilization in groundwater from Yinchuan Basin, China
Keywords Water resources, groundwater, arsenic fate in soil, numerical modeling Description Groundwater arsenic of natural origin is a global issue affecting the health…
Our paper on the bacterial degradation of lipids in marine particles with Ben van Mooy’s group appears in Science
How do microbial behaviour and interactions influence carbon storage in the deep sea? An international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Roman Stocker,…
Study reveals how brown trout may cope with hydropower-induced discharge fluctuations
Rapid changes in water discharge, a phenomenon known as hydropeaking, can disturb aquatic ecosystems, and researchers have sought to understand how fish species cope…
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Upcoming course in Experimental Microfluidics – remote attendance is now possible!
In this short course, organized by Eleonora and Stefano in collaboration with the MSE group (Eawag) and the De Mello group (ETH), you…
Poster Award at Biology Across Scale Symposium
Tommaso Redaelli has won the Best Poster Prize at the Biology Across Scale Symposium! This three-day workshop, held in Cascais, Portugal, brought together…
Allies from the deep
Estelle Clerc searches remote waters such as the deep ocean for bacteria that can degrade specific pollutants such as microplastics, pharmaceuticals and pesticides….
Highly Cited Researcher 2023
Roman was awarded Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science “in recognition of exceptional research performance, demonstrating significant and broad influence in the…
Quino has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at ETH Zurich!
Congratulations to Quino on being awarded the title of “Professor”. This well-deserved recognition is a culmination of his significant contributions to original and…
Estelle got the BRIDGE PoC fellowship!
Last February, Estelle got awarded a BRIDGE PoC fellowship to bring her research results into a startup: CellX Biosolutions. She is discovering and…
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