Stocker Lab at Scientifica 2026
For nine days, Scientifica 2026, Switzerland’s largest science festival, brought science to close for visitors of all ages. Stocker Lab contributed with the…
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Phytoplankton apply the onion skin principle
The interactions between microscopic algal cells and bacteria in the oceans play a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle. Researchers at ETH…
Swiss Army Plans to Use Bacteria
Former lab member Dr. Estelle Clerc and her company, CellX, made national headlines last week after securing a contract worth nearly CHF 500,000…
Mathematician’s Prestigious Fellowship Drives New Discoveries in Marine Microbiology
Professor Natasha Blitvic’s successful Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship highlights the power of interdisciplinary research and the value of one of the world’s most…
Our work on “shapeshifting marine algae” has been published in Science Advances
We have just published our discovery that coccolithophores, the microscopic algae that help regulate Earth’s climate, can transform into a bizarre, amoeba-like state…
Luiz Silva receives the American Fisheries Society Fellow Award
During the 155th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) in San Antonio, Texas, Luiz Silva received the prestigious AFS Fellow Award…
Our work on “shear-induced bacterial conjugation hotspots” has been published in PNAS
We showed that optimal shearing can increase bacterial conjugation rate five-fold, suggesting that high-shear regions (e.g., turbulent surface ocean) could act as conjugation…
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…
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…
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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