Author: SYIS
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Immune system in a dish – One dish at a time
By Johanna Lueckel. What if we could grow a lymph node it in the lab, and watch T and B cells go about their business? No mice, no scalpel, no drama? That’s exactly the promise of so called immune organoids. In vitro grown and matured tissues designed to mimic the structure and function of lymphoid…
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A Day in the Life of an Immunology PhD Student: Living on Caffeine and Cytokines
By Deeksha Raju, PhD. Ever wondered what a day in the life of an Immunology PhD student looks like? Here is a brief idea! 07:30 – The Naïve Optimism Stage You wake up thinking, “Today’s the day! I’m going to finish that experiment, analyse the data, read the ten papers I’ve bookmarked, prepare that presentation…
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Day of Immunology – Prof. Claudia Mauri
Claudia Mauri is a Professor of Immunology at the Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Immunity and Transplantation at UCL. She earned her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1990. Her primary research centers on identifying, analyzing, and genetically characterizing regulatory B cells. She is also deeply interested in…
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Women in Science – Prof. Nicole Joller
Nicole Joller is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Zurich and her research group focuses on understanding immune system regulation in host-pathogen interactions and studying the influence of infection history on disease susceptibility. After completing her PhD at ETH Zurich and post-doctoral studies at Harvard Medical School, she founded her research group at…
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Women in Science – Prof. Mübeccel Akdis
Prof. Mübeccel Akdis is the head of the Immune Regulation research group at the Swiss Institute for Allergy and Asthma research (SIAF) in Davos, Switzerland. Her research focuses on understanding and finding treatments for allergic diseases. More recently, her group has established techniques to investigate allergen-specific effector and regulatory immune cells in allergy and tolerance.…
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Women in Science – Prof. Emma Slack
Photo Credit: Emma Slack Emma Slack is a Full Professor of Mucosal Immunology at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health (D-HEST) ETH Zurich. Her research (ETH Zurich – Mucosal Immunology) focuses on understanding the interactions between the immune system, diet, and intestinal microbiota. Originally from the United Kingdom, she studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge…
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Science Communication in Academia – what’s expected outside of writing papers?
By Sinduya Krishnarajah, Postdoctoral Scientist, Becher lab. Illustration by Anne-Gaëlle Goubet for SYIS. Almost 5 years ago to the day, I landed in Zurich for a week of interviews with fellow Life Scientists hunting for PhD positions. I checked onto the return flight with a wide grin that I couldn’t wipe off my face for…
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Sum of i^2: Interdisciplinary immunology
By Lorenz Adlung. Illustration by Anne-Gaëlle Goubet for SYIS. I love immunology. Studying the immune system in all its complexity is thrilling and fascinating. It is challenging, but every day, I learn something new: Seeing things from a different angle. It is my firm belief that immunology is a research branch that offers, but also…
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Gut Neuroimmunity – Teamwork makes the dream work
By Jeremy Yeoh. Illustration by Anne-Gaëlle Goubet for SYIS. One unpleasant aspect of the upcoming summer is the rise of undesirable insects (no offence to entomologists). The advent of the insect season brings upon us much suffering – mainly in the form of itchy and sometimes painful bites, causing pain and inflammation in the form…
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Plasticity: An Identity Crisis
By Jeremy Yeoh. Illustration by Anne-Gaëlle Goubet for SYIS. Have you ever felt like you don’t really fit in a box that was meant to describe you? Do you feel like both a Pisces and a Scorpio at the same time? To make our lives simpler, humans tend to categorize things into neat groups, whether it…
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