Participating Research Groups
Participating Research Groups
Research groups participating in the BUSS work on projects covering a wide range of topics in the life sciences. In the past, projects have been offered in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular, cell, developmental, behavioral, organismal, and systems biology, ecology, microbiology, neuroscience, physiology, biology of cancer and other diseases, plant biology, systematics and evolution, structural biology and bioinformatics.
List of former host groups:
| Group Leader | Affiliation |
| Prof. Steven Brown |
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology University of Zurich Keywords: Chronobiology and Sleep Research |
| Prof. Cornel Fraefel |
Experimental Virology University of Zurich Keywords: Molecular and Applied Virology |
| Prof. Eva Freisinger |
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry University of Zurich Keywords: Inorganic Coordination Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Structural Biology |
| Prof. Urs Greber |
Institute of Molecular Life Sciences University of Zurich Keywords: Cell Biology, Systems Biology, Virology |
| Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus |
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology University of Zurich |
Institute of Parasitology University of Zurich Keywords: molecular parasitology |
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| Prof. Christian Münz |
Institute of Experimental Immunology University of Zurich Keywords: |
| Prof. Arpat Ozgul |
Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences University of Zurich Keywords: Population Ecology, Biodemography |
| Dr. Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi | Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Keywords: Environmental tolerance of plants, speciation and adaptation by genome duplication, evolution of mating after polyploidization, evolutionary and ecological genomics |
| Prof. Roland Sigel |
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry University of Zurich Keywords: Biochemistry, Structural Biology |
| Prof. Esther Stoeckli |
Insitute of Molecular Life Sciences University of Zurich Keywords: Molecular mechanisms of neuronal circuit formation |
| Dr. Peter Szoeveny | Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany University of Zurich Keywords: Life cycle evolution, gene expression evolution, evo-devo, polyploid evolution |
| Prof. Alexandra Trkola |
Institute of Medical Virology University of Zurich Keywords: Virology |
| Prof. Christian Von Mering |
Institute of Molecular Life Sciences University of Zurich Keywords: Bioinformaticsm, Systems Biology |
| Dr. Nina Wolfrum |
Institute of Veterinary Baceteriology University of Zurich Keywords: tissue culture, stable cell lines, avian viruses, assay development for the diagnosis of avian diseases |
| Prof. Lynn Wong | Institute of Experimental Immunology University of Zurich Keywords: Cell Death and Regulation Inflammation |
| Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology University of Zurich Keywords: Infectiology, Microbiology |
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