Welcome to Virgile Cascarra
Virgile changed to the ICB on September 20th. Find out about his research activities and interests here.
Further articles
Best Poster Prize for Anamarija Nikoletic
Anamarija Nikoletic, PhD candidate at the Group of Biointerfaces led by Prof. Dr. Oya Tagit, received the best poster prize at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute Annual Event. In her SNI PhD School project entitled “Multi-compartment nanofactories for on-site and on-demand drug synthesis and delivery”, Anamarija aims to develop triggerable, compartmentalized vesicles…
Seraina Abele presented at the Biotool-CHF workshop in London
Seraina Abele, gave a presentation on developing point of care testing devices for cardiac diseases at the workshop: “Tackling congestion in chronic heart failure: a multistakeholders workshop to define a new pathway for improving patients outcomes”. Seraina is performing her research in the group for in vitro Diagnostics and molecular…
Welcome to Laura Merz
Laura Merz Laura joins the group for in vitro Diagnostics and molecular Bioanalytics (led by Prof. Dr. Dominik Meinel) as a research associate. Laura will work on the Innosuisse funded project with Lino Biotech, using focal molography as a novel tool for biomolecular interaction characterization. …
SmartCoats: peptide shuttles for delivery of nucleic acid bases therapeutics
(together with Prof. Mosbacher, IPT and Dr. Benoit, PSI) Nucleic Acid based therapies are gaining momentum although the targeted delivery of nucleic acid to cells is very demanding. SmartCoats are protein-based carriers which are stable in plasma and are not immunogenic. They shall deliver their nucleic acid cargo specifically to…
A close look into the initial step of primer synthesis by an archaeoeukaryotic primase
(together with Prof. Allain, ETHZ and Prof. Wiegand RWTH Aachen) The Sulfolobus islandicus multi-copy plasmid pRN1 encodes a particular replication protein endowed with both primase and helicase activities. The primase domain of the replication protein is of the archaeoeukaryotic type and consists of the highly conserved catalytic domain (Prim_Pol) and…
Characterisation of the monomeric archaeoeukaryotic Primase from Nanoarchaeum equitans
The marine thermophilic archaeon Nanoarchaeum equitans possesses a monomeric primase encompassing the conserved domains of the small catalytic and the large regulatory subunits of archaeoeukaryotic heterodimeric primases in one protein chain. The recombinant protein primes on templates containing a triplet with a central thymidine, thus displaying a pronounced sequence specificity…