Blog
A little insight into what’s happening in our lab.
2025
We were just so lucky to have the most amazing BSc students for a block course in our lab this semester! They all did an amazing job and we are so proud of them. We wish them all the best for their future study!
Big congrats Sarai!! All the best for your future!
Warmest congratulations to our (now former) PhD student, Dr. Puccetti, who successfully defended his thesis on the 28th of March 2025! We are all very proud of you, and we wish you all the best for your future career!
ECFG17 just took place in Dublin, Ireland! Ursula gave an amazing talk on the remarkably scarce yet intriguing TE content in Candida albicans, Thomas presented a poster on his recent work exploring the signatures of the fungal TE-defense RIP system across the fungal kingdom and I had a poster on mitochondrial genome diversity within the Zymoseptoria tritici species. We were thrilled to be part of the global fungal scientific community, and the venue was stunning — we enjoyed exploring Dublin and its surroundings!
Cedric Feschotte from Cornell University visited us in Neuchatel to give a seminar and chat about our mutual passion for transposable elements.
Some of us were at Biology25! Ivan presented his great work on mitochondrial genomes in Zymoseptoria, Ursula and I were having posters and super fruitful discussions! See you next year at Biology26 in our beautiful Neuchâtel!
2024
We co-organized the ISCLB 2024 in Zurich. This is our community’s prime meeting and attracted people from all over the world. I think everyone had a great time and the science was outstanding. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this happen!
2023
We went up near beautiful Creux du Van to spend a day reflecting on the year, ourselves and our science. We also had a lot of fun and enjoyed the great food. Thanks everyone for coming!
Emile launched a new edition of our international apéros. Everyone brings what they like best from their home country (or elsewhere). Needless to say that this turned out to be amazing and super fun. Thanks everyone!
My biggest congratulations to Emile Gluck-Thaler to embarking on a tenure-track position this fall at Wisconsin-Madison.
Our biggest congratulations to Leen Abraham for her amazing PhD presentation on her expression mapping work.
Our amazing ski team is checking out La Berra in the Fribourg Alps!
2022
Emile organized a wonderful little train, boat and hiking trip to see the spectacular waterfall of Le Doubs deep in the magical Jura mountains. Thanks everyone for joining!
Very warm congratulations to Ursula Oggenfuss for an amazing PhD presentation on her transposon work. We are so proud of you!
Big congratulations to Vinciane Mossion for becoming Dr. Mossion!! We are very excited and proud of you!
2021
Big congratulations to our PhD graduate for getting an award for her thesis!
A very warm congratulations to Nikhil for successfully passing your PhD!! What a wonderful moment to spend together. We are so proud of you!!
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Thank you Sarai & co. for organizing this super nice and tasty (!) apéro with food from everyone’s home country. It was nice to see everyone being around.
Thank you Ursula for this awesome idea to visit the Taubenloch gorge! Do it like the pigeons (“Tauben”) - seek some cool spot to spend the hot days.
It felt great to spend again a little time together as a lab. Outdoors is just the best way to do this. Thanks for joining!
2020
This year has been so obviously difficult for many of us. In science, this is particularly true for MSc students, PhD students and postdocs. Few in-person meetings, no conferences, constraints for working in the lab, worries about owns family, feeling isolated in a country far from home and still some dark clouds on the horizon.
Vinciane Mossion was our fantastic tour guide for a day full of nice chats, walks, rides with a cute train and a boat. Photos by Ziming Zhong.
2019
Blog post written by Sandra Milena Gonzalez Sayer (visiting PhD student from Colombia)
Blog post written by Luzia Stalder who started her PhD in our lab in spring 2019.
One of the best things to do in Neuchâtel. date: 2019-07-04
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