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Last update: January 2022

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Lab Prof. Hugues Abriel

Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern

Institute infrastructure: Cell culture and microscopy techniques, electrophysiology (conventional and automated patch-clamp), protein interaction techniques
Animal models: TRPM4 KO and KI animals, SNTA KO animals.

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Hugues Abriel	Channelopathies, ion channels and protein-protein interactions
Maria Essers lab manager, technician	Animal surgery, biochemistry, immunostaining, protein-protein proximity assay, cardiomyocytes isolation, Langendorff
Sabrina Guichard technician	Cardiomyocytes isolation, genotyping, molecular cloning, generation transgenic animal, co-immunoprecipitation, western blot, biotinylation, immunostaining, patch clamp HEK-293.
Mey Boukenna MD/PhD student	Cell culture, co-immunoprecipitation, western blot, biotinylation, Taqman.
Dr. Jean-Sébastien Rougier senior scientist	Cell culture, patch-clamp (heterologous expression system, iPSC, and cardiomyocytes), newborn cardiomyocytes isolation, molecular cloning, protein-protein proximity assay, immunostaining.
Anne-Flore Hämmerli technician	Patch-clamp, atrial cardiomyocytes isolation,
Dr. Oksana Iamshanova Postdoc	Patch clamp HEK-293, co-immunoprecipitation, western blot, biotinylation
Dr. Patricia Teixidor Monsell scientific officer

Lab Prof. Frédéric Allain

Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich

Institute infrastructure: Determination of structures at atomic resolution of Protein-RNA and drug-RNA complexes using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (NMR)

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Frédéric Allain	NMR, ITC, splicing assay
Dr. Antoine Cléry senior scientist	NMR, ITC, splicing assay

Lab Prof. Francesca Amati

Aging and Muscle Metabolism lab, Department of Physiology & Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Lausanne

Lab infrastructure: Human physiology and metabolism research lab including exercise testing, exercise intervention, stable isotope tracers, glucose clamps, indirect calorimetry, body composition.
Zebrafish facility, breeding, exercise testing and training.
Primary muscle cell cultures, respirometry, mitochondria isolation, wet lab, microsopy

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Francesca Amati	Clinical and translational research in muscle metabolism and aging, including muscle wasting, sarcopenia, insulin resistance and the development of other chronic diseases related to muscle metabolism. Our lab research projects include specific subcellular compartments, organelle dynamics and contact sites (mitochondria, lipid droplets, etc).
Dr. Sylviane Lagarrigue Postdoc	Mitochondrial metabolism, respirometry (Seahorse XF analyzers), primary cell cultures
Dogan Grepper PhD student	Zebrafish models
Cassandra Tabasso PhD student	Lipidomics
Dr. Ammar Ebrahimi PostDoc	Small molecules and peptides, Drosophila models
Axel Aguettaz PhD student	Imaging (high resolution, confocal, electron microscopy)

Lab Prof. Johan Auwerx

Laboratory of Integrative and Systems Physiology (LISP) – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Lab infrastructure:
Goals: to understand the role of mitochondria and proteostasis in health, disease, and aging
Strategy: systems & population genetics, molecular & cellular biology, and computational approaches
Model systems: C. elegans, mouse genetic reference populations, humans
Keywords: Metabolic sensing, Mitochondrial metabolism, Nuclear receptor and cofactor biology, Complex genetics, Genetic reference populations, Aging

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Johan Auwerx	Metabolism, Aging, muscle wasting, sarcopenia, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, IBM, mouse and human genetics, NAD biology, mitochondria.
Martin Wohlwend Post-Doc	Muscle stem cell, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, mitochondria and metabolism
Tanes Imamura de Lima Post-Doc	Muscle stem cell, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, mitochondria and metabolism
Barbara Moreira-Crisol Visiting PhD student	Muscle stem cell, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, mitochondria and metabolism
Amelia Lalou PhD student	Aging, proteostasis, mitochondria.

Lab Prof. Ori Bar-Nur

Regenerative and Movement Biology lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich

Lab infrastructure and techniques:
I) Tissue culture: primary muscle cell culture, pluripotent stem cell culture (mouse, rat, human), reprogramming somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (mouse, rat, human), reprogramming somatic cells into myogenic progenitors (mouse), isolation of fibro-adipogenic progenitors and satellite cells using surface markers, intramuscular cell transplantation and graft analysis.
(II) Relevant mouse strains: C57BL/10ScSn-Dmdmdx/J, B10ScSn.Cg-Prkdcscid Dmdmdx/J, B6.Cg-Pax7tm1(cre/ERT2)Gaka/J, Pax7-nGFP.

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Ori Bar-Nur	Stem cell biology with emphasis on pluripotent and satellite stem cells, direct lineage reprogramming methods such as conversion of somatic cells into muscle cells, principles of skeletal muscle regeneration.
Nicola Bundschuh Lab manager	Primary muscle cell culture, reprogramming somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9, flow cytometry, FACS sorting.
Joel Zwick PhD student	Reprogramming somatic cells into iPSCs or myogenic progenitors, primary muscle isolation and cell culture, fibro-adipogenic progenitor cell isolation and culture.
Seraina Domenig PhD student	Genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9, production of viral vectors, in vitro modelling of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, reprogramming somatic cells into iPSCs or myogenic progenitors.
Giada Bacchin PhD student	Direct reprogramming of somatic cells into myogenic progenitors, primary muscle/fibroblast cell culture and isolation, production of viral vectors, molecular cloning, human iPSCs, flow cytometry, biomaterials
Veerle de Goederen PhD student	Muscle cell dedifferentiation, fish cell culture, transcriptomics
Christine Ling Li Trautmann PhD student	Primary muscle cell isolation and cell culture of bovine myoblasts and muscle fibers

Lab. Prof. Perrine Castets

University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Department Cell Physiology and Metabolism

Institute infrastructure: Microscopy, FACS, genomic platform, Proteomics facility, cell culture, muscle electroporation, AAV

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Perrine Castets SNSF Assistant Professor	Muscle physiology; molecular biology; transgenic animal models; neuromuscular diseases; neuromuscular junction; autophagy
Dr. Alexandre Prola Maître Assistant	Molecular biology; metabolism; Muscle Stem Cells; mitochondria; Ca²⁺ flux
Dr. Jayassiman Rajendran PostDoc	Molecular biology; biochemistry; metabolomics; mitochondria dysfunction
Olivia Cattaneo PhD student	Molecular biology; histology; epigenetics; neuromuscular junction
Ilaria Cocchiararo PhD student	Molecular biology; autophagy; autophagic vacuolar myopathies, histology
Mélanie Cornut PhD student	Mouse genotyping; immunohistochemistry; nuclear isolation; cell culture

Lab Prof. Katrien De Bock

Exercise and Health lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich

Lab infrastructure and techniques: (I) Freshly isolated cell culture: primary muscle cell culture, isolation of satellite cells, fibro-adipogenic progenitors, immune cells and muscle endothelial cells, (II) Muscle physiology and regeneration in vivo: intramuscular cell transplantation and graft analysis, skeletal muscle injury: cardiotoxin, glycerol and hind-limb ischemia, TSE running wheel system, indirect calorimetry analysis (Sable systems metabolic cages). (III) Relevant mouse strains: Pax7-mTmG. Mouse lines to study vascular biology in muscle.

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Katrien De Bock	Metabolic reprogramming and crosstalk during muscle regeneration, exercise physiology, cell-cell interactions in skeletal muscle.
Dr. Inés Soro-Arnáiz PostDoc	Satellite cell isolation and culture, cardiotoxin-induced muscle injury, intramuscular satellite cell transplantation, immunofluorescent imaging and analysis of muscle tissue, flow cytometry

Lab Prof. Maud Frieden

University of Geneva, Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism

Institute infrastructure: Calcium imaging, electrophysiology, human primary cell culture, lentivirus

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Maud Frieden	Electrophysiology, Ca2+ imaging
Dr. Stephane Koenig scientific collaborator	Molecular biology, myogenesis and muscle regeneration, lentivirus, signal transduction
Dr. Axel Tollance PostDoc	Reserve cell activation, signal transduction, Ca2+ imaging
Loann Laubry PhD student	Myoblast differentiation, Signal transduction, Ca2+ imaging, electrical stimulation on cell culture
Olivier Dupont Lab technician	Myoblast differentiation, Signal transduction, Ca2+ imaging

Lab Prof. Christoph Handschin

Biozentrum, University of Basel

Institute infrastructure: Treadmill (open and closed), voluntary wheel running, grip strength, CLAMS (comprehensive laboratory animal monitoring system), qNMR (body composition)

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Christoph Handschin	Skeletal muscle cell plasticity in health and disease incl. exercise and muscle wasting pathologies
Dr. Regula Furrer Postdoc	Dysferlinopathy (in vivo testing, in situ force measurements

Lab Prof. Marisa Jaconi

University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences

Institute infrastructure: Cell culture and microscopy techniques; pre-GMP and GMP lab; muscle physiology; animal facility and analysis of muscle function

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Marisa Jaconi	Human pluripotent stem cells (ESC and iPSC) and tissue-derived stem cells Cardiac and skeletal muscle differentiation Organoids and tissue engineering Cell therapy strategies and GMP cell production Setup for 3D sound-induced morphogenesis (Cymatix) Setups for microfluidics and electrophysiological characterization of organoids
Dr. Tania Rodrigues Post-Doc	Mesoangioblast biology, muscle differentiation and functional analysis, lentivector transduction and clonal selection GMP isolation and cell banking
Martha Iabel Gonzalez Duque PostDoc	Stem cells and cardiac valve reconstruction, 3D bioprinting, sound-induced morphogenesis

Lab Alexis Jourdain

Mitochondria & Energy Metabolism lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne

Lab infrastructure and techniques: (I) Tissue culture: muscle, cancer and immune cell culture. (II) Systems biology: genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screening, nutrient screening, omics. (III) Mitochondrial biology: Respirometry, mtDNA expression, respiratory chain complexes assembly, mitochondrial disorders.

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Alexis Jourdain	Mitochondria, systems biology
Emeline Recazens PostDoc	Mitochondria, muscle cell differentiation
Miriam Lisci PostDoc	Mitochondria, T cell immunometabolism
Joan Blanco Fernandez PhD student	Mitochondria, macrophage immunometabolism
Abigail Lee Strefeler PhD student	Mitochondria, nutrient metabolismy

Lab Prof. Didier Hannouche & Dr. Thomas Laumonier

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine & University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

Institute infrastructure: Hypoxic chamber, Whole Animal System for muscle physiology testing in mice, bioluminescence imaging.

Team	Personal expertise
Dr. Thomas Laumonier Senior scientist, PhD Co-responsible of the lab	Isolation of human myogenic stem cells, cell therapy, immunology, flow cytometry, gene therapy, bioluminescence imaging
Prof. Didier Hannouche Professor, MD Co-responsible of the lab	Orthopaedic surgery, cell therapy
Dr. Laure Gallay PostDoc	Animal microsurgery, PCR, histology
Axelle Bouche PhD student	Cell culture, flow cytometry, cell transplantation
Chloé Richard Master student	Cell culture, flow cytometry, immunofluorescence

Lab Prof. Robert Katzschmann

Departement für Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik, CLA Building, Laboratory of Soft Robotics, ETH Zurich

Institute infrastructure: 3D extrusion bioprinter, 3D printers, equipment for electrical stimulation of muscle cells and tissue

Team	Personal expertise
Robert Katzschmann Assistant Professor	Soft Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Muscle Tissue Engineering, Electrical Stimulation of Muscle Cells and Tissue, Bio-hybrid Robots
Miriam Filippi Senior scientist	Muscle Tissue Engineering, Electrical Stimulation of Muscle Cells and Tissue, Biofabrication, 3D Extrusion Bioprinting, Bio-hybrid Robots
Oncay Yasa PostDoc	Soft Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Muscle Tissue Engineering, Electrical Stimulation of Muscle Cells and Tissue, 3D Extrusion Bioprinting, Biomaterials, Bio-hybrid Robots
Lewis Jones PhD student	Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Tissue Engineering, Volumetric 3D Bioprinting, Bio-hybrid Robots

Lab Prof. Peter Meister

Institute of Cell Bioogy, University of Bern

Institute infrastructure: Confocal Microscopy, Spinning Disk microscopy

Team	Personal expertise
P.D. Peter Meister	C. elegans, muscle differentiation, epigenetics, nuclear organization, microscopy
Karthik Mohanraj post-doc	Cell plasticity, muscle cell induction, pluripotency, genetic screens

Lab Prof. Nicolas Mermod

University of Lausanne, Biotechnology

Institute infrastructure: Muscle in situ electroporation, integrating and non-integrating non-viral DNA expression vectors, Next-generation DNA sequencing and genomics

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Nicolas Mermod	Gene expression and regulation, genomics, epigenetic regulatory elements, non-viral vectors
Dr. Lionel Mavoungou Postdoctoral researcher	gene transfer in cultured muscle progenitor cells and transplantation, MDX murine model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Lab Prof. Matteo Moretti and Dr. Simone Bersini

Regenerative Medicine Technologies Lab, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale and Faculty of Biomedical Sciences at Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano

Institute infrastructure
Cell culture and in vitro modeling

Isolation and culture of primary cells from human musculo-skeletal biopsies (e.g. myoblasts, fibroblasts)
Biofabrication of miniaturized in vitro models of the human skeletal muscle microenvironment embedding muscle fibers, endothelial cells and muscle-specific stromal cells
Biofabrication of human microvascular networks with applications in musculo-skeletal pathologies, oncology and aging

Techologies and techniques: Fused-deposition modeling 3D printer, Digital light processing 3D printer, Laser cutter, Plasma cleaner, High-vacuum pumps, Nitrogen gas generator, Nitrogen oven, Soft lithography, Electrical stimulation, Hydrogel patterning

Team	Personal expertise
Dr. Simone Bersini	Biofabrication of musculo-skeletal tissues, organ-specific vascularization and vascular biology, microfluidics and microphysiological systems, computational fluid dynamic simulations
Riccardo Francescato PhD student	Primary cell isolation and culture, computer-aided design, microfabrication
Giuseppe Talò technician	Design of electro-mechanical systems, 3D printing, bioprinting
Stefy Puthuparambil master student	Design of electrical stimulation systems

Lab Prof. Markus A. Rüegg

University of Basel, Biozentrum

Institute infrastructure: Muscle electroporation; muscle force measurement; microscopy;cell culture; tread mill; voluntary wheel running; brain physiology.

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Markus A. Rüegg	Muscle physiology; molecular biology; transgenic animal models; neuromuscular diseases.
Dr. Shuo Lin Assistant	Development of neuromuscular junctions; muscle growth and muscular dystrophies.
Dr. Judith Reinhard Research associate	Molecular biology; biochemistry; histology; histochemistry; muscular dystrophies (LAMA2 MD (MDC1A))
Dr. Daniel J. Ham Postdoc	Muscle physiology; sarcopenia; muscle function testing.
Dr. Giulia Milan Postdoc	Muscle physiology; cell biology; molecular biology; signaling pathways in muscle disease
Marco Thürkauf Master student
Alexander Ham Master student
Filippo Oliveri Technician	Genotyping of mice, lab management

Lab Dr. Francesco Santini and Prof. Oliver Bieri

Division of Radiological Physics, Department of Radiology, University Hospital Basel

Institute infrastructure: 1.5T and 3T human MRI scanners for in vivo imaging and spectroscopy, electronics laboratory, access to 31P coils for in vivo human spectroscopy and MR-compatible ergometer, equipment for electrical muscle stimulation during MRI.

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Oliver Bieri Head of Radiological Physics	Methodological development, novel contrast mechanisms.
Dr. Francesco Santini Head of Muscle MRI	Methodological development, dynamic MRI; MRI safety; electronics design and development.
Dr. Xeni Deligianni PostDoc	Methodological development, quantitative and dynamic MR imaging and spectroscopy; MR image and data analysis.
Dr. Claudia Weidensteiner PostDoc	Methodological development, study design and data analysis, pediatric imaging.
Dr. Jakob Wasserthal PostDoc	Image analysis and Artificial Intelligence
Tanja Haas technician	MRI scanning
Philipp Madörin technician	MRI scanning

Lab Prof. Smita Saxena

University of Bern, Dept. for Biomedical research and Dept. of Neurology, Insespital

Institute infrastructure: Confocal microscopy, spinning disk microscopy for live and calcium imaging, muscle force measurement, cell culture, voluntary wheel running, rotarod, stereotaxic surgery, optogenetics, laser dissection microscopy, ALS rodent models (SOD1, TDP-43 and C9ORF72).

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Smita Saxena	Degeneration of motor neruons and neuromuscular junctions in ALS, muscle factors that influence axonal regeneration status, mTOR signalling in motor neurons
Niran Maharjan Senior Researcher	Motor neuron and iPSC-derived neuronal cultures, electron microscopy
Mert Duman	sleep measurements
Federica Pilotto PhD student
Carla Pernaci PhD student
Rim Diab PhD student
Alexander Schmitz MD-PhD student

Lab Prof. Leonardo Scapozza

University of Geneva, Pharmaceutical Biochemistry

Institute infrastructure: Setup for measuring isometric force in sedated living mice or rats; Setup for measuring isometric and eccentric force in excised muscle; Setup for fluorescent imaging in living cells, mdx5Cv dystrophic mouse, mdx5Cv mice bearing conditional mutations for aromatase, estrogen receptors alpha and beta, cell culture facilities (P2 level), HTP plate readers, genomics platforms with capacity for RNA-sequencing and qPCR

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Leonardo Scapozza	Biophysics of interactions: ITC, SPR, Thermophoresis, Enzymology Medicinal Chemistry: Cpds synthesis Biochemistry: protein expression (mg scale), protein purification, target-based in vitro assay, protein characterization (SEC, SEC-MALS)
Dr. Olivier Dorchies Senior Research Associate	Primary cultures of mouse skeletal muscle, in vivo force measurements, in vivo motor function (spontaneous locomotor activity, grid test, wheel running), Mouse models: mdx5Cv, FU-5Cv (muscle-specific, Dox-inducible, Flox-Utrophin mdx5Cv mouse), D2/5Cv (similar to D2.mdx, mdx5Cv allele in DBA/2J background). Influxes of radioactive calcium and sodium, fluorescent detection of ROS, roles of ROS and estrogen receptors in muscle dystrophy
Dr. Hesham Ismail Senior scientist	In vivo/ex vivo force measurements, primary mouse skeletal muscle cultures, fluorescent imaging of intracellular pH, sodium fluxes, calcium fluxes, ROS, roles of ROS in muscle dystrophy
Dr. Laurence Neff Research associate	Molecular biology, genome editing, viral vectors
Ghali Guedira PhD student	In vivo/Ex vivo force measurements, roles of ROS in muscle dystrophy.

Lab Profs. Michael Sinnreich, Susan Treves and Francesco Zorzato

University of Basel, Department Neurologie & Biomedizin

Institute infrastructure: Translational research on muscular dystrophies, Congenital myopathies with special focus on excitation contraction coupling dysregulation and calcium homeostasis.

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Michael Sinnreich	Neuromuscular diseases Muscular Dystrophies
Prof. Susan Treves	Intracellular calcium measurements, resting membrane potential measurements with fluorescent dyes, Preparation of primary muscle moytube cultures (human, mouse, EOM) Western blots, preparation of poly and monoclonal Abs, protein purification
Prof. Francesco Zorzato	Force measurements on fast and slow twitch muscles, Ca2+ imaging on single muscle fibers, single fiber dissection, SPARK analysis, electroporation. Western blots, preparation of Abs, protein purification
Dr. Jochen Kinter PostDoc	Experience in NGS, drug screenings, aptamers
Dr. Lionel Tintignac senior scientist	Myogenesis, primary culture of muscle cells, NGS and Ribo-seq, proteomics and PTM. Proximity labeling
Dr. Christian Klingler PostDoc	Experience in NGS, drug screenings, aptamers
Dr. Alexis Ruiz PostDoc	Force measurements on fast and slow twitch muscles. Single fiber dissection and Ca2+ imaging on single muscle fibers. Confocal microscopy, Western blots, qPCR. In vivo assessment of mouse muscle force
Yusuf Ertuna PostDoc	Myogenesis, primary culture of muscle cells, proteomic and PTM. Proximity labeling
Dr. Yuko Noda (MD) Visiting PostDoc (Japan)	Sub-cloning and site-directed mutagenesis, cell transfection, microsomal membrane preparation, Western blotting, Ca2+ imaging on single cells.
Sofia Benucci PhD student	Force measurements on fast, slow twitch muscles and EOM muscles. Histology of muscle sections. Ca²⁺ imaging on single muscle fibers and single cells, qPCR, confocal microscopy, western blotting. In vivo assessment of mouse muscle force
Martina Franchini PhD student	Force measurements on fast and slow twitch muscles; Ca²⁺ imaging on single muscle fibers and single cells, qPCR, Western blotting, confocal microscopy. In vivo assessment of mouse muscle force
Hervé Meier Research Assistant (Master’s)	Western blots, qPCR, protein purification, cell and tissue culture, subcellular fractionation, calcium imaging and confocal Microscopy, pPCR and Western blotting
Raphael Schmid Master Student	DUX4 Biogenesis, Ubiquitination, Protein Homeostatis
Adeline Stiefvater Research technician	Mouse muscle dissection, primary muscle cell and fiber culture, drug screening. EX vivo myotonia measurements

Lab Prof. Patrick Tschopp

Laboratory of Regulatory Evolution, DUW Zoology, University of Basel

Institute infrastructure and techniques: (I) single-cell genomics: in-house production and bioinformatics analyses of single-cell genomics data sets, namely 10x Genomics scRNA-seq, snRNA-seq and scATAC-seq, as well as SMART-seq2 scRNA-seq (II) lightsheet microscopy: whole-mount immunohistochemistry, lightsheet microscopy and image analysis (III) Axonal backfills: muscle-specific axonal backfills and single-cell motor neuron picking in developing chicken embryos

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Patrick Tschopp PI	Developmental biology and evolutionary-comparative developmental biology, transcriptional regulation, functional genomics and single-cell functional genomics, experimental embryology
Dr. Maëva Luxey Senior Research Associate	Developmental neurobiology, primary cell culture, axon guidance, axonal backfilling, muscle microdissection, functional genomics and single cell functional genomics, lightsheet and confocal microscopy, experimental embryology
Dr. Bianka Berki Research Associate	Developmental biology, tissue dissociation, manual single-neuron purification, lightsheet and confocal miscroscopy, image analysis, experimental embryology
Fabio Sacher Scientific Collaborator	Analysis of 10X and SMART-seq2 scRNA-seq data, DE testing, and data visualisation in R.
Gabriela Stieger MSc Student	Lightsheet and confocal microscopy, experimental embryology.

Lab Dr. Bernhard Wehrle-Haller

University of Geneva, School of medicine

Institute infrastructure: Microscopy, live-cell imaging, cell culture, fluorescent proteins

Team	Personal expertise
Dr. Bernhard Wehrle-Haller PD, PA	Dynamic regulation of cell-matrix adhesions, live cell imaging, cell culture, FRAP, microscopy, live imaging
Michael Bachmann PostDoc	Fluorescent tag-proteins, live imaging, FRAP, integrin signaling, surface patterning
Jérémy Kessler PhD student

Lab Prof. Werner Z'Graggen

Inselspital Bern, Department of Neurology

Institute infrastructure: equipment for muscle and nerve excitability measurements, ENMG equipment, muscle MR imaging, histology, mitochondrial activity essays

Team	Personal expertise
Prof. Hugh Bostock PhD, researcher	Musle and nerve excitability measurements
Belén Rodriguez PhD student	Muscle and nerve excitability measurements