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OUR RESEARCH FOCUS

Our research focuses on studying the molecular signaling systems and transcriptional networks that orchestrate organogenesis during embryonic development. To this aim we use mostly the mouse with its superbe genetics as a model embryo. The developing embryo is a stunning testimony to the intricate mechanisms that control patterning and differentiation of functional tissues and organs and to the evolutionary variations in these mechanisms that gave rise to the diversity of modern vertebrates. One of our main focuses is to study the self-regulatory signaling systems and gene regulatory networks that control vertebrate limb development.

NEWS & JOBS

October 2026

OPEN POSITION: 60% Research Assistant/Technician (Laborant/In) position from Janaury 1, 2027 or as agreed.

Please submit your application through the University of Basel’s recruitment platform: https://jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/research-assistant-technician-laborant-in/71f8d3a6-ba58-4200-9095-8a6a40965d63

Your application should contain a single PDF file including a letter of motivation, CV, copies of the relevant diplomas, degrees and certifications, brief summary of research and technical expertise, and the names and email addresses of at least two referees.

!!! 2 OPEN Master Thesis Projects in From mesenchymal progenitors to skeletal tissues: combining genetic and organoid models to study cartilage and bone development

September 2026

Congratulation to Maelys Besomi for receiving the Best Poster Award at the 87th Annual Meeting of the SSAHE

Congratulations to Luisa Blazquez Butler for receiving the Best Internship Award of her EMJM MorphoPHEN Masters Program

June 2026 Welcome to Luisa Blazquez Butler, master student in the European EMJM MorphoPHEN master program

June 2025 Welcome to Talia Wicker, master student in Molecular Medecine, Unibasel

April 2025 Welcome to Maelys Besomi who is starting a PhD in our group

Are you doing Fluorescent in situ Hybridisation > check our high sensitivity HCR step by step protocol publication

Read the blog entry on the University of Basel website now:

"Robust gene networks from the depths of our evolutionary history"

Read the article on Swiss National Radio of PD Dr. Aimée Zuniga and Prof. Dr. Rolf Zeller about research with mouse embryos

Our research featured on Swiss National Radio on the occasion of CRISPR/Cas 9 Nobel prize award to E. Charpentier and J. Doudna.