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A recent GigaScience paper by the Gruissem group (IMPB) in collaboration with the Functional Genomics Center Zurich uses cutting-edge long-range DNA sequencing technology to generate the most accurate assembly of the highly heterozygous cassava genome, which accelerates breeding of this important crop.

A Nature Communications article, published by the Zeeman group (IMPB) in collaboration with Anders Meibom at EPFL, uses sophisticated imaging methods to capture previously unseen facets of starch metabolism. Groundbreaking visualizations depict granule initiation, fusion, and growth into flattened structures.

The recent Nature Communications paper by the groups of Volodymyr Korkhov (IMBB, ETHZ & PSI), in collaboration with Plückthun (UZH), Dessauer (UTHealth Houston) and Bondar (FZ Jülich & University of Bucharest) groups describes the conformational changes in membrane adenylyl cyclase AC9 induced by different activators.

Stefanie Jonas, professor in the D-BIOL's Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, is one of the four awardees at ETH Zurich who have been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Since Switzerland is no longer fully associated, the funds will be provided by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).

A recent "EMBO Journal" paper by the Peter group (IBC) and the former Kornmann group (now at the University of Oxford), reveals resilience of yeast cells to membrane perturbations and a novel role for Csf1, a highly conserved lipid transport protein in homeoviscous adaptation of the lipidome.