Professor Oliver Schilling is to become assistant professor of hydrogeology at the Faculty of Science. The University Council has also promoted historian Professor Sabine Huebner and infection biologist Professor Sébastien Gagneux to full professors.
Those who long for independence in their daily working lives may decide to become self-employed. This step toward greater freedom should after all contribute to greater life satisfaction. But does self-employment actually live up to these high expectations? Researchers at the University of Basel have investigated the topic.
Through duplication of genetic material cells can acquire new functions. This process may give rise to new cell types with unique properties. A research group at the University of Basel has now been able to demonstrate that gene duplication has generated new cell types in fish, thus supporting a classic theory of evolutionary biology.
A type of cell transformation known as EMT enables cancer cells to break away from the tumor and form metastases elsewhere. However, this process does not always take place in full. Researchers at the University of Basel have now been able to show that tumor cells contribute differently to the formation of metastases and the development of therapy resistance, depending on whether they have undergone full or only partial transformation.
Microplastics are everywhere, even in the most remote places. Where do these tiny pieces of plastic come from? Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute have shown that it takes precise analysis to answer this question.
In an official ceremony, the University of Basel opened its Dies Academicus for the 561st time and awarded honorary doctorates to an entirely female line-up for the first time ever.
Verbal and sexual assaults – nurses are at a high risk of being attacked by patients in inpatient psychiatry shows a study from the University of Basel. Researchers are now calling for new strategies for violence prevention.
Individuals can also experience feelings of ostracism in the digital world. Researchers from the Universities of Basel and Koblenz-Landau have studied how strongly people’s fundamental psychological needs are affected when they are not tagged on Instagram.
The Swiss National Science Foundation has awarded five new assistant professorships to the University of Basel. The projects supported under the Eccellenza program come from the fields of ophthalmology, psychology, digital humanities, urban studies and neuroscience.
