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Functional Genomics Center Zurich
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Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ) is a joint platform of the ETH Zürich and the University of Zurich. #genomics #proteomics #metabolomics
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🔬Ever wondered what goes on inside one of Switzerland's leading #omics core facilities? Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Functional Genomics Center Zurich! Supporting researchers from @ethz.ch, UZH, and beyond across #genomics, #proteomics & #metabolomics.

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Our proteomics experts Sibylle Pfammatter and Christian Panse attended HUPO 2025 in Toronto, presenting 3 posters on #glycosylation, #phosphorylation & integrative #PTM analysis. Great reconnecting with the community! #HUPO2025
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
First #Spatial #Proteomics course complete! 🎉 Hands-on #LCMS & #MALDI-MS training for young researchers 🔬👩‍🔬 Thanks to our instructors Sibylle Pfammatter, Antje Dittmann, Claudia Fortes as well as all students for joining.

Stay tuned for future FGCZ training courses! 📢
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🧬 Join us Nov 4, 14:00-16:30pm CET at FGCZ for a seminar on AVITI24™ sequencing!

Discover Direct In-Sample Sequencing (no library prep!) & new multiomics applications.

🎤 Speaker: Wilfred van IJcken, PhD
📍 Y59-G30, FGCZ
🥐 Refreshments provided

Details & registration: tinyurl.com/49bxkffy
October 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🧪 FGCZ proteomics events this autumn

ℹ️ Bruker Go Local Zurich (Nov 19)
ℹ️ Quantitative Proteomics workshop (Nov 25, 3-5pm)
ℹ️ Introduction to Proteomics Data Analysis course (Dec 16-18).

Limited spots—first-come basis. Further info & registration at

🔗 fgcz.ch/news-and-eve...
FGCZ Seminars
Upcoming presentations & seminars being held at the FGCZ
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October 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
🧬 Exciting hybrid seminar at FGCZ!

@singleronbio.bsky.social expert Baraa Altaha will present their cutting-edge single-cell tech - from tissue preservation to bioinformatic analysis.

🎁 Free kit lottery + sponsored lunch!
📅 Sep 30, 12-14:30
📍 UZH Irchel (Y59-G30)

Register: tinyurl.com/3a98ec5d
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🧑‍🏫 FGCZ course round-up!

- DNA Next Gen #Sequencing (Sep 8-12)
- #Spatial #Transcriptomics Analysis (Oct 6-9)
- #Proteomics workshop: Interaction & Quantitative (Oct 14)
- Spatial Proteomics with #MassSpec (Oct 27-30)

Perfect for researchers wanting to level up their omics.

🔗 tinyurl.com/mr2aan5s
FGCZ Seminars
Upcoming presentations & seminars being held at the FGCZ
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September 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🚀 FGCZ hosts 10x Genomics User & Tech Day!

Join us to discover how single-cell, spatial, and in situ tech can advance your research and see cutting-edge applications.

Free but registration required!

📅 Sep 17, Office hours 9-12, lunch & seminar 12-17
📍 UZH Irchel Y59-G30
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September 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🥩🧪 Major breakthrough in #lab-grown beef!

@ethz.ch researchers led by Prof. Ori Bar-Nur cracked the code for producing thick, 3D muscle fibers in cow.

Shoutout to former/current FGCZers @adhideb.bsky.social + @blauenkaiser.bsky.social for their contributions & congrats!

🔗 tinyurl.com/d84s9spv
On track to produce better lab-grown burgers
The cultivation of thick muscle fibres from bovine cells in the lab has long been a challenge for scientists. Researchers from ETH Zurich have now successfully tackled this issue – with the goal of on...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🧬💻 Bioinformatics spotlight!
Our Bioinformatics Unit brings together genomics, proteomics/metabolomics, and BFabric expertise.

🔬 What we offer:
- IT infrastructure support
- Omics data analysis tools & services
- Custom apps & tailored analyses

🔗 Check out our video: tinyurl.com/y6t6enu7
September 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🧪 #Metabolomics Week spotlight!

Our Metabolomics Unit, led by @alaaothman.bsky.social, offers end-to-end metabolite analysis support - from experimental design to data interpretation. Services include #lipidomics, targeted & untargeted #metabolite analysis.

🔗 tinyurl.com/5a74hrpn
September 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🧬 Proteomics Week spotlight!

Our expert team led by @paolonanni.bsky.social offers complete #proteomics support - from experimental design to data analysis. Services include protein characterization, PTM analysis, interaction studies, spatial proteomics & more

Watch our video: tinyurl.com/ezb8s2s6
August 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🧬 Meet our #Genomics Unit!

Led by @catharineaquino.bsky.social, our team specializes in #ngs, #single-cell transcriptomics, #spatial gene expression, #long-read sequencing & genome engineering. From DNA to RNA to protein to metabolites!

Video 🔗 learn more about our services: tinyurl.com/zemh8bsy
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August 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
🎉 New Illumina MiSeq i100 now live at Genome Engineering & Measurement Lab (GEML) at @ethz.ch Hönggerberg

Ready for walk-up access - book via B-Fabric for amplicons, plasmids & small genomes

📍ETH Hönggerberg, HCI
🗓 Booking: fgcz-bfabric.uzh.ch/bfabric/
📧 Questions: [email protected]
August 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Reposted by Functional Genomics Center Zurich
Big thanks to Monica Manotas for visiting the @fgcz-en.bsky.social in your very first week as CEO of Tecan. Nothing like jumping straight into customer visits (starting with the nicest customer, of course 😇 ) and what a fantastic way to kick off the new role!
August 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🔬Ever wondered what goes on inside one of Switzerland's leading #omics core facilities? Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Functional Genomics Center Zurich! Supporting researchers from @ethz.ch, UZH, and beyond across #genomics, #proteomics & #metabolomics.

🔗 fgcz.ch
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🎉 Second Student-on-Stage event was a huge success! Congrats to:

🥇 Priska Flury
🥈 Emma Alessandri
🥉 Andrea Roggo

& all other brilliant presenters who delivered amazing talks! Thanks to organizers Sibylle & Martina, jury & helpers.

Already excited for year 3! 🔬✨ We hope to see you then. 🔍
June 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🚀 Students on Stage event next week!

📆Wed June 11, 8:30-14:30
📍FGCZ (UZH Irchel, Y59)

Students presenting cutting-edge research from #spatialtranscriptomics to #cancer #therapeutics.

Register: tinyurl.com/unead4e8

Thanks to sponsors Nikon & Felfel!
#Science #Research
June 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🧬 New study in Gen. Bio.! We tested how RNA input & PCR cycles affect duplication rates across 4 sequencers. ↘️ RNA = ↗️ duplicates = ↘️ diversity. Key for optimizing RNA-seq protocols! Thanks + congrats to @catharineaquino.bsky.social @nataliazajac.bsky.social + collaborators!

🔗 tinyurl.com/bdcuen59
May 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🧬 FGCZ 10X Genomics Workshop

Single-cell analysis on the 10x Cloud Analysis platform: from CellRanger to Loupe to community tools! Discuss with 10x Applied Bioinformatics team + FGCZ bioinformaticians.

📆June 12, 9:00-15:30
📍UZH Irchel Y59-G30

Limited spots—register now!
tinyurl.com/4wb3rxj5
10x Genomics single cells data analysis day: Don't miss this hands-on workshop!
Title: Hands-on workshop of the single-cell analysis, from Cloud to Loupe to Community-Developed Tools Date: Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th June 2025 Time: 9.00 to 15.30 Make your choice: Geneva...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🔬 Exciting news! Our #metabolomics team led by Dr. Alaa Othman has published another paper! Prof. Kopf's lab at ETHZ discovered a new metabolic role for #peroxisomes that could lead to treatments for rare diseases.
Read the paper: tinyurl.com/yc7u5cu9
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Peroxisomes are critical for a unique metabolic demand and survival of alveolar macrophages
Tissue-resident macrophages (TRMs) populate throughout various tissues, and their homeostatic metabolism is heavily influenced by these microenvironme…
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May 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📢 Announcing our GEO Uploader tool! Simplifies deposition of sequencing data to GEO repository by automating aggregation, upload & metadata entry in one place.

Use it now for FGCZ-generated data:
geo-uploader.fgcz.uzh.ch

And stay tuned: we will be open-sourcing the code soon.
March 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Reposted by Functional Genomics Center Zurich
New preprint! How S. aureus copes with inhibitory compounds secreted by P. aeruginosa. By @schluk.bsky.social. Great collaboration with @fgcz-en.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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February 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📣 Collaborative Proteomics Publications 🧪
New 2025 studies from FGCZ Proteomics team + research partners:

tinyurl.com/yfy7umph (w/ Schnyder group)
tinyurl.com/ah8mncf4 (w/ Visentin lab)
tinyurl.com/yrj2pdpp (w/ Lösle)

Congrats to all involved! If you, too, want to work with us, check out the link:
FGCZ Intranet | ProteomicsServiceEntryPage
FGCZ Intranet
fgcz-intranet.uzh.ch
March 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Join EuPA Open Lab Days! Virtual tour of 8 European #proteomics #core facilities in #Proteopolis. Discuss lab management, protocols, data analysis & more.

Register now!
🔗 tinyurl.com/EuPACore4Life
📅 25/02/2025, 15:00 CET
February 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Just published in J. Proteome Research: "prolfquapp", a new #opensource tool simplifying differential expression analysis in quantitative #proteomics. Developed by FGCZ for UZH & @ethzurich.bsky.social. TY to the amazing FGCZ team for their collaboration! #Bioinformatics
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prolfquapp ─ A User-Friendly Command-Line Tool Simplifying Differential Expression Analysis in Quantitative Proteomics
Mass spectrometry is a cornerstone of quantitative proteomics, enabling relative protein quantification and differential expression analysis (DEA) of proteins. As experiments grow in complexity, invol...
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January 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM