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Inaugural lecture: Making Materials That Speak the Cellular Language, September 5, 2025
Prof. Maartje Bastings held her inaugural lecture in the hall of the SV building with a large audience of her colleagues, family members and friends. Take a peek into the atmosphere of this event, painted with brushes of emotions and brilliant research work.
Celebrating 20 years of the EPFL School of Life Sciences Summer Research Program (SRP) and the Summer Undergraduate Research (SUR) mini-symposium, August 28, 2025
Congratulations to our summer master student Gilda Cecibel Quezada Correa for her presented results of eight weeks of full-time lab work alongside peer Prof. Maartje Bastings and her colleagues, PBL members. Great poster Gilda! We wish you bright continuation!
EXCELLENCE in BIOMATERIALS SYMPOSIUM – annual ‘BioE Days 2025’ research meeting of the EPFL Institute of Bioengineering. August 21-22, 2025
Congratulations to our PhD student Shujie Li on giving an invited talk at the Biomaterials symposium and to Prof. Maartje Bastings for leading the event organization!
Congratulations to Artem on successfully completing his PhD! August 15, 2025
“Programmable supramolecular nanoarchitectures for targeting biological patterns”
Welcome to our new group member! July 15, 2025
PBL welcomes postdoctoral Fellow Bhanu Kiran Pothineni!
Congratulations to Herbert on successfully completing his PhD! July 4, 2025
Congratulations to Hugo on successfully completing his PhD! May 16, 2025
Welcome to our new group members! May 1, 2025
PBL welcomes Minako and Yuduo, PhD students! Minako will explore the interface between cell surface receptors and DNA nanostructures during cellular uptake. Yuduo will investigate consequences of ligand symmetry and flexibility in super-selective multivalent pattern recognition.
Welcome to our new group member! January 15, 2025
PBL welcomes PhD student, Benjamin Rousseau! Benjamin will develop biosensors for multivalent DNA-based supramolecular assemblies using modified aptamers.
Nature Chemistry paper is online! February 13, 2025
Read all about Interface Flexibility
Congratulations to Cem on successfully completing his PhD! October 11, 2024
Congratulations to Vincenco on successfully completing his PhD! August 2, 2024
20 years of Bioengineering at EPFL, celebrating with a wonderful 2-day symposium, August 29-30, 2024
A unique double-feature lecture on Super-Selective Biomaterials between Prof. Daan Frenkel and Prof. Maartje Bastings.
The super-selectivity symphony 🙂
Prof. Bastings was highlighted as ACS Polymers Au Rising Star! February 1, 2024
Congratulations to Kaltrina on successfully completing her PhD! September 29, 2023
Jury prize for Origami I, an artwork by Christine Lavanchy, September 22 – October 2, 2022
“ORIGAMI I” is a work that stand at the exact place where chromatic sensitivity, abandonment to sensation and automatic drawing took precedence over all the intellectual reflection and experimental laboratory work that was necessary to obtain these images of DNA origami nanoparticles using AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy). Read more.
Poster prize for Cem Tekin at the SupraChem22 in Mainz, July 3-5, 2022
Congratulations to Hale on successfully completing his PhD! May, 2022
Congratulations to Alice on successfully completing his PhD! March, 2022
Congratulations to Eva on successfully completing his PhD! 2022
Welcome to our new group member! April, 2021
PBL welcomes postdoctoral Fellow Diana Morzy!
Welcome to our new group member! June 1, 2020
PBL welcomes postdoctoral Fellow Jorieke Weiden!
Welcome to our new group members! October 1, 2020
PBL welcomes postdoctoral Fellow Marianna Koga and doctoral student Artem Kononenko, who strengthen our efforts in immune engineering and multivalency.
Prestigious ERC starting grant for Maartje Bastings, September 1, 2020
InActioN: Intracellular Action of DNA based Nanomaterials
EPFL 2020 Summer Series Reports Feature on Maartje Bastings
Maartje Bastings prepares before training. ©Alain Herzog/EPFL 2020
Financial Support from the Volkswagen Stiftung for team with Bastings/Parish/Jungman, August 17, 2020
© 2020 EPFL
Maartje is featured as Emerging Investigator in two journals! November 1, 2019
Maartje is featured in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Biomaterials Science B as an Emerging Investigator!
© 2017 A. Kakulya
GRC Self Assembly & Supramolecular Chemistry, May 19-24, 2019
Hale & Filippo got to rub shoulders with the best in the field :)!
© 2019 GRC
MRS Spring invited talk, April 22-26, 2019
Congratulations to our PhD Hale and hard-working student researcher, Giacomo on giving an invited talk at the Spring meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in Phoenix Arizona (USA)!
Welcome aboard to our new PhD student! March 15, 2019
We extend a warm welcome to a new brilliant student – Kaltrina Paloja. Kaltrina’s thesis is based on detecting inequity in dendritic cells through bio-inspired DNA origami based synthetic T-cells. 
SNSF Eccellenza Grant, November 29, 2018
We are pleased to announce our laboratory has successfully received yet another grant to spur on research in super-specific multivalent binding with DNA!
The Swiss National Science Foundation awards Eccellenza Grants to “highly qualified young researchers who aspire to a permanent professorship”. Check out the EPFL news article and EPFL school of engineering press release for more information!
© 2018 Maartje Bastings, Romain Fleury, Johan Gaume, Pavan Ramdya, et Christian Theiler (crédits: Alan Herzog/Alban Kakulya/EPFL)
Women in Materials at EPFL, November 8, 2018
Maartje is featured amongst 8 other female professors, showcasing their strong presence at the Institute of Materials (IMX), EPFL. The portraits were designed by graphic designer Alban Kakulya and sponsored by IMX & NCCR Marvel.
© 2018 NCCR MARVEL
EPFL & ETHZ Bioengineering Day, November 1, 2018
Scientific exchange across the roestigraben!
Workshop on DNA nanotechnology in Urbana, September 24-26, 2018
Alice learnt some neat tricks at a hands on workshop on DNA nanotechnology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
© 2018 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ETH Summer School invited talk, September 9-13, 2018
Giacomo & Eva presented the research conducted at PBL at the “New Frontiers in Extracellular Matrix Research” summer school in Zürich. Nice teamwork guys!
HFSP Young Investigator’s Grant, March 28, 2018
It is with much delight that we inform you that Maartje Bastings has received the Young Investigator Research Grant in collaboration with Prof. Ralf Jungmann from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany and Dr. Ian Parish from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
Over the next three years, the Human Frontier Science Program will provide support on our project entitled “Detecting inequity in dendritic cells through bio-inspired synthetic T cells”, click here for the EPFL news article.
© 2018 EPFL