News
Selected short-term visitors for Spring 2025
Four researchers have been selected for the short-term visitor programme this spring.
Marie Schölmerich receives SNSF Starting Grant
Marie Schölmerich, professor for environmental microbiology and COPL member, is among the eight researchers who successfully applied for Starting Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation via ETH Zurich.
Call for applications to the Workshop Support Programme
For the first time, the Centre offers financial support to those wishing to organise and host workshops on topics relevant to the Centre. Applications may be submitted until Friday, 06 December 2024 17:00 CET via the COPL website.
Welcoming the 2024 NOMIS–ETH Fellows
This October, the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zürich welcomed three new postdoctoral fellows as part of the NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Programme. Sean Jordan, Taylor Priest and David Schnettler each explore critical aspects of the origin of life, its evolution and place in the broader cosmic context.
How a bacterium becomes a permanent resident in a fungus
An organism as a tenant in another - in biology, this often works quite well. ETH researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish.