Insights in biological research by iGEM and Prof. Jukka Jokela

(swissnex Boston, November 03, 2013)

swissnex Boston welcomed younger and elder generations of researchers to present their work to a broad public. The evening started with presentations of two student groups from EPFL and the ETH Zurich. Both were finalists at the iGEM competition of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). EPFL participated with a girls’ only team and their project titled “Taxi.Coli: smart drug delivery”, the team from ETH Zurich presented their project project “COLISWEEPER – the world’s first bacterial minesweeper game!” After a short break, Prof. Jukka Jokela, Full Professor of Aquatic Ecology at ETH Zurich and Member of the Directorate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Research & Technology (Eawag) gave a fascinating talk about "Why there is sex?", presenting to the audience his research about host-parasite co-evolution and it's influence on sexual reproduction.