Basile Wicky

@BasileWicky

Protein design & synthetic biology • Asst. prof. @ETH_BSSE

Basel, Switzerland Joined July 2020

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Basile Wicky @BasileWicky Dec 7, 2023

Excited to share that I'll be starting a group @ETH_BSSE researching at the intersection of protein design, biology and AI. Come join us!
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ETH Zurich @ETH_en Dec 7, 2023

On the proposal of ETH Zurich President @Joel_Mesot
, the ETH Board appointed 12 professors and awarded the title "Professor of Practice" once. 👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 brnw.ch/21wF6YH @MortezaAramesh @ellliottt
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Basile Wicky @BasileWicky Sep 19

🚀 Interested in joining my group as a PhD or Postdoc?

I'm mentoring for the ETH AI Center's Doctoral and Postdoc Fellowship, working on biomolecular design.

If you're excited about AIxBio, I'd love to hear from you.

Apply now 👉 ai.ethz.ch/apply
Deadline: Oct 27, 2026

ai.ethz.ch Fellowship Programs The application portal for the ETH AI Center Fellowship Programs is now closed. The deadline for references is Monday, 2 November 2026 (23:59 CET).

Basile Wicky @BasileWicky Aug 26

Gen models for biomol design have improved by leaps and bounds, but wetlab val remains a bottleneck. Excited to share our work where we address this on the prot prod&purif (SAPP) and reducing input DNA costs (DMX). nature.com/articles/s4146…

www.nature.com Accelerating protein design by scaling experimental characterization Nature Communications - De novo protein design outpaces experimental validation. Here, authors present SAPP and DMX — scalable, semi-automated workflows enabling cloning, purification and...

Basile Wicky @BasileWicky Feb 23

We're hiring! If you're interested in applying protein design to improving AAV we'd love to hear from you! Fully-funded 2 year collab postdoc between my group at ETH D-BSSE (in Basel) and Denis Phichith at Roche.

Job description and application portal: lnkd.in/e3P7HXt4

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Basile Wicky @BasileWicky Feb 18

New lab preprint! We used design to sample protein space, and developed a HT NMR pipeline to analyze 384 designs; a first glance into seq-struct-dynamics at scale! An exciting collaboration with @HillerLab, and @DlanAbr's first paper! biorxiv.org/content/10.648…