Welcome to the Homepage of the Maurice Müller Institute in Basel, Switzerland |
| Founded in spring of 1986 and financially supported by the M.E. Müller Foundation, the MSB has been pursuing basic research into the structure, function, interaction and dynamics of muscle, cytoskeletal and nuclear envelope proteins, and of membrane pumps, channels, anchors and receptors. The major research tools involve a wide range of state-of-the-art light, electron and scanning probe microscopies which are rigorously combined with biochemical, biophysical, cell and molecular biological, and immunological techniques. In addition to its research activities, the MSB together with the Interdepartmental Electron Microscopy devision (IEM) teaches a 1-week and a 2-week practical course on microscopy every year. And together with several colleagues from the University of Basel, we give a 2-semester lecture series on "Assembly, Structure and Function of Supramolecular Systems" every third year. |