Michael Walser

Research Associate
Dr. Michael Walser
Office Y55-L-28A
Tel +41 44 635 48 66
Michael grew up in Zurich and received his Master’s degree in Developmental Biology from the University of Zurich. After an internship in the laboratory of Christos Samakovlis at the University of Stockholm, he did his PhD in Alex Hajnal’s Lab. After a postdoc in the lab of Philip Bosshard at the Department of Dermatology USZ, Michael returned to the Department of Molecular Biology, where he is currently transferring research findings from C. elegans to mammalian cells. In addition, he takes care of the lab-organization and is lecturer and organizer of the practical courses BIO142 and BIO260.
In his free time Michael plays the cello in the alumni symphony orchestra, photographs, and likes to travel to Sweden.
Research interests
• Gene knockout by lentiCRISPR
• RAS/MAPK signaling and cell-cycle in human cells
• Cell migration and cell invasion
• Confocal laser scanning microscopy and light microscopy
ZORA Publication List
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Publications
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2022
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A DNA replication-independent function of pre-replication complex genes during cell invasion in C. elegans. PLoS Biology, 20(2):e3001317.
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2020
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Polarized epidermal growth factor secretion ensures robust vulval cell fate specification in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development, 147(11):dev175760.
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2019
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Development and evaluation of a pan‐dermatophyte polymerase chain reaction with species‐level identification using sloppy molecular beacon probes. British Journal of Dermatology, 180(6):1489-1497.
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2017
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β-Integrin de-phosphorylation by the Density-Enhanced Phosphatase DEP-1 attenuates EGFR signaling in C. elegans. PLoS Genetics, 13(1):e1006592.
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2015
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FRAP analysis of LET-23::GFP in the vulval epithelial cells of living caenorhabditis elegans larvae. Bio-protocol, 5(11):e1489.
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2014
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2012
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PTEN negatively regulates MAPK signaling during Caenorhabditis elegans vulval development. PLoS Genetics, 8(8):e1002881.
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2009
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A conserved function of c. elegans CASY-1 calsyntenin in associative learning. PLoS ONE, 4(3):e4880.
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