Evening Event

Recipe for Basel onion soup
30 g rape oil
500 g peeled onions
300 g dark beer
2.2 L stock (beef or vegetable)
Bay leaf
Ground salt and pepper
150 g baguette
50 g Butter
100 g grated Swiss cheese (Gruyère) 

  • Preparation
    – Cut the onions in half and thinly slice crosswise into fine strips.
    – Boil up the stock.
    – Slice the baguette and fry in butter until golden brown.

  • Method
    – Sautée the onions in sunflower oil until brown.
    – Deglaze with dark beer, loosening and dispersing the fond.
    – Pour into a casserole and fill with hot stock.
    – Season to taste and cook for 20 minutes.
    – Remove froth and fat from the liquid
    – Ladle into ovenproof soup bowls and cover with the baguette slices.
    – Sprinkle with cheese.
    – Put under the salamander grill.
  • The slices of bread may also be coated with a quantity of butter foam and grated cheese, gratinated separately and then added to the soup.

Armando Braswell
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Prerecorded in september 2020

What thrills Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Viola Vogel, the winner of the CLINAM Dwarf for her outstanding help in the scientific committee of the Summit for 10 years.
“Understanding the inner workings of life is thrilling, particularly how molecules and nanosystems work and enable the many functions and pleasures that we associate with life. My training in physics in Frankfurt, Göttingen and UC Berkeley prepared me to build new instrumentation and technologies that allowed us to probe and observe phenomena in the biological nanoworld that were never observed before.  

Taken together with my dual background in biology, I then entered the field of bioengineering which was a very young discipline in 1990 when starting my academic career in Seattle.  Today, we are fascinated by mechanobiology, i.e. the question how bacteria, cells and tissues sense the many physical stimuli to which they get exposed and how these are translated into biochemical signals, often by exploiting proteins as mechano-chemical switches, which ultimately alter cell behavior and gene expression profiles.

As the impact of physical stimuli on cell signaling was far too long ignored, CLINAM provides a wonderful forum to ask how the knowledge gained at the nanoscale can be translated into the clinic.”