The excavation of the archaeological site of Toumboura III has provided more than 13’000 stone artefacts resulting from the production of very specific stone tools: bifacial tools, among which small bifacial points probably intended to be hafted on wooden shafts and used as projectiles.
Prof. Scott Hooper (Ohio University, USA) discusses the importance on recent results made by Milinkovitch's Lab on elephant trunk biomechanics
Emi Nagoshi's team has identified a gene essential in the regulation of the sleep / wake cycles of Drosophila.
The Archeology and Population of Africa (APA) laboratory of the University of Geneva and partners have started a research project on food in Basse-Casamance, in southern Senegal, under the direction of Dr Anne Mayor.
Milinkovitch's lab quantitative analysis of the biomechanical and functional morphology of the elephant trunk is published today in Current Biology.
LANE lab's 3D numerical simulations of the ocellated lizard skin colour patterning are published today in Nature Communications.
Montoya's lab has traced the family tree of ray-finned fish in order to reconstruct the evolution of the protective structures of their skin.
Michel Milinkovitch-Tzika Lab sequences the Texas Rat Snake genome and suggest that a regulatory mutation of MITF causes the leucistic phenotype.
Alicia Sanchez-Mazas team has demonstrated that every population can protect itself against a broad range of viruses thanks to the two most diverse HLA immune genes in humans.
An analysis of archaeological glass beads discovered in sub-Saharan West Africa brings to light the full extent of the region’s international trade routes between the 7th and 13th centuries.
A mutation of the lavender variant of corn snake allows the Milinkovitch lab to understand the mechanisms responsible for the extraordinary variety of skin colours in vertebrates.
Wildcats in the Swiss Jura will undergo an irreversible genetic replacement by domestic cats if no preventive measures are taken.
Jozsef Zakany will host a last seminar before his retirement on September 24 at 4 pm in the A300 audience (Sciences II).
Michel Milinkovitch served as the scientific advisor for the content of the issue ‘Animals That Change Colors’ of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS magazine.
Call for applications to the PhD School of Life Sciences. Application deadline: Apr 15th, 2020
Milinkovitch Lab an international researchers identify that a 3D photonics structure in the egg-sac envelope of Hida salamanders causes visible iridescence is water and UV iridescence in air.
An international team, including UNIGE, will analyse the African elephant’s trunk, and its exceptional agility and versatility, to create a robot guided by touch.
The project aims at exploring the function and dysfunction of the claustrum, a poorly understood neural structure in the mamalian brain.
A study from Estella Poloni’s group: Did controlled use of fire impact the evolution of human genomic diversity ?
Michel Milinkovitch's team uncovers the developmental process generating the Chamydosaurus frill.
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Gisella Caccone (Yale University).
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Clémence SIMON (Howard Riezman (Bioch)).
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Ben Black (University of Pennsylvania, USA).
hosted by: Florian Steiner .
Geneviève Almouzni (Institut Curie).
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Andrea Moretti (Michael Hothorn (BiVeg)).
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Sara Buonomo (University of EdinburghUniversity of Edinburgh).
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Claire Wyart (ICM institute).
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Antonino Asaro (Howard Riezman (Bioch)).
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Guillaume Née (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster).
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Ivana Gasic (Cell Biology).
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Mathieu Piel (Institut Curie).
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Alexandre Lemopoulos (Juan Montoya's Lab (Genetics&Evolution)).
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Andrea Mc Clatchey (Mass General hospital).
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