We are thrilled to share that Prof. Emi Nagoshi, a member of our department, is playing a leading role in the newly launched biotech startup Azure Cell Therapies.
The editorial team of PLOS Biology selects one light-sheet microscopy image produced by LANE lab.
Honored with Prestigious Award: Kostas Kampourakis Receives "Friend of Darwin 2024"
Milinkovitch's team found that nose patterns form in embryos due to differential skin growth supported by blood vessels.
In ‘Physical Review X (PRX)’, Milinkovitch's team predicts & confirms a secondary colour pattern in ocellated lizards. This pattern is too subtle for our eyes to see.
By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, Mathias Currat's team has traced the history of migrations between Sapiens and Neanderthals.
Emi Nagoshi's team shows that disruptions to the circadian clock increase the risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease.
The UNIGE is indeed now ranked 49th in the world
We publish today a new method that provides unmatched visualisation of collagen 3D network architecture.
The quantitative analysis of scale-by-scale patterning in lizards by Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh & Michel Milinkovitch makes the cover of Current Biology.
In the journal Current Biology, researchers in the Department of Genetics and Evolution quantify the predictability of scale-by-scale patterns in multiple divergent species of lizards.
The 48th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition’s first place prize was awarded to Grigorii Timin, a PhD student supervised by Prof. Michel Milinkovitch from the GenEv Dpt
The team of Professors Ivan Rodriguez and Alan Carleton of the UNIGE has highlighted the great variability and continuous adaptation of olfactory neurons.
Dr. Athanasia Tzika is awarded an HFSP grant to study reptilian coloration.
This is the question posed by the new exhibition, which offers a journey through three Geneva locations. The groups of professors Birgitte Galliot, Denis Duboule, Ivan Rodriguez and Michel Milinkovitch took part in the realization of this exhibition.
We uncover the amazing parallels between ferromagnetism modeling and lizard skin colour patterning
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.
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