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It makes the cover of Current Biology

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  • 06-12-2022

The quantitative analysis of scale-by-scale patterning in lizards by Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh & Michel Milinkovitch makes the cover of Current Biology.

How lizards got their skin colour patterns

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  • 14-11-2022

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.

Où est le monstre?

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  • 07-03-2022

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.

How elephants use their trunk

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  • 31-08-2021

Milinkovitch's lab quantitative analysis of the biomechanical and functional morphology of the elephant trunk is published today in Current Biology.

How the lizard gets its pattern

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  • 26-04-2021

LANE lab's 3D numerical simulations of the ocellated lizard skin colour patterning are published today in Nature Communications.

The snake in the white suit

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  • 24-02-2021

Michel Milinkovitch-Tzika Lab sequences the Texas Rat Snake genome and suggest that a regulatory mutation of MITF causes the leucistic phenotype.

Snakes reveal the origin of skin colours

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  • 06-10-2020

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.

Hoxb13 in mouse tail allometry

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  • 31-08-2020

Jozsef Zakany will host a last seminar before his retirement on September 24 at 4 pm in the A300 audience (Sciences II).

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  • Physics of biology
  • 09.11.2023 12:00, Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg (École de physique)

Jonathan Rodenfels (Max Plank Institut).
hosted by: Guillaume Salbreux .

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  • Physics of biology
  • 29.09.2023 12:00, Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg (École de physique)

Ewa Paluch (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).
hosted by: Guillaume Salbreux .

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  • Dpt of Plant Sciences
  • 25.07.2023 14:00, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Mathilde Ruche (Michelle Price's group).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

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  • Physics of biology
  • 23.06.2023 12:00, Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg (École de physique)

Robert Predevel (Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, EMBL Heidelberg).
hosted by: Guillaume Salbreux .

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  • Geneva Plant Seminars
  • 21.06.2023 12:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Hirofumi Nakagami (Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

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  • Dpt of Plant Sciences
  • 31.05.2023 09:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Luis Lopez Molina (UNIGE).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

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  • Physics of biology
  • 26.05.2023 12:00, Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg (École de physique)

Takashi Hiragii (Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology).
hosted by: Guillaume Salbreux .

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  • Geneva Plant Seminars
  • 24.05.2023 12:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Joop Vermeer (University of Basel).
hosted by: Marie Barberon .

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  • Physics of biology
  • 28.04.2023 12:00, Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg (École de physique)

Cécile Sykes (Laboratoire Physico Chimie Curie).
hosted by: Guillaume Salbreux .

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  • Plant Science Seminar (BIVEG internal seminar)
  • 24.04.2023 12:15, A50A (Sciences III)

Florian Laurent (Michael Hothorn's lab).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

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  • Physics of biology
  • 31.03.2023 12:00, Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg (École de physique)

Giulo Cerrulo (Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)).
hosted by: Guillaume Salbreux .

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  • Life Science Seminar Series
  • 14.03.2023 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Janet Iwasa (University of Utah).
hosted by: Paul Guichard .

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  • Physics of biology
  • 24.02.2023 12:00, Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg (École de physique)

Massimo Vergassola (École normale supérieure).
hosted by: Guillaume Salbreux .

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  • Physics of biology
  • 27.01.2023 12:00, Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg (École de physique)

Edouard Hannezo (Institute of Science and Technology Austria).
hosted by: Guillaume Salbreux .

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  • iGE3 Seminar Series
  • 16.01.2023 12:15, Auditorium Albert Renold (CMU)

Silvia Arber (Biozentrum, University of Basel & Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland).
hosted by: Christian Lüscher .