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Skin colour patterns: predicting the unseen

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  • 20-10-2023

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.

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.

Polarity-driven three-dimensional spontaneous rotation of a cell doublet

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. Nat. Phys. 20, 1194–1203 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02460-w

  • event
  • 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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  • Geneva Plant Seminars
  • 25.10.2023 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Marco Catoni (University of Birmingham).
hosted by: Luis Lopez Molina .

  • event
  • Geneva Plant Seminars
  • 11.10.2023 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Leonie Luginbuehl (Cambridge University (UK)).
hosted by: Theresa Fitzpatrick .

  • event
  • 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 .

  • event
  • Dpt of Plant Sciences
  • 30.08.2023 10:15, unknown (unknown)

Francesco Di Nezio (UNIGE and SUPSI - Mauro Tonolla's group).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

  • event
  • 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 .

  • event
  • 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 .

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

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

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

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