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Ivan Rodriguez and Alan Carleton just received an ERC Synergy Grant

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• 16-10-2019

The project aims at exploring the function and dysfunction of the claustrum, a poorly understood neural structure in the mamalian brain.

The Anthropology Unit makes the cover of "G3"

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• 02-08-2019

A study from Estella Poloni’s group: Did controlled use of fire impact the evolution of human genomic diversity ?

How the dragon got its frill

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• 27-06-2019

Michel Milinkovitch's team uncovers the developmental process generating the Chamydosaurus frill.

«Afrique: 300'000 ans de diversité humaine»

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• 14-06-2019

The geneticists and prehistorians of the Anthropology Unit of the University of Geneva tell you about human history on the African continent. An extraordinary exhibition not to be missed!

The evolution of snake skin nano-structures

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• 10-05-2019

The Milinkovitch Lab characterizes the complexity and diversity of surface nano-gratings in 353 species of snakes.

Claudio S. Quilodrán, Juan Montoya-Burgos and Mathias Currat make the cover of "Evolution" magazine

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• 17-04-2019

Hybridization and introgression during density‐dependent range expansion: European wildcats as a case study.

Michel Milinkovitch receives an ERC Advanced Grant

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• 28-03-2019

An ERC Advanced Grant has been awarded to Michel Milinkovitch. The grant is endowed with 2.5 million Euros over 5 years.

The LANE is in the National Geographic

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• 28-02-2019

Our work on the African elephant skin is highlighted in the National Geographic Magazine.

How bird feather patterns form

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• 22-02-2019

How are feathers formed and what determines their number and distribution on the skin? Today, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) have demonstrated that genetic signaling between cells and mechanical processes combine in the bird skin to form a line of propagation, along which the feather buds develop.

Why do Hydra end up with just a single head?

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• 18-01-2019

The ability of Hydra to regenerate or maintain a single head results from a subtle balance between activating and inhibiting activities. The latter has just been identified by a UNIGE group.

Monitoring the environment with artificial intelligence

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• 14-12-2018

UNIGE researchers have developed an approach that combines genomics and machine learning tools to explore the microbial biodiversity of ecosystems.

Stem cells organize themselves into pseudo-embryos

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• 03-10-2018

Scientists have developed murine artificial pseudo- embryos capable of forming the three major axes of the body. An innovative tool to potentially replace mammalian embryos in many experimental conditions.

How the African elephant cracked its skin to cool off

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• 02-10-2018

UNIGE researchers have observed that elephants regulate their body heat through their skin, which cracks into deep cracks, absorbing a maximum water.

The origin of the mammalian brain uncovered

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• 29-06-2018

The expression levels of three genes determines the predominant mode of neurogenesis and the development the cerebral neocortex in mammals

Brigitte Galliot becomes vice-rector of the UNIGE

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• 25-05-2018

Brigitte Galliot, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science, has been appointed Vice-Rector of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) by Rector Yves Flückiger.

2 new open positions

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• 14-05-2018

The Milinkovitch Lab offers two new positions for PhD or Post-Doc students.

SIB, the movie: Swiss bioinformatics in action

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• 09-04-2018

Bioinformatics is now essential to life science. But what is this discipline about? And who are the people behind it?

Nature News & Views: 2017 in research

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• 08-01-2018

An article reporting results from our Department is one of the 7 ‘News & Views’ selected from this year by the editors of the prestigious journal Nature.

Sardines take us to the sources of biodiversity in the Amazon River

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• 21-12-2017

A new methodological approach reveals the origin of genetic diversity in the Amazon Basin and enables to assess the impact of human alterations.

In the skin of a reptile

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• 20-12-2017

Check the movie and the touch-book Apps (for iPads and Android tablets) that illustrate our research on skin formation.

Fryns type mesomelic dysplasia of the upper limbs caused by inverted duplications of the HOXD gene cluster.

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• 09-10-2019

Le Caignec C, Pichon O, Briand A, de Courtivron B, Bonnard C, Lindenbaum P, Redon R, Schluth-Bolard C, Diguet F, Rollat-Farnier PA, Sanchez-Castro M, Vuillaume ML, Sanlaville D, Duboule D, Mégarbané A, Toutain A. Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 2019 Oct;():. 10.1038/s41431-019-0522-2. 10.1038/s41431-019-0522-2.

A FACS-based Protocol to Isolate RNA from the Secondary Cells of Drosophila Male Accessory Glands.

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• 24-09-2019

Immarigeon C, Karch F, Maeda RK. J Vis Exp 2019 Sep;(151):. 10.3791/60218.

Commentary on paper by Leroy C.

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• 01-09-2019

Duboule D. Dev. Biol. 2019 Oct;454(1):1-14. S0012-1606(19)30433-6. 10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.07.016.

Impact of genome architecture on the functional activation and repression of Hox regulatory landscapes.

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• 14-07-2019

Rodríguez-Carballo E, Lopez-Delisle L, Yakushiji-Kaminatsui N, Ullate-Agote A, Duboule D. BMC Biol. 2019 07;17(1):55. 10.1186/s12915-019-0677-x. 10.1186/s12915-019-0677-x.

Decoding Drosophila circadian pacemaker circuit.

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• 28-06-2019

Kozlov A, Nagoshi E. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2019 Jun 29;36:33-38. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2019.06.010

Elastic instability during branchial ectoderm development causes folding of the Chlamydosaurus erectile frill.

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• 25-06-2019

Montandon SA, Fofonjka A, Milinkovitch MC. Elife. 2019 Jun 25;8. pii: e44455. doi: 10.7554/eLife.44455

The constrained architecture of mammalian gene clusters.

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• 19-06-2019

Darbellay F, Bochaton C, Lopez-Delisle L, Mascrez B, Tschopp P, Delpretti S, Zakany J, Duboule D. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2019 Jun;():. 1904602116. 10.1073/pnas.1904602116.

Characterization of paralogous transcription factor encoding genes in zebrafish.

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• 14-06-2019

Nittoli V, Fortunato AE, Fasano G, Coppola U, Gentile A, Maiella S, Langellotto F, Porreca I, De Paolo R, Marino R, Fiengo M, Donizetti A, Aniello F, Kondo T, Ristoratore F, Canzoniero LMT, Duboule D, Wilson SW, Sordino P. Gene X 2019 Jun;2():100011. 10.1016/j.gene.2019.100011. S2590-1583(19)30008-7. 100011. PMC6543554.

Humans and Chimpanzees Display Opposite Patterns of Diversity in arylamine N-acetyltranferase Genes.

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• 13-05-2019

Vangenot C, Gagneux P, de Groot NG, Baumeyer A, Mouterde M, Crouau-Roy B, Darlu P, Sanchez-Mazas A, Sabbagh A, Poloni ES.. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics Early online May 13, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400223

Numerical approximation of a 3D mechanochemical interface model for skin patterning.

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• 01-05-2019

Luis Miguel De Oliveira Vilaca, Michel C. Milinkovitch, Ricardo Ruiz-Baier. Journal of Computational Physics 384 (2019) 383–404

Vps11 and Vps18 of Vps-C membrane traffic complexes are E3 ubiquitin ligases and fine-tune signalling.

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• 25-04-2019

Segala G, Bennesch MA, Ghahhari NM, Pandey DP, Echeverria PC, Karch F, Maeda RK, Picard D. Nat Commun 2019 04;10(1):1833. 10.1038/s41467-019-09800-y. 10.1038/s41467-019-09800-y. PMC6478910.

Phylogenetic mapping of scale nanostructure diversity in snakes.

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• 16-04-2019

Marcelle I. Arrigo, Luis M. De Oliveira Vilaca, Anamarija Fofonjka, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Adrien Debry, Michel C. Milinkovitch. BMC Evolutionary Biology2019 19:91 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1411-6

Repeat domain-associated O-glycans govern PMEL fibrillar sheet architecture.

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• 15-04-2019

Graham M, Tzika AC, Mitchell SM, Liu X, Leonhardt RM.. Sci Rep. 2019 Apr 15;9(1):6101. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42571-6.

Loss of Neurogenesis in Aging Hydra.

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• 27-03-2019

Tomczyk S, Buzgariu W, Perruchoud C, Fisher K, Austad S, Galliot B. Dev Neurobiol 2019 05;79(5):479-496. 10.1002/dneu.22676. PMC6586502. NIHMS1019840.

Putative sponge biomarkers in unicellular Rhizaria question an early rise of animals.

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• 06-03-2019

Nettersheim BJ, Brocks JJ, Schwelm A, Hope JM, Not F, Lomas M, Schmidt C, Schiebel R, Nowack ECM, De Deckker P, Pawlowski J, Bowser SS, Bobrovskiy I, Zonneveld K, Kucera M, Stuhr M, Hallmann C. Nat Ecol Evol 2019 04;3(4):577-581. 10.1038/s41559-019-0806-5. 10.1038/s41559-019-0806-5.

Two new cestode species of the family Hymenolepididae Perrier, 1897 (Cyclophyllidea) from passerine birds in Ethiopia, with the erection of Citrilolepis n. g.

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• 02-03-2019

Dimitrova YD, Georgiev BB, Mariaux J, Vasileva GP. Syst. Parasitol. 2019 Feb;():. 10.1007/s11230-019-09846-y. 10.1007/s11230-019-09846-y.

Hybridization and introgression during density-dependent range expansion: European wildcats as a case study.

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• 01-03-2019

Quilodrán CS, Nussberger B, Montoya-Burgos JI, Currat M. Evolution 2019 Feb;():. 10.1111/evo.13704.

Feather arrays are patterned by interacting signalling and cell density waves.

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• 23-02-2019

Ho WKW, Freem L, Zhao D, Painter KJ, Woolley TE, Gaffney EA, McGrew MJ, Tzika A, Milinkovitch MC, Schneider P, Drusko A, Matthäus F, Glover JD, Wells KL, Johansson JA, Davey MG, Sang HM, Clinton M, Headon DJ. PLoS Biol. 2019 Feb;17(2):e3000132. 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000132. PBIOLOGY-D-18-00761.

SLIM: a flexible web application for the reproducible processing of environmental DNA metabarcoding data.

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• 21-02-2019

Dufresne Y, Lejzerowicz F, Perret-Gentil LA, Pawlowski J, Cordier T. BMC Bioinformatics 2019 Feb;20(1):88. 10.1186/s12859-019-2663-2. 10.1186/s12859-019-2663-2.

Tail Bud Progenitor Activity Relies on a Network Comprising Gdf11, Lin28, and Hox13 Genes.

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• 22-01-2019

Aires R, de Lemos L, Nóvoa A, Jurberg AD, Mascrez B, Duboule D, Mallo M. Dev. Cell 2019 Jan;():. S1534-5807(18)31072-4. 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.12.004.

Shall I stay or shall I go … using population genomics to infer animal movement patterns

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 23.06.2020 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Gisella Caccone (Yale University).
hosted by: Michel Milinkovitch .

JUMBO CRIMPING PLIER

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• Conference
• 05.06.2020 09:00, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Alessandro Blasimme/Andrew Janowczyk (ETH Zurich / University of Lausanne).
hosted by: Emi Nagoshi Florian Steiner .

SciMed PhD Conference 2020

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• PhD School of Life Sciences
• 03.06.2020 08:00, unknown (unknown)

Multiple speakers (UNIGE).
hosted by: GenEv .

Protein stability in drug discovery and molecular biology

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 19.05.2020 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Michail Savitski (EMBL).
hosted by: PhD Association .

Epigenetic switching in seasonal timing

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• Conference
• 12.05.2020 17:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Dame Caroline Dean (The John Innes Center, Norwich, UK).
hosted by: Thanos Halazonetis .

The interrelationship between RTKs and the cortical cytoskeleton in development and cancer

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 28.04.2020 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Andrea McClatchey (Center Cancer Research Boston).
hosted by: Sandra Citi .

Power and benefit of phosphatase inhibition, a possible treatment for degenerative diseases

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 21.04.2020 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Anne Bertolotti (MRC-LMB).
hosted by: PhD Association .

Microtubule dynamics: not only at the tips.

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 07.04.2020 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Antonina Roll-Mecak (Bethesda).
hosted by: Aurélien Roux .

Mechanisms of centromere specification in a fly model.

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 31.03.2020 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Barbara Mellone (University of Connecticut).
hosted by: Florian Steiner .

Microtubules, Motors and Morphogenesis

• event
• Life Science Seminar Series
• 24.03.2020 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Jonathon Howard (Yale).
hosted by: Aurélien Roux .

to be announced

• event
• Conference
• 19.03.2020 11:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Andres Jäschke (Universität Heidelberg).
hosted by: Ramesh Pillai .

to be announced

• event
• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 18.03.2020 12:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Francesco Licausi (University of Pisa).
hosted by: Marie Barberon .

Organization of cellular compartments by liquid phase separation

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 04.02.2020 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Frank Julicher (MPI dresden).
hosted by: M. Gonzalez Gaitan .

Principles underlying collective signaling oscillations in embryonic patterning

• event
• Life Science Seminar Series
• 28.01.2020 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Alexander Aulehla (EMBL).
hosted by: Emi Nagoshi .

to be announced

• event
• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 22.01.2020 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Alistair Hetherington (University of Bristol).
hosted by: Theresa Fitzpatrick .

"Histone H3 Variants and the Inheritance of Chromatin States”

• event
• Conference
• 19.12.2019 12:00, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Florian Steiner (BIMOL ).
hosted by: Robbie Loewith .

to be announced

• event
• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 04.12.2019 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Emmanuelle Bayer (Laboratory of Membrane biogenesis, Bordeaux).
hosted by: Marie Barberon .

Electrical signals in wounded plants

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 03.12.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Edward Farmer (Unil).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

Epigenetic regulation of gene expression

• event
• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 27.11.2019 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Sylvain Bischof (University of Zürich).
hosted by: Theresa Fitzpatrick .

Systems genetics approaches to map new targets in metabolism and ageing

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 26.11.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Johan Auwerx (EPFL).
hosted by: Jean-Claude Martinou .

Lipid transport in health and diseases

• event
• Dpt of Cell Biology
• 25.11.2019 14:15, 2024 (Sciences III)

Anne-Claude Gavin (Faculté de Médecine - UNIGE - Dept of Cell Physiology and Metabolism).
hosted by: Sandra Citi .

Speciation processes and patterns of macroevolution in the order Scorpiones: Insights from the Hormuridae of the Indo-Pacific region

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• Museum of Natural History
• 22.11.2019 12:00, Salle de conférence (Museum of Natural History)

Lionel MONOD (Natural History Museum, Geneva).
hosted by: Isabel Blasco .

Circular RNAs and body clocks

• event
• Conference
• 20.11.2019 11:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Sebastian KADENER (Brandeis University).
hosted by: Ramesh Pillai .

Organelle communication-keeping connected through membrane contact sites

• event
• Life Science Seminar Series
• 19.11.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Maya Schuldiner (Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel).
hosted by: Howard Riezman .

Mechanobiology of Hydra regeneration: cell sorting and mechanogenetic coupling

• event
• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 15.11.2019 12:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Olivier Cochet-Escartin (ILM Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1).
hosted by: Brigitte Galliot .

A sleigh ride through the SNO: Nitric oxide mediated S-nitrosylation regulates plant and animal innate immunity

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 13.11.2019 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Gary Loake (University of Edinburgh).
hosted by: Theresa Fitzpatrick .

Comparative Genomics and Vertebrate Innovations

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 12.11.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Chris Amemiya (Uni Washington).
hosted by: Denis Duboule .

New Insights into Spindle Assembly and Causes of Aneuploidy in Mammalian eggs

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 05.11.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Melina Schuh (MPI Göttingen).
hosted by: Aurélien Roux .

IGE3 annual meeting

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• iGE3 Seminar Series
• 04.11.2019 09:00, unknown (unknown)

P. Meraldi and F. Stutz (UNIGE).
hosted by: Françoise Stutz .

Bi-directional signaling along the microbiome-root-shoot axis

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 30.10.2019 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Corné Pieterse (Utrecht University).
hosted by: Marie Barberon .

The neogene history of the Andes-Amazonian system following the humboldtian approach

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• Museum of Natural History
• 25.10.2019 12:00, Salle de conférence (Museum of Natural History)

Carina HOORN (University of Amsterdam).
hosted by: Isabel Blasco .

Signal transduction and nutrient balance: regulation by IP8 of the cellular transport of inorganic phosphate

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 15.10.2019 11:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Shears Stephen (National Intitiute of Environmental Health Sciences).
hosted by: Michael Hothorn .

Ubiquitin and Autophagy Networks in Health and Disease

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 15.10.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Ivan Dikic (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt).
hosted by: Thierry Soldati .

Epigenetic control of cellular reprogramming in plants

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 08.10.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Keiko Sugimoto (Riken).
hosted by: Marie Barberon .

Sleep in Drosophila: old questions, new insights

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 02.10.2019 11:15, 4059 (Sciences III)

Dr. Giorgio F. GILESTRO (Imperial College London).
hosted by: Emi Nagoshi .

New methods to enhance paleontological descriptions and decipher fossilization processes

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• Museum of Natural History
• 27.09.2019 12:00, Salle de conférence (Museum of Natural History)

Pierre Guériau (Géopolis, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne).
hosted by: Isabel Blasco .

Regulation of organogenesis and tissue patterning during postembryonic development in Arabidopsis thaliana

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 18.09.2019 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Miguel Moreno Risueño (CBGP - Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Madrid, Spain).
hosted by: Luis Lopez Molina .

Identification and Characterization of a Missing Link in Resistance Protein Function; SOBIR1 plays a central role in signaling by receptor-like proteins

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 17.09.2019 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Matthieu Joosten (Wageningen University).
hosted by: Michael Hothorn .

Reproductive biology and behaviour: Veterinarian and biological perspectives

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 17.09.2019 09:00, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Many speakers (UNIGE).
hosted by: GenEv .

ELAV-mediated 3’UTR extension in the Drosophila nervous system

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 09.09.2019 11:15, 4059 (Sciences III)

Valérie HILGERS (Max Planck Institute on Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freigburg).
hosted by: Francois Karch .

Coordinating propulsive and contractile forces during collective cell migration

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 02.09.2019 11:15, 4059 (Sciences III)

Gregory EMERY (Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer of the Université de Montréal).
hosted by: Francois Karch .

Tails enable Robust Transitions in Locomotion facilitated by Mechanical Computation

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 19.08.2019 10:00, 4059 (Sciences III)

Ardian Jusufi (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart Campus, Germany).
hosted by: Michel Milinkovitch .