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Olfactory neurons adapt to the surrounding environment

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30-05-2022

The team of Professors Ivan Rodriguez and Alan Carleton of the UNIGE has highlighted the great variability and continuous adaptation of olfactory neurons.

An HFSP grant to study reptilian coloration

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21-03-2022

Dr. Athanasia Tzika is awarded an HFSP grant to study reptilian coloration.

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.

The mathematical simplicity of lizard camouflage

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01-02-2022

We uncover the amazing parallels between ferromagnetism modeling and lizard skin colour patterning

New behaviors dating back to ca. 35’000 years identified at Toumboura III archaeological site, Eastern Senegal

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26-11-2021

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.

Motor control: Elephant trunks ignore the many and choose a few

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15-11-2021

Prof. Scott Hooper (Ohio University, USA) discusses the importance on recent results made by Milinkovitch's Lab on elephant trunk biomechanics

A single gene can disrupt the sleep-wake cycle

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01-10-2021

Emi Nagoshi's team has identified a gene essential in the regulation of the sleep / wake cycles of Drosophila.

Swiss, Senegalese and French archaeologists launch a research project in Casamance

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29-09-2021

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.

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.

Scaled, armoured or naked: how does the skin of fish evolve?

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24-03-2021

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.

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.

The wings of a “genetic bird” protect us against viruses

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14-01-2021

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.

African trade routes sketched out by mediaeval beads

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04-12-2020

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.

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.

Wildcats threatened by their domestic cousins

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29-09-2020

Wildcats in the Swiss Jura will undergo an irreversible genetic replacement by domestic cats if no preventive measures are taken.

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).

National Geographic Readers: Animals That Change Color

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27-04-2020

Michel Milinkovitch served as the scientific advisor for the content of the issue ‘Animals That Change Colors’ of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS magazine.

PhD School of Life Sciences

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24-03-2020

Call for applications to the PhD School of Life Sciences. Application deadline: Apr 15th, 2020

The secrets of the iridescent egg sac revealed

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20-02-2020

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.

Taxon-rich transcriptomics supports higher-level phylogeny and major evolutionary trends in Foraminifera

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01-09-2022

Sierra, R., Mauffrey, F., Cruz, J., Holzmann, M., Gooday, A. J., Maurer-Alcalá, X., Thakur, R., Greco, M., Weiner, A., Katz, L. A., & Pawlowski, J.. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2022;174:107546. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107546

Ancient mitochondrial diversity reveals population homogeneity in Neolithic Greece and identifies population dynamics along the Danubian expansion axis.

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06-08-2022

Silva NM, Kreutzer S, Souleles A, Triantaphyllou S, Kotsakis K, Urem-Kotsou D, Halstead P, Efstratiou N, Kotsos S, Karamitrou-Mentessidi G, Adaktylou F, Chondroyianni-Metoki A, Pappa M, Ziota C, Sampson A, Papathanasiou A, Vitelli K, Cullen T, Kyparissi-Apostolika N, Lanz AZ, Peters J, Rio J, Wegmann D, Burger J, Currat M, Papageorgopoulou C. Sci Rep 2022 Aug;12(1):13474. 10.1038/s41598-022-16745-8. 10.1038/s41598-022-16745-8. PMC9356035.

Transcriptomic analysis of deceptively pollinated Arum maculatum (Araceae) reveals association between terpene synthase expression in floral trap chamber and species-specific pollinator attraction.

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22-07-2022

Szenteczki MA, Godschalx AL, Gauthier J, Gibernau M, Rasmann S, Alvarez N. G3 (Bethesda) 2022 Jul;():. 6647843. 10.1093/g3journal/jkac175.

Uncovering a Genetic Polymorphism Located in Huntingtin Associated Protein 1 in Modulation of Central Pain Sensitization Signaling Pathways.

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16-07-2022

Gloor Y, Matthey A, Sobo K, Mouterde M, Kosek E, Pickering G, Poloni ES, Cedraschi C, Ehret G, Desmeules JA. Front Neurosci 2022 ;16():807773. 10.3389/fnins.2022.807773. PMC9274135.

Molecular and morphological diversity of monothalamous foraminifera from South Georgia and the Falkland Islands: Description of four new species

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08-07-2022

Holzmann M, Gooday AJ, Majewski W, Pawlowski J. Eur J Protistol. 2022 Jul 8;85:125909. doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2022.125909

Developmental and evolutionary comparative analysis of a regulatory landscape in mouse and chicken.

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01-07-2022

Hintermann A, Guerreiro I, Lopez-Delisle L, Bolt CC, Gitto S, Duboule D, Beccari L. Development 2022 Jun;149(12):. 275867. 10.1242/dev.200594.

Spindle reorientation in response to mechanical stress is an emergent property of the spindle positioning mechanisms.

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22-06-2022

Kelkar M, Bohec P, Smith MB, Sreenivasan V, Lisica A, Valon L, Ferber E, Baum B, Salbreux G, Charras G. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022 Jun;119(26):e2121868119. 10.1073/pnas.2121868119.

Context-dependent enhancer function revealed by targeted inter-TAD relocation.

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18-06-2022

Bolt CC, Lopez-Delisle L, Hintermann A, Mascrez B, Rauseo A, Andrey G, Duboule D. Nat Commun 2022 Jun;13(1):3488. 10.1038/s41467-022-31241-3. 10.1038/s41467-022-31241-3.

Priming With Rhinovirus Protects Mice Against a Lethal Pulmonary Coronavirus Infection.

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18-06-2022

Cox G, Gonzalez AJ, Ijezie EC, Rodriguez A, Miller CR, Van Leuven JT, Miura TA. Front Immunol 2022 ;13():886611. 10.3389/fimmu.2022.886611. PMC9196734.

Transcriptional adaptation of olfactory sensory neurons to GPCR identity and activity.

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26-05-2022

Horgue LF, Assens A, Fodoulian L, Marconi L, Tuberosa J, Haider A, Boillat M, Carleton A, Rodriguez I. Nat Commun 2022 May;13(1):2929. 10.1038/s41467-022-30511-4. 10.1038/s41467-022-30511-4.

Scaling of entropy production under coarse graining in active disordered media.

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21-05-2022

Cocconi L, Salbreux G, Pruessner G. Phys Rev E 2022 Apr;105(4):L042601. 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.L042601.

Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal.

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11-05-2022

Schmid VC, Douze K, Tribolo C, Martinez ML, Rasse M, Lespez L, Lebrun B, Hérisson D, Ndiaye M, Huysecom E. Afr Archaeol Rev 2022 ;39(1):1-33. 10.1007/s10437-021-09463-5. 9463. PMC9046311.

Generation of human islet cell type-specific identity genesets.

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21-04-2022

van Gurp L, Fodoulian L, Oropeza D, Furuyama K, Bru-Tari E, Vu AN, Kaddis JS, Rodríguez I, Thorel F, Herrera PL. Nat Commun 2022 Apr;13(1):2020. 10.1038/s41467-022-29588-8. 10.1038/s41467-022-29588-8.

Congruent evolutionary responses of European steppe biota to late Quaternary climate change.

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10-04-2022

Kirschner P, Perez MF, Záveská E, Sanmartín I, Marquer L, Schlick-Steiner BC, Alvarez N, Steiner FM, Schönswetter P. Nat Commun 2022 Apr;13(1):1921. 10.1038/s41467-022-29267-8. 10.1038/s41467-022-29267-8.

Challenging Ancient DNA Results About Putative HLA Protection or Susceptibility to Yersinia pestis .

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07-04-2022

Di D, Simon Thomas J, Currat M, Nunes JM, Sanchez-Mazas A.. Mol Biol Evol. 2022;39(4):msac073. doi:10.1093/molbev/msac073

Combining RNAi-Mediated β-Catenin Inhibition and Reaggregation to Study Hydra Whole-Body Regeneration.

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02-04-2022

Vogg MC, Galliot B. Methods Mol Biol 2022 ;2450():635-647. 10.1007/978-1-0716-2172-1_34.

Studying Stem Cell Biology in Intact and Whole-Body Regenerating Hydra by Flow Cytometry.

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02-04-2022

Buzgariu W, Aubry-Lachainaye JP, Galliot B. Methods Mol Biol 2022 ;2450():373-398. 10.1007/978-1-0716-2172-1_20.

Mechanical constraints to cell-cycle progression in a pseudostratified epithelium.

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27-03-2022

Hecht S, Perez-Mockus G, Schienstock D, Recasens-Alvarez C, Merino-Aceituno S, Smith M, Salbreux G, Degond P, Vincent JP. Curr Biol 2022 Mar;():. S0960-9822(22)00395-5. 10.1016/j.cub.2022.03.004.

The untapped potential of macrofossils in ancient plant DNA research.

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21-03-2022

Schwörer C, Leunda M, Alvarez N, Gugerli F, Sperisen C. New Phytol 2022 Mar;():. 10.1111/nph.18108.

Maintenance of mitochondrial integrity in midbrain dopaminergic neurons governed by a conserved developmental transcription factor.

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19-03-2022

Miozzo F, Valencia-Alarcón EP, Stickley L, Majcin Dorcikova M, Petrelli F, Tas D, Loncle N, Nikonenko I, Bou Dib P, Nagoshi E. Nat Commun 2022 Mar;13(1):1426. 10.1038/s41467-022-29075-0. 10.1038/s41467-022-29075-0.