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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.

A PhD student of our Department wins the 2022 Nikon Small World Competition

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• 11-10-2022

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

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).

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

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• 02-03-2023

Horgue LF, Assens A, Fodoulian L, Marconi L, Tuberosa J, Haider A, Boillat M, Carleton A, Rodriguez I. Nat Commun 2023 Mar;14(1):1156. PMC9977893. 10.1038/s41467-023-36849-7. 10.1038/s41467-023-36849-7.

Simulated patterns of mitochondrial diversity are consistent with partial population turnover in Bronze Age Central Europe.

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• 15-02-2023

Broccard N, Silva NM, Currat M. Am J Biol Anthropol 2022 Jan;177(1):134-146. PMC9298224. 10.1002/ajpa.24431.

Active morphogenesis of patterned epithelial shells.

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• 18-01-2023

Khoromskaia D, Salbreux G. Elife 2023 Jan;12():. 10.7554/eLife.75878. 75878. PMC9844985.

The transcription factor Zic4 promotes tentacle formation and prevents epithelial transdifferentiation in Hydra

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• 24-12-2022

Vogg MC, Ferenc J, Buzgariu WC, Perruchoud C, Sanchez PGL, Beccari L, Nuninger C, Le Cras Y, Delucinge-Vivier C, Papasaikas P, Vincent S, Galliot B, Tsiairis CD. Sci Adv 2022 Dec;8(51):eabo0694. 10.1126/sciadv.abo0694.

Reconstruction and deconstruction of human somitogenesis in vitro.

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• 22-12-2022

Miao Y, Djeffal Y, De Simone A, Zhu K, Lee JG, Lu Z, Silberfeld A, Rao J, Tarazona OA, Mongera A, Rigoni P, Diaz-Cuadros M, Song LMS, Di Talia S, Pourquié O. Nature 2022 Dec;():. 10.1038/s41586-022-05655-4. 10.1038/s41586-022-05655-4.

Interacting active surfaces: A model for three-dimensional cell aggregates.

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• 17-12-2022

Torres-Sánchez A, Kerr Winter M, Salbreux G. PLoS Comput Biol 2022 Dec;18(12):e1010762. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010762. PCOMPBIOL-D-22-00456.

Joint analysis of phenotypic and genomic diversity sheds light on the evolution of xenobiotic metabolism in humans.

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• 30-11-2022

Mouterde M, Daali Y, Rollason V, Čížková M, Mulugeta A, Al-Balushi KK, Fakis G, Konstantinidis T, Al-Thihli K, Černá M, Makonnen E, Boukouvala S, Al-Yahyaee S, Yimer G, Černý V, Desmeules J, Poloni ES. Genome Biol Evol 2022 Nov;():. 10.1093/gbe/evac167. 6852765.

Clustering of vomeronasal receptor genes is required for transcriptional stability but not for choice.

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• 17-11-2022

Dietschi Q, Tuberosa J, Fodoulian L, Boillat M, Kan C, Codourey J, Pauli V, Feinstein P, Carleton A, Rodriguez I. Sci Adv 2022 Nov;8(46):eabn7450. 10.1126/sciadv.abn7450.

Modeling convergent scale-by-scale skin color patterning in multiple species of lizards.

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• 16-11-2022

Jahanbakhsh E, Milinkovitch MC. Curr Biol 2022 Nov;():. S0960-9822(22)01692-X. 10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.044.

Morphological and molecular diversity of monothalamids (Rhizaria, Foraminifera), including two new species and a new genus, from SW Greenland.

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• 09-11-2022

Gooday AJ, Holzmann M, Schwarzgruber E, Cedhagen T, Pawlowski J. Eur J Protistol 2022 Oct;86():125932. S0932-4739(22)00069-4. 10.1016/j.ejop.2022.125932.

Coupling Chemotaxis and Growth Poromechanics for the Modelling of Feather Primordia Patterning

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• 03-11-2022

Barnafi NA, De Oliveira Vilaca LM, Milinkovitch MC, Ruiz-Baier R.. Mathematics. 2022; 10(21):4096. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10214096

Population designations in biomedical research: limitations and perspectives.

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• 20-10-2022

Gombault C, Grenet G, Segurel L, Duret L, Gueyffier F, Cathébras P, Pontier D, Mainbourg S, Sanchez-Mazas A, Lega JC. HLA 2022 Oct;():. 10.1111/tan.14852.

Operculina and Neoassilina: A Revision of Recent Nummulitid Genera Based on Molecular and Morphological Data Reveals a New Genus

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• 17-10-2022

Holzmann, M., Hohenegger, J., Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil, L. et al.. . Earth Sci. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-021-1595-8

Pulsations and flows in tissues as two collective dynamics with simple cellular rules.

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• 08-10-2022

Thiagarajan R, Bhat A, Salbreux G, Inamdar MM, Riveline D. iScience 2022 Oct;25(10):105053. 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105053. S2589-0042(22)01325-6. PMC9531052.

El Rayadito subantártico: disponibilidad del binomio Aphrastura subantarctica (Passeriformes, Furnariidae)

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• 06-09-2022

Rozzi, R., Quilodrán , C. S. ., Botero-Delgadillo, E. ., Crego, R. D., Napolitano, C., Barroso, O., Torres-Mura , J. C. ., & Vásquez, R. A.. Boletín Museo Nacional De Historia Natural, 71(2), 9–15. https://doi.org/10.54830/bmnhn.v71.n2.2022.222

Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) metabarcoding of Foraminifera communities using taxon-specific primers

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• 05-09-2022

Macher, J. N., Bloska, D. M., Holzmann, M., Girard, E. B., Pawlowski, J., & Renema, W.. PeerJ. 2022 Sep 5;10:e13952. doi: 10.7717/peerj.13952.

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

Theory of nematic and polar active fluid surfaces

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• 29-08-2022

Guillaume Salbreux, Frank Jülicher, Jacques Prost, and Andrew Callan-Jones. Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033158

Whole genome assembly of the armored loricariid catfish Ancistrus triradiatus highlights herbivory signatures.

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• 26-08-2022

Lemopoulos A, Montoya-Burgos JI. Mol Genet Genomics 2022 Aug;():. 10.1007/s00438-022-01947-6. 10.1007/s00438-022-01947-6.

A pendulum of induction between the epiblast and extra-embryonic endoderm supports post-implantation progression.

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• 23-08-2022

Vrij EJ, Scholte Op Reimer YS, Roa Fuentes L, Misteli Guerreiro I, Holzmann V, Frias Aldeguer J, Sestini G, Koo BK, Kind J, van Blitterswijk CA, Rivron NC. Development 2022 Oct;149(20):. PMC9534490. 10.1242/dev.192310. 276399.

Energetics of biological systems

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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 .

Tissue growth and developmental pattern formation

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• Physics of biology
• 27.10.2023 12:00, Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg (École de physique)

Anna Kicheva (The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)).
hosted by: Guillaume Salbreux .

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

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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 .

to be announced

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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 .

Advanced otopical tools for life sciences

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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 .

to be announced

• event
• 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 .

Symmetry breaking and tissue flow in gastruloids

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 06.06.2023 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Pierre-François Lenne (CNRS (IBDML)).
hosted by: Karsten Kruse .

to be announced

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

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

Multi-cellular coordination

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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 .

to be announced

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

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

mRNAs as cytoplasmic organizers of subcellular compartments

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 09.05.2023 14:00, Virtual seminar (unknown)

Christine Mayr (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center).
hosted by: Ramesh Pillai .

Active cell matter

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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 .

internal seminar

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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 .

Coping with mechanical stress: tissue dynamics during development and repair

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 04.04.2023 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Yanlan Mao (UCL).
hosted by: PhD Association .

Photodynamics of biomolecules

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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 .

Making better pores - decoding the developmental blueprint of grass stomata

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 29.03.2023 12:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Michael Raissig (University of Bern).
hosted by: Marie Barberon .

How to solve a 3D jigsaw with 1000 pieces

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 21.03.2023 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Martin Beck (EMBL Heidelberg).
hosted by: PhD Association .

Animating Molecular Machines

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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 .

Friends, allies and enemies: intercellular signalling when under attack

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 01.03.2023 12:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Christine Faulkner (JIC, UK).
hosted by: Marie Barberon .

Sensing DNA as a danger signal through the cGAS-STING pathway

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 28.02.2023 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Andrea Ablasser (EPFL).
hosted by: PhD Association .

Physics of living systems

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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 .

"Targeting DNA repair in cancer and beyond"

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• Dpt of Molecular and Cellular Biology
• 09.02.2023 16:00, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Thomas Helleday (Karolinska Institute).
hosted by: Thanos Halazonetis .

How do plants remember a stressful day? - A role for epigenetics?!

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 08.02.2023 11:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Isabel Bäurle (University of Potsdam).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

3D Proteome snapshots enable high-resolution functional proteomics

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 31.01.2023 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Paola Picotti (ETHZ).
hosted by: Thierry Soldati .

Physical principles in biological systems

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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 .

Getting to the root of nutrient acquisition in plants

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• Dpt of Plant Sciences
• 26.01.2023 09:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Marie Barberon (UNIGE).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

Retrotransposon control: how to hit a moving target

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 17.01.2023 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Déborah Bourc'his (Institut Curie).
hosted by: Orsolya Barabas .

Neuronal circuits for body movements

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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 .

Histone variants in the game of nuclear organization

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 10.01.2023 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Geneviève Almouzni (Institut Curie).
hosted by: Thanos Halazonetis .