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UNIGE is the second largest European innovation player

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• 14-09-2017

The Nature magazine publishes this year a Nature Index Innovation, in which the University of Geneva is ranked 21st in the world.

SystemsX.ch, the movie

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• 12-09-2017

The program is now coming to an end and a movie illustrates some of the research funded by SystemsX.

The corn snake genome

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• 31-08-2017

Athanasia Tzika, her PhD student Asier Ullate and their colleague Frank Chan (FML of the Max Planck Society, Tubingen, Germany) publish a step-by-step guide for de-novo assembly of a high-quality reptilian genome

Living cellular automaton on the skin of lizards

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• 23-08-2017

The American Mathematical Society (USA) covers the recent discovery of the existence of a living cellular automaton on the skin of ocellated lizards.

Hunting microbes or smelling poison: a matter of evolution

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• 26-06-2017

Researchers at UNIGE demonstrate how some genes evolved from an immune function to an olfactory role in some mammals

The LANE has a new website

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• 15-06-2017

Michel Milinkovitch's lab has a new website, with more contents and offers a more modern experience.

Denis Duboule appointed to the Collège de France

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• 13-06-2017

He will occupy the chair "Evolution of Genomes and Development".

How to color a lizard: from biology to mathematics

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• 13-04-2017

Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics report in the journal Nature that a southwestern European lizard slowly acquires its intricate adult skin colour by changing the colour of individual skin scales using an esoteric computational system invented in 1948 by another mathematician: John von Neumann.

Track down water pollution through DNA of algae

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• 13-04-2017

Biologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have succeeded in establishing a water quality index based solely on the DNA sequences of the diatoms present in the samples, without needing to identify each species visually.

The human genome: reality and fantasy

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• 09-01-2017

Wednesday 1st February 2017 to 20 hours, Duboule give a lecture entitled "Road to transhumanism."

How mammary glands appeared in the course of evolution

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• 15-11-2016

Elements of the regulatory networks controlling Hox gene expression were hijacked, enabling some of these genes to be reused to form mammary buds. This study, published during the week of November 14, 2016 in PNAS, was led by Leonardo Beccari, from the team of Denis Duboule.

Aurélie Hintermann wins the Arditi Prize

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• 04-11-2016

Congratulations to Aurélie Hintermann, graduate student in the department of Genetics and Evolution and Laureate of the 2016 Prix Arditi in Biology!

Africa's Noon

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• 26-10-2016

On November 7, at 12:15 room M2170, Anne Mayor and Michel Milinkovitch will present their work. Conference proposed by the International Affairs.

Prof. Eric Huysecom was elected President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists

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• 19-10-2016

Prof. Eric Huysecom was elected President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA) during the 23rd Business meeting which is kept at The University of Toulouse on the 1st of July 2016.

Colloque Wright 2016

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• 12-10-2016

This year, we will hear from specialists, including a Nobel Prize, in areas that are profoundly transformed by the advent of genomics.

How phalanx-joint formation is coordinated in mammals?

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• 10-10-2016

Jozsef Zakany collaborated to a study led by researchers from the NIH, who uncovered the existence of an interdigit signaling center that instructs coordinate phalanx-joint formation in mice embryos.

Nobel Prize 2016 in Medicine explained by Brigitte Galliot

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• 05-10-2016

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy”. Brigitte Galliot explains the importance of this discovery.

Physics of Biology II international meeting

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• 19-09-2016

For the past fifteen years, an interest for Quantitative & Systems Biology has been raising in the scientific community. Major advances in this direction have been driven by the integration of physics and computer science approaches with innovative technological developments in molecular biology, optics, micro- and nano-manipulations. Although Quantitative & Systems Biology is very recent, it has already significantly spread through many fields of life sciences: genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, development, ecology and many others.

Professor Emi Nagoshi wins the 3R Award

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• 15-09-2016

The winner of this first edition of the 3R Award is Professor Emi Nagoshi, from the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the Faculty of Sciences, for her project entitled “A conserved role for p48 homologs in protecting dopaminergic neu­rons from oxidative stress”. She will receive her Award on Monday, September 19th at 9:45am.

H2020 should focus on innovative collaborative discovery research, not on technology readiness

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• 07-09-2016

To forge better links not only between university research laboratories but also with companies, there should be more room for bottom-up, collaborative research in the EU’s framework research programme – specifically in Horizon 2020’s pillars II and III. Today, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) issues a Note to call attention to this issue. Feel free to read the attached PDF.

Assessing SSU rDNA Barcodes in Foraminifera: A Case Study using Bolivina quadrata.

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• 03-09-2017

Borrelli C, Hou Y, Pawlowski JW, Holzmann M, Katz ME, Chandler GT, Bowser SS. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 2017 Sep;():. 10.1111/jeu.12471.

Embryonic timing, axial stem cells, chromatin dynamics, and the Hox clock.

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• 02-09-2017

Deschamps J, Duboule D. Genes Dev. 2017 Jul;31(14):1406-1416. 31/14/1406. 10.1101/gad.303123.117.

Large scale genomic reorganization of topological domains at the HoxD locus.

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• 09-08-2017

Fabre PJ, Leleu M, Mormann BH, Lopez-Delisle L, Noordermeer D, Beccari L, Duboule D. Genome Biol. 2017 Aug;18(1):149. 10.1186/s13059-017-1278-z. 10.1186/s13059-017-1278-z. PMC5547506.

Risks associated with introduction of poeciliids for control of mosquito larvae: first record of the non-native Gambusia holbrooki in Argentina.

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• 12-07-2017

Cabrera MB, Bogan S, Posadas P, Somoza GM, Montoya-Burgos JI, Cardoso YP. J. Fish Biol. 2017 Jul;():. 10.1111/jfb.13370.

Hymenolepididae (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea) of ciconiiform and pelecaniform birds: the genera Oschmarinolepis Spassky and Spasskaja, 1954 and Paraoschmarinolepis gen. n.

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• 07-07-2017

Greben O, Kornyushin V, Mariaux J. Acta Parasitol. 2017 Sep;62(3):639-651. 10.1515/ap-2017-0078. /j/ap.2017.62.issue-3/ap-2017-0078/ap-2017-0078.xml.

Predicting the ecological quality status of marine environments from eDNA metabarcoding data using supervised machine learning.

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• 01-07-2017

Cordier T, Esling P, Lejzerowicz F, Visco J, Ouadahi A, Martins C, Cedhagen T, Pawlowski J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2017 Jun;():. 10.1021/acs.est.7b01518.

Evolution of immune chemoreceptors into sensors of the outside world.

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• 28-06-2017

Dietschi Q, Tuberosa J, Rösingh L, Loichot G, Ruedi M, Carleton A, Rodriguez I. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2017 Jun;():. 1704009114. 10.1073/pnas.1704009114.

Taxonomic revision of freshwater foraminifera with the description of two new agglutinated species and genera.

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• 14-06-2017

Siemensma F, Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil L, Holzmann M, Clauss S, Völcker E, Pawlowski J. Eur. J. Protistol. 2017 May;60():28-44. S0932-4739(17)30078-0. 10.1016/j.ejop.2017.05.006.

A screening of UNF targets identifies Rnb, a novel regulator of Drosophila circadian rhythms.

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• 09-06-2017

Kozlov A, Jaumouillé E, Machado Almeida P, Koch R, Rodriguez J, Abruzzi KC, Nagoshi E. J. Neurosci. 2017 Jun;():. JNEUROSCI.3286-16.2017. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3286-16.2017.

Drosophila melanogaster positive transcriptional elongation factors regulate metabolic and sex-biased expression in adults.

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• 20-05-2017

Yang H, Basquin D, Pauli D, Oliver B. BMC Genomics 2017 May;18(1):384. 10.1186/s12864-017-3755-x. 10.1186/s12864-017-3755-x.

The anatomical placode in reptile scale morphogenesis indicates shared ancestry among skin appendages in amniotes.

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• 26-04-2017

Di-Poï N, Milinkovitch MC. Sci Adv 2016 Jun;2(6):e1600708. 10.1126/sciadv.1600708. 1600708. PMC5392058.

A living mesoscopic cellular automaton made of skin scales.

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• 14-04-2017

Manukyan L, Montandon SA, Fofonjka A, Smirnov S, Milinkovitch MC. Nature 2017 Apr;544(7649):173-179. nature22031. 10.1038/nature22031.

Phylogeny and Systematics of Leptomyxid Amoebae (Amoebozoa, Tubulinea, Leptomyxida).

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• 28-03-2017

Smirnov A, Nassonova E, Geisen S, Bonkowski M, Kudryavtsev A, Berney C, Glotova A, Bondarenko N, Dyková I, Mrva M, Fahrni J, Pawlowski J. Protist 2016 Oct;168(2):220-252. S1434-4610(16)30067-0. 10.1016/j.protis.2016.10.006.

Taxonomy-free molecular diatom index for high-throughput eDNA biomonitoring.

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• 13-03-2017

Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil L, Cordonier A, Straub F, Iseli J, Esling P, Pawlowski J. Mol Ecol Resour 2017 Mar;():. 10.1111/1755-0998.12668.

Integration of Shh and Fgf signaling in controlling Hox gene expression in cultured limb cells.

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• 09-03-2017

Rodrigues AR, Yakushiji-Kaminatsui N, Atsuta Y, Andrey G, Schorderet P, Duboule D, Tabin CJ. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2017 Mar;():. 1620767114. 10.1073/pnas.1620767114.

Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe.

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• 04-03-2017

Unterländer M, Palstra F, Lazaridis I, Pilipenko A, Hofmanová Z, Groß M, Sell C, Blöcher J, Kirsanow K, Rohland N, Rieger B, Kaiser E, Schier W, Pozdniakov D, Khokhlov A, Georges M, Wilde S, Powell A, Heyer E, Currat M, Reich D, Samashev Z, Parzinger H, Molodin VI, Burger J. Nat Commun 2017 Mar;8():14615. ncomms14615. 10.1038/ncomms14615.

Bifurcation Analysis of Reaction Diffusion Systems on Arbitrary Surfaces.

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• 02-03-2017

Dhillon DS, Milinkovitch MC, Zwicker M. Bull. Math. Biol. 2017 Feb;():. 10.1007/s11538-017-0255-8. 10.1007/s11538-017-0255-8.

Context- and Output Layer-Dependent Long-Term Ensemble Plasticity in a Sensory Circuit.

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• 28-02-2017

Yamada Y, Bhaukaurally K, Madarász TJ, Pouget A, Rodriguez I, Carleton A. Neuron 2017 Feb;():. S0896-6273(17)30090-9. 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.02.006.

Trends in tissue repair and regeneration.

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• 02-02-2017

Galliot B, Crescenzi M, Jacinto A, Tajbakhsh S. Development 2017 Feb;144(3):357-364. 144/3/357. 10.1242/dev.144279.

Fluorescence circadian imaging reveals a PDF-dependent transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila molecular clock.

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• 31-01-2017

Sabado V, Vienne L, Nunes JM, Rosbash M, Nagoshi E. Sci Rep 2017 Jan;7():41560. srep41560. 10.1038/srep41560. PMC5278502.

Cryo-EM to visualize complex structure and function

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 19.06.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Eva Nogales (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA).
hosted by: David Shore .

"A Matter of Architecture: Building Epithelia with Hepatocytic or Columnar Polarity"

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 12.06.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Anne Müsch (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA).
hosted by: Sandra Citi .

Factors and functions of ER contact sites with other organelles

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 05.06.2018 12:00, A100 (Sciences II)

Gia Voeltz (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA).
hosted by: Aurélien Roux .

Fifty Shades of Shade: Adaptation of Plants to Their Local Environment

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 15.05.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Joanne Chory (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA).
hosted by: Michael Hothorn .

Limb regeneration as a model that integrates positional information and growth

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 08.05.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Elly Tanaka (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria).
hosted by: Brigitte Galliot .

Mysteries of the mitotic spindle: Chirality, torques and twist

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 24.04.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Iva Tolic (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia).
hosted by: Paul Guichard .

TBA

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 17.04.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Suzanne Eaton (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany).
hosted by: M. Gonzalez Gaitan .

‘RNA processing and its impact on genome stability’

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• Conference
• 11.04.2018 16:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Kevin Hiom (University of Dundee).
hosted by: Thanos Halazonetis .

Scientific Publishing Today and Tomorrow

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 10.04.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Vivian Siegel (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA).
hosted by: Didier Picard .

Epigenetic mechanisms in early mammalian development

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 27.03.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Maria Elena Torres-Padilla (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany).
hosted by: Ramesh Pillai .

The C4 rice project – an agricultural grand challenge

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 27.02.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Jane Langdale (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK).
hosted by: Luis Lopez Molina .

The GET/TRC40 pathway at the intersection of membrane protein targeting and proteostasis

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 20.02.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Blanche Schwappach (Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany).
hosted by: Thierry Soldati .

TBA

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 30.01.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Sue Biggins ( Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.).
hosted by: Florian Steiner .

to be announced

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 24.01.2018 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Antony Dodd (University of Bristol).
hosted by: Theresa Fitzpatrick .

Mitochondrial machineries for protein import and assembly

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 28.11.2017 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Nikolaus Pfanner (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany).
hosted by: Jean-Claude Martinou Robbie Loewith Roman Ulm .

From genetics to system, and back: A systematic exploration of neuronal remodeling reveals a transcription factor hierarchy

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 17.11.2017 12:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Oren Schuldiner (Weizmann Institute).
hosted by: Emi Nagoshi .

Molecular Mechanisms for Initiating DNA Replication in Eukaryotes

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• Conference
• 16.11.2017 16:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Franziska Bleichert (Friedrich-Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland).
hosted by: Thomas Schalch .

Adaptation from long-standing genetic variation in an alpine plant

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 15.11.2017 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Alex Widmer (ETHZ).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

TBA

• event
• Dpt of Cell Biology
• 08.11.2017 12:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Benoît Kornmann (Institute of Biochemistry, ETH, Zürich).
hosted by: Françoise Stutz .

Weigle lecture

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• Conference
• 07.11.2017 17:15, A150 (Sciences II)

Patrick Cramer (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen Germany).
hosted by: Thomas Schalch .

"ERF deletion rescues RAS absence in mouse ES cells”

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• Conference
• 01.11.2017 14:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Cristina Mayor (CNIO, Madrid, Spain).
hosted by: Thanos Halazonetis .

"Epigenetics: One Genome, Multiple Phenotypes"

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 31.10.2017 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Danny Reinberg (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York ).
hosted by: Denis Duboule .

Characterization of NPF and SWEET proteins as plant hormone transporters

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 18.10.2017 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Mitsunori Seo (RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science).
hosted by: Luis Lopez Molina .

TBA

• event
• Life Science Seminar Series
• 17.10.2017 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Silvia Vignolini (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK).
hosted by: PhD Association .

Vitamins as drivers of evolution of algal-bacterial mutualisms

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 10.10.2017 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Alison Smith (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK).
hosted by: PhD Association .

"Rafts come alive: actively driven organization of membrane components in living cells

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 03.10.2017 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

Satyajit Mayor (NCBS, Bangalore, India).
hosted by: Marko Kaksonen .

Cell polarity in collective cell migration

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• Faculty of Sciences
• 29.09.2017 11:00, 352 (Sciences II)

Dr. Benoit Ladoux (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore).
hosted by: Aurélien Roux .

Seasonal coordination of reproductive programs by photoperiodic signals in rice

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 27.09.2017 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Fabio Fornara (Université de Milan).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

“Tornado in a junkyard: LTR-driven evolution of genes and their expression”

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• Conference
• 21.08.2017 16:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Dr. Petr SVOBODA (Institute of Molecular Genetics of ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic).
hosted by: Ramesh Pillai .

Exploring the intersection of intracellular mycobacterial trafficking routes with host endocytic pathways by chemical genetics approach

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• Dpt of Biochemistry
• 10.07.2017 13:00, 352 (Sciences II)

Varadharajan Sundaramurthy, PhD (National Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,).
hosted by: Thierry Soldati .

Activating axon regeneration programs: from epigenetic to ER stress responses

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• Dpt of Biochemistry
• 03.07.2017 13:00, 352 (Sciences II)

Valerie Cavalli (Washington University School of Medicine).
hosted by: Jean Gruenberg .

Development of nanoparticle-based therapies against tuberculosis in zebrafish

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• Dpt of Biochemistry
• 29.06.2017 16:00, 352 (Sciences II)

Prof. Gareth Griffiths (University of Oslo, Norway).
hosted by: Jean Gruenberg .