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Milinkovitch's lab makes the cover of PLOS Biology

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• 16-04-2025

The editorial team of PLOS Biology selects one light-sheet microscopy images produced by LANE lab.

Kostas Kampourakis is the 2024 winner of the Friend of Darwin award

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• 10-12-2024

Honored with Prestigious Award: Kostas Kampourakis Receives "Friend of Darwin 2024"

How the dog, cow and ferret make their noses

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• 31-10-2024

Milinkovitch's team found that nose patterns form in embryos due to differential skin growth supported by blood vessels.

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.

The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes

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• 19-10-2023

By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, Mathias Currat's team has traced the history of migrations between Sapiens and Neanderthals.

Parkinson’s: are our neurons more vulnerable at night?

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• 28-09-2023

Emi Nagoshi's team shows that disruptions to the circadian clock increase the risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease.

The University of Geneva enters the ‘top 50’ in world ranking

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• 18-08-2023

The UNIGE is indeed now ranked 49th in the world

The secret behind the Nikon Photomicrography 1st prize revealed

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• 04-04-2023

We publish today a new method that provides unmatched visualisation of collagen 3D network architecture.

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.

In toto live imaging of Erk signaling dynamics in developing zebrafish hepatocytes.

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• 15-04-2025

Butt FA, De Simone A, Di Talia S, Poss KD. Dev Biol 2025 Apr;():. 10.1016/j.ydbio.2025.04.009. S0012-1606(25)00104-6.

A remarkable new monothalamid (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) from the shoreline of Livingston Island, Antarctica.

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• 06-04-2025

Solbach MD, Siemensma F, Holzmann M. Eur J Protistol 2025 Mar;99():126148. 10.1016/j.ejop.2025.126148. S0932-4739(25)00016-1.

Sediment eDNA metabarcoding reveals the endemism in benthic foraminifera from Arctic methane cold seepages

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• 02-04-2025

Barrenechea Angeles, I., Claudio, A., Cermakova, K., Holzmann, M., Pawlowski, J., Panieri, G.. ISME Communications, 2025;, ycaf058, https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf058

Regulatory and disruptive variants in the CLCN2 gene are associated with modified skin color pattern phenotypes in the corn snake.

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• 27-03-2025

Montandon SA, Beaudier P, Ullate-Agote A, Helleboid PY, Kummrow M, Roig-Puiggros S, Jabaudon D, Andersson L, Milinkovitch MC, Tzika AC. Genome Biol 2025 Mar;26(1):73. 10.1186/s13059-025-03539-0. 10.1186/s13059-025-03539-0.

Lack of significant effect of gut microbiota on weight gain in newly emerged worker honeybee.

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• 27-03-2025

Powell JE, Motta EVS, Liberti J, Sotelo K, Engel P, Moran NA. R Soc Open Sci 2025 Mar;12(3):242151. PMC11937919. 10.1098/rsos.242151. rsos242151.

Long-term functional kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera.

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• 24-03-2025

Pinko D, Langlet D, Sur O, Husnik F, Holzmann M, Rubin-Blum M, Rahav E, Belkin N, Kucera M, Morard R, Abdu U, Upcher A, Abramovich S. iScience 2025 Mar;28(3):112028. PMC11926685. 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112028. S2589-0042(25)00288-3.

In vivo sonic hedgehog pathway antagonism temporarily results in ancestral proto-feather-like structures in the chicken.

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• 20-03-2025

Cooper RL, Milinkovitch MC. PLoS Biol 2025 Mar;23(3):e3003061. 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003061. PBIOLOGY-D-24-01946.

Long-term functional kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera

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• 14-03-2025

Pinko, D., Langlet, D., Sur, O., Husnik, F., Holzmann, M., Rubin Blum, M., Rahav, E., Belkin, N., Kucera, M., Morard, R., Abdu, U.. Long-term functional kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera. IScience 28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112028

Glioblastoma IDH-wild type: imaging independent predictors of gross total resection (GTR) using the VASARI feature set and tumoral volumetric measurements.

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• 13-03-2025

Timaran-Montenegro D, Nunez L, Dono A, Arevalo O, Rodriguez A, Khalaj K, McCarty J, Zhu JJ, Esquenazi Y, Riascos R. Acta Radiol 2025 Mar;():2841851251316400. 10.1177/02841851251316400.

A first look at xenophyophores (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) in the lower bathyal Bering Sea and abyssal areas adjacent to the Aleutian Trench

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• 01-03-2025

Gooday, A.J., Holzmann, M., Pawlowski, J.. Progress in Oceanography, 232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103411

A cosmopolitan calcifying benthic foraminifera in agglutinated disguise as a geochemical recorder of coastal environments

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• 27-02-2025

Sosnitsky, T., Krevova, V., Elisha, B., Sadekov, A., Torfstein, A., Holzmann, M., Hua, L., Abramovich, S., Ashckenazi-Polivoda, S.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 (10), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413054122

A cosmopolitan calcifying benthic foraminifera in agglutinated disguise as a geochemical recorder of coastal environments.

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• 27-02-2025

Sosnitsky T, Krekova V, Elisha B, Sadekov A, Torfstein A, Holzmann M, Li H, Abramovich S, Ashckenazi-Polivoda S. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2025 Mar;122(10):e2413054122. PMC11912396. 10.1073/pnas.2413054122.

Evidence for Pathogen-Driven Selection Acting on in Response to Malaria in West Africa.

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• 26-02-2025

Goeury T, Faye N, Gerbault P, Černý V, Crubézy E, Chiaroni J, Brouk H, Brunet L, Galan M, de Groot NG, Nunes JM, Sanchez-Mazas A. Ecol Evol 2025 Feb;15(2):e70933. PMC11850448. 10.1002/ece3.70933. ECE370933.

Evidence for Pathogen-Driven Selection Acting on HLA-DPB1 in Response to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in West Africa

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• 24-02-2025

. Ecology and Evolution, 15: e70933. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70933

Generic theory of interacting, spinning, active polar particles: A model for cell aggregates.

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• 20-02-2025

Vagne Q, Salbreux G. Phys Rev E 2025 Jan;111(1-1):014423. 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.014423.

Organizer formation, organizer maintenance and epithelial cell plasticity in Hydra: Role of the Wnt3/β-catenin/TCF/Sp5/Zic4 gene network.

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• 11-02-2025

Galliot B, Wenger Y. Cells Dev 2025 Feb;():204002. 10.1016/j.cdev.2025.204002. S2667-2901(25)00009-9.

The systematic techno-stylistic and chemical study of glass beads from post-15th century West African sites.

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• 10-02-2025

Truffa Giachet M, Gratuze B, Genequand D, Loukou YSB, Huysecom É, Mayor A. PLoS One 2025 ;20(2):e0318588. PMC11809889. 10.1371/journal.pone.0318588. PONE-D-24-32245.

Biosorption of heavy metals by microalgae: Hazardous side effects for marine organisms

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• 14-01-2025

Lintner, M., Balzano, S., Keul, N., Heinz, P., Manecki, M., Klimek, A., Wanek, W., Cyran, N., Gruber, D., Schmidt, K., Holzmann, M., Golen, J., Tyska, J.. Chemosphere 372, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144080

Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 variants with complementary surveillance systems: risk evaluation of the Omicron JN.1 variant in France, August 2023 to January 2024.

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• 10-01-2025

Traore A, Charniga K, Grellet S, Terpant G, Da Cruz H, Lamy A, Thomas N, Gbaguidi G, Mercier A, Prudhomme J, Visseaux B, Vieillefond V, Haim-Boukobza S, Giannoli JM, Castro-Alvarez J, Kouamen AC, Rameix-Welti MA, Beirrera-Ibraim S, Destras G, Josset L, Cauchemez S, Lina B, Coignard B, Schaeffer J, Enouf V, Bal A. Euro Surveill 2025 Jan;30(1):. PMC11719805. 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.1.2400293.

Biosorption of heavy metals by microalgae: Hazardous side effects for marine organisms.

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• 10-01-2025

Lintner M, Balzano S, Keul N, Heinz P, Manecki M, Klimek A, Wanek W, Cyran N, Gruber D, Schmidt K, Holzmann M, Goleń J, Tyszka J. Chemosphere 2025 Mar;372():144080. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144080. S0045-6535(25)00020-7.

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 .

TO BE ANNOUNOUCED

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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 .

to be announced

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

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

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
• 30.08.2023 10:15, unknown (unknown)

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

Understanding Architecture And Evolutionary Patterns In Haplolepidous Peristomes (Dicranidae, Bryophyta) Using Histology And Micro-Morphology

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• Dpt of Plant Sciences
• 25.07.2023 14:00, Salle de conférence (Museum of Natural History)

Mathilde Ruche (Michelle Price's group).
hosted by: Michelle Price .

GENOMES UNCOUPLED1-dependent biogenic thermal stress responses

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 28.06.2023 12:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Chahong Kim (Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology (PSC) ).
hosted by: Theresa Fitzpatrick .

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 .

HOW TO MAKE APICAL CILIA: COORDINATION BETWEEN CILIA FORMATION AND EPITHELIA POLARIZATION

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• Dpt of Molecular and Cellular Biology
• 23.06.2023 10:30, A100 (Sciences II)

Prof. Rytis Prekeris (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora (CO), USA).
hosted by: Sandra Citi .

The DNA-binding protein WHIRLY1 of barley promotes chloroplast development and responsivenesss to environment

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 22.06.2023 14:30, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Karin Krupinska (Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany).
hosted by: Theresa Fitzpatrick .

Revisiting the plant immune system from an evolutionary point of view

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 21.06.2023 11:15, A100 (Sciences II)

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 .

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 .

Channelling organ growth via intercellular communication

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• 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

• event
• cancelled
• 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 .

Optogenetic manipulation of phototropin receptor function to improve plant physiology and growth

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 27.04.2023 16:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

John Christie (University of Glasgow).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

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 .