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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.

Assimilation of breast milk

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• 15-11-2017

Many media around the world talk about our article

Discovery of the evolutionary link between hairs, feathers and scales

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• 31-10-2017

National Geographic reports the discovery of the Milinkovitch's Lab

6th Annual Meeting of iGE3

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• 25-10-2017

November 7, 2017. Stéphane Buhler, Emi Nagoshi and Yvan Wenger will be among the speakers.

When teeth grow on the body

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• 18-10-2017

The body of some catfish is completely covered with teeth, for defense and seduction purposes, imitating extinct species.

An architect gene is involved in the assimilation of breast milk

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• 17-10-2017

The presence of a mutated Hoxd3 gene could explain certain types of intestinal insufficiency in newborns

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.

Role of Hoxc genes in the development of the limb integumentary organ (nail, claw, or hoof).

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• 13-04-2018

Lasierra MAR, Fernández-Guerrero M, Delisle L, Yakushiji-Kaminatsui N, Darbellay F, Pérez-Gómez R, Duboule D. FASEB J. 2018 Apr;32(1_supplement):201. 10.1096/fasebj.2018.32.1_supplement.20.1.

Eyes of the Deep-sea Floor: The Integrative Taxonomy of the Foraminiferal Genus Vanhoeffenella.

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• 13-04-2018

Voltski I, Gooday AJ, Pawlowski J. Protist 2017 Nov;169(2):235-267. S1434-4610(17)30104-9. 10.1016/j.protis.2017.11.003.

Rescue of an aggressive female sexual courtship in mice by CRISPR/Cas9 secondary mutation in vivo.

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• 28-03-2018

Zakany J, Duboule D. BMC Res Notes 2018 Mar;11(1):193. 10.1186/s13104-018-3307-8. 10.1186/s13104-018-3307-8. PMC5870235.

Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation.

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• 15-03-2018

Thomson SA, Pyle RL, Ahyong ST, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Ammirati J, Araya JF, Ascher JS, Audisio TL, Azevedo-Santos VM, Bailly N, Baker WJ, Balke M, Barclay MVL, Barrett RL, Benine RC, Bickerstaff JRM, Bouchard P, Bour R, Bourgoin T, Boyko CB, Breure ASH, Brothers DJ, Byng JW, Campbell D, Ceríaco LMP, Cernák I, Cerretti P, Chang CH, Cho S, Copus JM, Costello MJ, Cseh A, Csuzdi C, Culham A, D'Elía G, d'Udekem d'Acoz C, Daneliya ME, Dekker R, Dickinson EC, Dickinson TA, van Dijk PP, Dijkstra KB, Dima B, Dmitriev DA, Duistermaat L, Dumbacher JP, Eiserhardt WL, Ekrem T, Evenhuis NL, Faille A, Fernández-Triana JL, Fiesler E, Fishbein M, Fordham BG, Freitas AVL, Friol NR, Fritz U, Frøslev T, Funk VA, Gaimari SD, Garbino GST, Garraffoni ARS, Geml J, Gill AC, Gray A, Grazziotin FG, Greenslade P, Gutiérrez EE, Harvey MS, Hazevoet CJ, He K, He X, Helfer S, Helgen KM, van Heteren AH, Hita Garcia F, Holstein N, Horváth MK, Hovenkamp PH, Hwang WS, Hyvönen J, Islam MB, Iverson JB, Ivie MA, Jaafar Z, Jackson MD, Jayat JP, Johnson NF, Kaiser H, Klitgård BB, Knapp DG, Kojima JI, Kõljalg U, Kontschán J, Krell FT, Krisai-Greilhuber I, Kullander S, Latella L, Lattke JE, Lencioni V, Lewis GP, Lhano MG, Lujan NK, Luksenburg JA, Mariaux J, Marinho-Filho J, Marshall CJ, Mate JF, McDonough MM, Michel E, Miranda VFO, Mitroiu MD, Molinari J, Monks S, Moore AJ, Moratelli R, Murányi D, Nakano T, Nikolaeva S, Noyes J, Ohl M, Oleas NH, Orrell T, Páll-Gergely B, Pape T, Papp V, Parenti LR, Patterson D, Pavlinov IY, Pine RH, Poczai P, Prado J, Prathapan D, Rabeler RK, Randall JE, Rheindt FE, Rhodin AGJ, Rodríguez SM, Rogers DC, Roque FO, Rowe KC, Ruedas LA, Salazar-Bravo J, Salvador RB, Sangster G, Sarmiento CE, Schigel DS, Schmidt S, Schueler FW, Segers H, Snow N, Souza-Dias PGB, Stals R, Stenroos S, Stone RD, Sturm CF, Štys P, Teta P, Thomas DC, Timm RM, Tindall BJ, Todd JA, Triebel D, Valdecasas AG, Vizzini A, Vorontsova MS, de Vos JM, Wagner P, Watling L, Weakley A, Welter-Schultes F, Whitmore D, Wilding N, Will K, Williams J, Wilson K, Winston JE, Wüster W, Yanega D, Yeates DK, Zaher H, Zhang G, Zhang ZQ, Zhou HZ. PLoS Biol. 2018 Mar;16(3):e2005075. 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075. pbio.2005075.

Parallel roles of transcription factors dFOXO and FER2 in the development and maintenance of dopaminergic neurons.

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• 13-03-2018

Tas D, Stickley L, Miozzo F, Koch R, Loncle N, Sabado V, Gnägi B, Nagoshi E. PLoS Genet. 2018 Mar;14(3):e1007271. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007271. PGENETICS-D-17-00703.

Response to Peron et al.

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• 02-03-2018

Kragesteen BK, Duboule D, Mundlos S, Spielmann M. Genet. Med. 2018 Mar;():. gim201820. 10.1038/gim.2018.20.

Environmental DNA metabarcoding of benthic bacterial communities indicates the benthic footprint of salmon aquaculture.

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• 25-02-2018

Stoeck T, Frühe L, Forster D, Cordier T, Martins CIM, Pawlowski J. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 2018 Feb;127():139-149. S0025-326X(17)31022-6. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.11.065.

Single-cell Resolution Fluorescence Live Imaging of Drosophila Circadian Clocks in Larval Brain Culture.

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• 15-02-2018

Sabado V, Nagoshi E. J Vis Exp 2018 Jan;(131):. 10.3791/57015.

Cryptic Biological Invasions: a General Model of Hybridization.

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• 07-02-2018

Quilodrán CS, Austerlitz F, Currat M, Montoya-Burgos JI. Sci Rep 2018 Feb;8(1):2414. 10.1038/s41598-018-20543-6. 10.1038/s41598-018-20543-6.

Welcome to HLA population reports.

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• 02-02-2018

Sanchez-Mazas A. HLA 2018 Feb;91(2):79. 10.1111/tan.13206.

Impact of cycling cells and cell cycle regulation on Hydra regeneration.

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• 03-01-2018

Buzgariu W, Wenger Y, Tcaciuc N, Catunda-Lemos AP, Galliot B. Dev. Biol. 2018 Jan;433(2):240-253. S0012-1606(17)30413-X. 10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.11.003.

NGS typings reveal very high frequencies of particular HLA class II alleles and haplotypes.

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• 28-12-2017

Goeury T, Creary LE, Fernandez-Vina MA, Tiercy JM, Nunes JM, Sanchez-Mazas A. HLA 2017 Dec;():. 10.1111/tan.13197.

The HoxD cluster is a dynamic and resilient TAD boundary controlling the segregation of antagonistic regulatory landscapes.

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• 24-12-2017

Rodríguez-Carballo E, Lopez-Delisle L, Zhan Y, Fabre PJ, Beccari L, El-Idrissi I, Huynh THN, Ozadam H, Dekker J, Duboule D. Genes Dev. 2017 Nov;31(22):2264-2281. gad.307769.117. 10.1101/gad.307769.117.

Multifactorial genetic divergence processes drive the onset of speciation in an Amazonian fish.

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• 21-12-2017

Jardim de Queiroz L, Torrente-Vilara G, Quilodran C, Rodrigues da Costa Doria C, Montoya-Burgos JI. PLoS ONE 2017 ;12(12):e0189349. 10.1371/journal.pone.0189349. PONE-D-17-12071.

Avian haemosporidians from rain forests in Madagascar: Molecular and morphological data of the genera Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon.

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• 21-12-2017

Ivanova K, Zehtindjiev P, Mariaux J, Dimitrov D, Georgiev BB. Infect. Genet. Evol. 2017 Dec;():. S1567-1348(17)30443-4. 10.1016/j.meegid.2017.12.017.

Investigating population continuity with ancient DNA under a spatially explicit simulation framework.

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• 17-12-2017

Silva NM, Rio J, Currat M. BMC Genet. 2017 Dec;18(1):114. 10.1186/s12863-017-0575-6. 10.1186/s12863-017-0575-6. PMC5731203.

Noncoding copy-number variations are associated with congenital limb malformation.

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• 14-12-2017

Flöttmann R, Kragesteen BK, Geuer S, Socha M, Allou L, Sowińska-Seidler A, Bosquillon de Jarcy L, Wagner J, Jamsheer A, Oehl-Jaschkowitz B, Wittler L, de Silva D, Kurth I, Maya I, Santos-Simarro F, Hülsemann W, Klopocki E, Mountford R, Fryer A, Borck G, Horn D, Lapunzina P, Wilson M, Mascrez B, Duboule D, Mundlos S, Spielmann M. Genet. Med. 2017 Oct;():. gim2017154. 10.1038/gim.2017.154.

Cytochrome c oxidase barcodes for aquatic oligochaete identification: development of a Swiss reference database.

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• 13-12-2017

Vivien R, Holzmann M, Werner I, Pawlowski J, Lafont M, Ferrari BJD. PeerJ 2017 ;5():e4122. 10.7717/peerj.4122. 4122. PMC5723135.

Genetic history of the African Sahelian populations.

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• 08-12-2017

Černý V, Kulichová I, Poloni ES, Nunes JM, Pereira L, Mayor A, Sanchez-Mazas A. HLA 2017 Dec;():. 10.1111/tan.13189.

Deciphering the fine nucleotide diversity of full HLA class I and class II genes in a well-documented population from sub-Saharan Africa.

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• 22-11-2017

Goeury T, Creary L, Brunet L, Galan M, Pasquier M, Kervaire B, Langaney A, Tiercy JM, Fernández-Viña MA, Nunes JM, Sanchez-Mazas A. HLA 2017 Nov;():. 10.1111/tan.13180.

Symposium on Organellar Biogenesis and Signaling

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• Conference
• 06.07.2018 08:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont (University of Geneva).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

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 .

Molecular insights into the Mobile Genome

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• Conference
• 11.06.2018 14:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Dr. Orsolya Barabas (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany).
hosted by: Ramesh Pillai .

Factors and functions of ER contact sites with other organelles

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 05.06.2018 16:15, A100 (Sciences II)

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

Regulation and evolution of cardiopharyngeal cell fates and behaviors in chordates

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 18.05.2018 12:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Regulation and evolution of cardiopharyngeal cell fates and behaviors in chordates (New York University).
hosted by: Ivan Rodriguez .

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 .

internal seminar

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• Plant Science Seminar (BIVEG internal seminar)
• 30.04.2018 13:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Marta Pesquera (UNIGE).
hosted by: Theresa Fitzpatrick .

Dynamic control of cell identity in the developing cerebral cortex

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 27.04.2018 12:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Denis Jabaudon (CMU, Dept. of Fundamental Neuroscience).
hosted by: Emi Nagoshi .

Inositol pyrophosphates: messengers at the interface between plant nutrition and defense

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 25.04.2018 12:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Gabriel Schaaf (Bonn University).
hosted by: Michael Hothorn .

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 .

Planar cell polarity and stress-induced Catherine turnover during remodeling of the Drosophila pupal wing

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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 .

Understanding membrane homeostasis at the cell surface: (I) a novel regulator of clathrin-mediated endocytosis (II) Coupling of exocytosis-endocytosis at the plasma membrane

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• Dpt of Biochemistry
• 10.04.2018 13:00, 352 (Sciences II)

Kamalesh Kumari (Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel).
hosted by: Jean Gruenberg .

Membrane nano- and microdomain dynamics during host cell infection

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 28.03.2018 12:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Thomas Ott (University of Freiburg, Germany).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

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 .

Neurogenesis and cortical expansion in development and evolution

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 16.03.2018 12:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Dr. Victor Borrell (Developmental Neurobiology, Instituto de Neurociencias, Alicante, Spain).
hosted by: Michel Milinkovitch .

Du nouveau chez les coelacanthes

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• Museum of Natural History
• 09.03.2018 11:55, Salle de conférence (Museum of Natural History)

Lionel Cavin (Muséum, Genève).
hosted by: Nadir Alvarez .

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 .

Avian diversities in the Sino-Himalayan region

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• Museum of Natural History
• 27.02.2018 11:00, Salle de conférence (Museum of Natural History)

Thomas Tieze (Uni. Basel).
hosted by: Alice Cibois .

The mBRAVE Platform: The Next Generation of HTS Analysis

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 23.02.2018 14:00, 4059 (Sciences III)

Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Center for Biodiversity Genomics, University Guelph, Canada).
hosted by: Jan Pawlowski .

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 .

Exploring M.A.R.S. : Signaling through the Chloroplast Unfolded Protein Response

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 14.02.2018 12:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Silvia Ramundo (UCSF - University of California San Francisco, Dpmt of Biochemistry and Biophysics).
hosted by: Jean-David Rochaix .

Cellular reorganization for open mitosis

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 13.02.2018 16:00, A100 (Sciences II)

Ulrike Kutay (ETH Zurich).
hosted by: Françoise Stutz .

27 ans de capture de chauves-souris au col de Jaman

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• Museum of Natural History
• 09.02.2018 11:55, Salle de conférence (Museum of Natural History)

Lauren Vallotton (Muséum).
hosted by: Nadir Alvarez .

Neurogenetics of behavior in health and disease: circadian rhythms, neurodegeneration, and beyond

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 08.02.2018 13:15, 229 (Sciences II)

Emi Nagoshi (UNIGE).
hosted by: Ivan Rodriguez .

" Obligate sexuality within human lungs and surface antigenic variation of Pneumocystis jirovecii: is there a link ? "

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• Conference
• 08.02.2018 11:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Philippe Hauser (CHUV Lausanne).
hosted by: Thomas Schalch .

“Identifying and validating novel cancer targets”

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• Conference
• 29.01.2018 11:00, A100 (Sciences II)

Tobias Schmelzle ( Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Basel, Switzerland).
hosted by: PhD Association .

Cestodes des vertébrés du monde

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• Museum of Natural History
• 26.01.2018 11:55, Salle de conférence (Museum of Natural History)

Jean Mariaux (Muséum, genève).
hosted by: Nadir Alvarez .

To Die or To Survive: Sensing Tissue Damage by Oxidative Stress in Drosophila

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 24.01.2018 12:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Florenci Serras (University of Barcelona).
hosted by: Brigitte Galliot .

Circadian rhythms and cell signalling

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

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