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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.

The elephant’s trunk will inspire a revolutionary robot

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19-12-2019

An international team, including UNIGE, will analyse the African elephant’s trunk, and its exceptional agility and versatility, to create a robot guided by touch.

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.

Hybridization fuelled diversification in Spialia butterflies.

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10-03-2022

Hinojosa JC, Dapporto L, Pitteloud C, Koubínová D, Hernández-Roldán J, Vicente JC, Alvarez N, Vila R. Mol Ecol 2022 Mar;():. 10.1111/mec.16426.

Essay the (unusual) heuristic value of Hox gene clusters; a matter of time?

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20-02-2022

Duboule D. Dev Biol 2022 Feb;():. S0012-1606(22)00029-X. 10.1016/j.ydbio.2022.02.007.

ECM degradation in the Drosophila abdominal epidermis initiates tissue growth that ceases with rapid cell-cycle exit.

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16-02-2022

Davis JR, Ainslie AP, Williamson JJ, Ferreira A, Torres-Sánchez A, Hoppe A, Mangione F, Smith MB, Martin-Blanco E, Salbreux G, Tapon N. Curr Biol 2022 Feb;():. S0960-9822(22)00107-5. 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.045.

Lizard Skin Patterns and the Ising Model.

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12-02-2022

Zakany S, Smirnov S, Milinkovitch MC. Phys Rev Lett 2022 Jan;128(4):048102. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.048102.

From dietary adaptation in the past to drug metabolism of today: An example of NAT genes in the Croatian Roma

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31-01-2022

Stojanović Marković, A., Zajc Petranović, M., Škobalj, M., Poloni, E. S., Pichler Oberški, L., Škarić-Jurić, T., & Peričić Salihović, M.. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24483

Monitoring newt communities in urban area using eDNA metabarcoding.

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14-12-2021

Charvoz L, Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil L, Reo E, Thiébaud J, Pawlowski J. PeerJ 2021 ;9():e12357. 10.7717/peerj.12357. 12357. PMC8628619.

Pressure and Volume Control in a new Emergency Mechanical Ventilator based on PLC and Industrial Pneumatic Parts in Peru.

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12-12-2021

Santivanez J, Vallejos J, Parvina L, Valverde L, Sanchez M, Rodriguez I, Cholan JP, Ramos N. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2021 11;2021():5566-5569. 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630493.

Combining collective and artificial intelligence for global health diseases diagnosis using crowdsourced annotated medical images.

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12-12-2021

Lin L, Bermejo-Pelaez D, Capellan-Martin D, Cuadrado D, Rodriguez C, Garcia L, Diez N, Tome R, Postigo M, Ledesma-Carbayo MJ, Luengo-Oroz M. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2021 Nov;2021():3344-3348. 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630868.

Carbamazepine Biosensor Development for Epilepsy Patient Screening.

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12-12-2021

Pino EJ, Pucheu F, Alvarado F, Gomez B, De Diego M, Mennickent S, Aguayo C, Pena C, Rodriguez A. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2021 Nov;2021():1531-1534. 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9629901.

Demographic history was a formative mechanism of the genetic structure for the taste receptor TAS2R16 in human populations inhabiting Africa's Sahel/Savannah Belt.

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01-12-2021

Kulichová I, Mouterde M, Mokhtar MG, Diallo I, Tříska P, Diallo YM, Hofmanová Z, Poloni ES, Černý V. Am J Biol Anthropol 2021 Nov;():. 10.1002/ajpa.24448.