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The origin of the mammalian brain uncovered

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• 29-06-2018

The expression levels of three genes determines the predominant mode of neurogenesis and the development the cerebral neocortex in mammals

Brigitte Galliot becomes vice-rector of the UNIGE

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• 25-05-2018

Brigitte Galliot, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science, has been appointed Vice-Rector of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) by Rector Yves Flückiger.

2 new open positions

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• 14-05-2018

The Milinkovitch Lab offers two new positions for PhD or Post-Doc students.

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.

Heterogeneous combinatorial expression of Hoxd genes in single cells during limb development.

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• 19-09-2018

Fabre PJ, Leleu M, Mascrez B, Lo Giudice Q, Cobb J, Duboule D. BMC Biol. 2018 Sep;16(1):101. 10.1186/s12915-018-0570-z. 10.1186/s12915-018-0570-z. PMC6142630.

Restoring wild-type-like CA1 network dynamics and behavior during adulthood in a mouse model of schizophrenia.

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• 19-09-2018

Marissal T, Salazar RF, Bertollini C, Mutel S, De Roo M, Rodriguez I, Müller D, Carleton A. Nat. Neurosci. 2018 Sep;():. 10.1038/s41593-018-0225-y. 10.1038/s41593-018-0225-y.

The BEN Domain Protein Insensitive Binds to the Fab-7 Chromatin Boundary To Establish Proper Segmental Identity in Drosophila

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• 08-08-2018

Fedotova A, Aoki T, Rossier M, Mishra R, Clendine C, Kyrchanova O, Wolle D, Bonchuk A, Maeda R, Mutero A, Cleard F, Mogila V, Karch F, Georgiev P, Schedl P. Genetics 2018 Aug;():. genetics.118.301259. 10.1534/genetics.118.301259.

More amoebae from the deep-sea: Two new marine species of Vexillifera (Amoebozoa, Dactylopodida) with notes on taxonomy of the genus.

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• 08-08-2018

Kudryavtsev A, Pawlowski J, Smirnov A. Eur. J. Protistol. 2018 Jul;66():9-25. S0932-4739(18)30060-9. 10.1016/j.ejop.2018.07.001.

A Comparison of Different Ciliate Metabarcode Genes as Bioindicators for Environmental Impact Assessments of Salmon Aquaculture.

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• 22-07-2018

Forster D, Filker S, Kochems R, Breiner HW, Cordier T, Pawlowski J, Stoeck T. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 2018 Jul;():. 10.1111/jeu.12670.

Consequences of diverse evolutionary processes on american genetic gradients of modern humans.

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• 20-07-2018

Branco C, Velasco M, Benguigui M, Currat M, Ray N, Arenas M. Heredity (Edinb) 2018 Jul;():. 10.1038/s41437-018-0122-x. 10.1038/s41437-018-0122-x.

Supervised machine learning outperforms taxonomy-based environmental DNA metabarcoding applied to biomonitoring.

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• 18-07-2018

Cordier T, Forster D, Dufresne Y, Martins CI, Stoeck T, Pawlowski J. Mol Ecol Resour 2018 Jul;():. 10.1111/1755-0998.12926.

The lncRNA male-specific abdominal plays a critical role in Drosophila accessory gland development and male fertility.

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• 17-07-2018

Maeda RK, Sitnik JL, Frei Y, Prince E, Gligorov D, Wolfner MF, Karch F. PLoS Genet. 2018 Jul;14(7):e1007519. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007519. PGENETICS-D-17-01962.

Non-developmental dimensions of adult regeneration in Hydra.

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• 26-06-2018

Galliot B, Buzgariu W, Schenkelaars Q, Wenger Y. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 2018 ;62(6-7-8):373-381. 180111bg. 10.1387/ijdb.180111bg.

Back to the roots: reducing evolutionary rate heterogeneity among sequences gives support for the early morphological hypothesis of the root of Siluriformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi).

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• 11-06-2018

Rivera-Rivera CJ, Montoya-Burgos JI. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 2018 Jun;():. S1055-7903(17)30923-5. 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.004.

The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e)DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems.

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• 29-05-2018

Pawlowski J, Kelly-Quinn M, Altermatt F, Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil L, Beja P, Boggero A, Borja A, Bouchez A, Cordier T, Domaizon I, Feio MJ, Filipe AF, Fornaroli R, Graf W, Herder J, van der Hoorn B, Iwan Jones J, Sagova-Mareckova M, Moritz C, Barquín J, Piggott JJ, Pinna M, Rimet F, Rinkevich B, Sousa-Santos C, Specchia V, Trobajo R, Vasselon V, Vitecek S, Zimmerman J, Weigand A, Leese F, Kahlert M. Sci. Total Environ. 2018 May;637-638():1295-1310. S0048-9697(18)31632-2. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.002.

Development and implementation of eco-genomic tools for aquatic ecosystem biomonitoring: the SYNAQUA French-Swiss program.

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• 08-05-2018

Lefrançois E, Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil L, Blancher P, Botreau S, Chardon C, Crepin L, Cordier T, Cordonier A, Domaizon I, Ferrari BJD, Guéguen J, Hustache JC, Jacas L, Jacquet S, Lacroix S, Mazenq AL, Pawlowska A, Perney P, Pawlowski J, Rimet F, Rubin JF, Trevisan D, Vivien R, Bouchez A. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2018 May;():. 10.1007/s11356-018-2172-2. 10.1007/s11356-018-2172-2.

Hydra, a model system for deciphering the mechanisms of aging and resistance to aging.

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• 02-05-2018

Schenkelaars Q., Tomczyk S., Wenger Y., Ekundayo K., Girard V., Buzgariu W., Austad S. and Galliot B. . Conn’s Handbook for models on human aging (Second Edition); Chapt. 38

Effect of hybridization with genome exclusion on extinction risk.

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• 25-04-2018

Quilodrán CS, Currat M, Montoya-Burgos JI. Conserv. Biol. 2018 Apr;():. 10.1111/cobi.13120.

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.

The contribution of neutral evolution and adaptive processes in driving phenotypic divergence in a model mammalian species, the Andean fox Lycalopex culpaeus

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• 06-03-2018

Pablo A. Martinez Monica V. Pia Ilham A. Bahechar Wagner F. Molina Claudio J. Bidau Juan I. Montoya‐Burgos. Journal of Biogeography. 2018;45:1114–1125

Weigle Lecture (title to be announced)

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• Conference
• 06.11.2019 17:15, A150 (Sciences II)

Edith Heard (EMBL Heidelberg).
hosted by: David Shore Ramesh Pillai .

Systematic approaches to study organelle biology

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 11.06.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Maya Schuldiner (Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel).
hosted by: Howard Riezman .

Evolution and development of petal nanostructures that influence animal behaviour

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 04.06.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Beverly Glover (University of Cambridge, UK).
hosted by: Unknown .

Toward Atomic Resolution Understanding of Cellular Membranes and Membrane-Remodeling Machines

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 14.05.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Adam Frost (UCSF, USA).
hosted by: PhD Association .

Architecture and mechanics of microtubule networks

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 16.04.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Manuel Thery (CEA, IUH Hopital Saint Louis. Paris, France).
hosted by: PhD Association .

Dynamic chromatin in development

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 09.04.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Susan Mango (Biozentrum - Basel).
hosted by: Denis Duboule .

Signaling to actin dynamics in cancer invasion and metastasis

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 02.04.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Laura Machesky (CRUK Beatson Institute, UK).
hosted by: Thierry Soldati .

Weigle Lecture (title to be announced)

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• Conference
• 28.03.2019 17:15, A300 (Sciences II)

Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin).
hosted by: Thanos Halazonetis .

Stress adaptation in eukaryotes; the role of stress-activates protein kinases

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 26.03.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Francesc Posas (IRB Barcelona).
hosted by: Robbie Loewith .

Neural changes underlying fly song evolution

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 26.02.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

David Stern (Janelia Research Campus. USA).
hosted by: Francois Karch .

The evolution of mammalian gene expression programs

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 19.02.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Henrik Kaessmann (ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany).
hosted by: Michel Milinkovitch .

Pathways of organelle-organelle cross-talk and their role(s) in cell metabolism and homeost

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 22.01.2019 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Jennifer Lippincott- Schwartz (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA).
hosted by: Jean Gruenberg .

The volume-regulated anion channel VRAC: molecular identity and diverse functions

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 27.11.2018 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Thomas Jentsch (FMP Berlin).
hosted by: Jean Gruenberg .

Cell adhesion and polarity signaling in making, maintaining and breaking epithelial barriers

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 20.11.2018 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Carien Niessen (Department of Dermatology and CECAD, University of Cologne. Germany).
hosted by: Sandra Citi .

Chaperone machineries for the biogenesis and metabolic repair of RuBisCO, the most abundant enzyme in nature

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 13.11.2018 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Manjit Hayer-Hartl (MPI Munich).
hosted by: Michael Hothorn .

Genome Engineering in Plants: Past, Present, Future

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 31.10.2018 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Holger Puchta (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

Structural insights into jumping genes: from antibiotic resistance spreading to genetic tools

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• Conference
• 22.10.2018 14:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

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

Structural molecular biology of RNA processing machines

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• Conference
• 19.10.2018 14:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Yunsun Nam (University of Texas Southwestern, USA).
hosted by: Ramesh Pillai .

Structural mechanisms of microtubule nucleation and centrosome assembly

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 16.10.2018 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

David Agard (University of California, San Francisco).
hosted by: Didier Picard .

Phosphoinositide kinases: Key players in cell signalling and human disease

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• Dpt of Biochemistry
• 15.10.2018 12:00, 352 (Sciences II)

Prof. John E. Burke (University of Victoria (Canada)).
hosted by: Aurélien Roux .

Serving up Science: Plant Genetics and the Future of Food

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• Life Science Seminar Series
• 09.10.2018 11:00, A150 (Sciences II)

Pamela Ronald (University of California Davis, Berkeley, CA, USA).
hosted by: Michael Hothorn .

Global analysis of the endogenous DNA repair networks and identification of the Shieldin complex

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• Conference
• 08.10.2018 16:00, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Chunaram Choudhary (The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research University of Copenhagen ).
hosted by: Thanos Halazonetis .

Signal transduction in plants: From molecules to phenotypes, and back

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• Dpt of Botany & Plant Biology
• 05.10.2018 14:00, A100 (Sciences II)

Michael Hothorn (UNIGE).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

to be announced

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 26.09.2018 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Karin Schumacher (Heidelberg University).
hosted by: Theresa Fitzpatrick .

Dissecting the physiology of plant thermomorphogenesis

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 19.09.2018 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Marcel Quint (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

The physical chemistry of lipid droplet biogenesis

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• Dpt of Biochemistry
• 18.09.2018 13:00, 352 (Sciences II)

Prof. Stefano Vanni (Dpt. of Biology, Univ. Fribourg).
hosted by: Jean Gruenberg .

Phytochrome and plant defenses

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 29.08.2018 11:15, 1S059 (Sciences III)

Carlos Ballaré (UBA - Universitiy of Buenos Aires).
hosted by: Roman Ulm .

Distinct modes of derepression of an Arabidopsis immune receptor complex by two different bacterial effectors

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 13.08.2018 12:15, 3079 (Sciences III)

Hailong Guo (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK).
hosted by: Jean-David Rochaix .

A requiem for crystal structures of large membrane complexes

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• Geneva Plant Seminars
• 25.07.2018 16:00, 3079 (Sciences III)

Nathan Nelson (Tel Aviv University).
hosted by: Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont .

Development of the zebrafish olfactory epithelium: morphogenesis and cell type diversity.

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 20.07.2018 12:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Raphael Aguillon (Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse).
hosted by: Brigitte Galliot .

Crosstalk between mechanical and biochemical signals in Hydra

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 06.07.2018 12:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Dr. Charisios Tsiairis (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel).
hosted by: Brigitte Galliot .

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 .

Hydra, a model system for stem cell biology, regeneration and aging

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• Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
• 29.06.2018 14:15, 1S081 (Sciences III)

Brigitte Galliot (University of Geneva).
hosted by: Ivan Rodriguez .

Spatial reconstruction of immune niches by combining photoactivatable reporters and scRNA-seq.

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• Dpt of Cell Biology
• 28.06.2018 12:15, 2024 (Sciences III)

Dr. Chiara MEDAGLIA (The Weizmann Institute of Science).
hosted by: Sandra Citi .