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30 May 2022

Olfactory neurons adapt to the surrounding environment

The team of Professors Ivan Rodriguez and Alan Carleton of the UNIGE has highlighted the great variability and continuous adaptation of olfactory neurons.
21 Mar 2022

An HFSP grant to study reptilian coloration

Dr. Athanasia Tzika is awarded an HFSP grant to study reptilian coloration.
07 Mar 2022

Où est le monstre?

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.
01 Feb 2022

The mathematical simplicity of lizard camouflage

We uncover the amazing parallels between ferromagnetism modeling and lizard skin colour patterning
26 Nov 2021

New behaviors dating back to ca. 35’000 years identified at Toumboura III archaeological site, Eastern Senegal

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.
15 Nov 2021

Motor control: Elephant trunks ignore the many and choose a few

Prof. Scott Hooper (Ohio University, USA) discusses the importance on recent results made by Milinkovitch's Lab on elephant trunk biomechanics
01 Oct 2021

A single gene can disrupt the sleep-wake cycle

Emi Nagoshi's team has identified a gene essential in the regulation of the sleep / wake cycles of Drosophila.
29 Sep 2021

Swiss, Senegalese and French archaeologists launch a research project in Casamance

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.
31 Aug 2021

How elephants use their trunk

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
26 Apr 2021

How the lizard gets its pattern

LANE lab's 3D numerical simulations of the ocellated lizard skin colour patterning are published today in Nature Communications.
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