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Researchers at UNIGE demonstrate how some genes evolved from an immune function to an olfactory role in some mammals

Michel Milinkovitch's lab has a new website, with more contents and offers a more modern experience.

He will occupy the chair "Evolution of Genomes and Development".

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.

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.

Wednesday 1st February 2017 to 20 hours, Duboule give a lecture entitled "Road to transhumanism."

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.

Congratulations to Aurélie Hintermann, graduate student in the department of Genetics and Evolution and Laureate of the 2016 Prix Arditi in Biology!

On November 7, at 12:15 room M2170, Anne Mayor and Michel Milinkovitch will present their work. Conference proposed by the International Affairs.

Prof. Eric Huysecom was elected President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA) during the 23rd Business meeting which is kept at The University of Toulouse on the 1st of July 2016.