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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.

This year, we will hear from specialists, including a Nobel Prize, in areas that are profoundly transformed by the advent of genomics.

Jozsef Zakany collaborated to a study led by researchers from the NIH, who uncovered the existence of an interdigit signaling center that instructs coordinate phalanx-joint formation in mice embryos.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy”. Brigitte Galliot explains the importance of this discovery.

For the past fifteen years, an interest for Quantitative & Systems Biology has been raising in the scientific community. Major advances in this direction have been driven by the integration of physics and computer science approaches with innovative technological developments in molecular biology, optics, micro- and nano-manipulations. Although Quantitative & Systems Biology is very recent, it has already significantly spread through many fields of life sciences: genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, development, ecology and many others.