Scientific Seminars

The Diabetes Center organizes seminars every first Monday of the month, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. These seminars offer researchers the opportunity to present the progress of their research work. Sandwiches will be provided!

Monday, January 5, 2026
12:30 – 13:30 | Müller Auditorium

Georgia Katsioudi (Dibner Lab) – Insights into Islet Circadian Regulation: BMAL1-driven transcriptional landscape in mice and humans
Haiping Wang (Trajkovski Lab) – Warm exposure restrains tumour growth by reducing adipocyte mesenchymal transition

Monday, February 2, 2026
12:30 – 13:30 | Franceschetti Auditorium

Invited speaker: Domenico Trico (University of Pisa, Italy) - Metabolic cross-talk between adipose tissue and β cell

Thursday, February 12, 2026
Frontiers in Biomedicine Seminar
12:30 – 13:30 | Müller Auditorium

Invited speaker: Patrick Schrauwen (German Diabetes Centre, University of Düsseldorf, Germany) - Using insights from chronobiology to combat type 2 diabetes in humans

Monday, March 2, 2026
12:30 – 13:30 | Renold Auditorium

Invited speaker: Ilke Sen (Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Paris, France) - New regulators of skeletal muscle decline in aging and T2D

Monday, May 4, 2026
12:30 – 13:30 | Room D 60 - C01.2745.a

Thomas Verissimo (De Seigneux Lab) – Role of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 1 in Chronic Kidney disease
Jessica Zafra Tanaka (Beran Lab) – Title to be confirmed

Monday, June 1, 2026
12:30 – 13:30 | Franceschetti Auditorium

Invited speaker: Robert Semple (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Title to be confirmed

Monday, September 7, 2026
12:30 – 13:30 | Room to be confirmed

Juliette Bignard (Berishvili Lab) – Engineering the microenvironment of stem cell derived islet to reduce differentiation heterogeneity and drive functional islet maturation
Emmanuel Somm (Jornayvaz Lab) – IL-18BP in MASLD/MASH

Monday, October 5, 2026
Geneva Diabetes Centre Symposium – Jeantet Foundation Auditorium, Geneva
Details to be confirmed

Monday, November 2, 2026
12:30 – 13:30 | Room to be confirmed

Etienne Delangre (Maechler Lab) – Uncovering Common Therapeutic Targets In Liver and Pancreatic Islets in Type 2 Diabetes

Monday, December 7, 2026
12:30 – 13:30 | Room to be confirmed

Invited speaker: Lucile Dollet (University of Copenhagen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Denmark) - Title to be confirmed