Seminars
The MIMOL department organizes external speaker seminars every 2nd and/or 4th Monday of the month (at 12.15pm or 4pm).
“Seminars are open to everyone working or studying at the University of Geneva. If you are doing an internship in the department and you want to be added to the email list, please send an email request to either or .”
At present the seminars will take place via Zoom or live.
UP COMING :
1ST DECEMBER 2025, 12.15PM - ROOM A RENOLD
SPEAKER : Prof. Juan A. Hermoso
Dept Crystallography & Structural Biology
Instituto Química Física Blas Cabrera
CSIC , Madrid
TITLE: “From Dormancy to Infection: Structural Mechanisms Driving C. difficile Spore Germination”
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Provisional title/topic | Host | Contact |
| 2025 | |||||||
| 25 August | 12:15 | P.Boymond | Dr Taco Kooij | Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences Radboud Centre for Infectious Diseases Medical Microbiology |
Malaria parasites as a model for mitochondrial biology | Amandine Guérin | |
| 10 September | 12:30 |
M. Champendal 400 |
Prof Juliet Emamaullee |
Keck Medicine of USC / Children’s Hospital Los Angeles |
Harnessing spatial biology to guide biomarker assays for liver transplant rejection |
Chapitre choisis | |
| Thursday 18 September | 14:15 | S4-S5 | Yuan QIAO | Nanyang Technological University – Singapore | Exploring the roles of gut microbiota-derived peptidoglycan fragments (PGNs) as signalling molecules in host biology | Kimberly Kline | |
| 29 September | 12:15 | J-L Reverdin | |||||
| 6 October | 12:15 | P.Boymond | |||||
| 9 October | 10:15 | P.Boymond | Prof. Masahiro Yamamoto |
Department of Immunoparasitology Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (RIMD) Osaka University |
“Toxoplasma CRISPR genetics and population genetics” | Dominique Soldati | IGE3 ConférenceIGE3 Speaker |
| 13 October | 12:15 | J-L Reverdin | |||||
| 20 October | 12:15 |
A. Renold B01.2426 |
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| 27 October | 12:15 | J-L Reverdin | |||||
| 3 November | 12:15 | P.Boymond | Dr Nicolas Oswaldo Gomez | HZI - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH | tRNA-epitranscriptomic control of pathogenicity by a bacterial pathogen | Martina Valentini | |
| 5 November | 15:15 | TBA |
Fabrice E. Graf, PhD |
Lecturer, Assistant Professor Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
An old drug against superbugs? Molecular mechanisms of re-emerging chloramphenicol susceptibility in multidrug resistant Enterobacterales |
Joachim Kloehn | |
| 10 November | 12:15 | P.Boymond | |||||
| 17 November | 12:15 | J-L Reverdin | |||||
| 24 November | 12:15 | J-L Reverdin | Jean-Claude Sirard | University of Lille | Innovative Strategies for Vaccination Against Streptococcus pneumoniae | Patrick Viollier | |
| 1 December | 12:15 | A. Renold |
Prof. Juan A. Hermoso |
Dept Crystallography & Structural Biology Instituto Química Física Blas Cabrera CSIC , Madrid |
From Dormancy to Infection: Structural Mechanisms Driving C. difficile Spore Germination | Patrick Viollier | |
| 15 December | 12:15 | A. Renold | |||||
| 22 December | 12:15 | P.Boymond | |||||
| 2026 | |||||||
| 12 January | 12:15 | B04.2222 (CMU) | Patrick Viollier | ||||
| 26 January | 12:15 | P. Boymond (CMU) | TBA | Vibhu Prasad | |||
| 9 February | 12:15 | P. Boymond (CMU) | Drew Schwartz MD PhD | Washington University in St. Louis |
Perpetrator and protector: role of the gut microbiome in infant sepsis |
Kimberly Kline | |
| 23 February | 12:15 | B04.2222 (CMU) | |||||
| 9 March | 12:15 | D60 (CMU) | |||||
| 23 March | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin (CMU) | Zeynep BAHAROGLU PhD | CNRS, Institut Pasteur |
Epitranscriptomic Secrets of Bacterial Resilience |
Kimberly Kline |