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 Martina.Valentini(at)unige.ch  or Dylan.Walser(at)unige.ch .”

 At present the seminars will take place  via Zoom or live.

UP COMING : 

26th OCTOBER 2026, 12.15PM - ROOM J-L Reverdin

SPEAKER : Professor Amrita Hazra

IISER Pune (India)

TITLE: «Vitamins as tools in synthetic biology»

Date Time Speaker / Affiliation Provisional title/topic Host Location
2026           
18 May
12:15
Professor Matt Sweet
The University of Queensland (Australia)
A wander through the wonders of innate immunity: immunometabolic control of inflammatory and antimicrobial pathways in macrophages
Kimberly Kline
P.Boymond (CMU)
1 June
12:15
Professor Marek Basler
University of Basel
Biozentrum
Spatial and temporal regulation of Type 6 Secretion System dynamics during interactions with bacterial and eukaryotic cells
Amandine Guérin
B04.2222
8 June
12:15
Dr. Florent Waltz
Biozentrum, Basel
Diversity, Function and Regulation of the Mitochondrial Molecular Architecture 
Dominique Soldati-Favre
J-L Reverdin
(CMU)
22 June
12:15
Professor Jared Schrader
Indiana University, USA
Bacterial ribonucleoprotein bodies as sites of mRNA decay and storage
Martina Valentini
P.Boymond
(CMU)
25 June
12:15
Alessia Ruggieri, PhD
Heidelberg University
When Translation Shuts Down: Host–Virus Control of RNA Fate in RNA Virus Infection
Vibhu Prasad
P.Boymond
(CMU)
29 June
12:15
Zeynep BAHAROGLU PhD
CNRS, Institut Pasteur
Epitranscriptomic Secrets of Bacterial Resilience
Kimberly Kline
Renold
Friday 10 July
12:15
 Dr Artur Yakimovich
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
Novel Machine Learning Approaches to Study Infection and Disease through Biomedical Images
Eva Frickel
P.Boymond
17 August
12:15
Adam Sateriale
The Francis Crick Institute
UK
Metabolic mysteries: probing host-pathogen interactions at scale
Amandine Guérin
P.Boymond
(CMU)
31 August
12:15
Gad Frankel
Imperial College London, UK
Decoding Citrobacter rodentium: Effector Networks, IL-22, and Protective Immunity
Eva Frickel
P.Boymond
(CMU)
14 September
12:15
Professor Aleksandar Antanasijevic
EPFL
Uncovering molecular determinants of antibody immunodominance by cryoEM
Caroline Tapparel
J-L Reverdin
(CMU)
26 October
12:15
Professor Amrita Hazra
IISER Pune (India)
Vitamins as tools in synthetic biology
PATRICK VIOLLIER
J-L Reverdin
(CMU)
9 November
12:15
Prof Tamar Kohn
EPFL
TBA
Caroline Tapparel
J-L Reverdin
(CMU)
WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER
12:15
PROF WILLEM VAN SHAIKEW
University of Birmingham
Antibiotic resistance in the human gut microbiome
KIMBERLY KLINE
Muller (A250)
TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER TBA

Prof Boris Juelg 

University of Harvard, USA

TBA
Kimberly KLINE / Oliver HARTLEY
J-L Reverdin
(CMU)
TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 12:15

Prof. Ben Luisi

University of Cambridge, England

Dynamic ribonucleoprotein complexes in the control of bacterial gene expression
Martina VALENTINI
J-L Reverdin (CMU)
30 November
12:15
Prof Markus Meissner
University Muenchen
 
Dominique Soldati
J-L Reverdin
(CMU)
7 December
12:15
Dr Avinash Shenoy
Imperial College
 
Eva Frickel
P.Boymond
(CMU)
21 December
12:15
 
 
 
J-L Reverdin
(CMU)
2 March 2027
12:15
Dr Sebastien BESTEIRO
Université de Montpellier
TBA Dominique Soldati TBA