Seminars
The MIMOL department organizes external speaker seminars every 2nd and/or 4th Monday of the month (at 12pm or 4pm).
If you are interested to attend a seminar, please send an email request to either , or to ask to be added to the email list.
At present the seminars will take place via Zoom or live.
UP COming talk :
22nd AUGUST 2022, 10.30am - ROOM J-l. Reverdin B02.2526
Speaker : Prof. Chris Tonkin
Division of INfectious Disease and immune Defence
The walter and eliza hall institute of medical research
TITLE: Mechanisms of Toxoplasma environmental sensing and differentiation into latent stages
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Provisional title/topic | Host | Contact |
| 2022 | |||||||
| 7 February | 2:00 PM | Mix mode |
Prof. Mohamed-ali Hakimi |
IAB - Institute for Advanced Biosciences Université Grenoble Alpes |
Epigenetic reprogramming of Toxoplasma sexual development in vitro, using the MORC/HDAC3 complex as a cornerstone | Dominique Soldati-Favre | |
| 14 February | free | ||||||
| 28 February | 4:00 PM | Zoom | Asst. Prof. Despoina Mavridou | The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, USA) | Extra-cytoplasmic protein folding & antibiotic resistance | Valentini Martina | https://cns.utexas.edu/directory/item/16-molecular-biosciences/4222-mavridou-despoina?Itemid=349 |
| 14 March | 12:00 | Zoom | Prof. Rolf Kümmerli | University of Zurich (Zurich, CH) | Evolutionary microbiology: siderophore production & social interactions | Thilo Köhler | https://www.dqbm.uzh.ch/en/research/groups/kuemmerli.html |
| 21 March | 12:00 | Zoom | Dr Emma Hodcroft | University of Bern | Two Years In: Phylogenetics, Variant Tracking, & the Future of the Pandemic | Caroline Tapparel | https://unige.zoom.us/j/67153288227 |
| 28 March | free | ||||||
| 11 April | 4:00 PM | Zoom |
Asst. Prof. Shaon Sengupta |
Children Hospital (Philadelphia, USA) | Circadian regulation of lung inflammation: the clock is ticking! | Caroline Tapparel | https://www.chop.edu/doctors/sengupta-shaon# |
| 9 May | free | ||||||
| 16 May | 4:00 PM | Zoom |
Prof David Sibley |
Department of Molecular Microbiology Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (US) |
“Disruption of interferon signaling by Toxoplasma” | Dominique Soldati-Favre / Mathieu Brochet | |
| 23 May | free | ||||||
| 13 June | 4:30 PM | J-L. Reverdin |
Martin Bushell |
University of Glasgow | "The roles of the eIF4A paralogs in determining mRNA and cellular fate decisions." | Martine Collart | |
| 27 June | 11:30 | Boymond |
Dr. Moritz Treeck |
Signalling in Apicomplexan Parasites Laboratory The Francis Crick Institute, London (United Kingdom) |
How intracellular parasites remodel your cells to their needs | Dominique Soldati-Favre / Mathieu Brochet | |
| 22 August | 10:30 | J-L. Reverdin |
Prof Chris Tonkin |
Division of Infectious Disease and Immune Defence The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research |
Mechanisms of Toxoplasma environmental sensing and differentiation into latent stages |
Dominique Soldati-Favre | |
| 29 August | 12:00 | TBA | Dr. Andrea Vettiger |
Harvard Medical School | Blavatnik Institute Department of Microbiology Boston, USA |
TBA | Patrick Viollier | |
| 12 September | free | ||||||
| 26 September | 12:00 | Boymond | Kathi Fröhlich | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | TBA | Patrick Viollier | |
| 10 October | 12:00 | TBA | Paola Favuzza | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne, Australia | Dual Plasmepsin-Targeting Protease Inhibitors Disrupt Multiple Stages of the Malaria Parasite Life Cycle | Oscar Vadas | |
| 24 October | free | ||||||
| 14 November | 12:15 | J-L. Reverdin |
Prof Simonetta Gribaldo |
Head of Unit « Evolutionary Biology of the Microbial Cell»Department of MicrobiologyInstitut Pasteur, Paris |
TBA | ||
| 28 November | Pending | Martina Valentini | |||||
| 12 December | free |