2025 Graduation Ceremony and Biology Section Awards
The ceremony in honor of the 2025 graduates and the Section’s award presentation will take place on December 5, 2025 at the Geneva International Conference Center. The Biology Section extends its congratulations to the new graduates and to the following award recipients::
- Laemmli 2025 Prize
Dr. Elena Delfino received the Laemmli Prize for her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Ramesh Pillai, entitled “A story of mRNA caps: Investigating the physiological role of the cap-specific methyltransferase PCIF1 and the decapping enzyme NUDT2”.
The Laemmli Prize is awarded for an outstanding life science thesis in a field related to molecular biology.
- Prix Arditi 2025 for a thesis
Dr. Isa Özdemir received the Arditi Prize for his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Florian Steiner, entitled “The molecular regulation of H3K27me3 landscape and its inheritance in Caenorhabditis elegans”.
The Arditi Prize in Life Sciences is designed to encourage researchers to undertake an original and ambitious program of postgraduate research leading to the degree of Doctor of Science (PhD) in the Faculty of Science.
- The Arditi 2025 prize for the Master's degree in Biology
Adriano Waeber (ex aequo) received the Arditi Prize for his Master's thesis under the supervision of Dr. Estella Poloni, entitled «Analysis of CYP2C cluster gene variants in Omani and Ethiopian population using targeted long-read sequencing».
Laurine Anselme (ex aequo) received the Arditi Prize for her Master's thesis under the supervision of Prof. Simon Braun, entitled « When one fails, another steps in: SMARCD compensation in brain chromatin remodeling».
- Prize for best Bachelor's degree in biology 2025:
Noan Hugo Vives
- Prize for best Bachelor's monograph 2025
Guillermo Lopez Marinucci : «Engineering enhanced photosynthesis», under the supervision of Dr. Emilie Demarsy.
4 Dec 2025