< Research  Seminars

Past seminars (2007-2006)

Geneva Plant Seminars

Tesfaye Mengiste

Purdue University, Indiana

Mechanisms of plant immunity to necrotrophic pathogens

1069, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Maxim Pilyugin

FranÇois Karch's lab

TLK - a chromatine remodeling kinase?

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Joost Woltering

Institute of Biology, University of Leiden, NL

Axial Patterning in Elongated Animal Species

4059, Sciences III

Host: Denis Duboule

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Karuna Sampath

The National University of Singapore

Polarity and Pattern in the Early Zebrafish Embryo

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Roland Dosch

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Man Mohan

University of Giessen

The Drosophila insulator protein dCTCF links enhancer blocking to body patterning

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Biochemistry

7 Different Speakers

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Mini-symposium on Sterols and Sphingolipids in Cell Biology

352, Sciences II

Host: Howard Riezman

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

James Davis Reimer

University of the Ryukyus (Okinawa, Japan)

Zooxanthellae diversity within three zoanthid (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia): differing biodiversity levels and problems facing descriptive terminology

4059, Sciences III

Host: Jan Pawlowski

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Rakesh Mishra

Hyderabad (India)

Boundary function and long range interaction of repeat associated elements from the human Y chromosome

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Kamran Shalchian Tabrizi

Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo

Telonemia: the evolutionary origin and species diversity

4059, Sciences III

Host: Jan Pawlowski

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Marion Delattre

Pierre Spierer's lab

pending titles

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Daniel Rubinoff

University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

Rapid and Remarkable Evolution of Ecological Anomalies: Hawaiian Caterpillars as Predators and SCUBA divers

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Jan Pawlowski

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BioPhD

Patrick Schmitz

Jan Pawlowski's lab

The Phylogeny and Biogeography of anInsular Endemic Moth Radiation: The Genus Galagete (Lepidoptera:Autostichidae) from the Galapagos Islands

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Jan Pawlowski

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Amandine Gautier Stein

Roland Dosch laboratory

Souffle : a new vertebrate gene controlling occyte maturation in

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Terence Capellini

Cornell University, Medical Center, USA

Pbx Genes in Limb Development and Implications to Primate Evolution

4059, Sciences III

Host: Denis Duboule

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Manond Quiquand

Brigitte Galliot's laboratory

Tracing back the early evolution and the ancestral function of ParaHox genes through the cnidarian phylum

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Jean Claude Martinou

Dépt de Biologie Cellulaire

Social Life of Mitochondria

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Nicolas Gompel

Institut du Développement, Marseille (F)

Regulatory evolution and the origin of novel morphological traits: insights from Drosophila

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Rob Maeda

François Karch's lab

Novel transgenesis tools in Drosophila

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Mary Lee Dequeant

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA

Analysis of the transcriptional landscapes of the segmentation clock: identification of novel cyclic genes

A150, Sciences II

Host: Denis Duboule

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

E. Kallivretaki

Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health at the University of Bern

Functional significance of aromatase in zebrafish during development

4059, Sciences III

Host: Roland Dosch

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Geneva Biology Club

Claes Wollheim

Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, CMU, Geneva

How do transcription factors couple beta cell metabolism to insulin secretion.

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Felix Kessler

University of Neuchâtel

Trafficking in and around the chloroplast

1069, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Jean Michel Gibert

University of Vienna

Phenotypic plasticity, chromatin regulators and evolvability

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Biochemistry

Luis Mayorga

Mendoza, Argentina and EMBL, Heidelberg

Membrane fusion and acrosomal exocytosis in human sperm

352, Sciences II

Host: Jean Gruenberg

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Séverine Bontron

Pierre Spierer's lab

DmSETDB1, a histone methyltransferase required for chromosome 4 silencing

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

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Dpt of Biochemistry

Milan Fiala

University of California, Los Angeles

PHAGOCYTOSIS OF AMYLOID-BETA BY MACROPHAGES OF ALZHEIMER PATIENTS

352, Sciences II

Host: Jean Gruenberg

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Geneva Biology Club

Pierre Cosson

Dépt de Physiologie Cellulaire & Métabolisme

When cells meet bacteria: eat, kill or die

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Fabien Burki

Jan Pawlowski's lab

Monophyly of Rhizaria and multigene analysis of unicellular bikonts: a phylogenomic approach

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Pr Michel C. Milinkovitch

Inst. of Molecular Biology & Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (B)

Evolution of genomes & organisms: a non-linear optimization problem

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Denis Duboule

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Geneva Biology Club

Kurt Hostettmann

Ecole de Pharmacie Genève-Lausanne

The potential of plants as a source of new drugs

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Denis Basquin

Daniel Pauli's lab

Characterization of a dominant-negative Cdk9 mutation in Drosophila

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

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Dpt of Biochemistry

Johannes Ludger

Curie Institute (Paris, France)

Clathrin-dependent and independent transport steps in the retrograde route

352, Sciences II

Host: Thomas Falguieres

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Dpt of Biochemistry

Carsten Schultz

EMBL in Heidelberg

Imaging and dissecting signaling pathways

352, Sciences II

Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

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Dpt of Biochemistry

Jim Smith

Gurdon Institute in Cambridge

Mesoderm induction revisited

352, Sciences II

Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Stéphane Rivière

Rodriguez lab

Gender recognition in mice: an olfactory mediated task

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

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Geneva Biology Club

Jean David Rochaix

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Biogenesis and regulation of the photosynthetic apparatus

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Geneva Biology Club

Stefan Matile

Dpt de Chimie Organique, University of Geneva

Synthetic Nanoarchitecture in Lipid Bilayers: Ion Channels, Sensors and Photosystems

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Dr Patrick Matthias

Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI), Basel

The transcription factors OBF-1 and Aiolos regulate the silencing and nuclear repositioning of the lambda5 gene locus

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Duri Rungger

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Geneva Biology Club

Thanos Halazonetis

Dépt de Biologie Moléculaire

DNA damage checkpoints and cancer

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Wouter De Laat

Dept. of Cell Biology and Genetics, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam

4C technology: towards a comprehensive understanding of DNA organization in the nucleus

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Denis Duboule

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Geneva Biology Club

Duri Rungger

Dpt of Zoology and Animal Biology

Surrogate Genetics in Xenopus (a farewell seminar)

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Uta Paszkowski

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Geneva Biology Club

Robbie Loewith

Department of Molecular Biology

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1S059, Sciences III

Host: Uta Paszkowski

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