< Research  Seminars

Past seminars (2008-2007)

Dpt of Biochemistry

Miwa Takahashi

RIKEN Institute, Japan

Live Cell Modeling Project and Cholesterol Controls Lipid Endocytosis through RAB11

352, Sciences II

Host: Jean Gruenberg

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Daniela Rhodes

Structural Studies unit of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

Regulation of telomerase recruitment and telomere structure

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

BioPhD

Andrea Puglisi

Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva

Analysis of the role of POL12 and STN1 in telomere maintenance in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1S059, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Hervé Philippe

Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal, Canada

Phylogenomics of Animals

4059, Sciences III

Host: Fabien Burki

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Antonin Morillon

CGM-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France

In cerevisiae too, RNA imposes silencing

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Barbara Wakimoto

Department of Biology of the University of Washington at Seattle, WA

Epigenetic Landscape and Other Views of Heterochromatin in Drosophila

3079, Sciences III

Host: Daniel Pauli

Details

BioPhD

Simona Chera

Brigitte Galliot's laboratory

Genetic control of the cellular remodeling driving head-regeneration in hydra

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Brigitte Galliot

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Jeremy Brockes

University College of London

Mechanisms underlying limb regeneration in an adult vertebrate

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Brigitte Galliot

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Keji Zhao

Laboratory of Molecular Immunology (LMI), Division of Intramural Research (DIR), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda

Characterization of Human Epigenomes

3079, Sciences III

Host: Ueli Schibler

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Philip Benfey

Duke University, North Carolina, USA

Getting to the root of cell identity

1069, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Eva Kondorosi

CNRS, Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Gif Sur Yvette, France

Coordinated differentiation pathways in the symbionts during nodule development in Medicago

1069, Sciences III

Host: Xavier Perret

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Wojtek Pawlowski

Plant Molecular Genetics, Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University, USA

Chromosome dynamics during meiotic prophase in plants

1069, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

Details

BioPhD

Vincent Menuz

Unknown

Identification of genes involved in the adaptation of C.elegans to anoxia

A100, Sciences II

Host: Jean-Claude Martinou

Details

Dpt of Cell Biology

Michael Hengartner

University of Zurich

Roads to ruin: apoptotic pathways in the nematode C. elegans

3079, Sciences III

Host: Jean-Claude Martinou

Details

Dpt of Biochemistry

Stanislav Y Shvartsman

Princetown University , Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

Cell signalling in equations and embryos

A50B, Sciences II

Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Klaus Palme

Centre for Systems Biology, Centre for Applied Biosciences, Institute of Biology II/Botany, University of Freiburg (Germany)

Auxin in action: signalling, transport and the control of plant growth

1069, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Pierre Meister

FMI, Basel, Switzerland

Nuclear organisation and gene regulation during C. elegans development

4059, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Olivier Voinnet

Institut de biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS Strasbourg, France

Forward genetics study of the Arabidopsis miRNA pathway and its interference by pathogens

1069, Sciences III

Host: Jean-David Rochaix

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Markus Noll

Dept of Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Deciphering the logic of a neural network regulating a complex innate behavior: how senses determine the courtship behavior of Drosophila males

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

Details

Geneva Biology Club

Dominique Soldati

Département de Microbiologie et de Médecine Moléculaire, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève

An intracellular life style: the Apicomplexa way

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Luis Lopez Molina

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Jörg Meurer

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Aspects of Chloroplast Biogenesis

1069, Sciences III

Host: Jean-David Rochaix

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Frédérique Peronnet

Centre de Biologie du Développement, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Jussieu, France

New insights into Polycomb and Trithorax function: analysis of their co-factor Corto

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Wolfgang Zachariae

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Of daughters and sisters: control of chromosome segregation in meiosis

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Karl Gademann

Chemical Synthesis Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne

Natural Products as Tools in Chemical Biology: From Ecology To Functional Interfaces Directing Biological Response

0009, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Patrick Viollier

Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, USA

Function, cell cycle control and establishment of cell polarity in bacteria

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Jung Hyun Min

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Recognition of DNA damage by Xeroderma Pigmentosum C in Nucleotide Excision Repair

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Thimo Kurz

Institute of Biochemistry, ETH-Zürich

Function and control of cullin-based E3 ubiquitin ligases

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Ivan Ahel

Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, U.K.

Defective DNA damage response and human disease

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

David Ornitz

Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Lou

Growth factor signaling pathways that regulate myocardial development and coronary vasculogenesis: From developmental biology to therapeutic implications.

3079, Sciences III

Host: Denis Duboule

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Jiri Bartek

Danish Cancer Society

Final Note and End of Workshop

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Steve Jackson

University of Cambridge

The DNA-damage response: new molecular insights and new approaches to anti-cancer therapy

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Olli Kallioniemi

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and University of Turku

Cell array technology for high-throughput screening

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Giuseppe Pellicci

European Institute of Oncology

Title to be Announced

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Winship Herr

University of Lausanne

HCF-1: A two-for-one deal in human cell cycle regulation

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Thanos Halazonetis

University of Geneva

Welcome Note

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Shulamit Michaeli

Bar-IIan University, Israel

The unique composition of the signal recognition particle in Trypanosomes and its role in protein translocation into the ER

3079, Sciences III

Host: Katharina Strub

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Georgios Skiniotis

Harvard Medical School, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Visualization of dynamic protein systems by molecular electron microscopy

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Stéphane Thore

Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH-Zürich

Structural study of the eukaryotic Thiamine pyrophosphate-binding riboswitch

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Remus Dame

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Unravelling bacterial chromatin organization: Insights from single-molecule experiments

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Dana Branzei

F.I.R.C. Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy

Sumoylation regulated processes protecting the integrity of replicating chromosomes

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Fabian Vaistij

Department of Biology, University of York, York UK

Secondary siRNAs, Virus Resistance and DNA Methylation in Plants

1069, Sciences III

Host: Jean-David Rochaix

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Ed Hurt

Biochemie Zentrum, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Formation of ribonucleoprotein particles and their export through nuclear pore complexes

3079, Sciences III

Host: Françoise Stutz

Details

Geneva Biology Club

Pedro Herrera

Département de Médecine Génétique et Développement, Faculté de Médecine, Universi

Diabetes Recovery in Mice by Insulin Cell Regeneration

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Luis Lopez Molina

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Jozsef Mihaly

Biological Research centre, Szeged (Hungary)

The Drosophila formin DAAM is required for axon growth

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Dirk Schübeler

Friedrich Mischer Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel

Targets and function of DNA methylation in mammalian genomes

1069, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

András Simon

Karolinska Institute, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden

Progenitor cells for salamander brain and limb regeneration

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Brigitte Galliot

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Aldo Pagano

Dipartimento di Oncologia Biologia e Genetica, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy

The contribution of the RNA Polymerase III to human diseases

3079, Sciences III

Host: Katharina Strub

Details

Dpt of Biochemistry

Harald Stenmark

Centre for Cancer Biomedicine of Oslo

The role of endosomal sorting in the downregulation of growth factor signalling

352, Sciences II

Host: Pierre Philippe Luyet

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Norbert Rolland

Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale (PCV), CNRS Grenoble - France

Alternative targeting system for a plastid protein containing a non canonical transit peptide

1069, Sciences III

Host: Michel Goldschmidt Clermont And Jean David Rochaix

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

François Parcy

Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, CNRS - Grenoble - France

Structure and evolution of LEAFY, a plant specific transcription

1069, Sciences III

Host: Luis Lopez Molina

Details

Geneva Plant Seminars

Andreas Niebel

Laboratoire des interactions Plantes Micro-organismes, INRA-CNRS Toulouse, France

Regulatory mechanisms controlling symbiotic nodule development in Medicago truncatula

1069, Sciences III

Host: Xavier Perret

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Reid Gilmore

Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts, Medical School, USA

Interactions between the SRP receptor and the translocon beta-subunit simplify the search for a vacant protein translocation channel

3079, Sciences III

Host: Katharina Strub

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Guido Grimm

Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen

The £moker non-smoker paradigm of (molecular) evolution - When phylogenetic signal becomes complex

4059, Sciences III

Host: Jan Pawlowski

Details

Dpt of Biochemistry

Philipp Ternes

University of Utrecht

Sphingomyelin Synthase-Related Proteins - Surprises in the Early Secretory Pathway

352, Sciences II

Host: Howard Riezman

Details

Dpt of Biochemistry

Andreas Mayer

Biochem Dept, University of Lausanne

The dynamics of a lysosome: membrane fusion, organelle fragmentation and compartment homeostasis

352, Sciences II

Host: Jean Gruenberg

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Peter Baumann

Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA

Chromosome end protection - insights from yeast, lizards and humans

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

Details

BioPhD

Daniele Roppolo

Ivan Rodriguez lab

Olfactory perception: from highly diverse sensory populations to common regulatory mechanisms of chemoreceptor expression

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Ivan Rodriguez

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Joan Cerda

IRTA-Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC)

Molecular basis of fish oocyte hydration: role of teleost-specific water channels

4059, Sciences III

Host: Roland Dosch

Details

Dpt of Biochemistry

Thomas Hannich

MPI, Dresden

The role of lipid methylation in C elegans development

352, Sciences II

Host: Jean Gruenberg

Details

Geneva Biology Club

Patrik Vuilleumier

Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève

Functional Neuroimaging: Seeing the Brain in Action

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Luis Lopez Molina

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Paul Franken

Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Université de Lausanne

Genetic approaches to identify genes controlling sleep and the EEG in mice

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Denis Duboule

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Hitoshi Sakano

Tokyo University, Japan

Molecular bases of odor perception in the mouse

4059, Sciences III

Host: Ivan Rodriguez

Details

Dpt of Biochemistry

Guido Capitani

University of Zurich

Structural studies of protein-protein complexes from prokaryotes and eukaryotes

2024, Sciences III

Host: Howard Riezman

Details

BioPhD

Mathieu Marino

Jean-Louis Bény's laboratory

Long-term effects of perinatal hypoxia on potassium channels of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Jean Louis Bény

Details

Dpt of Molecular Biology

Curt Harris

Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA

Inflammation and Cancer: Interaction of Free Radical, microRNA and Cytokine Pathways

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

Details

BioPhD

Thomas Montavon

Department of Zoology and Animal Biology, Denis Duboule's lab

Mechanisms of Hoxd genes collinearity in developing digits and external genitalia

A150, Sciences II

Host: Denis Duboule

Details

Geneva Biology Club

Luis Lopez Molina

Dépt de Biologie Végétale

Control of seed germination

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Edgar Pera

Lund Stem Cell Center, Sweden

Extracellular regulation of Fibroblast growth factor signaling - a protease and proteoglycans in embryonic patterning

4059, Sciences III

Host: Roland Dosch

Details

Dpt of Biochemistry

Katarina Trajkovic

MPI and the University of Goettingen, Germany

Ceramide triggers budding of vesicles into multivesicular endosomes

352, Sciences II

Host: Jean Gruenberg

Details

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Jernej Ule

Division of Structural Studies, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

Genome-wide mapping of protein-RNA interactions

unknown, unknown

Host: Angela Kraemer

Details

BioPhD

Sébastien Hayoz

Beny's lab

Characterization of Potassium Currents Activated by Purineric Receptors in Sissociated Mouse Aorta Myocytes

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Jean Louis Bény

Details