Dpt of Plant Sciences
Wednesday, July 15 2009, 15:00
Adriana Giongo
University of Florida, Gainesville
Bacteria Correlated with the Development of Auto-immunity in Children
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: William Broughton
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BioPhD
Friday, July 10 2009, 12:00
Mireille Tittel Elmer
Laboratory of Plant Genetics, Unige
Stress-induced Genomic Response in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae
1S059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jerzy Paszkowski
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Monday, July 06 2009, 10:00
Ana Garcia Saez
Biotechnology Center, TU-Dresden
Quantitative microscopy for the study of biomembranes. A single molecule approach to the Bcl-2 proteins
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Howard Riezman
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Tuesday, June 30 2009, 10:00
Aurélien Roux
Institut Curie, Paris
How dynamin bends and breaks lipid membranes
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Howard Riezman
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Monday, June 29 2009, 10:00
David Miguez
Dpt of Systems Biology, Harvard University, Boston
Nonlinear dynamics of cancer pathways
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Howard Riezman
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, June 26 2009, 10:15
François Xavier Boittin
Jean-Louis Beny£ s laboratory
Signalisation calcique dans les muscles lisses et lendothélium
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Monday, June 22 2009, 14:00
Pavel Tomancak
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
Molecular anatomy of the fly embryo
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: M. Gonzalez Gaitan
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, June 19 2009, 10:15
Evelyn Houliston
University Pierre & Marie Curie, Zoological Station Villefranche/mer, France
Establishment of embryo polarity in the cnidarian, Clytia hemisphaerica
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Brigitte Galliot
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BioPhD
Thursday, June 18 2009, 12:15
Manon Quiquand
Brigitte Galliot's lab
Tracing back the early evolution of ParaHox genes and the ancestral neurogenic function of Gsx/Anthox2 in the developing sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Brigitte Galliot
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Thursday, June 18 2009, 09:00
Jean Stephane Joly
Center for National Scientific Research (CNRS), Gif sur Yvette, France
A cis-regulatory signature for chordate anterior neurectodermal genes
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Brigitte Galliot
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, June 12 2009, 10:15
Stéphane Rivière
Ivan Rodriguez laboratory
a novel family of chemosensors
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Tuesday, June 09 2009, 10:00
Izabela Sumara
Institut de Biochimie, ETH, Zurich
Cul3-based E3-ligase: a master regulator of mitosis in mammalian cells
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Howard Riezman
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BioPhD
Monday, June 08 2009, 14:00
Beatrice Lecroq
Jan Pawlowski's lab
New Insights into the Diversity of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera
1S059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jan Pawlowski
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Monday, June 08 2009, 10:30
Benoît Kornmann
Lab of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A
The molecular hug between the ER and the mitochondria
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Howard Riezman
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Geneva Biology Club
Wednesday, June 03 2009, 15:15
Thierry Soldati
Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva
Motility, membrane traffic, and cell-intrinsic immunity. What do we learn from the amoeba ?
1S059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Luis Lopez Molina
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Wednesday, June 03 2009, 11:00
Suzanne Saenko
Paul Brakefield£ lab (Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Evo-devo of novel traits: unravelling the genetic basis of butterfly wing patterns
4059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Michel Milinkovitch
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, May 29 2009, 14:00
Mikhail Matz
University of Texas, Austin, US
Genomics of non-model organisms
4059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jan Pawlowski
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, May 29 2009, 10:15
Wanda Buzgariu
Brigitte Galliot's lab
Autophagy activation in hydra: from survival to regeneration strategies
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
Dpt of Biochemistry
Friday, May 22 2009, 14:30
Hiroaki Suga
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Genetic Code Reprogramming and its Application to the Rapid Discovery of a New Class of Peptidyl Drugs
A150 ,
Sciences II
Host: Howard Riezman
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, May 15 2009, 10:15
Welcome Bender
Harvard Medical School
Building the segmental domain in the Drosophila bithorax complex
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
BioPhD
Thursday, May 14 2009, 13:00
Carole Iampietro
François Karchlaboratory
In-situ analysis of the cis-regulatory region of the Bithorax Complex in Drosophila melanogaster
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, May 08 2009, 10:15
Maheshwar Gummalla
François Karchlaboratory
Revisiting cross-regulatory interactions between Ubx, abd-A and Abd-B
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Thursday, May 07 2009, 14:00
Craig Hart
University of Louisian, Bâton Rouge (US)
BEAF-dependent chromatin domain insulators: Linking chromatin structure and gene regulation
3079 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
Dpt of Biochemistry
Monday, April 27 2009, 09:00
Vladimir Vargas
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden (D)
How does budding yeast kinesin-8 depolymerize microtubules?
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Howard Riezman
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, April 24 2009, 10:15
Patrick Tschopp
Denis Duboule's lab
Walk the line - collinear Hox gene regulation in the mouse primary body axis
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
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Dpt of Plant Sciences
Wednesday, April 22 2009, 15:00
Joachim Frey
Institut für Veterinär Bakteriologie, Universität Bern
Type III secretion system and AexT a bifunctional protein targeting the host cytoskeleton: main virulence attributes of Aeromonas salmonicida in furunculosis of Salmonidae fish
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: William Broughton
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Geneva Plant Seminars
Tuesday, April 07 2009, 09:00
John Doebley
Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Darwin and Domestication
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jerzy Paszkowski
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BioPhD
Monday, April 06 2009, 13:00
Denis Basquin
Daniel Pauli's laboratory
The transcription elongation factor P-TEFb in Drosophila melanogaster : characterization of a mutation of the Cdk9 kinase and of the different activities of two cofactors
A150 ,
Sciences II
Host: Daniel Pauli
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Monday, April 06 2009, 12:00
Urszula Brykczynska
Antoine Peters lab, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research,Basel
Transmission of methylated histones with modification-specific genomic localization by human spermatozoa
4059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Michel Milinkovitch
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, April 03 2009, 10:15
Michel Milinkovitch
Dpt of Zoology and animal biology
Very large phylogeny inference (under Maximum Likelihood) for dummies: launching the beta release of MetaPIGA v2
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
BioPhD
Friday, March 27 2009, 16:00
Fabien Burki
Jan Pawlowski's lab
A phylogenomic contribution to the eukaryotic tree of life
A150 ,
Sciences II
Host: Jan Pawlowski
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Thursday, March 26 2009, 14:00
John Archibald
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Bonsai genomics: the remnant nuclear genomes of cryptophyte and chlorarachniophyte algae
1S059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jan Pawlowski
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Geneva Plant Seminars
Wednesday, March 25 2009, 11:00
Marja Timmermans
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA
Pattern Formation in Leaves via Mobile Small RNAs
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jerzy Paszkowski
Details
BioPhD
Tuesday, March 24 2009, 13:00
Patrick Pfister
Ivan Rodriguez laboratory
"V1r receptors: from teleost to mammals
1S059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Ivan Rodriguez
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Geneva Plant Seminars
Monday, March 23 2009, 11:00
Hidetoshi Saze
Department of Integrated Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Control of Genic DNA Methylation by a jmjC Domain-Containing Gene in Arabidopsis
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jerzy Paszkowski
Details
Geneva Plant Seminars
Friday, February 27 2009, 14:00
Pascal Ratet
Institut des Sciences du Végétal , CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Two Retroelements for one Mutagenesis: Insertion mutants in Medicago truncatula as tools to study plant microbes interactions
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: Christophe Belin
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, February 27 2009, 12:15
Jean Michel Gibert
François Karch's laboratory
Studying the evolution of a chromatin regulator network through structure function analysis
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
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Geneva Plant Seminars
Wednesday, February 25 2009, 16:00
Jürg Felix
University of Tübingen, Germany
Plant immunoreceptors for pathogen associated molecular patterns and other danger signals
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jerzy Paszkowski
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Geneva Plant Seminars
Friday, February 20 2009, 14:00
Tadeusz Kawecki
University of Lausanne, Ecology & Evolution Dept
Evolutionary biology of learning: Insights from Drosophila
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jerzy Paszkowski
Details
BioPhD
Thursday, February 19 2009, 13:00
Flora Begeot
Pierre Spierer's lab
Targets of the drosophila melanogaster heterochromatic protein SU(VAR)3-7
A150 ,
Sciences II
Host: Pierre Spierer
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Wednesday, February 18 2009, 15:30
Stéphane Ronseray
Laboratoire Biologie du Développement, CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Paris
P transposable element repression in Drosophila by an epigenetic telomeric trans-silencing
4059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Marion Delattre
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, February 06 2009, 12:15
Maria Cristina Gambetta
EMBL, Heidelberg
Essential role of Sxc in Polycomb repression
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
Geneva Plant Seminars
Friday, January 30 2009, 14:00
Arp Schnittger
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Strasbourg (F)
Dissecting cell cycle control during the reproductive life phase of flowering plants
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jerzy Paszkowski
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Monday, January 19 2009, 12:00
Nicolas Navarro
Univesitat Autonoma de Barcelona & Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
Genetics basis of complex traits: insights from mandible shape, gene expressions and outbred designs
4059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Michel Milinkovitch
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Geneva Plant Seminars
Friday, January 16 2009, 14:00
Niko Geldner
Université de Lausanne, Dept. of Plant Molecular Biology
Polar epithelia re-invented: How plants set up their cellular barrier to the soil
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jerzy Paszkowski
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, January 16 2009, 12:15
Loïc Pillet
Jan Pawlowski's lab
Molecules, morphology and kleptoplastidy within Foraminifera
1S059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jan Pawlowski
Details
Dpt of Biochemistry
Thursday, January 15 2009, 11:00
Claire Salzer
Department of Biology of the Indiana University, U.S.A
Retinal determination in Drosophila within the developing eye and abroad
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Wednesday, January 14 2009, 16:00
Intracellular magnetic nanoparticles for biophysical and biomedical strategies
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Tuesday, January 06 2009, 11:15
Favia Nunes
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, USA
“Biodiversity and connectivity in corals of the Atlantic” and “ Genomic approaches to studying the effects of nitrogen limitation in diatoms”
4059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Michel Milinkovitch
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, December 19 2008, 12:15
Jean Maurice Dura
Institut de Génétique humaine, Montpellier, France
Developmental axon pruning and memory in Drosophila
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Thursday, December 18 2008, 11:15
Thomas Miconi
University of Birmingham, UK
Adaptation, complexity and progress in artificial evolution
4059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Michel Milinkovitch
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, December 12 2008, 12:15
Roland Dosch
Dosch laboratory
Soufflé and vitellogenesis: On ne fait pas domelette sans casser des oeufs
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Roland Dosch
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Tuesday, December 02 2008, 13:00
Uenal Coskun
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden
Dimeric FAPP2 in membrane organization
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Ben Brankatschk
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, November 28 2008, 12:15
Joost Maarten Woltering
Duboule's laboratory
From lizards to snakes: behind the evolution of an extreme body plan
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Denis Duboule
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Tuesday, November 25 2008, 16:00
Michael Overduin
CRUK Institute for Cancer Studies, University of Birmingham
Exploring the membrane:protein interface: prediction, validation and structures of proteins that bind and fold on membrane surfaces
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Jean Gruenberg
Details
BioPhD
Wednesday, November 05 2008, 16:00
Gwendal Le Martelot
Ueli Schiblerslab, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva
REV-ERBa Links Circadian Liver Oscillators to Fatty Acid Synthesis and Bile Acid Homeostasis
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Ueli Schibler
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, October 31 2008, 12:15
Daan Noordermeer
Dept of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus medical Centre, Rotterdam
Nuclear and chromatin organization of a gene-dense region containing an integrated beta-globin locus control region
0013 ,
Sciences III
Host: Denis Duboule
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Dpt of Biochemistry
Tuesday, October 28 2008, 13:00
Philippe Chavrier
Laboratoire de la Dynamique du Cytosquelette et de la Membrane, Institut Curie - Paris - France
Mechanism of invadopodia formation by tumor cells
352 ,
Sciences II
Host: Thierry Soldati
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Monday, October 20 2008, 16:00
Giovanna Zacchetti
Duboule's laboratory
Thesis defense: Related Genetic Mechanisms of Hox Function in Mammalian Limb and Gut Development
A100 ,
Sciences II
Host: Jozsef Zakany
Details
Geneva Plant Seminars
Monday, September 22 2008, 13:00
Thomas Brutnell
Brutnell Maize Genetics Lab, Boyce Thomson Institute – Cornell University N.Y. - USA
A systems approach to understanding the shade Avoidance syndrome in maize
1069 ,
Sciences III
Host: Jerzy Paszkowski
Details
BioPhD
Friday, September 19 2008, 14:00
Luiza Ghila
Marie Gomez laboratory, Dept. of Zoology and Animal Biology; NCCR Frontiers in Genetics
Analysis of LNP-1 involvement in synaptic vesicle trafficking and neurotransmission
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Denis Duboule
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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Friday, September 19 2008, 12:30
Yikang Rong
Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda
SIRT: accelerating targeted mutagenesis in Drosophila
1S081 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
Dpt of Genetics & Evolution
Thursday, September 18 2008, 12:30
Ernesto Sanchez Herrero
Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
The more you give the less you get: Ultrabithorax Hox gene overexpression and Polycomb silencing
4059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Francois Karch
Details
BioPhD
Friday, September 12 2008, 13:00
Anna Kicheva
Gonzalez-Gaitan lab, Department of Biochemistry
Kinetics and interpretation of the Dpp morphogen gradient in Drosophila wing development
1S059 ,
Sciences III
Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan
Details
BioPhD
Wednesday, August 20 2008, 10:00
Natsuko Kinoshita
Luis Lopez-Molinalab,, Department of Plant Biology, University of Geneva
Identification of GIA3, a novel locus mediating ABA-dependent growth arrest responses during seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana
A100 ,
Sciences II
Host: Luis Lopez Molina
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