< Research  Seminars

Past seminars (2011-2010)

Geneva Plant Seminars

Prof. Sam Zeeman

Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETHZ

Amylases and Amylase-Like Proteins - New Functions for Old Enzymes in Metabolic Regulation and Cellular Signaling

A150, Sciences II

Host: Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Erwin Grill

Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan Technische Universität München

Drought signalling in plants

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Ursula Brikczynska

Michel Milinkovitch's laboratory

Molecular basis of vomeronasal perception in snakes

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Yossi Shiloh

The David and Inez Myers Chair in Cancer Research, Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

The ATM-mediated DNA damage response: from pathways to systems - and back

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Robert Maeda

François Karch's lab

Domain activation in the BX-C: exploring the mechanism of initiator action

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Geneva Biology Club

François Karch

Dpt of Genetics & Evolution, Unige

The Bithorax Complex of Drosophila: An Exceptional Hox Cluster

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Rauscher Frank Professor

Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA

How Transcriptional Repressors Control Tumor Metastases:New Targets for Therapeutics Directed Specifically at the Metastatic Epigenome

A150, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Dr. Kazufumi Mochizuki

IMBA (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Small RNA-directed DNA elimination in Tetrahymena

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Roberto Sierra

Pawlowski's laboratory

Transcriptomic analysis of Foraminifera and Radiolaria: insights into evolution and genomic biology of rhizarian eukaryotes

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Robert Asher

Univ. Cambridge

Variability in the axial skeleton of tenrecs and other southern placental mammals

4059, Sciences III

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Michel Milinkovitch

Département de génétique et évolution

Intelligent Design: L'imposture du créationnisme scientifique

Auditoire Piaget, Uni Dufour

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Professeur David Toczyski

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California San Francisco

How to not get fired: control of origin use by the DNA damage checkpoint

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Zuzana Zachar

Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Stony Brook University

Lipoate derivatives selectively disrupt cancer cell metabolism

4059, Sciences III

Host: Brigitte Galliot

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Quentin Dietschi

Ivan Rodriguez's laboratory

Formyl peptide chemoreceptors: from the immune to the olfactory system

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Geneva Biology Club

Nicolas Demaurex

CMU / Physiology & Metabolism

Following the paths of calcium & protons inside cells and organelles

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Nam Hai Chua

Rockefeller University, New York

Genome-wide analysis uncovers elaborate regulation of long noncoding RNAs in Arabidopsis

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Jean-David Rochaix

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Ludivine Challet

Ivan Rodriguez's laboratory

Ludivine Challet's Department seminar

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Jean Luc Popot

IBPC, Paris

Applications of amphipols to membrane protein studies

A100, Sciences II

Host: Jean-David Rochaix

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Athanasia Tzika

Milinkovitch's lab

Cetacean forensics in Peru

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Geneva Biology Club

Beat Imhof

CMU / Pathology & Immunology

When migrating cells accompany your life

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Michel Havaux

CEA/Cadarache, France

Singlet oxygen production and detoxification in Arabidopsis during photo-oxidative stress

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Theresa Fitzpatrick

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Joost Woltering

Denis Duboule's lab TBA

Hox and the fin to limb transition

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Juha Rantala

Olli Kallioniemi's lab (Turku, Finland)

High throughput biology using siRNA microarrays

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Paul Brakefield

Univ. of Cambridge UK & Leiden Univ. NL

Evolution on the butterfly wing

A100, Sciences II

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Silke Reiter

Brigitte Galliot's lab

How to translate stress into regenerative response

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Biochemistry

Elena Kardasch

University of Münster, Germany

Live Imaging of Cell Migration in Zebrafish

352, Sciences II

Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Nicolas Buchon

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Tissue homeostasis during host-microbe interactions: interplay between immunity and stem cell activation in the Drosophila intestine

0013, Sciences III

Host: Brigitte Galliot

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Anne Laure Mahul Mellier

Imperial College, London

The deubiquitinating enzyme USP2 decides between cell death and survival in the TNFα signalling pathway

2024, Sciences III

Host: Jean-Claude Martinou

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Bernd Bodenmiller

Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Signaling Network Analysis by Single Cell Mass Spectrometry

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Yvan Wenger

Brigitte Galliot's lab

Yvan Wenger's Department seminar

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Geneva Biology Club

Didier Picard

Sciences III / Cell Biology

From human to molecular chaperones, sometimes doped by steroids

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Simon Hippenmeyer

HHMI & Department of Biology, Stanford University

"Genetics Dissection of Cerebral Cortex Development Using Mosaic Analysis with Double Markers (MADM)"

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Thomas Schalch

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York

"Coupling RNAi to Heterochromatin: Insights into the Structure of the RITS Complex"

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Dr Daniel Zenklusen

University of Montreal/Canada

"Dissecting gene expression regulation in yeast - one molecule at a time"

3079, Sciences III

Host: Françoise Stutz

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Franck Lejzerowicz

Jan Pawlowski's lab

Recovery of ancient eukaryotic DNA from downcore deep-sea samples

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Florian Oberstrass

Stanford University, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford, USA

Sequence dependent structural transitions in DNA induced by torque

2024, Sciences III

Host: Stephane Thore

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Serge Pellet

Institute of Biochemistry, ETHZ Zürich

"Development of single cell techniques using flow cytometry and microscopy to quantify MAP kinase signaling in yeast"

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Markus Seeger

Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich

"ABC transporters studied by X-ray crystallography and in vitro selected binding proteins"

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Geneva Biology Club

Reika Watanabe

Sciences II / Biochemistry

Membrane traffic and cell polarity

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Natalia Soshnikova

Denis Duboule's lab

Natalia Soshnikova's Department seminar

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Rudi Schläfli

Illumina

MiSeq™: The Personal Next-Generation Sequencing Platform

4059, Sciences III

Host: José Fahrni

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Keyt Fischer

ND

Mammalian Aging, Metabolism and Ecology: what bats and marsupials can tell us about aging in mammals

4059, Sciences III

Host: Brigitte Galliot

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Dpt of Biochemistry

Dimitri Moreau

Mol. & Cell Biol. in Singapore

Genome-wide RNAi screens identify genes required for Ricin and Pseudomonas Exotoxin intoxications

352, Sciences II

Host: Jean Gruenberg

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Ken Poss

Duke University Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Heart Regeneration in the Zebrafish

A100, Sciences II

Host: Brigitte Galliot

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Alfonso Martinez Arias

Department of Genetics in Cambridge

Wntch signalling and information processing during development

352, Sciences II

Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Jean Michel Gibert

François Karch's lab

The Polycomb-group gene cramped contributes to environmental canalization

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Mary O'connell

Medical Research Council , Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK.

What is the biological function of RNA editing?

3079, Sciences III

Host: Angela Kraemer

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Dr Antonin Morillon

Inst. Marie CURIE/Paris

ncRNA and epigenetic in budding yeast

3079, Sciences III

Host: Françoise Stutz

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Geneva Biology Club

Aurélien Roux

Sciences II / Biochemistry

Membrane Traffic Mechanics

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Petr Cejka

UC Davis, USA

Function of the RecQ helicase Sgs1 in the DNA damage response

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Marc Buehler

FMI, Basel

RNAi-mediated co-transcriptional gene silencing (CTGS) in fission yeast, a primitive plant

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Dr. John Ryal

Metabolon Inc. , Durham, NC, USA

The Use of Biochemical Profiling for Biomarker Discovery

3079, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

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Dpt of Biochemistry

Nicolas Buchon

EPFL-SV-GHI-UPLEM, Lausanne

Live and let die: stem cell activation and maintenance of tissue homeostasis during host/microbial interactions in the gut of Drosophila

352, Sciences II

Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Kristin Brogaard

Northwestern University

A chemical biology approach to mapping nucleosomes at base pair resolution

3070, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Lorenzo Borghi

ETHZ

RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED protein: new duties for a key regulator of the cell cycle in Arabidopsis thaliana

3079, Sciences III

Host: Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont

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Geneva Biology Club

Leonardo Scapozza

Sciences II / Pharmaceutical biochemistry

Molecular recognition and proteins dynamics: old & future challenges in drug discovery

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Lieven De Veylder

Cell Cycle Research; VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium

In and out of the cell cycle

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Roman Ulm

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Ayako Yamaguchi

Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

A new pathway to initiate flower formation: Transcriptional regulation of floral meristem identity genes

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Taisuke Nishimura

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Dr Elena Alkalaeva

Engelhardt Inst. Moll. Biol./Moscow RUS

New insights into eukaryotic translation termination mechanisms.

2024, Sciences III

Host: Katharina Strub

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Eva Petermann

School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

Control of replication initiation promotes replication fork progression and genomic integrity

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Biochemistry

Yohanns Bellaïche

Research Manager, Institut Marie Curie, Paris, France

Spindle orientation from cell fate specification to tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila

352, Sciences II

Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

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Dpt of Plant Sciences

Kateryna Fal

Gr. Pr PASZKOWSKI

Tor transposable elements in the genome of Oikopleura dioica : activity during the development and in vitro study of the protein synthesis

2024, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Stefan Mundlos

Institut für Medizinische Genetik and Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin

Malformations of the limbs in humans - on HOX genes and other major players

A100, Sciences II

Host: Denis Duboule

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Jacqueline Deschamps

Hubrecht Institute Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research

Cdx, Hox and axial growth & patterning in the mouse embryo

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Denis Duboule

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Geneva Plant Seminars

Prof. Jean Finnegan

CSIRO, Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Flicking the switch on Polycomb regulated genes

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Jerzy Paszkowski

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Prof. Michael J. Garabedian

Department of Microbiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York

"Effects of the Hsp90 co-chaperone p23 on tumor progression and clinical outcome in breast cancer"

3079, Sciences III

Host: Didier Picard

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Steven Mc Knight

Department of Biochemistry, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas

Discovery of a pro-neurogenic, neuroprotective chemical

A300, Sciences II

Host: Ueli Schibler; Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Florenci Serras

University of Barcelona

Tissue Regeneration in Drosophila imaginal discs

4059, Sciences III

Host: Brigitte Galliot

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Steve Austad

University of Texas Health Science Center

Dietary Restriction and Slow Aging: A New Look at an Old Paradigm

A100, Sciences II

Host: Brigitte Galliot

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Irmgard Irminger

Molecular Gynecology and Obstetrics Laboratory; HUG, Genève

BARD1 a regulator of BRCA1

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Francois Karch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Brian Freeman

Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Ilinois, Urbana, USA

Molecular Chaperone Mediated Protein DNA Dynamics

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore; Didier Picard

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Prof Dan Bolon

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA USA

"Experimental dissection of protein fitness landscapes"

2024, Sciences III

Host: Didier Picard

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Dpt of Genetics & Evolution

Patrícia Beldade

Institute of Biology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Evo-devo and the mechanisms behind morphological diversification

4059, Sciences III

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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