Past seminars (2015-2014)

Life Science Seminar Series

Job Dekker

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

Two ways to fold the genome

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thomas Schalch

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Prof. Dan Jay

Tufts University, Boston

Hsp90alpha: An Extracellular Hub that Promotes Cancer Invasion

2024, Sciences III

Host: Didier Picard

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Dr Vincent DION

CIG, UNIL. Lausanne

Trinucleotide repeat instability: location, location, location - and also chromatin

2024, Sciences III

Host: Françoise Stutz

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Christiane Schaffitzel

EMBL Grenoble

"Co-translational protein targeting and translocation studied by electron cryo-microscopy"

3079, Sciences III

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Dr Ana Claudia Marques

Dept Physiologie, UNIL, Lausanne

Expanding intergenic lncRNAs' functional repertoires

2024, Sciences III

Host: Françoise Stutz

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Janet Partridge

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Assembly of heterochromatin- tails from fission yeast

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thomas Schalch

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Life Science Seminar Series

Alex Gould

Division of Developmental Neurobiology, Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK.

Coping with stress: adaptations of neural stem cells in Drosophila

A100, Sciences II

Host: Emi Nagoshi

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Aurelio Teleman

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

“Regulation of Tissue Growth in Drosophila”

A100, Sciences II

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Michel Tremblay

McGill University, Montreal

Role of tyrosine phosphatases in signaling and cancer

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Jerry Pelletier

McGill University, Montreal

Adapting CRISPR/Cas9 for functional genomics screens

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Anindya Dutta

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics University of Virginia School of Medicine

"Genomic stability in normal and cancer cells"

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Life Science Seminar Series

Asaph Aharoni

Department of Plant sciences, Faculty of Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Unravelling plant metabolism through the integration of heterogeneous data from metabolomics, genetics and informatics

A100, Sciences II

Host: Theresa Fitzpatrick

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Life Science Seminar Series

Sergio Grinstein

The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

Imaging phagocytosis: receptors, signal transduction and the cytoskeleton

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thierry Soldati

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Sylvie Mader

Université de Montréal, Canada

Transcriptional networks in breast cancer : impact on subtype specification and treatment

2024, Sciences III

Host: Didier Picard

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Life Science Seminar Series

Yves van de Peer

Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, University of Gent, Belgium & Bioinformatics and Systems Biology research group, Genomics Research Center, University of Pretoria, South-Africa

The importance of gene and genome duplications for natural and artificial organism populations

A100, Sciences II

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Life Science Seminar Series

Pierre Gönczy

EPFL SV ISREC UPGON, Lausanne

Mechanisms of centriole formation

A100, Sciences II

Host: Françoise Stutz

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Thomas W. Glover

Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan

"Unifying the mechanisms of replication stress-induced fragile sites, CNVs and complex rearrangements"

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Life Science Seminar Series

Mike Hall

Biozentrum, University of Basel

TOR signaling in growth and metabolism

A100, Sciences II

Host: Robbie Loewith

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Luca Pellegrini

Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge

"Mechanisms of DNA replication revealed by structural studies"

1S081, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Life Science Seminar Series

Rick Morimoto

Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, USA

Proteostasis Networks and the Heat Shock Response in Biology, Aging, and Disease

A100, Sciences II

Host: Didier Picard

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Mathieu Frechin

Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Image-based and modelling approaches identify a new role for the membrane in information processing

2024, Sciences III

Host: Jean-Claude Martinou

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Life Science Seminar Series

Max Telford

Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, UK.

The evolution of simplicity: loss of characters as a theme in animal evolution

A100, Sciences II

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Alain Nicolas

CNRS Institut Curie, Paris

Mutational landscape of yeast mutator strains

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Prof. Rodney ROTHSTEIN

Department of Genetics and Development Columbia University Medical Center NYC, New York, USA

“Increased chromosome mobility facilitates homology search during double-strand break repair. »

3079, Sciences III

Host: David Shore

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Life Science Seminar Series

Catherine Dulac

Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, USA

Molecular and Neural Architecture of Social Behaviors in the Mouse

A100, Sciences II

Host: Denis Duboule

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Juan Valcárcel

Centre de Regulaciò Genòmica, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Networks of alternative splicing regulation in cancer

3079, Sciences III

Host: Angela Kraemer

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Life Science Seminar Series

Frank Uhlmann

Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields Laboratories, London, UK

SMC protein complexes in chromosome organisation and segregation

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Life Science Seminar Series

Silvia Arber

Biozentrum, University of Basel & Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel

Specificity and modules in circuits for motor control

A100, Sciences II

Host: Ueli Schibler

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Prof. Sebastian Hiller

Biocentrum Basel

Outer Membrane Protein Biogenesis at Atomic Resolution

2024, Sciences III

Host: Jean-Claude Martinou

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Life Science Seminar Series

Rolf Zeller

Developmental Genetics, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel Medical Faculty, Basel

Signaling networks and genomic landscapes in vertebrate limb development and evolution

A100, Sciences II

Host: Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

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Life Science Seminar Series

Andrea Musacchio

Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany

The molecular machinery of chromosome segregation and its feedback control

A100, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Cell Biology

Dr Catherine Dargemont

Laboratory of Pathology and Molecular Virology, Hopital St. Louis, Paris

The nuclear pore complex, a hub integrating nuclear transport, gene expression and genome integrity

3079, Sciences III

Host: Françoise Stutz

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Life Science Seminar Series

Julia Bailey-Serres

Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, USA

Waterproofing plants: Sensing, signaling and response mechanisms

A100, Sciences II

Host: Roman Ulm

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Conference

Elena Conti

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried Germany

'The RNA exosome - ribosome connection: coupling RNA synthesis and degradation'

A300, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Life Science Seminar Series

Richard Lührmann

Max Planck Institut für Biophysikalische, Göttingen, Germany

The spliceosome: one of the most complex and structurally dynamic molecular machines of the cell

A100, Sciences II

Host: Angela Kraemer

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Life Science Seminar Series

Thomas Laux

Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg, Germany

Regulation of zygote polarity

A100, Sciences II

Host: Luis Lopez Molina

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Life Science Seminar Series

Gunter Wagner

Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

The Origin of a Novel Cell Type: the decidual cell of mammals

A100, Sciences II

Host: Michel Milinkovitch

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Nicolas Winssinger

Department of Organic Chemistry , University of Geneva.

to be announced

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thomas Schalch

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Life Science Seminar Series

Tom Pollard

Yale University

Quantitative cellular and molecular approaches to understand the mechanisms of cytokinesis and endocytosis.

A100, Sciences II

Host: Sandra Citi

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Andrzej Dziembowski

Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw

RNA processing and diseases

3079, Sciences III

Host: Stephane Thore

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Cecilia Arraiano

Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal

Regulating mechanisms of gene expression

3079, Sciences III

Host: Stephane Thore

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Dpt of Molecular Biology, BioPhD

Paola Munoz-Tello

Stephane Thore Laboratory

Structural and Functional Studies of Poly(U) Polymerases

1S059, Sciences III

Host: Stephane Thore

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Titia de Lange

Rockfeller University

How telomeres solve the chromosome end protection problem

A150, Sciences II

Host: Thanos Halazonetis

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Dpt of Molecular Biology

Ravish Rashpa

Beat Suter lab, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern

Roles of Cbp80 in translation repression of transported mRNAs and in the piRNA pathway

3079, Sciences III

Host: Thomas Schalch

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