CIG seminars Spring 2013
Monday 12:15, Génopode, auditorium B, followed by sandwiches
Joint DBMV/CIG seminar
Thursday January 17, 2013, Auditorium Biophore, 12:00
Félix Hauser, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA
“A genomic scale artifical micro RNA library as a tool to investigate the redundant gene space in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Host: Christian Fankhauser
Monday January 21, 2013
Erik van Nimwegen, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
“A democracy of transcription factors: Automatically inferring the key regulators of chromatin and gene expression dynamics from high-throughput data”
Host: Winship Herr
Monday February 11, 2013
Edward E. Farmer, DBMV, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
“How leaves defend themselves”
Host: Christian Fankhauser
Joint DBMV/CIG seminar
Thursday February 28, 2013, Auditorium Biophore, 12:00
Ronald Pierik, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
“Plant signaling and multi-tasking in crowded environments”
Host: Christian Fankhauser
Monday March 11, 2013
Bertram Gerber, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
“Decision-making in larval Drosophila”
Host: Richard Benton
Monday March 18, 2013
Bart Deplancke, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Systems-based, quantitative analysis of gene regulation during fat cell differentiation”
Host: Nouria Hernandez
Monday April 15, 2013
Bruno Lemaitre, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
“The Drosophila gut: a new paradigm for epithelial immune response”
Host: Richard Benton
Joint DBMV/CIG seminar
Thursday April 18, 2013, Auditorium Biophore, 12:00
Michael Neff, Washington State University, Pullman, USA
“Functional Analysis of the AT-hook Motif Containing Nuclear Localization (AHL) Gene Family in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Host: Christian Fankhauser
Monday April 22, 2013
Andrzej Stasiak, CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
“Numerical simulations shed light on the organization of topological domains in interphase chromosomes”
Host: Nouria Hernandez
Monday April 29, 2013
Margriet Ouwens, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany
“The impact of epicardial adipokines on cardiac function in type 2 diabetes”: from molecular biology to clinical biomarkers”
Host: Students & Postdocs
Monday May 13, 2013
Julie Ahringer, University of Cambridge, UK
“Chromatin regulation and the landscape of RNA polymerase II transcription in C. elegans”
Host: Richard Benton
Monday May 27, 2013
Alexandre Reymond, CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
“Genome structure and gene expression”
Host: Christian Fankhauser
Monday June 17, 2013
Harry Noller, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
“Structure and Dynamics of the Ribosome During Translation”
Host: Winship Herr