CIG Symposium 2012, June 14-15


The registration is now open for the CIG Symposium 2012, which will be held at the Genopode June 14 and 15, in the honour of Prof Walter Wahli, founding director of the CIG.

The speakers:

Development & Evolution:

  • Denis Duboule, University of Geneva, and EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Walter Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • John Gurdon, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Henrik Kaessmann, CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Igor Dawid, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

Nuclear receptors, transcription factors, transcription mechanisms:

  • Pierre Chambon, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Strasbourg, France
  • Steven Kliewer, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
  • Robert Roeder, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

Metabolism and nutrigenomics:

  • Johan Auwerx, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Allan Balmain, Cancer Reseach Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA
  • Ueli Schibler, University of Geneva, Switzerland

more info: to the CIG Symposium website