Biology and integrative genetics

Every first Monday of the month

17h, Auditorium Biophore Building

UniL-Sorge at Dorigny

BIG is an initiative of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, and is organized by Henrik Kaessmann Laurent Keller, Philippe Reymond and Jan Roelof van der Meer.

3 September 2012 Melody Swartz, LLCB, EPFL

“New roles for lymphatic transport in regulating immunity“

1 October 2012 Nicolas Perrin, DEE, UNIL

“The evolution of sex chromosomes: A perspective from amphibians“

5 November 2012 Ilkka Hanski, University of Helsinki, Finland

“The Glanville fritillary study system: genetics and genomics of population dynamics“

3 December 2012 Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University, USA

“Room to breathe: patterning the plant epidermis“

7 January 2013 Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany

“Structure, function and evolution of the plant microbiota“

4 February 2013 Gero Miesenböck, University of Oxford, UK

“The Neural Basis of a Perceptual Decision“

4 March 2013 Richard Lenski, Michigan State University, USA

“Time Travel in Experimental Evolution“

8 April 2013 Marie-Anne Félix, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France

“C. elegans in an Evolutionary and Ecological Context: Vulva Development and Natural Pathogens“

6 May 2013 Elaine Ostrander, NHGRI, Bethesda, USA

“Genetics of Complex Traits in Domestic Dogs“

3 June 2013 John van der Oost, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

“CRISPR – the adaptive immunity system of bacteria“