BIG SEMINARS 2016-2017

BIG seminars 2016-2017 (Download poster)

Every first Monday of the month
16h15, Auditorium Biophore Building
UniL-Sorge at Dorigny
 
 
BIG is an interdepartmental seminar series, and is organized by Vincent Dion, Ted Farmer, Thomas Flatt and Sophie Martin
 
5 September 2016  Angela Belcher, The Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research
“Evolving biology to make new nanomaterials for energy, the environment and medicine”
 
 
3 October 2016  Angelika Amon, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Effects of cell size and shape on cell division”
 
 
7 November 2016  Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Tübingen
“The development of colour patterns in fishes: Towards an understanding of the evolution of beauty”
 
 
5 December 2016  Graham Bell, McGill University
“Can we discover antibiotics to which bacteria will not evolve resistance?”
 
 
9 January 2017  Peter Campbell, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
“Interrogating the architecture of cancer genomes”
 
 
6 February 2017  Toby Kiers, University Amsterdam
“Evolving control”
 
 
6 March 2017  Naomi Pierce, Harvard University CANCELLED
“Bee-ing social: Evolutionary, behavioural and genomic insights into the biology of bees”
 
 
10 April 2017  Jonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory
“Diversity, deployment and dissection of plant disease resistance”
 
 
1 May 2017  Paul Martin, University of Bristol
“Live imaging of inflammation in repair and cancer”
 
 
12 June 2017  Claudia Koehler, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences CANCELLED
“Epigenetic control of plant speciation”