Every first Monday of the month 12h15,
Auditorium Biophore Building
UniL-Sorge at Dorigny

Free entrance

BIG is an interdepartmental seminar series, and is organized by Zoltan Kutalik, Julia Santiago, Yolanda Schaerli, Tanja Schwander and Nadine Vastenhouw

October 2, 2023
Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin (DE)
“Structural Variants in the Non-Coding Genome – Lessons from Development, Disease, and Evolution“

November 6, 202
Tatiana Giraud, University of Paris Saclay (FR)
“A new theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes, based on deleterious mutations“

December 4, 2023 Cancelled
Rong Fan, SEAS, University of Yale, New York (USA)
Title to be announced soon.

January 8, 2024
Ted Farmer, DBMV, University of Lausanne (CH)
“Electrical signalling in insect-damaged plants”

February 5, 2024
Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute for multidisciplinary sciences, Göttingen (DE)
“Planarian regeneration: A mechanistic/genomic/evolutionary perspective”

March 4, 2024
Susana Coelho, Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tüebingen (DE)
“(A)sex in the rockpools: the private life of brown algae”

April 8, 2024
Verena Ruprecht, Center for genomic regulation, Barcelona (ES)
“Nucleus mechanotransduction and cellular morphodynamics“

May 6, 2024
Gosia Trynka, Open target & Wellcome Sanger institute, Cambridge (UK)
“From GWAS to function: interrogating biology at scale to contextualise gene function”

June 3, 2024
Nick Lane, University College London (UK)
Title to be announced soon.