Génopode retreat 2024: best poster prizes

The prizes for the best posters were given this year at the Génopode Retreat in Leysin (September 5 & 6, 2024) to:

1st price: Claire Paltenghi (van Leuwen lab) – Identification of suppressor genes rescuing Mendelian disease-causing genes in HAP1 cells (poster #42)

2nd price: Nathaniel Himmel (Benton lab) – A testis-expressed homologous of insect Gustatory and Odorant receptors (poster #31)

Sissy Bassani’s poster on the “Variant‑specific pathophysiologicalmechanisms of AFF3”

Sissy Bassani (former member of group Reymond) received the of Best Poster runners-up Award at the 57th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

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Prizes given to Chiara Auwerx and Francesca Mattioli (May 2024)

Chiara Auwerx and Francesca Mattioli (Reymond group) were awarded the best and the runners-up awards for best presentation at the Swiss Society of Medical Genetics annual meeting (May 16-17, 2024, Bern) for their “Rare copy-number variants as modulators of common disease susceptibility” and “Bi-allelic variants in BRF2 are associated with perinatal death and craniofacial anomalies” talks, respectively.