Program :
Monday January 16, 2012
Andrea Superti-Furga,
CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
«Genetics of human skeletal development and growth»
Host : Winship Herr
Monday January 23, 2012
Walter Wahli,
CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
«PPARs stand at the crossroads of metabolism, tissue repair and cancer»
Host : Alexandre Reymond
Monday January 30, 2012
Wolf Reik,
Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
«Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development»
Host : Winship Herr
Monday February 13, 2012
Dirk Schübeler,
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
«DNA sequence determinants of the epigenome»
Hosts : Students & Postdocs
Monday March 12, 2012
Edward M. Marcotte,
University of Texas at Austin, USA
«Steps towards a modular theory of disease: Insights from proteomics into cellular evolution and surprising disease models»
Host : Ioannis Xenarios
Monday March 19, 2012
Charles Weissmann,
The Scripps Institute, Jupiter, USA
«Evolution of prions»
Host : Nouria Hernandez
Monday March 26, 2012
Brian Charlesworth,
The University of Edinburgh, UK
«The effects of genetic recombination on molecular evolution and variation»
Host : Henrik Kaessmann
Monday April 16, 2012
Eran Segal,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
«Cracking the regulatory code using thousands of designed promoter sequences»
Host : Alexandre Reymond
Monday April 23, 2012
Nancy Kleckner,
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
«How do bacteria organize and segregate their chromosomes?»
Host : Andrzej Stasiak
Monday May 14, 2012
Julius Brennecke,
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
«The piRNA pathway: a small RNA based genome immune system»
Host : David Gatfield
Monday May 21, 2012
James Kaput,
Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland
«Developing research strategies for personalized nutrition, medicine, and healthcare»
Host : Walter Wahli