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Thu Feb 16-Fri Feb 17, 2012 – Lausanne Genomics Days 2012

– 02/02/2012Posted in: CIG NEWS, Highlight, Seminars & Workshops

Lausanne Genomics Days

is an annual event sponsored by the University of Lausanne and the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO). This 2-day event will bring to Lausanne investigators from Europe and the United States to present and discuss the newest developments in genomics and genomic technologies and their impact on biological research.

Detailed information about the course

Title Lausanne Genomics Days
Dates 16.02-17.02.2012
Speakers Download programThursday February 16 (09h20 starting time)

9:30 – 10:15 John Moran – University of Michigan
Studies of a Human Retrotransposon

10:15 – 11:00 Nicholas Katsanis – Duke University
Modeling the morbid human genome

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:15 Julian Parkhill – Sanger Institute
Understanding transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens through large-scale sequencing

12:15 – 13:00 Jeffrey Jensen – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
What has genomics taught us about adaptation?

13:00 LUNCH (sandwiches and drinks provided in Exhibition Hall)

14:30 – 15:15 Han Brunner – Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
How next generation sequencing changes medicine

15:15 – 16:00 Carole Charlier- University of Liège
Serial translocation via circular intermediates underlies colour sidedness in cattle

Friday February 17 (09h20 starting time)

9:30 – 10:15 Nicolas Galtier – Université Montpellier II
Species life-history traits and genome evolution

10:15 – 11:00 Chris Bowler – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
The Tara Oceans Expedition – A holistic approach for marine eco-systems biology

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:15 Chris Jiggins – University of Cambridge
A butterfly genome offers insights into adaptation and speciation

12:15 – 13:00 Maarten Koornneef – Max-Planck Institute, Köln
Exploiting natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

13:00 LUNCH (sandwiches and drinks provided in Exhibition Hall)

14:30 – 15:15 Sophien Kamoun – The Sainsbury Laboratory
Genome evolution in the Irish potato famine pathogen lineage

15:15 – 16:00 Marc Robinson-Rechavi – University of Lausanne and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Evolution and gene expression in vertebrates
Organisers
 Jacques Beckmann (Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne)
David Gatfield (Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne)
Keith Harshman (Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne)
Felix Naef (School of Life Sciences, EPFL)
Alexandre Reymond (Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne)
Christian Fankhauser (Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne)
Christian Hardtke (Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne)
Tadeusz Kawecki (Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne)
Location UNIL, Le Génopode, Auditorium C
Registration No need to register, but don’t forget to sign the participation list!
Places 150
Deadline 16.02.2012
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CIG Symposium 2012, June 14-15

– 01/20/2012Posted in: CIG NEWS, Highlight

The registration is now open for the CIG Symposium 2012, which will be held at the Genopode June 14 and 15, in the honor of Prof Walter Wahli, founding director of the CIG.

The speakers:

Development & Evolution:

  • Denis Duboule, University of Geneva, and EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Walter Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • John Gurdon, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Henrik Kaessmann, CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Igor Dawid, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

Nuclear receptors, transcription factors, transcription mechanisms:

  • Pierre Chambon, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Strasbourg, France
  • Steven Kliewer, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
  • Robert Roeder, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

Metabolism and nutrigenomics:

  • Johan Auwerx, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Allan Balmain, Cancer Reseach Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA
  • Ueli Schibler, University of Geneva, Switzerland

more info: to the CIG Symposium website

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CIG SEMINARS SPRING 2012 PROGRAM

– 12/14/2011Posted in: *Featured*, CIG NEWS, Highlight, Seminars & Workshops

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 : Henrik Kaessmann

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

Poster CIG seminars Spring 2012

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