- Feb 22, Paul Martin, University Walk, Bristol, UK: Studies of repair and inflammation in flies and fish and mice, Host : Walter Wahli
- Mar 8, Janet Partridge, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA: Mechanism of assembly of heterochromatin at fission yeast centromeres, Host : Nouria Hernandez
- March 22, Ian Willis, Yeshiva University, Einstein Medical School, New York, USA: Synthetic genetic interactions in lipid droplet biogenesis, Host : Nouria Hernandez
- March 29, Ewan Birney, EMBL – European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK : Individual-specific and allele-specific chromatin signatures in diverse human populations, Host : Ioannis Xenarios
- CANCELLED Apr 19, Marjori Matzke, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria, A specialized transcriptional machinery is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation in plants, Host : Winship Herr
- Apr 26, Toshio Tsukiyama, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Washington, USA: In vivo functions of chromatin regulation revealed by new approaches, Hosts : Students and Post-docs
- CANCELLED Tuesday May 11 in Auditorium A, Ralph Greenspan, The Neuroscience Institute, San Diego, USA: Functional strategies shared by invertebrate and vertebrate nervous systems, Hosts : Students and Post-docs
- May 17, Doug Hanahan, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mechanisms of multi-step tumor development and progression, Host : Bernard Thorens
- May 31, Richard Benton, CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland: Olfactory genes, circuits and behaviours, Host : Bernard Thorens