We are delighted to share the good news that David has been promoted to Full Professor, effective August 1, 2026.
Congratulations to David Gatfield!
Category Archives: Awards, honors, prizes
Congratulations to Yinan Wan for the Chi-Bin Chien Award 2026!
See: https://www.izfs.org/news/congratulations-to-the-2026-award-winners
Dr Yinan Wan will join the CIG as tenure track assistant professor in January 2027.
Isabel Lopez Mejia and Paris Jafari got an Herbette grant
Isabel: for her research project “From nucleous to membrane: can alternative splicing control Glut4 localization?”
Paris: for her research project “Identification of the rôle of PRRX1 transcription factor in adult cellular reprogramming using zebrafish model of regeneration”.
Congratulations to both of them!
Poster Prices
LIMNA Symposium 2025
Kanishka Parashar
47th Congress of Society of Neuroendocrinology 2025
Mélanie Faure
Congratulations to both of them!
Shivali Dongre (Group Vastenhouw) received an award for best poster at the GRC
Title : Specificity in clustering of gene-specific transcription factors is encoded in the genome
2025 Epigenetics, Gordon Research Conference, 10-15.8.2025 – Barcelona
Génopode retreat 2025: best poster prizes
The prizes for the best posters were given this year at the Génopode Retreat in Leysin (September 11 & 12, 2025) to:
1st price: Caterina Cevallos (Reymond lab) – The impact of rare pathogenic CNVs is exacerbated by assortative mating (poster #13)
2nd price: Nathaniel Himmel (Benton lab) – From the depths of the twilight zone: Expression & functional analyses of an odorant & gustatory receptor homolog conserved in flies, humans and beyond (poster #27)
