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Thu Feb 6 – Fri Feb 7, 2025 – Lausanne (Gen)Omics Days 2025

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Dear all,

The Lausanne Genomics Days is a 2-day international conference meant to share advances in (Gen)Omics and their impact on biological research, applied to a wide range of topics (it does involve 5 UNIL departments CIG, DBC, DBMV, DEE, and DMF).

It will take place at UNIL / Genopode on Thursday and Friday February 6th and 7th 2025.

The conference offers 5 sessions:

  • Breakthrough technologies in Biology and Medicine (chair: Prof. Sven Bergmann)
  • Single cell genomics in evolution and development (chair: Prof. Sebastian Soyk)
  • Biological interactions across scales (chair: Prof. Philipp Engel)
  • The role of structural variation for adaptation and species divergence (chair: Prof. Tanja Schwander)
  • Epigenomics & 3D genome folding in organoids and organisms (chair: Prof. Maria Cristina Gambetta).

For detailed program and more information, please visit the event webpage

Registration is FREE of charge. Still, it is mandatory for organization purpose, in particular ensuring that there will not be food wasted (coffee breaks, lunch and apero are offered).

HERE is the direct link for registration.

Best regards

Julien Marquis, on behalf of the L0D2025 organization team

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Julien Marquis
Head of Lausanne Genomics Technologies Facility (GTF)
Tel : +41 (0)21 692 39 06
Julien.Marquis.1@unil.ch
UNIL core facilities

CIG Seminars Spring 2025 Program

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Monday 12:15, Génopode, auditorium B (or to be announced)

Monday January 20, 2025 (Joint CIG / DBC Seminar)
Julien Gagneur,
Technical University of Munich (DE)
«DNA language models reveal functional genomic elements»
Hosts: Maria Cristina Gambetta & Giovanni Ciriello

Monday January 27, 2025
Madhav Jagannathan,
ETHZ, Zurich (CH)
«Evolution of Satellite DNA Function»
Host: Maria Cristina Gambetta

Monday February 10, 2025
Caren Norden,
Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Lisbonne (PT)
«Retinal Lamination: How neurons find the place where they belong»
Host: Nadine Vastenhouw

Monday February 17, 2025
Stefanie Jonas,
ETHZ, Zurich (CH)
«TBA»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

Monday February 24, 2025
Richard Merrill,
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munchen (DE)
«Evolutionary genetics of visual preferences: Beauty, brains and butterfly diversity»
Host: Johannes Larsch

Monday March 10, 2025
Sundaresan Venkatesan,
University of California, Davis (USA)
«TBA»
Host: Christian Fankhauser

Monday March 17, 2025
Simon Bekker-Jensen,
University of Copenhagen (DK)
«Ribosomal surveillance mechanisms dictate cellular stress responses and metabolic transitions»
Host: David Gatfield

Monday March 24, 2025
Arnaud Hubstenberger,
Université Côte-d’Azur, Nice (FR)
«TBA»
Hosts: Nadine Vastenhouw & Jean-Yves Roignant

Monday April 28, 2025
Catherine Peichel,
University of Bern (CH)
«The role of chromosomal rearrangements in adaptation to divergent environments»
Host: Johannes Larsch

Monday May 12, 2025
Mathieu Rougemaille,
Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)
«TBA»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

Monday May 19, 2025
Maude Baldwin,
Max Planck Institute, Martinsried (DE)
«TBA»
Host: Johannes Larsch

Monday June 23, 2025
François Leulier,
ENS Lyon (FR)
«Microbial influence on adaptive growth»
Host: Paul Franken

Monday June 30, 2025
Maria Antonietta Tosches,
Columbia University, New York (USA)
«TBA»
Host: Richard Benton

CIG Progress Reports 2024-2025

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Dear all, 

Please join us for the CIG Progress Reports 2024/2025 seminar series in which we’ll get to hear 30 stories developing in the department.

All are welcome!

Place: GEN A auditorium in 2025 (exception: May 22 in GEN 3027). We will inform you of the room in every reminder email sent before the seminar.

Each speaker presents their work in 20-25 min + 5-10 questions.
For more dynamic discussions, we usually interrupt speakers with questions during the talk. The aim is to share your work with your colleagues and receive scientific feedback.

Please keep in mind that the CIG is very diverse and many of your colleagues are not familiar with details of your field and specific methodologies. Thus, we advise you to balance the amount of presented data against the time you have to present. 

Optional feedback on presentation skills using a questionnaire By popular demand, but only if desired, presenters can receive tips from a couple of PIs to improve presenter skills. For this, we prepared a feedback questionnaire to be filled out together over a brief discussion at the end of the seminar.

Schedule (Thursday at 4 PM)

CIG minisymposium: SNSF Starting grant candidates

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Dec. 13 & 14, GENOPODE & AMPHIMAX

December 13

GENOPODE Auditorium A

8:30 Babatunde Ekundayo Accessing DNA in condensed chromatin: Fundamental mechanisms and implications for gene therapy

9:10 Akanksha Jain TBD

AMPHIMAX 414

10:20 Ehsan Habibi Deciphering the Principles of Embryo Development Across Space and Time  

11:00 Yoav Voichek Transcriptional Regulation in Plants – Unique Properties and Principles

December 14

GENOPODE Auditorium B

8:00 Ricardo Bocchi Molecular mechanisms underlying astrocyte origins and diversity

8:40 Irene Beusch Exploring functions of spliceosomal proteins through CRISPR-Cas9 base editing screens

9:20 Alessandra Brambati DNA Double-Strand Breaks: Drivers of Disease and Evolution