Monday 12:15, Génopode, auditorium B

Monday January 5, 2026 GEN C
Yad Ghavi-Helm,
ENS Lyon (FR)
«Regulating gene expression in 3D during embryonic development»
Host: Maria C. Gambetta

Monday January 19, 2026 GEN C
Jan Rehwinkel,
University of Oxford, Headington (UK)
«Regulation of Type I Interferon Receptor Signalling»
Host: David Gatfield

Monday January 26, 2026 Batochime 2201
Ines Anna Drinnenberg,
Institut Curie, Paris (FR)
«Evolution of centromeres and genome organisation: Insights from butterflies and moths»
Host: Maria C. Gambetta

Monday February 23, 2026
Anne Lopes,
University Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)
«Emergence of microproteins and de novo genes from noncoding DNA»
Hosts: PhD Students & Postdocs

Friday February 27, 2026 Biophore 4401
CIG & DBMV External Seminar
Yunde Zhao,
UC San Diego (US)
«Improved gene editing technologies reveal how auxin controls Arabidopsis flower initiation»
Host: Christian Fankhauser

Monday March 16, 2026
Jürg Bähler,
University College London, UK
«Functional and regulatory profiling of unstudied proteins in cellular quiescence, dormancy and ageing in yeast and killifish»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

Monday March 23, 2026
Silke Sachse,
University of Würzburg (DE)
«Unraveling odor codes: Neural strategies and plasticity in insect olfaction»
Host: Richard Benton

Monday April 20, 2026
Bruno Hudry,
CNRS Biologie, Paris (FR)
«The importance of cellular sex in physiology and the underlying mechanisms»
Host: Richard Benton

Monday May 11, 2026
Shay Stern,
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
«Neuromodulatory organization of developmental patterns of behavior and Individuality»
Host: Johannes Larsch

Monday May 18, 2026
Nadine Vastenhouw,
UNIL, CIG, Lausanne (CH)
«TBC»
Hosts: CIG PIs

TUESDAY May 26, 2026
Karla Neugebauer,
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven (USA)
«TBC»
Host: Nadine Vastenhouw

Monday 12:15, Génopode, auditorium B

Monday September 8, 2025 at 11:15 exceptionally
Murat Sünbül,
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (DE)
«Designer RNAs to see biology in super-resolution»
Hosts: CIG PhD Students & Postdocs

Monday September 15, 2025
Gabriel Neurohr,
ETHZ, Zurich (CH)
«Size matters – Nuclear meltdown in senescence»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

Monday September 29, 2025
Eric Lai,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (USA)
«MicroRNAs: from mechanisms to biology»
Host: Jean-Yves Roignant

Monday October 13, 2025
Manuel Irimia,
The Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona (ES)
«Proteome specialization by cell type specific microexons in health, disease and evolution»
Host: Isabel Lopez Mejia

FRIDAY October 31, 2025
Olivia S. Rissland,
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (USA)
«The role of the coding region in regulating translation»
Host: David Gatfield

Monday December 8, 2025
Sylvie Retaux,
Institut des Neurosciences Paris‑Saclay (FR)
«The genetic basis of adaptive behaviors in blind cavefish»
Host: Johannes Larsch

Monday December 15, 2025
Andrés Bendesky,
Columbia University, New York (USA)
«The evolution of social behavior in nature and under domestication»
Host: Johannes Larsch

https://www.unil.ch/dee/en/home/menuinst/seminars-and-events/big-seminars.html

Dear all, 

Please join us for the CIG Progress Reports 2025/2026 seminar series in which we’ll get to hear some stories developing in the department.

All are welcome!

Place: auditorium GEN A in 2025 (12h30-13h30). 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 12:30)

October 2, 16, 30
November 13, 27
December 11