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CIG Progress Reports 2025-2026

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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: Batochime 2218 auditorium in 2025. 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)

More details about the program to follow…

Unil Sleep Research Day on April 4th, 2025

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The Unil and CHUV sleep labs invite you to the Unil Sleep Research Day on April 4th, 2025 | 09:00 – 17:00.

This symposium provides an exciting opportunity to explore recent advancements in Sleep Research.

Guest speakers include Prof. Sophie Schwartz and Prof. Paul Franken.

As a special lecture this year, Dr. Karine Crousaz will present her research on the history of sleep in the Early Modern Period (1500–1800).

Additionally, neuroscientists and clinicians from the Sleep labs in the Lausanne area will present their most recent work.

Seminars and talks are on-site at the CHUV.

Registration to the full day symposium is free but mandatory as the number of participants is limited.

Register online HERE

Location

Auditoire Jequier Doge,

Bâtiment BL-08,

Rue du Bugnon 44
1011 CHUV Lausanne.

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 cancelled
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
Venkatesan Sundaresan,
University of California, Davis (USA)
«Gametes to zygotes to self-cloning plants»
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)
«RNA condensate plasticity during development and in response to the environment»
Hosts: Nadine Vastenhouw & Jean-Yves Roignant

Monday March 31, 2025
Tanja Schwander,
UNIL, DEE
«Origins and consequences of unorthodox reproductive modes: Insights from stick insects»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

Monday April 14, 2025
Julia Santiago Cuellar,
UNIL, DBMV
«Building the Pollen Tube Wall: structural role of a protein-peptide complex in cell wall patterning and cell expansion»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

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

Thursday May 1, 2025
DBMV & CIG External seminar: Biophore 4401 at 12h15
Takato Imaizumi
Washington University (USA)
“How plants know when to flower in spring: Unique characteristics of florigen-expressing cells in Arabidopsis”
Host: Christian Fankhauser

Thursday May 8, 2025
DBMV & CIG External seminar: Biophore 4401 at 12h15
Ute Hoecker
University of Cologne (DE)
“What happens in the dark? Light signaling in the control of plant growth and development”
Host: Christian Fankhauser

Monday May 12, 2025
Mathieu Rougemaille,
Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)
«Long and small non-coding RNAs in fission yeast gametogenesis»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

Monday May 19, 2025
Maude Baldwin,
Max Planck Institute, Martinsried (DE)
«Functional evolution of the taste and digestive system in vertebrates»
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)
«The changing brain: Exploring the evolution and plasticity of neural circuits in salamanders»
Host: Richard Benton