BIG SEMINARS 2023-2024

Every first Monday of the month 12h15,
Auditorium Biophore Building
UniL-Sorge at Dorigny

Free entrance

BIG is an interdepartmental seminar series, and is organized by Zoltan Kutalik, Julia Santiago, Yolanda Schaerli, Tanja Schwander and Nadine Vastenhouw

October 2, 2023
Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin (DE)
Structural Variants in the Non-Coding Genome – Lessons from Development, Disease, and Evolution

November 6, 202
Tatiana Giraud, University of Paris Saclay (FR)
“A new theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes, based on deleterious mutations

December 4, 2023
Rong Fan, SEAS, University of Yale, New York (USA)
Title to be announced soon.

January 8, 2024
Ted Farmer, DBMV, University of Lausanne (CH)
Title to be announced soon.

February 5, 2024
Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute for multidisciplinary sciences, Göttingen (DE)
Title to be announced soon.

March 4, 2024
Susana Coelho, Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tüebingen (DE)
Title to be announced soon.

April 8, 2024
Verena Ruprecht, Center for genomic regulation, Barcelona (ES)
Title to be announced soon.

May 6, 2024
Gosia Trynka, Open target & Wellcome Sanger institute, Cambridge (UK)
Title to be announced soon.

June 3, 2024
Nick Lane, University College London (UK)
Title to be announced soon.

CIG Seminars Fall 2023 Program

Monday 12:15, Génopode, auditorium B

Monday September 11, 2023
Ben Engel,
University of Basel, CH
«Exploring photosynthesis and carbon fixation across scales with cryo-electron tomography»
Host: Christian Fankhauser

Monday September 25, 2023
Laurent Le Cam,
INSERM, Montpellier, France
«Roles of the p53 pathway in metabolism: implications in aging, tissue homeostasis and carcinogenesis»
Host: Lluis Fajas Coll

Monday October 9, 2023
Melissa Harrison,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
«Pioneering the developmental frontier»
Host: Nadine Vastenhouw

Monday October 16, 2023
Alexis A. Jourdain,
University of Lausanne, Dpt. of Immunology, CH
«Nucleotides and RNA as unconventional energy sources”
Host: David Gatfield

Monday October 23, 2023
Angela Taddei,
Institut Curie, Paris, France
«TBA»
Hosts: PhD Students & Postdocs

Monday October 30, 2023
Félix Naef,
EPFL Lausanne, CH
«Synchronization of circadian and cell cycle oscillators in cells and tissues»
Host: Paul Franken

Monday November 13, 2023
Oded Rechavi,
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
«Molecular memories»
Host: Richard Benton

Monday November 20, 2023
Gunter Meister,
University of Regensburg, Germany
«Mechanisms of m6A- and miRNA-guided gene regulation and their links to cancer progression»
Host: Jean-Yves Roignant

Monday November 27, 2023
Paolo Giacobini,
INSERM, Lille, France
«A spatially resolved single-cell genomic atlas of the human fetal olfactory and neuroendocrine system»
Host: Sophie Croizier

Monday December 11, 2023
Kazuhiro Maeshima,
National Institute of Genetics Yata, Japan
«TBA»
Host: Nadine Vastenhouw

CIG Symposium June 8 & 9 2023: Registration is now open!

Link to the CIG Symposium website

This event focuses on the striking capacity to self-organise that is intrinsic to all living matter. How does such biological order emerge from chaos? Through the 2023 CIG Symposium “Emergence of Order Across Biological Scales” we will explore and discuss the most recent discoveries about how life is structured across scales, from molecules to cells and all the way to organisms and whole populations.

Link to the online registration form 

4 short talks (15mn + 5mn for questions) are scheduled. Speakers will be selected from the pool of submitted abstracts.
!!! to submit an abstract, sign in after registration and upload it by April 30, 2023 !!!

Link to the program

CIG Seminars Spring 2023 Program

Monday 12:15, Génopode, auditorium B

Free entrance

Monday January 9, 2023
Cécile Lebrand,
Publications and Open Research Data Management Support Service at FBM UNIL, Lausanne, CH
«Organize your research data for free of charge Long Term Storage (LTS) at UNIL»
Cécile Lebrand will Inform you on the process of reorganizing and describing your research data in the form of an explanatory documents called “readme file” for long term storage on the DCSR NAS at UNIL. She will also introduce you to new personalized services and a new tool that will be developed in 2023 for helping you to meet the FAIR data sharing principles (Findable, Accessible., Interoperable, Reusable).
References
Lebrand Cécile. (2022, October 17). FAIR Data sharing à la FBM : garantie d’une recherche plus transparente et reproductible. La publication scientifique face aux enjeux de l’ouverture et de la transparence, lausanne, suisse. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7217082

Host: Maria C. Gambetta

Monday January 23, 2023
Anissa Kempf,
University of Basel, CH
«Metabolic control of sleep»
Host: Richard Benton

Monday January 30, 2023
Wouter de Laat,
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, NL
«New insights in gene regulation and chromatin folding by enhancers and cohesin»
Host: Nadine Vastenhouw

Monday February 20, 2023
Peter Becker,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, DE
«Non-canonical function of a long, non-coding RNA involved in chromatin regulation»
Host: Maria C. Gambetta

Monday March 13, 2023
Danny Nedialkova,
MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried, DE
«Regulation of protein biogenesis in eukaryotes»
Host: David Gatfield

Monday March 20, 2023
Yves Barral,
ETHZ, Zurich, CH
«Of sex, memory and aging»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

Monday March 27, 2023
Jolanda van Leeuwen,
University of Lausanne, CIG, CH
«Genetic suppression: The wiring of genetic resilience»
Host: Christian Fankhauser

Monday April 24, 2023
Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu,
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, DE
«Controlling the timing of mammalian development»
Hosts: PhD students & Postdocs

Monday May 8, 2023
Sahand Jamal Rahi,
EPFL, Lausanne, CH
«How genetic and cellular networks make decisions under time pressure»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

Monday May 15, 2023
Maria Hondele,
University of Basel, CH
«DEAD-box ATPases are global regulators of RNA-containing membrane less organelles»
Host: Aleksandar Vjestica

Monday June 5, 2023
Benjamin Matthews,
The University of British Columbia, CA
«Thirsting for blood and hunting for water: Genetics and neurobiology of mosquito behavior»
Host: Richard Benton

Tuesday June 20, 2023 in GEN A at 14:00
Fisun Hamaratoglu,
Cardiff University, UK
«A non-neuronal role for Tau in epithelial homeostasis»
Host: Christian Fankhauser

Symposium “Cardiac RNA-mediated (re)programming” March 9 & 10, 2023

Collaborative symposium of the SNF Sinergia Program “Regenerative strategies for heart disease via targeting the long noncoding transcriptome” and the CVM PhD program FBM-UNIL.

Jeudi 9 mars 2023 – 9h00 au Vendredi 10 mars 2023 – 16h00 – Agora – Paternot Auditorium

Several invited speakers will present latest developments in cardiac biology on March 9 (all day) and the morning of March 10. Main topics covered will be 1) Chromatin Regulation; 2) Transcriptomics analysis; and 3) Non-coding RNAs.

In the afternoon of Mach 10, selected speakers will engage in paper discussion workshops with doctoral students of the Life Science PhD of the FBM-UNIL.

Registration will be free, but mandatory. More information will follow soon.

The event will be accredited by the Direction of veterinary affairs and their inspection (DAVI), section Lausanne.