Category Archives: Seminars & Workshops

Graduate Campus Courses

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Develop your skills and contribute to the “savoir vivant”

Graduate Campus (https://courses.unil.ch/graduatecampus) offers a number of workshops specifically designed for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers and supervisors from all faculties (UNIL, CHUV and Unisanté). These workshops are free of charge.

You can register for our workshops in the following four modules:

  • Thesis from A to Z: Where to find the tools to get your PhD off to a good start, get support along the way, and to prepare your thesis defense.
  • Strengthen your skills: Develop your transferable skills, increase your confidence, and enhance your practice.
  • Develop your career: What comes next? Come to a Career Café to talk about it. The Graduate Campus organises a range of workshops to help doctoral candidates and postdocs take their next career steps.
  • Supervision: Workshops for professors and senior researchers to acquire tools and share best practices in the supervision of early career researchers.

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 Seminars Fall 2024 program

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Monday 12:15, Génopode, auditorium B

Monday September 23, 2024
Chloé Zubieta,
CNRS, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, Grenoble (FRA)
«Getting in phase- ELF3 phase transitions as a molecular mechanism of temperature sensing in Arabidopsis»
Host: Christian Fankhauser

Monday September 30, 2024
Alvaro Rada Iglesias,
University of Cantabria, Santander (ESP)
«Insulation of developmental loci: CTCF can not do it all»
Hosts: PhD Students and Postdocs

Monday October 7, 2024
Seminar on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Host: Frédéric Preitner

Monday October 28, 2024
Daan Noordermeer,
Université Paris-Saclay, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Gif-sur-Yvette (FRA)
«Decrypting genomic insulators in mammalian cells: control of inter-TAD loops through distinctly different mechanisms»
Hosts: Maria C. Gambetta & Nadine Vastenhouw

Monday November 11, 2024
Kiran Padmanabhan,
ENS Lyon (FRA)
«A clockless state: impact on chromatin and transcriptome landscapes»
Host: Paul Franken

Monday November 18, 2024
Annika Nichols,
University of Basel, Biozentrum (CH)
«Behavioural diversity in fish and worms»
Host: Richard Benton

Thursday November 21, 2024 – CIG/DBMV seminar
Liam Dolan,
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna (AUT)
«Light-modulated polarity development in Marchantia»
Host: Christian Fankhauser

Monday November 25, 2024
Antoine Peters,
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel (CH)
«Mechanisms of intergenerational epigenetic inheritance driving mouse embryonic development»
Host: Nadine Vastenhouw

Monday December 9, 2024
Tsutomu Suzuki,
University of Tokyo (Japan)
«Expanding world of tRNA modifications in health and disease»
Host: Jean-Yves Roignant

Monday December 16, 2024
Sophie Caron,
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA)
«The ecological mind: making sense of the world with a tiny brain»
Host: Richard Benton