CIG Seminars Spring 2026 Program

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 cancelled
Karla Neugebauer,
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven (USA)
«TBC»
Host: Nadine Vastenhouw