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CIG Symposium 2010

Sensing the environment

Lausanne, June 16 and 17

June 16, 2010, Morning                             Chair: Nouria Hernandez

9:00-9:10

CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Welcoming remarks

9:10-9:50

Detlev Arendt

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Sun, moon and larval settlement: sensory systems controlling the marine life cycle

9:50-10:30

George Coupland

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Flowering of Arabidopsis in response to seasonal changes in day length

10:30-11:00

Coffee break + Poster installation

11:00-11:40

Russell Foster

University of Oxford, UK

The light regulation of rhythmic biology

11:40-12:00

Selected talk from the submitted abstracts

Matthias Heinemann

ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland

Bacterial adaptation through distributed sensing of metabolic fluxes

12:00-12:40

Claude Desplan

New York University, USA

Color vision in Drosophila

12:40-13:30

Buffet Lunch

13:30-14:30

POSTER SESSION

June 16, 2010, Afternoon                   Chair: Christian Fankhauser

14:30-15:10

Marie-Christine Broillet

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Danger detection in mice

15:10-15:30

Selected talk from the submitted abstracts

Vincent Croset

CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Chemosensory iGluRs: an ancient protostome-specific

mechanism for tasting and smelling

15:30-16:10

Consuelo De Moraes

Penn State University, USA

Chemical ecology of host-parasite interactions

16:10-16:40

Coffee break

16:40-17:20

Ivan Rodriguez

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Mammalian olfactory chemosensors: from genes to behavior

17:20-18:00

Leslie Vosshall

Rockefeller University, USA

Blood lust: the control of mosquito host-seeking behavior

18:00-19:00

Apéro & POSTER SESSION


 

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CIG Symposium 2010

Sensing the environment

Lausanne, June 16 and 17

June 17, 2010                                                   Chair: Richard Benton

9:00-9:40

Steven Reppert

University of Massachusetts, USA

Navigational mechanisms of migrating Monarch butterflies

9:40-10:00

Selected talk from the submitted abstracts

Friederike Brüssow

DMBV, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Insect eggs suppress plant defense against chewing herbivores

10:00-10:40

Caroline Dean

John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

Sensing the prolonged cold of winter

10:40-11:10

Coffee break + POSTERS

11:10-11:50

Christine Petit

Collège de France, Institut Pasteur, France

From deafness genes to sound processing by the hair bundle

11:50-12:10

Selected talk from the submitted abstracts

Presentation of the 2010 Guénin Prize :

Dr Nicolas Leuenberger

CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Sex and Clock to Discover New PPARalpha Functions

12:10-12:50

Martin Chalfie

Columbia University, USA

Mechanosensory transduction in C. elegans

12:50-13:00

Closing remarks