People, Support and Fun

Lab outing to the largest glacier in the Alps: the Grosser Aletschgletscher: September 2018.

Lab members descending to touch the glacier-can you spot them?

Each 18 months or so the lab has a retreat where we invite 2-3 external experts in electrophysiology/long distance signalling (usually one from the animal field).

For this, we go to nice hotels in the mountains for brainstorming and enjoying ourselves. These retreats have become a unique and memorable feature of the lab.

Fast Signal Day 2017

Held at the Grand Hotel, Les Rasses in the Jura mountains on 29 - 30 June 2017.
The theme this time was ‘electrophysiology and mechanosensation’. This was a great meeting but time passed too quickly....

From left to right : A. Kurenda, S. Kellenberger, E. Farmer, J-M. Frachisse, A. Kumari, E. Martinoia, S. Foerster, Q. Wu. Photo taken by N. Foutoui.

Edward E. Farmer Group leader e-mail

The Farmer Group

Postdocs

Yong-Qiang Gao (PhD China Ag. Univ.)  office 5441, tel. 4236 lab 5409, tel. 4230
Andrzej Kurenda (PhD Lublin)   office 5441, tel. 4236 lab 5409, tel. 4230 Andrzej.Kurenda@unil.ch
Chi-Tam Nguyen (PhD Paris),  office 5441, tel. 4236 lab 5406, tel. 4230 ChiTam.Nguyen@unil.ch
Gioia Lenzoni, (PhD Durham Univ.), office 5441, tel. 4236 lab 5406, tel. 4230 gioia.lenzoni@unil.ch
Qian Wu (PhD Peking Univ.), office 5441, tel. 4236 lab 5406, tel. 4230 qian.wu.1@unil.ch

Doctoral students

Tsu-Hao Yang office 5441, tel. 4236 lab 5406, tel. 4230 Tsu-Hao.Yang@unil.ch
Nikou Fotouhi office 5441, tel. 4236 lab 5406, tel. 4230 nikou.fotouhi@unil.ch

Technicians

Stéphanie Stolz office 5441, tel. 4236              lab 5409, tel. 4230                         Stephanie.Stolz@unil.ch
Aurore Chételat office 5441, tel. 4236 lab 5406, tel. 4230 Aurore.Chetelat@unil.ch

Recent Sabbatical Visitors:

2017 - Prof. J. Sanchez-Serrano, Director, Plant Biology, National Centre of Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain
2016 - Prof. R. Ferraz de Oliveira, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil

The group has been and/or is supported by:

The SystemsX.ch Swiss systems biology programme
The Swiss National Science Foundation (FNS)
EMBO
The National Centre of Excellence 'Plant Survival' programme of the FNS
The Leenaard's Foundation
University of Lausanne Genomics grants
The EU Marie Curie Programme
etc.