Laboratories |
Thesis Directors |
Subject proposed |
Dermatology and Venereology |
Curdin Conrad (*) |
Dysregulation of immune pathways during targeted treatments of autoimmune diseases
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Dermatology and Venereology |
Kuonen François (*) |
Using high-throughput sequencing and computational modelling, we attempt to identify the transcriptionactors/ epigenetic regulators of non-melanoma skin cancers.
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Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging |
Omoumi Patrick (*) |
Multiparametric imaging of joint disease
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Ecology and Evolution |
Chapuisat Michel (*) |
Origin and evolution of a supergene controlling ant social organization
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Ecology and Evolution |
Christe Philippe (*) |
Collaborative project with Prof. Antoine Guisan and Dr Fridolin Zimmermann (Coordinator of the large carnivore monitoring in Switzerland, Kora) |
Ecology and Evolution |
Guisan Antoine (*) |
Assessing the spatial spread and potential impact of alien invasive species on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
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Ecology and Evolution |
Keller Laurent (**) |
Network of interactions in ants
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Ecology and Evolution |
Pannell John (**) |
Evolution of plan sexual systems |
Ecology and Evolution |
Robinson-Rechavi Marc (*) |
The evolution of function in organs and genes in light of expression patterns |
Ecology and Evolution |
Roulin Alexandre (*) |
Habitat selection and foraging strategies in the barn owl |
Ecology and Evolution |
Sanders Ian (*) |
Effects of variation in symbiotic microorganisms on plant growth
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Ecology and Evolution |
Ulrich Yuko (**) |
Experimental Epidemiology in Ant Societies (currently under review for ERC St and Eccellenza grants; outcome will be known in August and November, respectively)
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Ecology and Evolution |
Waterhouse Robert (*) |
How do we best exploit genomics data to reach new levels of depth and detail in our understanding of biology?
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Ecology and Evolution |
Wedekind Claus (*) |
Evolutionary Conservation Biology
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Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism |
Sykiotis Gerasimos (**) |
Roles of Keap1/Nrf2 signaling in thyroglobulin regulation: impact on goiter and thyroid carcinoma.
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Epidemiology and health systems |
Bochud Murielle (**) |
To explore the link between objective nutrition biomarkers (blood or urine measurements) with genetic variants and cardiometabolic phenotypes in the general Swiss adult population.
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Epidemiology and health systems |
Pittet Valérie (*) |
Machine learning approaches to help stratification and decision making in IBD
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Collier Close Justine (") |
Epigenetic control of the bacterial cell cycle
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Engel Philipp (*) |
Flexible; Area 1: Crosstalk between the human lung microbiota and the host immune system. Area 2: Ecology and evolution of the gut microbiota of social bees.
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Gruber Stephan (*) |
The interplay of two highly conserved systems (ParABS and SMC) in chromosome segregation and cellular regulation in bacteria.
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Keel Christoph (**) |
Plant disease and pest control by beneficial soil bacteria: molecular and ecological mechanisms
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Martin Sophie (*) |
How cells detect and orient cell polarization along gradients of chemo-attractants
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Schaerli Yolanda (*) |
A synthetic morphology toolbox for engineering bacterial self-organising populations
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Veening Jan-Willem (**) |
Systems and synthetic biology in the opportunistic human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Bagni Claudia (*) |
Developmental Neuroscience and Disease
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Bezzi Paola (*) |
The PhD student will use Cre-Lox recombination, in vivo microdialysis, FACS sorting, in-utero and ex-utero electroporation, transcriptome sequencing, cell biology and imaging approaches and analysis (EM, TIRF and confocal). Parts of the project will involve the study of behavioral and cognitive phenotypes of transgenic mice models.
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Chatton Jean-Yves (**) |
Lactate as a novel neuromodulator in several brain regions: role for neuronal circuit modulation and behavior and its implications for the pathology of epilepsy.
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Fasshauer Dirk (**) |
Molecular mechanism of neuronal secretion
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Puyal Julien (**) |
Autophagy, cell death and neuroprotection against perinatal brain injuries
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Regazzi Romano (**) |
Involvement of different classes of non-coding RNAs in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes development
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Fundamental Oncology |
Gfeller David (**) |
Analysis of single-cell RNA-Seq data in tumor immunology
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Fundamental Oncology |
Ho Ping-Chih (*) |
Metabolic reinvigorating exhausted T cells for effective cancer immunotherapy
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Fundamental Oncology |
Petrova Tatiana (*) |
1. Mechanisms of resistance to immune and chemotherapies in colorectal cancer
2. Organ- and cancer-specific functions of vessels
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