Program - Speakers

June 11, 2015

9:20

Organizing committee

Welcoming remarks

9:30

Robert N. Eisenman "The Myc transcriptional network controls tumor metabolism and spermatogenesis"

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA

10:10

Ruth Ley "The gene-microbe link"

Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

10:50

Break

11:20

Stewart Cole "Ancient and modern leprosy"

EPFL, CH

12:00

Ana Marques "Expanding lncRNAs' functional repertoires"

University of Lausanne, CH

CIG alumni short talk

12:20

Nicole King "Choanoflagellate colonies, bacterial signals, and animal origins"

University of California Berkeley, USA

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Denis Duboule "Long range gene regulation during development and evolution"

University of Geneve & EPFL, CH

15:10

Valérie Mongrain "Neuroligin-1 contributes to sleep homeostasis"

Universit of Montréal, CA

CIG alumni short talk

15:30

Break

16:00

Gerald M. Rubin "A molecular geneticist’s approach to understanding the fly brain"

Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, USA

16:40

Laurent Keller "The roles of social environment and a social chromosome on behaviour and social organisation"

University of Lausanne, CH

17:20

End

18:00

Carol Greider "Telomeres and human disease: curiosity driven research brings new clinical insight"

John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Grace Lecture

 

June 12, 2015

9:30 Robert H. Waterston "C. elegans embryogenesis: Developing a regulatory map"

University of Washington, Seattle, USA

10:10

Len A. Pennacchio "Genomic views of gene regulation in vivo"

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

10:50

Break

11:20

Susan Gasser "Heterochromatin in development: stabilizing cell fate and the repetitive genome"

Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, CH

12:00

Jérôme Feige "Cross-talk between regeneration and ectopic adipogenesis during aging of skeletal muscle"

Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne, CH

CIG alumni short talk

12:20

Poster Session

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Walter Wahli "PPAR signaling and energy homeostasis"

University of Lausanne, CH & Nanyang Technological University, SG

15:10

Carol Greider "Regulation of the telomere length equilibrium"

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

15:50

Conclusion

16:00

End

 

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