Laboratories |
Thesis Directors |
Subject proposed |
Ecology and Evolution |
Bertelsmeier Cleo (**) |
Ecology and evolution of myrmecomorphy
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Ecology and Evolution |
Chapuisat Michel (*) |
Social evolution in ants - Evolutionary genomics/behaviour: Evolution of a supergene controlling social organization in ants
Behavioural and genetic underpinnings of queen number variation in ants
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Ecology and Evolution |
Goudet Jérôme (*) |
Mining the barn owl genome for traces of selection at different scales
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Ecology and Evolution |
Kawecki Tadeusz (**) |
Adaptation to malnutrition; sexual selection and conflict
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Ecology and Evolution |
Keller Laurent (**) |
Genomics of social behaviour Division of labour in social insects
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Ecology and Evolution |
Pannell John (**) |
Plant evolution: The evolution of monoecy in flowering plants - models and comparative analyses
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Ecology and Evolution |
Robinson-Rechavi Marc (**) |
Evolutionary bioinformatics: Bioinformatics of animal evo-devo, specific subject to determine with the candidate
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Ecology and Evolution |
Roulin Alexandre (*) |
Genomics of colour polymorphism and population genomics.
Navigation ecology in a nocturnal predator.
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Ecology and Evolution |
Sanders Ian (*) |
Effects of the mycorrhizal symbiosis on plant ecology, soil formation and soil carbon storage
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Ecology and Evolution |
Wedekind Claus (*) |
Evolutionary Conservation Biology
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Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
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Puder Jardena (**) |
Gestational diabetes, lifestyle behavior and metabolic health outcomes: Relationships between eating behavior, brain responses to food viewing, and metabolic health outcomes in women with gestational diabetes
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Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism |
Sykiotis Gerasimos (**) |
We have multiple projects on the roles of the Nrf2 antioxidant response in the thyroid gland. As models we use human samples, mice, and conventional and 3D organoid cell cultures.
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Forensic Genetics
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Hall Diana (**) |
The goal of this study is to combine fetal medicine and forensic genetics to characterize pregnancy induced DNA microchimerism and to assess DNA-based markers for non-invasive prenatal paternity testing. Analytical approch will include massive parallel sequencing
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Engel Philipp (**) |
Microbiome research and animal-microbe symbiosis: Metabolic crosstalk between the gut microbiota and the host; Ecology and evolution of the gut microbiota; Wet laba nd bioinformatics; Multi-omics analyses
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Martin Sophie (*) |
Role of Cdc42 GTPase in cell polarization and cell fusion
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Mitri Sara (*) |
The evolution of antibiotic resistance within microbial communities
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Schaerli Yolanda (**) |
Bacterial Synthetic Biology: Several projects are available including: -synthetic (CRISPR-based) circuits for pattern formation -engineered living materials -using synthetic biology to study molecular evolution
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Vonaesch Pascale (**) |
Our work is centered on the role of the microbiota and the gut ecosystem in different forms of malnutrition in order to contribute to the understanding of the syndromes and harness then this knowledge to develop powerful interventions strategies and treatments. We are also more generally interested in the role of the microbiota in the triad linking gut health, infection and nutrition. To this purpose, we perform clinical/translational projects, especially in low-and middle income countries (LMIC) and analyze the underlying molecular mechanisms using in vitro and in vivo models. Further, we work on developing tools to work with the human microbiota as well as microbiota-targeted interventions. The proposed project aims to contribute to this effort by screening for prebiotic substances that allow boosting the growth of given bacterial strains and communities of interest.
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Bagni Claudia (**) |
Regulatory mechanisms orchestrating synapse formation, plasticity, and social behaviours
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Chatton Jean-Yves (**) |
Neuron-astrocyte metabolic interactions in physiological and pathological conditions (Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy): Our lab is investigating the metabolic dialog between neurons and astrocytes in rodent and human brains. We study the signaling that involves metabolites and the mitochondrial function, and develop strategies to alleviate the impact of Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy.
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Puyal Julien (**) |
Role of autophagy in oligodendrocytes in perinatal brain injuries
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Fundamental Oncology |
Gfeller David (*) |
Computational biology for cancer immunology:
- Analysis of single-cell RNA-Seq data - Predictions of neo-antigens
- Analysis of TCR repertoire and TCR specificity
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Fundamental Oncology |
Ho Ping-Chih (*) |
Metabolic guidance on T cell differentiation in anti-viral and anti-tumor responses
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Fundamental Oncology |
Petrova Tatiana (*) |
Immune-vascular cross talk and tumor microenvironment:
Subject 1: Biomechanical control of (lymph)angiogenesis.
Subject 2: Immune-vascular cross-talk in development and tumorigenesis.
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