[Meeting] Annual Conference 2025

Programme

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1st October 2025

 

 

9—9:25 am Welcome coffee, croissants and registration
9:25—9:30 Intro Tim Frayling and Alessandro de Simone
9:30—10:50


Early career researcher postdoctoral prize

Fabrice Darbellay
Mapping Chondrogenic enhancers reveals a role in human height genetics

Pascale Gerbault
Genomic analyses and statistical modelling reveal contrasted patterns of nucleotide diversity along three MHC immune genes, that are conserved in bonobos, chimpanzees and humans

Hajar Ahanidi
From Gene Signatures to Spatial Networks: Unraveling Drivers of Bladder Cancer
Progression


Mehdi Badaoui
Cx43 post-transcriptional stabilization disrupts polarity and integrity of the cystic fibrosis airway epithelium

10:50—11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30—12:15


First KEYNOTE speaker

Ashley Maynard
Maynard Lab – Regeneration and Neurogenomics ‐ EPFL
Exploring Neural Regeneration and Development with Single-Cell Genomics

12:15—13:45 LUNCH BREAK and networking
13:45—15:00


PhD awards

Introduction by Dominique Soldati-Favre

Mr. Christophe Buser, UNIGE Sciences
How seeds know when to germinate : the role of DOG1 in seed dormancy

Mr. Wei Liu, UNIGE Medicine
Exploring Viral Taxonomy and Evolution Through Genomic Data Using Deep Learning

Ms. Deepti Rawat, UNIGE Medicine
Inside-Out: Mechanisms of Enterococcus faecalis intracellular persistence

Ms. Aiswarya Sajeevan, UNIGE Sciences
The role of Cdc42 in fission yeast cell-cell fusion

Ms. Grishma Girish Kulkarni, UNIGE Medicine
Immune-driven modulation of antibiotic sensitivity in Klebsiella pneumoniae

15:00—15:45 COFFEE BREAK
15:45—16:30


Second KEYNOTE speaker

Tune Pers
Central Regulation of Metabolism in the Pers Group – University of Copenhagen
Using Genetics to Decode Brain Regulation of Energy Balance

16:30 Cocktails and networking

 

 

Registration (closed)

 

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