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3rd iGE3 PhD Salary Awards - The final selection

Posted on October 15, 2015

We are proud to announce and congratulate the winners of the iGE3 PhD salary awards 2015 !

At the end of this 3rd round of selection, 7 PhD awards could be given to graduate students working in the laboratories of iGE3 faculty members for the quality of their application.

The winners are:

Madlaina Boillat - Ivan Rodriguez Group, Faculty of Science
Augustinus Galih - Howard Riezman Group, Faculty of Science
Margot Riggi - Robbie Loewith Group, Faculty of Science
Carlos Rivera-Rivera - Montoya-Burgos Group, Faculty of Science
Felipe Simao Neto - Evgeny Zdobnov Group, Faculty of Medicine
Asier Ullate Agote - Michel Milinkovitch Group, Faculty of Science
Ludovica Vanzan - Rabih Murr Group, Faculty of Medicine

The awardees have presented their project during the 4th iGE3 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 2017, at the Campus Biotech in Geneva.

4th Annual Meeting of iGE3

Posted on October 07, 2015

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 • 10 AM - 6 PM
Campus Biotech - Auditorium
Geneva

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.

Program, registration:

Meeting 2015 website

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Event ID: meeting_2015
New registration deadline: Friday, November 6, 2015 – Afternoon

Organization:

Robbie Loewith and Serge Nef

iGE3 seminar - Stanislas Lyonnet

Posted on August 26, 2015

Non-coding genomic alterations in human development anomalies

Stanislas Lyonnet, Professor
Imagine Institute & University Paris Descartes
& Department of Medical Genetics
at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades
Paris, France

Thursday, September 24, 2015 – 14 h 15
CMU – Auditorium C150

Host: Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Information: Nema Bliggenstorfer (disabled)

Stanislas Lyonnet is Professor of Genetics at Paris Descartes University since 1995, and a clinical geneticist at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades. As the principal investigator of an INSERM group (Genetics and embryology of malformations), founding member of the Imagine Institute, he has conducted several studies aiming to localize and identify the genes involved in inborn errors of development. He is the author or co-author of 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

He is responsible for the European Master of Genetics (Paris Descartes-Paris Diderot), and served as a member of the INSERM Scientific Advisory Board. He was responsible for launching the Rare Diseases Research Program of the French National Agency for Research (ANR). He is a section editor of the European Journal of Human Genetics, and a member of the editorial board of Human Molecular Genetics.

Stanislas Lyonnet was awarded the Jean Hamburger prize in 2006, the INSERM Research Prize in 2009, and the Collery Prize (National Academy of Medicine) in 2012. He was elected President of the European Society of Human Genetics in 2013.

Poster of the seminar

Lyonnet group web pages

3rd iGE3 PhD Salary Awards

Posted on July 13, 2015

For graduate students working in the laboratories of iGE3 faculty members

We are happy to announce the 3rd round of the iGE3 PhD Salary Awards. Similar to the first two years, these stipends will be given competitively to graduate students working in the laboratories of iGE3 members, for projects with a strong genetics or genomics component.

The graduate students have to be in the 2nd or 3rd year of their studies, and the salary awards will be provided for 2 years, non-renewable. The final selection will be made by an external (non-UNIGE) advisory board. The stipends should be acknowledged in publications as iGE3 PhD Student Awards.

Please note:

up to 7 PhD awards could be given in this 3rd round of the doctoral training support;
one application per laboratory will be accepted per call;
students from laboratories with awardees from last year are not eligible, i.e. lab of Antonarakis, Dermitzakis, Nef and Schalch;
the announcement of the final selection will be made by Monday, October 12, 2015;
the successful applicants will present their project at the 4th iGE3 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 2015;
the contracts will start on Tuesday, December 1, 2015.

The application must be completed online. Please follow this address.

PhD Awards website

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Application deadline: Sunday, September 6, 2015

Further information: Nema.Bliggenstorfer@unige.ch (disabled)

The iGE3 Executive Board (S.E. Antonarakis, E.T. Dermitzakis, D. Duboule, D. Picard, W. Reith)

! Registration is closed !

Announcement

Education section of this website

iGE3 seminar - Detlef Weigel

Posted on November 20, 2014

Origin and consequences of (epi)genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana and relatives

Detlef Weigel, PhD
Director of the Molecular Biology Department
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Tübingen, Germany

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 – 16 h 15
Sciences II – Auditorium A100

Host: Luis Lopez-Molina

Detlef Weigel's biography

Dr Detlef Weigel is a world-renowned plant biologist and currently director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen.

Working with the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana, Dr Weigel has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the onset of flowering, but also flower development itself, notably with the discovery of the flower regulator LEAFY and the flower inducer FT. Furthermore, Dr Weigel demonstrated the importance of microRNAs for plant development notably by isolating the first microRNA mutant in Arabidopsis.

More recently, Dr Weigel has pioneered the use of massively parallel sequencing (Illumina) to study genetic variation in the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana and to address more general plant evolution issues. Dr Weigel's group built the first haplotype map outside mammals and generated comprehensive whole-genome databases for numerous Arabidopsis accessions (e.g. the 1001 Genomes project). This notably allowed the research community to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS). More recently, Dr Weigel's group has become interested in how epistatic interactions lead to plant autoimmune responses (hybrid necrosis).

Poster of the seminar

Weigel group website

2nd iGE3 PhD Salary Awards - The final selection

Posted on November 06, 2014

We are proud to announce and congratulate the winners of the iGE3 PhD salary awards 2014 !

At the end of this 2nd round of selection, 4 PhD awards could be given to graduate students working in the laboratories of iGE3 faculty members for the quality of their application.

The winners are:

Babatunde Ekundayo – Thomas Schalch Group, Faculty of Science
Marco Garieri – Stylianos Antonarakis Group, Faculty of Medicine
Nikolaos Panousis – Emmanouil Dermitzakis Group, Faculty of Medicine
Isabelle Stévant – Serge Nef Group, Faculty of Medicine

The awardees have presented their project during the 3rd iGE3 Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 13, 2014, at the Louis-Jeantet Foundation in Geneva.

Students 2014 page

Details of this 2nd call