🪰 Join us at the Swiss Drosophila Meeting on June 29 at the University of Geneva!
🌟 Connect with peers and explore exciting research.
Don’t miss out! 👉 swiss-drosophila-meeting.unige.ch #Drosophila #ScienceEvent
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✨ New postdoctoral opportunity in #cell biology at UNIGE!
@sophiemartinlab.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to study cell–cell fusion.
Spread the word and see details below 👇@mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.socia
🔬 from our February issue shows live imaging of fission yeast mating cells where the P-cell is labeled with the myosin V Myo52-mScarlet-I and the formin Fus1-sfGFP, and the M-cell is labeled with Myo52-mTagBFP2 and a cytosolic mRaspberry.
From @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1083/jcb....
New online: Structure and function of the yeast amino acid-sensing SEAC–EGOC supercomplex
Congratulations R. Loewith'Lab for your latest publication in @natsmb.nature.com: Structure and function of the yeast amino acid-sensing SEAC–EGOC supercomplex @mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social Illustration: @analudelsolart.bsky.social
👉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-026-01746-2
Lionel Cavin, scientifique au Muséum Genève. Crédit photo: Joëlle Salomon Cavin, Emaney, 2025.
Dans son livre Les rebondissements du vivant, Lionel Cavin, paléontologue et responsable du département des sciences de la Terre au Muséum Genève, raconte les grandes extinctions de la biodiversité, mais aussi comment elle a rebondi.
Son interview sur le sujet est à retrouver sur Heidi news.
The image illustrates a principle by which homomers can be polymerized by mutations or by multivalent small molecules.
In 2017 we showed that homomers evolve on the edge of supramolecular self-assembly. Here we show how to exploit this vulnerability so that ALL homomers can become bona fide drug-🎯. Delighted that Aim 3 of our @erc.europa.eu finally polymerized! Manuscript: 👉 rdcu.be/e27bT
New preprint out! Zhoubo Hu et al "A redox-regulated RCC1-like protein controls catalase activity in Arabidopsis". We identify CAIR1, a UVR8-interacting protein, as a redox-responsive regulator of catalase localization and activity, maintaining cellular ROS balance. 🌱
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Very excited about this new preprint, in which @juliacoronasserna.bsky.social shows how cells ensure that fusion with another cell is irreversible!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Don’t miss the call deadline! The 25th European Conference on #Computational #Biology will take place in Geneva (Aug 31–Sept 4), organized by @sib.swiss ! @mocel.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
3D reconstruction of an ATTR-F64S amyloid fibril extracted from skin tissue of a living patient. © UNIGE
Andreas #Boland's group and collaborators diagnosed a rare genetic disease (ATTR) using a simple skin biopsy. This work paves the way for new diagnostic methods for degenerative diseases. @mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...
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🌋Les volcans, bouillonnants et imprévisibles
Cette conférence bouillonnante vous fera dévaler les pentes avec les coulées de lave, et vous plongera dans le ventre mystérieux des volcans pour découvrir ce qu’il s’y cache!
📆 25/01 de 14h à 14h45
📍Musée d'histoire des sciences
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📢 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is happy to announce the 2026 #LouisJeantetPrizes, awarded to YASMINE BELKAID @pasteur.fr and to FIONA DOETSCH @doetschlab.bsky.social hlab.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
👉 jeantet.ch/en
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New preprint from the lab 🎉: γ-tubulin is a novel target of the tubulin autoregulation pathway! Previously thought to exclusively target α- and β-tubulin mRNAs, we show that the TTC5–SCAPER–CNOT11 axis also degrades γ-tubulin mRNA, expanding the scope of this fundamental regulatory mechanism.
Our research on reptile pigmentation is featured on the cover of Genetics 🧬🦎
We uncover how mutations in TYR, SLC24A5, and OCA2 shape hypomelanism in snakes & geckos, revealing modular and flexible melanogenesis.
🔗 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
JOB ALERT: Operations Director (DCI–Lausanne).
The DCI, a joint initiative of EPFL, UNIL, UNIGE and UNIBE, is recruiting an Operations Director to lead the cryo-EM facility in Lausanne.
📩 Questions: CEO of the DCI: @chgenoud.bsky.social
🔗 Apply here: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
Christmas party 🎄- The lab went full senior mode (and won the best costume). You all rock 😄 !!!!!! (If you’re wondering where the youth went… check who’s been quietly draining the lab’s energy 😈)
Congratulations @centriolelab.bsky.social and collaborators! 👏 @mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
A big thank you to Pascal Crétard and the Société Genevoise d’Apiculture for inviting me to give a talk about our research, and for all the support during our first experimental season with bees 🐝💛
@mbcapitao.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD today. Congratulations!
Sad to miss this year’s ASCB meeting! But the lab is represented - don’t t miss @ac-almeida.bsky.social and her poster P0101. She will take you into the world of tubulin quantity control, microtubule dynamics, cell and tissue architecture.
Want to attend meetings & present your work?
LS2 & SCNAT are offering PhD Travel Grants (up to CHF 1400) for conferences between Mar-Sep 2026!
You must present (poster or talk) + be an LS2 member.
🗓️ Apply by March 1, 2026: www.ls2.ch/funding/trav...
#TravelGrant #Conference #PhD
Congratulations @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social and collaborators from @kaksonen.bsky.social for your latest publication in @jcb.org 👏 @mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
Interested in applying U-ExM to cells, tissues, organoids, or cryo-sections? Our EMBO workshop is open for applications!
🧫🔬 Deadline: 12 Jan 2026 — don’t miss it!
We are deeply saddened to share the passing of Amos Bairoch, pioneer of bioinformatics and co-founder of SIB. His lifelong commitment for high-quality, open data transformed global research. We honour his legacy by continuing to build the future of bioinformatics.
Our latest collaboration with Fiedler lab @fmp-berlin.de and Panse labs UZH out on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social. Using bead-adsorbed, non-hydrolyzable inositol pyrophosphate (PP-InsP) analogs, we isolated many putative PP-InsP-binding proteins from Arabidopsis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)
Bravo aux professeur-es de biologie qui sont venu-es manipuler des Hydres au Collège de Morges le samedi 22 novembre. Merci à Alba Hendier de la Commission Romande de Biologie www.crbiol.ch/cours/cours-... d'avoir organisé cette formation @genevunige.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social #UNIGEnews
Congratulations @desimonelab.bsky.social's group on your first pre-print: Transcriptional feedback of Erk signaling waves in #zebrafish scale #regeneration 👏 @genevunige.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
