Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

Today’s department seminar on SnRK1 by Elena Baena Gonzalez from @ox.ac.uk

👏 Congratulations @elevylab.bsky.social for your latest publication in @molsystbiol.org: Mutation-induced filaments of folded proteins are inert and non-toxic in a cellular system @mocel.bsky.social #UNIGE

Our invited speaker for this session is Michel C. Milinkovitch @lanevol.bsky.social from the University of Geneva @biology-unige.bsky.social, who will be presenting his lab’s multidisciplinary research into Patterning: How Reptiles Got Their Looks! #V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo

📰Entretien de @brunostrasser.bsky.social dans le Journal de l'#UNIGE à l'occasion de la parution du livre «The Mask. A History of Breathing Bad Air» dont il est co-auteur : www.unige.ch/lejournal/re... 👉 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Today’s Department seminar by @luciastrader.bsky.social @salkinstitute.bsky.social on auxin transcription factors.

🌟 Postdocs – want to become a PI? Apply for PIs of Tomorrow 2026 at the LS2 Annual Meeting (Feb 11–12, Zurich). Prizes, feedback, and networking: annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2026/special... Deadline: 5 Oct 2025 🔗 form.jotform.com/211792813615... #Career #PIsOfTomorrow #Postdoc

@brunostrasser.bsky.social presents his book "The Mask" written with Thomas Schlich, a book that tells the story till the 1970s. Published by @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social #nocovid #eahmh25

Big congrats Ueli ! Such an amazing mentor, person and scientist

🏅Congratulations to Emeritus Prof. Ueli #Schibler for receiving the #Kappers Medal from the #EBRS: the Society’s highest honor, awarded for outstanding contributions to biological rhythms research @sciencesunige.bsky.social @mocel.bsky.social #UNIGE ebrs-online.org/index.php/abou

#EAHMH25 Fascinating ongoing Lunch Roundtable around Bruno Strasser and Thomas Schlich’s book Making the Medical Mask: a History of Breathing Bad Air

Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Soon at @spirochrome.com Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social

🎉 Nuit des chauves-souris 🦇 📅 29/08 de 18h à 22h 📍 Au Parc des Evaux, à Onex 💰 Tout public, gratuit et par tous les temps ♿ accessible aux personnes à mobilité réduite + d’infos sur evaux.ch Programme ci-dessous 👇

📢 Muséum Genève recrute un Médiateur ou une Médiatrice scientifique à 80% Entrée en fonction: à convenir Délai de postulation: 12.09.25 👉 + d'infos: www.geneve.ch/administrati...

📻Interview de @mathiascurrat.bsky.social, "chasseur-cueilleur d'informations scientifiques" de @genevunige.bsky.social pour #CQFD de la #RTS Néolithique: lʹagriculture s'impose en douceur rts.ch/audio-podcas... #UNIGE

Congratulations Ivan Rodriguez and Alan Carleton's groups @carleton-lab.bsky.social for your latest publication in Nature Communications: A spatial single-cell atlas of the claustro-insular region uncovers key regulators of neuronal identity and excitability rdcu.be/eCe09 @genevunige.bsky.social

Congratulations @elevylab.bsky.social and collaborators for your latest publication in Cell 👏 and welcome to BlueSky 🦋@mocel.bsky.social‬ @sciencesunige.bsky.social

Congratulations @mathiascurrat.bsky.social's group for your latest publication in #ScienceAdvances: Local increases in admixture with hunter-gatherers followed the initial expansion of #Neolithic farmers across continental Europe @genevunige.bsky.social 👉 Full text: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

💻 Webinar on challenges and opportunities for #active #matter in biology with the participation of Prof. Guillaume Salbreux in Cell Press bigmarker.com/cellpress-so... @genevunige.bsky.social

🏅Congratulations on your International Society for Regenerative Biology (#ISRB) Distinguished Achievement Award @bgalliot.bsky.social 👏 @genevunige.bsky.social #hydra #Regeneration

Congratulations Emeritus Prof. #Martinou from @mocel.bsky.social and collaborators for your latest publication in #Nature #Metabolism 👏 rdcu.be/eASgF 👉 Check #UNIGE press release: www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...

Shanghai Ranking 2025. ETH #22, EPFL #44. First🇨🇭university UNIGE #58 👏 Outstanding when reported to the small population size. Knowledge and Technology are the only future for🇨🇭, which could become a world role model for a transition towards ecological sustainability.

Join us in person or online for the 24th edition of the Gene Regulation Workshop at Uni Lausanne on Sept 1st, with an again fantastic group of speakers 🥳 Edouard Bertrand Antonio Giraldez Phillip Grote @phillipgrote.bsky.social Susan Mango Danny Nedialkova Lucia Strader @luciastrader.bsky.social‬

Lab’s 2nd story aired today! Fantastic @ac-almeida.bsky.social cracks the cellular function of tubulin autoregulation - an over four decades old enigma! Read on to learn how she deployed human 3D cell culture models to link tubulin homeostasis to tissue organization & viability. Bravo Ana! 👏🏻🍾

Congratulations @centriolelab.bsky.social for your latest publication 👏

Discover the secret of #tortoise head scales! The latest @lanevol.bsky.social study reveals how two distinct systems - chemical reaction-diffusion and mechanical folding - shape their unique features. More about this story: lanevol.org/news/article... @biology-unige.bsky.social

Our book is out! The surprising history of masks worn by plague doctors, factory workers, trench soldier, hospital nurses, and the rest of us. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.socuial

🐢 The tortoise head is sculpted by physics and genes! Our new research shows that tortoise head scales form through two distinct processes: 👉 Chemical signaling shapes the sides 👉 Mechanical stress folds the top 🔗 cell.com/iscience/ful... @cellpress.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint! Using U-ExM + in situ cryo-ET, we show how C2CD3 builds an in-to-out radial architecture connecting the distal centriole lumen to its appendages. Great collab with @cellarchlab.com @chgenoud.bsky.social @stearnslab.bsky.social 🙌. #TeamTomo #UExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📻Interview du Prof. Milinkovitch @lanevol.bsky.social pour la #RTS : Les écailles de tortue se forment de deux façons www.rts.ch/audio-podcas... @genevunige.bsky.social

#Evolution told by #Turtle #Scales 🐢 Congratulations @lanevol.bsky.social for your latest publication in @cp-iscience.bsky.social 👉 Full text: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @genevunige.bsky.social

This is the skull of a tortoise embryo imaged with light sheet microscopy. Check out our new article in @cp-iscience.bsky.social to learn how both chemical signalling and mechanical forces sculpt their intricate head scales 🐢🔬🧪 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Congratulations @lanevol.bsky.social for your latest publication in @cp-iscience.bsky.social : Chemical and mechanical #patterning of #tortoise skin scales occur in different regions of the head 🐢

🚀 Exciting news! Prof. Emi Nagoshi joins Azure Cell Therapies as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board. The startup, developing next-gen cell therapies for Parkinson’s, just received a CHF 650K Innosuisse grant! youtu.be/6XQ_b6DYkZA #Parkinsons #Biotech #UNIGE

Share with your network, group members, colleagues & friends. We are extending the deadline till the 10th of June. This is your last chance of joining us this summer. #Science #ProtistsOnSky #Cell #Biology #Microscopy

Congratulations #Salbreux's lab for your latest publication in @natphys.nature.com

New episode (1097), my second interview with Dr. Kostas Kampourakis (@kampourakisk.bsky.social). We talk about his book, Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods. #Biology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/LP5JxFryDKc Podcast: bit.ly/3S5zllS

Check out our new preprint where we explore natural variation, leading to the identification of SUBER GENE1, a novel regulator of suberization. Excited to share the first manuscript from a project I conceptualized 10 years ago!

📍I-PUB - Bd Carl-Vogt 20, Geneva 🗓Tuesday, May 20 – 6.30PM 🇬🇧 🔬 Seeing the invisible 🎟️FREE ENTRY ➡️https://pintofscience.ch/event/seeing-the-invisible-from-organelles-to-atoms @pintsworld.bsky.social #unigeneve #Pint25 #pintCH @centriolelab.bsky.social

Can Turing and Ising models explain lizard skin color patterns—and be reconciled? 🦎📐 We bridge microscopic cell interactions & macroscopic scale patterns across evolutionary divergent lizards. 👉 www.lanevol.org/news/article... #EvoDevo #TuringPatterns #IsingModel #MathematicalBiology

🚨 Last week to submit abstracts for talks & posters! Show your research, win prizes & enjoy surprises 🎉 Register here: ‘’ shorturl.at/eOmJt ‘’

The lab is on a roll. 2nd preprint in as many weeks! High levels of Cdc42 GTPase underlie an all-or-none decision to fuse. Great team effort led by PhD students @sajjitasaha.bsky.social and @aiswaryasajeevan.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @biology-unige.bsky.social

📢 Exciting PhD opportunity in @genevunige.bsky.social 🐝 #PhDPosition #Biology #ResearchOpportunity

Congratulations @sandraciti.bsky.social for your latest publication: The knock-out of paracingulin attenuates #hypertension through modulation of kidney ion transport www.unige.ch/medias/en/20... @mocel.bsky.social

New lab preprint! High resolution mapping of the actin fusion focus reveals myosin V-dependent transport of formin for actin aster compaction. A very cool work led by @valthomas.bsky.social and nice collaboration with Andrea Picco and @kaksonen.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...