Informations
The International PhD conference is organized by students participating in the life science PhD program of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva. The program offers an outstanding research environment for studies in the biomedical and life sciences. All students in the program take part in a common curriculum creating a team spirit and facilitating exchange of ideas and experiences. The annual PhD conferences promotes the communication between different fields of life science and has traditionally been a space for open discussions between students, professors, and partners.
This year, more than a hundred students, about 32 group leaders and 2 internationally recognized invited researchers will meet at the conference. About one researcher per group will give a talk while other participants will present their results in one of the two poster sessions.
32 Laboratories spreading across all departments of the section of biology participate in the program.
Participating laboratories
Biochemistry
Prof. Jean Gruenberg, Prof. Marcos González-Gaitán, Prof. Howard Riezman, Prof. Ulrich Laemmli, Prof. Reika Watanabe, Dr. Thierry Soldati, Prof. Aurélien RouxMolecular biology
Prof. Ueli Schibler, Prof. David Shore, Prof. Thanos Halazonetis, Prof. Jean David Rochaix, Prof. Robbie Loewith (Chair of the PhD program), Prof. Stéphane Thore, Dr. Sandra CitiGenetics and Evolution
Prof. Denis Duboule, Prof. Pierre Spierer, Prof Michel Milinkovitch, Prof. Ivan Rodriguez, Prof. François Karch, Prof. Brigitte Galliot, Prof. Jan Pawlowski, Dr. Juan Montoya
Cell biology
Prof. Angela Krämer, Prof. Didier Picard, Prof. Jean-Claude Martinou, Dr. Françoise Stutz, Dr. Katharina StrubPlant biology
Prof. Teresa Fitzpatrick, Prof. Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont, Prof. Luis Lopez-Molina, Prof. Jerzy Paszkowski, Prof. Roman UlmMerck Serono
is also a host laboratory with students in the departments of Immunology, Neurobiology, Cell based screening technologies, Protein Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Drug discovery informatics, Pharmaogenomics and biomarkers, and In vivo pharmacology