October 10-12, 2012, Kandersteg

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. Ulrich Laemmli, Prof. Howard Riezman, Prof. Aurélien Roux, Prof. Thierry Soldati, Prof. Reika Watanabe
  • Molecular biology

    Prof. Thanos Halazonetis, Prof. Robbie Loewith (Chair of the PhD program), Prof. Jean David Rochaix, Prof. Ueli Schibler, Prof. David Shore, Prof. Stéphane Thore
  • Genetics and Evolution

    Prof. Denis Duboule, Prof. Brigitte Galliot, Prof. François Karch, Prof Michel Milinkovitch, Dr. Juan Montoya, Prof. Jan Pawlowski, Prof. Ivan Rodriguez, Prof. Pierre Spierer
  • Cell biology

    Dr. Sandra Citi, Prof. Angela Krämer, Prof. Jean-Claude Martinou, Prof. Didier Picard, Prof. Katharina Strub, Prof. Françoise Stutz
  • Plant biology

    Prof. Teresa Fitzpatrick, Prof. Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont, Prof. Luis Lopez-Molina, Prof. Jerzy Paszkowski, Prof. Roman Ulm
  • Merck 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