8th Conference
of the International PhD Program
in Life Sciences

January 18-20, 2016, Leysin

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 36 group leaders and 3 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.

33 Laboratories spreading across all departments of the section of biology participate in the program.

Participating Laboratories

  • Biochemistry

    Jean Gruenberg, Marcos González-Gaitán, Marko Kaksonen, Howard Riezman, Aurélien Roux (Chair of the PhD program), Thierry Soldati
  • Cell biology

    Sandra Citi, Paul Guichard, Jean-Claude Martinou, Didier Picard, Françoise Stutz
  • Genetics and Evolution

    Denis Duboule, Brigitte Galliot, François Karch, Michel Milinkovitch, Juan Montoya, Jan Pawlowski, Ivan Rodriguez, Emi Nagoshi (Chair of the PhD program)
  • Molecular biology

    Thanos Halazonetis, Robbie Loewith, Jean-Marc Matter, Ramesh Pillai, Thomas Schalch, Ueli Schibler, David Shore, Florian Steiner
  • Plant biology

    Teresa Fitzpatrick, Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont, Michael Hothorn, Luis Lopez-Molina, Xavier Perret, Roman Ulm
  • Organic chemistry

    Alexander Adibekian
  • NovImmune

    Amanda Proudfoot, Nicolas Fisher