The 9th Conference of the International PhD Program in Life Sciences is organized by students participating in the International PhD program in Life Sciences 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 conference promotes the communication between different fields of life science and has traditionally been a space for open discussions for participants.

This year, more than a hundred students, their group leaders and four 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.

Thirty-five laboratories spread across all departments of the Section of Biology participate in the International PhD program in Life Sciences.

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, 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