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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE)
@genevunige.bsky.social
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Department of Genetics & Evolution at University of Geneva
https://genev.unige.ch/

Our Research topics cover a large variety of topics, such as developmental genetics and neurogenetics, regeneration, evo-devo, physics of biology or phylogenetics.
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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Nov 22
Are you interested in #genetics, physics of #biology, development or #evolution? Take a look at our video and join our great pool of international researchers! 🙌 youtu.be/15DPThBF0uo genev.unige.ch
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Congratulations @desimonelab.bsky.social's group on your first pre-print: Transcriptional feedback of Erk signaling waves in #zebrafish scale #regeneration 👏 @genevunige.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
desimonelab.bsky.social Alessandro De Simone @desimonelab.bsky.social · 3d
The lab’s first pre-print! We investigated how growth-inducing Erk activity waves are regulated in regenerating zebrafish scales. We discovered that Erk waves are followed by waves of expression of their own inhibitors, as predicted by excitable waves theory. tinyurl.com/26r2cmpj
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
genevunige.bsky.social
Découvrez la conférence passionnante de Karl Perron (Section de Biologie, UNIGE) — « Résistance aux antibiotiques : quand les métaux s’en mêlent » — jeudi 27 nov. 2025, 18h30, INGE (Genève). Entrée libre, inscription ➜ inge.ch/evenements/r... #Santé #Recherche #UNIGE #Biologie
Résistance aux antibiotiques : quand les métaux s’en mêlent - INGE
La résistance aux antibiotiques est une menace majeure pour la santé publique. Si leur usage excessif est en partie en cause, d’autres facteurs, moins connus, pourraient aussi favoriser l’émergence de...
inge.ch
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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centriolelab.bsky.social
In French - Virginie on Swiss radio! 🎙️ She talks about our latest collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social #UExM #ProtistsOnSky
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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denisduboule.bsky.social
Vertebrate Genome Evolution. Annual Symposium of the @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social Foundation in Geneva. Free access on site and on line. Great speakers for a super interesting topic. #SvantePaabo #HenrikKaessmann organisers 🙏 See you there! @biology-unige.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
genevunige.bsky.social
A new collaborative research (UNIGE, EPFL, Collège de France) from @denisduboule.bsky.social & Aurélie Hintermann reveals how embryonic signals shaped human digit number and pattern.
Read: www.unige.ch/medias/en/20... #DevBio #Evolution @biology-unige.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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📻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
Néolithique: lʹagriculture s'impose en douceur
Lors de la transition vers l’agriculture, les chasseurs-cueilleurs et les premiers agriculteurs venus dʹAnatolie ont coexisté en Europe. Mathias Currat, maître d’enseignement et de recherche en généti...
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August 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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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/...
Local increases in admixture with hunter-gatherers followed the initial expansion of Neolithic farmers across continental Europe
The first farmers of continental Europe increasingly admixed over time with local hunter-gatherers.
www.science.org
August 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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biology-unige.bsky.social
🏅Congratulations on your International Society for Regenerative Biology (#ISRB) Distinguished Achievement Award @bgalliot.bsky.social 👏 @genevunige.bsky.social
#hydra #Regeneration
August 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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🏅 Congratulations to Prof. Brigitte Galliot, recipient of the 2025 ISRB Distinguished Achievement Award for her pioneering work on Hydra regeneration and cell signaling.

internationalsocietyforregenerativebiology.org/page-18246

#RegenerativeBiology #ISRB2025
2025 Award Winners
internationalsocietyforregenerativebiology.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
genevunige.bsky.social
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...

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June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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springernature.com
The distinctive pattern of scales on the face and jaws of crocodiles is formed by a precise mechanical process of skin folding, according to a OA study in @nature.com: http://spklr.io/63328fZXu
#Science #Evolution #Crocodiles
March 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
genevunige.bsky.social
Congrats on this very interesting research!
rorylcooper.bsky.social Rory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social · Jun 4
Excited to share our new research in @cp-iscience.bsky.social! We reveal that tortoise head scales are sculpted through two distinct developmental processes - chemical signalling and mechanical folding 🐢🔬🧪
@lanevol.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Chemical and mechanical patterning of tortoise skin scales occur in different regions of the head
Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology
www.cell.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
genevunige.bsky.social
🚀 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
Azure Cell Therapies: Regenerating Neurons to Defeat Parkinson’s Disease
YouTube video by Venturelab TV
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June 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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kampourakisk.bsky.social
Take a look inside my new book Trusting Science! A lot of material is available!

www.amazon.com/Trusting-Sci...
Trusting Science: Why We Need to Reconsider School Science Teaching
Amazon.com: Trusting Science: Why We Need to Reconsider School Science Teaching: 9780197787106: Kampourakis, Kostas: Books
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May 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
genevunige.bsky.social
How do blood vessels adapt to pressure? 🩸
A new collaborative study from the Salbreux lab shows how changes in endothelial cells help vessels stretch and stay strong — thanks to actin fibers and a smart mechanical model.
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Biomechanics #VascularResearch
Interplay of actin nematodynamics and anisotropic tension controls endothelial mechanics - Nature Physics
Blood flow through a vessel deforms vessel walls. Cells lining these walls sense the changes in pressure as blood flows and reorient their actin fibres in the direction of largest tension.
www.nature.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
genevunige.bsky.social
Congrats on this great paper!
lanevol.bsky.social The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · May 14
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
May 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Congrats @lanevol.bsky.social and @rorylcooper.bsky.social on this amazing image!
lanevol.bsky.social The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · Apr 14
Thrilled to share that our light-sheet #microscopy image has been selected as @plosbiology.org's Featured Image for March 2025!

This visualization captures the role of the sonic #hedgehog pathway in #feather morphogenesis.

🧬 Dive into the details: www.lanevol.org/news/article...
April 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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lanevol.bsky.social
Also, our study, "PMEL is involved in snake #colourpattern transition from blotches to stripes," shows how a #PMEL mutation causes striped patterns in corn #snakes.
Excited to see these findings drive trait #diversification!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🐍🧬 #EvoDevo @naturecomms.bsky.social
PMEL is involved in snake colour pattern transition from blotches to stripes - Nature Communications
Corn snakes are a useful model organism for studying skin pigmentation. Here they characterize the Terrazzo morph and identify the role of PMEL in the patterning of pigmented cells in the skin, explai...
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April 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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lanevol.bsky.social
🐍 New in Genome Biology! We show #CLCN2 is key to #colorpatterns in corn #snakes. LTR-retrotransposon mutation drives Stripe phenotype. Genomic & transcriptomic analyses reveal insights into trait diversification!
Full study: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Regulatory and disruptive variants in the CLCN2 gene are associated with modified skin color pattern phenotypes in the corn snake - Genome Biology
Background Snakes exhibit a broad variety of adaptive colors and color patterns, generated by the spatial arrangement of chromatophores, but little is known of the mechanisms responsible for these spe...
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
genevunige.bsky.social
🚨 Study alert: Led by Athanasia Tzika from
@lanevol.bsky.social, the study explores the #CLCN2 gene’s role in snake skin color patterning, advancing knowledge of snakes pattern formation. Read more: lanevol.org/news/article... #Genetics #Evolution #snake #skincolorpattern
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April 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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🦖➡️🕊️ La RTS met en lumière la dernière publication de @lanevol.bsky.social sur l’évolution des plumes! Découvrez comment cette étude révèle les secrets fascinants de leur formation. 🧐✨

À lire ici 👉 rts.ch/info/science...

#science #évolution #plumes #dinosaures
Du dinosaure à l'oiseau, les secrets de l'évolution des plumes révélés dans une étude genevoise
Les plumes, essentielles à la thermorégulation, au vol et à la communication chez les oiseaux, trouvent leur origine dans des appendices plus simples, les protoplumes, présents chez certains dinosaure...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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lanevol.bsky.social
🦖➡️🕊️ From dinosaur simple proto-feathers to bird intricate feathers? Our latest study shows that feather development is highly resilient to perturbations. 🧐✨

Read more here 👉 www.lanevol.org/news/article... #evolution #feathers #dinosaurs #birds
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March 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
genevunige.bsky.social
🎙️🦖🌑 Il y a 150 millions d’années, le pelage des mammifères était sombre! Une équipe sino-belge l’a découvert, et Michel Milinkovitch (@lanevol.bsky.social) en décrypte les implications dans CQFD (RTS). Ne manquez pas son analyse! 🔎✨
Ecoutez ici: avisdexperts.ch/fr/intervent... #évolution #science
L'évolution du pelage des mammifères | Avis d’expert-e-s
avisdexperts.ch
March 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
genevunige.bsky.social
🧬 Voulez-vous savoir comment l'ADN ancien dévoile la vie de nos ancêtres ?
Écoutez l'interview fascinant de Mathias Currat sur la RTS !
🎧 👉 www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
#Génétique #Archéologie #Sciences #Histoire #Recherche #Anthropologie
Quand lʹADN ancien révèle lʹalbum de famille de nos ancêtres
L’analyse de l’ADN ancien, permet de reconstituer des lignées généalogiques du passé afin d’étudier l’organisation familiale de nos ancêtres. Une étude récente avec l’analyse de 57 génomes datés de l’...
www.rts.ch
March 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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🔬 Conférence | Oncologie de précision : la révolution de l’IA
Avec Pr. Olivier Michielin, médecin-chef, Département d’oncologie aux HUG.
📍 INGE, Rue Jean-F. Bartholoni 6, Genève — 1er étage, Les Salons
📅 Lu 24 mars, 18H30
ℹ️ Plus d'infos : inge.ch/evenements/o...
March 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM