Thursday 6 Feb.

Welcome breakfast

Breakthrough technologies in Biology and Medicine (chair: Prof. Sven Bergmann)

Prof. Johanna Joyce (UNIL/CHUV)

Opening Keynote

Prof. Maria Brbic (EPFL) 

Decoding Life's Complexity with AI

Prof. Jan Baumbach (Universität Hamburg)

Network-wide epistasis detection with quantum computing

UNIL PLATFORM TALKS

Lunch - Walk through sponsors

Single cell genomics in evolution and development (chair: Prof. Sebastian Soyk)

Prof. Marja Timmermans (Universität Tübingen)

Mapping the Progression from Stem Cell to Differentiation Through Single-Cell Analyses

Prof. Rüdiger Simon (Universität Düsseldorf)

Combining single cell RNAseq with spatially resolved gene expression data to explore plant development

Prof. Lauren Saunders (Universität Heidelberg)

Developmental genomics from single cells to organisms

Coffee break - Walk through sponsors

Biological interactions across scales (chair: Prof. Philipp Engel)

Prof. Sonja Lehtinen (University of Lausanne)

Why are antibiotic resistance genes on plasmids?

Prof. Edze Westra (University Exeter)

TBA

Dr. Maite Saura Sanchez (VIB Ghent)

Profiling the early events during root-knot nematode gall development using single cell RNA sequencing

Apero

Friday 7 Feb.

Welcome breakfast

The role of structural variation for adaptation and species divergence (chair: Prof. Tanja Schwander)

Prof. Rui Faria (University of Porto)

Understanding the evolutionary significance of chromosomal inversions: insights from Littorina marine snails

Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University)

Genomic architecture and parallel evolution of heterostyly in plants

Prof. Nicolas Salamin (University of Lausanne)

Genomic underpinnings of the clown fish species radiation

UNIL PLATFORM TALKS

Lunch - Walk through sponsors

Epigenomics & 3D genome folding in organoids and organisms (chair: Prof. Maria Cristina Gambetta)

Prof. Boyan Bonev (Helmholtz Munich)

Context-dependent epigenome rewiring during neuronal differentiation

Prof. Fides Zenk (EPFL)

Epigenomic reconstruction of early human brain organoid development from single cells

Prof. Peter Meister (University of Bern)

Folding the genome: how micromachines compact DNA inside the nucleus

Closing Apero