Lausanne Genomics Days 2020 February 10 & 11, 2020 University of Lausanne, Genopode Building, Auditorium C
Monday February 10, 2020
09:30-10:00 Welcome and coffee in the Génopode hall
10:00-11:45 Translation regulation Chair: Prof. Sven Bergmann - UNIL: Department of Computational Biology Keynote presentation 10:00 Prof. Tamir Tuller - Tel Aviv University, Israel Computational deciphering and modelling of novel gene expression rules encoded in the mRNA 10:45 Dr. Anneke Brümmer (Prof. Sven Bergmann group) - UNIL: Department of Computational Biology LincRNA sequences are biased to counteract their translation 11:00 Dr. Cédric Gobet (Prof. Felix Naef group) - EPFL Modeling ribosome dwell times and relationships with aminoacyl-tRNAs in mouse liver 11:25 Prof. David Gatfield - UNIL: Center for Integrative Genomics Transcriptome-wide sites of collided ribosomes reveal sequence determinants of translational pausing
11:45-13:00 Lunch in the Génopode hall
13:00-14:45 RNA processing Chair: Dr. Julien Marquis - UNIL: Genomics Facility Keynote presentation 13:00 Prof. Stefan Ameres - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria SLAMseq Dissecting gene regulatory mechanisms by time-resolved RNA sequencing 13:45 Dr. Flora Brozzi (Prof. Romano Regazzi group) - Department of Fundamental Neurosciences (DNF) RNA-tagging to unveil beta-cell/immune cell crosstalk in diabetes pathogenesis 14:05 Dr. Rodrigo Siqueira Reis (Prof. Yves Poirier group) - UNIL: Department of Plant Molecular Biology Complex mRNA-antisense lncRNA interaction revealed by SHAPE-MaP 14:25 Lina Worpenberg (Prof. Jean Yves Roignant group) - UNIL: Center for Integrative Genomics Shaping the nervous system by m6A mRNA modification
14:45-15:15 Coffee break in the Génopode hall
15:15-16:55 Gene editing Chair: Prof. Julia Santiago Cuellar - UNIL: Department of Plant Molecular Biology Keynote presentation 15:15 Prof. Martin Jinek - University of Zurich, Switzerland Molecular mechanisms of genome editors 15:55 Dr. Robertas Ursache (Prof. Niko Geldner group) - UNIL: Department of Plant Molecular Biology CRISPR and the new age of genetic analysis in Arabidopsis 16:20 Dr. Lotte Spel (Prof. Fabio Martinon group) - UNIL: Department of Biochemistry A functional genetics approach to dissect inflammasome activation
16:45 Apéro in the Génopode hall
Tuesday February 11, 2020
09:30-10:00 Welcome and coffee in the Génopode hall
10:00-11:45 Microbiome Chair Prof. Philipp Engel - UNIL: Department of Fundamental microbiology Keynote presentation 10:00 Prof. Colin Hill - University College Cork, Ireland A voyage through the gut virome 10:45 Dr. Kirsten Ellegaard (Prof. Philipp Engel group) - UNIL: Department of Fundamental microbiology Getting quantitative on the Microbiome: vast differences in strain-level diversity among host-associated bacterial communities 11:05 Paddy Gibson (Prof. Jan-Willem Veening group) - UNIL: Department of Fundamental microbiology Deciphering the origins of amoxicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae through experimental evolution and NGS 11:25 Dr. Guillem Salazar Guiral - ETH: Microbiology Disentangling the effects of gene expression changes and community turnover in the global ocean
11:45-13:30 Lunch in the Génopode hall
13:30-15:15 Evolution Session Chair Prof. Tanja Schwander - UNIL: Department of Ecology and Evolution 13:30 Prof. Anne Roulin - UZH: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Transposable element evolution in small genomes What can we learn from population genomics in B. distachyon? 13:50 Jelisaveta Djordjevic (Prof. Tanja Schwander group) - UNIL: Department of Ecology and Evolution Sexual conflict and the ontogeny of sex-biased gene expression in stick insects 14:10 Tom Kay (Prof. Laurent Keller group) - UNIL: Department of Ecology and Evolution Position in the social network is a central driver of behavior and gene expression in ants Keynote presentation 14:30 Prof Detlev Arendt - EMBL Heidelberg Evolution of neurons and of the nervous system |