Activities

Activities in the Doctoral Program in Microbial Sciences are divided into the following main categories:

WS: Workshops
SY: Symposium
TU: Tutorials
SE: Invited seminars
CG: Scientific meetings
CO: Course

Registration for each activity is mandatory.

Activities are primarily for PhD students belonging to the CUSO Microbiology program. If there are places available, master students, PhD students, postdocs and academics can attend for free but traveling/accommodation expenses cannot be reimbursed.

Cat.	Title	Location	Speakers	Dates	Places
SY	The Impromptu «The origin of life»	UNIL, Biophore building	Presymposium PhD students' meeting: 17 November, 16:00 Symposium: 18 November, 8:30 - Pre‐biotic era: Cornelia Meinert, University Nice Sophia Antipolis, France - RNA world: Hannes Mutschler, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany - Bottom‐up approaches – Towards primitive cells: Dieter Braun, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐University Munich, Germany and Sebastian Merkl, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - Top‐down approach – Minimal bacterial cells: Romain Mercier, Universite Aix‐Marseille, France and Jörg Stülke, Göttingen, Germany - Archaeal and Eukaryotic evolution – symbiosis: Siv Anderson, Uppsala University, Sweden	1479337200 17-18 novembre 2016	0 / 120
SY	RNA metabolism in bacteria	UNIGE, Centre Médical Universitaire, Seminar room 7172	Mark Paget, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK Franz Naberhaus, Microbial Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Hilde De Reuse, Unité Pathogenèse de Helicobacter, Institut Pasteur, France Xavier Charpentier, Group "Horizontal gene transfer in bacterial pathogens", Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, France Brice Felden, Rennes University, France Sabine Brantl, AG Bakteriengenetik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany	1479855600 23 Novembre 2016	3 / 25
WS	Symposium in Fungi-Bacteria interaction	Lausanne ou Neuchâtel	2 international speakers (one Europe, one overseas) 2 CUSO speakers	1480546800 to be determined	0 / 15
WS	CUSO satellite activity Swiss Virology Meeting 2016	Thun	Toni Cathomen, University Medical Center, Freiburg i. B. Janet MJ Hammond, Roche Pharma Research & Early Development	1454367600 2-3 février 2016	6 / 15
SY	Lausanne Genomics Days 2016	University of Lausanne, Génopode, Auditoire C	Constance Ciaudo, ETHZ Michelle Debatisse, Institut Curie Raoul Hennekam, University of Amsterdam Stefan Mundlos, MPI, Berlin Manj Sandhu, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Thomas Sexton, Université de Strasbourg John McCutcheon, University of Montana Elizabeth Ostrowski, University of Houston Ken Shirasu, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science Keiko Sugimoto, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science Nicholas Thomson, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK John Willis, Duke University	1455750000 18-19 February 2016	6 / 50
WS	A precongress taxonomy workshop	Saignelégier	Ralf Meisterfeld, Aachen Ferry J. Siemensma, Kortenhoef, NL	1456182000 23 février 2016	7 / 15
SY	DGP 2016 (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Protozoologie) 35th meeting	Saignelégier, Jura	Keynote speakers: Purificación LópezGarcía -Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS & Université Paris Sud Alastair G.B. Simpson - Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax Julia Walochnik - Molecular Parasitology, Institute for Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna Colomban de Vargas, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS & Sorbonne Universités	1456268400 24-26 February 2016	5 / 15
WS	Using phylogenetic information in community ecology research	Université de Genève Uni Carl Vogt, 2e étage 66 boul. Carl-Vogt CH-1211 Genève 4 Salle A2 annexe A	Sandrine Pavoine Associate Professor at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Ph.D in Statistical Ecology from the University of Lyon, France (2005). Anita Narwani Community ecologist. Group leader at Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Victoria, Canada (2011). Patrick Venail Community ecologist. Senior Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Geneva. Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Montpellier, France (2010).	1464213600 May 26-27, 2016	9 / 12
WS	Making the most of my research: Patents, licences and other things I cannot aford to ignore - a hands on workshop for researchers in life sciences	Centre Loewenberg, Morat	Heinz Müller, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern Stefan Emler, SmartGene, Zug Daniel Kraus, UNINE Anna Deplazes, UNIZH Raluca Flükiger, UNIGE	1465164000 June 6-7, 2016	2 / 3
WS	Introduction to R	June, 6: Genopode Building, Amphitheater C and June 7-9: Biophore Building, Amphitheater	Jérôme Goudet, UNIL	1465164000 June 6-9, 2016	7 / 40
WS	CUSO satellite meetings at the SSM/ Swiss Med Lab 2016	Bern	Etienne Ruppe, CH, Geneva Alina Helsloot, Elsevier, NL, Amsterdam Tobias Ernberg, Coulter Partners, CH, Eysins Katia Jaton-Ogay, CH, Lausanne Jordi Vila, Spain, Barcelona Waldemar Vollmer, UK, Newcastle Pierre Genevaux, France, Toulouse Leendert Hamoen, NL, Amsterdam Nobuhiro Suzuki, Japan, Okayama Meri Gorgievski-Hrisoho, CH, Bern Ben Berkhout, NL, Amsterdam Luis Enjuanes, Spain, Madrid Tom Battin, CH, Lausanne Bastiaan Ibelings, CH, Geneva Jakob Pernthaler, CH, Zürich Dagmar Woebken, A, Wien Yves Barral, CH, Zürich Aleksandar Vjestica, CH, Lausanne Ian Sanders, CH, Lausanne Frank Van de Veerdonk, NL, Nijmegen Dominic Hoepfner, CH, Novartis Basel	1465768800 June 13, 2016	21 / 30
SY	Forum doctoral training infection, Immunity and Cancer	Fondation Louis Jeantet, Chemin du Rieu 17, 1208 Geneva	Jean-Claude Martino, UNIGE Berend Snijder, Research Center for Moluecular Medicine of the Australian Academy of Sciences Lukas Flatz, CHUV Daniela Finke, UKBB, Basel Agathe Subtil, Intitut Pasteur Paris Gisou van der Goot, EPFL Mathieu Brochet, CMU, Geneva Tim Wells, Medicines for Malaria Venture Complete program here!	1466719200 June 24, 2016	16 / 40
CO	Geo-Microbiology and Environmental & Microbial Ecology in in High Mountain Ecosystems (Field course)	Grisons	Kurt Hanselmann, Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Pilar Junier, UNINE	1471816800 August 22-26, 2016	10 / 12
SY	Villars Symposium 2016 - "NON coding RNAs: function and evolution"	Eurotel Victoria, Route des Layeux, 1884 Villars-sur-Ollon	Ana Eulalio, Univerity of Wurzburg - webpage Caroline Dean, John Innes Center, Norwich - webpage Brian Gregory, University of Pennsylvania - webpage David Baulcombe, University of Cambridge - webpage Ramesh S. Pillai, EMBL Grenoble - webpage Chung-I Wu, University of Chicago - webpage Lingling Chen, Shanghai Intsitutes for Biological Sciences - webpage John Rinn, Harvard, USA - webpage Torben Jensen, Aarhus University - webpage Igor Ulitsky, Weissmann Institute - webpage	1473631200 September 12-14, 2016	2 / 50

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