Events
Thursday, 12:15-13:15
Room F200
- 19 February: Olof Leimar, Evolution of habit formation, University of Stockholm (laboratory of behavioury ecology)
- 26 February: Emma Hodcroft, Pathoplexus: Building a new kind of pathogen database, Swiss TPH & University of Basel (laboratory of evolutionary genetics)
- 5 March: Andreas Kappler, Microbial iron cycling in permafrost peatlands-Impact on organic carbon mobilization and greenhouse gas emissions, University of Tübingen (laboratory of Microbiology)
- 19 March: Heike Lindner, Stay hydrated – Deciphering the development and physiology of leaf succulence, University of Bern – Institute of Plant Sciences (Plant developmental plasticity)
- 26 March: Joan Casanelles Abella, Insects in a Changing World: Navigating Human-Dominated Ecosystems and Their Challenges, TU München – School of Life Sciences (laboratory of functional ecology)
- 2 April: Ek del Val de Gortari, Arthropods in the new agricultural era: how bugs are responding to new management approaches in milpa fields, UNAM (laboratory of chemical ecology)
- 16 April: Jeremy Gauthier, Museomics as a window into long-term insect population decline, Naturéum Lausanne (laboratory of biodiversity genomics)
- 23 April: Philippe Reymond, Extracellular conversion of an insect egg-derived phospholipid elicitor triggers immune responses in Arabidopsis, University of Lausanne (laboratory of cell and molecular biology)
- 30 April: Pete Buston, Social Evolution in Clownfish, Boston University (laboratory of behavioral physiology)
- 07 May: Felix Neff, On the status of insect communities in Switzerland, Agroscope (laboratory of conservation)
- 21 May: Mathieu Perret, Phylogenomics for biodiversity assessment of regional flora in Switzerland, Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of Geneva (laboratory of soil biodiversity)
- 28 May: Nicolas Mathevon, The voices of Nature. How and Why Animals Communicate; University of Saint-Etienne (laboratory of comparative cogntion)
- 17 September: Arno Gattolliat and Guillaume Ledoux(Unine), Valoriser les données de science :·-.: • participative pour mieux comprendre et protéger la panthère des neiges
- 24 September: Alexandre Jousset, Microbiome digital twin for rational probiotic designGenedance/Nanjing Agriculture Unviversity(laboratoy of soil biodiversity)
- 1st October: Megan McDonald, Jumping Genes and Pathogenic Schemes: The diverse role that transposons play in plant pathogen evolution, ETH Zurich (laboratory of genetic evolutive)
- 8 Octobre: Barbara Pfister, A dive into the chloroplast: Understanding organellar gene expression, ETH Zurich (laboratory of plant physiology)
- 15 Octobre: Philippe Tschanz, Ground-nesting bees below the surface: Nesting ecology, soil impacts, and new imaging approaches, Agroscope (laboratory chemical ecology)
- 22 Octobre: Pavel Matos-Maravi, What genomes tell us about butterfly ecology and evolution: from biogeography to conservation; Czech Academy of Sciences České Budějovice (laboratory of diversity genomics)
- 29 October: Pavel Nemec, Neuron Numbers in Vertebrates: A Story of the Independent Origins of Complex Brains; Univerzita Karlova v Praze (laboratory of behavioury physiology)
- 5 November: Emilio Guerrieri, CNR Italia
- 19 November: Leonie Lugenbuehl, University Geneva
- 3 December: Marine Mamin, chemical ecology of fungi and bark beetle interactions, Max Planck Institute for Chemical ecology
- 10 December: Charles Mullon, UniL
- 17 December: Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Urban wolves and free-ranging dogs, VetMed University Vienna
Seminar in Biodiversity Conservation
Autumn 2026
This seminar takes place on Thursdays, 15h15 – 17h00, in the room F200
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Domain / title |
| 17-Sept | Clara Zemp
Ellen Martin Christophe Praz |
UniNe ( Institute of biology ) | Conservation biology |
| 24-Sept | Sergio Rasmann
Edward Mitchell |
UniNe ( Institute of biology ) | Functional biology
Soil biodiversity |
| 01-Oct | Kay Lucek
Daniel Croll |
UniNe ( Institute of biology ) |
Evolutionary genetics
Biodiversity genomics |
| 08-Oct | Redouan Bshary
Zegni Tricky Gwen Wirobski |
UniNe ( Institute of biology )
|
Animal behavior
Comparative cognition |
| 15-Oct | Pilar Junier
Saskia Bindschedler |
UniNe ( Institute of biology )
|
Microbiology |
| 29-Oct | Tobias Schulz | Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) | Climate Change, Forest Biodiversity and Forest Governance |
| 5-Nov | Jane Carter |
HELVETAS |
TBD |
| 12-Nov | Thomas Wirth | WWF | TBD |
| 19-Nov | Cécile Fattebert | International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) | Who builds whose capacities? Reflections on Knowledge Transfer and Mutual Learning |
| 26-Nov | Jérôme Frei | Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) | Monitoring and policy evaluation in the domain of biodiversity in Switzerland |
| 3-Dec | Michele Sofisti | NZATU | TBD |
| 10-Dec | PJ Stephenson | IUCN / UniL | Biodiversity monitoring for conservation in the Anthropocene: challenges and opportunities |
Wednesday, 12:15-13:30
Room F200
- 25 mars : TALK1 Branching out: What Early-Diverging Fungi Teach Us About Genetic Regulation. Carlos Lax (génétique évolutive); TALK2 Cell Fate Plasticity During Lateral Root Formatin in Grasses. Marius Malai (biologie moléculaire et cellulaire); TALK3 River Revitalisation for Swiss Wild Bees, Greg Egloff
- 29 avril: TALK 1 The role and mechanisms of polar localization of proteins during phloem development in Arabidopsis. Ambre Dalle; TALK 2 Greening in Plant Embryos: Beneficial, Neutral or Detrimental? Lena Hyvärinen; TALK 3 Is the SOV order truly universal? A comparative approach, Sarah Brocard
- 27 mai: TALK1 How to arthropod predators regulate herbivory in alpine environments? Baptiste Bovay(functional ecology); TALK2 Selecting maize varieties for improving oder-based, real-time detection of the fall armyworm. Juan Traine (FARCE); TALK3 Can we detect extra-terrestrial microbes?: Winogradsky columns as model ecosystems to investigate how biosignatures change according to microbial metabolisms. Matthilda Fatton(microbiology)
- 30 septembre: TALK1 Simulating evolution of eukaryote pangenomes; Sam Horsfield (génétique évolutive) TALK2 The epigenomic landscape across Lepidoptera and its role in chromosomal rearrangements. Paula Escuer Pifarré (génomique de la biodiversité); TALK3 Decoding root barriers: from single cells to whole-root architecture, Corentin Maslard (biologie moléculaire et cellulaire)
- 28 octobre: TALK1 Effects of cyanosphere bacteria on the growth of the anatoxin-a producing Microcoleus; Margaux Corset(microbiologie); TALK2 Towards robust and resilient socio-agroecosystems in Swiss agriculture: A participatory action research approach; Sylvain Lanz (biodiversité du sol); TALK3 Variations on Nemo: dynamics of social aggression in a clownfish species; Gabriele Sciamma (physiologie animale)
- 25 Novembre
- 17 April 2026 16h: Xuân Thái Bùi: Cell volume regulation during lateral root development in Arabidopsis thaliana (laboratory of cell and molecular biology)
- 8 May 2026 17h30: Stéphanie Morelon, Un éclairage multidisciplinaire pour mieux comprendre la diversification récente des plantes alpines calcicoles : le complexe des Primevères auricules comme cas d’étude (laboratory of functional ecology)
- 5 June 2026 17h: Letizia PESSINA, Life history dynamics in the protogynous cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus (laboratory of eco-ethonology)
- 14 August 2026 16h15: Zsófia WINTER, Characterization of MAP70 proteins during root organogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana (laboratory of cell and molecular biology)
- 25 September 2026 17h: Gent Ballabani, Caractérisation du translocon de la membrane externe des chloroplastes du petit pois,(laboratory of plant physiology)
- 23 October 2026 17h: Camille Cornet, Comparative genomics to unravel chromosomal instability in butterflies (laboratory of genomic biodiversity)
Biology 26, 12-13 February 2026, University of Neuchâtel
ChemEco26, 11 February 2026, University of Neuchâtel
