Event List
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Return the details about the given Event id.
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If used without guidance, GenAI can cause over-reliance and leave students with a distorted sense of what they have actually learned. Most research and practice have focused on how we can scaffold students' GenAI use, for example through prompts, guardrails, or redesigned tasks. This talk asks a simpler question that has received far less attention. When should students be allowed to use AI so that it helps their learning?<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn this lunch&LEARN session, Janne Rotter turns to a question that's been largely overlooked: not how, but when should students be allowed to use AI for it to actually support learning? 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As an undergraduate, she did research in Richard Flavell’s lab at the MRC in Mill Hill, UK. She was a graduate student in Piet Borst’s lab in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Amsterdam and moved with Borst to the Dutch Cancer Center where she first developed an interest in telomeres. After receiving her PhD in 1985, de Lange joined Harold Varmus at UCSF for postdoctoral studies. With Varmus, she isolated human telomeric DNA and was the first to show that human telomeres shorten during tumorigenesis. In 1990, she moved to the Rockefeller to take a position as a University Fellow and was appointed as Assistant Professor in 1991. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and to Professor in 1997. She currently is the Leon Hess Professor and the Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research at the Rockefeller University.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nShe is a member of EMBO, the US National Academy of Science, both Dutch Royal Academies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine. She is an foreign member of the Royal Society of London and received honorary degrees from the University of Utrecht, the University of Chicago, and the University of Groningen.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDe Lange’s awards include the inaugural Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research in 2001, the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Prize, the Judd award from MSKCC, the AACR’s Charlotte Friend and G.H.A. Clowes Awards, the 2011 Vilcek Prize, the 2012 Vanderbilt Prize, the 2012 Dr. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2013, the 2014 Canada Gairdner International Award, the 2018 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award, and the 2024 Pezcoller AACR International Award.\r\n<div> </div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e552a16 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"> </div>\r\n</div>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-02T09:46:26", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-02T10:44:54", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/97039045251?pwd=WDFjUGV3Y1FxeG9rTUIrOGpiUXhLQT09", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<strong>Dr Titia De Lange, </strong>Leon Hess Professor and Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, USA", "organizer": "Prof. Joachim Lingner", "contact": "Lisa Smith, ISREC Administrative Assistant", "is_internal": "True", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "Grace Lecture, cancer", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122035/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/26/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72676, "title": "A Gaia-anchored Population-II route to the extragalactic distance scale", "slug": "a-gaia-anchored-population-ii-route-to-the-extraga", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/a-gaia-anchored-population-ii-route-to-the-extraga", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33902/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33902/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33902/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-09", "end_date": "2026-10-09", "start_time": "16:30:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Directors: Prof. J.-P. 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Anderson<br>\r\nPhysics doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11973<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-25T09:59:36", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-25T09:59:36", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "CM 1 5", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CM%201%205", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/9465000643?pwd=oucAk5VWcCrkHHiRfUEiNekyDTSWBO.1", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<strong>Bastian Pierre LENGEN</strong>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<strong>Bastian Pierre LENGEN</strong>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDPY", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121930/", "category": { "id": 12, "code": "SOUTE", "fr_label": "Soutenances de thèses", "en_label": "Thesis defenses", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72369, "title": "Mechanical forces as long-range organizers of cellular physiology", "slug": "mechanical-forces-as-long-range-organizers-of-cell", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/mechanical-forces-as-long-range-organizers-of-cell", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33626/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33626/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33626/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-16", "end_date": "2026-10-16", "start_time": "16:00:00", "end_time": "16:45:00", "description": "<p>In migrating cells, the GTPase Rac organizes a protrusive front, whereas Rho organizes a contractile back, yet how these GTPases segregate remains unclear. We leverage optogenetics, mechanical perturbations, and modeling to reveal a mechanochemical long-range mutual activation between front and back polarity programs that complements their known local mutual inhibition. Rac-driven protrusions increase membrane tension, triggering mTORC2-dependent Rho activation at the opposite side of the cell. Conversely, Rho-mediated contractility induces cortical-flow regulation of phosphoinositide signaling, promoting distal Rac activation. Our findings demonstrate how the actin cortex and plasma membrane interact as an integrated mechanochemical system for long-range Rac-Rho patterning. Efficient migration also requires polarized organization of the cell interior, with organelle positioning increasingly recognized as a key determinant of cell movement. Yet how this organization is established remains unclear. Building on our mechanochemical framework, we now investigate how actin-generated forces position organelles during migration and how disruption of this intracellular organization contributes to disease.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nWebsite of the De Belly lab: <a href=\"https://cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henry-de-belly/\">https://cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henry-de-belly/</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis is part of the Physics of Living Systems monthly symposium: <a href=\"https://pols.epfl.ch/physics-of-living-systems-seminars/monthly-symposium/\">https://pols.epfl.ch/physics-of-living-systems-seminars/monthly-symposium/</a></p>", "image_description": "Dr. Henry De Belly, UTSW", "creation_date": "2026-08-19T11:02:03", "last_modification_date": "2026-08-19T12:10:32", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/7467019292", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Dr. Henry De Belly, UTSW", "organizer": "Dr. Juan Manuel García-Arcos, EPFL", "contact": "Dr. Juan Manuel García-Arcos, [email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "Mechanobiology, cell signalling, cell migration, mTORC2, Rho GTPases, cellular organization", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121471/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72373, "title": "Lysosomes at the nexus of cellular quality control and metabolism", "slug": "lysosomes-at-the-nexus-of-cellular-quality-control", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/lysosomes-at-the-nexus-of-cellular-quality-control", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33629/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33629/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33629/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-15", "end_date": "2026-10-15", "start_time": "16:00:00", "end_time": "17:00:00", "description": "<p>Lysosomes sit at the crossroads of cellular catabolism and quality control, where they must dismantle chemically diverse cargo while preserving their own integrity. I will discuss two discoveries that reveal how lysosomes solve these complementary challenges and how their failure creates disease vulnerabilities. First, I will describe Lysosomal Leucine Aminopeptidase (LyLAP), an enzyme specialized to processively degrade the hydrophobic α-helices of transmembrane proteins. LyLAP is highly expressed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, where its loss causes hydrophobic peptides to accumulate, compromises lysosomal function, and ultimately leads to cancer cell death, revealing a potential vulnerability in tumors with elevated endocytic activity. I will then describe LASER, a damage-responsive protein assembly that couples lysosomal membrane injury to repair. At its core, the oligomeric protein TFG recognizes LC3/GABARAP proteins conjugated to damaged lysosomes and recruits the ESCRT machinery to restore membrane integrity. Neurodegenerative disease-associated mutations in TFG disrupt this process, linking defective lysosomal repair to human disease. Together, these findings reveal lysosomes as dynamic systems that coordinate cargo degradation with membrane surveillance and repair to maintain cellular homeostasis. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nMore about Dr. Aakriti Jain's lab at UTSW: <a href=\"https://aakritijainlab.com/\">https://aakritijainlab.com/</a></p>", "image_description": "Dr. Aakriti Jain", "creation_date": "2026-08-19T11:24:24", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-21T16:54:33", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/7467019292", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Dr. Aakriti Jain, UTSW", "organizer": "Dr. Juan Manuel García-Arcos", "contact": "Dr. Juan Manuel García-Arcos, [email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "ESCRT, Lysosomal repair, organelle dynamics, Lysosomal Leucine Aminopeptidase, transmembrane protein degradation", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121477/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72724, "title": "Designing Social Robots with Older Adults: Context, Adaptation, and Dignity", "slug": "designing-social-robots-with-older-adults-context", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/designing-social-robots-with-older-adults-context", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33940/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33940/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33940/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-11", "end_date": "2026-11-11", "start_time": "11:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<p>How social robots look, behave, and offer support should reflect the people and environments they encounter. Drawing on studies with older adults in rural Indiana and urban Houston, this talk examines how individual needs, preferences, everyday surroundings, and care relationships can inform the physical forms and interaction styles of future social robots.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThrough participatory design, observations, and interviews, I center older adults’ perspectives on meaningful support, acceptable interaction, and personal boundaries. Encounters with robot companions have brought moments of enjoyment, surprise, and support, while revealing challenges involving communication, expectations, privacy, and control. I explore how embodiment, movement, voice, and interaction pacing shape these experiences, and how caregivers can support engagement while preserving older adults’ choices and dignity.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThese findings inform design requirements for robots that people can understand, guide, and adjust as their circumstances change. I connect them to opportunities for adaptive robot behavior, accessible interaction, and shared control, including how robots might recognize when assistance is welcome and make their actions easier to interpret or interrupt. The talk positions older adults as active contributors to robotics research, whose lived expertise can shape both future robot companions and the broader systems of support surrounding them.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography</strong><br>\r\nChorong Park, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Presidential Frontier Faculty at the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, where she leads the Empathetic Lifespan AI & Robotics for Aging (ELARA) Lab. Her research connects human–robot interaction, human-centered AI, and participatory design to develop social robots and supportive technologies with older adults and caregivers.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDrawing on studies in rural Indiana and urban Houston, she investigates how robots’ physical forms and interactions can fit older adults’ needs, surroundings, and everyday lives. Her work centers older adults’ perspectives on companionship, support, privacy, personal boundaries, and dignity, including how caregiver involvement can preserve individual choice and control.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nHer research is informed by more than 500 hours of volunteer technology support with older adults and people with disabilities and has appeared at ACM CHI, ACM ASSETS, and IEEE robotics venues. She earned her Ph.D. in Technology, with a graduate minor in Gerontology, and her master’s degree in UX Design from Purdue University.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Further information</u>:<br>\r\nUniversity of Houston research feature<br>\r\n(<a href=\"https://stories.uh.edu/2026-ai-robots-for-older-adults/index.html\">https://stories.uh.edu/2026-ai-robots-for-older-adults/index.html</a>)<br>\r\nELARA Lab website<br>\r\n(<a href=\"https://elaralab.org/\">https://elaralab.org</a>/)<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-30T16:15:15", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-30T16:25:59", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ME A3 31", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ME%20A3%2031", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69492652047", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://elaralab.org/\">Prof. Chorong Park</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/robotics/\">Robotics Center</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/anca.rusu?lang=en\">Anca Rusu</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122004/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/416/?format=api" ] } ] }
