Honorary Lecture | Prof. Denis Duboule | Et ce fut tout
Event details
| Date | 27.01.2025 |
| Hour | 17:15 › 19:00 |
| Speaker | Professor Denis Duboule |
| Location | |
| Category | Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture |
| Event Language | English |
Program
17:15 - Welcome | Andy Oates, Dean EPFL School of Life Sciences
17:20 - Introduction | Elisa Oricchio, Director, ISREC Institute
17:25 - Et ce fut tout | Lecture | Denis Duboule, Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics
18:30 - Apéritif (Hall SV)
About the speaker
Denis Duboule was born in 1955 and holds both Swiss and French nationality. He studied biology at the University of Geneva, where he obtained a PhD in mammalian embryology in 1984. He then spent 10 years abroad, first as a group leader in the medical faculty in Strasbourg (France), then at the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology (EMBL) in Germany. In 1993, he was appointed full professor at the University of Geneva, where he chairs the department of Genetics and Evolution ever since 1997. In 2001, he chaired the National Center of Research ‘Frontiers in Genetics’ and in 2012 the division III of the SNSF. In 2006, he was appointed Full Professor at EPFL in Lausanne, where he leads the Laboratory of Developmental Genomics.
His research activities are in the fields of embryology, genetics and developmental genomics of mammals, in an evolutionary context. In particular, his laboratory has been closely associated with the structural and functional studies of mammalian Hox genes, by using mouse molecular genetic approaches. Duboule is also active in science communication and is a member of the Academia Europea as well as of several academies in Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. He is a foreign member of the Royal Society (UK) and of the National Academy of Sciences USA. He has received various scientific prizes and awards, amongst which the Marcel Benoist Prize, the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 1998, the international INSERM prize in 2010 and the Ross Harrison 2025 medal.
Please register by January 21, 2025 (free but mandatory).
17:15 - Welcome | Andy Oates, Dean EPFL School of Life Sciences
17:20 - Introduction | Elisa Oricchio, Director, ISREC Institute
17:25 - Et ce fut tout | Lecture | Denis Duboule, Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics
18:30 - Apéritif (Hall SV)
About the speaker
Denis Duboule was born in 1955 and holds both Swiss and French nationality. He studied biology at the University of Geneva, where he obtained a PhD in mammalian embryology in 1984. He then spent 10 years abroad, first as a group leader in the medical faculty in Strasbourg (France), then at the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology (EMBL) in Germany. In 1993, he was appointed full professor at the University of Geneva, where he chairs the department of Genetics and Evolution ever since 1997. In 2001, he chaired the National Center of Research ‘Frontiers in Genetics’ and in 2012 the division III of the SNSF. In 2006, he was appointed Full Professor at EPFL in Lausanne, where he leads the Laboratory of Developmental Genomics.
His research activities are in the fields of embryology, genetics and developmental genomics of mammals, in an evolutionary context. In particular, his laboratory has been closely associated with the structural and functional studies of mammalian Hox genes, by using mouse molecular genetic approaches. Duboule is also active in science communication and is a member of the Academia Europea as well as of several academies in Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. He is a foreign member of the Royal Society (UK) and of the National Academy of Sciences USA. He has received various scientific prizes and awards, amongst which the Marcel Benoist Prize, the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 1998, the international INSERM prize in 2010 and the Ross Harrison 2025 medal.
Please register by January 21, 2025 (free but mandatory).
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ISREC Institute