Laboratories |
Thesis Directors |
Subject proposed |
Dermatology |
Kuonen François |
Characterization and targeting of skin cancer plasticity to prevent progression and resistance to therapy
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Ecology and Evolution |
Chapuisat Michel |
Social evolution in ants. Potential subjects: Variation in social organization, social supergene evolution, population genomics
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Ecology and Evolution |
Kawecki Tadeusz |
Using experimental evolution with Drosophila to understand adaptation and sexual selection. Various experimental projects using Drosophila as the study system to address evolutionary questions are possible. In particular, we study (1) adaptation to chronic juvenile undernutrition and (2) sexual selection and conflict. |
Ecology and Evolution |
Pannell John |
Evolution and ecology of plant range margins and sexual systems
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Ecology and Evolution |
Robinson-Rechavi Marc |
Evolutionary bioinformatics: Bioinformatics of animal evo-devo, specific subject to determine with the candidate
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Ecology and Evolution |
Schwander Tanja |
Evolution of reproductive and genetic systems
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Ecology and Evolution |
Wedekind Claus |
Evolutionary Conservation Biology
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Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism |
Sykiotis Gerasimos |
Roles of the antioxidant response system in the thyroid gland.
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Forensic Genetics Units |
Hall Diana |
Development of novel genetic markers and data analysis for inferring biogeographic ancestry in humans.
Follow-up to this study: "Inferring biogeographic ancestry with compound markers of slow and fast evolving polymorphisms." Moriot A, Santos C, Freire-Aradas A, Phillips C, Hall D. Eur J Hum Genet. 2018.
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Collier Justine |
Regulation of the bacterial cell cycle.
2 potential topics:
- Charaterization of restriction-modification systems in Caulobacter crescentus (DNA methylation/cleavage, phage defense systems, impact on horizontal gene transfers).
- Epigenetic regulation in the Agrobacterium tumefaciens plant pathogen (DNA methylation, transcriptional regulation, genome replication).
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Mitri Sara |
Artificial selection of small bacterial communities
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Schaerli Yolanda |
Bacterial Synthetic Biology.Diverse projects in bacterial synthetic biology, including:
- CRISPR-based circuits
- Engineered living materials
- Engineering the honey bee gut microbiome
- Circuits for spatiotemporal pattern formation
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Veening Jan-Willem |
Pneumococcal cell biology
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Fundamental Microbiology |
Vonaesch Pascale |
Phage therapy to control human Streptococcus salivarius associated with inflammation in the intestinal tract of stunted children.
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Bezzi Paola |
Investigating the role of astrocytes in behavioural impairments associated with Phelan McDermid syndrome
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Fundamental Neurosciences |
Bagni Claudia |
Mechanisms and Therapies for Autism and Fragile X Syndrome. Unlocking the Secrets of the Mind: Unraveling the Mysteries of Human Brain Organoids |
Fundamental Neurosciences |
Nikoletopoulou Vassiliki |
Autophagic pathways of brain homeostasis |
Fundamental Oncology |
Ho Ping-Chih |
Immunometabolic modulation controlling gender-biased immunity against infection and tumor |
Fundamental Oncology |
Petrova Tatiana |
PhD in cancer and vascular biology. Immune-vascular communications in development and cancer
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Fundamental Oncology |
Verdeil Gregory |
Regulation of immune dysfunction in cancer. Decipher the resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors in advanced bladder cancer to develop new immunotherapeutic strategies.
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