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The LS² Annual Meeting 2023 will be held on the 16th and 17th of February, 2023 together with the Young Scientists' Satellite on February 15, 2023, at the Campus Irchel of the University of Zurich with the topic Life on earth: coping with challenges.

The LS² Annual Meeting brings together scientists from all the different life science sections that form LS² and it will again broadcast the vast variety of the high quality research done in Switzerland. The Annual Meeting will again give us the chance to interact with scientists from many different countries and of different scientific background both of which are key to the success of LS².

Biology 23 is the largest conference of organismic biology in Switzerland and aims to provide a platform for exchange between students, researchers and professors across scientific institutions, research groups and topic areas.

Biology 23 is also the annual joint meeting of the Swiss Zoological Society, the Swiss Botanical Society and the Swiss Systematics Society.

This edition of the conference will take place on February 16 and 17, 2023, in Sciences II, University of Geneva.

• Registration is mandatory and not free.
• Abstract submission (extended) deadline: January 8, 2023
• Online registration deadline: January 27, 2023

The field of emerging viruses has recently emerged from a small niche within virology, to an omnipresent global topic. While the COVID-19 pandemic has fully revealed the impact that an emerging virus can have, the past 20 years have already been replete with multiple viral epidemics. Right now, the world is facing ongoing circulation of SARS-CoV-2, an international outbreak of monkeypox virus, resurgence of polio and frequent Ebola virus outbreaks.

The Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases of the HUG and the Medicine Faculty of the UNIGE is dedicated to the better understanding of emerging viruses and has become a focal point for pandemic preparedness, diagnostics of emerging viruses and characterization of novel viruses in Switzerland and beyond. Their 3rd symposium will take place from December 7 to December 9, 2022 at the Campus Biotech in Geneva, and will follow up two earlier successful and inspiring meetings by bringing together scientists, public health experts and policy makers.

• Registration is mandatory and not free.
• Organisation: Isabella Eckerle & Laurent Kaiser

This year's meeting will have a special focus on single cell sequencing. As in previous years, this 11th edition will bring together iGE3 members to meet and discuss the future of basic and applied genetics and genomics in different organisms. The meeting will feature two keynote lectures by invited international experts, presentations by seven iGE3 and UNIGE members, and will also be an opportunity for the three winners of the 10th iGE3 PhD Salary Awards to present their research projects.

• The meeting will be held in the Auditorium of the Louis-Jeantet Foundation in Geneva, as well as transmitted live online via Zoom. The Zoom invitation will be communicated to the registered attendees by email in due time in November.
• Participation is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
• Registration deadline is Thursday, November 3, 2022 - Midday.
• This meeting will be accredited as a continuing education half-day for animal experimentation.

Program, registration:

Meeting 2022 website

Organization:

Marie Barberon and Serge Nef

The University of Geneva, the University of Lausanne and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) jointly organize the inaugural symposium of the Dubochet Center for Imaging on June 8, 9 and 10, 2022.

The meeting will take place at the University of Geneva in Uni Bastion, Auditorium B106 and Sciences II, Auditorium A300, and at the University of Lausanne - EPFL in the Amphimax.

Postponed to April 21 & 22, 2022

The LS² Annual Meeting 2022 will be held on the 21st and 22nd of April, 2022 together with the Young Scientists' Satellite on April 20, 2022, at the Campus Irchel of the University of Zurich with the topic Life Sciences in the 2020s: quantitation, integration and prediction.

The LS² Annual Meeting brings together scientists from all nations and backgrounds to explore the large spectrum united under the umbrella of Life Sciences. The 2022 edition is organized on-site with all safety measures in place. The situation may change from now to April 2022, therefore specific rules will be announced in due term if needed.

The iGE3 Annual Meeting 2021 will feature keynote lectures by invited experts and talks by iGE3 members. The meeting will also be the opportunity for the winners of the 9th iGE3 PhD Salary Awards to present their research project.

• This year the meeting will be held on-site in Uni Mail, as well as transmitted live online via Zoom. The Zoom invitation will be communicated to the registered attendees by email in due time in November.
• The covid certificate will be required to access the meeting. Please find here information about the sanitary measures that apply to events organized by the University of Geneva.
• Participation is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
• Extended registration deadline is Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - Midday.

Program, registration:

Meeting 2021 website

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Organization:

Mirko Trajkovski and Ramesh Pillai

The iGE3 Annual Meeting 2020 will feature keynote lectures by invited experts and talks by iGE3 members. The meeting will also be the opportunity for the winners of the 8th iGE3 PhD Salary Awards to present their research project.

This year the meeting will be held online as a webinar via Zoom. The connection information will be communicated to the participants through an email invite in due time. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.

Program, registration:

Meeting 2020 website

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• Event ID: meeting_2020
• Registration deadline: Thursday, October 29, 2020

Organization:

Guillaume Andrey and Florian Steiner

The iGE3 Annual Meeting 2019 will feature keynote lectures by invited experts and talks by iGE3 members. This year’s main topics are precision medicine and RNA-gene expression pathway. The meeting will also be the opportunity for the winners of the 7th iGE3 PhD Salary Awards to present their research project.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.

Program, registration:

Meeting 2019 website

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Event ID: meeting_2019
Extended registration deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2019

Organization:

Françoise Stutz and Patrick Meraldi

The next user symposium proposed by the Genomics Platform of iGE3 will take place on Friday, October 18, 2019, in room A04.2906 of the CMU, building A.

This event will feature speakers who will present their findings and experiences in using the services of the iGE3 Genomics Platform. The meeting will also be an opportunity to meet specialists from Thermo Fisher Scientific and Illumina for a presentation and discussion on the latest technological advances and solutions.

• Attendance is free, but registration is required.
• Registration: send an email to Mylene.Docquier@unige.ch.
• Host: Mylene Docquier