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Emmanuel Levy's lab @elevylab.bsky.social · 3d

@molsystbiol.org picked a neat cover for this month's issue 🙃 - Great work from Tal Levin, Hector Garcia-Seisdedos, many more colleagues (doi.org/10.1038/s443...) and great matching cover, too!

This month's cover highlights the article Mutation-induced filaments of folded proteins are inert and non-toxic in a cellular system by Emmanuel Levy, Hector Garcia-Seisdedos and colleagues. Yeast cells harboring mutation-induced filaments of folded proteins or “agglomerates”. The filaments appear large and disruptive, but surprisingly, Levin et al. reveal they are largely inert and non-toxic, unlike aggregates of misfolded proteins.

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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · 5d

Vertebrate Genome Evolution. Annual Symposium of the @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social Foundation in Geneva. Free access on site and on line. Great speakers for a super interesting topic. #SvantePaabo #HenrikKaessmann organisers 🙏 See you there! @biology-unige.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social

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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · 21d

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 21d

Today’s department seminar on SnRK1 by Elena Baena Gonzalez from @ox.ac.uk

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · 21d

👏 Congratulations @elevylab.bsky.social for your latest publication in @molsystbiol.org: Mutation-induced filaments of folded proteins are inert and non-toxic in a cellular system @mocel.bsky.social #UNIGE

Emmanuel Levy's lab @elevylab.bsky.social · 22d

Years ago we discovered that missense mutations in homomeric proteins often induces their supramolecular assembly, as in the 📽️👇 - Are such aberrant assemblies of *folded* proteins toxic? Surprisingly, NO. Cells are amazingly robust systems! Paper now online @molsystbiol.org doi.org/10.1038/s443...

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V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · Sep 6

Our invited speaker for this session is Michel C. Milinkovitch @lanevol.bsky.social from the University of Geneva @biology-unige.bsky.social, who will be presenting his lab’s multidisciplinary research into Patterning: How Reptiles Got Their Looks!
#V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Sep 5

📰Entretien de @brunostrasser.bsky.social dans le Journal de l'#UNIGE à l'occasion de la parution du livre «The Mask. A History of Breathing Bad Air» dont il est co-auteur : www.unige.ch/lejournal/re...
👉 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

«Le masque est toujours un objet complexe» - - UNIGE

www.unige.ch

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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today’s Department seminar by @luciastrader.bsky.social @salkinstitute.bsky.social on auxin transcription factors.

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Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) @lifesciswitzerland.bsky.social · Sep 2

🌟 Postdocs – want to become a PI?
Apply for PIs of Tomorrow 2026 at the LS2 Annual Meeting (Feb 11–12, Zurich).
Prizes, feedback, and networking: annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2026/special...
Deadline: 5 Oct 2025
🔗 form.jotform.com/211792813615...
#Career #PIsOfTomorrow #Postdoc

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Benoît Majerus @majben.bsky.social · Aug 27

@brunostrasser.bsky.social presents his book "The Mask" written with Thomas Schlich, a book that tells the story till the 1970s.

Published by @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

#nocovid #eahmh25

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David Suter @davidsuter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Big congrats Ueli ! Such an amazing mentor, person and scientist

Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Sep 1

🏅Congratulations to Emeritus Prof. Ueli #Schibler for receiving the #Kappers Medal from the #EBRS: the Society’s highest honor, awarded for outstanding contributions to biological rhythms research @sciencesunige.bsky.social @mocel.bsky.social #UNIGE
ebrs-online.org/index.php/abou

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Sep 1

🏅Congratulations to Emeritus Prof. Ueli #Schibler for receiving the #Kappers Medal from the #EBRS: the Society’s highest honor, awarded for outstanding contributions to biological rhythms research @sciencesunige.bsky.social @mocel.bsky.social #UNIGE
ebrs-online.org/index.php/abou

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Alila Brossard @alilacandonga.bsky.social · Aug 27

#EAHMH25 Fascinating ongoing Lunch Roundtable around Bruno Strasser and Thomas Schlich’s book Making the Medical Mask: a History of Breathing Bad Air

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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Soon at @spirochrome.com
Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social

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Muséum Genève @mhngeneve.bsky.social · Aug 26

🎉 Nuit des chauves-souris 🦇

📅 29/08 de 18h à 22h
📍 Au Parc des Evaux, à Onex
💰 Tout public, gratuit et par tous les temps
♿ accessible aux personnes à mobilité réduite
+ d’infos sur evaux.ch

Programme ci-dessous 👇

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Muséum Genève @mhngeneve.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 Muséum Genève recrute un Médiateur ou une Médiatrice scientifique à 80%

Entrée en fonction: à convenir
Délai de postulation: 12.09.25
👉 + d'infos: www.geneve.ch/administrati...

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Aug 26

📻Interview de @mathiascurrat.bsky.social, "chasseur-cueilleur d'informations scientifiques" de @genevunige.bsky.social pour #CQFD de la #RTS
Néolithique: lʹagriculture s'impose en douceur rts.ch/audio-podcas... #UNIGE

Néolithique: lʹagriculture s'impose en douceur

Lors de la transition vers l’agriculture, les chasseurs-cueilleurs et les premiers agriculteurs venus dʹAnatolie ont coexisté en Europe. Mathias Currat, maître d’enseignement et de recherche en généti...

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations Ivan Rodriguez and Alan Carleton's groups @carleton-lab.bsky.social for your latest publication in Nature Communications: A spatial single-cell atlas of the claustro-insular region uncovers key regulators of neuronal identity and excitability rdcu.be/eCe09 @genevunige.bsky.social

A spatial single-cell atlas of the claustro-insular region uncovers key regulators of neuronal identity and excitability

Nature Communications - Here the authors present a high-resolution atlas of the mouse claustro-insular region and reveal unexpected neuronal diversity. Nr4a2 haploinsufficiency alters claustrum...

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congratulations @elevylab.bsky.social and collaborators for your latest publication in Cell 👏 and welcome to BlueSky 🦋@mocel.bsky.social‬ @sciencesunige.bsky.social

Alexey Amunts @amunts.bsky.social · Aug 22

Emmanuel Levy @elevylab.bsky.social has joined BlueSky 🌟 with a fantastic Cell paper with Shu-ou Shan, showing the interactome of the TOM complex and how cotranslational mito import prioritizes large globular domains. Beautiful science!
Give him a warm welcome 🎉
link: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Principles of cotranslational mitochondrial protein import

Selective ribosome profiling reveals that nearly 20% of mitochondrial proteins in human cells are imported during translation on cytosolic ribosomes. Cotranslational import requires an N-terminal pres...

www.cell.com

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Aug 21

👉 UNIGE press release: www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...

In the Neolithic, agriculture took root gradually - Medias - UNIGE

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Aug 21

Congratulations @mathiascurrat.bsky.social's group for your latest publication in #ScienceAdvances: Local increases in admixture with hunter-gatherers followed the initial expansion of #Neolithic farmers across continental Europe @genevunige.bsky.social
👉 Full text: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Local increases in admixture with hunter-gatherers followed the initial expansion of Neolithic farmers across continental Europe

The first farmers of continental Europe increasingly admixed over time with local hunter-gatherers.

www.science.org

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Aug 20

💻 Webinar on challenges and opportunities for #active #matter in biology with the participation of Prof. Guillaume Salbreux
in Cell Press
bigmarker.com/cellpress-so... @genevunige.bsky.social

Challenges and opportunities for active matter in biology

Join us for an engaging exploration of the dynamic intersection between physics and biology focusing on active matter—non-equilibrium systems of interacting components that consume energy to do work a...

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Aug 19

🏅Congratulations on your International Society for Regenerative Biology (#ISRB) Distinguished Achievement Award @bgalliot.bsky.social 👏 @genevunige.bsky.social
#hydra #Regeneration

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Biology-UNIGE @biology-unige.bsky.social · Aug 15

Congratulations Emeritus Prof. #Martinou from @mocel.bsky.social and collaborators for your latest publication in #Nature #Metabolism 👏 rdcu.be/eASgF
👉 Check #UNIGE press release:
www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...

d-cysteine impairs tumour growth by inhibiting cysteine desulfurase NFS1

Nature Metabolism - Zangari et al. show that d-cysteine targets NFS1, thus affecting Fe–S cluster biogenesis and impairing tumour growth.

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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · Aug 15

Shanghai Ranking 2025. ETH #22, EPFL #44. First🇨🇭university UNIGE #58 👏 Outstanding when reported to the small population size. Knowledge and Technology are the only future for🇨🇭, which could become a world role model for a transition towards ecological sustainability.

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