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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · 6d

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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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · 16d

A new collaborative research (UNIGE, EPFL, Collège de France) from @denisduboule.bsky.social & Aurélie Hintermann reveals how embryonic signals shaped human digit number and pattern.
Read: www.unige.ch/medias/en/20... #DevBio #Evolution @biology-unige.bsky.social

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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 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.

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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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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Jul 21

🏅 Congratulations to Prof. Brigitte Galliot, recipient of the 2025 ISRB Distinguished Achievement Award for her pioneering work on Hydra regeneration and cell signaling.

internationalsocietyforregenerativebiology.org/page-18246

#RegenerativeBiology #ISRB2025

2025 Award Winners

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Jun 25

Discover the secret of #tortoise head scales!
The latest @lanevol.bsky.social study reveals how two distinct systems - chemical reaction-diffusion and mechanical folding - shape their unique features.

More about this story: lanevol.org/news/article...

@biology-unige.bsky.social

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · Mar 28

The distinctive pattern of scales on the face and jaws of crocodiles is formed by a precise mechanical process of skin folding, according to a OA study in @nature.com: http://spklr.io/63328fZXu
#Science #Evolution #Crocodiles

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congrats on this very interesting research!

Rory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social · Jun 4

Excited to share our new research in @cp-iscience.bsky.social! We reveal that tortoise head scales are sculpted through two distinct developmental processes - chemical signalling and mechanical folding 🐢🔬🧪
@lanevol.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Chemical and mechanical patterning of tortoise skin scales occur in different regions of the head

Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚀 Exciting news!
Prof. Emi Nagoshi joins Azure Cell Therapies as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board. The startup, developing next-gen cell therapies for Parkinson’s, just received a CHF 650K Innosuisse grant!
youtu.be/6XQ_b6DYkZA
#Parkinsons #Biotech #UNIGE

Azure Cell Therapies: Regenerating Neurons to Defeat Parkinson’s Disease

YouTube video by Venturelab TV

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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · May 26

Take a look inside my new book Trusting Science! A lot of material is available!

www.amazon.com/Trusting-Sci...

Trusting Science: Why We Need to Reconsider School Science Teaching

Amazon.com: Trusting Science: Why We Need to Reconsider School Science Teaching: 9780197787106: Kampourakis, Kostas: Books

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · May 20

How do blood vessels adapt to pressure? 🩸
A new collaborative study from the Salbreux lab shows how changes in endothelial cells help vessels stretch and stay strong — thanks to actin fibers and a smart mechanical model.
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Biomechanics #VascularResearch

Interplay of actin nematodynamics and anisotropic tension controls endothelial mechanics - Nature Physics

Blood flow through a vessel deforms vessel walls. Cells lining these walls sense the changes in pressure as blood flows and reorient their actin fibres in the direction of largest tension.

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · May 14

Congrats on this great paper!

The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · May 14

Can Turing and Ising models explain lizard skin color patterns—and be reconciled? 🦎📐
We bridge microscopic cell interactions & macroscopic scale patterns across evolutionary divergent lizards.
👉 www.lanevol.org/news/article...
#EvoDevo #TuringPatterns #IsingModel #MathematicalBiology

Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Apr 14

Congrats @lanevol.bsky.social and @rorylcooper.bsky.social on this amazing image!

The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thrilled to share that our light-sheet #microscopy image has been selected as @plosbiology.org's Featured Image for March 2025!

This visualization captures the role of the sonic #hedgehog pathway in #feather morphogenesis.

🧬 Dive into the details: www.lanevol.org/news/article...

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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · Apr 10

Also, our study, "PMEL is involved in snake #colourpattern transition from blotches to stripes," shows how a #PMEL mutation causes striped patterns in corn #snakes.
Excited to see these findings drive trait #diversification!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🐍🧬 #EvoDevo @naturecomms.bsky.social

PMEL is involved in snake colour pattern transition from blotches to stripes - Nature Communications

Corn snakes are a useful model organism for studying skin pigmentation. Here they characterize the Terrazzo morph and identify the role of PMEL in the patterning of pigmented cells in the skin, explai...

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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · Apr 10

🐍 New in Genome Biology! We show #CLCN2 is key to #colorpatterns in corn #snakes. LTR-retrotransposon mutation drives Stripe phenotype. Genomic & transcriptomic analyses reveal insights into trait diversification!
Full study: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Regulatory and disruptive variants in the CLCN2 gene are associated with modified skin color pattern phenotypes in the corn snake - Genome Biology

Background Snakes exhibit a broad variety of adaptive colors and color patterns, generated by the spatial arrangement of chromatophores, but little is known of the mechanisms responsible for these spe...

genomebiology.biomedcentral.com

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚨 Study alert: Led by Athanasia Tzika from
@lanevol.bsky.social, the study explores the #CLCN2 gene’s role in snake skin color patterning, advancing knowledge of snakes pattern formation. Read more: lanevol.org/news/article... #Genetics #Evolution #snake #skincolorpattern

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Mar 24

🦖➡️🕊️ La RTS met en lumière la dernière publication de @lanevol.bsky.social sur l’évolution des plumes! Découvrez comment cette étude révèle les secrets fascinants de leur formation. 🧐✨

À lire ici 👉 rts.ch/info/science...

#science #évolution #plumes #dinosaures

Du dinosaure à l'oiseau, les secrets de l'évolution des plumes révélés dans une étude genevoise

Les plumes, essentielles à la thermorégulation, au vol et à la communication chez les oiseaux, trouvent leur origine dans des appendices plus simples, les protoplumes, présents chez certains dinosaure...

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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · Mar 21

🦖➡️🕊️ From dinosaur simple proto-feathers to bird intricate feathers? Our latest study shows that feather development is highly resilient to perturbations. 🧐✨

Read more here 👉 www.lanevol.org/news/article... #evolution #feathers #dinosaurs #birds

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Mar 18

🎙️🦖🌑 Il y a 150 millions d’années, le pelage des mammifères était sombre! Une équipe sino-belge l’a découvert, et Michel Milinkovitch (@lanevol.bsky.social) en décrypte les implications dans CQFD (RTS). Ne manquez pas son analyse! 🔎✨
Ecoutez ici: avisdexperts.ch/fr/intervent... #évolution #science

L'évolution du pelage des mammifères | Avis d’expert-e-s

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Mar 17

🧬 Voulez-vous savoir comment l'ADN ancien dévoile la vie de nos ancêtres ?
Écoutez l'interview fascinant de Mathias Currat sur la RTS !
🎧 👉 www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
#Génétique #Archéologie #Sciences #Histoire #Recherche #Anthropologie

Quand lʹADN ancien révèle lʹalbum de famille de nos ancêtres

L’analyse de l’ADN ancien, permet de reconstituer des lignées généalogiques du passé afin d’étudier l’organisation familiale de nos ancêtres. Une étude récente avec l’analyse de 57 génomes datés de l’...

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Genetics & Evolution (UNIGE) @genevunige.bsky.social · Mar 13

🔬 Conférence | Oncologie de précision : la révolution de l’IA
Avec Pr. Olivier Michielin, médecin-chef, Département d’oncologie aux HUG.
📍 INGE, Rue Jean-F. Bartholoni 6, Genève — 1er étage, Les Salons
📅 Lu 24 mars, 18H30
ℹ️ Plus d'infos : inge.ch/evenements/o...

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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · Feb 25

🧐🔬 Les écailles des crocodiles ne sont pas programmées génétiquement, mais émergent sous l'effet de contraintes mécaniques ! Découvrez comment notre étude éclaire ce phénomène fascinant dans @pourlascience.bsky.social
👉 www.pourlascience.fr/sd/biophysiq...

La formation des écailles des crocodiles est guidée par des facteurs mécaniques

Une étude révèle que l’apparition des motifs sur la tête des crocodiles ne résulte pas de la génétique, mais d’un processus purement mécanique de compression de l’épiderme.

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Rory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social · Feb 17

In case you missed it, here's an article we wrote for @the-node.bsky.social to describe how crocodile head scales arise from compressive folding 🐊 🔬 🧪

thenode.biologists.com/the-mechanic...

And here's the original research article ⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The mechanics of crocodile head scale development - the Node

Rory L. Cooper, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh & Michel C. Milinkovitch Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE), Geneva,

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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · Jan 13

🐊 A stunning short movie summarizes our research on how the #crocodile got its head #scales.
The following playlist gives you access to versions in English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French and Spanish. @nature.com

The mechanics of crocodile head scales patterning - YouTube

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