Welcome to the annual retreat page of the PhD program in Ecology and Evolution of the PhD School of Life Sciences at the Faculties of Medicine and Science, University of Geneva.
This meeting promotes scientific exchanges and sharing of ideas and progress by strengthening links within the doctoral school among doctoral students working in the field of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Geneva.
It brings together students from the departments of Genetics and Evolution, Botany and Plant Biology, Genetic Medicine and Development and F.-A. Forel for environmental and aquatic sciences.
Date
Thursday, September 25th, 2025
Venue
The retreat will take place at CERN
Program and Schedule
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 11:30 | Guided tour of CERN's facilities (CERN main entrance, Esplanade des Particules, 1217 Meyrin, bâtiment 33) |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Lunch at the cafeteria and walk to room 6 R018 (CERN) |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Mathias Currat (Dpt GenEv) and Estella Poloni (Dpt GenEv) Welcoming address and introductory speech |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | Invited Speaker - Dr. Oksana Tarasova (Senior Scientific Officer, World Meteorological Organisation) Greenhouse Gases within the World Meteorological Organization |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Elisa Denis (Group Naciri, CJBG & Dpt Plant Sciences + A. Boissezon, Hepia) The Intraspecific Diversity of Macrophytes in European Pondscapes |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Mathias Colin (Group Blasco-Costa, Dpt GenEv & MHNG) PhD Thesis on the Integrated Monitoring of Fish PArasites in Changing Environments (IMPACT) |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Ndeye Khady Faye (Group Sanchez-Mazas, Dpt GenEv) Analysis of the architecture of HLA molecular polymorphism |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Alessandra Havinga (Group Nusbaumer, CJBG & Dpt Plant Sciences) Towards an Enhanced and Updated Vegetation Map of Madagascar |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Cody Raul Cardenas (Group Zdobnov, Dpt Gen Med and Dev + E. Toussaint, MHNG) Preliminary look at an Ethiopian high-plateau mountain endemic and flightless Calosoma beetle |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Aymeric Plazanet (Group Zamora, CJBG & Dpt Plant Sciences) A biosystematic revision of the family Cribrariaceae (Myxomycetes) |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Gregorio Calderoni (Group Liberti, Dpt GenEv) Molecular mechanisms underlying behavioral responses to gut microbiome colonization in social bees |
| 17:00 - 17:05 | Simon Beaufils (Group Cavin, MHNG) Introduction |
| 17:05 - 17:10 | Iharivolana (Group Nusbaumer, CJBG) Introduction |
| 17:10 - 17:15 | Estella Poloni (Dpt GenEv), and Mathias Currat (Dpt GenEv) Questions and closing Remarks |
| ~17:15 - 00:00 | Retreat Apéro - at CERN |
Prize
Best presentation prize: Awarded to Mathias Colin
Organizing committee
Alessandra Havinga, Elisa Denis, Estella Poloni, and Mathias Currat.
