Outreach + Highlights

16-17th February 2023 at Sciences II, University of Geneva.

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.

Symposium sur la diversité humaine à l'occasion du départ à la retraite du Dr Ninian Hubert van Blijenburgh.

L’étonnante diversité humaine visible aujourd’hui en Afrique est ainsi le résultat d’une longue histoire, faite de multiples migrations, interactions, adaptations et innovations. En donnant la parole aux généticien-ne-s et préhistorien-ne-s de l’Unité d’anthropologie de l’Université de Genève, l’exposition se propose de vous raconter l’histoire humaine sur le continent africain.

This conference aims at gathering a number of outstanding international researchers active in different fields in order to present a comprehensive view of our present knowledge about the peopling of Africa.

Organisé par Marguerite Neerman-Arbez et Alicia Sanchez-Mazas.

What differentiates our species from our closest relatives, the great apes, at the genomic level?

Three eminent specialists will address this issue through specific approaches: the story according to chromosome rearrangements, the analysis of the MHC complex, and recent evidence based on next generation sequencing data.

The main objective of this conference is to round-up our knowledge on human genetic diversity in Europeans and to discuss on how to interpret this diversity in relation to both population history and other evolutionary forces like natural selection.

Quarante ans après Kimura, et compte-tenu des développements spectaculaires de la génétique moléculaire et des évidences de sélection dans de nombreaux gènes, qu'en pense-t-on?