Past events
USIAS Annual Symposium 2021: The history of our two origins
On Thursday 18 November 2021, the annual USIAS symposium will take place. This year's keynote lecture will be given by Professor Denis Duboule, a highly regarded specialist in developmental genetics....[more]
Symposium - PerceptiO: Perception and the living
The University of Strasbourg (France), through its Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit 1339 LiLPa, as well as Georges Kleiber's USIAS Chair of Language Sciences (University of Strasbourg...[more]
Joint Natural Sciences Fellows Seminar
In this first-time joint Natural Sciences USIAS Fellows seminar, four fellows will report on their research, which is path-breaking in each of their respective different areas. Cyriaque...[more]
Fellows Seminar - What causes weight loss in Charcot’s disease?
By Luc Dupuis, 2019 Fellow Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease or Charcot’s disease) is an adult onset neurodegenerative disease that leads to death within a few years after...[more]
Fellows seminar - TranslatOmiX: bead-free DNA barcoding technology to study single cells
Par Michael Ryckelynck (2018 Fellow) and Roger Cubi (USIAS post-doc) Since the first single cell transcriptome analysis was reported in 2009, single cell technologies are increasingly attracting the...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Unfolding the early modern page: Moveable bodies and paper engineering
By Lianne Habinek, 2019 Fellow This talk explores how readers interacted with printed books from the 16th through the 18th centuries in England and on the Continent. This period saw a wealth of...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Nanoarchitectonics for the spectroscopic study of the reaction mechanism of proteins
By Petra Hellwig, 2018 Fellow Membrane proteins are essential to crucial processes such as membrane transport, signaling, respiration and photosynthesis. It is estimated that, in the next century,...[more]
Fellows Seminar – Deciphering the innate immune response: lessons from drosophila genetics
By Nicolas Matt, 2018 Fellow In metazoans (multicellular animal organisms), protection against microorganisms involves both passive and active lines of defence. In insects, the chitinous outer...[more]
