Past events
Fellows Seminar - Geometric test for topological phases of quantum matter

By Semyon Klevtsov, 2020 Fellow Strongly-correlated quantum systems are often extremely fragile and notoriously hard to control, which poses challenges for possible technological applications. That...[more]
Fellows Seminar - The molecular basis of natural antiviral resistance in mosquitoes and the implications for transmission to humans

The molecular basis of natural antiviral resistance against Dengue and Zika viruses in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes By João Marques, 2019 Fellow Viral epidemics have gained increasing attention due to...[more]
Fellows Seminar – The hypothesis of the Israelite revolution

By Jacob Rogozinski, 2018 Fellow In the project that I proposed to USIAS, Towards a hermeneutic of emancipation: the paradigm of Exodus, my original hypothesis was that the three monotheisms were...[more]
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]