Past events
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]
Fellows Seminar – Invective poetry and archaic Greek social politics
By Kirk Ormand, 2020 Fellow The 7th and 6th centuries BCE in Greece were a time of important social and political change. During this period, we see the rise of Greek city-states (poleis), and,...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Communism, Space and Trans-Species Kinship: Two Cold War Histories
By Tijana Vujosevic, 2018 Fellow When we think about kinship, we think about real as well as fictional biological connections that shape how we relate to each other. Kinship defines whom we...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Cold War climate engineering
By Matthias Dörries, 2018 Fellow Climate engineering, the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the Earth’s climate, is currently in vogue. A recent New York Times article listed numerous,...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Classifying flat and Higgs bundles, a tale of two spaces
By Florent Schaffhauser, 2018 Fellow Equivalences and correspondences of varied kinds are everywhere in mathematics: we appreciate knowing how and when we can identify two objects, and this forms a...[more]
Second lockdown in France
The USIAS office can still be reached by email during the lockdown related to the coronavirus pandemic.[more]
Fellows seminar - Elucidating how traits are heritable through functional and population genomics
By Joseph Schacherer, 2017 FellowElucidating the causes of the awesome phenotypic diversity observed in natural populations is a major challenge in biology. More than a century after the rediscovery...[more]
