Other Lausanne events

The DNA Toolbox

https://basebarlausanne.ch/
Wed 20 May Doors 6:30 pm
Event 7:00 pm
Base Bar, Av. de Sévelin 46
1004, Lausanne
Miguel Basante Bedoya's talk will be in french

Limited seats, first come first served

Animals in research: myth or reality?

Isabelle Grandjean (Head of AGORA In Vivo Center (CHUV))
This talk explores the use of animals in scientific research, clarifying myths versus reality. It explains why animal studies remain important for medical progress and how strict ethical rules guide their responsible use.
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Levure boulangère, levure brasseuse… et levure de laboratoire : quand la cellule fongique éclaire la nôtre

Miguel Basante-Bedoya (Postdoctoral researcher, University of Geneva)
Les levures sont des champignons unicellulaires bien plus utiles qu'il n'y paraît. Grâce à leur modification génétique facile et leur étonnante similitude avec nos propres cellules, elles permettent de percer les mécanismes fondamentaux de la biologie cellulaire. Cette présentation vous montrera comment ces « OGM de laboratoire » nous aident à comprendre la vie sans danger, et avec des images magnifiques à la clé.

Back to the Future: upgrading traditional tomato varieties to modern times by gene editing

Elia Lachinni (Junior lecturer, UNIL)
Over thousands of years, humans have selected wild plants to create the crop varieties we find in supermarkets today. But this long process of selection came at a cost: many valuable traits were lost along the way. Now, tools like CRISPR allow us to precisely bring back gene variants from the "good old days", restoring what domestication left behind.
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2026-05-19 The Age of Immunotherapy: Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Base Bar Av. de Sévelin 46 1004, Lausanne, Switzerland
2026-05-18 The Brain’s Life Story Base Bar Av. de Sévelin 46 1004, Lausanne, Switzerland