A new treatment modality for colorectal cancers that do not respond to standard chemotherapy has been identified by Tatiana Petrova of the Lausanne Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Michele De Palma of the EPFL.

Rebekka Schairer from Prof. Thome's lab just published an article in PNAS, which provides new molecular insights into the mechanisms of lymphocyte activation and lymphoma development. The report identifies the Ig3 domain of the protease MALT1 as a novel ubiquitin-binding domain that promotes MALT1 activation by monoubiquitination, through an allosteric mechanism. Since MALT1 protease activity is critical for the activation and proliferation of lymphocytes, these findings provide insight into the regulation of MALT1 activity that could be of therapeutic interest for immunomodulation.

The Universities of Lausanne, Fribourg and Zurich launch in September 2019 a new ‘Sinergia' research consortium entitled ‘Local power structures and transnational connections. New perspectives on elites in Switzerland, 1890-2020'.

Nouveau ouvrage aux éditions Peter Lang co-dirigé par Irene Maffi de l'Université de Lausanne. Affective and sexual intimacy are sensitive issues in the Arab World. However moments of closeness between men and women have always been possible, perhaps even more so today, thanks to the spread of mixed-gender social spaces and new communication technologies.

A new method shows that the relationships between living species, from bacteria to plants and animals, are different from previous estimates.

The Lausanne Genomics Days 2020 will be held on February 10th-11th, 2020, Génopode, Auditorium C, UNIL-Sorge. Lausanne Genomics Days 2020 is an annual event sponsored by the University of Lausanne and the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO).

Insights from research at HEC Lausanne-UNIL ' It is commonly recognized that financial analysts tend to be too optimistic when forecasting stock prices, but why is it the case? That's the question Prof. Alain Schatt from HEC Lausanne (UNIL) and his co-authors decided to tackle in a recent research project.

Nicola Vannini, of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne, with researchers from EPFL, finds that supplementing diet with an analogue of vitamin B3 could improve the treatment of some blood cancers.

Conférence de Susannah CROCKFORD, Post-Doctoral Researcher, NARMESH Department of Literary Studies, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - de 17h15 à 19h00 - Anthropole 5033 Dans le cadre du colloque de recherche ISSR : "Enquêter en sciences des religions : psychologie, sociologie et sciences sociales des migrations".

Christophe Dessimoz [Professor, University of Lausanne; Associate Professor, University College London; Group Leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics] Recipient of the ISCB Overton Prize The Overton Prize recognizes the research, education, and service accomplishments of early to mid-career scientists who are emerging leaders in computational biology and bioinformatics.