The Complexity of Life: From Molecular Assemblies to Networks
Past Annual Meetings
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Knowledge @ Noon - Episode 1
November 26, 2025
The first edition took place on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, from 12:00 to 13:00 on Zoom. This inaugural event opened the series with insights into one of Switzerland’s most dynamic and globally relevant scientific sectors - Biotech Industry.
12:00 - 12:30 Natasha Konstantinova
12:30 - 12:45 Erwan Eriau
12:45 - 13:00 Q&A
LS2 & Louis-Jeantet Satellite Meeting "RNA in the balance: between translation and decay"
16 October 2019, Fondation Louis-Jeantet, Geneva
Thank you to the participants for contributing to the scientific discussions and for their excellent and critical input to the career session. And big thanks to Witold Filipowicz, Elena Conti and Venki Ramkrishnan for being such inspirational and supportive speakers!
The meeting website can be found here: https://meetings.ls2.ch/jeantet-2019;
and the meeting pictures here.
With the kind support from SCNAT.
LS2 Satellite Meeting to EMBO workshop "DNA Topology and Topoisomerases in Genome Dynamics"
15-16 September 2019, Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets
The website of the meeting can be found here:
https://meetings.ls2.ch/topo2019
With the kind support from SCNAT.
Thanks to the participants and chairs for joining, for contributing to the scientific & personal discussions, and for making this a really enjoyable meeting!
All meeting pictures can be found here. Credit goes to LS2.
Joint SGV/LS2 Symposium "Animal Research Today"
13 September 2019, Theater room F65, Campus Irchel, UZH
This public symposium in German:
- Brought together scientists and specialists in animal welfare and laboratory animal science as well as the interested public.
- Provided objective information about the current practice, and showed examples of animal research in Switzerland.
- Fostered the dialogue between experts and the public.
The symposium was organised thanks to the kind support from SCNAT.
All info can be found here: https://meetings.ls2.ch/animal-research-today.
Cytomeet 2019
22 January 2019, House of the University, Bern, Switzerland
Planète Santé 2018
4.-7. October 2018, Palexpo Genève
After the great success of the 2016 edition, LS2 ran a booth again at Planète Santé 2018!
We closely collaborated with SimplyScience.ch to realize the booth at the fair among 30.000 visitors!
Please find below some of the fair highlights as a collage.
LS2 & Louis-Jeantet Satellite Meeting "Proteomics & Structural Biology"
10 October 2018, Fondation Louis-Jeantet, Geneva
A Satellite Meeting for students and postdocs.
All info on the meeting can be found here: https://meetings.ls2.ch/jeantet-2018.
With kind support from SCNAT.
"The life of a research scientist" - A workshop with high school students!
15-17 August 2018, Irchel Campus, University of Zurich
LS2 collaborated with Life Science Zurich under the lead of Daniel Kiper to realize a project with advanced high school students.
The aim of this 2.5 day workshop was to give 20-30 students the opportunity to:
- select a topic-specific workshop in the field of the Life Sciences (4-5 different workshops will be available)
- interact closely with scientists from the respective field
- have guided laboratory tours
- do a little hands-on session within their chosen workshop
- actively participate in a Q&A session with scientists about studying natural sciences
...to at the end get an insight into the daily routine of a life scientist & decide for themselves whether they want to study a life sciences topic.
This project is kindly supported by the Platform Biology of SCNAT.
Please find below a collage of the successful event and the initial announcement flyer!
Patenting in the Life Sciences
A hands-on workshop for PhDs and Postdocs 11-12 June 2018, Centre Loewenberg, Murten https://meetings.ls2.ch/patenting-2018
The course welcomed 33 PhDs from 8 different Swiss Graduate schools and 2 Postdocs at the Centre Loewenberg. All participants followed the general introduction lectures about “What is a Patent?”, “How to protect Intellectual Property” and “How to defend a patent?” with great enthusiasm and afterwards chose one of the 3 topics for their two workshop sessions. The three workshops with the speakers were really balanced and thus gave the participants an opportunity for lots of interaction and discussion with their workshops leaders from the Institute of Intellectual property in Bern, the Swiss Federal Patent Court, and with a lawyer from the University of Basel. The BBQ on the evening of the first day was appreciated a lot and allowed for good networking of participants with all speakers. On the 2nd day, lectures about “Ethics in Patenting” led to some good and critical discussions, while “Patenting in Swiss academic institutions” told them about the infrastructure at Swiss Universities to evaluate a patent. The 2nd part of the workshops was followed by the presentation of the results. As an organiser, I was amazed by the high quality of the presentations. The closing lectures gave an overview about how patent searches are done online and about career opportunities in the patent field.
We as organisers highly enjoyed to run this meeting and are certainly planning to do it again in 2020!
Cytomeet 2018
23 January 2018, House of the University, Bern, Switzerland
Satellite Meeting to the Int. Symposium on Chemical Biology
joint meeting by NCCR Chemical Biology & LS2 10 January 2018, Campus Biotech, Geneva
LS2 & Louis-Jeantet Satellite Meeting "The Genetic Evolution of Cancer"
11 October 2017, Fondation Louis-Jeantet, Geneva
Dear participants
Thanks for this great meeting, all the good scientific talks, and in particular Hans Clevers, Steve West, and Ioannis Xenarios for joining & their wonderful mentoring support!
The website of the meeting can be found here:
https://meetings.ls2.ch/jeantet-2017
...and all meeting pictures can here.
...and the survey results from participants here
See you again next year at the next Satellite Meeting to the Louis-Jeantet Symposium 2018!
Carolin von Schoultz (LS2) & Costanza Panbianco (LJF)
LS2 Satellite Meeting to EMBO workshop on Topoisomerases
16-17 September 2017, Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets
The website of the meeting can be found here:
https://meetings.ls2.ch/topo2017
Thanks for this great meeting, all the good scientific talks, and the really inspiring session on academic careers!
All meeting pictures can be found here!
See you again soon!
International Dictyostelium Conference 2017
20-24 August 2017, Chavannes-de-Bogis
The International Dictyostelium Conference 2017 was organized by Thierry Soldati, Pierre Cosson & their groups, and was co-organized by LS2.
Communication officer of the meeting: Elena Cardenal (UNIGE, elena.cardenal@unige.ch)
Please find the meeting website & all meeting pictures here: https://meetings.ls2.ch/dicty2017
Highlights of the meeting
(from the meeting report, prepared&provided by Elena Cardenal Munoz (UNIGE))
• Six half-day symposia covering all exciting aspects of Dictyostelium biology.
• 146 participants from 16 different countries, 8 Dicty keynote speakers, 35 talks and 15 flash talks selected from abstracts.
• 6 internationally renowned plenary speakers presenting their work on other model organisms.
• 4 workshops and 62 posters presented during two central poster sessions.
• 5 poster, 3 talk and 2 flash talk prizes for young investigators.
• 30 travel grants for students.
• An all-inclusive meeting package at an unbeatable price.
• An easy to reach venue with a great view on the lake and the Alps.
• Social activities, ice breakers, an antibody contest, networking opportunities and an excursion to Geneva.
• Active digital and email communication strategy.
We thank all participants for lively discussions and a fruitful meeting!
LS2 at Planète Santé 2016
24-27 November 2016, Swiss Tech Convention Center, Lausanne
We highly enjoyed to have a booth presenting LS2 and some scientific experiments to the public and the future generation of scientists!
Here are the photos of this big event: https://goo.gl/photos/8XKk7TntSn7ChiVk6
Big thanks go to all helpers and the Musée de la main Unil/CHUV (Roxanne Currat) for providing us with experiments and microscopes!
See you at the 2018 edition of Planète Santé!
1st LS2 Satellite Meeting to Louis-Jeantet Foundation Symposium 2016
11 October 2016,Louis-Jeantet Foundation (LJF), Geneva
Topic: "The Future of Developmental Biology and Genetics"
This event took place on the 11 October 2016 at the Louis-Jeantet Foundation (LJF), Geneva, one day before the LJF symposium 2016.
We heartily thank the amazing LJF Scientific Officer Costanza Panbianco and all members of the LJF for their trust and support, our chairs Denis Duboule and Konrad Basler, our two plenary speakers Joanna Wysocka (Stanford) and Claude Desplan (NY) who could join us with an excellent talk, and the 20 motivated MSc and PhD students with their inspiring & motivational talks.
You all made this a really enjoyable event!
See the Meeting pictures here.
On the night of this meeting, we got the approval by SCNAT for 4 more LS2 satellites for 2017.
So stay tuned for more at meetings.ls2.ch soon!
