Michel Milinkovitch is Full Professor in the Department of Genetics & Evolution at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and President of the Division of Biology since 2019. He is also a member of the Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3) since its foundation (2011) and a Group leader of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) since 2014. In his ‘previous life’ as an evolutionary geneticist, he contributed to quantitative analysis and modelling in Molecular Phylogenomics and Applied Evolutionary Genetics. He has developed concepts, analytical tools, and algorithms/models for multiple sequence alignments, phylogeny inference and haplotypic network building. His recent focus (since 2008) is on Evolutionary Developmental Genetics (Evo-Devo) and the Physics of Biology. He specialises on non-classical model species in reptiles and mammals and integrates data and analyses from comparative genomics, molecular developmental genetics, as well as mathematical modelling and numerical simulations. He has published over 120 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (including Nature, Nature Communications, Science, Science Advances, PNAS, PRL, Mathematics). He has given over 150 talks around the world. He has been reviewer for over 50 peer-reviewed international biology and physics journals, and has served as external reviewer for academic promotions, grant proposals, and PhD committees in Europe and the USA. He has served on the Editorial Board of scientific journals and has supervised over 20 Ph.D. theses and over 15 post-docs. He has been a member of the ERC (European Research Council) evaluation program and has chaired one of its panels. His work has made on multiple occasions the headlines in the media (BBC; National Geographic; Swiss, European and US Televisions and radios; The New York Times, The Washington Post, …). He is the co-founder (November 2001) of the spin-off Delphi Genetics which was acquired in 2021 by Catalent, a giant in innovative drug development and delivery. He is married and has 4 children.
Posted by Michel Milinkovitch, on 11 December 2024
Rory L. Cooper, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh & Michel C. Milinkovitch Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE), Geneva, Switzerlandhttps://www.lanevol.org From the hard, protective scales of reptiles to the soft, insulating fur ...Posted by Michel Milinkovitch, on 12 June 2019
In the context of a multidisciplinary study funded by an ERC advanced grant, the Milinkovitch lab offers one position for an outstanding, highly motivated, and creative experimental wet-lab biologist or ...Posted by Michel Milinkovitch, on 3 March 2017
PhD position opened in Switzerland for a developmental or cell biologist Development & Evolution of structural colours in vertebrates In the context of a multidisciplinary study combining cell biology, ...Posted by Michel Milinkovitch, on 11 March 2016
Evolutionary developmental genetics of reptile skin colour In the context of evolutionary developmental biology analyses of reptilian skin colours and colour patterns, we offer one PhD position for an outstanding, ...Posted by Michel Milinkovitch, on 28 October 2021
The LANE (laboratory of Artificial & Natural Evolution) at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) is seeking a creative and highly motivated PhD student to work on mapping mutations affecting skin colour traits in the corn snake. The working language of the laboratory is English. In the context of highly multidisciplinary studies investigating the development of […]
