BIO Denis Duboule

Denis Duboule

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL) and University of Geneva  |  CV

Denis Duboule is a world-renowned development geneticist. He has been one of the first interested in Hox genes and he highlighted their main role in the formation of members, as well as the fundamental mechanisms of their functioning. His research in this subject has helped to extraordinarily activate the research in this field and has had important implications in the understanding of species evolution.

His Laboratory of Developmental Genomics, at EFPL, studies principles of mammalian embryological development by using recent tools of functional genomics. A special focus is given to those similarities and differences that exist between the embryological development of vertebrates (to whom mammals belong) and those of other animals (invertebrates), from whom vertebrates derive.