The LANE channel

Welcome to the channel of the 'LANE' (Laboratory of Artificial & Natural Evolution): the Lab of Michel Milinkovitch at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Our  multidisciplinary team of biologists, physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians investigates the developmental and evolutionary mechanisms generating Life’s Beauty. We investigate multiple reptilian and mammalian species that can inform us on yet unknown exciting biological and physical processes generating this complex and diverse living world. This cannot be achieved without integrating the physical constrains acting on the developmental and Darwinian processes. Integrating data and methods from multiple disciplines,we investigate the interactions between physical (mechanics, reaction-diffusion) and biological (cell signalling, proliferation) mechanisms that generate and constrain the variety and complexity of skin appendages (scales, hairs, spines), skin colours and skin colour patterns in animals.