Dario Riccardo Valenzano
@dvalenzano.bsky.social
I study the evolution of senescence. Scientific Director at the Leibniz Institute on Aging. Killifish, evolution, microbiome, and causal inference. Bringing molecular genetics into field work.🇪🇺🐟🦠🧬
For me this paper is a career highlight..truly astonishing biology! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A queen odour mediates reproductive suppression in a eusocial mammal - Nature
Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) queens produce isopropyl myristate, a low-volatility ester that high-ranking animals detect and avoid, which alters prolactin and progesterone in other females t...
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We're looking for a technician to work with us on the biology of aging. We work on killifish evolution, genomics, and microbiome in a fun and international environment. jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/9...
Technische Assistenz (m/w/d)
In der Forschungsgruppe von Prof. Dr. Dario Riccardo Valenzano wird ein Technischer Assistent (m/w/d) gesucht// The research group of Prof. Dr. Dario Riccardo Valenzano is looking for a Technical Ass...
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Spectacular preprint led by @sydsat.bsky.social in @ohnolog.bsky.social lab, @uwgenome.bsky.social. Neutrophils precede gastrulation in killifish and rapidly patrol the yolk. (1/2)
Early immune cell development precedes gastrulation in annual killifish
During embryogenesis, cell types arise in a predictable order because developmental regulators act sequentially. But how evolutionary changes in morphogenesis reshape the signaling environments that a...
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Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]
Copenhagen colleagues. Mid-June we may need to process fresh Greenland shark gut samples for an exciting microbiome project. Would you, or someone you know, have bench space for my postdoc for a day? Longest-lived vertebrate, exciting microbiome data. Boosts welcome 🦈 #aging #copenhagen #microbiome
Thrilled to see this out today in PLOS Biology. With postdocs Siqi Liu and Flávio Costa, we ask why the gut microbiome loses its balance with age. It's an Unsolved Mystery piece: a framework, not a finalized account, with predictions we lay out for the field to test. 🧵
PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 3mo agoHost-associated microbiomes are stable across most of the lifespan, but what drives late-life deterioration remains unclear. @dvalenzano.bsky.social &co propose interventions that restore #immune surveillance capacity alongside ecologically informed #microbiome management. 🧪 #aging
There needs to be a giant billboard in every major American city that touts this. In any other era except this suicidal science administration, this would be a miraculous, wondrous thing.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Want to work in one of the most dynamic places in mathematical biology - in one of the oldest universities in the world - great colleagues, great science.
Aylwyn Scally@aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · last yr.We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/
🚨With some delay, we're excited to announce that our proposal for a MSCA Doctoral Network on Evolutionary Medical Genomics (EvoMG-DN) got funded! 🎉 🧬 14 labs and 2 companies across 7 European countries will be coordinated by the EvoMG Joint Program at @crg.eu & @upf.edu. europa.eu/!NNq63m
🗞️Our March issue is live, with killifish artwork by Dario Valenzano on the cover!🎨Read work on senescence in mammary gland remodelling, structural protein changes as readouts of Alzheimer’s disease, the 201 Parkinson’s disease trial & more ✨https://nature.com/nataging/volumes/6/issues/3
We are suckers for hand-drawn fish 😍 @dvalenzano.bsky.social 👏
Nature Aging@nataging.nature.com · 4mo ago🗞️Our March issue is live, with killifish artwork by Dario Valenzano on the cover!🎨Read work on senescence in mammary gland remodelling, structural protein changes as readouts of Alzheimer’s disease, the 201 Parkinson’s disease trial & more ✨https://nature.com/nataging/volumes/6/issues/3
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Nicolas Rohner@rohner.bsky.social · 4mo ago🌊 Dream job in marine science: Run your own marine station + build an independent research program We’re hiring a Research Associate to lead the Marine Station Carolinensiel (University of Münster) Field + lab • leadership • permanent position. Please RT! stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/3...
I think this is our lab's first paper in a proper ecology journal. We are now card carrying ecologists!
Mark Bitter @markcbitter.bsky.social · 4mo agoReally excited to see this work out now in Ecology Letters! May be particularly interesting to those thinking about life-history trade-offs and eco-evolutionary feedbacks, and how those may interact to maintain variation within natural populations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧵 Thrilled to share that AEGIS (Ageing of Evolving Genomes In Silico) is now published! AEGIS lets you run your evolution experiment in silico. Want to know how predation, population bottlenecks, or mutation rate shape lifespan? Run the experiment. No organisms required. 📄 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
AEGIS: Individual-based modeling of life history evolution
Author summary Life history traits - such as lifespan, age at reproduction, and fertility - vary widely across species and environments and are shaped by evolutionary processes acting over long timesc...
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Did you know that Evolution Letters now publishes reviews?! Our inaugural one is fantastic! Deep learning is opening new doors for evolutionary genomics, especially for nonmodel organisms with sparse or uncertain genomic data. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Aging killifish show systemic inflammation and accumulating DNA damage in progenitor-like immune cells, offering a window into the evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of vertebrate immune aging. Great work from Gabriele, @mdonertas.bsky.social, and the whole team. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Spontaneous aging-associated inflammation and genome instability in the immune system of turquoise killifish - Nature Aging
Turquoise killifish are naturally short-lived vertebrates that serve as a model system for aging. The authors show that killifish exhibit age-related transformation in the immune system, which rapidly...
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Now at Princeton, @clairebedbrook.bsky.social and @ravi-nath.bsky.social led a study during their time as postdocs at Stanford that mapped the full arc of aging in individual vertebrates for the first time, finding that activity levels in young adults may serve as an early predictor of longevity.
Daily movement and sleep patterns can predict lifespan with striking accuracy
Some fish, it turns out, are morning people. They swim hard during daylight, sleep mostly at night, and tend to live longer.
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🚨🧬🚨 We're looking for a specialized Research Assistant to spearhead a project aimed at exploring new RNA therapeutics in diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Junior or Senior, we're hoping to recruit a highly motivated and self-driven scientist interested in both basic and applied science. 🦄
Do you want to know more about how #killifish research can advance our understanding of retinal diseases? Have a look at Sofia Manzo's exciting work! Sofia is PhD fellow of the MSCA-DN @progret2024.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @jrmarmor.bsky.social #killifish #retinaldisease #aging 🧬👌🧬
ProgRET@progret2024.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew series launch: discover our PhD projects🚀Curious what ProgRET is all about? Every month, one of our doctoral candidates is explaining their project in a short video. This is Sofia Manzo's (DC1) month🐟Look at her exciting work at the Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology in Seville, Spain.
The VEO Group at @uni-jena.de @microverse.bsky.social has an open position for a Bioinformatics Technician until the end of 2032! Join us to unlock the secrets of the Microverse from big datasets: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/0...
Bioinformatics technician
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Happy to share my solo-authored Perspective "An Interpretation, Survey, and Outlook of Microbial Macroecology"! Making time these last few months to take stock of the patterns us microbial ecologists examine + models we invoke has been invaluable. Feedback welcome! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
We have an open position for a bioinformatics/theoretical microbial ecology PhD student to study viral strategies in the global Microverse! Join us at the @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de, please apply through this link: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...
PhD student bioinformatics: Viral strategies in the global Microverse
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My dept has an open assistant professor position (DL 2nd Feb). Although the call indicates special interest in datacenter-scale computing systems research, any research area is applicable and this would be a great place also for someone doing Bayesian flavored research www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
Assistant Professor in Computer Science | Aalto University
Candidates applying to this call are considered for Assistant Professor position only. Applicants are required to have a doctoral degree and a publication track record in top journals and conferences in a relevant field.
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Decode microbial balance with us! 🦠 Our new PhD & Postdoc positions explore: 📡 SIGNALS (Communication) 🏗️ STRUCTURES (Community assembly) 🔄 TRANSITIONS (Stability & tipping points) Become part of our interdisciplinary network in Jena. ⏳ Deadline: Jan 20, 2026
Jobs - Balance of the Microverse
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Hugely proud of superstar postdoc Dennis de Bakker who was awarded the LIFE talent award 2025 at the FSU Jena.
Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut@leibnizfli.bsky.social · 8mo agoCongratulations! 👏 Dennis de Bakker from @leibnizfli.bsky.social received the LIFE Talent Award 2025 at the “4th LIFE Symposium – Time to connect”, which took place on November 26, 2025, in #Jena. Photos: Anna Schroll With @uni-jena.de
🚨 15 days left to apply! Be part of EvoMG-DN and advance your PhD career in evolutionary genomics. 👉 www.evomg-dn.eu #PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #MSCA #HorizonEurope #EUResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions
This was so much fun - what a great community of smart, passionate and friendly scientists. And I totally loved Sevilla.
Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo@cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social · 9mo agoOutstanding talks last Friday on #CABDseminars with @dvalenzano.bsky.social and @jlsardinalab.bsky.social! Excellent science and amazing networking experience with the CABD community. Juan Tena and @obog.bsky.social hosted each of the speakers, respectively. Thanks for coming Darío & José Luis!
