📢 FLI Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Johannes Hertel Prof. Dr. Johannes Hertel, University Medicine Greifswald, will speak about "Personalized #models of the #gut #microbiome for #aging #research” on Wednesday, October 28, 3:00 pm at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social. ➡️ More information: bit.ly/3WglnCU

🧬 From Tumor to Muscle Cell: BTU researcher discovers a new approach to treating childhood cancer A team led by Prof. Dr Julia von Maltzahn (BTU) & the @leibnizfli.bsky.social has found a way to specifically transform malignant tumor cells in children into harmless muscle cells. ➡️ bit.ly/4yCanhK

Congratulations to Björn von Eyss 💐 On October 1, 2026, Bjoern von Eyss assumed a professorship at @fau.de Erlangen-Nürnberg. Dr. Björn von Eyss has served as a research group leader at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social since March 2016 and has helped shape the institute ouver the past ten years.

🎉 A huge congratulations to @uni-jena.de on being awarded University of Excellence status! It’s really nice to see Jena and its academic community receiving this recognition. Congratulations to everyone who played a part in making this happen! #UniJena #ExcellenceStrategy #UniversityOfExcellence

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Die #UniJena erhält den Status einer Exzellenzuniversität! Die Exzellenzkommission hat den Antrag „Light. Life. Liberty. – Connecting People and Ideas“ am heutigen 2.Oktober positiv entschieden. 🥳

➡️New strategy to make cholangiocarcinoma more accessible to immunotherapy A new study by the @leibnizfli.bsky.social demonstrates a promising approach for cholangiocarcinoma, an aggressive #cancer of the bile ducts. 👉 More about the study and the results: bit.ly/4hpkgrs

📺 The ARD show “Quarks” on Sept. 10, 2026, explored what’s behind the current #Protein hype. Filming for the episode also took place at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social with Dr. Alessandro Ori’s research group. 🔬 🎬🎥➡️https://bit.ly/4gUrXqT #research #mTOR #Autophagy #CellBiology

Quarks - Protein · Was der Hype wirklich bringt - hier anschauen

Protein ist plötzlich überall: Im Pudding, im Brot, im Riegel, im Pulver. Es soll Muskeln wachsen lassen, beim Abnehmen helfen und gesund halten. Ein Nährstoff wird zum Versprechen.

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🏆 Congratulations to Prerana S. Chaudhari!🎉 Prerana S. Chaudhari from the @leibnizfli.bsky.social not only impressed the audience yesterday at the FALLING WALLS Lab #Jena 2026 with a fantastic presentation, but also secured two #awards: she won the #pitch #competition and the #audience #award! 🏆🏆

➡️FLI Seminar with Stefan O. Bassler Stefan O. Bassler (Ph.D), will speek about “Genomic landscape of cellular lifespan and healthspan in S. cerevisiae” on Monday, September 28, 11:00 am at the FLI. Read more: bit.ly/4xBEnZT

Prof. Miguel Andrade, Faculty of Biology of the @unimainz.bsky.social, will speak about "Low complexity regions within intrinsically disordered regions in protein sequences: function, structure and evolution” 👉on October 8, 2026, 3:00 pm 👉at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social. More: bit.ly/3UXoBKX

🌞 At the end of August, we celebrated a fantastic summer party at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social! 🎉 A big thank you to the organizers and all the volunteers!👏 It’s always a great pleasure to see how our cake and salad buffet reflects the international character of our institute. 😀🤗

🎬 This week, filming for the ZDF program “Terra X” took place at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social. 🎥 Prof. Harald Lesch visited the institute and interviewed Prof. Christoph Englert to produce content for an episode that will air in mid-November. We will keep you posted! 😃

🤗 A warm welcome to Prof. Ivan Matić! 💐 Yesterday, Prof. Ivan Matić, who joined us in #Jena from @mpiage.bsky.social, began his work at @leibnizfli.bsky.social to establish and lead the new #research #group “Cell Signaling and Proteomics of Aging”. ➡️ We interviewed him: 👉 bit.ly/3T97d5t

📢 Reminder: FLI Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Wendy Garrett Prof. Dr. Wendy Garrett, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will speak about "The Gut Microbiome, Metabolites, and Immunity” on Monday, September 7, 2026, 3:00 pm at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social. ➡️ More information: bit.ly/4qJycRo

🧑‍🏫 FLI Seminar: Dr. George Soultoukis Dr. George Soultoukis, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), will speak about "TE-ARCH-AGE: Transposable elements and 3D genome architecture in skeletal stem cell senescence" on Wednesday, September 2, 1:00 pm at the FLI. ➡️ Read more: bit.ly/4zXgWN1

🧬 #Machine-learning method uncovers hidden patterns in #DNA methylation Researchers from Berlin, Potsdam, and from the @leibnizfli.bsky.social in #Jena have developed a new method for analyzing the #epigenome, which has now been published in Nature Communications. 🔬Read more: bit.ly/3UeBIap

"MDR Wissen" picked up on our press release titled “Unraveling the ‘Black Box’ of Epigenetic Clocks” (here: bit.ly/4zwOfpT) regarding the newly developed model of epigenetic clocks called TFMethyl Clock. 😃 ➡️ Click here for the MDR article (in German only): bit.ly/3SMRGbn

Wie alt bin ich? Jenaer Forscher knacken das Rätsel der biologischen Altersuhren

Zwei Menschen können beide 70 Jahre alt sein. Der eine läuft regelmäßig Marathon, die andere kämpft mit mehreren chronischen Erkrankungen. Ihr kalendarisches Alter ist identisch, ihr biologisches Alte...

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Dr. Matthias Schewe, Mannheim Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University, will speak about "Running on Empty: P2RX7-Driven Stem Cell Exhaustion in the Aging Gut" on Wednesday, August 26, 1:00 pm at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social. 👉 Read more on our website: www.leibniz-fli.de/news-events/...

Niko Dalheimer, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, will speak about "Observing Chaperone Machines in Live Cells at Single-Molecule Resolution" on Friday, August 21, 10:00 am at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social. ➡️More information: www.leibniz-fli.de/news-events/...

Dr. Lutz Menzel, Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) Jena, will speak about "Regeneration of T Cell Immunity in Aging and Injury" Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 11:30 am at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social. 👉More: www.leibniz-fli.de/de/news-even...

Aus dem Archiv: Können wir unsterblich werden? Christoph Englert vom @leibnizfli.bsky.social in #TonspurWissen, dem Podcast von Rheinischer Post und @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de. 👉 pod.fo/e/4dc422 Moderation: Ursula Weidenfeld #TonspurWissen #Alterungsprozess #AusdemArchiv #wj26 #MedizinDerZukunft

📢 FLI Colloquium Prof. Dr. Wendy Garrett, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will give a lecture on “The Gut Microbiome, Metabolites, and Immunity” at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social on September 7, 2026, at 3:00 pm. ➡️ More information: www.leibniz-fli.de/news-events/...

The black box of epigenetic clocks🧬 Epigenetic clocks are among the most important tools in modern #aging #research. Researchers at @leibnizfli.bsky.social have investigated the fundamentals of established epigenetic clocks and developed a new model called the TFMethyl Clock. More: bit.ly/4vLl931

Dynamic Population Breeding Improves Turquoise Killifish Husbandry 🐟Researchers at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social have developed “Dynamic Population Breeding”, which improves the survival rate of the offspring and reduces differences between breeding cohorts. 🧬 Learn more: bit.ly/4wd1fPl

💐🎉 Congratulations to Handan Melike Dönertaş on her new position as Professor at the Informatics Institute of the Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / (METU) in #Ankara. We thank her for her outstanding scientific work at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social, and we look forward to continuing our collaboration. 🤗

🎥 On Monday, we had a TV crew here filming with Dr. Alessandro Ori for the TV show “Quarks,” including footage in his lab and our fish facility. 🎬 We're really excited, can't wait to see the result, and will of course let you know when the show is finished and available on the ARD Mediathek. 😃

+++75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting+++ From June 28 to July 3, 2026, the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting took place in Lindau. Dr. Dennis de Bakker from the @leibnizfli.bsky.social and five other participants from #Jena had the special honor of attending this international meeting. #LINO75

📢 FLI Seminar Dr. Maarouf Baghdadi, @mpiage.bsky.social, will give a lecture on “Conserved longevity pathways, human protective variants: a genetic dissection of neuroprotection in long-lived families” at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social on July 14, 2026. ➡️ More information: bit.ly/4v9U3Cb

MORE THAN A PAPER - How research becomes impact and how to shape your path 📆 09.07.2026 🕔 17:00 - 19:00 📍 Abbe Center of Photonics · Beutenberg Campus #Jena What comes after your next publication? How can research create impact even beyond academia? ➡️ Info & registration: bit.ly/3QA1rJ0

👉 This year, the first FALLING WALLS Lab will be hosted in #Jena. 📢 Application deadline: July 31, 2026 This is a pitch contest giving #researchers and recent #graduates the chance to present a breakthrough #idea in a three-minute presentation. 🖊️ Info and application: bit.ly/4wbWCEG

We are pleased that our latest press release on the topic of “Aging in the Shadow of Selection” has also been picked up by "mdr Wissen". Find out what role #evolution plays in this and what the findings mean for our understanding of #aging here: bit.ly/3QHM2Gr @mdonertas.bsky.social

Die Gene der Jugend machen uns im Alter krank

Dank moderner Medizin und hohem Lebensstandard erreichen Menschen heute ein so hohes Alter wie nie zuvor. Doch dieser demografische Wandel hat eine evolutionäre Kehrseite. Eine Studie von Wissenschaft...

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