@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.🇪🇺🐟🦠🧬
JSCBB Biotech Building in Boulder, CO
Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
Exciting news: DFG funds FOR5872 – Chaperone-mediated regulation of amyloids in condensates!
Led by Prof. Janine Kirstein (FLI), researchers from Germany and Israel will explore how chaperones counteract disease-causing protein misfolding.
Good luck to the team!
#FLI #DFG #FOR5872 #Chaperones
Aging and Microbiome Conference 2025
📢 We would like to draw your attention to the abstract submission deadline ➡️ June 30, 2025 ‼️
Read more: amc25.leibniz-fli.de
📅 Registrations under: amc25.leibniz-fli.de/registration/
#AMC2025 #Jena #microbiome #aging
Please share! We are accepting applications for the Biology Preview Program, which aims to make the PhD application process accessible and work with students to strenghten applications. Participants will receive a fee waiver, work 1:1 w/ a mentor, and meet w/faculty. Link: forms.gle/1xBShmvot5Vr...
16.06.2025 18:43 — 👍 15 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0I'm in the field so can't attend the #NoKings protests today, but I'm so proud of our communities and country for the massive outpouring in defense of our democracy! And glad to see so many signs in defense of science #StandUpForScience
14.06.2025 20:05 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Huge congrats 🙌🏽
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Sad to learn we lost Keith Blackwell, an unsung hero of the aging field. Keith showed rapamycin extends C. elegans lifespan, that mTORC2 has diet-dependent effects on aging, and linked together skn1 TOR splicing and aging.
www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
Amazing way to kick start the 2025 Nothobranchius Symposium. Felicity Jones’ inspiring keynote talk on convergent adaptive evolution in three-spine sticklebacks. #NOTHO25
05.06.2025 09:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🧫 #Insights to the @leibnizfli.bsky.social 🔬
This week we would like to introduce you to the work of Prof. Dr. Helen Morrison´s research group.
➡️Nerve regeneration: How damaged cells recover
🎬Videolink: youtu.be/OHFkw-oWxSs
On a related note - cafes open at 6 am
14.04.2025 07:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@leibnizfli.bsky.social
07.04.2025 09:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📣 103 participants and counting…
The 2025 Nothobranchius Symposium is fast approaching!
🧬 Join us in beautiful Jena, Germany, June 5–6, 2025, for cutting-edge talks on #killifish.
📝 Abstracts accepted until April 22
🔗 notho-2025.de
We look forward to meeting you at #Notho25!
Recent events made this one rapidly climb my must-read list for 2025.
04.04.2025 18:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), one of Europe’s leading institutes for basic research in the life sciences, is seeking outstanding candidates for a faculty position.'
#ScienceJobs in Vienna.
www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/career-...
Cool bits from our recently concluded killifish field research work in the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe.
A nicely camouflaged lapwing nest (it’s a bird) and some giraffe spoors by one of our favorite seasonal ponds in the center of the park.
📢 2025 Nothobranchius Symposium – Call for Abstracts 🐟
Submit your abstract now and be part of #Notho25 in beautiful #Jena, Germany.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: April 1
📄 Abstract guidelines: notho-2025.de#call-for-abs...
➡️ Website & registration: notho-2025.de
#killifish #aging #research
One week left to apply for a postdoc position in beautiful Edinburgh! Fully funded, 3 years, visa sponsorship. Explore interactions between host genomes and microbiomes during population declines using #museum collections ( #aDNA #popgen #hologenomics )!
20.03.2025 17:19 — 👍 32 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 0If you’re interested in fieldwork as part of your Postdoc, check out this fishy position with the Valenzano Lab @leibnizfli.bsky.social: jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/7... #killifish
19.03.2025 12:15 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It’s that time of the year when our team at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social does field work in the Gonarezhou National Park. This year the rains came late and in large amounts, making it harder to find fish.
In the pics a beautiful spotted killifish and the typical butterfly-shaped mopane leaf.
We're recruiting a postdoc to join our team at @leibnizfli.bsky.social to explore microbiome-host interactions in aging.
Apply here: jobs.leibniz-fli.de/s48bh #microbiome #aging #killifish #Postdoc
It's been great fun discussing with @chrisnsimms.bsky.social about our recent preprint linking Amyloid beta to brain aging. This story was a tour de force led by super talented postdoc Dennis de Bakker at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social.
06.03.2025 12:11 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Deadline is coming up, register now and join us for the most exciting meeting of the year 2025!
05.03.2025 10:53 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
➡️ FLI Colloquium with Prof. Jesus Gil
Prof. Jesus Gil, @mrc-lms.bsky.social, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, UK, will speak on March 6, 2025, @leibnizfli.bsky.social about the "Cellular senescence as a therapeutic target".
👉 Read more: bit.ly/3QB4iO7
🚨 Registration Now Open for the 2025 Nothobranchius Symposium! 🚨
Join us in beautiful Jena (Germany) on June 5-6 to share the latest and greatest about Nothobranchius research.
👉 website and registrations: notho-2025.de
#Notho25 #killifish #aging @leibnizfli.bsky.social
If you’re not familiar with how it works, this short explainer video is worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnJ...
30.01.2025 16:05 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2Perhaps, for example, current uncertainty in the federal climate for science is prompting you, or someone you know, to consider looking for non-governmental opportunities to lead research culture reform. THIS IS THAT OPPORTUNITY.
23.01.2025 18:49 — 👍 24 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
"In the context of #senescence, #zebrafish have been reported to age in a telomere-dependent manner with shortening #telomeres with #age, a feature which is seen in humans but not widely observed in laboratory mice."
Go Fish! 🐟 #Aging
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A happy new year from stunning Morocco - with a gorgeous Hyles lineata, the white-lined sphinx
01.01.2025 19:33 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Forgot to do something before the end of the year? Register now for THE conference of 2025: The ageing genome: from mechanisms to disease www.embl.org/about/info/c... via @embl.org
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