Dario Riccardo Valenzano

Hugely proud of superstar postdoc Dennis de Bakker who was awarded the LIFE talent award 2025 at the FSU Jena.

Huge congrats!!

Adding citations of people who might review the paper

🚨 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.

Hedgehog. Getty Images

Join us! We’re recruiting a PhD researcher to uncover how hedgehogs & other insectivores survive prey toxins. Dive into molecular evolution & protein biochemistry @shabmohammadi.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social

🦔 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#CABDseminars

"Aging mechanisms in short-lived killifish" by Dario Valenzano @dvalenzano.bsky.social, @leibnizfli.bsky.social

🗓️ November 7th
⏰ 10:30 am ‼️
📍Rosalind Franklin Auditorium at the CABD

Hosted by Juan Tena

Phages, huh. Who would’ve thought.

Illustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...

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

2025 Stanford Biology Preview Program Application The Stanford Biology Preview Program (BPP) aims to support scholars through the PhD application process. The Stanford BPP offers virtual workshops to provide insight into the Stanford Biology PhD Prog...

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...

I'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

Huge congrats 🙌🏽

THOMAS BLACKWELL Obituary (1957 - 2025-05-09) - Boston, MA - Boston Globe View THOMAS KEITH BLACKWELL's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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

YouTube video by Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - FLI e.V. Morrison Research Group

🧫 #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

@leibnizfli.bsky.social

📣 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.

Group Leader Search

'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 )!

If 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

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.