Sweater Weather is Better Together
2019-12-18
It’s THIS time of the year again. Everyone is very holly and jolly. And of course, everyone is having a Christmas party. And so did we! But since our groupRead More →
How our protective systems turn against us during aging.
2019-10-16
The phenomenon of biological aging is still far from satisfactorily explained due to its highly complex nature. Aging is often described as a decline in cellular functions over time andRead More →
How To: Metagenomics … in Sao Paulo
2019-09-18
The advent of next-generation sequencing has brought the possibility of sequencing not only a single genome but the genomes of a whole community of microorganisms of a biome. We currentlyRead More →
Hands-on Workshop on Nanopore Sequencing
2019-09-13
Our group, together with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and the European Virus Bioinformatics Center is organising a hands-on workshop on Nanopore sequencing. The workshop is part of theRead More →
How to get on the cover of a scientific journal
2019-09-09
In case you were wondering how we made it onto the cover of Genome Research. Here’s an infallible step-by-step guide: Step 1: Write an exceptionally good paper. Step 2: KnowRead More →
Meet us in Doubice
2019-08-26
Every year in autumn, you can meet the majority of our lab in Doubice in the Czech Republic for the Herbstseminar, organized by people from the Bioinformatics Group and from the Computational EvoDevoRead More →
Meet us in Heidelberg
2019-08-19
The German Conference on Bioinformatics 2019 focuses on bringing physicians, bioinformatics and medical informatics together and aims to showcase applications and opportunities beyond. Emanuel, Florian and Daniel will also beRead More →
Differences between the interferon systems of microbats and megabats
2019-08-13
Bats are impressive. As the second most species-rich group of mammals (after rodents), they developed a lot of unique characteristics. They can fly, orient themselves with the help of anRead More →
Emanuel successfully defended his PhD thesis
2019-08-09
Big congrats to Dr. Emanuel Barth who successfully defended his PhD thesis this morning! During the last years, Emanuel investigated the regulation of aging on transcriptomic level. Aging is aRead More →
Paddle F.U.N.
2019-08-09
We did it again. Our F.U.N. masters organized an awesome boat trip. Starting in Jena we paddled downside the river Saale passing the Dornburger Schlösser and ended up in Camburg.Read More →