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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
CRISPR-Cas has been quite popular nowadays, unfortunately, due to controversies about experiments on human babies. However, we applied the CRISPR technology to determine genes that have an important function duringRead More →