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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Prerana Chaudhari, postdoctoral researcher at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social in #Jena, receives €100,000 in federal #funding for the development of the first pharmacological treatment for leaky gut syndrome. Congratulations! 🤗

More information: bit.ly/46DwyZq

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · 6d

#joinus #joinourteam #application
The de Bakker group, led by Dr. Dennis de Bakker is funded by the @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social (CZS Nexus program) for five years starting 01.01.2026. We are seeking a motivated #Postdoc (m/f/d) to join the team.
➡️apply until: 09.11.2025 here 👉 bit.ly/48Mp47F

Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · 8d

Last week, the 2025 Groningen-Jena Aging Meeting (G-JAM), co-organized by the @leibnizfli.bsky.social in #Jena and the ERIBA Groningen (NL) brought together brilliant minds in #aging #research.
A huge thank to all the speakers 🎤 and participants for the inspiring talks and lively discussions! 😀

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you very much for participating and for your presentation @gzaffagnini.bsky.social!

Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 12d

It was great to attend and give a talk at the Groningen-Jena Aging Meeting (G-JAM)! Very nice conference in a great historical location! Thanks a lot to the organisers @mariaermolaeva.bsky.social and Alessandro Cellerino for the invitation! @leibnizfli.bsky.social @uni-jena.de

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · 21d

We as @leibnizfli.bsky.social are participating in this year's #MINT Festival in #Jena again. 🔬🧫🧑‍🔬
Come by the Ernst-Abbe-Platz lecture hall building and visit us at our booth! Today (Sept. 17), we will be there until 6 p.m., and on Thursday (Sept. 18), until noon. We look forward to seeing you!😀

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · 26d

🎤Our interview with Prof. Dr. Cláudia Cavadas from the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, @ucoimbra.bsky.social, Portugal➡️http://bit.ly/3KhbrTE

On Wednesday she has spoken about "Targeting neuroendocrine mechanisms to delay aging".

Read more: bit.ly/462wMce

FLI Seminar with Prof. Dr. Cláudia Cavadas

Prof. Dr. Cláudia Cavadas from the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University Coimbra, Portugal, has spoken on September 10 about "Targeting neuroendocrine mechanisms to delay aging". Read more: https://www.leibniz-fli.de/news-events/details/fli-seminar-with-claudia-cavadas

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · 29d

🎉 Last week, we held our annual Summer Party 2025. 🌞 Our employees provided a colorful, international buffet, offering a wide variety of sweet and savory treats to sample. There was also a BBQ on the terrace. 🌭

What a wonderful atmosphere 🎸 with live music, happy people and their families!🎈

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Sep 8

PostDoc Circle Invites ➡️

Prof. Dr. Steffen Pockes from the @uniregensburg.bsky.social, Germany, has spoken on September 4, 2025, @leibnizfli.bsky.social about the "New therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias".

Here you can find our interview:🎤 bit.ly/486JeZH

FLI Postdoc Circle Invites - Prof. Dr. Steffen Pockes

In the FLI Postdoc Circle Prof. Pockes from the University of Regensburg spoke about "New therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias" on September 4 at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI). In his talk titled “New therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias”, Prof. Pockes gave insights into his work on preclinical drug development in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. His research group is focused on the exploration of innovative drugs targeting the enzyme caspase-2 and orphan GPCRs such as GPR3, which are associated with neuronal degeneration and cognitive decline. These studies present a valuable complement to the expertise in aging research and modeling of age-related diseases at the FLI, which opens up great opportunities regarding the functional validation of new targets, the application of age-relevant in vivo models and the translation of preclinical results towards clinical relevance – all contributing substantially to the development of targeted therapies against dementia. Prof. Pockes was honored with the Innovation Award Medicinal Chemistry in 2022, the DFG Heisenberg Professorship in 2024, and his research has been published in several top-ranked journals.

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Sep 1

Prof. Dr. Claudia Cavadas from the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal, will speak on September 10, 2025, at 3:00 pm at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social about "Targeting neuroendocrine mechanisms to delay aging".

Read more: lnkd.in/eFAFn_Hk

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 28

Killifish Brain Aging: New Junior Research Group starting at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social

Dr. Dennis de Bakker received a grant of €1.8 million from the @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social for his project “Unveiling the mechanisms of brain aging through cross-species comparison.”

Congratulations! 🎉

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 We are pleased to announce an extension to the poster submission deadline for the Aging and Microbiome Conference (AMC25).

👉 The new deadline is August 31, 2025 which is also the deadline for early bird registration.

➡️ Full details: bit.ly/41VE8vs

We look forward to welcoming you to Jena!

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 25

Invitation:💡 Science & Society - Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wrzus

On September 18, 2025, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wrzus will give a lecture on “Becoming Who I Am: Personality Development in Adulthood” as part of the public lecture series “Science & Society.”

Read more: bit.ly/466mzv5

Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 20

➡️MDR report on the newly discovered vulnerability of the aging brain

🎙️ Click on this link to listen to the interview with Dr. Alessandro Ori from @leibnizfli.bsky.social ‪and read the article by MDR Wissen. (The MDR interview and article are only available in German.) 👉 bit.ly/4mULrf6

Gestörtes Gleichgewicht der Proteine: Wieso unser Gehirn im Alter abbaut | MDR.DE

Damit Nervenzellen funktionieren, wie sie sollen, braucht es eine Balance von Eiweißen im Gehirn. Das ist mit zunehmendem Alter gestört. Forscher aus Jena haben herausgefunden, wie das Ungleichgewicht...

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 Groningen-Jena Aging Meeting (G-JAM)

This is the very final announcement of the Groningen-Jena Aging Meeting (G-JAM) ➡️ the final deadline is coming up: August 22nd‼️

Last chance to register: bit.ly/4mTO3tH

More: bit.ly/4mPFr7l

👉 One of the most anticipated aging meetings of the year!

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 18

Today marks the start of the new 2025 training year, and we are delighted to welcome Bruno Hübler to @leibnizfli.bsky.social‬ as an animal keeper for research and clinical work. 🎉
We would also like to wish all other trainees at the FLI a successful start to the next training year. 🧪🔬🐁💻

Reposted by Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut

jenarna.bsky.social @jenarna.bsky.social · Aug 14

🎉Congratulations to our group member Alexander Eberhardt for the successful defense of his dissertation and throwing the flower wreath onto Hanfrieds sword🎓💪
He studied gene regulation mechanisms in cancer cells in the Bierhoff group at @leibnizfli.bsky.social and gave great insights into his work🧬⚕️

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 18

🥳Congratulations! 👏

Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 12

PostDoc Circle Invites ➡️ Prof. Dr. Steffen Pockes from the @uniregensburg.bsky.social, Germany, will speak on September 4, 2025, at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social (FLI) about "New therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias".

Read more: bit.ly/4mnEmnl

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 11

❗ Lost in translation: New vulnerability of the aging brain discovered by an international research team involving the @leibnizfli.bsky.social in Jena, the @sns.it Pisa, and @stanford.edu.

Read more👉 bit.ly/3J8KvoQ

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Aug 8

Prof. Dr. Simon Alberti from the ‪@tudresden.bsky.social will speak on August 15th about “Biomolecular condensates: molecular insights and implications for disease” at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social.

➡️ More information: lnkd.in/eyCFPUn6

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧫 #Insights 🔬

This week we would like to introduce you to the work of Dr. Maria Ermolaeva´s research group.

➡️ Stress Tolerance and Homeostasis: What doesn't kill us makes us stronger

🎬 Videolink: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ghM...

👉 Find out more: www.leibniz-fli.de/research/res...

Ermolaeva Research Group

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

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Jul 28

In June, we celebrated the launch of our new tool, InterscentMe. 🚀

Here's a little reminder to try out our powerful, interactive tool IntersectMe. Comparing and analyzing multiple data sets has never been easier! 😀

Would you like to find out more? ➡️ intersectme.leibniz-fli.de

Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Jul 24

👉 Save the date: 4th MINT Festival Jena, September 16–18, 2025 🔢

From September 16 to 18, the Ernst-Abbe-Platz campus in #Jena will once again be transformed into a colorful world of hands-on activities and discovery for students from elementary school to high school.

⚗️🧬🔬🧠 bit.ly/46lsT2x 🧪👩‍🔬🔭💡

🔬Willkommen zum 4. MINT-Festival Jena! 🧠

Entdecke die faszinierende Welt von Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik beim 4. MINT-Festival in Jena! Vom 16.-18. September 2025 verwandelt sich die Stadt in ein Zentrum für neugierige Köpfe, innovative Ideen und spannende Experimente. Darauf könnt ihr euch freuen. 🚀 • Interaktive Workshops & Mitmach-Stationen • Wissenschaftsshows & Vorträge • Experimente zum Ausprobieren • Angebote für Schulklassen sowie weitere Interessierte • Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung & Zukunftstechnologien Weitere Infos und Anmeldung 👉 https://www.mint.uni-jena.de/ #momintmal #MINTFestivalJena #MINT2025 #UniJena #Jena #WissenFürAlle

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨 G-JAM:
Abstract Deadline & Early Bird Deadline at July, 25, 2025! 🚨

📃 Submit your abstract by July 25th for the Groningen-Jena Aging Meeting.

#GJAM2025 #AgingResearch #CallForAbstracts #FLI

👉Registration: bit.ly/3GEFP9o

👉More info: bit.ly/3UosvZP

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Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Jul 21

We are thrilled! The @leibnizfli.bsky.social once again receives the Total E-Quality award with the Diversity add-on! 😀
Due to its exemplary actions in terms of an equal opportunity-oriented personnel & organizational policy, the FLI has been awarded the TOTAL E-QUALITY predicate for the 5th time.

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