Last Projects

• Towards a novel model for aging research: Genome analysis of the short-lived seasonal fish Nothobranchius furzeri
• Exploring natural ways to exceptional long healthspan – The naked mole-rat case (SAW 2012)
• Molecular basis of delayed ageing in mammals with highly divergent ageing rates: African mole-rats Fukomys sp. (DFG GZ: PL 173/B-1)
• Impact of DNA methylation on the aging of the brain (EU/BrainAGE)
• Development of bioinformatics approaches for assembly and repeat annotation of complex genomes