“Evolutionary Ecology of Aging”
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Dario Valenzano, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to announce a lecture by Prof. Dr. Dario Valenzano, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena and senior research group leader at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI).
“Dario Riccardo Valenzano is full professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany) and senior research group leader at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), where he coordinates the research focus “microbiome and aging”.
He obtained his PhD in neuroscience in Italy and did his postdoc research at Stanford University. In 2013, he became group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne.
His research team studies how species in nature evolved short/long lifespans and explores the role of gut microbes in organismal homeostasis and evolution. Their main model system are African killifishes, which they study both in the lab and in their natural habitat in the African savannah”
The talk title will be: “Evolutionary Ecology of Aging”
The lecture will take place:
Tuesday, 19th December 2023, 5 p.m. at M3 Lecture Hall (room no. 2.208 and 2.209)
Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83107680862?pwd=WG9uWTBRY09IbDVqWXY5S3JQWTBPUT09
Meeting-ID: 831 0768 0862
Kenncode: 377516
We hope to see you all there!
Nisar Malek and Mathias Heikenwälder
https://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/de/das-klinikum/einrichtungen/zentren/m3
