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Basic Ageing Research Groups

Research at the CHA covers both basic and clinical research, ranging from DNA repair, telomere biology and epigenetics to immunology, cancer and cardiovascular biology, among others.

Find out more about our basic research groups below:

Anand

DNA Double-Strand Breaks and Genomic Instability

Andrade

Computational Biology & Data Mining

Barau

Regulation of Transposable Elements in Ageing

Baumann

Chromatin Dynamics, Telomeres & Ageing

Beli

Cellular Responses to Transcription and Translation Stress

Christmann

Mechanisms of DNA Damage Induced Senescence

Danckwardt

Transcriptome 3’-end Diversity in Development & Disease

Dormann

RNA-Binding Proteins in Neurodegeneration

Duch

Molecular Basis of Brain Ageing

Foitzik

Evolution & Molecular Regulation of Ageing in Social Insects

Hankeln

Gene Regulation of Globins in Mammals

Hofmann

DNA Damage & Cancer

Keller Valsecchi

Biology of Gene Dosage Alterations

Ketting

Biology of Non-Coding RNA

Khmelinskii

Protein Quality Control & Ageing

König

RNA Modifications & Regulation

Kokko

Eco-evolutionary and Life History Modelling of Ageing

Kubben

Biology of Ageing & Ageing-Related Diseases

Lemke

Synthetic Biophysics of Protein Disorder

Löwer

Computational Immunogenomics

Luke

Telomere Biology

May-Simera

Primary Cilia Regulation of Signalling in Development and Disease

Niehrs

Epigenetic DNA Modifications & Ageing

Padeken

Heterochromatin, the Stress Response & Premature Ageing

Papathanasiou

Functional Consequences of Errors in Mitosis

Papsdorf

Lipid Homeostasis in Ageing and Longevity

Schick

Chromatin Regulation in Development, Ageing & Disease

Stelzl

Phase Separation in Homeostasis and Age-Related Diseases

Ulrich

Ubiquitin, SUMO & Genome Maintenance

von Engelhardt

Synaptic Function in the Adult & Ageing Brain

Wang

Transgenerational Consequences of DNA Damage

Weber

Novel Targets for Immuno-oncology Approaches

Wolf

Structural Chronobiology