The Nothobranchius Project at Leibniz Institute on Ageing - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena
Alessandro Cellerino (cooperation partner)
Enoch Ng'oma
Main interests: population and quantitative genetics, molecular systematics
Mario Baumgart
Main interests: microRNAs, transcriptomics, hormesis, stem cells
Matthias Platzer / Kathrin Reichwald
Main interests: functional genomics, genetics of ageing
Christoph Englert group
Nils Hartmann
Main interests: mitochondria, exercise, transgenesis, regeneration, diapause, telomere
Beate Hoppe
Main interests: kidney regeneration in young and old fish
Ion Cirstea
Main interests: RAS mutations and signaling
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
Dario Valenzano
Main interests: aging, quantitative and population genetics, transgenesis, behavior
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Brno, Czech Republic
Martin Reichard (Milan Vrtilek, Caroline Methling, Veronika Bartakova - PhD students + postdocs)
Main interests: evolution, ecology, ageing in wild populations, physiology, reproduction, population genetics, sexual selection, biogeography. 10+ captive populations.
Radim Blazek
Main interests: evolutionary ecology, evolution of rapid aging, life history traits
Matej Polacik
Main interests: alternative life history strategies, trophic ecology (diet) of wild fish, sexual selection
Joseph Bryja
Main interests: phylogeography and population genetics of free-living populations
Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, USA
Tyrone Genade
Main interests: anti-aging compounds and their effects on neuroanatomy, cancer biology and lifespan, effect of population density on lifespan, regulation of diapause for long-term egg storage
European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy
Enrica Migliaccio
Main interests: molecular mechanisms of cancer and aging, oxidative stress, p53, senescence, stem cells
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Cunming Duan
Main interests: insulin like growth factor, growth regulation, muscle development, hypoxia, transgenesis, CRISP
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
Guorong Li
Main interests: tumor model, the mechanism of anti-aging by natural extract and drug
Laboratory of Chronobiology, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Espinardo, Spain
Alejandro Lucas-Sánchez
Pilar Mendiola
Jorge de Costa
Juan Antonio Madrid Perez
Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
Pedro Francisco Almaida-Pagán
Main interests: aging, chronobiology, circadian rhythms, effect of chronobiotics, lipids, mitochondria
Department of Genetics, Stanford University, USA
Anne Brunet / Bérénice Benayoun
Main interests: genetics and epigenetics of longevity
Chi-Kuo Hu
Main interests: lifespan differences, aging-related diseases, inbred line generation, and diapause
Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs) - UMR 7266 - La Rochelle, France
Christel LaFrançois / Marie Durollet
Main interests: ecophysiology, metabolism, locomotion performance
Nathalie Imbert
Main interests: cardiac physiology, phenotypic plasticity, calcium homeostasis, fish ecophysiology
BioSNS, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Alessandro Cellerino
Eva Terzibasi Tozzini
Luca Dolfi
Roberto Ripa
Aurora Savino
Main interests: transcriptomics, non-coding RNAs, diapause, neuronal stem cells, evolution of annualism, transgenesis, CRISPR, tumors and circadian ryhythms
Institute for the marine and coastal environment (IMAC), CNR, Oristano, Italy
Paolo Domenici / Fabio Antognanelli
Main interests: echophysiology, ecomorphology, biomechanics
College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, USA
Russell Carr
Main interests: neurotoxicity/neurodegeneration induced by developmental exposure to environmental chemicals
Lora Petrie-Hanson
Main interests: degenerative immune diseases associated with aging
Dept. of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Gil Rosenthal
Main interests: mate choice, communication, and evolutionary ecology
Dept. of Biology, University of Alabama Birmingham, USA
Mickie Lynn Powell
Stephen A Watts
Main interests: effects of diet composition on healthspan and lifespan, development of an open formula diet
Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
Chin-Yuan Hsu
Main interests: ambient temperature reduction extends the lifespan of Nothobranchius
Eugene Research Aquatics, Eugene, USA
Bill Trevarrow
Main interests: killifish husbandry and aquaculture
Dept. of Biology, KU Lueven, Belgium
Charlotte Philippe
Research statements: ecotoxicology
Tom Pinceel
Research statements: evolutionary ecology, diapause strategies
Luc Brendonck
Research statements: diapause strategies, evolutionary ecology, ecotoxicology, speciation, phylogeny
Arnout Grégoir
Research statements: evolutionary ecology, phenotypic plasticity
Department of Neuroscience, Miyazaki University, Japan
Hideaki Matsui
Main interests: neurobiology
Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions of University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Livia D'Angelo
Luciana Castaldo
Paolo De Girolamo
Carla Lucini
Main interests: neuroanatomy, neurotrophins
Dept. of Veterinary Sciences, University of Camerino, Italy
Giacomo Rossi / Emiliano DiCicco
Main interests: age-related pathologies, tumorigenesis, aging of the immune system
Medical School, Goethe University, Frankurt, Germany
Carlo Gaetano
Main interests: epigenetics and cardiac aging
Virginia Tech, Dept. Biological Sciences, Blacksburg, USA
Bruce J Turner
Main interests: evolution - speciation and isolating mechanisms in fish populations
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last update of this page: December 11, 2013
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