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JOINT AGE_REG & ARDRE Summer School 2024

On July 3rd and 4th, 2024 another Joint Summer School for the doctoral programs AGE REG and ARDRE took place. As in previous years, there were again interesting lectures and discussions from the areas of aging research, regenerative medicine and drug development.

Best oral presentation award: Ines Martic, Dept. of Biomedical Aging Research (First picture)
Runner-up awards: Elisa Gabassi, Dept. of Molecular Biology (Second picture) and Nicki Marami-Zonouz, Dept. of Botany (Third picture)

          

 

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First author publications

April 29, 2024

• Angeliki Spathopoulou
  Integrative metabolomics-genomics analysis identifies key networks in a stem cell-based model of schizophrenia

March 22, 2024

• Angeliki Spathopoulou
  Single-cell Profiling of Reprogrammed Human Neural Stem cells Unveils High Similarity to Neural Progenitors in the Developing Central Nervous System

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Oral presentation at the "Stem cells in Neuroscience" meeting in Tübingen from Angeliki Spathopoulou

March 11-13, 2024 – we would like to congratulate our PhD student Angeliki Spathopoulou for her oral presentation "Integrative metabolomics-genomics analysis identifies key networks in a stem cell-based model of schizophrenia" at the Stem cells in Neuroscience meeting in Tübingen.

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JOINT AGE_REG & ARDRE Winter School 2022/23

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Early Stage Funding 2023 for Angeliki Spathopoulou

January 16th, 2023 - Congratulations to Angeliki SPATHOPOULOU on her successful application for Early Stage Funding with the project: Understanding cellular rejuvenation by single cell multi-omics profiling. These project will be funded by our Vice Rector for Research. Congrats on this achievement and good luck for your project!

Names of all the awardees on this year's Early Stage Funding

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Jan 23 - 24, 2023 - ARDRE and AGE_REG PhD students enjoyed an interesting 2 days' Winter School dedicated to ETHICS. Prof. Hansjörg Ehni from the University of Tübingen, Germany, gave some very interesting insight into topics related to bioethics, ethics of research with humans and animals, Good Scientific Practice, and ethics of biological aging research in particular. The results of students' group work were presented and discussed in a final round table discussion in a relaxed, but stimulating atmosphere. 

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CMBI Meeting 

August 11, 2022 - the 8th CMBI Meeting takes place on September 30th, 2022 at the Congresspark Igls. Please find the flyer here and further information under the following link.

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Early Stage Funding 2022 for Marion LECHABLE and Lucas HENSEN

August 3, 2022 - Congratulations to Marion LECHABLE and Lucas HENSEN on their successful applications for Early Stage Funding: Marion's project: Stem cell decision making in Hydra and Lucas' project: How glioblastoma cells cope with tryptophan restriction. These projects will be funded by our Vice Rector for Research. Congrats on this achievement and good luck for your projects! Names of all the awardees on this year's Early Stage Funding.

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JOINT AGE_REG & ARDRE Summer School 2022

July 7-8, 2022 - Following the 2^nd FEBS Workshop Ageing and Regeneration, we had a great Joint AGE_REG & ARDRE SUMMER SCHOOL, with nice flash presentations on posters, lots of groupwork and lifely discussions on the outcome of these networking activities. We are proud of our PhD students and the work they presented. We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to all our participating supervisors for their passion for science.

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2nd FEBS Workshop Ageing and Regeneration

July 4-7, 2022 - Our 2^nd FEBS Workshop Ageing and Regeneration at the hotel dasMEI in Mutters, Austria, was a great success! DP ARDRE was one of the sponsors and organizers of this conference. Thank you to all participants, speakers & everyone else who contributed to the success of our event.

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Journal Club AGE_REG & ARDRE

June 14, 2022 - 1:00 pm

• Ferenc TÖRÖK (Pharmacology & Toxicology)
  
  Adrenergic Cav1.2 Activation via Rad Phosphorylation Converges at α 1C I-II Loop

  
  

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Important genetic origin of our senses identified

May 18, 2022 - ARDRE researchers have deciphered the function of a gene that is essential for the formation of neural structures in the head of vertebrates and their perception of the environment. A group of international researchers led by the University of Oxford and including Ute Rothbächer's team at the University of Innsbruck's Institute of Zoology, published their findings in Nature: "Hmx gene conservation identifies the origin of vertebrate cranial ganglia"

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Journal Club AGE_REG & ARDRE

MAY 10, 2022 - 1:00 pm

• Eduardo VILLICAÑA-GONZÁLEZ (Pharmacy/Pharmacognosy)
  
  From Vietnames plants to a biflavonoid that relieves inflammation by triggering the lipid mediator class to switch resolution
  

ARDRE Mini Retreat

April 29, 2022 – another informal MINI RETREAT took place this friday. Our ESR agreed that this event again has been a good opportunity to exchange information and opinions and it should be repeated in the near future. 

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Journal Club AGE_REG & ARDRE

April 26, 2022 - 1:00 pm

• Marion LECHABLE (Zoology)
  
  A genetically tractable jellyfish model for systems and evolutionary neuroscience
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34822783/

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Life Science PhD Meeting 2022

April 20-22, 2022 - this years Life Science PhD Meeting 2022, with sponsorship by DP ARDRE, was a great success! 

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ARDRE BLOG

March 31, 2022 – we are very happy to announce that our new ARDRE blog is now online for the general public to see! 

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Journal Club AGE_REG & ARDRE

March 29, 2022 - 1:00 pm

• Xuechen TANG (General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry)
  
  Calcium and neurodegeneration 

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Journal Club AGE_REG & ARDRE

• Camille BRUCKER (IBA)
  
  A PDGFRalpha-mediated switch toward CD9high adipocyte progenitors controls obesity-induced adipose tissue fibrosis

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Journal Club AGE_REG & ARDRE

March 01, 2022 - 1:00 pm

• Nargess SHAHBAZI (Molecular Biology)
  
  Essential Role of Notch/Hes1 signalling pathway in postnatal Pancreas development

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ARDRE TWITTER 

February 14, 2022 – we are excited to announce our new ARDRE twitter account! Follow us on our social media channels for the latest news and updates!

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Journal Club AGE_REG & ARDRE

January 25, 2022 - 1:00 pm

• Alessandro PENNATI (Zoology)
  
  ERK signaling dissolves ERF Repression Condensates in Living Embryos

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Journal Club AGE_REG & ARDRE

January 11, 2022 - 1:00 pm

• Lucas HENSEN (Biochemisty)
  
  Increased fidelity of protein synthesis extends lifespan

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Welcoming

January 01, 2022 – a warm welcome to our new ESR, Ms. Nicki MARAMI ZONOUZ (Iran) who will be working at the Institute of Botany!

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ARDRE mid-term review meeting

December 15, 2021 - today our ARDRE mid-term review meeting with the agency took place. We would like to thank our project officer Andrea HUTTERER, all ARDRE supervisors and our PhD students for making this meeting a success! 

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Journal Club

December 14, 2021 - 1:00 pm

• Angeliki SPATHOPOULOU (Molecular Biology)
  
  Single-cell atlas of early human brain development highlights heterogeneity of human neuroepithelial cells and early radial glia

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Scientific Project Management

December 06, 2021 - today we had a fabulous seminar from our project.service office. In part II of Scientific Project Management we learned a lot about national and international project management. We' would like to thank our lecturers Robert REBITSCH and David LEDERBAUER for sharing their expertise! 

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Journal Club

November 23, 2021 - 1:00 pm

• Lena GUERRERO NAVARRO (Biomedical Aging Research)
  
  Autophagy impairment with lysosomal and mitochondrial dysfunction is an important characteristic of oxidative stress-induced senescence

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End of 4th call

November 22, 2020 – the fourth call for the ARDRE project Plant Aging (PA) has been closed. We received 33 applications from 8 nationalities. All applications will be now checked for their eligibility. 

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ARDRE Mini Retreat

OCT 15, 2021 – today we had first ARDRE MINI RETREAT after a nice summer break. It was great that so many of our ARDRE Phd students had taken their time.

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ARDRE student representatives

October 01, 2021 - today Camille BRUCKER and Eduardo VILLICAÑA-GONZÁLEZ passed on their responsibilities as ARDRE student representatives to Angeliki SPATHOPOULOU and Lucas HENSEN. We would like to thank you for the great work you have done over the past year.

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Oral presentation @ ANA Meeting 2021

September 28-30, 2021 – we would like to congratulate our PhD student Ferenc TÖRÖK for his oral presentation Biophysical and pharmacological characterisation of de novo CACNA1D mutations associated with a severe neurodevelopment disorder at the this years ANA Meeting in Salzburg! 

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European Researcher's Night

September 24, 2021 – the European Researchers’ Night is an event that takes place simultaneously once a year throughout Europe and invites the public to get a taste of the everyday life of research institutions. This year the Austrian edition of the European Researcher's Night Life is science is again hosted by the Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology (acib). ARDRE successfully participated in this year's event. Find more on YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook...

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4th call for applications

September 23, 2021 – the 4th call for one PhD position is open from 23.09.20211 to 22.11.2021. For further information please see application information.

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Symposium of the Herbal Medicinal Platform

September 17-19, 2021 – at the end of September took place the Symposium of the Herbal Medicinal Platform Austria (HMPPA) at the Karl Landsteiner Private University for Health Sciences. During such event Eduardo VILLICAÑA-GONZÁLEZ got the chance to participate with a five minutes presentation entitled: Separation of paraconic acids contained in Cetraria islandica. It was an opportunity for young researchers, in the field of pharmacognosy to present their work to colleagues from other universities and enhance their networking.

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Radio report on aging on ORF Radio Tirol

August 27, 2021 – Pidder JANSEN-DÜRR was interviewed for the morning show in ORF Radio Tirol. Catch up with the short broadcast and listen to 'Können wir unsterblich werden?' (08:22 am)

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Early stage funding 2021 for Camille BRUCKER

August 11, 2021 – we are happy to announce that Camille BRUCKER has successfully applied for co-financing: Her project Role of SUSD2 in proliferation, senescence and adipogenic differentiation of human adipose stem/progenitor cells was selected for the early stage funding 2021. The project will be funded in the amount of EUR 5.000, sponsored by our Vice Rector for Research. We are incredibly proud of you. Congratulations!

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ARDRE Mini Retreat

June 9, 2021 – today we had our last informal ARDRE MINI RETREAT before the summer break, organized by our Phd students. After a period of important lockdown restictions this joyful get-together event has been very good for the entire project. The ARDRE ESR community has grown together.

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Effective presentation in class and at conferences

June 08/09, 2021 - what a fantastic seminar! We learned a lot about presentation techniques, body language, vocal techniques and, most importantly, dealing with nervousness. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the first onsite training after the COVID-19 lockdown, and thank you to Lothar Tschapka for explaining so clearly. It was a very insightful seminar.

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Journal Club

June 29, 2021 - 1:00 pm

• Camille BRUCKER (Biomedical Aging Research)
  
  Effects of sex, strain, and energy intake on hallmarks of aging in mice 

  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413116302492?via%3Dihub

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Journal Club

June 15, 2021 - 1:00 pm

• Marion LECHABLE (Zoology)
  
  Naturally occuring tumours in the basal metazoan Hydra

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Journal Club

May 25, 2021 - 1:00 pm

• Lucas HENSEN (Biochemistry)
  
  mTOR-dependent translation amplifies microglia priming in aging mice (Keane, L., Antignano, I., Riechers, S. P., Zollinger, R., Dumas, A. A., Offermann, N., ... & Capasso, M. (2021). mTOR-dependent translation amplifies microglia priming in aging mice. The Journal of clinical investigation, 131(1).)

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Journal Club

May 18, 2021 - 1:00 pm

• Lena GUERRERO NAVARRO (Biomedical Aging Research)
  
  Senolysis by glutaminolysis inhibition ameliorates various age-associated disorders