Laura Wester

Thrilled to receive a postdoc award to dive into the intriguing research area of #ReproductiveAging using C. elegans as a model. It's a field that deserves more attention, and I'm grateful to @GCRLE1 for their research support and commitment to raising awareness!🧬🔬#GCRLEGrants

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic. Read more about their story: bit.ly/3XI7KK3

This year’s medicine laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun studied a relatively unassuming 1 mm long roundworm, C. elegans. Despite its small size, C. elegans possesses many specialised cell types such as nerve and muscle cells also found in larger, more complex animals, making it a useful model for investigating how tissues develop and mature in multicellular organisms. Read how the 2024 medicine laureates’ investigations into C. elegans revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation: bit.ly/4dlPE6f #NobelPrize

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

Our 6th Rhineland RNA Salon on #RNADay 1AUG 2024 was a full success with a steep increase of 120 participants fom Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Aachen hosted at @DZNE_en. Special thanks to our external speakers @RentmeisterLab from @LMU_Muenchen and @RiccardoPecori from @DKFZ! 🥳

We invite all #RNA enthusiasts to join us on 1st August 2024 @DZNE_en on #RNADay (1st AUG) in Bonn for our 6th Rhineland RNA Club/Salon meeting (sponsored by @RNASociety @lexogen). We have fantastic local #RNA speakers and for the first time two exciting invited speakers! 🧬

Why do eggs in ovaries last for decades? Long-lived proteins may be key! Read more about our recent @NatureCellBio study and a related @eLife study by @NUDuncanLab in this nice news article in @ScienceMagazine. science.org/content/articl…

Just wrapped up an amazing lab retreat at Gut Hungenbach, Kürten!🌳🧬We brainstormed exciting new projects, were inspired by our guest speaker @AndreasBeyer012, and had a blast hiking, playing games, and diving into deep discussions. #LabLife #ScienceRetreat #AgingResearch

Thanks @pintofscienceDE for organizing these fun events and connecting scientists with the public! Had great discussions after the talks over drinks, and got to learn about nitrogen fixation in plants (@KuertoesNoah) and wave–particle duality (Sebastian Hofferberth @UniBonn ) 🍻

🍻🧠🤓 🇩🇪 Das @pintofscienceDE Event startet heute: 3 Nächte voller großartiger #Wissenschaft für Alle! 🇬🇧 Pint of Science #Cologne starts today: 3 nights of great #science for everyone! 👏 Danke / Thanks @AnnamariaRegin3 @fetzli @SNiftullayev 🔬 #pint24de @MPIAGE @UniCologne

@HageSprenger @MPIAGE Yeeeahhh congrats :)

@sinikahenschke @ScienceMagazine Super interesting, congrats, Sinika and everyone 🙌

More than excited to share our latest study from my PhD work published in @ScienceMagazine! We demonstrate that food perception is sufficient to drive adaptational processes in hepatic mitochondria. For more details read the 🧵 and here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Please RT.

🧠 Interested in exploring the #ageing process? Consider a #FRONTIERS residency at @MPIAGE, in Cologne🇩🇪. The Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing is one of the world’s leading institutes dedicated to the study of ageing. #FRONTIERSdatabase 🔗bit.ly/41YnWbOn 🧵22/n

@HartmanMatias_ Oooh thanks Mati 🥰

Look mum, that’s my friend @fetzli on tv talking about science! So proud of you my friend!! ❤️❤️

@RaymondLaBoy1 Can send a link once it's available, but it's in German 👻

@fetzli 😦 We need the full video!

I got the opportunity to talk about Blue Zones and aging on a German TV show. Tune in tonight on ZDF for 'Die große Terra X-Show'! :)

Amazing to watch @FLOTUS announce in real time with @mariashriver @SenWarren @XavierBecerra @EdMarkey felt like a dream… then to brainstorm project ideas with luminaries was absolute magic! We started @GCRLE1 4 years ago to solve #ovarianaging and this is real progress!!

We had a lot of fun celebrating carnival this year: Hogwarts 🧙‍♂️🪄 vs. Death Eaters 🐍! After a magical breakfast, the lab joined the annual MPI AGE carnival party.

What happens when fish fast? Interview with Adam Antebi @AntebiLab about the latest study on killifish. #ageing #aging @CECAD_ dw.com/en/fasting-wha…

we are searching for a Post Doc to explore to the intersection of mRNA translation control and cell fate decisions in the context of development and disease. nature.com/naturecareers/… please spread the word

1/7 Publication @NatureAging🚨 Our study in killifish shows for the first time that the AMPKy1 complex mediates the refeeding response after fasting, counteracts a constitutive fasting-like transcription program in old fish and prolongs vertebrate lifespan nature.com/articles/s4358…