We are excited to announce the #CRC1678 Summer Symposium!
🗓️ June 22, 2026
📍 Auditorium, MPI for Biology of Ageing, Cologne
A student‑organized day of scientific exchange featuring CRC researchers and international invited speakers.
🔗 More information on our event website: uni.koeln/U7FHR
SPACO, our tool for Spatial Component Analysis for Spatial Sequencing Data, is now available as R package on CRAN!🎉 Congratulations to the team!!! We also have a Docker image which is available on Zenodo. #SpatialTranscriptomics #DimensionalityReduction
📣#CECAD will host two exciting conferences
📆 11th - 14th October 2026 15th AHA Conference - “From mechanisms of age-associated diseases to healthy aging” uni.koeln/7X2K8
📆 14th - 16th October 2026 1stEFAR Conference - “On the Biology of Aging” uni.koeln/YGPMA
👉 Submit abstracts by May 31st
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨
New work from our #CRC1678 members @volkerboehm.bsky.social and Niels Gehring in @narjournal.bsky.social shows that SMG8 and SMG9 act as nonessential but crucial modulators safeguarding the efficiency and resilience of the NMD pathway.
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re excited to welcome Christina Leslie to our upcoming #CRC1678 Seminar.
🧬AI models for regulatory genomics and spatial biology
📅 March 17
📍Auditorium, MPI-Age
⏰ 3:00 PM
Join us to explore cutting‑edge AI models shaping regulatory genomics and spatial biology!
Big congratulations to our #CRC1678 partner Niels Gehring! Isn't it amazing how little we understand about the molecular mechanisms of something as important as NMD?
Read this:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks to @antebilab.bsky.social for involving us in this project! Beyer-lab member Francisco Lopes helped with the data analysis and came up with a cool way to study the stoichiometry control of ribosomal proteins. Read the preprint for more!
Together with @spanier55.bsky.social and Boris Pfander we put together a great program with support of @cecad.bsky.social Cologne, @mpiage.bsky.social and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. Meeting site: www.for-5504.com/en/197/Confe...
🚨Publication Alert🚨
New work from our #CRC1678 members Niels Gehring and @volkerboehm.bsky.social published in @natcomms.nature.com shows that SMG5 & SMG6 PIN domains form a composite endonuclease (cPIN)
enabling efficient mRNA cleavage🧬
Looking forward to continuing the collaboration with @pkdinternational.bsky.social in this new position.
🧬🧬🧬 REGISTRATION JUST OPENED! Make sure you join our DNA REPAIR MEETING 2026 ON PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENOME INSTABILITY in Cologne, September 7-9, organized by the German Society for DNA Repair (DGDR) and the @dfg.de Research Unit 5504. www.for-5504.com/en/197/Confe...
📢 PhD Positions - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 26/01 (m/f/d)
The Leibniz Graduate School on Aging (LGSA) is a joint program of the @leibnizfli.bsky.social and the @uni-jena.de (FSU) in #Jena. The School calls for #applications for #PhD positions. 👇
➡️ More: jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/c...
Beyer Group as Snow White and the Data Miners
Beyer Group proudly presents: "Snow White and the Data Miners". It's so much fun to be part of Cologne Carnival!
Thanks to all the costume designers and makers, especially to Paula and Jakub!!!
We are VERY much looking forward to the selection week and meeting the candidates! All of them are very smart people and we will have many inspiring discussions.
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👩🔬 Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Meet Lara Hitzemann @larahi.bsky.social , PhD student in the group of @beyerlab.bsky.social at the @unicologne.bsky.social
Big thank you to all those female researchers from #CRC1678 sharing their thoughts in this series! 🙏
#WomenInScience
#GirlsInSTEM
!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Imagine all of the Beyer Lab papers with female first authors were gone: what would our publication track record look like?
Yes, this is a terrible situation one never aims to find themselves in. However, I am sure Beyer-lab alumnus Michael Kuhn contributed more than enough to deserve a corresponding authorship.
Want to learn about evolution on a global scale? Read this! 📜
Congrats to the whole Bork Lab! 🥂
Congratulations to Achim, Peter and teams!
Amazing to have you here! I am looking forward to work together on #RNA and #ageing @mpiage.bsky.social
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Check out this brand new review article about Proteostasis of organelles in aging and disease in @febsj.bsky.social. Congratulations to our #CRC1678 members @thevilchezlab.bsky.social and Yara Nabawi and everyone else involved🎉
🚨Publication Alert🚨
New work from our #CRC1678 members @bjornschumacher.bsky.social and @meyerdh.bsky.social reveals why some neurons age faster. Using neuron‑specific aging clocks, they identified vulnerable neurons and highlight syringic acid and vanoxerine as promising neuroprotective hits.🧬
Fantastic work! It was so much fun to watch this project unfold.
Whow! Congratulations to our postdoc Nisha!!! 🥂🌟
Big congrats to Domenico and the team!
🚨Hot off the press from #CRC1678 's @ignatovalab.bsky.social 🚨
A brand‑new paper published in @narjournal.bsky.social introduces ADAM‑tRNA‑seq, a powerful framework that finally brings accuracy and scalability to Nanopore‑based direct tRNA sequencing. Congratulations! 🥳
🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re thrilled to welcome Duygu Ucar for an upcoming joint #CRC1678 / #CECAD Seminar about “Heterogeneity in Human Immune Aging and Vaccine Responses”.
📅 February 4
📍 CECAD Lecture Hall
⏰ 2:30 PM
Join us for fresh insights into the complexity of human immune aging!
One of the greatest computational biologists of Germany - of the world I should say. He majorly shaped the field, never got stuck in one corner of science, but kept exploring new areas due to his curiosity, always aimed to understand the biology, and trained generations of scientists.
One of the greatest computational biologists of Germany - of the world I should say. He majorly shaped the field, never got stuck in one corner of science, but kept exploring new areas due to his curiosity, always aimed to understand the biology, and trained generations of scientists.
I’ve changed my header photo to this one. It shows my father Herbert and his sister Lotte with their parents Fritz and Marta in their Frankfurt apartment before Herbert and Lotte were sent to England on the Kindertransport, and later Fritz and Marta transported to Lodz Ghetto, final fate unknown.