dvalenzano.bsky.social
I study the evolution of senescence. Scientific Director at the Leibniz Institute on Aging. Killifish, evolution, microbiome, and causal inference. Bringing molecular genetics into field work.🇪🇺🐟🦠🧬
👤 Joined on 03 December 2023
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@dvalenzano.bsky.socialThank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections
Show PostThe amazing “Elk’s Head of Huittinen” comes from a Mesolithic settlement in southern Finland, dating to around 6100 BC. The ~10 cm long steatite (soapstone) head was carefully ground and finished and features a shaft hole for mounting. Because the stone is soft, it is unlikely...🧵1/3 📷 me
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Show PostDid you know that the cells of old animals contain much less mRNA than the cells of young ones? Let me share with you some results from an ongoing project in the lab, where we are finding that a progressive depletion of total mRNA abundance is a crucial part of aging 1/22
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