Welcome to our lab's website !

Aging and age-related diseases are central to human health and longevity. We study the molecular mechanisms that regulate aging and hope to exploit them for therapeutic purposes. For more details on our research, please follow this link.

We are located at the new Integrated Cardio Metabolic Center (ICMC) at Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm/Sweden. ICMC is a joint research center between KI and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, aiming to develop innovative treatments for human diseases.

What's new?

new publication

24.10.18 - Our lab just published a new research paper entitled "DAF-16/FOXO and HLH-30/TFEB function as combinatorial transcription factors to promote stress resistance and longevity" in Nature Communications. The paper can be accessed here.

new publication

10.10.18 - Xin, Ilke, and Christian just published a review entitled "Regulation of Age-related Decline by Transcription Factors and Their Crosstalk with the Epigenome" in Current Genomics. The review can be accessed here.

new lab member

15.01.18 - We welcome our new postdoc, Daniel Edgarf! Daniel joined us from the Buck Institute in Novato, USA.

new lab manager

01.01.18 - We welcome our new lab manager, Poomy Pandey! Poomy joined us from the MBB at Karolinska Institutet.

network grant from Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council) awarded

06.12.17 - The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) just awarded a network grant for the study of aging that our lab is part of. Thank you VR !

new lab member

01.09.17 - We welcome our new postdoc, Jérôme Salignon! Jérôme joined us from the CNRS in Lyon, France.

new lab member

01.08.17 - We welcome our new PhD student, Alan Kavsek! Alan joined us from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

new lab member

01.05.17 - We welcome our new postdoc, Andrea Stöhr! Andrea joined us from the NIH in Bethesda, USA.

KID grant awarded

28.03.17 - Karolinska Institutet just awarded us a doctoral education grant. Thank you KI !

open postdoc position !

22.03.17 - We are recruiting a postdoc for the following project:
Transcriptional regulation and epigenetics in the context of aging and age-related diseases. See here for the ad.

open postdoc position !

01.12.16 - We are recruiting a postdoc for the following project:
Study of aging by novel high-throughput transcriptomics approaches. See here for the ad.

new publication

28.10.16 - Marco and Christian just published a book chapter entitled "ATP-dependent Chromatin Remodeling: From Development to Disease". It is part of a book published by Elsevier called "Chromatin Regulation and Dynamics". The book can be accessed here.

new lab member

01.06.16 - We welcome our new postdoc, Lluís Millán Ariño! Lluís joined us from the Dept of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

new lab member

15.03.16 - We welcome our new postdoc, Georges Janssens! Georges joined us from the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

new lab member

07.01.16 - We welcome our new postdoc, Xin Zhou! Xin joined us from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, USA.

project grant from Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council) awarded

01.12.15 - The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) just awarded us a project grant to study the roles of DAF-16/FOXO and chromatin modulation in the regulation of aging. Thank you VR !