Former Research Group - Diekmann (until 2014)
Molecular Biology
Prof. Stephan Diekmann has retired as FLI Group Leader in September 2014.
Stephan Diekmann, former Professor of Biophysical…
Former Associated Research Group - Weih/Hänold (until 2017)
Immunology: Immune to Aging
Dr. Ronny Hänold lead the former Research Group of Falk Weih as provisionary head until December 31st, 2017.…
Former Associated Research Group - Weih/Hänold (until 2017)
Last Projects
NF-?B-Induced Autoimmunity as Reason for Inflammatory Aging
Medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) are important for…
The process of planarian regeneration itself is special since following injury planarians can completely regenerate all the missing structures in about 7 days. After 7 days, the planarian still has…
Most planarians tolerate long periods of starvation, and during this time they shrink from an adult size to, and sometimes beyond, the initial size at hatching. First, food reserves from the…
What makes planarians so plastic? All planarian organs are embedded in a mesodermal tissue called parenchyma, which consists of several non-proliferating cell types and only one mitotically active…
We are especially interested in understanding how the process of starvation regulates stem cells. In old literature there are several indications that planarians have an increased potential to…
United, We Are Strong: Our Cooperations
In times of rapid technological progress, the pace of scientific research is also increasing worldwide. Networking both nationally and internationally is…