Meet our Research Groups
Currently, scientists from over 40 nations do research on aging at the FLI. Meet some of the FLI scientists and see their stories in the interviews.
Kirstein Research Group
Biochemistry of Aging
The long-term health is inextricably linked to protein quality control. An imbalance in protein homeostasis (proteostasis) can result in severe…
Our knowledge of molecular chaperones and proteolytic machines, how they work, how they recognize a substrate and contribute to protein folding, are almost entirely based on in vitro or ex vivo…