Fellowship on Dönertas Group

Prasoon Pandey joins the lab as an LGSA Fellow

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome Prasoon Pandey, who joins the lab with a PhD fellowship from the Leibniz Graduate School on Aging (LGSA) — a joint programme between the Leibniz Institute on Aging (FLI) and Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena, running since 2006.

Great to have you with us, Prasoon!

Tayyaba awarded OBF Event Fellowship for ISMB 2025

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Huge congrats to Tayyaba Alvi for receiving an Event Fellowship from the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) to attend ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool.

The fellowship promotes diverse participation at events around open-source bioinformatics and open science. At ISMB, Tayyaba co-led a tutorial on Mendelian Randomization — read her conference reflections.

Ulaş awarded Joachim Herz Stiftung Add-on Fellowship

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Huge congrats to Ulaş Işıldak for the Add-on Fellowship from Joachim Herz Stiftung!

Ulaş develops computational methods to study the gut microbiome in aging. With the fellowship, he’ll learn new experimental skills, generate more data, and validate his results — bringing wet-lab depth to his computational programme.