We are happy to announce that Dr. Melike Dönertaş, Dr. Nina Hahn and Dr. Kevin Maik Jablonka joined the MSCJ! Welcome on board!
Dr. Melike Dönertaş is a computational biologist who leads the junior research group “AI in Microbiome and Aging Research” at the Leibniz Institute on Aging (FLI). Her research focuses on the systems biology of ageing, with a particular emphasis on the interactions between the microbiome and the host. Her team develops and applies data integration strategies, databases, and models that specialise in age series and longitudinal data. Through their work, they aim to uncover the temporal dynamics of microbe-host interactions, identify the microbiome as a robust biomarker of ageing, and discover potential therapeutic targets for treating age-related diseases.
The passion of Dr. Nina Hahn is to understand the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases. She aims to identify the pathophysiological key players in order to develop corresponding therapeutic approaches. Focusing on cellular and molecular neuroimmunology, her recent projects investigate sepsis-associated encephalopathy and autoimmune encephalitis.
The discovery of materials and molecules is a tedious, expensive, and serendipitous process. An important reason for that is that it requires a lot of experience and tacit knowledge to become good at designing new compounds. In the group of Dr. Kevin Maik Jablonka, data-driven techniques are leveraged to address this information bottleneck to accelerate the development of materials that work in the real world.
