Tushar Patel

India

Phone: +49 3641 656868
Email: tushar.patel@leibniz-fli.de

Development and Analysis of epigenetic clock models.

Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU): Faculty of Biological Sciences

Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI): Hoffmann Research Group

First Supervisor:

Alena van Bömmel (Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI))

Co – Supervisor(s):

Steve Hoffmann (Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI))

Publications 2025:

Placental epigenetic clocks derived from crowdsourcing: Implications for the study of accelerated aging in obstetrics.
Bhatti G, Sufriyana H, Romero R, Patel T, Tekola-Ayele F, Alsaggaf I, Gomez-Lopez N, Su ECY, Done B, Hoffmann S, van Bömmel A, Wan C, Albrecht J, Novak C, DREAM Placenta Clock Challenge Consortium, Chaiworapongsa T, Sirota M, Aghaeepour N, Stolovitzky G, Bryant DR, Tarca AL
iScience 2025, 28(8), 113181
Distinct Effects of Aging and Klotho Deletion on the Choroid Plexus
Fanaei-Kahrani Z, Patel T, Valkova C, Gloria A, Wagner J, Heuer H, Schwaninger M, Hofmann S, Bauer R, Kaether C
bioRxiv 2025, https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.
An improved epigenetic age estimation with TFMethyl Clock reveals DNA methylation changes during aging in transcription factor binding sites
Patel T, Schwarz R, Riege K, Varshavsky M, Kestler HA, Kaplan T, Hoffmann** S, van Bömmel** A
bioRxiv 2025, https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10. ** co-corresponding authors

Scientific CV

Education:

2018-2023

Intergrated BS-MS (Bachelor and Masters' of Science), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal (IISER-B), INDIA. Thesis Title: Study of heat stress response in the context of overlapping pathways & aging in C. elegans

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