Dr. Wenjing Qi
Focus of research
- Genetics and biochemistry of ageing and stress response
- Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
- Tumorigenesis
CV
- Since 2017 Group leader, Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg
- 2011–2016 Postdoc, Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg
- 2006–2010 PhD in Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg (summa cum laude, excellent)
Recent publications
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Heimbucher, T., Gupta, P., Mani, S., Fahrlander, J., Gevelhoff, R. A., Armand, B., Spiewag, S., Yan, Y., Schulze, E., Qi, W., Wu, G., & Baumeister, R. (2026). Metabolic signaling controls intergenerational adaptive responses via peroxisomal catabolism. In Research Square (p. 6522513). Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6522513/v1
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Heimbucher, T., Wu, G., Qi, W., Essmann, C. L., & Baumeister, R. (2026). An mTORC2-lipid signaling axis controls stress-induced organismal death. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7544023/v1
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Yang, W., Cong, S., Li, R., Schwarz, J. J., Schulze, T., Gevelhoff, R. A., Chen, X., Ullrich, S., Falkenstein, K., Ott, D., Eixmann, P., Trentino, A., Thien, A., Heidmann, T., Schulze, E., Warscheid, B., Baumeister, R., & Qi, W. (2025). Opposing roles of pseudokinases NRBP1 and NRBP2 in regulating L1 retrotransposition. Nature Communications, 16, 6327. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61626-z
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Xu, F., Li, R., Donner von Gromoff, E., Drepper, F., Knapp, B., Warscheid, B., Baumeister, R., & Qi, W. (2023). Reprogramming of the transcriptome after heat stress mediates heat hormesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature Communications, 14, 4176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39882-8
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Zhao, Q., Donner v. Gromoff, E., Yang, W., Schwarz, J. J., Tittel, L., Schulze, E., Warscheid, B., Baumeister, R., & Qi, W. (2022). Pseudokinase HPO-11 inhibits nonsense-mediated decay to ensure genome stability in C. elegans. openRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.04.506508