The focus of the research group “Autophagy and Cellular Ageing” is (1) to understand how cells regulate and perform autophagy at system-wide level and in mechanistic detail and (2) to gain comprehensive inside in the mechanisms and processes that underlie cellular ageing. We are mainly studying the yeast S. cerevisiae and apply a multidisciplinary approach combining genetics, genomics, systems biology, cell and molecular biology, high content imaging and flow cytometry.