Joao Pedro de Magalhaes joined the Ageing and Stress Group at the University of Namur in Belgium. With Olivier Toussaint as his advisor, Magalhaes’ work from 1999 to 2004 spanned molecular mechanisms of cellular senescence and responses to oxidative stress, evolutionary models of ageing, and analyses of gene networks. He then did a postdoc from 2004 to 2008 with George Church at Harvard Medical S...