We are happy and proud to announce that our PhD candidate Simran Chopra has received a poster price for her poster presentation at this years conference of the German Society of Nutrition (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung, DGE)! Congratulations! Read more here.

02.05.2022

A warm welcome to Frank Müller, starting his masters thesis in our lab!

31.03.2022

Congratulations to Nicholas Baah Kwao, who has succesfully defended his Masters thesis today!

04.03.2022

Congratulations to Richard Addo, who has succesfully defended his Masters thesis today!

01.03.2022

Welcome Wilson Agyapong, new Master student in our lab!

Wir freuen uns eine neue Seminarreihe am Institut für Ernährungswissenschaften ankündigen zu können: Nutrition & Toxicology : “NutriTox”

Beginn am 16.08.2021 um 16:00
Immer via Zoom
Eine Übersicht der nächsten Vorträge findet sich unter: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/mem/nutritox-seminarreihe

Nach dem 45 minütigen Vortrag wird es jeweils die Möglichkeit eines Roundtables mit der/dem Vortragenden geben (Wissenschaft, Karriere, Networking)
Anfragen zur Teilnahme am  Votrag und/oder dem Roundtable bitte an: idiessel@uni-potsdam.de

12.07.2021

Congrats to Robert Hauffe and all contributors for his new paper "HSP60 reduction protects against diet-induced obesity by modulating energy metabolism in adipose tissue"! Find out how reduced mitochondrial folding capacity impacts adipose tissue and whole-body metabolism in the latest issue of Molecular Metabolism here

30.04.2021

Congrats to Kristina Wardelmann and all contributors for her new publication "Central Acting Hsp10 Regulates Mitochondrial Function, Fatty Acid Metabolism, and Insulin Sensitivity in the Hypothalamus"! Out now in the special issue "Antioxidants in Diabetes" of the Journal Antioxidants. Find out more here.

24.03.2021

Save the date!

We are happy to announce that Ignacio Torres Alemán will join us for the Rehbrücker Kolloquium on the 24.03.2021 at 13:00 to talk about "An IGF-1/orexin pathway in the body-brain dialog".
The lecture will take place online, details will follow. 

16.03.2021

Welcome Nicholas Baah Kwao, new Master student in our lab!

We welcome Neslihan Oztas to the MEM Lab!
She will perform her PhD thesis here and is interested in understanding sex-specific differences in neuronal insulin action.

28.01.2021

Congrats to Mareike Schell and Kristina Wardelmann to their new review "Untangling the effect of insulin action on brain mitochondria and metabolism".

11.01.2021

Welcome Emmanuel Richard Agyakwa Addo, new Master student in our lab!

01.10.2020

We welcome Simran Chopra to the MEM lab. Simran will perform her PhD thesis about the investigation of novel causes of brain insulin resistance.