07.09.2026
From 7–11 September, our PhD student Julia Sophie Meßner participated in the EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life” in Dresden.
The workshop brought together researchers working on lipid biology and lipid signaling, offering an inspiring opportunity for scientific exchange, discussion, and networking across different research fields.
Sophie presented her research in a poster session and had the opportunity to exchange ideas with researchers from across the field.
07.09.2026
From 7–11 September, our PostDoc Dr. Simran Chopra attended the “Metabolism in Action: Cells, Circuits and Translation” conference in Denmark, organised by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Cluster in collaboration with the Center for Basic Metabolic Research.
The meeting brought together researchers from around the world to discuss metabolic regulation, inter-organ communication, and translational approaches to cardiometabolic diseases, with a strong focus on connecting mechanisms from cells to whole-body physiology.
We are happy to see our group represented at this exciting meeting and hope Simran brought back lots of new ideas and connections!
Learn more about the Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Cluster
07.09.2026
From 7–10 September, our PostDoc Dr. Robert Hauffe attended the 49th Meeting of the European Lipoprotein Club (ELC) in collaboration with the European Atherosclerosis Society, held at Lake Starnberg near Munich.
The meeting brought together researchers working on lipids, lipoproteins, cardiovascular disease, and adipose tissue, providing an excellent opportunity for scientific exchange and networking.
04.09.2026
We are excited to share our latest publication, “Glucose and serum availability fine-tune neuronal metabolic adaptations and direct insulin signaling.”
This publication marks an important milestone as Dr. Robert Hauffe’s first paper as first corresponding author. Congratulations to Robert and everyone involved in this work! 🎉
Read the full paper here here.
17.08.2026
Tim Schulteis is joining us as a Master’s student in Nutritional Science for an internship. We are excited to have you on board and wish you a great time with us!
27.07.2026
We are happy to welcome Özge Anahtar, a Master’s student in Nutritional Science, to our lab for an internship. We are looking forward to having you as part of our team!
13.04.2026
Welcome to Sarah Ertel! She will do her bachelor thesis in our lab and we are excited to have her.
13.02.2026
We are pleased to announce that PhD candidate Sahar Cheshmeh has been awarded the “Support of Equal Opportunity” grant by the Faculty of Science at the University of Potsdam. The funding will support the continuation of her research and contribute to creating a more inclusive academic environment. Congratulations!
01.02.2026
Welcome to Natalie Knaus! She will do her Master thesis in our lab and we are very pleased to welcome her to our group.
13.10.2025
Welcome to Elizabeth Foluke Awodire! She will do her PhD in our lab and we are delighted that she joined our group.
26.06.2025
Huge congratulations to Sophie Messner! She was just awarded the Graduation Award for her outstanding Masters Thesis "Influence of fatty acid quality and sex hormones on neuronal cell metabolism"!
30.05.2025
Congratulations to our PhD candidate Sophie Messner! She was just awarded a poster prize at the conference of the German Diebetes Society (DDG) for her work on the influence of fatty acid saturation on neuronal insulin resistance!
31.03.2025
Welcome to Marina Gonzaléz Morón and Mina Fakhory, two new Master students ion our lab, both from the master of Toxicology.
14.02.2025
We warmly congratulate Dr. Simran Chopra on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis.
Her outstanding work was awarded the highest distinction, summa cum laude, reflecting the exceptional quality, originality, and impact of her research. Throughout her doctoral journey, she demonstrated remarkable dedication, intellectual rigor, and a strong commitment to advancing knowledge in her field.
We are proud to celebrate this significant milestone and wish her continued success in her academic and professional career.
24.12.2024
What a Christmas gift! Simran Chopra just published her first first-author paper "DEP-1 is a brain insulin receptor phosphatase that prevents the simultaneous activation of counteracting metabolic pathways" in Cell Reports! Congratulations on her success, and you can read all about it here.
30.09.2024
Huge congratulations to Sophie Meßner! She hast just defended her Masters Thesis, and will be the first student to do a Fast-Track PhD. So at the same time, we welcome her in our lab as a new PhD student :) Big things to come!
08.03.2024
Simran Chopra was just awarded the Young Investigator Award from the German Center of Diabetes Research (DZD)! Congratulations!
04.03.2024
We have very exciting news to share! PhD candidate Simran Chopra and Postdoc Robert Hauffe will be traveling to this years conference of the American Diabetes Association! Their abstracts were accepted and they will have the great opportunity to present their work at the biggest conference in the field of diabetes research, which is held this year in Orlando, Florida between June 21.-24.
01.03.2024
Between 04.-06.03. our PhD candidate Sahar and Master student Linda will be representing us at this years conference of the German Society of Nutrition (DGE) in Kassel. Be sure to catch their poster presentations!
27.02.2024
Congratulations to Linda Kadiri, who has succesfully defended her Masters Thesis. We are pleased to announce that she will stay at our lab to pursue her PhD!
20.02.2024
Congrats to Robert Hauffe, who was granted funding from the EDUC-Share program from Potsdam University. They aim to facilitate cooperation between european universities and provide him with funding to collaborate with scientists from the University of Sardinia, Italy in a joint project.
Exciting news! Our PhD student Simran Chopra will be giving an oral presentation at this years meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Listen to her talk in October in Hamburg!
26.05.2023
Congratulations to our Postdoc Robert Hauffe! He was one of three young scientists who received an award of the German Diabetes Society (DDG) for their doctoral thesis.
Congrats to Mareike Schell on having her Paper accepted for publication! Check out her findings on the effects of Lactobacilli on Depressive-Like behaviour in obesity here.
06.05.2023
The MEM Lab showed great enthusiasm at this year's Potsdam Science Day. Thanks to everyone involved, we had great discussions and engagement with the public!
24.04.2023
A warm welcome to our two new Students Anina and Nele, who join our Lab to work on their Bachelor Thesis
31.03.2023
Congrats to Wilson Agyapong, who has just defended his Master thesis!
22.09.2022
Congratulations Mareike Schell! She has just defended her PhD thesis where she had shown how a Lactobcillus treatment affects emotional behaviour in diet-induced obesity.
Dr. Mareike Schell's next station is the Biddinger Lab at the Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, USA. We wish her all the best for her future research endeavours!
Das NutriTox Seminar beginnt wieder am 10. Oktober 2022!
Folgende Termine stehen bereits fest:
- 10.10.22: Zach Hynes (University of Copenhagen), "Age-associated mitochondrial myopathy drives bioenergetic compensation and glucose re-routing to defend muscle homeostasis"
- 17.10.22: Elias Arner (Karolinska Institute Stockholm), "The Thioredoxin System as a regulator of metabolism"
- 07.11.22: Cristina García-Cáceres (HMGU München), "How does the brain know what you've eaten?"
- 14.11.22: Mollie K. Meffert (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), "Growth Regulatory Gene Programs in Neurodevelopment and Plasticity"
- 21.11.22 David Hodson, University of Oxford, "Interrogating pancreatic beta cell states from the single cell to the single molecule"
- 28.11.22: TBD
- 5.12.22: Jan Mauer, Novartis Career Talk
- 12.12.22: Alexander Bartelt (LMU München), "Nutrient sensing in adipocytes and cardiometabolic health"
- 23.01.23: Sophie Laye (NutriNeuro Bordeaux), Title TBD
03.09.2022
Das MEM Team im vollen Einsatz beim Tag der offenen Türen im Potsdam Science Park. Weitere Informationen hier.
07.08.2022
Our PhD student Simran Chopra had the great opportunity to present her current research at the International Congress on Neuroendocrinology in Glasgow.
01.08.2022
We welcome Sahar Cheshmeh to the MEM Lab!
She was awarded a scholarship from the Potsdam Graduate School and will perform her PhD thesis with us.
07.06.2022
Mareike Schell had the great opportunity to present her PhD work at this year's Scientific Sessions of the ADA (American Diabetes Association) in New Orleans, USA. We congratulate her on this acievement and hope to see more of her work in upcoming events!
06.06.2022
Our PhD student Simran Chopra just had her abstract accepted to present a poster during this year's International Congress of Neuroendocrinology held August 7-10 in Glasgow, Scotland. Looking forward to your presentation!
30.05.2022
Congratulations to Robert Hauffe, PhD graduate of the Kleinridders Lab! He was just awarded a price for his dissertation by the German Diabetes Association (Deutsche Diabetes Gesellschaft DDG). The DDG honors up to three outstanding dissertations in the diabetes field each year. Read more here.
28.04.2022
Congrats to Michaela Rath and Robert Hauffe, who have just published their paper "Obesity Hinders the Protective Effect of Selenite Supplementation on Insulin Signaling" in Antioxidants.
Read all about how pre-existing obesity precludes beneficial effects of a selenite supplementation here.
18.03.2022
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: idiesseluuni-potsdampde
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!
19.10.2020
Congrats Kristina Wardelmann to a new co-authorship on "Cell autonomous requirement of neurofibromin (Nf1) for postnatal muscle hypertrophic growth and metabolic homeostasis"
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.