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!
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 shad 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: 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!
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.
