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Das NutriTox Seminar ist in der Sommerpause. Im Wintersemester 2025/2026 geht es weiter mit spannenden Gästen und Themen!

Überblick über die Sprecher der vergangenen NutriTox Seminare:

  • Eylül Bankoglu (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Unit Safety of Food Contact Materials, Department Chemical and Product Safety) "Risk Assessment of NIAS from Food Contact Materials: Challenges and Possible Strategies"
  • Carsten Marr (Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health) "AI in Biomedical Research and the Diagnostics of Blood Diseases"
  • Joel Mayer (Duke University, USA) "Impacts of mitochondrial toxicity: from mtDNA damage to chemical poisons"
  • Christina Holzapfel (Hochschule Fulda) "Digital tools for obesity treatment"
  • Daniel Frazakerley (University of Cambridge) "Using dynamic subcellular proteomics to identify novel regulators of adipocyte metabolism"
  • Jonathan Blum (Swiss Centre of Applied Human Toxicology)"Integration of New Approach Methods to Assess Developmental Neurotoxicity"
  • Thomas Hofmann (University Medical Center Mainz) "Mechanistic insights into tumor suppressor p53 regulation and in DNA double-strand break repair"
  • Florian Fröhlich (Universität Osnabrück) "Mechanisms of Very Long Chain Fatty Acid Activation in Yeast Ceramide Biosynthesis"
  • Maria Maares (Universität Potsdam, Institut für Ernährungswissenmschaft) "Metalloglycobiology in health and disease - The status of essential trace elements and mucins during endometriosis"
  • Melanie Schirmer (Technical University Munich, Translational Microbiome Data Integration) "Integrating Multi-omics data to identify host-microbial interactions in disease"
  • Björn Schumacher (Cologne Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease (CECAD)) "tba"
  • Henning Langer (Charité university Medicine, Berlin) "The effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists on skeletal muscle mass and function"
  • Thomas Hofmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Insitute of Toxicology) "tba"
  • Abdelfattah El Ouaamari (Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College , USA) "tba"
  • Julia Bornhorst (University of Wuppertal, Food Chemistry and Toxicology) "tba"
  • Andriy Khopta (University of Jena) "tba"
  • Maria Ioannou (University of Alberta, Department of Physiology, Canada) "The role of ApoE in neuron to glia lipid transport"
  • Ünal Coskun (Technical University Dresden) "Lipid-Protein Interactions: from dietary lipids to cell fate decisions"
  • Sinika Henschke (Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research) "The Hypothalamic-Liver Axis: Balancing Hepatic Mitochondrial Function, Adaptation, and Insulin Sensitivity"
  • José Pedro Castro (I3S - Institute for Research & Innovation in Health, Portugal) "Decoding tissue aging: Unveiling inflammation and a novel biomarker for chronic diseases"
  • Atul Shahaji Deshmukh (University of Kopenhagen) "Novel insights into proteomics"
  • Shana Sturla (Laboratory of Toxicology, ETH Zurich): "Uncovering the functional relevance of the microbiome on toxicologically relevant responses to food and drugs"
  • Wenqiang Chen (Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA): "Microglial insulin signaling in health and in AD pathogenesis"
  • Jörg Fahrer (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau):"DNA damage response and cell death triggered by plant toxins in liver cells"
  • Pia Wippert (Universität Potsdam): "When stress throws the metabolism off balance"
  • *entfällt* Miguel Angel del Pozo (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Madrid Spanien): "Cell and tissue mechanoadaption: molecular mechanisms and physiopathological relevance"
  • Andreas Müller (Paul Langerhans Institut Dresden): "Exploring beta cell function and signalling with volume electron microscopy"
  • Lars-Oliver Klotz (Universität Jena): "Selenium-binding proteins: thiol oxidases and modulators of stress resistance"
  • Jan Heiner Küpper (Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg): "1. In vitro toxicology analysis with physiologically-relevant human hepatocytes; 2. Arthrospira platensis (Spirulina), a superfood?"
  • Carolin Victoria Schneider (RWTH Aachen): "Harnessing Big data for prevention of metabolic liver disease"Lucia Seale (Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaiʻi, USA): "Selenium metabolism in thermogenic adipocytes"Jörg Müller (Universität Jena): "FLT3 in hematopoiesis and osteogenesis – consequences of aberrant receptor tyrosine kinase activities"
  • Joshua Pemberton (Western University Canada): "Understanding the integrated regulation of membrane lipid composition and organelle dynamics"
  • Pascal Gottmann  (Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung, Potsdam): "A multispecies approach to study islets of Langerhans in T2D at the single cell level"
  • Sharmili Thanarajah (Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Goethe Universität): "The effect of highfat/highsugar diet on brain dopaminergic pathways"
  • Micah Schott (University of Nebraska, USA): "Molecular mechanisms of lipid droplet autophagy in liver disease"
  • Merly Vogt (Helmholtz Munich, Institute for Diabetes and Cancer): "Metabolic programming of the nervous system: conserved signals prime future generations for impaired health outcomes"
  • Min-Chi Ku (Max Delbrück Center, Berlin): "Metabolic Syndrome and the Heart: A Cardiac MRI Perspective"
  • Heather Ferris (University of Virginia School of Medicine; USA): "Astrocytes: The liver of the brain"
  • Jeremy Van Raamsdonk (McGill University Health Centre Research Institute; Kanada): "Biological resilience and aging: Role of cellular resilience pathways in lifespan extension"
  • Brian O'Neill (Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA): "Discovery of a Novel FoxO Target for Diabetic Muscle Disease"
  • Thomas Kietzmann (ECM-Hypoxia research unit, Universität Oulu, Finnland): "The hypoxia response: Old features and new aspects"
  • Marcelo Mori (UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo Brasilien): "An Adipocentric Approach to Metabolic Diseases and Aging"
  • Claudia Matthäus (Institut für Ernährungswissenschaft, Universität Potsdam): "Caveolae mediated lipid trafficking"
  • Jan Riemer (CECAD Forschungszentrum, Institut für Biochemie, Universität Köln) "Mitochondrial H2O2: handling and signalling"
  • Matthias Laudes (Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (Campus Kiel), Klinik für Innere Medizin I & SH-Exzellenz-Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin, Endokrinologie, Diabetologie und klinische Ernährungsmedizin) "Causes and Consequences of Metabolic Inflammation in Humans"
  • Jane Reznick (CECAD Forschungszentrum, Universität Köln) "Metabolic adaptations in the naked mole-rat heart"
  • Gunter P. Eckert (Ernährung in Prävention und Therapie, Institut für Ernährungswissenschaft, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) "Mitochondrien - Zielstrukturen für die Prävention altersbedingter Erkrankungen"
  • Sander Bekeschus (Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, Greifswald) "Applied Redox Medicine Using Gas Plasma Technology"
  • Mario Ost (Paul Flechsig Institute of Neuropathology University Hospital Leipzig) "Temporal action of polyamines on muscle homeostasis in health & obesityRobert Hauffe (Institut für Ernährungswissenschaft, Universität Potsdam) "Revisiting the Adipose Tissue Insulin Receptor as a Target to Improve Metabolism in Obesity"
  • Alexander Jais (Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG), Leipzig) "Prepronociceptin-expressing neurons regulate overeating and energy expenditure"
  • Maria Fedorova (Technische Universität Dresden) "Lipidomics technology to uncover biology of lipid metabolism"
  • Ivano Amilio (Universität Konstanz) "GxE interaction: metabolism and epigenetics as basis of p53 tumour suppression"
  • Jörg Heeren (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)) "Brown Adipose Tissue and lipid metabolism"
  • Michael Schupp (Charité Berlin, Institut für Pharmakologie), "Novel Aspects of Hepatic Retinol Mobilization by RBP4"
  • David Ellison (Oregon Health & Science University, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension), "Salt and Hypertension"
  • Sophie Layé (NutriNeuro Bordeaux), "Role of nutritional omega3 in neuroinflammation, neuronal plasticity and mood and cognitive disorders"
  • Franziska Richter Assencio (Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover), "Novel therapeutics for Synucleinopathies"
  • David Hodson (University of Oxford), "Interrogating pancreatic beta cell states from the single cell to the single molecule"
  • Mollie K. Meffert (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), "Growth Regulatory Gene Programs in Neurodevelopment and Plasticity"
  • Cristina García-Cáceres (HMGU München), "How does the brain know what you've eaten?"
  • Zach Hynes (University of Copenhagen),  "Age-associated mitochondrial myopathy drives bioenergetic compensation and glucose re-routing to defend muscle homeostasis"
  • Elias Arner (Karolinska Institute Stockholm), "The Thioredoxin System as a regulator of metabolism"
  • Maria Ermolaeva (Fritz-Lipmann Institut e.V., Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung, Jena)
  • Alexander Tups (School of Biomedical Sciences, Universität Otago, Neuseeland)
  • Gabriele Stangl (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
  • Natalia Kononenko (CECAD Research Center, Universität Köln)
  • Martin Graef (Max-Planck-Institut Köln)
  • Cecile Vernochet (Gates Foundation, USA)
  • Andrea Haase (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung)
  • Florian Fricke (Universität Hohenheim)
  • Anna P. Kipp (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
  • Thomas Lutz (Universität Zürich)