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!
The following dates are confirmed:
03.09.2022
The MEM Team participates at the open house in the Potsdam Science Park. For further information visit here.
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!
01.03.2022
Welcome Wilson Agyapong, new Master student in our lab!
New Seminar Series at the Institute of Nutritional Science: Nutrition&Toxicology: “NutriTox”
Starting at 16.08.2021 at 16:00.
Always via Zoom
Please visit https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/mem/nutritox-seminarreihe For upcoming lectures
After the 45 min Scientific Talk, there istheoptionfor students and postdocs to participateinaroundtablewith speakers (science, career options, advice, networking).
To participate in the seminar and/or the roundtable ,please write an email to: 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.
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".
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.