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!  

03.09.2022

The MEM Team participates at the open house in the Potsdam Science Park. For further information visit here.

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.

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!

Mark the date:

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. 

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.