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Monday, 15.06.2026 16:00 via Zoom

Emeline Roux (Institut NuMeCan, INRAE, INSERM, University Rennes)

"Identification of bacterial strains using Nanopore sequencing, from pure cultures and simple ecosystems (e.g. food products, yoghurt) to complex ecosystems (gut microbiota)"

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https://uni-potsdam.zoom.us/j/67374842720
Meeting-ID: 673 7484 2720
Code: 35960810

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Upcoming NutriTox seminar talks:

  • 15.06.2026 Emeline Roux (Institut NuMeCan, INRAE, INSERM, University Rennes) "Identification of bacterial strains using Nanopore sequencing, from pure cultures and simple ecosystems (e.g. food products, yoghurt) to complex ecosystems (gut microbiota)"
  • 22.06.2026 Jan Hengstler (Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at Dortmund University) “Cholesterol in hepatotoxicity”
  • 29.06.2026 Ilona Grunwald Kadow (University Hospital Bonn, Institute of Physiology, Physiology II) “Beyond neurons: Dissecting the mechanisms of adaptive behavior”
  • Tuesday! 07.07.2026 Markus Christmann (university of Mainz, Institute of Toxicology) “tbd”
  • 13.07.2026 Melanie Mittenbühler (German Diabetes Center (DDZ) Düsseldorf) “tbd”

Previous speakers at the NutriTox Seminar:

  • Katja Rust (University of Marburg, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology) “Cancer and Cachexia: how local oncogenic signaling drives systemic metabolic deregulation”
  • Louise Cheng (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne Australia) “Understanding interorgan crosstalk in cancer cachexia”
  • Vivien Michaelis (University of Wuppertal) “Species-Specific Effects of Mercury in the Placenta: From Comparison to Methylmercury-Driven Changes in Trace Element Homeostasis”
  • Margret Bülow (University of Potsdam, Biochemistry of Nutrition)
  • Yoichiro Sugimoto (Max Delbrück Center, Molecular mechanisms of environment sensing) "Emerging molecular mechanisms of oxygen sensing – in health and disease"
  • Denise Bloch (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)) "Synergism of evil and the dwarf revolution - On mixture toxicity and its regulation"
  • Holger Sieg (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)) "Microplastics as environmental contaminants: Understanding the interactions with the human body"
  • Peter Philipsborn (Public Health Nutrition, University of Bayreuth) "Food environments and policies for healthy and sustainable diets: a public health approach"
  • Elvira Weber (University Hospital Düsseldorf) "Engineering 3D Adipose Tissue-From Stem Cells to Functional Organoids"
  • Katherina Siewert (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)) "Keep your body happy - a novel T cell test to prevent and diagnose skin and food allergies"
  • Michael Ebner (University of Innsbruck) "Lysosomal inside-out signaling orchestrates membrane repair mechanisms via phosphosinositide conversion"
  • Katharina Papsdorf (The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) Mainz) "Lipid droplets drive longevity upon monounsaturated fatty acids in C. elegans"
  • Michaela Filiou (University of Ioannina, Greece; Department of Biological Applications and Technology) "Anxiety, stress, diet and mitochondria: Decoding the brain puzzle"
  • 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 Center Munich 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 (University of Applied Sciences 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 (University of 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"
  • Wenqiang Chen (Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA): "Microglial insulin signaling in health and in AD pathogenesis"
  • Jörg Fahrer (Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau):"DNA damage response and cell death triggered by plant toxins in liver cells"
  • Pia Wippert (University of Potsdam): "When stress throws the metabolism off balance"
  • *canceled* Miguel Angel del Pozo (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Madrid Spain): "Cell and tissue mechanoadaption: molecular mechanisms and physiopathological relevance"
  • Andreas Müller (Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden): "Exploring beta cell function and signalling with volume electron microscopy"
  • Lars-Oliver Klotz (University of Jena): "Selenium-binding proteins: thiol oxidases and modulators of stress resistance"
  • Jan Heiner Küpper (Brandenburg University of Technology 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 (University of 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  (German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam): "A multispecies approach to study islets of Langerhans in T2D at the single cell level"
  • Sharmili Thanarajah (Univerity Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University): "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; Canada): "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, Finland): "The hypoxia response: Old features and new aspects"
  • Marcelo Mori (UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo Brasil): "An Adipocentric Approach to Metabolic Diseases and Aging"
  • Claudia Matthäus (Institute of nutrional Science, University of Potsdam): "Caveolae mediated lipid trafficking"
  • Jan Riemer (CECAD Research Center, Institute of Biochemistry, Cologne University) "Mitochondrial H2O2: handling and signalling"
  • Matthias Laudes (University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (Campus Kiel), Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetology and Clinical Nutritional Medicine) "Causes and Consequences of Metabolic Inflammation in Humans"
  • Jane Reznick (CECAD Research Center, Cologne University) "Metabolic adaptations in the naked mole-rat heart"
  • Gunter P. Eckert (Department of Nutrition in Prevention & Therapy, Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Gießen) "Mitochondria - target structures for the prevention of age-related diseases"
  • 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 & obesity"
  • Robert Hauffe (Institute of Nutritional Science, University of 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 (Technichal University Dresden, ) "Lipidomics technology to uncover biology of lipid metabolism"
  • Ivano Amilio (Konstanz University) "GxE interaction: metabolism and epigenetics as basis of p53 tumour suppression"
  • Jörg Heeren (Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)) "Brown Adipose Tissue and lipid metabolism"
  • Michael Schupp (Charité Berlin, Institute of Pharmacology), "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 (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation), "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 Munich), "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 Institute, Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena)
  • Alexander Tups (School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand)
  • Gabriele Stangl (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg)
  • Natalia Kononenko (CECAD Research Center, University of Cologne)
  • Martin Graef (Max-Planck-Institute Cologne)
  • Cecile Vernochet (Gates Foundation, USA)
  • Andrea Haase (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR))
  • Florian Fricke (University Hohenheim)
  • Anna P. Kipp (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)
  • Marcus Conrad (Helmholtz Center Munich)
  • Thomas Lutz (University of Zurich)