The Renate Maaß Foundation's funding is dedicated to honouring brain research in Lübeck and its scientists. The University of Lübeck awards the Renate…

will celebrate the great achievements of the past 9 years with our students, PIs, alumni and partners.

Schleswig-Holstein fördert vier neue Exzellenzprofessuren in der Entzündungsforschung.

KIEL/LÜBECK. Das innovative Förderprogramm des Landes für die…

by Dr. Oliver Rawashdeh, Chronobiology & Sleep Lab, The University of Queensland, Australia

by Jin Bao, PhD,

Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute,

Shen Zhen Institute of Advanced Technology,

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sabrina Diano, PhD,

Robert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition,

Director, Institute of Human Nutrition /

Columbia University Irving Medical…

by Dr. Eva Winnebeck,

Lecturer in Chronobiology,

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,

University of Surrey, UK

Franca Schmid, PhD,

ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research,

University of Bern,

Switzerland

by Prof. Dr. Matthias Blüher, Clinic for Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig

by Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of South Denmark (Odense)

Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Scientific Corporate Vice President in Global Drug Discovery at Novo Nordisk, Denmark

by Prof. Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School

by Kirsty Spalding, PhD,

Department of Cell and Molecular Biology,

Karolinska Institutet

by Prof. Dr. Céline Vetter,

Department of Integrative Physiology,

University of Colorado Boulder

by Ana Domingos, PhD

Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Dept. Physiology, Anatomy, Genetics,

University of Oxford

and Wellcome Trust…

Leitung Diabetes Research Group, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, LMU / Helmholtz Zentrum München

by Prof. Henriette Uhlenhaut, Chair for Metabolic Programming, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan & Molecular Endocrinology, Helmholtz Diabetes…

Department of Genes and Behavior,

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

Circadian and Epidemiology Lab, University of Colorado, USA

Congratulations to Sherif Idriss who successfully defended his doctoral thesis on April 6th, 2020 on the project The Role of HIF-1α in Astrocyte…

Congraulations to our 2nd generation alumni Beate Herrmann and Sebastian Nock, which just published their GRK project restuls in the journal Thyroid.

Congratulations to Sebastian Nock who successfully defended his PhD thesis on March 31, 2020. This is the first online examination of the University…

by Prof. Henriette Uhlenhaut,

Chair for Metabolic Programming, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan

& Molecular Endocrinology, Helmholtz…

will take place on Tuesday, February 11 from 15:30 to 16:45 hours in CBBM Building, 4th Floor, Roof Library Lounge.

Confirmed participants:
 

• …

by Prof. Dr. Annette Schürmann, Department of Experimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

will take place on Monday, Janaury 27, 2020 at 13:00 hours in CBBM Building, Ground Floor, Seminar Room S1/S2.

Title: TBA

Examination Committee: Dr.…

Congrats to GRK1957 doctoral researher Julia Steinhardt who published her second article this year.

Julia Steinhardt and Thomas F. Münte and…

Kirsty Spalding, Ph.D.,

Integrated Cardio Metabolic Center,

Department of Medicine,

Karolinska Institute,

Sweden

Assoc.Prof. Priv.Doz. Dr. Florian Kiefer, PhD, Clinical Devision of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University Hospital Department of Internal Medicine…

Congratulations to GRK1957 doctoral researcher Julia Steinhardt who was awarded the DAAD travel grant to attend the SfN - Annual Meeting of the…

The main Italian newspaper La Repubblica conducted an interview with the GRK1957 doctoral researcher Beatrice Bertozzi about her scientific road from…

Congratulations to GRK1957 doctoral researcher Beatrice Bertozzi who has won the Best Speaker Award at the YARE 2019 meeting in Essen on October 6,…

Congratulations to GRK1957 doctoral researcher Julia Steinhardt who just published her first research article in the Journal of Parkinsonism & Related…

Dr. Jonathan D. Johnston

Reader in Chronobiology and Integrative Physiology,

PGR Director, School of Biosciences and Medicine,

University of…

Congratulations to GRK1957 doctoral researcher Beatrice Bertozzi who was invited to give a short talk and to act as mini chair at the Young…

will take place on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 from 8:30 to 10:30 hours in CBBM Building, Ground Floor, Seminar Room B1/B2.

Universität zu Lübeck

Der…

Luc Pellerin,

Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Centre de Résonance Magnétique des Systèmes Biologiques, UMR5536…

Our GRK1957 "Adipocyte-Brain Crosstalk" PhD program successfully recruited 3 bachelor students from the USA and Canada in the DAAD RISE (Research…

"I had a great opportunity to spend my research stay in the lab of Prof. Luc Pellerin in University of Lausanne (UNIL) during the months of May-July…

"The GRK 1957 gave me the opportunity for a three-month external research stay. Focusing on improving my methods skills I chose to visit Prof. Dr.…

Congratulations to our alumni Janis Nolde and Arkan Al-Zubaidi who just published another paper from the 1st generation project "Visualizing…

Warm congratulations to our PhD student Anne-Marie Neumann who was awarded the FENS travel grant to attend the NEURO 2019 - the joint meeting of the …

will take place on 24-25 July 2019 in CBBM, Ground Floor, Seminar Room B1/B2.

Trainer: Julie Stearns, Impulsplus

More information see here

The 6th ABC Summer School, which is also the last retreat for the 2nd generation students, was successfully held in the historic Elsa Brändström…

University researchers from Lübeck are working on the targeted reduction of overweight through the use of thyroid hormones. The first milestone…

Activation of brown adipose tissue can have positive effects on obesity or Type II diabetes

will take place on 20-21 June 2019 in CBBM, Ground Floor, Seminar Room B1/B2.

Trainer: Dr. Brooke A. Gazdag, LMU

More information see here

will take place on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 from 15:30 to 16:45 hours in CBBM, 4th Floor, Roof Library Lounge.

Participants:

• Anne-Marie Neumann
• Xenia…

Prof. Dr. Urs Albrecht,

Department of Biology,

Unit of Biochemistry,

University of Fribourg,

Switzerland

will take place on Tuesday, June 4, 2019 from 15:30 to 16:45 hours in CBBM, 4th Floor, Roof Library Lounge.

Participants:

• Cathy Geißler
• Julia…

Matthias Blüher, MD, Professor of Molecular Endocrinology Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig

Sergey Kasparov, Professor of Molecular Physiology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol

will take place on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 from 15:30 to 16:45 hours in CBBM, 4th Floor, Roof Library Lounge.

Participants:

• Marius Richter
• Marco Freschi

Lars Paeger, PhD, Broberger Lab, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Prof. Dr. Charo Robles,

Systems Chronobiology-Robles Lab,

Institute of Medical Psychology,

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

will take place on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 from 15:30 to 16:45 hours in CBBM, 4th Floor, Roof Library Lounge.

Participants:

• Anne-Marie Neumann
• Xenia…

Prof. Dr. Norbert Stefan,

Department of Internal Medicine IV,

University Hospital of Tübingen, Germany

will take place on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 from 14:30 to 15:45 hours in CBBM, 4.OG, Roof Library Lounge.

Participants:

• Cathleen Geißler
• Julia…

Jana-Thabea Kiehn and Kornelia Johann are awarded for their work on hormone research

The Research Training Group 1957 deals with the interactions between adipose tissue and the brain.

will take place on March 14-15, 2019 in Media Docks, Lübeck, Germany.

More information please visit the symposium website:
…

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heldmaier,

Fachgebiet Stoffwechselphysiologie,

University of Marburg

will take place on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 from 15:30 to 16:45 hours in CBBM, 4.OG, Roof Library Lounge.

Participants:

• Xenia Schmidt
• Cathleen…

Doctoral researchers and supervisors of the GRK1957 met at the ABC Winter Retreat from February 7 to February 8, 2019 on the Lübeck campus.

Each…

will take place on February 7 and Febuary 8 in MFC I on Lübeck campus. Preliminary program is as follows:

07.02.2019

13:30-18:00   Progress Reports…

takes place on March 14-15, 2019 in Media Docks. The symposium is completely organized by the doctoral researchers of Graduiertenkolleg 1957. With…

Congratulations to our graduate Sogol Gachkar whose paper got published on the first day in the new year of 2019! It was indeed a fruitful…

PD Dr. Kerstin Stemmer (ERT),

Head of Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology,

Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO),

Helmholtz Zentrum München

will take place on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 from 15:30 to 16:45 hours in CBBM, 4.OG, Roof Library Lounge.

Participants:

• Xenia Schmidt
• Cathleen Geißler
• …

will take place on Wednesday, 16 January 2019 from 10:30 to 11:30 in CBBM, 4.OG, Roof Lounge.

Participating GRK1957 Students:

• Marius Richter
• Xenia…

Prof. Rubén Nogueiras,

Department of Physiology,

University of Santiago de Compostela,

Spain

who will defend her thesis on December 18, 2018 from 15:30 to 17:30 hours in CBBM, Ground Floor, Seminar Room B1/B2.

Sogol Gachkar "Game of TH’ones – a…

Prof. Dr. Christian Wegener,

Lehrstuhl für Neurobiologie und Genetik,

Universität Würzburg,

Germany

GRK1957 doctoral researcher Lisbeth Harder successfully defended her thesis on "Layered Interactions of Systemic and Brain Effects by Thyroid…

Congratulations to GRK1957 postdoctoral researcher Isa Kolbe who was awarded the Poster Prize at the IMB Workshop 2018 "Molecular Mechanisms of…

Congrats to 2nd generation doctoral researchers Anne-Marie Neumann and Xenia Schmidt who published a review paper on Circadian Regulation of Endocrine…

Prof. Jan Siemens, PhD,

Department of Pharmacology,

University of Heidelberg

GRK1957 doctoral researcher Jana-Thabea Kiehn successfully defended her thesis on "Central circadian regulation of leptin signalling" in front of the…

will take place on Friday, 12 October 2018 from 14:00 to 17:00 hours in European Hanse Museum, Lübeck.

Confirmed speakers are:

• Prof. Heike…

Inspire the Next Generation of Young Female Scientists

Yolanda Diz-Chaves, PhD,

Center of Biomedical Research,

University of Vigo,

Spain

will take place on Tuesday, 25 September 2018 from 15:30 to 16:45 in CBBM, 4.OG, Library Lounge.

Participanting GRK1957 Students:

• Jana Kiehn
• Xenia…

Prof. Dr. phil., dipl. biol. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter,

Institute of Medical History and Science Research,

University of Lübeck

Five portraits about our GRK members in the Lübecker Nachrichten.

Download here

As part of my PhD training in the Graduiertenkolleg (GRK) 1957 “Adipocyte-Brain Crosstalk” at the University of Lübeck, I had the opportunity and…

Dr. Brian Cusack,

Science Craft

which will take place from 3 September to 5 September 2018 in Timmendorfer Strand.

See program below
<link training summer-schools summer-school-2018.html>…

The University of Lübeck is awarded a permanent endowed professorship in neurobiology. This was announced by the university in a press conference on…

Congratulations to our medical student Maureen, former doctoral student Franziska and current doctoral student Gianna as well as postdoctoral…

will take place on Friday, 6 July 2018 from 14:00 to 15:00 in CBBM, Ground Floor, S1/S2.


14:00-14:30
Anne-Marie Neumann "Epigenetic Modulation of…

Frank A.J.L. Scheer, Ph.D.,

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School /

Director, Medical Chronobiology Program, Brigham & Women's…

will take place on Tuesday, 26 June 2018 featuring a mixture of project presentations, evaluations as well as get-together dinner with students.

…

GRK1957 Doctoral Researcher Lisbeth Harder was invited by the Journal of Neuroendocrinology to discuss her paper "entitled 'Maternal thyroid hormone…

will take place on Friday, June 1, 2018 from 14:00 to 14:30 hours in CBBM, Ground Floor, S1/S2.

Moderator: Sherif Idriss

Sandro Catzeddu "Nesfatin-1’s…

In the framework of RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) 2018, our GRK1957 doctoral researcher Sherif Idriss successfully recruited…

Congratulations to GRK1957 doctoral researcher Cathleen Geißler who was awarded the DDG Poster Prize at the Diabetes Kongress 2018 on May 11, 2018 in…

Ebbe Boedtkjer, MD, PhD Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark

will take place on Tuesday, 15 May 2018 from 16:15 to 17:00 in CBBM, 2.OG, B4.

Participating GRK1957 Students:

• Julia Steinhardt
• Marius Richter

"Meet…

ABC doctoral researcher Lisbeth Harder explained the impact of thyroid hormone dysfunction during pregnancy on the development of high blood pressue…

Congratulations to ABC doctoral researcher Arkan Al-Zubaidi who published an article on the influences of hunger, satiety and oral glucose on…

Congratulations to ABC doctoral researcher Francesca Raffaelli who received a travel grant of 2090 EUR from Bioscientificta Trust for her research…

We are proud to announce the successful renewal of our GRK1957 "Adipocyte-Brain Crosstalk" with the 2nd funding period starting on November 1, 2018.…

Congratulations to Kornelia Johann who was contributing author in an excellent paper published in April 2018 in the Scientific Reports.

Hirose, M.,…

will take place on Friday, May 4, 2018 from 14:00 to 14:30 hours in CBBM, Ground Floor, S1/S2.


Moderator: Sandro Catzeddu

Presenter: Martina Obst
…

The customised ABC Kids Box for our GRK1957 has arrived in the CBBM Building and ready for use immediately.

As part of the Gender Equality Measures,…

Prof. Steven A. Brown,

Chronobiology and Sleep Research Group,

Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology,

University of Zurich,

Switzerland

will take place on Tuesday, 24 April 2018 from 15:30 to 16:45 in CBBM, 2.OG, B4.

Participating GRK1957 Students:

• Jana Kiehn
• Xenia Schmidt
• Martina Obst
• …

Millie Baker,

Director of The Speaking Adventure,

UK

Dr. Ayal Ben-Zvi, School of Medicine-IMRIC-Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal

Rena Giese,

Director of the University Library Lübeck

Beatrice Bertozzi and

Daniel Stephan

who successfully defended her doctoral thesis on Friday, March 16, 2018.

Candidate: App. Pharm. Franziska Schuster: "Einfluss von Angiotensin II…

GRK1957 doctoral researcher Lisbeth Harder has been awarded the Basedow Prize 2018 from the German Society for Endocrinology (DGE) for her paper "…

Francesca Raffaelli and

Sherif Idriss

Congratulations to Lisbeth Harder who got her first-author paper published in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology entitled “Maternal Thyroid Hormone is…

Prof. Dr. med. Petra Arck,

Professor of Experimental Feto-Maternal Medicine (W3),

University Medical Center Hamburg,

Germany

will take place on Friday, February 2, 2018 after the doctoral seminar at 15:00 hours in CBBM, Ground Floor, S1/S2.

Attendance is mandatory for all the…

Julia Steinhardt and

Sebastian Nock

Leif Østergaard, Clinical Professor, Professor

Department of Clinical Medicine,

Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN),

Aarhus…

In echo with this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine about the circadian rhythm, Prof. Henrik Oster, Spokesperson of GRK1957 was invited to…

will take place on January 15-16, 2018 in Fraunhofer EMB and CBBM on the Lübeck campus.

Doctoral researchers and PIs will present the excellent…

Congratulations to GRK1957 doctoral researcher Alessandro Di Spiezio who got an original article published in the Journal Molecular Metabolism, which…

Marius Richter

Congratulations to GRK1957 associated doctoral researcher Kornelia Johann who successfuly won a travel grant from Bioscientifica Trust in the amount…

Congratulations to GRK1957 2nd generation doctoral researcher Anne-Marie Neumann who just got a first-author review paper  "Circadian…

GRK1957 doctoral researcher Lisbeth Harder has a first-author paper accepted in the European Thyroid Journal entitled "In vivo Effects of Repeated…

by Dimitris Grammatopoulos, PhD, FRCPath,

Professor of Molecular Medicine,

Warwick Medical School

Professor of Molecular Medicine,

Warwick Medical School

will take place on Friday, December 1, 2017 from 14:00 to 14:40 hours in CBBM, EG, S1/S2.

Sherif Idriss: Role of Astrocytic HIF-1a in Energy Metabolism
…

Congratulations to GRK1957 Medical Student Elias Rawish who was awarded the Best Talk Prize and Doctoral Researcher Franziska Schuster who received…

by Michel KHRESTCHATISKY,

Vect-Horus, Marseille /

Neurobiologie des Interactions Cellulaires et Neurophysiopathologie (NICN),

UMR 7259, CNRS…

by Dr. Michael Gommel,

Institute of Institut für systemische Medizin- und Organisationsethik,

Berlin

will take place on Friday, November 3, 2017 from 14:00 to 14:40 hours in CBBM, EG, S1/S2.

Elvira Sandin: "Identification of leptin transporters at the…

who successfully defended her doctoral thesis on Friday, October 13, 2017.

Candidate: Isa Kolbe, M.Sc. (FH): "The interplay of central and peripheral…

Congratulations to ABC doctoral researcher Jenny Backhaus who has just published an article as first author in the prestigious Journal of Clinical…

by Prof. Dr. Michael Roden,

Director of Institute of Clinic Diabetology, German Diabetes Center /

Chair of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases,…

from Institute of Clinic Diabetology, German Diabetes Center

will start on Monday, October 16, 2017 with the lecture on The blood-brain barrier in obesity by Prof. Dr. Markus Schwaninger.

Full schedule please see…

will take place on Friday, October 13, 2017 from 13:00 to 14:20 hours in CBBM Building, EG, S1/S2.

13:00-13:40
Arkan Al-Zubaidi: Influence of hunger,…

Congratulations to ABC doctoral researcher Lisbeth Harder, who received the Best Speaker Award of YARE 2017 on October 6-8 in Berlin.

Ms Harder was…

will take place on Friday, October 13, 2017 from 9:00 hours in CBBM Building, EG, S1/S2.

Candidate: Isa Kolbe, M.Sc. (FH): "The interplay of central…

Congratulations to the six doctoral researchers from GRK1957 who have abstracts accepted for a talk at the 19th Annual YARE Meeting in Berlin, October…

The PIs elected the new Program Committee during its meeting on 18.09.2017.

2017-current
Prof. Dr. Olaf Jöhren (Chair)
Prof. Dr. Jens Mittag
PD Dr. Britta…

The doctoral researchers elected their speaker and deputy speaker at the 4th ABC Summer School on 26 September 2017 in Ratzeburg. 

2017-current
Gianna…

will take place from September 25 to 27, 2017 in Seehof Hotel Ratzeburg. For details please click here.

This year's summer school will welcome the 1st…

by Lisbeth Harder, Kornelia Johann and Mareike Bernau

Congratulations to Gianna Huber who just published a review paper in the Journal Pharmacological Research.

Huber G, Schuster F, Raasch W., Brain…

was published in Molecular Metabolism. Find out more about how circadian Clock can rescue liver of mice by clicking the video link:

…

GRK1957 students Beate Herrmann, Cathleen Geissler and Lisbeth Harder have contributed to a recent publication in Molecular Metabolism on the…

will take place on Friday, July 21, 2017 at 1:30 pm in CBBM Building, 4.OG, Roof Library Lounge.

For more information please click here.

will take place on Friday, July 7, 2017 from 14:00 to 15:15 hours in CBBM Building, EG, S1/S2.


14:00-14:15

by Prof. Dr. Stephan von Hörst, Department of Experimental Therapy, University Hospital Erlangen/ Preclinical Experimental Center, University of…

by Prof. Charlotte Ling, PhD,

Epigenetics and Diabetes Unit,

Lund University Diabetes Center,

Malmö, Sweden

will take place on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 3:00 pm in CBBM Building, 4.OG, Roof Library Lounge.

For more information please click here.

Ms Isa Kolbe's grant proposal for the start-up funding in GRK1957 was positively evaluated by the external reviewers from the University of Lübeck.…

Congratulations to three ABC students who have had abstracts accepted for oral presentation at the annual German Diabetes Congress 2017 from May 25 to…

will take place on Friday, June 9, 2017 from 14:00 to 15:15 hours in CBBM Building, EG, S1/S2.


14:00-14:25
Mareike Bernau, Impact of high-fat diet and…

for new PhD students

by Martin Jastroch, PhD,

Head of Unit Mitochondrial Biology,

Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO),

Helmholtz Center Munich

Martin Jastroch, PhD, Head of Unit Mitochondrial Biology, Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO), Helmholtz Center Munich

Prof. Dr. Triantafyllos Chavakis,

Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine,

University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus,

Dresden University…

Prof. Dr. Triantafyllos Chavakis, Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of…

Rose Kohlie, Eva Frevel, Jenny Backhaus and Cathleen Geißler

GRK1957 student Sogol Gachkar has just published an article as first author in the prestigious journal "Endocrinology", characterizing the anapyrexic…

will take place on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 3:00 pm in CBBM Building, 4.OG, Roof Library Lounge.

For more information please click here.

will take place on Friday, April 7, 2017 at 14:00 hours in CBBM Building, EG, Room 52/53.


14:00-14:30 Landia Lin
Role of orexin/hypocretin receptor…

by Jenny Backhaus

Our GRK PhD student Eva Frevel will present her data on The interaction of Orexin and Leptin on April 1-4 at the ENDO 2017 in Orlando, Florida. ENDO…

by Dr. Johanna Klement,

Research Group "Neuroendocrinology in Energy and Glucose Metabolism",

Department of Internal Medicine I,

University of…

by Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hammes,

Head of Section of Endocrinology, Speaker of GRK 1874/1 „DIAMICOM“,

V. Medical Department,

University of Heidelberg

by Prof. Jyrki Kukkonen, PhD,

Department of Veterinary Biosciences,

University of Helsinki

The GRK students Beate Herrmann and Kornelia Johann have both received the 2017 Travel Award of the Young Active Research in Endocrinology (YARE - …

Congrats to Kornelia Johann, PhD student in the research group Mittag, whose abstract has been selected for an oral presentation at the 60th annual…

On March 3 and 4, 2017, the first international symposium on the interplay of adipose tissue and brain took place at the University of Lübeck in the…

by Isa Kolbe

Congratulations to Franziska Schuster, PhD student of AG Raasch, whose abstract has been selected for an oral presentation "Leptin uptake across the…

will take place on March 3-4, 2017 in Lübeck. For details please click here.

by Landia Lin,

Hello from history-rich and architecturally diverse, beautiful city of Boston!

who published a paper on "Dopamine directly increases mitochondrial mass and thermogenesis in brown adipocytes" in the Journal of Molecular…

Julia Seemann was an associated medical doctoral student in GRK1957 from July 2014 to June 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Henrik Oster.

Julia…

Alessandro Di Spiezio,

Beate Herrmann,

Sebastian Nock

by Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Häring,

Department of Internal Medicine IV,

University of Tübingen

by Dr. Jean-Claude Dreher,

Research director, CNRS,

Neuroeconomics, Reward and decision making team,

Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives, France

at Graduiertenkolleg GRK1957 „Adipocyte-Brain Crosstalk“, University of Lübeck

Lisbeth Harder, Kornelia Johann and Sogol Gachkar

by Prof. Dr. Werner Solbach

by Sogol Gachkar

I went to Galicia in northwest Spain in May 2016 stayed at an amazingly beautiful city at the end of the Camino way called Santiago de…

by Franziska Schuster

The research stay abroad, which is part of the GRK1957’s curriculum, gave me the opportunity to go to Seattle and work in the…

by Rose Kohlie

For two months (06.06.–05.08.2016) I stayed at the Center for Biomedicine of the European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC) in the heart of…

by Arkan Al-Zubaidi

by Carla Dapper,

MD Student Work Report

of an article in the journal "Biological Rhythms"

Career Planning was the focus of this year’s summer school, which took place on 14-15 September 2016 in the picturesque castle schlossgut gross…

organized by GRK1957, GRK1957, IRTG1911, SFB134 and GSL

will take place on September 14-15, 2016 in schlossgut gross schwansee. For details please click here.

Students will get insider tips from top-class…

Classical concepts and novel insights

by Luka Levata

by Jana-Thabea Kiehn,

Jenny Backhaus,

Maureen Friedrichs,

Maike Byner

by Prof. Dr. Michael Ristow,

Energy Metabolism Laboratory,

ETH Zürich

GRK1957 students Beate Herrmann and Lisbeth Harder have both received a 400€ travel grant from the German Society for Endocrinology (DGE) to present…

With an interesting training program and a vibrant student community, GRK1957 attracts many like-minded students on campus and keeps a steady growth…

on Saturday, June 18 at 20:00 and 22:00 hours in CBBM Building

by Prof. Masao Doi, Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University

Four students from GRK1957 presented their research projects at the annual Uni im Dialog on June 8, 2016 in the university church St. Petri.…

by Prof. Dr. Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, M.D., Ph.D,

Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases,

Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

by Eva Frevel

of an article in the journal "Endocrinology"

GRK1957 has five MD stipends open in 2016. Funding period is 01.07.2016-30.06.2017. The MD student should work on a project that is closely linked to…

who has won a YARE travel grant in 2016. The award ceremony will take place during the DACH Tagung on 26.05.2016 in Munich. 

http://www.dach2016.com/

by Mareike Bernau

and Franziska Schuster

by Ivar A. Aune from KreatIVARbeiten

by Dr. rer. nat. Paul T. Pfluger, Head of Research Unit NeuroBiology of Diabetes, Helmholtz Center Munich

by Professor Jeremy Tomlinson, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford

will take place on 22nd of April 2016 from 2 pm to 7 pm in the CBBM building (info flyer).

The aim of this workshop is to bring together all the animal…

by Prof. Dr. Barbara Cannon, Stockholm University and

Prof. Dr. Jan Nedergaard, Stockholm University

by Prof. Jens Mittag, CBBM,

Senior Editor for Journal of Endocrinology / Journal of Molecular Endocrinology,

Senior Editor for Nature Scientific…

by Rose Kohlie

who have had abstract accepted for poster presentation at ENDO 2016. The full details of the accepted abstract are as follows:

"Cold-induced…

Meet us at the Recruitment Info Talk on 01.04.2016 in Audimax at ca. 12:00.

In the framework of the Symposium after Blockpraktika of MLS master…

in Epigenetics and Metabolic Control

by Dr. Brian Cusack,

Science Craft

by Lisa Cherradi

with Prof. Peter Arner,

Karolinska Institutet,

Sweden

Energy Metabolism between Reward and Revenge,

Joint SFB134 and GRK1957 Conference

will take place on February 24, 2016 in Restaurant Tipasa, Schlumacherstraße 12, Lübeck at 19:00 hours.

How to register: email to …

by Dr. Violetta Pilorz,

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences,

University of Oxford, UK

by Isa Kolbe and

Landia Lin

Students are recommended to attend the following conferences in 2016. Please note the abstract submission deadline.

by Prof. Dr. Werner Solbach

by Janis Nolde

by Alessandro Di Spiezio

in the framework of SPP1629 Thyroid TransAct

went to Isa Kolbe

by Isabel García

ichrede.de

will take place on November 20, 2015 in Munich.

Abstracts from doctoral researchers are especially welcome. Travel grants are available for presenting…

went to Isa Kolbe

by Prof. So Young Park,

Dr. Bettina Jansen-Schulz,

Dr. Solveig Simotisch

by Jana-Thabea Kiehn and

Leonie Rademacher

by Dr. Thomas Kantermann,

Chronobiology Uni,

Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences,

University of Groningen

by Prof. Graham Finlayson,

Institute of Psycholigical Sciences,

University of Leeds

by Lisbeth Harder and

Sogol Gachkar

organized by the Work Group "Lübeck Gender Equality Officers"

Berlin, October 2-4, 2015

by Dr. Eva Reichmann,

Beruf und Leben GbR, Bielefeld

by Arkan Al-Zubaidi

by Prof. Walter Raasch,

Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology,

University of Lübeck

With 18 students and 15 principle investigators as participants the 2nd ABC Summer School presented an excellent stage for inspiring talks, fun social…

by PD Dr. Stefan Engeli,

Institute for Clinical Pharmacology,

Hannover Medical School

will take place from 2 to 4 September, 2015 in Altes Stahlwerk, Neumünster. All the students and PIs are invited to participate in this annual…

by Prof. Tamas L. Horvath,

Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism,

Section of Comparative Medicine and…

taught by by Dr. Michael Gommel will take place on 27 and 28 July 2015. More details click here.

with Prof. Stephen Farmer

by Prof. Stephen Farmer

Department of Biochemistry

Boston University School of Medicine

by Luka Levata

open from 01.07.2015

by Vincent Prevot, PhD

Neurobese International Associated Laboratory

Jean-Pierre Aubert Research Center

Inserm U1172

University of Lille

Students promoted research projects at Uni im Dialog

by Franziska Schuster

- a platform to showcase your research project to the general public in Lübeck

will take place on June 3, 2015. It is open to doctoral students and post-docs from Kiel, Lübeck and MPI, Plön. This career day will have academic…

by Rose Kohlie

by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schmid

Department of Internal Medicine I

University of Lübeck

by Eva Frevel

by Prof. Dr. Ina Koch

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Kreckel

Institute for Sociology

Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg

by Mareike Bernau

will take place from 18-21 March 2015 in Lübeck. All the students are welcome to present their latest results in this high-level symposium. More info …

by Prof. Dr. Jens Mittag,

Research Group Molecular Endocrinology,

Department of Internal Medicine I,

University of Lübeck

by Daniela Cota, M.D.,

Research group "Energy Balance and Obesity",

Deputy Director NeuroCentre Magendie

INSERM U862,

University of Bordeaux

by Daniela Cota, M.D., INSERM U862, Bordeaux will take place on March 3, 2015 from 3:00 to 4:30 pm in the Seminar Room "Karp and Cook", EG., Geb.64.…

organized by RTGs and SFB

by Dr. Barthel Schmelting will take place from 23 February to 2 March 2015 . More details see here.

will be held on 13 February and 16 February 2015 by Dr. Friedrich Pahlke, Evidat. More details see here.

by Prof. Dr. Thomas Münte,

Department of Neurology,

University of Lübeck

by Lisa Cherradi

will be held by Prof. Werner Solbach, DFG Ombudsperson at the University of Lübeck, on 27 January 2015. Deatils please see here.

by Prof. Dr. Matthias Tschöp,

Institute for Diabetes and Obesity,

Helmholtz Zentrum München

by Isa Kolbe

by Dr. Harpal Randeva,

Senior Lecturer in Endocrinology & Diabetes,

Molecular Endocrinology Research Group Head,

Warwick Medical School

by Jenny Backhaus

by Dr. Eva Reichmann, beruf & leben GbR, Bielefeld

by Prof. Dr. Beat Lutz,

Research Group "Molecular Mechanisms of Behavior",

Institute of Physiological Chemistry,

University of Mainz

by Alessandro Di Spiezio,

Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

by Prof. Claus Pietrzik,

Research Group "Molecular Neurodegeneration",

Institute for Pathobiochemistry

University of Mainz

by Henriette Kirchner, Ph.D.,

Department of Internal Medicine I,

University of Lübeck

by Prof. Walter Raasch,

Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology,

University of Lübeck

by Prof. Andrea Tenner,

University of California, Irvine

A report by Jenny Backhaus

After the start of the “Adipocyte-Brain Crosstalk” Research Training Group a few months ago, our first Summer School…

took place from September 8 to 10, 2014 beside the Baltic Sea in Boltenhagen.

is scheduled on 23 and 24 September 2014. Click here for details.

by Dr. Helge Müller-Fielitz,

Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology,

University of Lübeck

by Jean-René Cardinaux, Ph.D.,

Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience,

University of Lausanne, Hospital of Cery

The doctoral researchers and MD students will have the opportunity to meet one another and obtain information about the qualification program.

Ms Leonie Rademacher collaborates with Ms Jenny Backhaus in Project 6 under the supervision of PD Dr. Schmid. Mr Janis Nolde is working in Project 7…

will take place on 02.07.2014 at 18:30 in the restaurant Tipasa, Lübeck. Click here for more details.

is scheduled on 28.08 and 10.09.2014. Specifically designed for 1-year doctoral researchers and MD researchers. Details can be found here.

We invite applications from medical students who are interested in the research area of the GRK 1957 and who wish to write a doctoral thesis on a…

will take place on 8-10 September 2014 in Boltenhagen. We expect to meet all the doctoral researchers and supervisors on the presentation day. See…

You can apply for the course in winter semester 2014. See course content here.