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Technical University of Munich

Welcome at the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology!

Our strategy: Many athletic performances are critically dependent on metabolic function, and physical training is effective in preventing and treating metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and obesity. The Exercise Biology group at the TU Munich therefore aims to investigate topics related to sports and metabolism often with disease relevance. We often use state-of-the-art methods of metabolic research such as arteriovenous metabolomics analyses and metabolic flux analyses as well as methods of molecular sports physiology. Our main goal with this strategy is to mechanistically answer important unanswered questions in the field. We want to discover new phenomena that help athletes optimize their performance, help patients recover, and ultimately help all people who want to stay fit and healthy for a long time.

News

New Paper: Genes whose gain or loss-of-function increases endurance performance in mice: a systematic literature review

Our PhD student Fakhreddin Yaghoob Nezhad recently published his first paper for his PhD thesis at the Chair of Exercise Biology. We know that our endurance capacity is inherited by ~50%. In order to identify endurance-related candidate genes, we conducted a systematic review to identify genes whose…

Sander Verbrugge - Congratulations for the Poster Price

Phd student Sander Verbrugge presented his current work at the academic annual celebration of the Department of Sport and Health Sciences. His talk illustrated his latest paper on “Genes whose gain or loss-of-function increases skeletal muscle mass in mice”. Congratulations to Sander Verbrugge, we…

Game Changing Life Sciences PhD Symposium @EMBL in Heidelberg

One of our PhD students, Daniela Schranner, visited the international PhD Symposium at the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) in Heidelberg from 22nd – 24th of November (http://phdsymposium.embl.org/). The EMBL is one of the world’s leading research institutes and operates from six sites in…

Fighting muscle weakness when we get old

On Friday the 23rd of November, the Symposium “Fighting muscle weakness when we get old” took place at the Lithuanian Sports University in Kaunas. This symposium were hold the first time on the topic of Sarcopenia which is a disease increasing in aging societies. Together, Aivaras Ratkevicius and…

Henning Wackerhage and Martin Schönfelder present at the 9th Xiamen (China) Winter Symposium on Hippo Signaling in Development & Disease

The main focus of the TUM Exercise Biology Group is to identify molecular mechanisms of adaptation by which exercise training improves our fitness and health. We are particularly focussed on the so-called Hippo proteins as these proteins respond to exercise-associated stimuli and regulate…

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