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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.

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Genes whose gain or loss-of-function increases skeletal muscle mass in mice - PhD student Sander Verbrugge published his first paper at the Chair of Exercise Biology

Some people are born with a large muscle mass whereas others are born with little muscle. Today we know that the variation in muscle mass depends a lot on what you inherit from your mum and dad. But, what are the genes that determine muscle mass? To address this question, Sander Verbrugge together…

Transalp – Powered by TUM

„Analyse der Entwicklung der Ausdauerleistungsfähigkeit im Rahmen des P-Seminars 'Transalp' am Korbinian-Aigner-Gymnasium". Alle zwei Jahre ist es soweit. Die Schülerinnen und Schüler des KAG stellen sich der Herausforderung, die Alpen auf dem Fahrrad zu überqueren. Um die Tour nicht zur Tortur…

The Hippo effector nuclear membrane proteins: Do they regulate muscle adaptation to hypoxia? Is this important for disease?

MSc thesis with publication potential for up to two Biologists or Molecular Biologists.

Exercise Biology on Twitter

Discuss with us about scientific topics on molecular muscle physiology. We are the Exercise Biology Team of the Technical University of Munich. We will tweet on the following topics: 1) Molecular Exercise Physiology: We will tweet, comment and show infographics on new papers on molecular…

Wellcome to the 6th Munich Muscle Meeting at the Department of Sport and Health Sciences

The Munich Muscle Meeting is a consortium of Munich muscle research groups. Our aim is to bring together different muscle research groups to organise regular meetings and discuss current topics in muscle science. Furthermore, we want to initialise collaborative projects.  The 6th Munich Muscle…

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