Welcome at the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
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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.
Taurine is an amino acid that is not incorporated in protein. It was discovered by Tiedeman & Gmelin in ox bile in 1827. Research on taurine accelerated when it was discovered that taurine is an essential amino acid in cats and that taurine deficiency causes several diseases. Overall, Pubmed lists…
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The team of Exercise Biology collaborate together with an international consortium working on micronutirents which are floating around trough our boold stream. Aging is associated with changes in circulating levels of various molecules, some of which remain undefined. In this study the consortium…
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Airborne respiratory diseases are transmitted via viruses in respiratory aerosol particles. The emission of such aerosol particles can increase by more than 100-fold from rest to maximal exercise and the risk of infection can increase by more than 10-fold, respectively. Our study shows that age is…
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We are delighted to invite you to the 16th Munich Muscle Meeting on March 27th (3:00 – 5:00 pm). This time Dr. Kevin Murach, one of the rising stars in muscle research, will give the keynote lecture on “Mediators of Youthfulness in Skeletal Muscle”.
In the last years Kevin established the Molecular…
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Melanie Knopp is doing her PhD at the Exercise Biology. She is predominantly working on running economy with modern technology shoes and also focuses on marathon training concepts. After her talk at the Congress of the International Federation of Sports Medicine in 2021 she now published her first…
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