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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

Intensive endurance exercise can increase aerosol particle emission by over 100-fold, and there is evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has spread during indoor group exercise. However, data on aerosol particle emission during resistance exercise (i.e., weightlifting) and for “real-life” endurance or resistance… [read more]

Patients with critical illness and typically treated in intensive care units (ICU). During a stay on the ICU, patients lose a large amount of muscle mass and patients struggle to recover from this loss. The Exercise Biologists Tobias Märkl and Prof Dr Henning Wackerhage have collaborated with ICU… [read more]