Welcome at the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology!
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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.
Exercise can improve your health, and reduce your risk of developing various diseases like diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, depression and, in older people, sarcopenia. Exercise can have immediate and long-term health benefits. On July 8, Gabryela Kuhnen, PhD student at the Chair of…
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Munich has emerged as a well-connected centre of muscle research that includes exercise physiologists, biomechanists, molecular biologists and clinicians. Our community meets regularly during the Munich Muscle Meetings that are organized in different venues across the city. The recent meeting took…
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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…
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„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…
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