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.
Both endurance and strength training are effective and inexpensive interventions for diabetes patients to improve pathologically increased levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia), health and fitness. However, our current knowledge of the biological mechanism underlying the improved glycaemia during…
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Our PhD student Daniela Schranner published her first paper for her dissertation at the Chair of Exercise Biology. We know that exercise poses a major challenge for metabolism and that metabolites like lactate change significantly during physical activity. But next to lactate, there are roughly 1000…
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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.
We want to invite you to…
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Our PhD student Daniela Schranner returned in December from her three-month research visit in the lab of Robert Gerszten at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. The research group at Harvard focusses on clinical biomarkers related to cardiovascular diseases and diabetes by measuring metabolites…
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Two of our PhD students, Daniela Schranner and Sander Verbrugge of the Exercise Biology Group, visited the renowned Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in June. Both participated in an international doctoral student workshop called ‘Exercise in the Management and Prevention of Metabolic Disease’. They…
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