Winter semester 2024/25

open to all students

Credits: 1.00 ECTS
Language: English
Contact person: Ina Bergheim

Registration in u:space from Mo 09.09.2024 08:00 to We 25.09.2024 18:00

During the course doctoral students (PhaNuSpo) and master students have the opportunity to get to know the lecturers as part of "Meet the Expert" and discuss with them between 15:30 and 16:15. Thereafter, the invited guest lecturers will give a talk from 16:45-17:45.

Assessment and requirements: i) Attend lectures and ii) Select at least two Meet the Expert roundtable dates.

• 01.10.24: Introductory meeting, 10:00 - 10:45, online
• 13.11.24: Prof. Dr. Martino V. Franchi
  Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45, HS4, UZA2, "Muscle plasticity following disuse and exercise countermeasures"
• 20.11.24: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christa Schleper
  Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45, HS4, UZA2, "From greenhouse gas production to eukaryogenesis: A journey to the ecological and evolutionary impacts of Archaea"
• 27.11.24: Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Venturelli
  Department of Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Hohenheim, Germany
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45, HS4, UZA2, "Modulating the replication cycle of human pathogenic viruses through specific food ingredients"
• 08.01.25: Prof. Dr. Enrico Dall'Ara
  University of Sheffield, UK
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45, HS4, UZA2, "Predicting bone adaptation with multi-scale models"
• 15.01.25: Dr. Andreas Liebminger
  Takeda, Austria
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45, HS8, UZA2, "Insights into Plasma Fractionation"
• 29.01.25: Prof. Dr. Rosita Gabbianelli
  University of Camerino, Italy
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45, HS4, UZA2, "The epigenetic clocks and the mechanisms underlying their regulation"

Summer term 2024

• 13.03.24: Introductory meeting, 15:30-16:15, online.
• 10.04.24: Prof. Sander Kersten, PhD "The Regulation of Lipid Metabolism during Fasting"
  Schleifer Family Professor and Director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, USA; and Division of Human Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
• 24.04.24: Prof. Markus Bastir, PhD "Breathing, running and the evolution of modern human body shape"
  Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)| Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturale (MNCN), Spain
• 08.05.24: Prof. Janne Avela, PhD "Adaptation of corticospinal excitability to exercise"
  Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
• 22.05.24: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Bohle "An apple a day, ... new treatment options for food"
  Allergy Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
• 05.06.24 and 06.06.24: Dr. Johannes Meiser "Plasticity of one-carbon metabolism – from nucleotide synthesis to formate overflow and cancer metastasis"
  Department of Cancer Research, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg.
• 19.06.24: Prof. Dr. Axel Urhausen "Overtraining - facts and myths"
  Luxembourg Institute of Research in Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Science, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg.

Winter term 2023

• 03.10.2023: Kick-off class, online, 08:30 - 09:15
• 18.10.2023: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Johannes Grillari "Cellular senescence in tissue regeneration"
  Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology (LBI Trauma) at the AUVA Research Center, Austria
• 08.11.2023*: Prof. Dr. Neil J. Cronin "Applications of AI in Sport and Health", University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• 22.11.2023: Prof. Dr. Jana Rückert-John "Wandel des Essalltags: Fleischbiografien"
  Sociology of Food and Nutrition, Fulda University of Applied Science Germany
• 06.12.2023: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petra Heffeter "Drug development from bench to bedside"
  Center for Cancer Research at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• 24.01.2024: Prof. Julie Lovegrove, PhD "Dietary Fats and CVD risk- Dispelling the Myths"
  Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, UK
• 31.01.2024: Prof. M. Francois Hug, PhD "Decoding motor unit activity to understand the control of human movement: recent advances and perspectives"
  Laboratoire Motricité Humaine Expertise Sport Santé (LAMHESS), Université Côte d'Azur, France