SS 2024

open to all students

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

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.

• 13.03.24: Introductory meeting, 15:30-16:15, online.
• 10.04.24: Prof. Sander Kersten, PhD
  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.
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45 HS4, UZA2, "The Regulation of Lipid Metabolism during Fasting"
• 24.04.24: Prof. Markus Bastir, PhD
  Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)| Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturale (MNCN), Spain
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45 HS4, UZA2, "Breathing, running and the evolution of modern human body shape"
• 08.05.24: Prof. Janne Avela, PhD
  Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45 HS4, UZA2, "Adaptation of corticospinal excitability to exercise"
• 22.05.24: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Bohle
  Allergy Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminarroom 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45 HS4, UZA2, "An apple a day, ... new treatment options for food"
• 05.06.24 and 06.06.24: Dr. Johannes Meiser
  Department of Cancer Research, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg.
  • Lecture: 05.06.2024, 17:45-18:45 HS4, UZA2, "Plasticity of one-carbon metabolism – from nucleotide synthesis to formate overflow and cancer metastasis"
  • Meet the expert: 06.06.2024, 09:00-09:45, seminar room 2E562
• 19.06.24: Prof. Dr. Axel Urhausen
  Luxembourg Institute of Research in Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Science, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg.
  • Meet the expert: 15:30-16:15, seminar room 2E560
  • Lecture: 16:45-17:45 HS4, UZA2, "Overtraining - facts and myths"

WS 2023

open to all students (registration in u:space)

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

During the course, the participating students will have the opportunity to meet and discuss with invited experts from academia and industry between 15:30 and 16:15. Afterwards, from 16:45 to 17:45, the invited experts will give a presentation.

• 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

* "Meet the Expert" after the talk

Assessment and requirements: participation and at least two freely selectable dates "Meet the Expert".

Registration: closed