580002 PhaNuSpo Scientific Lecture Series "Meet the Expert"

Aim and format

The VDS PhaNuSpo aims to support its doctoral students in strengthening interdisciplinary exchange and networking by offering lectures with invited international researchers from academia and industry from in the fields of pharmaceutical, nutritional and sport sciences.

Each lecture consists of a 'Meet the Expert Roundtable', where students have the opportunity to meet and discuss topics beyond their own research (e.g. career development) with the invited expert. Following the roundtable, the invited speaker will give a talk on his or her area of research.

The 'Meet the Expert Roundtables' are reserved for PhaNuSpo doctoral students. The talks are open to the public.

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

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

Winter semester 2024/25

The VDS PhaNuSpo doctoral students have the opportunity to meet the lecturers in a small group between 15:30 and 16:15 (assignments during the online introductory meeting).

  • 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"

Previous editions of this lecture series

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