Thesis title: Dietary factors as modulators of intestinal barrier function and innate immune signalling: effects of fructose and hop-derived compounds.

Venue: Zoom meeting (ID: 63777072007, Code: 157448)

Date & time: Tuesday, 21 July 2026, start at 10:00 CET.

• Chair: Jürgen KÖNIG (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Supervisor: Ina BERGHEIM (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Examiners: Sascha VENTURELLI (Department of Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Hohenheim, Germany), Oliver NEUBAUER (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna), and Florian KOPP (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)

Thesis title: Exploring the Human Gut Microbiome: An Investigation of Endogenous and Exogenous Factors in Health, Disease, and Ageing.

Venue: Zoom meeting.

Date & time: Tuesday, 21 July 2026, start at 14:00 CET

• Chair: Jürgen KÖNIG (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna)
• Supervisors: Karl-Heinz WAGNER (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna) 
• Examiners: Gabriele BERG (Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Austria), Sabrina Leal GARCIA (Division of Medical Psychology, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapeutic Medicine at the Medical University Graz, Austria) and Daniel KÖNIG (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna)

Please note that the defence will be held in German.