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Maintenance of energy homeostasis, i.e. the balance between caloric intake and energy expenditure, has to be maintained in a tight range to ensure metabolic homeostasis, health, and survival of any organism. 

Seminars

Talk by Prof.Kazuhiro Nakamura, Nagoya University, Japan

Mar 27, 2023 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Metabolism Research, Gleueler Strasse 50, 50931 Köln, Room: Seminar room 1

Talk by Prof. Michael Pankratz, LIMES Institute, Bonn University

Jan 19, 2023 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Metabolism Research, Gleueler Strasse 50, 50931 Köln, Room: Seminar room 1

Talk by Yoav Livneh, Ph.D., Weizmann Institute, Israel

Nov 10, 2022 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Metabolism Research, Gleueler Strasse 50, 50931 Köln, Room: Seminar 1

Talk by Prof. Martin Gericke, Leipzig University

Oct 27, 2022 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Metabolism Research, Gleueler Strasse 50, 50931 Köln, Room: Seminar room 1

Talk by Prof. William F. Colmers, University of Alberta, Canada

Sep 29, 2022 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Metabolism Resarch, Room: Seminar 1

Talk by Dr. Claire Foldi, Monash University Melbourne, Australia

Jul 6, 2022 02:00 PM c.t. - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Metabolism Research, Gleueler Strasse 50, 50931 Köln, Room: Seminar room 1

Talk by Sebastien Bouret, Ph.D., University of Lille, France

Jun 9, 2022 02:00 PM c.t. - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Metabolism Research, Gleueler Strasse 50, 50931 Köln, Room: Seminar room 1
Two researchers in the lab
Master Fellowship Programme, Deadline: July 15, 2023

News

Fasting triggers autophagy in our body. The body switches on the waste disposal system in the cells and gains new energy. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne have now shown in mice that the brain plays a ...

Many people who have dieted are familiar with the yo-yo effect: after the diet, the kilos are quickly put back on. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and Harvard Medical School have now shown in mice that communication ...

Sweets change our brain

March 22, 2023

Chocolate bars, crisps and fries - why can't we just ignore them in the supermarket? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne, in collaboration with Yale University, have now shown that foods with a high fat and ...

To eat or to mate—that is the question (and the answer is: moderately hungry mice choose to mate). Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and the Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research CECAD at the University of Cologne ...

Uridine makes you hungry

January 17, 2023

Uridine is not only a central building block of RNA, but can also increase the feeling of hunger when ingested, as researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and the University Hospital of Cologne have now shown. In the long ...

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