Professor Mark Febbraio is a distinguished exercise physiologist and metabolic researcher at Monash University, where he serves as Head of the Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory within the Drug Discovery Program and as a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC. His work focuses on… [read more]

Prof. Troy Hornberger from the University of Wisconsin–Madison gave the 18th HyperMet lecture entitled ‘Visualising the Sites of Mechanically Induced Growth in Skeletal Muscle’. His research focuses on how mechanical stimuli, triggered, for example, by strength training, stimulate muscle… [read more]

The DFG funded HyperMet research group held its first annual plenary meeting on 21.11.2025 at the new conference center of Helmholtz Zentrum München. The event opened with a “State of HyperMet” address by HyperMet speaker Prof. Henning Wackerhage (TUM) and co-speaker Prof. Hanna Taipaleenmäki (LMU),… [read more]

On 23.10.2025 the DFG-funded research units FOR 5560 “Crosstalk between B cell metabolism and signaling” and FOR 5795 “HyperMet” jointly hosted the Research, Family and Fairness Fest at the TUM Campus im Olympiapark. The event aimed to foster exchange on disability, integration, and work-life… [read more]

From 6 to 10 October 2025, a summer school on cellular metabolism was held at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. The five-day program combined theoretical input with hands-on laboratory work and was designed for early-career researchers with a background in life sciences. Participants… [read more]

In the DGMet Annual Meeting 2025 held in Hannover, Prof. Dr. Henning Wackerhage (Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Chair of Exercise Biology) chaired the session on skeletal muscle and exercise metabolism. As an introduction to the session, he gave a talk titled “Why and… [read more]

As part of the TUM Global Visiting Professor Program, Cholsoon Jang, a leading expert in metabolic research from the University of California, Irvine and a publisher in high-ranking journals Nature, Science, and Cell, visited Munich for one week.  His stay included collaborative lab work with the… [read more]

Prof. Erik A. Richter from the University of Copenhagen presented insights into the interplay between physical activity and insulin in regulating glucose metabolism at the molecular level. His lecture focused on glucose uptake mechanisms in skeletal muscle, emphasizing the roles of perfusion,… [read more]

Dr. Michael Skinnider, Assistant Professor at Princeton University, presented DeepMet, a chemical language model trained on the structures of all known human metabolites. The model expands the chemical space of known human metabolites with new, metabolite-like structures and predicts the existence… [read more]

On 14.08.2025, Prof. Dr. Lykke Sylow from the University of Copenhagen presented the latest findings on "Activin receptor type IIA/B blockade increases muscle mass and strength, but compromises glycemic control in mice," which focuses on the role of Activin Receptors IIA/B in the regulation of… [read more]