More than excited to share our latest study from my PhD work published in Science Magazine! We demonstrate that food perception is sufficient to drive adaptational processes in hepatic mitochondria. For more details read the 🧵 and here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Please RT.

As former nominees Thomas Wunderlich and Anna-Lena Ostermann-Parucha were making their way down the red carpet at the Felix Burda Award yesterday. The award is part of an important awareness campaign and rewards significant contributions in the field of colorectal cancer research

👏Congratulations to CECAD Cologne research group leaders Thorsten Hoppe and Jens Brüning, director of the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, who have been awarded #two ERC Advanced Grants by the European Research Council (@ERC_Research)!

Universität zu Köln #UniversityOfCologne #ERCAdvancedGrants

Thrilled to kick off the #CGA recruitment week with our international candidates! They joined us yesterday for a faculty poster session, information talks & networking BBQ and are busy with lab visits today and tomorrow CECAD Cologne , MPI for Biology of Ageing & Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research. Have fun everyone!😁

PAPER OUT!!! Super excited to finally share our latest work from Jens Brüning’s lab at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research published in Nature Metabolism.

Link: nature.com/articles/s4225…

‼️Paper alert! New study published by Alain De Solis, Almudena del Río and the Brüning Lab about simultaneous activation of AgRP and inhibition of POMC neurons and the effect on food intake and glucose metabolism. Nature Metabolism Congrats to all the authors. For a thread, see below

🎓 Huge congrats to our brilliant PhD stars, Paulo from the class of 2017 and the Björn Schumacher lab CECAD Cologne & Daria from the class of 2019 and the Brüning lab Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research on passing their defence last Friday! 🚀👏 Enjoy the celebration Daria and Paulo - you've earned it! 🥳

(Ad)venturing from Berlin to Köln with Deutsche Bahn Personenverkehr in a VERY packed train. Hearing stories of all trains to NRW cancelled yesterday. Let’s hope we make it today! Excited to see some friends and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research meeting the next two days! #brain 🧠 🧑🏻‍🔬

Extremely overwhelmed with this feeling of going back to my postdoc lab and feel HOME. Thank you for these two emotional and amazing days 🥹🥹🥹 see you around the world! Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research

Our director Jens Brüning is among the Highly Cited Researchers worldwide named by Clarivate for Academia & Government and is one of the seven researchers listed from Universität zu Köln. Congratulation! 🎉portal.uni-koeln.de/en/universitae…

Full house & vivid discussions yesterday: our guest speaker Marc Tittgemeyer from Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research explained how our brain regulates calorie intake, how sugar and fat influence our behaviour & why diets usually fail. The talk was part of our public event series KopfSalat.