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Dagmar Führer-Sakel, Speaker of the CRC/TR 296 LocoTact

FAZ - Health Podcast: The thyroid - small organ with great impact

Our LOCOTACT speaker Prof. Dagmar Führer-Sakel (Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Essen) was invited to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) health podcast.
Under the title "The thyroid - small organ with  great impact" she talks about the task of this fascinating gland, how it works - and what T4 and T3 are all about.
Listen to the German Podcast episode here: Podcast FAZ

Save the Date - LOCOTACT Retreat 2023 and International Conference

Please save the date for next year's LOCOTACT Retreat and our 1st International Conference!
From June, 07 - 10, 2023 will meet at the Atlantic Congress Hotel in Essen. Further information will follow. Stay tuned.

Der Poster Award

Poster Award at NeuroRNA Conference

The virtual NeuroRNA Conference 2022 - RNA regulation in brain function and disease, was organized to discuss the advances in research at the interface between RNA biology and neuroscience. We congratulate Robert Opitz who's poster presentation has been awarded with a poster prize.
The NeuroRNA Conference took place from 28.-30. September 2022. Look here for further information.
Congratulations to Robert and his team!
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ETA Project Research Grant for LOCOTACT PostDoc Sebastian Hönes

The LOCOTACT consortium congratulates our PostDoc Sebastian Hönes (P18) for receiving this year's ETA Project Research Grant (Basic). With this grant Sebastian receives 20.000 € for his research. 
On behalf of all LOCOTACT members, we wish you every success with the project!

LOCOTACT Event - Panel Discussion on the movie Picture a Scientist

The fact that discrimination against female scientists is certainly not an outdated problem, but a highly relevant topic, could be experienced by all participants of the panel discussion on September 22. Inspired by the content of the film Picture A Scientist and moderated by Dr. Christina Altstötter-Gleich, the panel guests Prof. Britta Siegmund, Prof. Nicole Krämer, Prof. Karen Shire and Prof. Dagmar Führer-Sakel discussed their impressions of the film, their own experiences in their professional careers and everyday work, as well as cultural and structural differences between Germany, Europe and North America. The panel guests were in agreement that it is important to be a good example, to strengthen and support young female colleagues and, above all, to advocate for equal treatment in decision-making committees.
LOCOTACT would like to thank all panelists for the great contributions and inspirations that were shared with the audience, as well as the openness to talk about very personal experiences and looks back on a successful evening. Thank you!

44th Annual Meeting of the European Thyroid Association

During the last four days many of our LOCOTACT researchers traveled to Brussels to participate in the 44th Annual Meeting of the European Thyroid Association!
 
We are proud that many of our members have been invited to give talks and present posters: 
Oral presentations: Dagmar Führer-Sakel (P08, P10, Z03; Essen), Lars Möller (P10, P18; Essen), Josef Köhrle (P16; Berlin), Steffen Mayerl (P19; Essen), Pieter Vancamp (Z03; Essen), Leonardo de Assis (P13; Lübeck), Nina Härting (P11; Essen), Robert Opitz (P06; Berlin)
Poster presentations: Valeria Fernandez-Vallone (Z01; Berlin), Androniki Alevyzaki (P01; Essen), Andrea Alcaide Martín (P19; Essen), Adina Graffunder (P04; Berlin), Nuria López Alcántara (P14; Lübeck), Audrey Bresser (P04; Berlin), Julia Maier (P12; Lübeck), Sabrina Asaad (P17; Berlin)
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Furthermore, several prizes have been awarded to LOCOTACT researchers:
ETA Travel Grant: Nina Härting (group of Frank Kaiser, Essen)
ETA Poster Awards: Andrea Alcaide Martín (group of Steffen Mayerl, Essen), Audrey Bresser (group of Peter Kühnen/Robert Opitz, Berlin)
ETA Lissitzky Career Award: Prof. Josef Köhrle (Berlin). This prestigious prize is awarded every second year to a distinguished member of the Association who has made a life-long and outstanding contribution to thyroid research!
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Congratulations to all winners and many thanks to everyone
who contributed to ETA and represented LOCOTACT!!!​

LOCOTACT Lectures - Mathew Fuxjager

The LOCOTACT consortium thanks Prof. Dr. Mathew Fuxjager, Associate Professor at the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Brown University, Rode Island, for his fascinating lecture on hormones in birds and the effect on skeletal muscle and behaviour  
 
The lively discussion after the talk reflected the broad interest and fascination among the listeners, who are mostly used to hear about endokrine-related topics in human research.
Thank you Matt, for encouraging to thinking out of the box! 

LOCOTACT Lectures - Mathew Fuxjager - Register now

The LOCOTACT Lecture summerbreak is over and we are happy to announce next week's talk.
 
On Thursday, 25th of August 2022, Prof. Dr. Mathew Fuxjager, Associate Professor at the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Brown University, Rode Island, USA, will talk about "Evolution of the androgenic system in birds: a focus on skeletal muscle".
The Fuxjager lab investigates the local effects of testosterone in the brain, the evolution of the hormonal system, and its relationship to the motor functioning for sexual behaviour.
 
You can download there lecture poster here.
 
All Guests are cordially invited to join the LOCOTACT lectures! The online lecture takes place via Zoom at 5.00 pm (CET).
To register, please contact our This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

New publication!

Congratulations to Adriana Arrulo Pereira (PhD candidate in P01), her PI Markus Schwaninger and all team members to this excellent publication doi: 10.1093/brain/awac243

It is Adriana's first shared 1st Authorship!

Well done!!!

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