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SfE/BES Annual Meeting: Heike Heuer and Steffen Mayerl represent LOCOTACT

LOCOTACT PI Heike Heuer and Steffen Mayerl were both invited to the 2021 Society for Endocrinology/British Endocrine Society (SfE/BES) Annual Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

Heike Heuer has been honored with the Pitt-Rivers Medal for her outstanding research contributions in the field of thyroid disorders. Thus, she presented at the plenary lecture of the Pitt-Rivers-Lecture Award and talked about the "Role of thyroid hormone transporters in brain development and function" on 08.11.2021.

The day after, on 09.11.2021, PI Steffen Mayerl represented LOCOTACT with his talk on "Concerted action of TH transporters MCT8 and OATP1C1 regulates adult hippocampal neurogenesis and hippocampal function in mice".

We thank both of you for these outstanding presentations!

LOCOTACT Lectures - Jan G. Hengstler

We thank Prof. Jan G. Hengstler for his excellent talk in the November edition of the LOCOTACT Lectures!
 
The audience has been highly impressed by the innovative technique to visualize liver cells intravitally.

Renate-Maaß-Research Award 2021

PD Dr. Anna Cirkel, LOCOTACT PI, is the winner of the Renate-Maaß-Research Award in 2021!
With this esteemed award the Renate-Maaß-Foundation in Lübeck recognizes the outstanding work of Dr. Cirkel in studying the influence of thyroid hormone on brain function, memory formation and behaviour. More information about the research of Dr. Cirkel and the Award can be found here.
Congratulations to PD Dr. Anna Cirkel!

Interview with the 2021 Pitt-Rivers Lecturer

Prof. Heike Heuer, LOCOTACT PI, is the 2021 British Thyroid Association Pitt-Rivers Lecturer!
She will give her Medal Lecture about the “Role of thyroid hormone transporters in brain development and function” on Monday November 8 at 14:00 GMT at the SfE BES 2021 in Edinburgh.
The Society for Endocrinology interviewed Prof. Heuer about her career, her inspirations, challenges and future visions in TH research. Follow this link to read the whole interview.
Congratulations to this renowned award!

LOCOTACT Lectures - Final Programme

We are pleased to announce the final program for the LOCOTACT Lectures in the winter semester 2021/22!
 
04.11.2021, 5.00 pm
Prof. Dr. Jan G. Hengstler, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
“Intravital functional imaging of the liver: elucidation of pathophysiological mechanisms of steatohepatitis“
 
09.12.2021, 5.00 pm
Dr. Gad Vatine, The Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell (RMSC) Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“tba“
 
13.01.2022, 5.00 pm
Prof. Dr. Matthias Gunzer, Institute for Experimental Immunology and Imaging, University of Duisburg-Essen
“Neutrophils in sterile and infectious inflammation“
 
10.02.2022, 5.00 pm
Prof. Miguel López Pérez, Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases, University of Santiago de Compostela
“Obesity Wars: a New Hope, hypothalamic AMPK targeting“
 
You can download the flyer here.

LOCOTACT Lectures - Guo Huang

Many thanks to Guo Huang for his impressive presentation to kick off the LOCOTACT Lectures.
 
Especially for the young scientists of our CRC the lectures has been a great inspiration and motivation!
 
Guo Huang enjoyed all discussions and interactions about his talk.

LOCOTACT-Lectures

The monthly lectures with invited guest speakers start on September 9, 2021 and will take place on thursdays from 5:00 to 6:00 pm via Zoom.

It is our great pleasure to announce our first Speaker:
Guo Huang, Ph.D from the University of California, San Francisco. Guo Huang is an expert in regeneration of cardiomyocytes, regenerative potential vs. thermogenesis, evolution and the role of thyroid hormones Huang Lab at UCSF

ETA eConference 2021: Steffen Mayerl speaks about GABAergic interneurons

LOCOTACT was represented at the 2021 ETA eConference by PI Steffen Mayerl. In the Sunday evening oral session he gave his talk "Thyroid hormone transport impacts multiple stages of GABAergic interneuron development".

 

43rd annual ETA eConference 2021

We would like to congratulate two award winners of our LOCOTACT consortium!
 
Junior group leader and LOCOTACT PI Dr. Steffen Mayerl was awarded with the ETA Jack Robbins Prize for his presentation on the role of thyroid hormone transporters in GABAergic interneuron development.
 
Ann-Kathrin Schörding, MD student in the group of Prof. Lars Moeller received the prestigious Young Investigator Award for her outstanding presentation on canonical thyroid hormone action in bone development.
 
Thanks to everyone who actively paticipated and represented our consortium during the meeting!

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