Institute for Experimental Endocrinology

Molecular Endocrinology

Jens Mittag (Group leader)
Riccardo Dore (Postdoc)
Francesca Raffaelli (PhD student)
Sarah Sentis (PhD student)
Nuria Lopez Alcantara (PhD student)
Julia Maier (PhD student)
Beke Kolms (PhD student)
Annika Glatzel (Guest PhD student from MPI Cologne)
Alexander Iwen (MD, leader clinical studies)

Junior Group Thyroid & Fetal Programming

Rebecca Ölkrug (Junior Groupleader)
Julia Resch (Technician)

Alumni

Lisbeth Harder (former PhD student)
Sogol Gachkar (former PhD student)
Kornelia Johann (former PhD student)
Sebastian Nock (former PhD student)
Beate Herrmann (former PhD student)
Mehdi Pedaran (former PhD student)
Daniela Schlatow (former Financial Manager)
Maike Byner (former MD student)

Reseach Interests

Our research centers around the role of thyroid hormone in the coordination of cardiovascular parameters and thermoregulatory processes. On one hand we are interested in dissecting the role of thyroid hormone on the central control of heart rate, blood pressure and brown fat thermogenesis, with a special focus on a novel population of parvalbuminergic neurons in the anterior hypothalamus. On the other hand we investigate the direct effects of thyroid hormone and its metabolites on brown fat, heart and vasculature using for instance infrared thermography, radiotelemetry and wire myography.

National/International Collaborations