Integrated Research Training Group at the DFG Collaborative Research Centre "Brown and Beige Fat - Organ Crosstalk, Signaling and Energetics (BATenergy)" (SFB/TRR 333)

The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TRR 333 Brown and Beige Fat – Organ Crosstalk, Signaling and Energetics (BATenergy) is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) since 2022 and investigates metabolism/diabetes and focuses on brown adipose tissue.

Application Deadline:

Any time during the year

Program Language:

English

Program Duration:

3 years

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Doctoral Disciplines

Experimental Medicine
Molecular Biomedicine
Pharmacy

Type of Program

Integrated Research Training Group

Faculties

Faculty of Medicine

Short Description

There is no single university or research center in Germany that can address these complex basic and clinically relevant questions on its own. For this reason, we established this consortium combining the internationally visible and complementary expertise of the three participating universities, the University of Bonn, Universität Hamburg and the Technical University of Munich. The Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio (CRC/TRR) brings together scientists from different fields, thus generating the synergism required to decipher the complex regulation of thermogenic energetics and its regulation.

The research program focuses on

1. the organ crosstalk between gut, liver, muscle and thermogenic adipose tissues,
2. the cell-cell communication within brown and beige fat, and
3. the interaction of cell organelles and intracellular signaling pathways in brown/beige adipocytes.

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Program Title (DE)

Integriertes Graduiertenkolleg im DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich "Braunes und beiges Fett – Organinteraktionen, Signalwege und Energiehaushalt (BATenergy)" (SFB/TRR 333)