Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics Group - Wageningen University

Nutrition, Metabolism & Genomics Group
Nutrigenomics Lab
(Head: Prof. Dr. Michael Müller)

About me (CV here)

I was born in Cologne and lived quite some years nearby in Brühl, a small city with 3 highlights (Max Ernst (1891-1976) & Augustusburg & Falkenlust).

I like music (Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Johan Sebastian Bach, Above & Beyond,....).

I like literature (James Joyce, Emil Cioran, Thomas Bernhard, WF Hermans,....).

I like philosophy (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Feyerabend, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ....).

I am collecting art pottery of Lea Halpern, Iet Cool, Ute Grossmann,....

I like family & challenges (e.g. running, no marathon, but for 1 hour with a recent podcast of A&B).

I started early (with 8 years) with science (chemistry), later became interested in biochemistry.

I studied in Dortmund and Freiburg and did my postdoc at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg (on multidrug resistance).

I did quite some work on transport proteins such as MRP1 (ABCC1) or BSEP (ABCB11), members of the large superfamily of ABC transporter proteins.

I became convinced that I should change my research topic to Nutrition in 2000 with the advent of Genomics that allowed us to initiate Nutrigenomics research end of 2000.

I like open access science and publications (PLOS, BMC).

I would love to work at the BROAD institute if I would be much younger.

I am very happy with and proud about my group, a wonderful team of talented & very hard working & committed scientists.

I am fascinated by the work of some people (e.g. Willy Smits, that we support with a research project on palm sugar).

I have the dream of nutritional science 2.0 where intense non-selfish collaborations of multidisciplinary teams allow to approach the big scientific challenges (malnutrition) by using smart combinations of genomics applications (comprehensive genotyping & phenotyping), challenge tests, biobanking, non-invasive imaging, & Web 2.0 tools).