Michael Muller Nutrition, Metabolism & Genomics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

Homepage: http://nutrigene.4t.com/


Biography

Contact details:
Division of Human Nutrition, Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics group
Wageningen University, Bomenweg 2, 6703 HD Wageningen
The Netherlands
email: michael.muller@wur.nl
phone: 31-(0)317-482590

Michael Müller has a background in biochemistry and gene regulation. He is full professor and has the chair of Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics in the Division of Human Nutrition at Wageningen University/The Netherlands. He studied chemistry at the University of Freiburg/Germany and performed a PhD thesis in Biochemistry on 'Liver drug transporters'. After a 5-year period as post-doc at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg/Germany, he moved in 1993 to the University of Groningen (Netherlands) to become head of the 'Liver transporter group'. He is editorial board member of the European Journal of Nutrition, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics and World Journal of Gastroenterology. He is director of the Dutch Innovative Cluster Nutrigenomics within the Wageningen Centre of Food Sciences (WCFS) and board member of the Network of Excellence Nutrigenomics (European Community KP6).

Research interests:
We are fascinated by fat in particular by fatty acids and their role as powerful signaling molecules. We use Affymetrix microarray analysis and molecular nutrition tools to characterize organ-specific fat-sensing mechanisms.
Our group studies the effects of fatty acids and other nutrients on gene expression and metabolic pathways with the focus on 4 major topics:
1. Molecular pathways involved in nutrient-dependent changes in gene expression
2. Impact of specific genes for energy metabolism
3. Bioavailability of nutrients and the role of transporter proteins
4. Gene expression signatures of health and stress (the "two hits")




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