On 23rd of July, we had the pleasure of celebrating with Marie Meemken who successfully defended her PhD thesis on implicit and explicit appetitive outcome learning in obesity. We at the O’BRAIN Lab are very proud to see another female scientist emerge from our midst! Well done, Marie!
After months of lockdown and social distancing the team in Leipzig is back at the MPI and testing. An extensive cataloque of hygiene measures has been developed to protect both participants and staff during experiments. Whilst not all methods can be used yet, the O’BRAIN Lab has already tested a...
Check out Annette’s new paper in Nutrients, investigating how automatic and controlled processing interact with regard to eating behaviour. The results outline how we might best achieve our long-term goals (of healthy eating habits).
Life at the O’BRAIN Lab is beginning to return to normal — staff in Leipzig were welcomed back to the office (in small numbers), while working from home continues in Helsinki, with an exit strategy being prepared. We tried to make the best of social distancing while in lockdown and...
Like almost all countries all over the world Germany and Finland have been facing the COVID 19/Corona crisis since late February and early March. In an unprecedented move, both the University of Helsinki as well as the MPI in Leipzig, went virtual as preemptive measures. All staff, incl. the entire...
Together with international colleagues Annette will work on a replication grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), awarded to Sanne de Wit and Jaap JM Murre from the University of Amsterdam in March 2020. Four labs, including the O’BRAIN Lab, Paul Fletcher’s Lab at the University of Cambridge, and Julia...
The O’BRAIN Lab presented a whooping 4 posters at the 16th Leipzig Research Festival of Life Sciences at the end of January, with topics ranging from neural responses to food odors in obesity to diet-associated differences in peripheral dopamine precursors. Many thanks to the presenting O’BRAIN researchers Maria Poessel, Franzi...
What an excellent start to the new decade! We now have our first PhD student in Helsinki! Daniel joins us from Nijmegen where he spent a few years working in industry before returning to Scandinavia and science. In true style he was welcomed by Annette and Suse with a selection...
Until the end of November we are looking for the last male volunteers (German only) to complete our study on the influence of fat and sugar on the brain. Help science and get in touch with us via 0341–9940 2629 or dopamin-diet@cbs.mpg.de. We are looking forward to welcoming you!
It’s our great pleasure to welcome our first Helsinki student to the team. Minka, who is a Master student of psychology, will be investigating whether olfactory stimulation influences automatic action tendencies in obesity. We are very proud to have a first collaboration between our 2 labs as the data was...
