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Web page: https://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/
Country: Germany
City: 10115 Berlin
Address:
Philippstr. 13, Haus 4
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Projects: LiSyM PALs, Multi-Scale Models for Personalized Liver Function Tests (LiSyM-MM-PLF), LiSyM Pillar IV: Liver Function Diagnostics (LiSyM-LiFuDi), LiSyM network, LiSyM-Krebs Partnering
Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institute for Theoretical Biology (ITB)

We are investigating liver metabolism and function with the help of computational models and methods.
Read more about the LiSyM junior group at: https://www.livermetabolism.com
Junior Group Leader
Dr. Matthias König
Institute for Theoretical Biology
Humboldt-University Berlin
Invalidenstraße 110, 10115 Berlin, Germany
phone +49 30 2093-98435
konigmatt@googlemail.com
The liver is the central metabolic organ of our body playing a crucial role in the clearance of drugs, xenobiotics and numerous
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Former postdoc in the Theoretical Biophysics group headed by Edda Klipp at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and member of the LiSyM network, I am now an independent Group Leader at the Technical University of Munich focusing on developing an advanced bioinformatics toolbox for analyzing, integrating, and mining of various omics data in the context of precision medicine as well as molecular disease and patient subtyping.
Interested in modelling metabolism, predicting metabolic phenotypes and dynamic transitions in metabolism. Also using partially and incompletely characterized models (probabilistic predictions).
One of the tasks of the healthy liver is to store fat. Yet, at some stage, too much fat makes the liver sick. One critical time point occurs when a healthy fatty liver becomes inflamed and progresses to steatohepatitis, or NASH.
LiSyM-Pillar I will identify what events lead to this transition. Does it occur in all parts of the liver? Which molecules indicate that it is taking place? Can the degeneration be stopped or undone - and if so, how?
Programme: LiSyM: Liver Systems Medicine
Public web page: http://www.lisym.org/our-work/pillar-research/zones-of-the-liver
Start date: 1st Jan 2016
Organisms: Mus musculus, Rattus rattus, Rattus norvegicus, Homo sapiens
Disorders of the liver show up through changes in blood tests. These blood tests indicate markers for events taking place in the liver. Usually studies of liver tissue cannot be performed: as liver samples would need to be obtained through a liver biopsy, and this procedure is not without risk, therefore these samples are usually unavailable. Complex metabolism models based on existing and new scientific data can simulate changes in the liver caused by disease. They often reveal unknown relationships
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Programme: LiSyM: Liver Systems Medicine
Public web page: http://www.lisym.org/our-work/pillar-research/the-liver-is-very-patient
Start date: 1st Jan 2016
Organisms: Homo sapiens
Dr. Matthias König (Humboldt University, Berlin) models the human liver on the computer. His simulations show the extent of individual differences in liver function and the external factors influencing it. König has shown that smoking falsifies the result of an important liver test (LiMAx). With his models, drug doses can be calculated so that they can be administered in doses that do not harm the liver.
Programme: LiSyM: Liver Systems Medicine
Public web page: https://livermetabolism.com
Start date: 1st Jan 2016
Organisms: Homo sapiens
This is a generic project that comprises all LiSyM data management PALs and associated FAIRDOM PALs, as well as the LiSyM data management team.
Programme: LiSyM: Liver Systems Medicine
Public web page: Not specified
Organisms: Not specified
This comprises the whole LiSyM network
Programme: LiSyM: Liver Systems Medicine
Public web page: http://www.lisym.org
Start date: 1st Jan 2016
Organisms: Rattus norvegicus, Rattus rattus, Mus musculus, Homo sapiens