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TUMS Visiting Professors | Alexander G. Haslberger

Alexander G. Haslberger

alexander.haslberger@univie.ac.at

Dep. for Nutritional Research,

University of Vienna , Althanstrasse 14, Biocenter, 2D541

1090 Vienna, Austria

+43 6991 221112

+43 1 8795896

Professional biography:

Professor Alexander G Haslberger is group leader at the Department for Nutritional Sciences at the University of Vienna where he also received his academic degrees. He worked in research groups of the Sandoz Research Inst., the University of Minnesota, the WHO in Geneva and headed a group at the Fed. Ministry of Health, Vienna. He participated in the preparation of the WHO report on modern food biotechnology, the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the preparation of the OECD conference on genetic testing, Vienna 2000, the Public Health Genomic EC network, EC research projects and in WHO expert groups.

 

On September 6, 2016 Prof. Haslberger was presented with the TUMS Distinguished Visiting Professor Title for the duration of 2016-2019 by Dean of School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics.

 

Research Interests:

  • Microbiota

  • Food

  • Immune Responses

  • Epigenetics

  • Aging

 

Main 10 recent relevant publications

  • Remely M., Aumueller E., Hippe B., Chen Y., Haslberger A.G. GI MICROBIOTA AND EPIGENETIC CONTROL OF TLR2, TLR4 AND TNF-α IN METABOLIC SYNDROME, T2D AND CALORIC RESTRICTION , Abstract CLEPSO, Solingen, 2013

  • Switzeny OJ, Müllner E, Wagner KH, Brath H, Aumüller E, Haslberger AG. Vitamin and antioxidant rich diet increases MLH1 promoter DNA methylation in DMT2 subjects. Clin Epigenetics. 2012 Oct 1; 4(1):19.

  • Remely M, Dworzak S, Hippe B, Zwielehner J, Aumüller E, et al. (2013) Abundance and Diversity of Microbiota in Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity. J Diabetes Metab 4: 253

  • Stefanska B, Karlic H, Varga F, Fabianowska-Majewska K, Haslberger A. Epigenetic mechanisms in anti-cancer actions of bioactive food components--the implications in cancer prevention. Br J Pharmacol. 2012 Sep;167(2):279-97.

  • Giahi L, Aumueller E, Elmadfa I, Haslberger AG. Regulation of TLR4, p38 MAPkinase, IκB and miRNAs by inactivated strains of lactobacilli in human dendritic cells. Benef Microbes. 2012 Jun 1;3(2):91-8.

  • Zwielehner J, Lassl C, Hippe B, Pointner A, Switzeny OJ, Remely M, Kitzweger E, Ruckser R, Haslberger AG. Changes in human fecal microbiota due to chemotherapy analyzed by TaqMan-PCR, 454 sequencing and PCR-DGGE fingerprinting. PLoS One. 2011;612

  • Hippe B, Zwielehner J, Liszt K, Lassl C, Unger F, Haslberger AG. Quantification of butyryl CoA:acetate CoA-transferase genes reveals different butyrate production capacity in individuals according to diet and age. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2011 Mar;316(2):130-5.

  • Berner C, Aumüller E, Gnauck A, Nestelberger M, Just A, Haslberger AG. Epigenetic control of estrogen receptor expression and tumor suppressor genes is modulated by bioactive food compounds. Ann Nutr Metab. 2010;57(3-4):183-9.

  • Thaler, R. Aumueller E., Berner C., Haslberger A.G., Interaction of hereditary mechanisms in the regulation of gene expression ( 2010) In: Haslberger A.G. Epigenetics and human health, Wiley 2010

  • Thaler R, Karlic H, Rust P, Haslberger AG. Epigenetic regulation of humanbuccal mucosa mitochondrial superoxide dismutase gene expression by diet. Br J Nutr. 2009 Mar;101(5):743-9. Haslberger A, Varga F, Karlic H. Recursive causality in evolution: a model for epigenetic mechanisms in cancer development. Med Hypotheses. 2006;67(6):1448-54.

 

Prof. Haslberger participated as an international speaker in the 2nd International and the 14th Iranian Nutrition Congress at Tehran on September 2016.

 

During his presence at TUMS, he had a meeting with TUMS School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics officials.

 

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