Welcome to the website of Dr Jan Frank's research group in the division Nutritional Biochemistry at the Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition at the University of Hohenheim, Germany.
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SFRR-E / IUBMB Advanced School "Dietary factors and redox signalling"
The bi-annual summer school of the Society for Free Radical Research - Europe, which is co-sponsored by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB), will be held September 24-30, 2012 on the Greek island Spetses. The central topic of this summer school is "Dietary factors and redox signalling".
The summer school will be accompanied by a special event on Sunday morning (September 30) featuring the IUBMB / Brian Clark lectures held by distinguished scientists, such as Brian Clark himself, Daniela Rhodes, Gregory Petsko, and Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover. All participants of the summer school are invited to attend the IUBMB / Brian Clark lectures at no extra costs.
A flyer that summarizes the most important facts about the summer school is available for download.
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Recent publications
We developed and validated the first reversed-phase HPLC method for the baseline separation of all eight vitamin E congeners. The paper describing this work was accepted for publication in the Journal of Chromatography A. The accepted manuscript can be accessed here.
Our review article entitled Do tocotrienols have potential as neuroprotective dietary factors? was published in the January edition of the journal Ageing Research Reviews (Impact Factor: 9.000).
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How come grandma has wrinkles?
Why do children have smooth skin, while the skin of older people, grandparents for example, is less elastic and has wrinkles? What happens in our organism during aging? Perhaps a look into our body can help answering thesequestions? Our body is built from 100 000 000 000 000 minute building blocks called cells, which are constantly newly built, modified, and degraded. These processes require energy, which is generated by the "power plants" of the cells, the mitochondria. Within the cell, in the so-called nucleus, is contained a blueprint for the construction of new cells. What happens throughout the course of our life with these power plants and the blueprint? Doctor Frank takes us on a journey through our body, which is under constant change.
As part of the Children's University organized by the University of Hohenheim in cooperation with the Stuttgarter Zeitung, Dr. Frank gave a lecture on the theories of aging - adapted for children from 8-12 y. A video of the lecture can be viewed on the internet. Please visit the website of the Children's University for further information.
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New Impact Factor 2010
The Impact Factor of "Plant Foods for Human Nutrition", a journal where Dr. Frank serves on the editorial board, has improved and is now 2.463.
All colleagues who wish to publish original research or critical reviews concerning the evaluation or improvement of the nutritional quality of plant foods (e.g. health beneficial effects of bioactive ingredients or novel formulations, development of functional foods etc.) are invited to submit their manuscripts via the online submission system of the journal.