Responsibilities

• Supervision of strategic research projects
• Representative of the DIfE in committees and organizations
• Development of early stage researchers (doctoral candidates, postdocs)
• Coordinator of the Leibniz Research Network "Green Nutrition-Healthy Society”
• Coordination of processes that affect both scientific and administrative issues at the DIfE
• Organization of scientific events

Selected Publications

Wiedmer, P., Jung, T., Castro, J. P., Pomatto, L. C. D., Sun, P. Y., Davies, K. J. A., Grune, T.: Sarcopenia – Molecular Mechanisms and Open Questions. Ageing Res. Rev. 65:101200 (2021). [Open Access]

Weindl, I., Ost, M., Wiedmer, P., Schreiner, M., Neugart, S., Klopsch, R., Kühnhold, H., Kloas, W., Henkel, I. M., Schlüter, O., Bußler, S., Bellingrath-Kimura, S. D., Ma, H., Grune, T., Rolinski, S., Klaus, S.: Sustainable food protein supply reconciling human and ecosystem health: A Leibniz Position. Global Food Security 25: 100367 (2020).

Wiedmer, P., Grune, T.: Nutritional trends: Where will the future take us? eFOOD-Lab International 26-30 (2019).

Wiedmer, P., Ode, A., Grune, T.: Nutritional Interventions: Food Pattern, Behaviour, and Products. Deutsche Lebensmittel-Rundschau 112 (4), 142-146 (2016).

Jonas, W., Lietzow, J., Wohlgemuth, F., Hoefig, C. S., Wiedmer, P., Schweizer, U., Köhrle, J., Schürmann, A.: 3,5-Diiodo-L-thyronine (3,5-T2) exerts thyromimetic effects on hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis, body composition, and energy metabolism in male diet-induced obese mice. Endocrinology 156, 389-399 (2015). [Open Access]

Wiedmer, P., Chaudhary, N., Rath, M., Yi, C.-X., Ananthakrishnan, G., Nogueiras, R., Wirth, E. K., Kirchner, H., Schweizer, U., Jonas, W., Veyrat-Durebex, C., Rohner-Jeanrenaud, F., Schürmann, A., Joost, H.-G., Tschöp, M. H., Perez-Tilve, D.: The HPA axis modulates the CNS melanocortin control of liver triacylglyceride metabolism. Physiol. Behav. 105, 791-799 (2012).

Sakkou, M., Wiedmer, P., Anlag, K., Hamm, A., Seuntjens, E., Ettwiller, L., Tschöp, M. H., Treier, M.: A role for brain-specific homeobox factor Bsx in the control of hyperphagia and locomotory behavior. Cell Metab. 5, 450-463 (2007).

Nogueiras, R., Wiedmer, P., Perez-Tilve, D., Veyrat-Durebex, C., Keogh, J. M., Sutton, G. M., Pfluger, P. T., Castaneda, T. R., Neschen, S., Hofmann, S. M., Howles, P. N., Morgan, D. A., Benoit, S. C., Szanto, I., Schrott, B., Schürmann, A., Joost, H.-G., Hammond, C., Hui, D. Y., Woods, S. C., Rahmouni, K., Butler, A. A., Farooqi, I. S., O´Rahilly, S., Rohner-Jeanrenaud, F., Tschöp, M. H.: The central melanocortin system directly controls peripheral lipid metabolism. J. Clin. Invest. 117, 3475-3488 (2007).

Wiedmer, P., Boschmann, M., Klaus, S.: Gender dimorphism of body mass perception and regulation in mice. J. Exp. Biol. 207, 2859-2866 (2004).