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Professor, Division of Human Nutrition at Wageningen University & Research
Courses and Programs taught by Sander Kersten
Major works
Kersten S. (2104) Physiological regulation of lipoprotein lipase. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1841:919-33.
Stienstra R, Dijk W, Beek L, Jansen H, Heemskerk M, Houtkooper R, Denis S, van Harmelen V, Willems van Dijk K, Tack CJ, Kersten S. (2014) Mannose Binding Lectin is required for the effective clearance of apoptotic cells by adipose tissue macrophages during obesity. Diabetes. 63:4143-53.
Catoire M, Alex S, Paraskevopulos N, Mattijssen F, Schaart G, Kneppers A, Evers - van Gogh I, Mensink M, Voshol PJ, Olivecrona G, Tan NS, Hesselink MKC, Berbée JF, Rensen PCN, Kalkhoven E, Schrauwen P, Kersten S. (2014) The fatty acid inducible ANGPTL4 governs the lipid metabolic response to acute exercise. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 111:E1043-52.
Mattijssen F, Alex S, Swarts HJ, Groen AK, van Schothorst EM, Kersten S. (2014) Angptl4 serves as endogenous inhibitor of intestinal lipid digestion. Molecular Metabolism. 3:135-44.
Lichtenstein L, Mattijssen F, de Wit NJ, Georgiadi A, Hooiveld NJ, van der Meer R, He Y, Qi L, Koster A, Tamsma JT, Tan NS, Müller M, Kersten S. (2010) Angptl4 protects against severe pro-inflammatory effects of dietary saturated fat by inhibiting uptake of fatty acids in mesenteric lymph node macrophages. Cell Metabolism. 12:580-92.
Dr. Sander Kersten received his MSc degree in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University in 1993. He subsequently moved to the USA and earned his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1997. After a postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Wahli at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, he moved back to Wageningen in 2000, initially as a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and later as Associate Professor. In 2011 he was promoted to Full Professor and in 2014 he succeeded Prof. dr. Michael Müller as chair of the Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics group. Dr. Kersten also has an appointment as Courtesy Professor within the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University (USA).