Department Seminar Series
Winter 2022
**NOTICE**
Winter Term Seminars will be held IN-PERSON in 110 Willamette Hall unless otherwise specified.
Online meeting links will be sent in advance to all Human Physiology Graduate Students. Any Undergraduates and non-HPHY Graduate students wanting to attend must request the link from the hosting faculty.
Friday, January 14th, 2022 – 10 AM **VIA ZOOM**
Guest Speaker: Prasad VG Katakam, MD, PhD, FCVS. Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine
Title: Novel Effects of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibition on Mitochondrial Respiration
Host: Ashley Walker
Friday, January 21st, 2022 – 10 AM
Guest Speaker: Bryson Nakamura, Director & Head Sport Scientist, Stanford Baseball Science Core, Stanford University – School of Medicine
Title: Sport Science in a Major League Baseball Front Office – What Applies?
Host: Andy Karduna
Friday, February 11th, 2022 – 10 AM
Guest Speaker: Brendan Dougherty, PT, PHD. Assistant Professor, Division of Physical Therapy, University of Minnesota
Title: TBD
Host: Adrianne Huxtable
Past Seminar Series Speakers
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 12/03/21 | Deanna Gates | Enhancing Human Performance through Robotic Protheses |
| 11/19/21 | Karina Nakayama | Engineering the Musculoskeletal Regenerative Niche with Patterned Biomaterials and Exercise |
| 11/05/21 | Ian Harding | Neuroimaging Markers and Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in Cerebellar Ataxia |
| 10/08/21 | Caitlin Alcorn | IRB Insider: Navigating and Conducting Human Subject Research |
| 06/04/21 | Candice Brown | Guarding the cerebrovascular barrier: uncovering novel roles for alkaline phosphatase in brain endothelium |
| 04/23/21 | Glenn Fleisig | How Baseball Pitching Biomechanics Affect Performance and Risk of Injury |
| 03/12/21 | Paige Geiger | Heat Therapy: molecular targets and metabolic disease prevention |
| 03/05/21 | Monica Perez | Neural Control of Movement Following Spinal Cord Injury |
| 02/12/21 | Karyn Hamilton | Exercise and pharmacotherapeutics: Interactions between healthspan-extending interventions |
| 01/29/21 | Jonathan Reeder | Skin-like, Microfluidic Systems for Hydration and Biochemical Feedback in Athletic Settings |
| 01/15/21 | Hélène Girouard | Hypertension and neurodegenerative diseases: what is the missing link? |
| 12/04/20 | Saurabh Thosar | Circadian rhythms and cardiovascular risk |
| 11/20/20 | Nisha Charkoudian | Autonomic control of cardiovascular function in Black and White men and women: the little we know and ideas for the road ahead |
| 11/06/20 | Marian Hettiaratchi | Biomaterials for Musculoskeletal and Central Nervous System Regeneration |
| 10/16/20 | Alena Grabowski | Can use of passive-elastic exoskeletons or prostheses enhance walking performance? |
| 10/02/20 | Jordan Troester | From Research to Practice: A Framework for Applied Sports Science |
| 06/05/20 | Lara Boyd | Exercise primes the brain to consolidate new motor memories |
| 05/22/20 | Fay Horak | Digital Biomarkers for Parkinson’s Disease |
| 05/08/20 | Rob Shave | Has the human heart been selected for endurance activity? |
| 04/10/20 | Trevor Day | The Development of Central Sleep Apnea during Ascent to High Altitude: Friend or Foe? |
| 03/06/20 | Annie Zemper | Tales from the Crypt: Gut Stem Cell Regulation |
| 01/31/20 | Ravi Balasubramanian | Robotics-Inspired Passive Orthopedic Implants to Surgically Re-Engineer the Musculoskeletal System |
| 01/24/20 | Steven Laurie | Keeping an Eye on the Eye on ISS |
| 12/06/19 | Anusha Mishra | Neurovascular coupling in health and disease |
| 11/22/19 | Bala Ambati | Advancing Corneal Care to Reduce Corneal Transplant Need by Enhancing Physiology |
| 11/08/19 | Larry David | Research Support by the OHSU Proteomics Shared Resource, and the Role of Aged Lens Proteins in Cataracts |
| 10/25/19 | Janet Dufek | The Effects of Strategies and Variability on Research Outcomes |
| 10/11/19 | Ghee Ong | Medical Wireless Sensors |
| 06/07/19 | Christopher Fry | Addressing muscle weakness following an ACL injury: focus on muscle quality |
| 05/24/19 | Gary Pierce | Age-Related Central Artery Stiffness in Humans: Measurement, Mechanisms and Management |
| 05/10/19 | Jenny McFarland | Physiology Core Concepts: Teaching for Conceptual Understanding |
| 04/26/19 | Kate Saul | Understanding brachial plexus injury and shoulder function through integrated musculoskeletal modeling |
| 04/12/19 | Kerrie Moreau | Anti-Aging effects of exercise on vascular function: Does Sex Matter? |
| 03/15/19 | Ulrike Dydak | Neuroimaging of Manganese Toxicity in Welders |
| 03/01/19 | Lara Rangel | The flexible coordination of hippocampal neurons in rhythms |
| 02/15/19 | Hans Haverkamp | Airway function during exercise in the asthmatic: dilation? Constriction? Both??? |
| 02/01/19 | Tracy Baker | Maternal intermittent hypoxia during pregnancy alters neural function in adult male offspring. |
| 01/25/19 | Brad Wilkins | Defining the rules, breaking expectations, and other questionable science career decisions. |
| 11/30/18 | Rob Roach | AltitudeOmics: Understanding exercise performance and clinical hypoxemia through the integrative human physiology of altitude acclimatization |
| 11/16/18 | Laura Villasana | Generating new neurons after traumatic brain injury |
| 11/02/18 | Cancelled | |
| 10/19/18 | Jill McNitt-Grey | The Control and Dynamics of Human Movements Initiated With and Without Momentum |
| 10/05/18 | Fong-Chin Su | An Innovative Rehab Robot with Real Time Visual Feedback & Performance Assessment |
| 6/8/18 | Gary Mouradian | Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and the Control of Breathing |
| 5/25/18 | Nick Stergiou | Harnessing Movement Variability To Treat And Prevent Motor Related Disorders |
| 5/11/18 | Jeff Iliff | Glymphatic function in aging and dementia: sleep, waste and neurodegeneration at the crossroads of the CNS |
| 4/27/18 | Bert Tanner | Sarcomere Length-Dependent Myosin Activity in Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Function |
| 4/13/18 | Taraz Lee | The Costs and Benefits of Cognitive Control and Motivation: The Curious Case of Choking Under Pressure |
| 3/16/18 | Phillip Gribble | Long Term Consequences of Ankle and Knee Injuries: Another Reason Athletic Trainers Are Important |
| 3/2/18 | Lara Rangel *CANCELED* | The Flexible Coordination of Hippocampal Neurons in Rhythms |
| 2/16/18 | John Greer | Novel Pharmacological Approach to Countering Fentanyl Induced Respiratory Depression |
| 2/2/18 | Erica Wehrwein | Expanding course instruction beyond “just the facts”: What else should we be teaching our students and how to do it? |
| 1/19/18 | Anita Vasavada | Neck Biomechanics for Ergonomics |
| 12/01/17 | Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi | Respiratory Motor Plasticity: Implications for Rehabilitating the Injured Spinal Cord |
| 11/17/17 | Chris DeSouza | Vascular Consequences of Insufficient Sleep |
| 11/03/17 | Bert Tanner *CANCELED* | Sarcomere Length-Dependent Myosin Activity in Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Function |
| 11/03/17 | Kryn Stankunas | Timing and Robustness Circuitry of Heart Valve Development |
| 10/20/17 | Cris Niell | Neural Circuits for Vision in Action |
| 10/13/17 | Lesley-Anne Pittard & Victoria DeRose | An IDEAL University: Challenges and Opportunities in Equity, Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Oregon |
| 10/06/17 | Kate Lyden | Measuring Physical Behavior and Energy Expenditure in Health Research: Making Sense of Wearable Sensors |
| 06/02/17 | Bill Milson | Divergent Strategies for High Altitude Performance in Tibetan and Andean Geese |
| 05/26/17 | Matthew Andrews | Pharmaceutical development based on the biochemistry of hibernating mammals |
| 05/19/17 | Simon Schenk | Does Protein Acetylation Link the Beneficial Effects of Exercise and Diet to Skeletal Muscle Health? |
| 05/05/17 | Charles Rice | Motor Unit Properties in Aged Adults: The Exercise Effect |
| 04/28/17 | Jonathan Peake | Evaluating the Rationale and Efficacy of Post-Exercise Treatments for Muscle Damage and Inflammation |
| 04/07/17 | Tim Uhl | Shoulder Rehabilitation: An Exercise Progression from ‘Pendulum to Plyometrics’ based on the available EMG Literature |
| 03/10/17 | Clark Dickerson | Shoulders, Shoulders Everywhere: Applying Biomechanics to Improve Human Lives |
| 02/24/17 | Katherine Ann Semsar | Insights Into What Students Learn About Physiology Across a Major: Lessons From the New Programmatic Physiology Assessment, Physiology-MAPS |
| 02/03/17 | Sean Newsom | Translational Metabolism Research at Oregon State University |
| 1/27/17 | Jim Pawelczyk | What Price a Martian? Human Limits to Exploring the Red Planet |
| 1/13/17 | Espen Spangenburg | A Surprising and Necessary Role for BRCA1 Expression in Skeletal Muscle Function |
| 11/18/16 | Jyoti Watters | Mechanisms of Microglial Inflammatory Gene Regulation by Paradigms of Hypoxia |
| 11/04/16 | Elinor Sullivan | Early Environmental Influences of Maternal Nutrition and Obesity on Offspring Mental Health |
| 10/21/16 | Young-Hui Chang | Rules to Limp By: What Humans and Other Animals Teach Us About How We Get From Here to There |
| 10/07/16 | Thurman Lockhart | Postural Stability and Falls in Advanced Parkinson’s Disease Patients |
| 06/03/16 | Gregory Funk | Central Purinergic and Glial Signaling in the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response |
| 05/20/16 | Nina Stachenfeld | Endothelial Function in Women with Androgen Excess Polycystic Ovary Syndrome |
| 05/06/16 | Mark Laursen | Preparing to Practice |
| 04/22/16 | Roger Enoka | Evolving Concepts on Motor Unit Physiology |
| 04/11/16 | Claudia Forjaz | Blood pressure responses during and after resistance exercise: clinical implications |
| 04/08/16 | Brett Fenster | Patent Foramen Ovale, Shunt, and Hypoxia: Can We Fit a Square Peg in a Round Hole? |
| 03/11/16 | Dan Pratt | Teaching Perspectives: Mapping a Plurality of the Good in Teaching |
| 02/26/16 | Tim Hewett | New Strategies to Prevent Primary & Secondary ACL Injuries |
| 02/12/16 | J.M. (Nino) Ramirez | Cardiorespiratory Coupling in Health and Disease |
| 01/29/16 | Elinor Sullivan | Early Environmental Influences of Maternal Nutrition and Obesity on Offspring Mental Health |
| 01/15/16 | Wendy Murray | Computer Simulation of the Upper Limb |
| 12/04/15 | Miranda M. Lim | Sleep Neurophysiology in Traumatic Brain Injury: Parallel Studies in Mouse and Man |
| 11/20/15 | Cindy Meininger | Fighting Vascular Complications of Diabetes by Modulating Tetrahydrobiopterin Levels in Endothelial Cells |
| 11/06/15 | Ben Miller | Is Enhanced Proteostasis a Shared Characteristic of Slowed Aging? |
| 10/23/15 | Richard Weir | Neural Interfaces and Bionic Limbs: Recent Work in the development of Advanced Prosthetic Hand Replacements |
| 10/09/15 | Matt Hodges | Serotonin and SIDS: Using Rodent Models to Study an Unexplained Phenomenon |
| 06/05/15 | Bill Cliff | Case-Based Learning In Practice |
| 05/22/15 | Jim Chestnutt | Concussion Update: Research to Rehab |
| 05/08/15 | Darrel Neufer | The Electrical Circuitry of Metabolic Disease: Integrating Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Redox Biology |
| 04/24/15 | Mark Rogers | Neuromechanics of Stepping for Balance and Mobility in Aging and Neurological Disorders |
| 04/10/15 | Rick Nepture | Biomechanical Analyses to Improve Rehabilitation Outcomes for Those with Movement Disabilities |
| 03/13/15 | Kevin McCully | MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE |
| 02/27/15 | Michael Bey | Dynamic Analysis of In-Vivo Shoulder and Tendon Function |
| 02/13/15 | Pope Moseley | Heat Shock, Inflammation, and Autophagy |
| 01/30/15 | Gary Sieck | Connecting Basic Science Discoveries to Solution for Human Disease |
| 01/16/15 | Walter Wray | Taming “The Sleeping Giant”: New Insights Into the Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Blood Flow During Exercise |
| 12/05/14 | Andy Fuglevand | Surprising Aspects of Synaptic Integration in Motor Neurons |
| 11/21/14 | Bob Murray | The Pittsburgh Pirates, Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, and Us – The Value of Perseverance, Stubbornness, and Stupidity in Exercise Science |
| 11/07/14 | Darin Padua | Primary and Secondary Prevention of ACL Injury and Knee Osteoarthritis |
| 10/24/14 | Adam Chicco | Muscle Mitochondrial Responses to Chronic High-Altitude Hypoxia |
| 10/10/14 | Paul DeVita | Obesity…Osteoarthritis…The Solar System…It’s All Connected |
| 05/21/14 | Elisabet Borsheim | Amino Acid Effects on Muscle Protein and Regional Lipid Metabolism |
| 05/07/14 | Csaba Galambos | Anatomic evidence of intrapulmonary shunt vessels in neonatal lung disorders |
| 04/23/14 | Andrew Biewener | Neuromuscular and biomechanical studies of terrestrial and aerial locomotion: guiding the development of Hill-type muscle models and biorobotic design. |
| 04/09/14 | Sandra Hunter | Fatigability of Human Muscles: Sex and Age Matter |
| 03/12/14 | Dwight Klemm | Distinct Fat Cell Populations Link Abdominal Obesity to Metabolic Disease |
| 02/26/14 | Wendy Kohrt | Metabolic and Bioenergetic Actions of Estrogens |
| 02/12/14 | Trey Crisco | Upper Extremity Biomechanics and Osteoarthritis |
| 01/29/14 | Dan Ferris | Human Locomotor Control Revealed by Robotic Lower Limb Exoskeletons and Mobile Brain Imaging |
| 01/15/14 | Todd Zakrajsek | Teaching for Deep Learning: Strategies for the Classroom from the Psychology of Learning |
| 12/06/13 | Terry Morgan | CANCELLED Due to weather |
| 11/22/13 | J Andrew Taylor | Aerobic Exercise for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: Circumventing the Lesion |
| 11/08/13 | Andrew Winterstein | Patient Outcomes Following Knee Injury: Clinical Trends and Current Research |
| 10/25/13 | Richard Burwick | Complement Activation in Severe Preeclampsia |
| 10/11/13 | Eric Stice | Reward region responsivity and reward learning propensity increase risk for future weight gain |
| 06/07/13 | Philip Clifford | Challenges and Opportunities in Scientific Careers |
| 05/24/13 | John Osborn | Targeted Sympathetic Ablation for Treatment of Hypertension |
| 05/10/13 | Samual Ward | Human Shoulder Muscle Structure and Function in Health and Disease |
| 04/26/13 | James Onate | Developing Models of Optimal Performance Sustainment through Functional Pre-Participation Screening |
| 04/12/13 | Julius DeWald | The impact of loses of corticofugal projections on movement impairments following brain injury: Scientific and Clinical Implications |
| 03/15/13 | Art Kuo | How people get around: The biomechanics of walking |
| 02/15/13 | Steve Broglio | A Concussion Discussion: Questions and (Some) Answers |
| 02/01/13 | Phillip Gardiner | Acute and chronic responses of spinal cord neurons and circuits to changes in physical activity |