School "brown-bag" lunchtime seminars will be held on every frist and third WEDNESDAYS at noon in Applied Physiology Building, room 1253 (or as indicated). Special seminar dates/times outside of the regular schedule are indicated as such.
Contact Dr. Boris Prilutsky, boris.prilutsky@ap.gatech.edu to be considered as a future speaker, added to the e-mail distribution list, if you would like to meet with a speaker, or for other seminar-related inquiries.
For directions: Applied Physiology
Spring 2013 Seminar Speakers
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) February 6, 2013
Quantification of Lower Extremity Dynamic Capability: Implications for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and Change of Direction Ability
Mark A. Lyle, PhD
School of Applied Physiology
Georgia Tech
Host: Boris I. Prilutsky, PhD
Time: noon-1pm
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) February 20, 2013
Circadian rhythms, molecular clocks in muscle: a new time keeping role for exercise?
Karyn A. Esser, PhD
Department of Physiology
University of Kentucky
Host: Thomas Burkholder, PhD
Time: noon-1pm
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
SPECIAL SEMINAR: (Friday) February 22, 2013
Age-related changes in human skeletal muscle from the myosin molecule to the whole muscle
Mark S. Miller, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
University of Vermont
Host: Thomas Burkholder, PhD
Time: noon-1pm
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
SPECIAL SEMINAR: (Monday) February 25, 2013
Novel Signaling Molecules Regulating Glucose Transport in Skeletal Muscle: SNARK and TRB3
Ho-Jin Koh, PhD
Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Host: Thomas Burkholder, PhD
Time: noon-1pm
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) March 6, 2013
Potential for Upper Limb Functional and Neural Recovery in People with Chronic, Incomplete Tetraplegia
Deborah Backus, PT, PhD
Director of Multiple Sclerosis Research
Shepherd Center
Host: Boris I. Prilutsky, PhD
Time: noon-1pm
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
SPECIAL SEMINAR: (Friday) March 8, 2013
Inflammation and Intracellular Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction
Leonard Nogueira, PhD
Department of Medicine
University of California – San Diego
Host:
Time: noon-1pm
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) March 27, 2013
Electrical and Optogenetic Neuromodulation of Septohippocampal Oscillations For The Treatment of Epilepsy
Robert E. Gross, MD, PhD
Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology
Emory university School of Medicine
Host: Boris I. Prilutsky, PhD
Time: noon-1pm
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
SPECIAL SEMINAR: (Friday) March 29, 2013
Integrating physiological, mathematical and 'musculo-robotic' tools to explore frog swimming and the design of vertebrate limbs
Chris Richards, PhD
Propulsion Physiology Lab
Harvard University
Host:
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) April 3, 2013
Neural, computational, and biomechanical approaches to vocal control and sensorimotor learning
Sam Sober, PhD
Department of Biology
Emory University
Host: T. Richard Nichols, PhD
Time: noon-1pm
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
SEMINAR: (Wednesday) April 17, 2013
Retinal preconditioned tolerance
Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD, FARVO
Department of Ophthalmology
Emory University School of Medicine
Host: T. Richard Nichols, PhD
Time: noon-1pm
Location: Applied Physiology Building, Room 1253
You can find past AP seminar speakers here:
2012, Spring, Fall
2011, Spring, Fall
2010, Spring, Fall
2009, Spring, Fall
2008, Spring, Fall
AP Seminars before 2008