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Seminars

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