If you follow me on Twitter you will have seen that the lab is nicely busy at the moment! Over the next few weeks I will provide more specific information and investigator profiles but in the meantime here is a very brief summary of some recent activity:
New equipment: Over the last 3 or so years we have invested over £150k in to the Physiology lab at the University of Roehampton so have plenty of toys to keep us busy! The latest additions (below) arrived just before Christmas and I have a few more cool things on order.
Data collection: PhD student Ralph Gordon (@Ralph_ExPhys) is currently very busy in the environmental chamber looking at the effect of hyperthermia on neuromuscular performance - this is why I spent ~3hrs in 50degC yesterday reaching a core temperature of 39.6degC! I will get Ralph to write an update for here soon. Tom Reeve (Reeve_SportSci), Dr Richard Mackenzie (mackenzie_dr), and I have been busy in the cell culture lab exposing some mouse cells to various heat "treatments" with and without the inhibition of certain proteins. This has been a steep, but interesting, learning curve. A few more treatments and a lot more Western Blots to go before we are done! Research progress: We submitted one neuromuscular physiology article for review last week (fingers-crossed) and have a few cooling manuscripts, one acclimation manuscript, and one Antarctic manuscript in progress. New students: I am very pleased to welcome Jodie Moss (@JodieMoss1) and Keeley Wright to the group. Jodie is a PhD student about to contribute to our heat work here while Keeley is a MSc student who is about to undertake a CIVD project. Updates to follow!
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