Events at: Chan Gunn Pavilion, seminar room 200

School of Kinesiology Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr David Wright and Dr Mary-Ellen Harper

Title: “Exercise-activated pathways to offset the metabolic side effects of anti-psychotic drugs” Speaker: David Wright, PhD (Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph) Second generation anti-psychotic (SGA) drugs are used in the management of schizophrenia and are increasingly being prescribed off-label for conditions including anxiety, bi-polar disorder and ADHD. While effective in […]

School of Kinesiology Distinguished Seminar Series: Professor Diane Crone

Speaker: Dr Diane Crone, Professor in Exercise and Health and Director of the Centre for Health, Activity and Wellbeing Research at the Cardiff Metropolitan University Host: Dr. Guy Faulkner, Professor, UBC School of Kinesiology Title: ‘We are a society … choked by inactivity’ WHO, 2018: Contemporary systems based approaches to physical activity promotion Diane Crone is a […]

From stem cells to performance: The role of skeletal muscle in challenging perceptions of human ageing

From stem cells to performance: The role of skeletal muscle in challenging perceptions of human ageing Stephen Harridge obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham and then undertook 3 years of post-doctoral research in Scandinavia at the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) and at the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre (Denmark) with Professor Bent Saltin. On return […]

Liam Foulger’s MSc Thesis Proposal

Title: “The Role of Uncertainty in the Vestibular Control of Locomotion” Supervisor: Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin Committee members: Dr. Romeo Chua, Dr. Calvin Kuo Abstract: Uncertainty is present in all the inferences we make about the world and our orientation within it. When sensory or motor noise increases, confidence in our belief about our environment and self-motion […]

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