Faculty of Biological Sciences

Exercise in health, disease and rehabilitation

The Sport and Exercise Sciences (SES) Research Group at Leeds brings together researchers from 10 separate Institutes in the University.

The group incorporates both multi- and inter-disciplinary research aimed at improving the understanding of the relationship between physical activity patterns, health and the predisposition to chronic diseases.

Research Group Meetings 10/11

Date    
Day
Time
Location                   
Event
11 May Weds 2-3pm Worsley 9.49

SES Post-doc presentations (Physiology)
Dr Natalie Holt Economical force generation in running: isometric contraction and tendon springs
Dr Alan Benson Computational modelling of circulatory dynamics


Seminars 2011

Date 
Day
Time
Location
Event
3 May Tue 4-5pm RSLT4

Professor Peter Ellaway
Imperial College London
Does the muscle spindle kindle locomotion?
3 May Tue 4-5pm RSLT12

Professor Ken Taylor
Florida State University
Visualizing active contraction in insect flight muscle using electron tomography: novel thin filament attachments revealing the myosin power stroke and a mechanisms for stretch activation

4 May Weds 1-2pm RSLT20

Professor Michelle Peckham
University of Leeds
Not just in muscle: Understanding myosin structure and function in all cells
5 May Thurs 12-1pm Miall Museum

BNA Sponsored Young Researchers Talks 2011
Dr Fiona McBryde
University of Bristol
The neural control of arterial pressure

 

Past Meetings & Seminars

Date 
 Day Time Location Event
5 Apr Mon 1-3pm RSLT2

FBS Post-graduate symposium:
Mr Scott Bowen A cardiopulmonary exercise test protocol and criterion to determine VO2max in heart faliure
Mr Daniel Cannon Skeletal muscle fatigue precedes the slow component of oyxgen uptake during exercise
Miss Phillipa Garner Why is bone so sensitive?
Dr Ali Khalil Effects of continuous vs intermitent moderate instensity exercise training upon cardiac structure and function in obese women (poster)

23 Mar Weds 2-3pm Worsley 9.49 SES MSc student presentations (Biomechanics)
14 Mar Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52

Dr Willem van der Laarse
Vrije University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Myocyte size and power
16 Feb Weds 2-3pm Worsley 9.49 SES MSc student presentations (Physiology & Motor Control)
12 Jan Weds 1-2pm Worsley 9.49 Research Group Meeting: Strategy group meeting
2010        
6 Dec Mon 4-5pm MLT

The Annual Crisp Lecture
Professor Jackie de Belleroche FRS, Imperial College, University of London
Motor Neurone Disease: new insights into disease mechanisms

29 Nov Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52

Professor Mark Beven, University of Sheffield
The cause and correction of pathological subthalamic nucleus activity in Parkinson's disease

24 Nov Weds 3-4pm Worsley 9.49 Research Group Meeting: Professor Bill Montelpare
17 Nov Weds 1-2pm RSLT 20

Dr Vas Ponnambalam, University of Leeds
Building and breaking blood vessels

16 Nov Tue 1-2pm MLT

Gatorade Sports Science Institute Open Lecture 2010
Dr Stavros Kavouras Speedy recovery from training and competition
Dr Ian Rollo Nutritional strategies before and during exercise
08 Nov Mon 4-5pm MLT

Professor Graham McGeown, Queen’s University of Belfast
Seeing is believing: imaging Ca2+-signalling events in living cells
GL Brown Prize Lecture 2010 sponsored by The Physiological Society

01 Nov Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52

Professor Richard Carson, Queen's University Belfast
Therapeutic Behavioural and Electrophysiological Manipulations of Brain Plasticity

20 Oct Weds 3-4pm Worsley 9.49 Research Group Meeting: Strategy group meeting
27 Sep Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52

Professor Gert Holstege, University of Groningen, Germany
The Emotional Motor System
Sponsored by The Anatomical Society

5 Aug Thurs 9am-5pm Astbury 11

PMI2 Symposium
Systems integration and future directions
An international one-day symposium on oxygen utpake kinetics

14 Jul Weds 3-4pm Worsley 9.49 Research Group Meeting: Strategy group meeting
17 Jun Thurs 1-2pm Worsley 9.57 Dr Maureen MacDonald, McMaster University, Canada
Informing exercise prescription in children with congenital heart disease
05 May Weds 3-4pm Worsley 9.57 PG/PD student presentations:
David Oxborough Quantitative Echocardiographyandits Application following Prolonged Strenuous Exercise
Megan Blackburn The Kinetics and Kinematics of Painful Knees in Women Over 40
Rob Wüst Skeletal Muscle Oxygen Delivery and Utilisation in Heart Failure
16 Apr Fri 10am-
4:30pm		 Chapel Allerton
Hospital 		SES meets LMBRU:
Joint SES and Engineering Research Symposium
15 Mar Mon 1-2pm Council Chambers Harry Rossiter, University of Leeds
The limts to human performance: Lessons from Olympias
11 Mar Thurs 1-2pm Psychol G.17 Rot Ruddle, University of Leeds
Human navigation and the benefit provided by physical locomotion
08 Mar Mon 1-2pm Council Chambers Fiona Fairhurst
'Supersuits' - The design and development of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic equipment for the Olympic games
01 Mar Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Dr Hans Degens, Manchester Metropolitan University
The role of disuse and systemic inflammation on skeletal muscle dysfunction at old age
25 Feb Thurs 1-2pm Psychol G.17 Andrew Wilson, University of Leeds
Perception, Action, & Coordinated Rhythmic Movement
18 Feb Thurs 1-2pm RSLT 14 McNeill Alexander CBE FRS , University of Leeds
The srping in your step: Highlights from a career in biomechanics
03 Feb Weds 3-4pm Worsley 9.57 Andrew Wilson, University of Leeds
Exercise & Perception/Action Learning in the Elderly
27 Jan Weds 5:45-7pm Rupert Beckett LT Steve Cram MBE
The Olympic Experience - as an athlete and as a media personality
2009        
02 Dec Weds 3-4pm Worsley 9.57 Harry Rossiter, University of Leeds
The dynamics of O2 flux in health and chronic disease: The limit to sustainable exercise?
09 Nov Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Dr Mike White, University of Birmingham
Human cardiovascular control in exercise: the role of muscle afferents
04 Nov Weds 3-4pm Garstang 7.52 Research Group Meeting: Sarah Astill
29 Oct Thurs 1-2pm Psychol G.17 Joe Anderson, University of Leeds
Guiding reaching using binocular disparity
07 Oct Weds 3-4pm Astbury 11 Research Group Meeting: Strategy group meeting
05 Oct Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Dr Mark Rakobowchuk, University of Leeds
Exercise training and vascular health: Mechanistic insight into endothelial function, progenitor cells and arterial stiffness adaptations
09 Sep Weds 3-4pm Garstang 7.52 Research Group Meeting: Strategy group meeting
25 Jun Thurs 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Research Group Meeting: Interdisciplinary project forum
15 Jun Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Professor Mark Boyett, University of Manchester
And the (heart) beat goes on
10 Jun Weds 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Research Group Meeting: Alkisti Olympiou & Mark Mon-Williams
13 May Weds 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Research Group Meeting
11 May Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Dr Ole Kemi, University of Glasgow
Exercise and the heart – lessons from models of cardiac dysfunction
29 Apr Weds 1-2pm Worsley 9.83 Research Group Meeting: Nick Thyer & Ruth Brooke
30 Mar Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Research Group Meeting: Rob Wüst & Scott Murgatroyd
11 Mar Weds 4-5pm Psychol G.17 Professor Marie Johnston, University of Aberdeen
Developing an integrated behavioural and biomedical model of disability
02 Mar Mon 1-2pm Conf Aud 1 Dr Daniel Martin, Univeristy College London
Caudwell Xtreme Everest – Investigating human adaptations to hypoxia at high altitude
16 Feb Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Dr Maggie Brown , Univeristy of Birmingham
Vascular adaptations to muscle activity - the role of blood flow
12 Feb Thurs 1-2pm Psychol G.17 Professor Mark Mon-Williams, University of Leeds
Time to contact: the evolution of psychological thought Dr
04 Feb Weds 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Research Group Meeting: Jim Parry & Harry Rossiter
19 Jan Mon 1-2pm Garstang 7.52 Research Group Meeting: Andrea Utley & Ronaldo Ichiyama

News and Events

Research Group meeting dates and venues for 2010/11 are posted on the Meetings Calendar.


Next events:
3 May 2011, 1-2pm Garstang 7.52
Professor Peter Ellaway
Imperial College London
Does the muscle spindle kindle locomotion?

5 May 2011, 12-1pm Miall Museum
BNA Sponsored Young Researchers Talks 2011
Dr Fiona McBryde
University of Bristol
The neural control of arterial pressure

News:
Congratulations to SES RG memebers on their recent research grant awards:

Dr Ronaldo Ichiyama. Royal Society. Understanding rehabilitation mechanisms to improve functional recovery after spinal cord injuries. Project Grant. 2011.

Dr Matthew Lancaster. British Heart Foundation. Ageing to Arrhythmias and Dysfunction – Model Building for Mechanisms. Project Grant. 2011-2014.

Dr Shaunna Burke. Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation. Investigating the psychological benefits of scaling Mt. Kilimanjaro among joint replacement recipients post surgery. Project grant. 2011.


SES Leeds hosts international visitors

Hot off the press:
Weightman A, Preston N, Levesley M, Holt R, Mon-Williams M, Clarke M, Cozens A, Bhakta B. Home based computer-assisted upper limb exercise for young children with cerebral palsy: A feasibility study investigating impact on motor control and functional outcome. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. 43:359-363, 2011. [Editors Choice].

Murgatroyd SR, Ferguson C, Ward SA, Whipp BJ, Rossiter HB. Pulmonary O2 uptake kinetics as a determinant of high-intensity exercise tolerance in humans. Journal of Applied Physiology. In press. 2011.

Murgatroyd SR, Wylde LA. The power-duration relationship of high-intensity exercise: from mathematical parameters to physiological mechanisms. Journal of Physiology. In press. 2011. [Review].

See the News page for current as past news items from the Research Group