| Faculty/Email/Website | Areas of Research | Research Core |
Dr. Christopher Bell Christopher.Bell@ColoState.EDU View Website | Regulation of energy expenditure by the sympathetic nervous system and how this is influenced by aging, habitual exercise, molecular and genetic properties of beta-adrenergic receptors, and oxidative stress. | Optimizing healthy aging. |
Dr. Ray Browning Ray.Browning@ColoState.EDU View Website | Development of effective physical activity interventions, monitoring tools and equipment for the prevention and treatment of childhood and adult obesity; identifing activities that meet energy expenditure goals while reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injury; encouraging physical activity via appropriate equipment; measuring physical activity compliance via objective monitoring. | Optimizing healthy aging. |
Dr. Frank Dinenno Frank.Dinenno@ColoState.EDU View Website | Control of vascular tone during various stressors (e.g., exercise, hypoxia) in humans. Understanding (a) how the sympathetic nervous system and “local” factors interact to control vascular tone and muscle blood flow; (b) how these interactions are altered with aging; and (c) how regular physical activity impacts on these control mechanisms. The effects of aging and lifestyle factors (e.g., regular physical activity) on overall cardiovascular structure and function and how these effects relate to human health and disease. | Optimizing healthy aging. |
Dr. Karyn Hamilton Karyn.Hamilton@ColoState.EDU View Website | Mechanism(s) of exercise- and estrogen-induced protection of the heart and vascular endothelium against hypoxia-reoxygenation injury. | Optimizing healthy aging. |
Dr. Simon Lees Simon.Lees@ColoState.EDU View Website | Role of adult skeletal muscle stem cells in muscle growth and repair within the context of aging, exercise, and disease. | Optimizing healthy aging. |
Dr. Ben Miller Benjamin.F.Miller@ColoState.EDU View Website | The use of exercise and nutrition for the maintenance of muscle function (i.e., muscle quantity and muscle quality). Examination of causes of age-related muscle deterioration and how to slow those processes down. | Optimizing healthy aging. |
Dr. Tracy Nelson Tracy.Nelson@ColoState.EDU View Website | Influence of gene, environment, and gene-environment interactions on development of obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Influence of dietary fat type on emerging cardiovascular risk factors (e.g. inflammatory and endothelial factors). Impact of neuroendocrine and metabolic factors on chronic disease. Ethnic differences in disease risk. | Optimizing healthy aging. |
Dr. Raoul Reiser Raoul.Reiser@ColoState.EDU View Website | Injury prevention and improved rehabilitation through investigation into the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system. In particular, lower-extremity musculoskeletal biomechanics and the design of novel research equipment; reducing the risk for falls in the elderly through investigation of balance control; how one side of the body is used slightly different from the other with the theory that bilateral asymmetries may lead to low-back pain and injury. | Optimizing healthy aging. |
Dr. Brian Tracy Brian.Tracy@ColoState.EDU View Website | Aging of the neuromuscular system. Control of hand, arm, and lower limb muscle contractions in older adults. Neural mechanisms underlying reduced control of muscle contractions in older adults. Effects of exercise training and physical activity on the preservation of neuromuscular function in aging. | Optimizing healthy aging. |