Symposia/Workshop programme

Physical Inactivity: A Biological Basis for Metabolic Disease
Co-sponsored by The American Physiological Society and
The Physiological Society

Organised by

P. Darrell Neufer (East Carolina University, USA)

Location

TBC

0845	Welcome and Introduction TBA
0900	Bengt Saltin and/or Jere H. Mitchell (Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark & University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA) Bed Rest - A Forty Year Perspective
0930	Scott Trappe (Director, Human Performance Laboratory, Ball State University) Impact of Bed Rest on Muscle and Metabolic Function: From Dallas to Toulouse.
1000	P. Darrell Neufer (East Carolina University, USA) Cellular Physical Inactivity in the Context of Mitochondrial Bioenergetics
1030	Coffee
1100	Zhen Yan (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore and Duke University, USA) Physical Activity in the Prevention of Muscle Metabolic Dysfunction
1130	Frank Booth (University of Missouri, USA) Reduced physical activity increases adipogenesis in rats

Synopsis

TBA

Symposia Location Key

LT 1	Babbage Lecture Theatre	(New Museums Site)
LT 2	Cockcroft Lecture Theatre	(New Museums Site)
LT 3	Main Physiology Lecture Theatre	(Downing Site)
LT 4	Main Anatomy Lecture Theatre	(Downing Site)
LT 5	Biffin Lecture Theatre	(Downing Site)
LT 6	Physiology Lecture Theatre 3	(Downing Site)
LT 7	Arts School Room B	(New Museums Site)
LT 8	Arts School Room C	(New Museums Site)