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Seminar Series in Kinesiology

Kinesiology 590: Colloquium

Spring 2025 Semester

Thursdays, 3:05PM - 4:20PM
127 Noll Laboratory or Zoom

Date	SPEAKER	Topic
January 16	Jonathan Dingwell Professor of Kinesiology Penn State University University Park, PA	Course Introduction and Overview
January 23	Amanda Therrien Assistant Professor Institute Scientist Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute	Can We Predict Residual Motor Learning Capacity After Cerebellar Damage?
January 30	Shirin Madarshahian Data Scientist Raphael Center for Neurorestoration	Data-Driven Approaches to Neurorehabilitation: Personalization, Measurement, and Translation
February 13	Jonathan Dingwell Professor of Kinesiology Penn State University University Park, PA	Research ‘Elevator Speech’: Explaining Your Work to Non-Specialists
February 27	All KINES 590 Students	Students: ~7-min Presentations # 3
March 6	John Bartholomew Professor & Head Kinesiology Penn State University University Park, PA	Fireside Chat
March 20	All KINES 590 Students	Kinesiology "Rapid Research" Contest
March 28	Graduate Research Showcase
April 3	Jonathan Dingwell Professor of Kinesiology Penn State University University Park, PA	SARI Talk
April 10	Nicholas Holowka Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Penn State University	A Walk in the Woods: Natural Terrains and Human Locomotion
April 17	Danielle Symons Downs Professor of Kinesiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology Associate Director, Social Science Research Institute Director, Exercise Psychology Laboratory Penn State University	Automated Control System and Digital Platform for Scaling-Up an Adaptive Intervention to Regulate Gestational Weight Gain: The Healthy Mom Zone Study
April 24	All KINES 590 Students	Students: ~7-min Presentations # 3

Noll Physiological Research Seminar Series

Fridays, 11:15AM - 12:05PM
127 Noll Laboratory

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 17	Gustavo Nader Professor of Kinesiology Penn State University University Park, PA	Introductory Discussion
January 24	Tobias Wang* Professor Department of Biology/Zoophysiology Aarhus University	Evolution of the Cardiovascular System and its Responses to Elevated Metabolic Rate
January 31	Saad Alatyan** PhD Student Kinesiology	Human skeletal muscle possesses an epigenetic memory of high-intensity interval training
February 7	George Perry Professor Department of Anthropology & Biology Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Penn State University	Human Evolutionary Medicine
February 14	Jade Sency** PhD Student	Stress-sensitive neural circuits change the gut microbiome via duodenal glands
February 21	Yutong Han** PhD Student	Exercise suppresses tumor growth independent of high fat food intake and associated immune dysfunction
February 28	Sam Beckett** PhD Student	The anabolic response to protein ingestion during recovery from exercise has no upper limit in magnitude and duration in vivo in humans
March 28	Sarah Fitch** PhD Student	Exercise-induced crosstalk between immune cells and adipocytes in humans: Role of oncostatin-M
April 4	Camilla Hughes Assistant Professor Department of Animal Science College of Agricultural Sciences Penn State University	Fertility Across the Lifespan: Novel Mechanisms Regulating the Establishment of the Ovarian Reserve
April 11	John P. Thyfault Professor Cell Biology and Physiology University of Kansas	Hepatic Metabolism: The Center of Metabolic Protection Associated with Exercise and Fitness
April 18	Lauren DeCastro** PhD Student	Resistance training rejuvenates aging skin by reducing circulating inflammatory factors and enhancing dermal extracellular matrices
May 2	Alexa McKenna** PhD Student	Atlas of exercise-induced brain activation in mice

*Denotes speaker will be on Zoom. Click Here to join.
**Denotes journal discussion with students.
For more information contact Professor Gustavo Nader, gan11@psu.edu

Action Club: Interactive Seminars in Motor Control & Coordination

Fridays, 3:45PM
127 Noll Laboratory or Zoom
Hosted by The Penn State Center for Movement Science & Technology

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 24	Amanda Therrien, PhD Assistant Professor Institute Scientist Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute	Static and Dynamic State Estimation in Upper Limb Control
February 7	Jeroen Smeets, PhD* Professor Behavioural & Movement Sciences, Neurocontrol Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	The Role of Size in Grasping
March 21	Sergiy Yakovenko, PhD Associate Professor Department of Human Performance-Exercise Physiology School of Medicine West Virginia University	Intrinsic Spinal Locomotor Dynamics Demystified with Broken Computations
April 4	Jean-Michel Mongeau, PhD Assistant Professor Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering College of Engineering Penn State University	Building a Framework of Motor Intelligence by Unraveling Hierarchical Motor Control Loops
April 11	Jonathan Tsay, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning
April 18	Megan Vidt, PhD Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering & Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation College of Engineering Penn State University	Movement Production and Shoulder Function After a Rotator Cuff Tear

*Denotes Speaker will be on Zoom.

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