Student research project
Supervisor(s): Associate Professor Julie McMullen, Dr Yow Keat Tham, Associate Professor Glenn Wadley and Dr Severine Lamon
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and Deakin University Joint Scholarships
A PhD scholarship is available for this project. Successful applicants will be supervised by Faculty of Health at Deakin University and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. The PhD student will initiate and conduct research on the research topic outlined below.
Project summary
This project will provide important insights into the mechanisms that stimulate muscle and other organs such as the heart to adapt to endurance exercise training. Mounting evidence suggests that during exercise tissues such as skeletal muscle release factors into the circulation that are bundled up in “exosomes”, which contain nucleic acids and peptides. The release of the exosomes into the circulation is then able to stimulate adaptations to exercise to other organs in the body, especially the heart, and are thus potentially cardio protective.