CSEP Graduate Student Award - Oral Presentation

• Submit an abstract adhering to the Annual Scientific Meeting Submission Guidelines.
• Provide a two-page (~600 words) detailed outline of the research, including its rationale, purpose/hypothesis, design, results, significance, and key references. You may include up to two figures within the two-page limit.
• Include a one-page (~300 words) letter from the applicant’s supervisor detailing the applicant’s role and contributions to the research project.

• A selection committee, including the Vice Chair of Research, Director Academic, Director Student (or their designee) and a CSEP member, will evaluate applications received by the deadline.
• This committee will choose up to four finalists.
• Finalists will receive notification at least one month before the CSEP Annual Conference.
• Incomplete applications will not be considered for review.

• The award recipient and finalists will be presented with a certificate of acknowledgement at the CSEP Annual Conference Gala.
• Following the CSEP Annual Conference, the award recipient will receive $500 (CAD) and the remaining finalists will receive $250 (CAD) to assist with travel expenses to the conference.

2023

• Dr. Jennifer Williams, Ph.D. (award Recipient)
  • The influence of the natural menstrual and oral contraceptive pill cycle phases on brachial and femoral artery endothelial and smooth muscle function, and associated cellular regulation.

• Michael Leahy, MSc. (award Recipient)
  • Muscle sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure is lower in females during high levels of inspiratory muscle work.

• Emily Ferguson, MSc. (finalist)
  • Examining sex-based differences in mitochondrial respiration in human skeletal muscle.
• Evan Lockyer, MSc. (finalist)
  • Two weeks of arm cycling sprint interval training enhances spinal excitability to the biceps brachii.

2022 

• Rachel McDougall (award recipient)
  • Males and females demonstrate similar neuromuscular fatigue exercising near the critical torque.
• Bradley Branaowski (finalist)
  • Effect of β-hydroxybutyrate administration on amyloid precursor protein processing and cognitive performance.
• Sarkis Hannaian (finalist)
  • Keton monster co-ingestion with protein increases circulating β-hydroxybutyrate and alters mTOR translocations and colocalization in human skeletal muscle compared to protein intake alone.
• Reid Mitchell (finalist)
  • The effects of dead space loading on the physiological mechanisms of sex differences in exertional dyspnea.

2021 

• Olivia Sanders (award recipient)
  • The effects of chemoradiation and resistance wheel running on performance and muscle stem/progenitor cell populations in a pediatric mouse model of rhabdomyosarcoma.
• Nigel Kurgan (finalist)
  • Sclerostin regulates exercise induced adaptations in energy expenditure and body composition in C57Bl/6J mice.
• Jordan Lee (finalist)
  • Sex differences in muscle metaboreflex activation following static handgrip exercises. 
• James Vanhie (finalist)
  • Exercise training prevents aberrant myeloid colony formation in mice with diet-induced obesity.

 

2020 

• Jem Cheng (award recipient)
  • Region-specific improvements in vascular function in response to acute lower limb heating in young healthy males and females
• Alexandra Coates (finalist)
  • Exercise and Acute Systemic Inflammation Independently alter Cardiac Function
• Eric Hedge (finalist)
  • Novel analysis of oxygen uptake kinetics during randomly varying moderate and heavy intensity exercise.
• Rachel Skow (finalist)
  • The impact of prenatal aerobic exercise training on sympathetic (re)activity and angiogenic balance during pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial.

2019 

• Anmol Mattu (award recipient)
  • Menstrual and oral contraceptive cycles do not affect responses to submaximal and maximal exercise
• Devin Phillip (finalist)
  • Inhaled nitric oxide improves dyspnea and exercise capacity in patients with mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Gregory Pearcey (finalist)
  • The arms give the legs a helping hand – exploiting evolutionarily conserved pathways to enhance locomotor rehabilitation.
• Sara Oikawa (finalist)
  • Whey not collagen protein stimulates acute and longer-term muscle protein synthesis with and without resistance exercise in healthy older women

2018 

• Anthony Incognito (award recipient)
  • Existence of paradoxical single-unit muscle sympathetic inhibition during rhythmic handgrip exercise in young healthy humans
• Kevin Boreskie (finalist)
  • Biomarkers of frailty and cardiovascular disease risk in women
• Hilary Caldwell (finalist)
  • Association between sleep, sedentary time, physical activity and fitness in school-aged children using compositional analysis
• Meghan Hughes (finalist)
  • Mitochondrial H2O2 emission is elevated during oxidative phosphorylation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

2017 

• Amy Hector (award recipient)
  • Pronounced energy restriction results in no change in proteolysis and reductions in skeletal muscle protein synthesis that are mitigated with higher dietary protein and resistance exercise
• Renata Lopes Kruger (finalist)
  • Velocity and torque contribute distinctively to the reduction of power output after fatiguing cycling exercises of different durations and intensities
• Willem Peppler (finalist)
  • Subcutaneous inguinal white adipose tissue is dependable for the metabolic health benefit of exercise
• Jennifer Williams (finalist)
  • The impact of aerobic exercise training on the brachial artery flow-mediated dilation response to acute hyperglycemia in healthy, young males

2016 

• Paolo Dominelli (award recipient)
  • Impact of respiratory muscle work and pulmonary gas exchange on the development of exercise-induced quadriceps fatigue in healthy men and women

2015 

• Jenna Gillen (award recipient)
  • Twelve weeks of sprint interval training improves cardiometabolic health similar to traditional endurance training despite a five-fold lower exercise volume
• Katelyn Norton (finalist)
  • The neuroprotective effects of endurance training on the aging brain
• Heather Carter (finalist)
  • Impact of respiratory muscle work and pulmonary gas exchange on the development of exercise-induced quadriceps fatigue in healthy men and women
• Davis Forman (finalist)
  • Corticospinal excitability to the biceps brachii during the initiation of arm cycling is not different from an intensity matched tonic contraction

2014 

• Jason Au (award recipient)
  
  • Timing of left ventricular twist and carotid artery longitudinal wall motion as evidence for a structural ventricular-vascular coupling effect.
• Michael Williams-Bell (finalist)
  
  • Is cognitive function impaired while working in 35°c and wearing personal protective clothing and self-contained breathing apparatus in fire fighters
• Patrick Carson Turnbull (finalist)
  
  • Fibre type specific increase in the lipolytic inhibitor G0S2 following 8 weeks of endurance training in rat skeletal muscle.

• Caoileann Murphy (finalist)
  

  • Energy restriction-induced reductions in myofibrillar protein synthesis are rescued by resistance training and balanced daily protein ingestion in older men.
   

2013 

• Rebecca MacPherson (award recipient)
  • Skeletal muscle PLIN phosphorylation may not be required for lipolysis with either adrenergic or contractile stimulation
• Tyler Churchward-Venne (finalist)
  • Leucine supplementation of a low protein mixed macronutrient beverage enhances myofibrillar protein synthesis in young men: a double blind randomized trial
• Juliana Barrera-Ramirez (finalist)
  • The influence of sex on the osmoreceptor modulation of heat loss responses
• Luisa Giles (finalist)
  • Air pollution affects the respiratory and metabolic responses to low, but not high, intensity exercise

2012 

• Michael De Lisio (award recipient)
  • Characterization of the effects of exercise training on hematopoietic stem cell quantity and function
• Katharine Currie (finalist)
  • Brachial-artery endothelial-independent function is transiently impaired in patients with coronary artery disease following a submaximal exercise bout
• Paolo Dominelli (finalist)
  • Exercise-induced arterial hypoxemia in healthy young women, the effect of altering breathing mechanics with heliox inspiration
• Nicholas Jendzjowsky (finalist)
  • Does neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibit sympathetic vasoconstriction in resting and contracting skeletal muscle.

2011 

• Ayesha Saleem (award recipient)
  • Acute exercise-induced translocation of the tumor suppressor protein p53 into the mitochondria.
• Matthew D. Spencer (finalist)
  • Regulation of VO2 kinetics by O2 delivery: insights from acute hypoxia and heavy-intensity priming exercise in young men.
• Konrad Binder(finalist)
  • Hyperthermia modifies metaboreceptor and baroreceptor modulation of heat loss responses.
• Ian C. Smith (finalist)
  • The intracellular calcium transient is not altered during post tetanic potentiation of mouse lumbrical muscle.

2010 

• Michael Nelson (award recipient)
  • Biventricular function during passive heat stress: Influence of aerobic fitness.
• Farah Jazuli, (finalist)
  • The slope of the handgrip exercise induced shear stress stimulus- %FMD response relationship differs between the radial and brachial arteries.
• Andrew Levy (finalist)
  • Effects of modulation of glutathione on coronary vascular resistance and vasomotor function.
• Sam Liu (finalist)
  • Acute Post-Exercise Hypotension and Blood Pressure Reduction with Chronic Training are Strongly Associated in Pre-hypertensives.

2009 

• Jonathan Little (award recipient)
  • An acute bout of low-volume high-intensity interval exercise increases nuclear PGC-1α and activates mitochondrial biogenesis in human skeletal muscle.
• Danielle Salmon, (finalist)
  • Exercise training to mitigate neck muscle dysfunction in Canadian Forces CH-146 helicopter aircrew.
• Jessica Scott (finalist)
  • Biventricular dysfunction following brief high intensity exercise in endurance trained individuals.
• Guilia Uguccioni (finalist)
  • Compensatory responses to reduced levels of PGC-1α in skeletal muscle cells: effects of chronic contractile activity.

2008 

• Karen Martins (award recipient)
  • Skeletal muscle activity-induced satellite cell (SC) activation and involvement in fast-to-slow fibre type transitions (F-S) in rats.
• Andrew Betik, (finalist)
  • Mitochondrial biogenesis is blunted in aged muscle following exercise training but not during muscle regeneration.
• Allison Brown (finalist)
  • Effects of physical fitness on cerebrovascular and cognitive outcomes in postmenopausal women.
• Elisa Glover (finalist)
  • Immobilization induces anabolic resistance in human myofibrillar protein synthesis with low and high dose amino acid infusion.

2007 

• Graham Holloway (award recipient)
  • Skeletal muscle mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism in obesity.
• Azmy Faisal, (finalist)
  • Prior Moderate and Heavy Cycling Exercise Accelerates Oxygen Uptake and Cardiac Output Kinetics in Endurance Athletes.
• Maria Gallo (finalist)
  • Creatine loading (CL) attenuates activity-induced fast-to-slow myosin heavy chain (MHC) based fibre type transitions (F-S) in skeletal muscle.
• Dennis Jensen (finalist)
  • Mechanisms of Dyspnea Relief and Improved Exercise Tolerance after Furosemide Inhalation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

2006 

• Jordan Guenette (award recipient)
  • Expiratory Flow Limitation and the Regulation of Lung Volumes in Aerobically Trained Men and Women.
• Duane Button, (finalist)
  • Do Spinal Cord Isolation and Spinal Cord Transection Differentially Influence Rat Hindlimb Alpha-Motoneurone Properties.
• Derek Kimmerly (finalist)
  • Post-Exercise Recovery and Cortical Modulation of Cardiovascular Function During Baroreceptor Unloading in Conscious Humans.
• Heather Wright (finalist)
  • Neuroendocrine Response during Uncompensable Heat Stress in Trained versus Untrained Males.

2005 

• Peter J. Adhihetty (award recipient)
  • The Effect Of Chronic Muscle Use And Disuse On Mitochondrial Apoptotic Susceptibility.
• Crystal D. Aultman, (finalist)
  • Exercise Resists Endothelial Dysfunction During Angiotensin II Infusion.
• Nicolette S. Bradley (finalist)
• Jennifer L. Kuk (finalist)
  • Visceral Fat is an Independent Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in Men.

2004 

• Neil D. Eves (award recipient)
  • Helium and Hyperoxia Improve Exercise Tolerance and Ventilatory Mechanics in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
• Todd A. Duhamel, (finalist)
  • Modifications of SR Ca2+-Transport Properties in Human Skeletal Muscle by Diet and Prior Exercise.
• William J. McGarvey (finalist)
  • 5-Amp-Activated Protein Kinase and Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Activity During Continuous and Interval Exercise and Recovery.
• Tracey J. Weissgerber (finalist)
  • Application of Jennings Hypothesis to Explain Serial Changes in the Chemical Control of Ventilation in Human Pregnancy.

2003 

• Drew Graham (award recipient)
  • Chronic Exercise Training Fully Restores Endothelium-Dependent, Nitric Oxide-Mediated Vasomotor Function in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats.
• Carley Benton, (finalist)
  • Rosiglitazone and Chronic Stimulation Differentially Increase the Expression of the Fatty Acid Transporters FAT/CD36 and FABPpm in Skeletal Muscle.
• Jennifer Kuk (finalist)
  • Differences in Metabolically Normal and Metabolically Abnormal Obese Men and Women are Not Explained by Differences in Obesity Phenotype or Cardiorespiratory Fitness.
• Kyra Pyke (finalist)
  • A New Non-Invasive Technique to Investigate Endothelial Function in Humans.

2002 

• David C. Clark (award recipient)
  • Overexpression of Plasma Membrane Associated Fatty Acid Binding Protein Mediated by In Vivo Electroporation Increases Fatty Acid Transport.
• Darren S. DeLorey, (finalist)
  • The Effect of Prior Exercise on the Adaptation of Pulmonary Oxygen Uptake and Muscle Deoxygenation.
• Julien Périard (finalist)
  • The Effect of Exercise Intensity on Post-Exercise Skin Blood Flow Control.
• Michael K. Stickland (finalist)
  • The Effects of Prolonged Cycling Exercise on Cardiopulmonary Function.

2001 

• Jane Shearer (award recipient)
  • Glychogenin Protein Activity and Expression During Pro- and Macroglycogen Resynthesis.
• Carley Benton, (finalist)
  • The Effects of Muscle Contraction and PPAR Activation on the Expression of Fatty Acid Transporters in Rat Skeletal Muscle.
• Derek S. Kimmerly (finalist)
  • Hypovolemia and Neurovascular Control During Orthostatic Stress.
• Brad J. Matushewski (finalist)
  • Beat-by-Beat Investigation of Three Pulse Contour Analysis Methods Against Pulsed Wave Doppler During Exercise.
• John J. Andreucci (finalist)
  • Regulation of Muscle Transcription Factors by TGF-Beta Signalling.

2000 

• Gerald Zavorsky (award recipient)
  • Acute Hypervolemia Lengthens Pulmonary Transit Time During Near-Maximal Exercise in Endurance Athletes.
• Nicole Stupka, (finalist)
  • Rapid Adaptations to Repeated Eccentric Exercise in Males and Females..
• Darren Warburton (finalist)
  • New Thinking for Rehabilitation of Congestive Heart Failure Patients.
• Dwayne Jackson (finalist)
  • Baroreceptor Influence on the Post-Exercise Threshold for Vasodilation.

1999 

• Michael Tschakovsky (award recipient)
  • Forearm Blood Flow Adaptation to Exercise During -60 mmHg Lower Body Negative Pressure is Only Briefly Impaired

1998 

• Maureen MacDonald (award recipient)
  • Interactions Between Leg Blood Flow and Pulmonary and Leg Oxygen Uptake at the Onset of Kicking Exercise.

     

1997 

• Shannon Dunn (award recipient)
  • Differential Sensitivities of Myosin Heavy Chain-Typed Muscle Fibers to Aggregate Amounts and Frequencies of Nerve-Mediated Electrical Activation.