This program is under review.
No applications are currently being accepted.

Facilities

The Clinical and Experimental Exercise Science graduate program is located in the 144,000-square-foot Health Science Building on the Riverpoint campus.  Dedicated in 2002, the building houses state-of-the-art laboratories and clinical space for a number programs. 

The Human Exercise Physiology Laboratory occupies approximately 900 square feet of laboratory space in HSB 332.  Laboratory equipment includes: 

• Jaegar Oxycon Pro-TP metabolic system with 12 channel PC-EKG
• SensorMedics Vmax29C metabolic system with Cardiosoft 12 lead EKG
• Tango system blood pressure interface
• Trackmaster and SensorMedics treadmills
• ER-900, ER-800, and ER-arm ergometers
• Pulse oximeter
• Monak cycle ergometers, and various equipment for assessing body composition, heart rate, and blood pressure in the laboratory and at off-campus sites.

Dr. Blank's research group occupies a dedicated 1,000 square foot laboratory in HSB 310K. 
Laboratory equipment dedicated to the research group's use include: 

• 6 ft. Baker SterilGard hood Class II
• Jouan CR3i refrigerated table-top centrifuge
• Nuaire NU-4950 Autoflow water jacketed C02/O2 incubator
• Meridian Eclipse E 400 microscope
• Meridian TS100F Inverted microscope
• Other general laboratory equipment includes: microcentrifuges, pH meters, 8-channel pipettors, micropipettors, refrigerators/freezers, ThermoForma -80°C freezer, Millipore Elix water purification system, water baths, top loading balances, and microbalances, magnetic cell separator (Miltenyi Biotec Inc), electrophoresis equipment (gel boxes, power supplies), and 25-liter liquid nitrogen dewar.
  

Dr. Johnson's research group occupies a dedicated 610 sq. ft. laboratory in HSB 310M.
Laboratory equipment dedicated to the research group's use include:

• 6 ft. Baker SterilGard laminar flow hood (Class II)
• Hermle LabnetZ 323K refrigerated table-top centrifuge
• Sanyo MCO-175M tri-gas incubator
• Sanyo MCO-17AIC CO2 incubator
• Microscopes including: Leica DMLB phase contrast, Nikon dissecting with Dyna-Lume heat shield and Dyna Lume light, Nikon Eclipse TS-100 inverted phase
• Beckman DU640 spectrophotometer
• Victor 2 1420 Multilabel Counter
• Computer equipment includes:  Compaq Presario 7000T computer with Epson Stylus Color 900 printer, Hewlett Packard ScanJet ADF scanner and Dell Pentium 4, 1.4 GHD computer
• Mini-Protean 3 gel electrophoresis system
• Other general laboratory equipment including:  microcentrifuge, pH meter, multi-channel pipettors, micropipettors, refrigerators/freezers, Nuaire -86°C 20 cu.ft.ultralow freezer, Varimix platform rocker, Labconco Flaskscrubber, water baths, top loading balance, analytical balance, liquid nitrogen storage systems, Millipore Elix water purification system, and an Amerex portable autoclave.

General use equipment also available in the facility includes:  

• BeckmanCoulter Epics XL-MCL 4-color flow cytometer
• Molecular Devices Spectramax 384plus Visible/UV plate reader
• Hermle LabnetZ 323K refrigerated table-top centrifuge
• Leica CM185031 Cryostat
• Dynex Technologies Ultrawash Plus plate washer
• PerkinElmer 1450-023 MicroBeta Trilux Scintillation Counter
• Fisher 336002Genesys specrophotometer
• Alpha Innotech IS5500110 Visible Digital Imaging System 
• Applied Biosystems ABI 3100 sequencer
• Applied Biosystems ABI 9700 PCR systems
• Axon Instruments GenePix 4000B microarray station
• Other equipment includes:  ultra- high speed-, refrigerated- and micro-centrifuges, dissecting, bright field, and inverted phase contrast microscopes, molecular biology equipment (gel boxes, power supplies, gel dryers, mini proteans, transblots), CO2 and mixed gas incubators, and 
• Computing equipment includes:  2 Dell computers Pentium 4, 1.4 GHD with HP LaserJet 1200 printer