The Effects of Environmental Challenges on Performance and Metabolism

Featured Topic — Tuesday, April 24, 2024 — 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM — Convention Center, Room 25C
Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section — Chair: Cassondra Williams — Co-Chair: Allyson Hindle

Environment can impact physiology in many ways, potentially exposing the limits of individual success under a given condition.  This featured topic will highlight comparative research that addresses the impacts of (or tolerance to) environmental stressors across species. Featured speaker Dr. Craig Franklin will discuss his work on temperature effects on metabolism and the diving performance of crocodiles, along with potential impacts of climate change. The session will also include abstract-selected talks on current findings and approaches to studying the potential for environment to challenge cellular metabolism through exercise performance. 

Speakers

• From lab to field and into the future, gaining insights into environmental and physiological drivers of crocodilian performance.
  Craig Franklin — School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland


• Environmental chemicals can disrupt neonatal cardiomyocyte physiology
  Manelle Ramadan — Children's National Health System


• Behavioral Thermoregulation of Antarctic Teleosts With and Without Hemoglobin in Response to Acute Thermal Challenge
  Iskander I Ismailov — Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute


• Glucose Metabolism after Sleep Restriction, Total Sleep Deprivation, and Recovery
  Eva-Maria Elmenhorst — German Aerospace Center


• Development of Thermoregulatory Capability in Weddell Seal Pups
  Linnea E. Pearson — California Polytechnic State University


• COCHAIR
  Allyson Hindle —