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February 2011

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Note from the GSCCommunications Officer

CSEP GSC v.2011

CSEP Annual GeneralMeetings 2010 & 2011

Top 10

Student Survival Guide

Lab Feature

Crossword Challenge!

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Note from the GSC Communications OfficerHello CSEP students,

You haven’t gotten rid of me that easily! I have returned as the Communications Officer (CO) for the CSEP Graduate StudentCommittee (GSC) 2011. Although your CO remains the same, we have a brand new team - I am thrilled to be joined byDonna D’souza and Bruno Lemire on the newsletter team.Chris Vigna remains with us for another year as Facebook Officer (FO). His role as FO doesn’t mean he will be patrolling yourFacebook accounts, but rather he is in charge of keeping our CSEP Facebook group exciting and informative. Be sure tocheck it out and contribute. We also welcome our new Chair-elect, Anna Vainshtein and our Chair, Ayesha Saleem. To findout more about our new GSC team check out our bio’s below!Furthermore, we have also changed the format of the newsletters based on your feedback from the CSEP MembershipSurvey. New changes you can look forward to in 2011 include: a top 10 list for quick and easy tips that will help you survivelife as a grad student, and a crossword game in every issue for a chance to win a free membership. Some of the same greatfeatures remain intact including: the laboratory feature, the student survival guide with upcoming conferences, scholarshipsand courses, and of course a very entertaining Piled Higher and Deeper comic. We hope you will be as excited about the newformat of the newsletters, and the upcoming year as we are.

Happy New Year!

Amy Kirkham

CSEP GSC v.2011Meet the members of the CSEP Graduate Student Committee for 2011.

Ayesha Saleem

Basic Information Network: York UniversityPosition: Chair

Personal Information Activities: reading fiction and listening to music.Interests: research: Mechanisms of p53-induced mitochondrial biogenesis inskeletal muscle.About me: Other than being a regular part of my daily life, exercise is importantto me because of the promise it holds for improving and maintaining healthyliving. I'm passionate about research that sheds light on the underlyingmechanisms by which exercise has these beneficial affects on us. For me,"seeing and knowing how it happens is believing."

Education Grad school: York University, PhD candidate

Anna Vainshtein

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Basic Information Network: York UniversityPosition: Chair-elect

Personal Information Activities: cooking, singing, hiking, running.Interests: research: effects of exercise on cell death pathways in skeletal andcardiac muscle.About me: Exercise has always been part of my life and has slowly overtakenevery aspect of it. Exercise is my work, my passion and my hobby.

Education Grad school: York University, PhD candidate

Amy Kirkham

Basic Information Network: University of British ColombiaPosition: Communications Officer

Personal Information Activities: triathlon, running, road cycling. Interests: research: effects of chemotherapy on the physiological response toexercise of a cancer patient and the development of exercise prescriptionparameters for cancer types and treatments.About me: Exercise is the primary theme of my entire life. My education,research, free time and even transportation involves exercise.

Education Grad school: University of British Colombia, PhD student

Chris Vigna

Basic Information Network: University of WaterlooPosition: Member at Large

Personal Information Activities: basketball, hockey, golf, football, running.Interests: research: regulation of intracellular calcium in cardiac and skeletalmuscle following exhaustive exercise.About me: I was competitive in sports up until University. Now I participate insport for personal satisfaction and the health benefits. I feel it's important tomake exercise fun and to find activities that provide enjoyment.

Education Grad school: University of Waterloo, PhD candidate

Donna D'Souza

Basic Information Network: York University Position: Member at Large

Personal Information Activities: listening to music, running, having a good laugh.Interests: research: mRNA stability of mitochondrial regulators across fibretypes.About me: What isn't exercise good for? I always knew exercise was associatedwith a number of positive health benefits, but it wasn't until recently that I reallybegan to understand why. As a graduate student studying exercise physiology, Iam able to uncover the underlying mechanisms that lead to positive healtheffects brought about with regular exercise.

Education Grad school: York University, MSc candidate

Bruno Lemire

Basic Information Network: Laval UniversityPosition: Member at Large

Personal Information Activities: training, hockey, road cycling, listening to music.Interests: research: skeletal muscle dysfunction in the COPD population.About me: Exercise is one of my passions, not only in my daily life but also inmy research work. Exercise is not only the best prescription for a longer healthylife, but one of quality.

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Education Grad school: Laval University, PhD candidate

CSEP Annual General Meetings 2010 & 2011CSEP 2010 With talks ranging from ‘Sedentary Physiology’ to ‘Physical Activity PrescriptionsGuidelines for Persons with Chronic Diseases’, it’s not surprising that the CSEP 2010 AnnualGeneral Meeting was able to live up to its theme of ‘Exploring the Routes to Health and Fitness’.Held in the heart of Toronto at the prestigious Hyatt Regency Hotel on King, the conference wasattended by a number of groundbreaking researchers and members of the exercise physiologycommunity. Keynote speakers included the distinguished exercise physiologist Dr. John Holloszy,

as well as celebrated Olympic Silver Medalist Jason Burnett.This year’s Graduate Student Committee Symposium took on a different format. The debate-style session to discuss thedivide between molecular biology and human physiology was very well attended, and indeed well received. Although thebattle between basic and applied science was left undecided, what was clearly agreed upon was the need for a cohesiveattitude to merge ideas developed from both sides of the playing field.2010 CSEP Award winners included Dr. Philip Ainslie (Young Investigator Award), Dr. Shannon Bredin (CSEP Health &Fitness Program Recognition Award), and Dr. David Hood (Honour Award). Graduate student award nominees put forth ahearty competition, with talks from Farah Jazuli (University of McMaster), Andrew Levy (University of Waterloo), Sam Liu(University of Toronto), and Michael Nelson (University Alberta). Although a tough decision was at hand, the award wasbestowed upon Michael Nelson for his superb talk entitled ‘Biventricular function during passive heat stress’. Additional wellwishes go out to all the poster award winners as well as the recipients of this year’s Canadian Obesity Network Student TravelAwards. Well done!CSEP 2011 To be held in beautiful Quebec City from October 19-22, the 2011 AGM promises many enticing and invigoratingsymposia and talks, including another thought-provoking GSC debate involving both students and researchers. The theme willbe ‘Exercise and Health for Everybody’. Be sure to check back for more details regarding the conference in our future issues.

Ways to Piss off Your Supervisor

(in no particular order)

1) Breaking lab equipment and then not reporting it.

2) Leaving the lab messy after you use it.

3) Losing data (USB key, files, paper).

4) Failing to update them on what you’re doing.

5) Rather than asking for guidance, continue working on something in the wrong direction for an extended period of time.

6) Asking them for a reference letter the night before the deadline.

7) Forgetting to submit important forms.

8) Showing up to meetings late and/or unprepared.

9) Showing up to the office/lab late or infrequently or not at all.

10) Taking too many, or rather lengthy vacations.

Student Survival GuideUpcoming Scholarship Deadlines

CIHR Travel Grants; deadline : April 15 for conferences within 6 months (ICR: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/41614.html;IMHA: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/38715.html)Cardiac Health Foundation of Canada Graduate Scholarships; deadline: May 1, 2011 (http://www.cacr.ca/awards/index.cfm)MSFHR Research Trainee Competition – Post-doctoral Fellowship, LOI deadline: March 1 (http://www.msfhr.org/funding/Current/Trainee)NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, deadline: varies by department and institution, but generally in

February/March (http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/students-etudiants/ug-pc/usra-brpc_eng.asp)

Upcoming Conferences

Fit Rendezvous 2011, June 10-12, Calgary, Alberta (www.provincialfitnessunit.ca/events)The Canadian Respiratory Conference, April 28-30, Niagara Falls, Ontario (http://www.lung.ca/crc)2nd Canadian Stroke Congress, October 2-4, Ottawa, Ontario (http://www.strokecongress.ca)Toronto Heart Summit, June 9-11, Toronto, Ontario (http://www.torontohfsummit.com)Canadian Nutrition Society August 21-24, Guelph, Ontario, abstract deadline: April 30 (http://www.cns-scn.ca)The 2nd National Obesity Summit, April 28–May 1, Montreal, Quebec (http://www.con-obesitysummit.ca/)2011 IDEA World Fitness Convention, August 11-14, Los Angeles, California (www.ideafit.com/fitness-conferences)American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting & World Congress on Exercise is Medicine, May 31-June 4,Denver, Colorado (http://www.acsmannualmeeting.org/)Experimental Biology Meeting, April 9-13, Washington, DC, late-breaking abstract deadline: Feb 9,(http://experimentalbiology.org)Congress of the European College of Sport Science, July 6-9, Liverpool, (http://www.ecss-congress.eu/2011/)Annual Scientific Meeting of American Spinal Injury Association, June 4-8, Washington, DC (http://www.asia-iscos2011.org/)

Upcoming Courses

Dieticians of Canada course - Intensive Sports Nutrition Course, May 25-28, Winnipeg, Manitoba(http://www.dietitians.ca/Knowledge-Center/Events-and-Learning/Specialized-Education.aspx)Dieticians of Canada course - International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK) level 1anthropometry course, June 5-7, Winnipeg, Manitoba (http://www.dietitians.ca/Knowledge-Center/Events-and-Learning/Specialized-Education.aspx)

Lab Feature: Clinical Exercise Physiology LabBy Dr. Kristin Campbell, The University of British Columbia

The research focus of the Clinical Exercise Physiology Lab at the University of British Columbia is the role of physical activityin the prevention and rehabilitation of chronic disease, with a major focus on cancer. The goal of the lab is to betterunderstand: the effects of exercise on biological process that have been linked to cancer risk and recurrence; the role ofexercise during and following cancer treatment; and the importance of exercise in rehabilitation for cancer survivors.

Cancer is the leading cause of premature death among adults in Canada; 40% of women and 45% of men will develop cancerduring their lifetimes. However, with continued advances in early detection and treatment, the expected survival rate at 5years after cancer diagnosis is now 62% and currently there are close to 1 million cancer survivors living in Canada. TheAmerican Cancer Society estimates that one third of cancer deaths are due to poor nutrition, excess body fat and a sedentarylifestyle. As a result, being physically active can reduce the risk of developing cancer and improve survival following a cancerdiagnosis. Importantly, physical activity during and following cancer treatments may also help with the common acute andchronic side effects of usual treatments, such as fatigue, reduced physical function, cognitive impairments, and lymphedema.At this time, the biological mechanisms behind the beneficial effects of physical activity are not well understood. This limitsthe development of public health guidelines and interventions aimed at cancer prevention, rehabilitation and improvedsurvival.

I became interested in the role of exercise in health, as a physiotherapy student. This led me to complete a MSc (UBC;supervisor, Donald McKenzie) and PhD (U of Alberta; supervisor, Kerry Courneya) in Exercise Physiology, focusingspecifically on cancer. For my postdoctoral fellowship at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle (mentor,Anne McTiernan), I received training in public health and large randomized controlled trial methodology focusing on the role ofexercise and overall energy balance for prevention of cancer. In the area of cancer rehabilitation, I’ve been involved in thedevelopment of Cancer Exercise Specialist credential from the American College of Sports Medicine, and work with theOncology section of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association.

We have several exciting projects currently underway funded by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, BC CancerFoundation and Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada. Current studies are examining the impact of physical activity oncancer-related fatigue, survival following colon cancer, and cancer-related cognitive changes. In addition, the lab is focusedon developing rehabilitation programs for cancer survivors related to arm function and lymphedema following breast cancersurgery, and achieving a healthy body weight through dietary change and physical activity in breast cancer survivors. In thelab, we work as a team to investigate the role of physical activity in cancer prevention, rehabilitation and healthy survivorship. The lab has ongoing collaborations with the BC Cancer Agency and the research team includes: trainees, several medicaloncologists and physicians, a registered dietitian, and several PhD researchers in nursing, population health, psychology,physical therapy, and sports medicine.

Training opportunities: The lab provides a variety of opportunities for research trainees to receive training in a broad rangeof disciplines, namely rehabilitation, exercise physiology, public health, exercise psychology and oncology. The lab’s researchfacilities include: a state of the art exercise facility in the Department of Physical Therapy for running exercise interventionsand an exercise testing lab (metabolic cart, treadmill). Through collaborations, we also utilize a dual energy X-rayabsorptiometer (DXA) to examine body fat and lean muscle mass, and a magnetic resonance scanner (MRI) to examine brainfunction. Trainees can gain skills in randomized controlled trial methodology, exercise testing, exercise prescription andexercise supervision in clinical populations as well as measurement of body composition. Through collaborators, trainees canalso pursue training in collection, storage and cataloging of biological samples. Currently, the lab has two CIHR-fundedgraduate students (1 MSc and 1 PhD), and a research coordinator. My supervision of trainees is student-centered, and thegoal of the lab is to develop a multidisciplinary, collaborative environment where trainees at all levels (MSc throughPost-doctoral fellows) can interact and learn from each other. Students who are interested in the lab’s area of research arewelcome to contact me.

Kristin Campbell, BSc PT, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Physical TherapyUniversity of British Columbia212, Friedman Building, 2177 Wesbrook MallVancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3Email: kristin.campbell@ubc.ca Office: 604-827-4704 Fax: 604-822-1870

www.physicaltherapy.med.ubc.ca

Crossword Challenge!Complete this crossword and send your answers to gscnews@csep.ca for the chance to win a FREE student CSEPmembership. The deadline for entries is March 15th, 2011. Winners will be contacted after the deadline.

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