After completing a BSc, MSc and PhD in Human and Applied Physiology I joined UEL in 1998 and teach Human Physiology and Bioscience skills at undergraduate and postgraduate level. One of my main administrative duties is the School of Health, Sport & Bioscience Quality Leader and Chair of the School Quality Standards Committee. My professional development has included attendance and presentation at many exercise and sports physiology related Physiological Society, IOC, BOA, FIMS, BASES workshops and conferences. At UEL, I am an active member of the Human Motor Performance Research Group (HMPG) and the sport science support team and I have recent internationally published work.

• Quality Leader for School of Health, Sport & Bioscience (HSB)
• Module leader
• Senior lecturer
• Project supervisor (BSc/MSc)
• Quantitative Research Ethics leader for School Ethics Committee
• Chair of the HSB School Quality Standards Committee (SQSC)
• Member of Institutional Quality Standards Committee (QSC) , Validation and Review Subcommittee (VRSC), HSB School Board and Psychology SQSC.

Exercise, sport and rehabilitation physiology and nutrition

• BSc/MSc Bioscience

• BS1000
• BS1010
• BS1041
• BS2049
• BS2050
• BS3049
• BS3035
• BSM002
• BSM019

Current PhD student; Alexander Lyons (a.lyons@uel.ac.uk)

Poster presentation; The Metabolic Profiling of Exercise Intervention: Exercise Metabolomics .

Biomedical basis of elite performance conference, Queen Elizabeth II conference centre London UK March 2012.

Exercise stress induces change in muscle biochemistry to meet the metabolic demands of the working muscles (1). Such change can be observed directly from the presence of biomarkers elucidated from change in  protein and metabolite profiles, light weight molecular products of metabolism, in muscle cells(2) and biofluids(3). The majority of previous research in the biochemical monitoring of sport and exercise has relied on observing change in targeted (pre-selected) metabolites, which provides a modest amount of data on metabolic change.     Advances in bioanalytical technology presents metabolomic techniques as effective tools to provide multidimensional data of all metabolite profiles in minute biological  samples(4), which has unprecedented potential to monitor exercise-induced biochemical change. Metabolomic techniques include gass/liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/LC-MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). In order to establish current status of this research area, a literature search was carried out and presented in this poster.

Objective and Expected Outcomes/Benefits for this PhD Research

    To develop metabolomic protocols to profile change in blood, urinary and salivary metabolites induced by isolated muscle contractions. The aim is to establish reliable protocols to standardise the identification of biomarkers allied to sport, exercise and rehabilitation.    The expected outcome/benefit of this PhD programme of research is that it will contribute to the future design of biochemical monitoring in sport, exercise and rehabilitation.

References

(1)    Whyte, J.J. and Laughlin, M.H. (2010) The effects of acute and chronic exercise on the vasculature. Acta    Physiol, 199:441-450.

(2)    Green, H.J., Bombardier, E., Burnett, M.E., Smith, I.C., Tupling, S.M., and Ranney, D.A. (2009) Time-dependent effects of short term training on muscle metabolism during early phase of exercise. Am J Physiol Regul Interg Comp Physiol, 297:1318-1391.

(3)    Neary, J.P., Malbon, L. and McKenzie, D.C. (2002) Relationship Between Serum, Saliva and Urinary Cortisol and its Implication During Recovery from Training. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 5(2):108-114.

(4)    Corcoran, O. and Spraul, M. (2003) LC-NMR-MS in drug discovery. Drug Discovery Today, 8:624-631.

(5)    Papacosta, E. and Nassis, G.P. (2011) Saliva as a tool for monitoring steroid, peptide and immune markers in sport and exercise science. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 14:424-434.

Publications

Kass. L and R. Carpenter (2009). The effect of sampling time on blood lactate concentration in trained rowers. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance Vol. 4(1), March.

Cousins, S., Johnstone, J., Hastings, K., Carpenter, R., & P. A. Ford. (2008). Performance and anthropometric characteristics of junior track and field athletes. BASES Annual Conference.

Carpenter, R. (1995) Accumulated oxygen deficit and short distance running performance in young middle-distance runners. Poster communication BASES Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK

Carpenter, R. (1997). Effects of workload intensity and duration on the VO₂-workload regression. Oral communication; Federal Institute of Medicine and Science in Sport: Annual Conference, Monaco

Carpenter, R. (1996). The slow rise in VO₂ during constant running exercise above and below the Ventilatory threshold: Poster communication BASES Annual Conference, Lilleshall, UK

MSc Thesis (1992): Accumulated oxygen deficit and short distance running performance in young middle-distance runners.

PhD Thesis (2001): Methodological effects on the VO2-workload regression and maximal accumulated oxygen deficit (MAOD)