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Genetics of the Adaptation to Exercise
Sponsored by APS Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section
Metabolic Diseases Track

The importance of exercise in maintaining and recovering health has long been recognized, but it is only within the last decade that we have begun to understand the cellular and molecular events occurring in response to exercise in terms of metabolic adaptation and tissue and organ changes. Use of transgenic animals, selective breeding strategies, and expanding knowledge of the human and animal genomes now provides unparalleled opportunities to study the role of genetics in exercise adaptation in both health and disease.  This presentation is designed to offer the audience a broad, but detailed, sojourn into current and recent discoveries on the genetics of the adaptation to exercise. The feature topic presentation will be organized into two parts, 1) two key note presentations (25 min each) aimed addressing basic science and the applied aspects of the genetic adaptation to exercise, respectively, and 2) four oral abstract presentations (10 min) selected from abstracts submitted to meeting.  Abstracts will be selected based on their relevance to genetic influences of the cardiovascular, respiratory and/or skeletal muscle systems to exercise in health or disease.