Profile
I completed by BSc (1982) and PhD (1989) degrees in physiology at The University of Melbourne and an MA (1984) in exercise physiology at the Human Performance Laboratory, Ball State University, USA. My pre-and post-doctoral training included two visits to the University of Copenhagen. I am a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. During my spare time I enjoy tennis and reading sport biographies.
Teaching
Convenor – 536-304
Lecturer – 536-308
PBL tutor – 510-110
Service to the University, discipline
or community and recent presentations
University service:
Departmental Committee and Academic Board.
External service:
Board member of Football Victoria Development and Victorian Institute of Sport; Member, AFL Research Board
Editorial Boards:
Journal of Applied Physiology, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, Journal of Sport Sciences
Research
Profile, Interests and Recent Publications
My research interests focus on the physiological and metabolic responses to exercise, with a particular emphasis on the regulation of skeletal muscle carbohydrate metabolism. Current projects investigate the molecular regulation of the glucose transport protein GLUT4 in human skeletal muscle following acute and chronic exercise.
Recent Publications:
McGee, S.L., K.F. Howlett, R.L. Starkie, D. Cameron-Smith, B.E. Kemp and M. Hargreaves. Exercise increases nuclear AMPK α2 in human skeletal muscle. Diabetes. 52: 926-928, 2003.
Rose, A.J. and M. Hargreaves. Exercise increases Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II activity in human skeletal muscle. J. Physiol. 553: 303-309, 2003.
McGee, S.L. and Hargreaves, M. Exercise and myocyte enhancer factor 2 regulation in human skeletal muscle. Diabetes. 53: 1208-1214, 2004.
Kraniou, G.N., D. Cameron-Smith and M. Hargreaves. Effect of short-term training on GLUT-4 mRNA and protein expression in human skeletal muscle. Exp. Physiol. 89: 559-563, 2004.
Recent invited lectures include:
"Exercise and GLUT-4 in human skeletal muscle" Scandinavian Physiological Society, Lundsbrunn Spa, Sweden, May, 2004
"How carbohydrate affects training adaptations" American College of Sports Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Indianapolis, USA, June, 2004.
Research
Funding
Current research funding:
National Health & Medical Research Council G. McConell, B. Canny and M. Hargreaves Glucose uptake during exercise: important role of AMPK and NO? (2003-2005)
Australian Research Council K. Howlett and M. Hargreaves. Intracellular localisation of insulin signalling proteins in human skeletal muscle following exercise (2004-2006)
Currently
Supervised Staff/Students
Andrew Allen
Graham Barrett
Lea Delbridge
Justine Ellis
Joel Bornstein
Gordon Lynch
Glenn McConell
Fiona Smith
David Williams
Mary Wlodek
Arianne Dantas
Genevieve Morris
Sophie Yeo
Sean McGee
