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Latest News
Experimental Biology meeting (April, 2012)
Matthew Cramer (PhD student), Yannick Molgat-Seon (MSc student) and Ollie Jay will be presenting research posters at this year’s Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, CA (April 21-25).
TEL students awarded funding (March, 2012)
Congratulations to BSc students Nick Ravanelli (Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Research Bursary) and Karel Venne (NSERC Summer Studentship) for receiving funding to conduct research projects in the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory this summer!
New TEL publication in Med Sci Sports Exerc (February, 2012)
Deren TM, Coris EE, Bain AR, Walz SM, Jay O* (2012) Sweating is greater in NCAA football linemen independently of heat production. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2012 Feb;44(2):244-52. The paper can be found HERE.
New TEL publication in Am J Physiol (February, 2012)
Cramer MN and Jay O* (2012) Compensatory hyperhidrosis following thoracic sympathectomy: a biophysical rationale. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol; 302(3):R352-6. The paper can be found HERE.
New TEL publication in Exp Physiol (January, 2012)
Cramer MN, Bain AR and Jay O* (2012) Local sweating on the forehead, but not forearm, is influenced by aerobic fitness independently of heat balance requirements during exercise. Exp Physiol [Epub ahead of Print; Jan 6] DOI: expphysiol.2011.061374. The paper can be found HERE.
Tomasz Deren: New graduate from TEL (December, 2011)
Congratulations to Tomasz Deren on the successful defence of his MSc thesis entitled "An Analysis of Thermoregulatory Sweating and Heat Balance in American Football Linemen and Backs". His thesis can be found HERE.
Anthony Bain: New graduate from TEL (December, 2011)
Congratulations to Anthony Bain on the successful defence of his MSc thesis entitled "Body heat storage, sweating, and skin blood flow during exercise following water ingestion of varying temperature". His thesis can be found HERE.
Ollie Jay receives Young Researcher Award (November, 2011)
Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory PI, Dr. Ollie Jay, is awarded for Young Researcher Excellence (Pure & Applied Sciences) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa.
New TEL publication in Am J Physiol (September, 2011)
Jay O*, Bain AR, Deren TM, Sacheli M and Cramer MN (2011) Large differences in peak oxygen uptake do not alter the change in core temperature and thermoregulatory sweating during exercise. Am J Physiol Regu Integr Comp Physiol;301(3):R832-41. The paper can be found HERE.
Heat Stress and American Football during summer training camps (August, 2011)
Recent research by MSc student Tomasz Deren and Dr. Ollie Jay on heat stress in NCAA summer football training camps featured interviewed on french news channel TVA and the Ottawa Citizen.
Recent publication featured on CBC Radio 1 (July, 2011)
CBC.ca | Ottawa Morning | We're havin' a heat waaaaave.
Dr. Ollie Jay speaking on CBC Radio 1 on the topic of heat acclimation in a humid continental climate.
New TEL publication in Eur J Appl Physiol (August, 2011)
Bain AR, Deren TM and Jay O* (2011) Describing individual variation in whole-body and local sweating during exercise in a temperate environment. Eur J Appl Physiol;111(8):1599-607. The paper can be found HERE.
XIV International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics (July, 2011)
Matthew Cramer (PhD student, front), Nathan Morris (BSc student, Back left), Yannick Molgat-Seon (MSc student, Back 2nd left), Anthony Bain (MSc student, Back 3rd left), and Ollie Jay (Back right) recently attended ICEE 2011 meeting in Nafplion, Greece.
The following studies were presented (presenter underlined):
Cramer MN, Bell C and Jay O* (2011) The influence of aerobic fitness on regional sweating during exercise in a temperate environment.
Molgat-Seon Y, Chou S, Murto K and Jay O* (2011) Improving the non-invasive monitoring of core temperature infants.
Bain AR, Lesperance NC and Jay O* (2011) The influence of drink temperature during exercise upon thermoregulatory sweating in a temperate environment.
Jay O*, Bain AR, Deren TM and Cramer MN (2011) Evidence that heat production per unit mass, not relative exercise intensity determines changes in core temperature during exercise
Jay O* (2011) Biophysical and physiological determinants of thermoregulatory sweating.
Recent TEL publication featured in Men’s Health Blog (June, 2011)
Can't Stand the Heat?
blogs.menshealth.com
Hot conditions can hurt your workouts—if you're not prepared for the heat, like most guys (even after a summer of training). Get ready for heat with these tips.
New TEL publication in Eur J Appl Physiol (June, 2011)
Bain AR and Jay O*(2011) Does a humid continental climate elicit an acclimatization of human thermoregulatory responses? Eur J Appl Physiol;111(6):1197-205. The paper can be found HERE.
New TEL publication in J Appl Physiol (June, 2011)
Cramer MN, Jay O* (2011) Can thermal hyperpnea really cool the brain? J Appl Physiol. 2011 Feb;110(2):576. The paper can be found HERE.
(Contribution to Point-Counterpoint Article)
Tomasz Deren receives ACSM research award (June, 2011)
Congratulations to TEL MSc student Tomasz Deren (left), recipient of the ACSM 2011 Jack Borgenicht Award for best abstract in Environmental Physiology by a MSc Student at the ACSM Annual Meeting in Denver, CO (May 31 - June 4). His abstract can be found HERE.
