Hermanson, John W
Associate Professor
research
research and scholarship focus
- Muscle biology, currently spanning from the gross to the molecular levels of analysis
- Flight of bats, in part motivated out of curiousity about how bat muscles produce high frequency, powerful movements, and yet remain remarkably resistant to fatigue
- Recruitment patterns, histochemical profiles, and physiological characteristics of the major flight muscles in a number of bat species
- Integrated structural-functional analysis of the appendicular muscles in horses and bats, as well as in a diversity of other species
- Comparative biology of muscle in several of Nature's better "athletes."
- Understand the biomechanics of locomotion in horses, and possible muscle involvement in gait abnormalities
- orrelate specializations of the major contractile protein, myosin, with phylogenetic or architectural/functional constraints in horses and bats
- Role of muscle groups in locomotion
- Elucidation of interactions between nerves and muscles in affecting the phenotype of mature muscle
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