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Kelly Linden is a lecturer in Biomedical Sciences who joined the School of Community Health in 2010 after 2 years in Wagga Wagga in the School of Biomedical Science.  Kelly gained her BSc (Honours) degree at the University of Melbourne in 2003 with a major in Physiology.  Kelly’s honours project investigated the expression of facilitative glucose transporters in experimental models of diabetic nephropathy.  Kelly completed her PhD (Exercise Physiology) at The University of Melbourne in 2008, which investigated the role of AMPK and nitric oxide in skeletal muscle glucose uptake during exercise.  Her major research interests are skeletal muscle metabolism and the effects of diet on exercise performance.   Kelly has taught both systems physiology and exercise physiology at both the undergraduate and post-graduate level to a very diverse population of students, ranging from vets to physiotherapy students.

Positions and Roles

• Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences (2008 - present)

Teaching

Kelly Linden has a diverse range of teaching experience including research student supervision, thesis marking, subject coordination, subject convening, and course design, review and development.  Kelly has taught systems physiology, exercise physiology and pathophysiology to a range of undergraduate students.  Kelly has experience teaching both internal ‘face to face’ teacing as well as teaching distance students and via flexible, on-line delivery of material. Post-graduate teaching has involved co-supervision of masters research students. 

Subject Delivery

• BMS191 - Human Bioscience
• BMS161 - Health and the Human Body
• BMS256 - Exercise Science for Health professionals

Innovations in Teaching

Kelly has been involved in the development of on-line resources for multi-campus, flexible subject delivery that simultaneously supports multiple learning styles.

Research and Publications

The uptake and metabolism of glucose by skeletal muscle is a major determinant of whole body glucose homeostasis.  People with type 2 diabetes have reduced insulin-stimulated skeletal muscle glucose uptake, however, importantly, their muscle glucose uptake during exercise is normal.  The signalling pathways associated with contraction-stimulated glucose uptake are largely undefined, but are known to differ to the insulin pathways.  Kelly is proficient in include: running human exercise trials involving muscle biopsies with glucose tracer and drug infusion and human intra-venous glucose tolerance tests.  Rodent surgical muscle dissections, muscle contractions force measurements and 2-Deoxy glucose transport assays.  Kelly is also proficient in the following molecular biology techniques: immunoblotting, AMPK activity assays, NOS activity assays and muscle metabolite analysis.

List of Publications

• Linden KC, Wadley GD, Garhnam A, McConell GK.  Effect of L-Arginine Infusion on Glucose Disposal during Exercise in Humans. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 43(9):1626-1634, 2011. (ERA, A*; IF 4.7).
• McConell, GK, Manimmanakorn A, Lee-Young R.S, Kemp BE, Linden K and Wadley GD. Differential attenuation of AMPK activation during acute exercise following exercise training or AICAR treatment.  J Physiol 105(5): 1422-27, 2008.
• Linden KC, DeHaan CL, Zhang Y, Glowacka S, Cox AJ, Kelly DJ and Rogers S. Renal expression and localization of the facilitative glucose transporters
  GLUT1 and GLUT12 in animal models of hypertension and diabetic nephropathy.  Am J Physiol - Renal 290(1):F205-13, 2006.
• Lee-Young R, Palmer M, Linden KC, LePlastrier K, Canny BJ, Hargreaves M, Wadley GD, Kemp BE and McConell GK. Carbohydrate ingestion does not alter AMPK Signalling During exercise in humans.  Am J Physiol – Endocrinology 291(3):E566-73, 2006.

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