Kimberly Huey, PhD

Biography

 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

• 2003-2009 - Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
  Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
• 2001-2003 - Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
  Department of Kinesiology
• 1999-2001 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
  University of California, Irvine
  Department of Physiology and Biophysics

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Fellow, American College of Sports Medicine
• Fellow, American Physiological Society

• American Physiological Society Communications Committee
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Physiology
• Associate Editor, Exercise and Sport Science Reviews
• Phun Week Physiology Outreach
• Contributor, iSpy Physiology Blog

• Chair, IACUC

• Student Affairs Committee
• Tenure and Promotion Committee

• Chair, IACUC

• Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine
• Fellow in the American Psychological Society
• Drake University Ronald Troyer Research Fellow (2017)
• LifeSciTRC Vision and Change Scholar

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
The core of my teaching philosophy is based upon 4 major ideas: 1) Effective learning environment; 2) Active learning and application of knowledge; 3) Organized, creative, and up-to-date course material; 4) Teaching outside the classroom. An effective learning environment requires establishing a rapport with students and making them comfortable with my teaching style and me. Application of knowledge is critical to long-term retention of course content and facilitating lifelong learning. I try to make students see the importance of the material not merely for passing tests, but in their daily lives and future careers. I believe that effective learning very often occurs in the research or teaching laboratory. Concepts taught in the classroom are best reinforced by experimentation. One practice I have is “See one, do one, teach one”.

Areas of Expertise

My research interests include both basic biomedical research on skeletal muscle physiology and applied human exercise physiology. My research interests include projects on the cellular and contractile adaptations of skeletal muscle to periods of increased use (i.e. exercise, weight training) and/or pharmaceutical interventions in mouse models. Studies measure whole muscle growth and function in mouse models. One line of research pursued in my laboratory uses a clinically relevant model—statin-induced myopathy—in combination with exercise to investigate mechanisms mediating statin-induced muscle dysfunction. Current studies supported by the Iowa Space Grant Consortium are investigating the effects of Vitamin D supplementation on the muscular and cardiorespiratory adaptations to strength or combined strength and endurance training in mice. Overall, our research has implications in several areas such as the ability of exercise and/or pharmaceutical interventions to induce beneficial contractile and cellular skeletal muscle adaptations in both young and old individuals.

In the classroom, my curriculum grant has funded the purchase of LT Labstation Human Physiology Systems for utilization in my Human Physiology Lab and Muscle Structure and Function courses. This is a cloud-based system which includes customizable lessons with a combination of tutorials, pre-lab preps, and the lab activity and allows students to learn on almost any internet-connected device. This type of connectivity is instrumental to today's students who are accustomed to being able to learn both in and out of the formal classroom.

Education

• B.S. in Exercise Physiology at Seattle Pacific University
• M.S. in Exercise Physiology at University of Arizona
• Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego

Courses Taught

• PHAR 125 - Human Physiology
• HSCI 125 - Medical Physiology
• HSCI 125L - Medical Physiology Lab
• HSCI 107 - Skeletal Muscle Structure & Function
• HSCI 184 - Exercise Testing & Prescription

Latest Publications

B.M. Meador and K.A. Huey (2009) Glutamine Preserves Skeletal Muscle Force during an Inflammatory Insult, Muscle and Nerve, 40 (6): 1000-1007.

Wilkinson K.A., K.A. Huey, B. Dinger, L. He, S.J. Fidone, and F.L. Powell. (2010) Chronic Hypoxia Increases the Gain of the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response by a Mechanism in the Central Nervous System. J. Appl. Physiol, 109(2):424-30.

Meador, B. M. and K. A. Huey (2010) Statin-Associated Myopathy and its Exacerbation with Exercise. Muscle Nerve, 42:469-479.

Parvaresh, K.C., A.M. Huber, R.L. Brochin, P.L. Bacon, G.E. McCall, K. Huey, and J.P.K Hyatt (2010) Acute VEGF expression during hypertrophy is muscle-specific and localizes as a striated pattern within fibers, Exp. Physiol, 95:1098-1106. 

Huey KA, Burdette S, Zhong H & Roy R (2010) Early response of heat shock proteins to functional overload of the soleus and plantaris in rats and mice. Exp. Physiol, 95:1145-1155.

Lueders, T, Zou, K, Huntsman, HD, Meador, BM, Abel, M, Valero, MC, Huey, KAand MD Boppart (2011) The a7ß1 Integrin Accelerates Exercise-Induced Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy. Am. J. Physiol: Cell, 301:C938-46.

Zou, K, Meador, BM, Johnson, B, Huntsman, HD, Valero, MC, Huey, KA and MD Boppart (2011). The a7ß1 Integrin Increases Muscle Fiber Hypertrophy Following Multiple Bouts of Eccentric Exercise, J. Appl. Physiol, 111:1134-1141.

Meador, B. M. and K. A. Huey (2011). Statin-Associated Alterations In Skeletal Muscle Force Production And Stress Response Following Novel Or Accustomed Exercise, Muscle Nerve, 44:882-889.

Chamney, C., Godar, M., Garrigan, E., and K.A. Huey (2013). Effects of Glutamine Supplementation on Muscle Function and Stress Response in a Mouse Model of Spinal Cord Injury, Experimental Physiology, 98:796-806.

Huey, K.A., C. A. Hilliard, and C.R. Hunt (2013). Effect of HSP25 Loss on Muscle Contractile Function and Running Wheel Activity in Young and Old Mice, Frontiers in Physiology, 4: article 398.

Huey, K.A., S.A. Smith, A. Sulaeman, and E.C. Breen (2016). Skeletal myofiber VEGF is necessary for myogenic and contractile adaptations to functional overload of the plantaris in adult mice. J. Appl. Physiol, 120:188-195.