Dr Chris Shaw BSc PhD

Dr Chris Shaw

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 4128
Fax
+44 (0)121 414 4121
Email
c.s.shaw@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
United Kingdom

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), Sport and Exercise Sciences (The University of Birmingham), 2003

PhD, Sport and Exercise Sciences (The University of Birmingham), 2007

Biography

Chris received his undergraduate degree and his PhD from the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at The University of Birmingham in 2007. His PhD focused on using immuohistochemial techniques to look at the beneficial effects of exercise on insulin sensitivity.

Research

- Obesity and insulin resistance
- Muscle lipid storage and oxidation
- Exercise metabolism

He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow using fluorescence microscopy to investigate the underlying mechanisms of lipid-induced insulin resistance at the level of skeletal muscle and the endothelium. He is also investigating the mechanisms of skeletal muscle fat metabolism during exercise. He has also investigated the effect of nutrition on fuel metabolism during exercise. In 2006 he won the Young Investigator Award at the European College of Sports Sciences.

Publications

CS Shaw, DA Jones, A Wagenmakers. 2007. Network distribution of mitochondria and lipid droplets in human muscle fibres.Histochemistry and Cell Biology,

Venables MC, Shaw CS, Jeukendrup AE, Wagenmakers AJ (2007) Effect of acute exercise on glucose tolerance following post-exercise feeding. Eur J Appl Physiol 100(6): 711-717

Rowlands DS, Wallis GA, Shaw C, Jentjens RL, Jeukendrup AE (2005) Glucose polymer molecular weight does not affect exogenous carbohydrate oxidation. Med Sci Sports Exerc 37(9): 1510-1516

Jentjens RL, Shaw C, Birtles T, Waring RH, Harding LK, Jeukendrup AE (2005) Oxidation of combined ingestion of glucose and sucrose during exercise. Metabolism 54(5): 610-618

Wallis GA, Rowlands DS, Shaw C, Jentjens RL, Jeukendrup AE (2005) Oxidation of combined ingestion of maltodextrins and fructose during exercise. Med Sci Sports Exerc 37(3): 426-432

Expertise

Why metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes develop with sedentary lifestyles and obesity; how exercise can prevent and/or treat such metabolic diseases

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