Featured Alumna

"One of the strengths of the BMS program is the diversity of research areas and excellent scientists integrated in one program. The opportunity to study physiology at the molecular, cellular, and organism levels, in a collaborative environment, has been a tremendous asset to my career."

Kimberly A. Huey

Ph.D., 1999
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carl Gisolfi Award for Research in Exercise Science, American Physiological Society

Key Publications

Huey, K.A. (2005) Regulation of Hsp25 expression and phosphorylation in functionally overloaded rat plantaris and soleus muscles. J Appl Physiol, in press.

Huey, K.A., Hyatt, J. P., Zhong, H. and Roy, R.R. (2005) Effects of innervation state on Hsp25 content and phosphorylation in inactive rat plantaris muscles. Acta Physiol Scand, 85(3): 219-27, 2005.

Huey, K.A, Thresher, J.S., Brophy, C.M., and Roy, R.R. (2004) Inactivity-induced modulation of Hsp20 and Hsp25 content in rat hindlimb muscles. Muscle Nerve, 30: 95-101.

Huey, K.A., Roy, R.R., Haddad, F., Edgerton, V.R., and Baldwin, K.M. (2002) Transcriptional regulation of the type I myosin heavy chain promoter in inactive rat soleus. Am. J. Physiol., 282: C528-C537.

Huey, K.A, Low, M.J., Kelly, M.A., Juarez, R., Szewczak, J.M., and Powell, F.L. (2000) Ventilatory responses to acute and chronic hypoxia in mice: effects of dopamine D2- receptors. J. Appl. Physiol., 89:1142-1150.

Huey, K.A. and Powell, F.L. (2000) Time-dependent changes in dopamine D2-receptor mRNA in the arterial chemoreflex pathway with hypoxia. Mol. Brain Res, 75:264-270.