The Human Physiology Workshop was held on 10th of December with about 80 European delegates at :envihab. Twenty-four talks were given, with a focus on aerospace physiology, extreme environments, exercise physiology and clinical physiology. The excellent work from the mostly young researchers was discussed in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. It is hoped that the feedback has been useful to the attendees, and that the workshop will be held annually from now on.
The workshop was organized by the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine and the DLR Space Administration.
Program Human Physiology Workshop
Impressions of the Human Physiology Workshop 2016: Gallery!
Organizers Jörn Rittweger (DLR) Katrin Stang (DLR) Tine Becker (DLR) Friederike Wütscher (DLR)
Administrative secretariat
humanphysiologie-ws@dlr.de
Scientific Committee
Jörn Rittweger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Space Physiology, Cologne, Germany
Wilhelm Bloch, German Sport University, Cologne, Germany
Markus Braun, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Space Administration, Microgravity Research and Life Sciences, Bonn, Germany
Alexander Choukèr, University of Munich, Klinikum Großhadern, Department of Anaesthesiology, Munich, Germany
Nandu Goswami, Medical University of Graz, Institute of Physiology, Gravitational Physiology and Medicine, Graz, Austria
David Green, CHAPS, King’s College London, UK
Markus Gruber, University of Constance, Germany
Hanns-Christian Gunga, Center for Space Medicine and Extreme Environments, Institute of Physiology, Charité Medical University, Berlin, Germany
Andy Jones, Sport and Health Sciences, NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Jens Jordan, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany
Sergey Ponomarev, Institute of Biomedical Problems IMBP, Moscow
Stefan Schneider, German Sport University, Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, Cologne, Germany
Alexander Stahn, Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Draft Program
Saturday, December 10, 2016
07:45 Registration
08:10 Welcome (DLR)
Session 1:
Chair: Andy Jones
08:15 Cvirn, G.: Orthostatic Hypercoagulability in Patients Recovered from Ischemic Stroke
08:30 Chobanyan-Jürgens, K.: Cardiac pacemaker channel (HCN4) inhibition and atrial
arrhythmogenesis following acute relief of cardiac sympathetic activation
08:45 Freyler, K.: Effects of weightlessness and altered gravities on neuromuscular correlates of
human movement
09:00 Drescher, U.: Analysis of Cardiorespiratory Kinetics – Practical Applications for the
Assessment of Circulatory and Muscular Dynamics
09:15 Schoenrock, B: Stiffness and tone of skeletal muscles in a ground-based spaceflight
analogue (bed rest) with reactive jump intervention (MYOTON Study)
09:30 Kühn, S: Magnetic Resonance Investigation of the Human Brain after 6 Days of
Acclimatization to 4554 m - Preliminary Results of the EFA study
09:45 Turner, R.: New results and considerations for enhanced delineation of the physiological
impact of high altitude stressors
09:45–10:30 Coffee break
Session 2:
Chair: Jörn Rittweger
10:30 Hoffmann, U.: Pulmonary gas exchange as an estimate of lung perfusion during changing
gravity
10:45 Nordine, M.: Hemodynamic and tissue oxygenation activity during rapid sequence
environmental changes.
11:00 Ireland, A.: Differential adaptation of the tibia and fibula to exercise and disuse cannot be
explained by bone geometry or habitual loading
11:15 Heusser, K.: Hemodynamics and muscle sympathetic nerve activity in patients with end stage
heart failure before and after left ventricular assist device implantation
11:30 Beblo-Vranesic, K.: The microbial influence on human physiology
11:45 Weber, R.: Morphological and functional analysis of skeletal muscle in response to long-term
bed rest without and with reactive jumps as countermeasure (RSL-Study 2015-2016)
12:00 Werner, A.: Special ECG detection and systematic analysis of the development of
arrhythmias during high positive G acceleration in the long-arm human centrifuge
12:15 Pun, M.: High altitude medicine research from Alps: Design
12:15–13:00 Lunch break
Session 3:
Chair: Alexander Choukèr
13:00 Attias, J.: The cardiorespiratory effect of axial re-loading during unloaded treadmill exercise
13:15 Gunga, H.-C.: Core Body Temperatures in Astronauts on the International Space Station
13:30 Thompson, C.: Dietary nitrate supplementation enhances exercise performance and some
physiological adaptation to sprint interval training
13:45 van Walleghem, M.: Evaluation of the impact of different gravity conditions and stress
hormones on the cell-mediated immune response using the in vitro DTH assay
14:00 Masatli, Z.: Cardiovascular adaptations during +Gz interval training (GIT)
14:15 Abeln, V.: First impressions of psychophysiological changes during 30-days of isolation in the
Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA)
14:30 Stroetges, J.: Short-arm centrifugation influences the orthostatic stress hormones galanin and
adrenomedullin
14:45 Piasecki, M.: Neuromuscular junction transmission variability in the vastus lateralis of master
athletes compared with healthy young and older men
14:45–15:30 Coffee break
Session 4:
Chair: Jochen Zange
15:30 Piotrowski, T.: Oxygen uptake during exercise on a centrifuge
15:45 Jones, E.J.: Spring-loaded body mass equivalent horizontal reactive jumps may be
comparable to those performed vertically in 1Gz
16:00 Koschate, J.: The influence of 60 days of bed rest on heart rate and oxygen uptake kinetics
16:15 Bury, N.: Can spatial orientation be modified by training?
16:15–17:00 Musical break & awards
17:00 Adjourn
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