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MFYS Sport Science Seminar - Wim Derave

13 2019

Wim Derave is a professor at the Department of Movement and Sports Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium), a global top-10 ranked sport science institute (http://www.shanghairanking.com/Special-Focus-Institution-Ranking/Sport-Science-Schools-and-Departments-2016.html). He teaches and leads a dynamic research team in exercise physiology, sport nutrition and muscle metabolism.

After obtaining his Master’s Degree in Physical Education and Movement Sciences at Ghent University, Wim made a PhD on the effects of exercise on muscle insulin action and glycogen metabolism, in collaboration with Prof. JL Pannier and Prof. Erik Richter from the prestigious Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre in Denmark. During his post-doc work in Prof. Peter Hespel’s lab at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium), his main research focus was the physiological role and the nutritional manipulation of the creatine system in skeletal muscle. Since 2005, Wim established his own laboratory in Ghent, which has taken a lead in the research regarding beta-alanine supplementation and the role of carnosine in skeletal muscle, both with respect to sport as to chronic metabolic diseases. An emerging research topic of his group relates to the development of an MRI-based - thus non-invasive - evaluation of muscle fiber type composition (the Muscle Talent Scan), and its applications towards talent identification, training advice and injury risk in athletes and team sport players. In 2017, Wim spent a 6-month sabbatical at the Gold Coast (Australia) as a visiting professor of Griffith University, to further develop the Muscle Talent Scan in elite Australian athletes.

Wim Derave has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed international scientific publications and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Physiology and Amino Acids and he is the Specialty Chief Editor in Frontiers in Sport and Exercise Nutrition.



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