SU Exercise Science Alumni and Faculty Advisor Mazzetti Win Inaugural IPE Quiz Bowl
SALISBURY, MD---Circulating concentrations of what hormone decrease during exercise?
A team comprised of three Salisbury University exercise science alumni — Alec Chaves’15, Ph.D. candidate at East Carolina University; Edwin Miranda’14, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan; and Dr. Joseph Watso’15, post-doctoral research fellow at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine — correctly answered “insulin” to this Final Jeopardy-style question to win first place at the inaugural Integrative Physiology of Exercise (IPE) Quiz Bowl.
The SU “all-star” team represented not only its members’ undergraduate Alma Mater but also SU’s Laboratory for Human Performance. They were advised by the laboratory’s director, Dr. Scott Mazzetti, chair of the Applied Health and Physiology Program in SU’s School of Health Sciences in the College of Health and Human Services. Teams were permitted to be from different current graduate or post-doctoral universities and could collectively represent any university or lab they chose.
“It was an honor to sponsor a group of outstanding SU exercise science alumni and watch them succeed among their graduate counterparts,” said Mazzetti. “The SU team was at the very top of the leaderboard for the entire game, and eventually made a well-thought-out bet for the Final Jeopardy question that ultimately won them the game after an impressive performance.”
The IPE Quiz Bowl gave graduate students and post-doctoral research assistants the opportunity to demonstrate what they know about the integrative physiology of exercise across a wide variety of scientific disciplines, such as skeletal muscle, cardiovascular, metabolism, exercise prescription, adaptations and history of the field.
SU exercise alumni and Ph.D. candidates Colleen Lynch’18 and William Fountain’17 also competed in the IPE Quiz Bowl, representing Ball State University.
The competition was one highlight of the week-long American Physiological Society (APS) Integrative Physiology of Exercise (IPE) 2020 conference, held virtually. Hundreds of scientists working in the exercise physiology field attended the conference to present research, network and hear presentations on a variety of exercise topics.
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