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Katarina Borer, Ph.D.

Professor, Movement Science

• Areas of Interest
• Educational Background
• Research
• Teaching
• Honors and Awards
• Professional Affiliations and Service
• Selected Publications
• Selected Projects/Grants
• Students
• Press

4745E CCRB
401 Washtenaw Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2214
Phone: (734) 647-2703
Fax: (734) 936-1925
katarina@umich.edu

Office Hours (Fall 2009):
Th 2:30-4:00pm

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Laboratory:

• Exercise Endocrinology Laboratory (EEL)
• Center for Exercise Research (CXR)
• Dr. Borer's personal web site (leaving Kinesiology site)

Areas of Interest

Short Description: Within exercise endocrinology: the hormonal, metabolic, and psychophysical consequences of acute exercise-associated energy expenditure; also the hormonal, metabolic and cardiovascular effects of training in aging. My teaching relates to my research interests.

“Research scholarship best describes my central career focus.

“My research explores hormonal and metabolic mechanisms involved in partitioning of nutrient energy among growth, body mass and energy storage depots, and exercise and metabolic energy expenditure. Undergraduate and graduate students can learn endocrine methods and get involved in analysis of exercise-induced endocrine changes in my Exercise Endocrinology Laboratory.”

Current active research topics:

1. Control of blood glucose by timing of meals and exercise and by nutrient energy
2. Hormonal regulation of energy balance at rest and during exercise
3. Hormonal and mechanical stimulation of bone mineral in postmenopausal women.

Educational Background

The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Ph.D., Zoology, 1966

The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
B.A., Biology, 1962

The University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Zoology, 1959-61

Research

• No detection of exercise energy expenditure (Role of exercise in endocrine control of feeding)
• Effects of Exercise Intensity in Appetite and Weight Regulation
• Barriers to physical activity and weight regulation in 10- to 11-year old children: an international perspective. (Co-investigator Robert W. Marans, M.U.P., Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research)
• Osteogenic effectiveness of exercise loads and timing (a pilot study)

• Endocrine effects of training exercise intensity in postmenopausal women
• The effect of training intensity on the heart-rate and blood pressure variability in postmenopausal women
• Effects of timing of exercise and meals on blood glucose regulation and hormonal and metabolic responses

Teaching

MOVESCI 441 / KINESLGY 441.* Exercise and Human Biology

MOVESCI 442 / KINESLGY 442.* Hormones and Exercise

MOVESCI 443 / KINESLGY 443.* Human Movement and Aging: Hormones and Nutrition

MOVESCI 449 / KINESLGY 449.* Lab Rotation in Exercise Physiology

MOVESCI 471 / KINESLGY 471.* Physical Activity, Health, and Disease

KINESLGY 542.* Nutrition and Exercise

* Movement Science courses are for undergraduate credit; Kinesiology courses are for graduate credit.

Honors and Awards

1993-95. Member, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fullbright), Area Committee for Scandinavia

1990-91. Faculty Achievement Award, the University of Michigan

1990-91. Fulbright Hayes Research Scholarship to Sweden

Professional Affiliations and Service

Selected Recent Publications

Borer KT, Wuorinen E, and Burant, C. Ghrelin/leptin ratio tracks energy balance, while ratings of appetite track only meal size while sedentary and give paradoxical values to exercise energy expenditure. Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Paris, France, July 16-19, 2008.

Borer KT, Wuorinen E, and Burant, C. Loss of exercise-associated suppression of hunger and plasma leptin in obese but not lean women. 90th Annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, San Francisco, CA, June 15-18, 2008.

Borer KT, Daoud A, Lash RW, Gross MM, Kernozek T. Parameters of exercise that increase markers of bone formation relative to resorption in postmenopausal women. American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting, Indianapolis, IN, May 28-31, 2008.

K. Borer, K. Fogleman, M. Gross, J. La New, D. Dengel. Walking intensity for postmenopausal bone mineral preservation and accrual. Bone, 2007, Volume 41, Issue 4: 713-721.

Kasa-Vubu, J.Z., Ye, W., Borer, K.T., Rosenthal, A., Meckmongkol, T. Twenty-Four Hour Growth Hormone and Leptin Secretion in Active Post-Pubertal Adolescent Girls. Impact of Fitness, Fatness, and Age at Menarche. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 2006, Jul 25.

Borer, K.T., Wuorinen, E, and Burant, C. Exercise Energy Expenditure Is Not Consciously Detected Due To Oro-Gastric, Not Metabolic, Basis Of Hunger Sensation. Appetite, 2005, 45: 177-181.

Borer, K.T. Physical Activity In Prevention And Amelioration Of Osteoporosis In Women: Interaction Of Mechanical, Hormonal, And Dietary Factors. Sports Medicine, 2005, 35: 779-830.

Borer, K.T., Cornelissen, G., Halberg, F., Hughes, C. Health Implications Of Training Intensity In Older Individuals. Kinesiology, 2003, 35: 210-218.

Borer, K.T. Exercise endocrinology. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Publishers. 2003. >>>

Borer, K.T., Cornelissen, G., Halberg, F., Brook, R., Rajagopalan, S., & Fay, W. Circadian blood pressure overswinging in a physically fit normotensive Afro-American Woman. American Journal of Hypertension, 2002 Sep;15(9):827-30.

Selected Projects/Grants

1978-1981. Acceleration of growth by exercise. $119,200.

1981-1984. Acceleration of growth by exercise and nutrition. $155,000.

1984-1989. Acceleration of growth by exercise: Neuroendocrine mechanisms. $218,000.

1990-1993. Expression of growth by nutrition and exercise. $264,828.

U-M sources of funding:

1989-1990. Neuroimmune effects of endurance exercise. $15,000.

1993-1994. Expression of growth by nutrition and exercise. $5900.

1993-1994. Gamma counter, Spectrophotometer and Deionizer. $15,000. Office of the Vice President for Research.

1999-2000. Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). Faculty Recognition Award, Coca Cola funding $10,000.

1999-2001. Exercise, growth hormone, and leptin. Research partner to a clinical investigator, Dr. Josephine Kasa-Vubu, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics Source: clinical research partnership funded by the U of M Medical School. $98,256.

2002. UROP Faculty Recognition Award (Outstanding Research Mentor), Coca Cola funding $1,500

2003. Using exercise and diet for appetite suppression in postmenopausal women. Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Research Fund, National Science ADVANCE Program. $20,000.

NIH funding:

2005. Role of exercise in the endocrine control of feeding. PAR-03-053 (Academic research enhancement award). 2 year budget $225,125.

Students

Doctoral Students

pre-candidate • Po-Ju Lin

Dissertation proposal: “The role of liver glycogen in the hypoglycemic effect of two bouts of exercise”

Dissertation: “Detection of exercise energy expenditure”
Current position: Assistant professor, Department of Physical Education, Norwich University, Northfield, VT.

Dissertation: “The effects of exercise and food restriction on acute phase response”
Current position: Associate professor, Department of Nutrition, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Dissertation: “Relationship of exercise-induced core temperature elevation to fever: Involvement of tumor necrosis factor, prostaglandin, and corticotrophin releasing factor"
Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Dissertation: “The acute and chronic effects of marathon training on the function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis of male runners."
Current position: health industry.

Dissertation: “The effect of chronic exertcise and retirement from chronic exercise on regulation of body energy balance of the adult female golden hamster”
Current position: Professor and chair, Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Dissertation: “The effects of age and acute submaximal exercise on metabolic and hormonal characteristics of hamsters"
Current position: Professor, Department of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences and Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Press

U-M News Service

Exercise reduces hunger in lean women but not obese women 6/17/08

Exercise can lower blood sugar as well as drugs 11/14/05

New Year's resolution to exercise affects more than your waistline 12/16/02

Post-menopausal walking speeds trigger different health effects 11/17/97