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Timothy P. Gavin

  • Professor of Health and Kinesiology

Office and Contact

Room: LAMB 117

Email: gavin1@purdue.edu

Phone: (765) 494-3179

Fax: (765) 469-1239


Education
PhD Indiana University Bloomington Human Performance-Exercise Physiology 1996
 
Research Interests
Skeletal Muscle in Health and with Diabetes and Aging
 
Teaching Interests
Physiology, Skeletal Muscle, Exercise
 
Selected Grants
2024 - Indiana Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases - (co-I)
2024 - Purdue University JMHC Breakthrough Award - (co-I)
2024 - American Heart Association - (co-I)
2023 - American Health Association (2) - (co-I)
2023 - National Institutes of Health - (co-I)
2022 - Showalter Trust - (co-I)
2021 - National Institutes of Health - (co-Mentor)
2021 - Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute - (PI)
2021 - American Heart Association - (PI)
 
Selected Publications
Monroe JC, BJ Pae, C Kargl, TP Gavin, J Parker, SM Perkins, Y Han, J Klein, RL Motaganahalli, BT Roseguini. Effects of home-based leg heat therapy on walking performance in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease: a pilot randomized trial. J Appl Physiol. 133: 546-560, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00143.2022.
 
Kargl CK, BP Sullivan, D Middleton, A York, L Burton, JJ Brault, S Kuang, TP Gavin. PGC-1α Overexpression Improves Angiogenic Signaling Potential of Skeletal Muscle-derived Extracellular Vesicles. Exp Physiol. 108: 240-252, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/EP090874
 
Ross M, CK Kargl, R Ferguson, TP Gavin, Y Hellsten. Exercise-Induced Skeletal Muscle Angiogenesis - Impact of Age, Sex, Angiocrines and Cellular Mediators. Eur J Appl Physiol. 123: 1415-1432, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-022-05128-6
 
Kargl CK, J Zhihao, DA Shera, BP Sullivan, LC Burton, KH Kim, MJ Hubal, JH Shannahan, S Kuang, TP Gavin. Angiogenic potential of skeletal muscle derived extracellular vesicles differs between oxidative and glycolytic muscle tissue in mice. Sci Rep. 13: 18943, 2023. https://10.1038/s41598-023-45787-9
 
Baumgartner NW, MD Belbis, C Kargl, MJ Holmes, TP Gavin, DM Hirai, SC Kao. Acute effects of high-intensity resistance exercise on recognition of relational memory, lactate, and serum and plasma BDNF. J Strength Cond Res. 38: 1867-1878, 2024. doi: 1519/JSC.0000000000004851
 
Belbis MD, MJ Holmes, J Yao, CW Kinnick, CK Kargl, C Day, NL Noel, TP Gavin, B Roseguini, DM Hirai. Effects of acute selective COX-2 inhibition on skeletal muscle microvascular oxygenation and exercise tolerance. Exp Physiol. 110: 1904-1916, 2025. doi: 10.1113/EP092518
 
Belbis MD, B Ro, LE Schepers, KH Kim, Z Yap, TA Schultz, MD. Tallman, MF Killam, SE Hobart, OJ Fafowora, JN Bray, ME Fister, VCC da Silva, H Rehman, B Sharma, X Lu, JF Markworth, K Kim, TE Ryan, S Kuang, CJ Goergen, TP Gavin, BT Roseguini, DM Hirai. Effects of Heat Therapy on Exercise Tolerance in a Rat Model of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. J Appl Physiol. 139: 185-205, 2025. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00247.2025
 
Calvo ETN, JM Pontorno, B Zeidler, TMM Pejon, MD Belbis, SK Ferguson, CJ Goergen, TP Gavin, BT Roseguini, IA Fernandes, DM Hirai. Noradrenergic Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Oxygen Pressures: Impact of HFpEF and Heat Therapy. Exp Physiol. 110: 1904-1916, 2025. doi: 10.1113/EP092867
 
Gavin TP, HI Van Mullem. Introduction to Leadership Opportunities and Challenges in Kinesiology: Reports From the AKA Leadership Institute Cohort 6 Presented at the 2025 AKA Annual Workshop. Kinesiology Review. 14: 445, 2025.
 
Sullivan BP, LC Burton, AL Ellis, CK Kargl, D Shera, S Kuang, JF Markworth, TP Gavin. Impact of obesity and an obesogenic environment on cardiotoxin-induced damage and recovery of human myotubes. Exp Physiol. In Press. doi: 10.1113/EP092268