Health and Kinesiology

College of Nursing and Health Professions

Integrative Physiology and Biochemistry Research Laboratories

Integrative Physiology encompasses every aspect of life. Our goal is to explore the limits of performance in a wide array of individuals while addressing many important and timely questions. The laboratory is positioning itself to pursue studies and educational offerings using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.

Our present capabilities are focused in the areas of:

  • Llipid & lipoprotein metabolism
  • Assessment of performance (Dr. Chilek)
  • Cardio-pulmonary physiology (Dr. Carter)
  • Work physiology and ergonomics (Dr. Boatwright)
We also focus on the application of cardiovascular physiology to any condition that may have a positive influence on health, well-being, and athletic performance.
Treadmill in classroom

Existing Equipment

Existing equipment includes ergometers (treadmills, cycles and arm ergometers), respiratory gas exchange, a variety of breathing and control circuits and devices, electrocardiography, hydrostatic weighing, spirometry, impulse oscillometry, and many other supporting items. In the area of basic sciences, we support a -80 degree freezer for preserving specimens, plate readers with IR and UV capabilities, centrifuges, and a wide array of other equipment and supplies.

Area of Investigational Focus

Areas of investigational focus are addressing the following questions:

  • How are lipids and lipoproteins altered by exercise and stress?
  • How is obesity and lipid metabolism interrelated and can exercise be used successfully to reestablish normal values?
  • What controls or singles lipid alterations?
  • What obesity biomarkers are influenced by exercise and can these be used to intervene in the obesity epidemic?
  • How do obesity biomarkers impact on airway control and the ability to ventilate?
  • What are the limits for exercise in special populations and what are the best rehabilitative approaches (e.g., dose, method) to use?
  • Which clinical practices are best for the improvement of range-of-motion, strength, stability and balance?

Contact Us

Any undergraduate or graduate students who are interested in research and our exercise science program, please contact one of the following faculty members.

Dr. Douglas Boatwright

Dr. Rick Carter

Dr. Daniel Chilek

Dr. Shannon Jordan

Department Contact

Health and Kinesiology
Lamar University
P.O. Box 10039
Beaumont Texas 77710

(409) 880-8724
Fax: (409) 880-1761

Equipment List

Equipments in the Human Performance and Biochemistry Laboratories (not all listed)