ProfessorMichelle Keske

Honorary Member

Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania

Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

National Institutes of Health Intramural post-doctoral Research Award (2003).

Heart Foundation Collaboration and Exchange Award (2021), awarded to my post-doctoral fellow Dr Lewan Parker.

Journal of Physiology (UK) Editorial Board Fellowship (2022-2024), awarded to my post-doctoral fellow Dr Lewan Parker.

American College of Sports Medicine Visiting Scholar Award (2014) awarded to my post-doctoral fellow Dr Ryan Russell.

The American Physiological Society, Distinction in Scholarship Award (2018).

Menzies Institute for Medical Research, Top ten publication Award (2014).

University of Tasmania Quantum Leap Fellowship Award (2008-2012).

American Society of Echocardiography Young Investigator Research Award Finalist, Boston, USA (2005).

Select International invited speaker presentations:

Impaired microcirculation and insulin resistance. New Zealand Medical Sciences Congress, Queenstown, NZ, September 2017

Microvascular muscle blood flow and insulin action. Experimental Biology, San Diego, USA, April 2016

Methods for the investigation of flowmotion. World Congress of Microcirculation, Kyoto, Japan, September 2015

Normal function of the skeletal muscle microvasculature and its endothelium. Exchange Symposium: Physiological Society in the UK and the European College of Sport Sciences. London, UK, June 2014

Muscle microvascular blood flow responses in insulin resistance and aging. Exchange Symposium: Physiological Society in the UK and the European College of Sport Sciences. London, UK, June 2014

Imaging skeletal muscle microcirculation with contrast-enhanced ultrasound: diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to insulin resistance. International Conference on Clinical Research. San Francisco, USA. July 2011.

Microcirculation and Glucose Disposal. 9th International Symposium on Sleep and Breathing. Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 2004

Insulin-mediated muscle capillary recruitment measured by 1-MX metabolism and contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Freycinet Conference on Diabetes and Exercise: Impact of muscle blood flow. Tasmania, Australia, August 2004 (note: this was an international conference).

Select national invited speaker presentations:

Skeletal muscle microcirculation: exercise-insulin interactions. Exercise, Muscle and Metabolism Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 2019

Skeletal muscle microvascular blood flow and insulin action. Australian Physiological Society, Sydney, Australia, December 2018

Skeletal muscle microcirculation and insulin action. Gage conference, Canberra, Australia, April 2018

Skeletal muscle microvascular insulin resistance: Role of inflammation and ROS. Society for Free Radical Research Australasia Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, December 2016