Day 1 Physiological and Metabolic Responses to Exercise in the Context of Obesity

Speaker

Ana Vazquez, Ph.D.

Ana Vazquez completed her postdoctoral work in the Section on Statistical Genetics and Office of Energetics at UAB after graduating with an M.S. and PhD in Quantitative Genetics and a Certificate in Bioinformatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of interest include the development and use of genomic-based statistical methods for human health, the genetic architecture of complex traits, and the investigation of the effects of obesity on risk of disease. Some of her current projects include the examination of shrinkage methods in models where dense molecular markers are used to predict phenotypic outcomes. One such project focuses on marker selection strategies to improve the predictive ability of genetic predisposition to diabetes. She is also involved in research examining the properties and performance of these models in unrelated human populations and has examined the effects of the number of markers in the predictive ability of dense arrays of variants for both human and animal populations, which has allowed her to evaluate which factors affect genomic predictions. Her most recent project involves the development of new multivariate analysis approaches of correlated phenotypes, including obesity and other body composition characteristics of humans using genomic data to uncover common genetic roots between these traits. In another current project, she is assessing predictive genomic-based models for the prediction of treatment response, cancer recurrence, and metastasis development in cancer patients, with a greater focus on cutting-edge statistical and computational methodologies.

Video Lecture

Lecture Slides

A. Vazquez 2025-Physiological and Metabolic Responses to Exercise in the Context of Obesity.-V3.pdf