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• workRoom 4026 School of Medicine
  Royal Derby Hospital
  Uttoxeter Road
  Derby
  DE22 3DT
  UK
• work01332724683
• Daniel.McCormick@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://more.bham.ac.uk/cmar/centre-members/phase-1-research-students-and-fellows/

Biography

An accredited biomedical science graduate with previous research experience in cardiac and skeletal muscle physiology. He is studying skeletal muscle motor unit plasticity as a function of ageing, inactivity, and disease. The research will investigate the electrophysiological and molecular measures of neuromuscular function following various interventions such as muscle training, disuse, and acute damage. The project will utilise state of the art MRI technology available at the SPMIC and develop the latest iEMG techniques. The primary aim of the project is to provide mechanistic insight into the relative contribution of fiber loss and atrophy to total muscle loss, which will inform functional outcomes for patients.

The studentship is funded jointly by the MRC-ARUK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, and the Nottingham NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and is supervised by Dr Mathew Piasecki, Professor Philip Atherton, Professor Paul Greenhaff and Professor John Gladman.

Expertise Summary

Biomedical Science

Clinical, Metabolic, and Molecular Physiology

• Neuromuscular

Selected Publications

• CROSSLAND H, PIASECKI J, MCCORMICK D, PHILLIPS BE, WILKINSON DJ, SMITH K, MCPHEE JS, PIASECKI M and ATHERTON PJ, 2020. Targeted genotype analyses of GWAS-derived lean body mass and handgrip strength-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms in elite masters athletes. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology. (In Press.)
• H. CROSSLAND, D. MCCORMICK, J. PIASECKI, D. WILKINSON, K. SMITH, J. MCPHEE and M. PIASECKI, 2019. Genotyping analyses of lean body mass and hand grip strength-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms in master athletes In: Physiology 2019 (Aberdeen, UK) (2019). Proc Physiol Soc 43, PC101.
• T. INNS, D. MCCORMICK and B. PHILIPS, 2019. Electrical stimulation via the motor nerve may recruit from a more variable motor unit pool than direct muscle stimulation In: Physiology 2019 (Aberdeen, UK) (2019). Proc Physiol Soc 43, PC127.
• D. MCCORMICK, J. GLADMAN, P.L. GREENHAFF, P.J. ATHERTON and M. PIASECKI, 2019. Motor Unit Characteristics of the Human Vastus Lateralis following Eccentric/ Concentric induced Functional Decline In: Physiology 2019 (Aberdeen, UK) (2019). PC130

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• CROSSLAND H, PIASECKI J, MCCORMICK D, PHILLIPS BE, WILKINSON DJ, SMITH K, MCPHEE JS, PIASECKI M and ATHERTON PJ, 2020. Targeted genotype analyses of GWAS-derived lean body mass and handgrip strength-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms in elite masters athletes. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology. (In Press.)
• D. MCCORMICK, J. GLADMAN, P.L. GREENHAFF, P.J. ATHERTON and M. PIASECKI, 2019. Motor Unit Characteristics of the Human Vastus Lateralis following Eccentric/ Concentric induced Functional Decline In: Physiology 2019 (Aberdeen, UK) (2019). PC130
• T. INNS, D. MCCORMICK and B. PHILIPS, 2019. Electrical stimulation via the motor nerve may recruit from a more variable motor unit pool than direct muscle stimulation In: Physiology 2019 (Aberdeen, UK) (2019). Proc Physiol Soc 43, PC127.
• H. CROSSLAND, D. MCCORMICK, J. PIASECKI, D. WILKINSON, K. SMITH, J. MCPHEE and M. PIASECKI, 2019. Genotyping analyses of lean body mass and hand grip strength-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms in master athletes In: Physiology 2019 (Aberdeen, UK) (2019). Proc Physiol Soc 43, PC101.