Faculty Mentor: Christopher Depner
Title: Assistant Professor
College: Health
School / Department: Health, Kinesiology, & Recreation
Email: christopher.depner@utah.edu
Project description
This is a 5 year study investigating how insufficient sleep interacts with nutrition, timing of food intake, and physical activity to increase risk of metabolic disorders including obesity and diabetes. Furthermore, we will use a "real-world" intervention to improve sleep health with the goal of improving overall metabolic health status.
Student Role: Subject recruitment, analyze polysomnography, diet, sleep, circadian, physical activity, energy expenditure, and oral glucose tolerance data. Run in -lab sleep studies.
Student Benefits: Work with research with nurses , analyze sleep data, conduct real-world sleep intervention, learn statistical methods, gain clinical research experience, apply for UROP.
Project Duration: Students are expected to commit 6 months of work or more, with 5-10 hours per week of work. Flexible and remote working schedules provided.
Opportunity Type: Volunteer; This is a paid research position; Prepare a UROP proposal; Write an Honors Thesis or Senior Thesis; Earn independent study credit
Is this a paid opportunity: Yes
Minimum Requirements: Interest in learning how to conduct human sleep and circadian research and understand sleep and circadian physiology.