Martino Franchi

MPhil/PhD Student

Academic Interests

• Project title: MECHANISMS OF HUMAN SKELETAL MUSCLE REMODELING IN RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT LOADING PARADIGMS.
• Supervisory Team: Prof. Marco Narici (Director of Studies), Prof. Martin Fluck, Dr Neil Reeves, Dr Philip Atherton (External Adviser - University of Nottingham)
• Martino joined the Institute for Biomedical Research into Human Movement and Health in September 2008 and in July 2010 he successfully completed a MSc by research in Muscle Physiology under the supervision of Professor Marco Narici. Martino is currently an MPhil/PhD student in Muscle Physiology from September 2010. In May 2012 Martino started a collaboration with University of Nottingham at the Derby Royal Hospital, School of Graduate Entry Medicine and Health, department of Clinical Physiology, under the supervision of Professor Marco Narici, Dr Philip Atherton, and Dr Kenneth Smith

Recent External Roles

• MMU Men's Basketball first team Captain (Best MMU Sport Team of the year 2010 -2011)
• ENGLAND BASKETBALL Annual Volunteer Award finalist (September 2011)

Research Interests

• Integrative Skeletal Muscle Physiology: morphological, architectural, functional and molecular features of skeletal muscle in response to exercise.
• Exercise Physiology: investigation of different training protocols and their influence on muscle structure, mechanisms of muscle hypertrophy and neural adaptations to resistive exercise.
• Skeletal Muscle Molecular Physiology: cellular signalling pathways involved in muscular adaptations to training, mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle protein turnover and control of muscle remodeling processes in response to resistance exercise.
• Exercise and Sports Science

Recent Publications

Franchi MV, Reeves ND, Fluck M and Narici MV, Different human skeletal muscle architectural adaptations to eccentric and concentric training matched for neural activation, EMC - European Muscle Conference XXXIX, (2010), Poster Presentation.

Franchi MV, Reeves ND, Fluck M and Narici MV,HUMAN
 SKELETAL
MUSCLE
 REMODELING
 WITH
 ECCENTRIC AND
 CONCENTRIC
 TRAINING, ECSS (2011), Poster presentation.

Narici MV, Franchi MV, Reeves ND, BLUNTED ANABOLIC RESPONSE TO STRENGTH TRAINING IN OLDER INDIVIDUALS, VII EUROPEAN CONGRESS Healthy And Active Ageing For All Europeans ''II'' (2011)