Bradley Launikonis

Bradley Launikonis is a physiologist and heads the muscle research lab at The University of Queensland. He investigates the control of calcium release during activity in muscle, and how calcium homeostasis is maintained in skeletal muscle fibres. He has a broad interest in ion channels, pumps and membrane lipid composition in muscle physiology. In the laboratory he uses imaging of muscle cell structures and calcium movements. Recently he started working on human muscle fibres obtained from needle biopsies to gain a greater understanding of ionic regulation in human muscle health, exercise and disease states.