Dr. Gary Klug 160 Esslinger Hall Phone: 346-4181 Fax: 346-2841 e-mail: gklug@oregon.uoregon.edu

Dr. Klug graduated with a B.S degree in Chemistry and Physical Education from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 1970 where he participated in football and baseball. In 1973, he obtained a M.S. degree in teaching and subsequently taught and coached football in the Appleton Wisconsin Public School District for five years. In 1980, Dr. Klug received his Ph.D. from Washington State University under the direction of Dr.Philip Gollnick. He then trained as a postdoc in the Department of Pharmacology at the Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas,Texas and in the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz in Germany as an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow. In 1983, he became an assistant professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder and in 1985 he joined the University of Oregon as an associate professor.Dr. Klug's research has focused on increasing the understanding of the etiology of muscle fatigue at the cellular level. Specifically, he, with his students and colleagues, have investigated the role that the regulation of intracellular Ca2+ may play in the fatigue process ( See Williams and Klug, Muscle and Nerve 18:421-434, 1995 for a summary of the work.) In support of his research, he has received grants from the American Heart Association, The National Institutes of Health, the Beckman Foundation, and the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon. Since 1985, sixteen Ph.D's have graduated form Dr. Klug's program and most are now in positions in higher education or laboratory science. More recently, he has been active in curriculum and instruction revision in the areas of physiology and exercise physiology particularly in how these disciplines affect students with health-science career goals. He recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation under the title " An Activity-Based Model for Teaching Critical Scientific Concepts"