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Contact Details

Telephone: +44 (0) 1243 816282

Fax: +44 (0) 1243 816080

Office: N219

Email: r.harris@chi.ac.uk

Education

BSc (Wales), MSc (Wales), PhD (Wales)

Personal Introduction

Sport and Exercise science can tell us a great deal about ourselves, our potential, our limitations, our evolution as animals, as well as the changes with time that all of us as humans must pass through. It is a discipline that can bring personal insight, and one which for me has added greatly to my own experience of life. I hope that it will do the same for you. My greatest enjoyment has been in viewing the long physiological and biochemical path that we have travelled in evolution, and which we now exploit in competition and leisure. My hope is that Sports Science could remain a subject of discovery forever. But I suspect that genetic screening of athletes is not more than a decade away, and embryo selection less than two decades, and inevitably this will change the character of the discipline.

Research Interests

• Exercise biochemistry and in particular nucleotide homeostasis and intracellular acid-base regulation
• Muscle contraction
• Exercise performance and biochemical limitations
• The influence of diet and training on muscle biochemistry and exercise performance
• Large mammal exercise physiology

Membership

• British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
• International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN)

Journal

• Member of the editorial board of the journal of ISSN
• Editor of the Sports and Exercise section of Amino Acids

Publications (2001-present)

Harris R C, Nevill M, Harris D B, Fallowfield J L and Wise J A (2001) Absorption of creatine supplied as a drink, in meat or in solid form. J Sports Science 20: 147-151

Harris, R C (2001) Effects and safety of dietary and supplementary creatine. In: Creatine. From basic science to clinical application. Paoletti R, Poli A and Jackson A S (eds) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands. pp 33-39.

Hultman E, Harris, R C and Spriet, L L (2001) Diet in Work and Exercise Performance. In: Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease. Nineth Edition. Shils, M E, Olson, J A and Shike, M (eds). Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, USA.

Dunnett M, Harris R C, Dunnett C E and Harris P A (2002). Plasma carnosine concentration: diurnal variation and effects of age, exercise and muscle damage. Equine vet J Suppl, 34, 283-287.

Dunnett C E, Marlin D J and Harris R C (2002) Effect of dietary lipid on response to exercise: relationship to metabolic adaptation. Equine vet J Suppl 34, 75-80.

Williams R J, Marlin D J, Smith N, Harris R C, Haresign W and Davies Morel M C (2002) Effects of cool and hot humid environmental conditions on neuroendocrine responses of horses to treadmill exercise. Veterinary J . 2002; 164: 54-63.

Greenhaff, P L, Hultman, E and Harris R C (2003) Carbohydrate Metabolism In: Principles of Exercise Biochemistry. 3rd revised. edition. Med Sport Sci. Poortmans, J R (ed). Karger, Basel

Harris R C, Almada A L, Harris D B, Dunnett M and Hespel P.(2004) The creatine content of Creatine Serum™ and the change in the plasma concentration with ingestion of a single dose. J Sports Science 22, 851-857.

Harris P A and Harris R C (2005) Ergogenic potential of nutritional strategies and substances in the horse. Livestock Production Science 92, 147-165.

Tallon M J, Harris R C, Boobis L, Fallowfield J L and Wise J (2005) The carnosine content of vastus lateralis is elevated in resistance trained bodybuilders. J. Strength & Conditioning Research (accepted)

Harris R C, Tallon M J, Dunnett M, Boobis L , Coakley J , Kim H J, Fallowfield J L , Hill C A, Sale C and Wise J A. The absorption of orally supplied ß-alanine and its effect on muscle carnosine synthesis in human vastus lateralis. Amino Acids (accepted)

12 Tallon M J, Harris R C, Maffulli N and Tarnopolsky M In Vivo sarcopenic related changes of Carnosine in human skeletal muscle fibres.

Kim H J, R C, Harris, Cho J, Kim C K, Harris D B and Wise J A Effect of 12 Days Training of Korean Speed Skaters on Muscle Fibre Morphology and Carnosine Content.

Kim H J, Harris R C, Kim C K C arnosine in different muscle fibre types of strength and endurance trained and untrained subjects.

C. Sale, R.C. Harris, S. Delves, and J. Corbett. Metabolic and physiological effects of ingesting extracts of bitter orange, green tea and guarana at rest and during treadmill walking in overweight males.