Dr. Jeffrey J Brault is an Associate Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiology at the Indiana University Indianapolis. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Missouri in the lab of Ronald Terjung where he studied skeletal muscle physiology and the principles of the control of high-energy phosphates (ATP and phosphocreatine). He then studied as a post-doctoral fellow in the labs of Ronald Meyer and Robert Wiseman at Michigan State University for 2 years using in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure energetics in human and mouse muscles. Dr Brault completed a second post-doc fellowship in the lab of Alfred Goldberg at the Harvard Medical School to study molecular mechanisms of protein degradation and muscle atrophy. This led in 2010 to a faculty position at East Carolina University in the Department of Kinesiology. In 2019, Dr. Brault joined the IU School of Medicine, and he is a member of the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health. Dr. Brault conducts research on how cellular energetics regulates the loss of muscle protein and mitochondrial content typical of skeletal muscle atrophy.