Research Interests

• The effects of aging, cardiometabolic risk factors, and regular physical activity on vascular endothelial function.

• 2001-2005, B.S., Clinical Exercise Science, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
• 2005-2007, M.S., Exercise Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• 2011 (expected), Ph.D., Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

• BR Weil, SA Byrne, T Baynard, JA Kanaley. Vascular function is impaired early after the initiation of chronic cigarette smoking. Artery Research Sept; 3(3): 111-114, 2009.


• ML Mestek, BR Weil, JJ Greiner, CM Westby, CA DeSouza, BL Stauffer. Osteopenia and endothelin-1-mediated vasoconstrictor tone in postmenopausal women. Bone 47: 542-545, 2010.


• BR Weil, ML Mestek, CM Westby, GP Van Guilder, JJ Greiner, BL Stauffer, CA DeSouza. Short sleep duration is associated with enhanced endothelin-1 vasoconstrictor tone. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology 88: 777-781, 2010.


• EJ Kushner, BR Weil, OJ MacEneaney, RG Morgan, ML Mestek, GP Van Guilder, KJ Diehl, BL Stauffer, CA DeSouza. Human aging and CD31⁺ T-cell number, migration, apoptotic susceptibility, and telomere length. Journal of Applied Physiology 109: 1756-1761, 2010.


• OJ MacEneaney, CA DeSouza, BR Weil, GP Van Guilder, EJ Kushner, ML Mestek, JJ Greiner, BL Stauffer. Prehypertension and endothelial progenitor cell function. Journal of Human Hypertension 25: 57-62, 2011.

• BR Weil, KJ Diehl, JJ Greiner, BL Stauffer, CA DeSouza. C-Reactive Protein and Endothelial Fibrinolytic Dysfunction. American Physiological Society meeting: Inflammation, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, Westminster, CO, 2010.
  


• BR Weil, BL Stauffer, ML Mestek, JJ Greiner, E Connick, CA DeSouza. Impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation with HIV-1 infection is due to oxidative stress. American Physiological Society meeting: Inflammation, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, Westminster, CO, 2010.
  


• BR Weil, ML Mestek CM Westby, GP Van Guilder, JJ Greiner, BL Stauffer, and CA DeSouza. Short sleep duration is associated with greater endothelin-1 vasoconstrictor tone. Presented at ET-11: APS International Conference on Endothelin, Montreal, Canada, 2009.


• ML Mestek, BR Weil, CM westby, GP Van Guilder, JJ Greiner, BL Stauffer, and CA DeSouza. Osteopenia is associated with increased endothelin-1 mediated tone in postmenopausal women. Presented at the American Physiological Society Conference: Sex Steroids and Gender in Cardiovascular-Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology, Broomfield, CO, 2009.


• KJ Diehl-Sutton, CM Westby, BR Weil, OJ MacEneaney, RG Morgan, ML Mestek, EJ Kushner, JJ Greiner, CA DeSouza. Effects of endothelin-1 on endothelial progenitor cell function. The FASEB Journal. 2009; 23:965.14. [Poster]. Presented at the Experimental Biology meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2009. Recipient of the 2009 Caroline tum Suden/Francis Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award.


• ML Mestek, BL Stauffer, CM Westby, BR Weil, GP Van Guilder, E Connick, CA DeSouza. Endothelial fibrinolytic capacity is impaired in HIV-1 infected men and is associated with oxidative stress. Presented at the 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2009.


• BR Weil, SA Byrne, T Baynard, JA Kanaley. Acute exercise and the vasodilatory capacity of young cigarette smokers. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 40(5) Supplement 1: S308, May 2008. Presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 2008.