Karyn L. Hamilton, RD, PhD is a Professor and the Director of the Translational Research on Aging and Chronic Disease (TRACD) laboratory in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins Colorado. She also has the privilege of serving as an Associate Director of the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging at CSU. Karyn earned her PhD at the University of Florida and completed post-doctoral fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Florida. The overall objective of the TRACD laboratory is to understand the role of adaptation to stresses and maintenance of a functional mitochondrial proteome in the context of extending healthspan and maintaining function with aging. To accomplish this objective, she uses models of long life and increased healthspan including exercise, nutritional, pharmacological, and genetic models. In the TRACD lab, they enjoy using a highly collaborative approach and employ in vitro systems, in vivo animal models, and human participants to help identify mechanisms of healthspan extension and to translate their findings.