Research Areas
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Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Faculty
 Dorothy Ainsworth |
Cardiovascular and respiratory physiology |
 Douglas Antczak |
Cellular transport mechanisms and electrolyte regulation; NaCl secretion in renal tubules |
 Klaus Beyenbach |
Cellular transport mechanisms and electrolyte regulation; NaCl secretion in renal tubules |
 Adam Boyko |
Genetics of domestication and rapid adaptation, canine genomics, evolutionary and population genetics, bioinformatics |
 W. Ron Butler |
Reproductive physiology - gonadotropins and ovarian function; reproduction/nutrition interactions |
 Paula Cohen |
Etiology of spontaneous birth defects in mammals; mechanisms of meiotic recombination; DNA repair proteins in meiosis and recombination; germ cell development; ovarian development |
 Scott Coonrod |
Reproductive physiology; molecular and cellular physiology; the role that novel, highly abundant and egg-restricted molecules play in epigenetic reprogramming during the egg-to-embryo transition; mechanisms by which specific histone modifications are dynamically regulated during hormone-dependent gene transcription in breast cancer cells |
 Robin Davisson |
Molecular mechanisms determining normal cardiovascular function and pathogenesis of certain cardiovascular diseases; central neural control of blood pressure and autonomic function; molecular determinants of cardiac disease; molecular pathophysiology of preeclampsia |
 Scott Emr |
Regulation of cell signaling and membrane trafficking pathways by phosphoinositide kinases; protein kinases; ubiquitin modifications; vesicle-mediated transport reactions |
 Clare Fewtrell |
Cell physiology; calcium and cell activation |
 Claudia Fischbach-Teschl |
Tissue-engineered model systems for analysis of microenvironmental conditions fundamental to cancer pathogenesis and therapy |
 Joanne Fortune |
Reproductive physiology; ovarian function |
 Maria Garcia-Garcia |
Developmental biology in mice and flies; genetics of development mechanisms that influence embryonic morphology |
 Robin Gleed |
Respiration, hypoxea, and pulmonary circulation; anesthesiology |
 Patricia Johnson |
Endocrinology; reproductive physiology |
 Michael Kotlikoff |
Cardiovascular and respiratory physiology; molecular and cellular physiology |
 Natasza Kurpios |
Study of signaling pathways that direct organogenesis of vertebrates to determine distinct cellular behaviors and cell shape during development |
 Cynthia Leifer |
Regulation of innate immune receptors such as Toll-like receptors (TLRs); role of TLRs in autoimmunity, initiation of inflammatory responses to microbial infection, development of molecular and cellular, as well as whole animal models to study the biology of TLRs |
 David Lin |
Axon guidance and target formation during the development of the mouse olfactory system, using genetic, in vitro, and genomic approaches |
 Ellis Loew |
Physiology of vision; sensory biophysics; sensory ecology and nutritional ophthalmology |
| Molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics; vertebrate functional genomics | |
 John Ludders |
Cardiovascular and respiratory physiology; environmental and comparative physiology; endocrinology |
 Marla Lujan |
Nutritional regulations of female reproduction |
 Vicki Meyers-Wallen |
Developmental biology; genetics; reproductive biology |
 Alexander Nikitin |
Genetic modeling of human cancer in the mouse; early detection and monitoring of carcinogenesis; neoplasms of reproductive and endocrine systems |
 Linda Nowak |
Membrane biophysics; molecular biology of glutamate receptors; cellular neurophysiology; pharmacology of synaptic transmission |
 Kimberly O'Brien |
Calcium metabolism and bone health; control of maternal/fetal nutrient; partitioning and cellular mineral transport; micronutrient status in international settings; development of mass spectrometric methodology; pediatric bone health; pregnancy and mineral metabolism in adolescents |
 John Parks |
Spermatogenesis in vitro; gamete physiology; cryobiology |
 Ned Place |
Mammalian reproductive biology with a focus on the life history of trade-offs associated with timing of hormone secretion and reproductive effort, sexual differentiation |
 Ling Qi |
Transcriptional control of metabolic syndrome; unfolded protein response; obesity and diabetes |
| Cellular differentiation and growth regulation of intestinal cells | |
 Susan Quirk |
Reproductive physiology; focus on molecular and cellular aspects of ovarian function |
 Mark Roberson |
Reproductive physiology; endocrinology; molecular and cellular physiology |
 Chris Schaffer |
Advanced optical techniques used to observe and manipulate in vivo biological systems with the goal of developing microscopic scale understanding of normal and disease-state physiological processes |
 John Schimenti |
Molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics; reproductive physiology; mouse genetics and functional genomics; genomic instability; genetic recombination; genetics of gometogenesis and development; use of ES cells to mutagenize the mouse genome |
 Geoffrey Sharp |
Signal transduction and second messengers involved in the control of insulin release; intestinal ion and water transport |
 Susan Suarez |
Sperm motility regulation and transport in the female reproductive tract |
 Alexander Travis |
Biology of male germ cells; signaling and metabolism of sperm during capacitation; organization of lipid raft subdomains in sperm; conservation applications of germ cell reproductive technologies |
 Robert Weiss |
Genomic maintenance mechanisms; cell cycle checkpoints; molecular responses to genomic stress; mouse models of genomic instability |
