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Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology

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Thomas J. Anastasio, Associate Professor

Sensorimotor transformations in the nervous system

Milan Bagchi, Professor

Molecular pathways of steroid hormone action

Janice M. Bahr, Professor

Regulation of ovarian follicular development and estrogen action in the male reproductive tract

Lloyd Barr, Professor Emeritus
Philip M. Best, Professor

Calcium channels in the heart: structure, function, and regulation

Dennis E. Buetow, Professor Emeritus
Charles L. Cox, Assistant Professor

Functional organization and neuromodulation of thalamocortical circuits, neuronal excitability, synaptic physiology and plasticity, epilepsy

M. Joan Dawson, Associate Professor

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic (NMRS) studies of living systems

Fred Delcomyn, Professor and Director, School of Integrative Biology

Physiology and simulation of insect behavior

Arthur L. DeVries, Professor

Role of glycopeptide and peptide antifreezes in Inhibition of ice crystal growth and recrystallization

Howard S. Ducoff, Professor Emeritus
Floyd Dunn, Professor Emeritus
Callie Els, Lecturer
Albert S. Feng, Professor and Romano Scholar

Sensory processing, neural basis of sound pattern recognition and sound localization, hearing aid technology

Julia M. George, Assistant Professor

Synuclein proteins and neurodegenerative disease

Rhanor Gillette, Professor

Neural network and cellular mechanisms of decision-making in behavior

Martha U. Gillette, Alumni Professor and Head of Cell and Developmental Biology

Cellular and molecular mechanisms in the brain's circadian clock: stimulus-transcription coupling, molecular gating of signal transduction, neurochemical regulators of circadian rhythms and sleep

William T. Greenough, Swanlund Professor and Member, National Academy of Sciences

Brain plasticity in learning and memory; cellular signalling in brain plasticity; mechanisms of brain development; role of experience in brain maturation

Claudio Grosman, Associate Professor

Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels

James Heath, Professor Emeritus
Sandy I. Helman, Professor Emeritus
Matilde A. Holzwarth, Professor Emeritus
Gary A. Iwamoto, Professor

Neural control of the cardiorespiratory and locomotor apparatuses

Eric Jakobsson, Professor and Director, National Center for Biomimetic Nanoconductors

Computational studies of biological membranes: the physical and chemical bases of life at the interface

Benita Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor

Regulation of gene expression, signal transduction, and cell proliferation by hormones and growth factors; mechanisms of hormone and antihormone action in normal and cancer cells; functional analyses of nuclear hormone receptors

Byron Kemper, Professor and Head, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Department of Pharmacology in the College of Medicine

Regulation of P450 gene expression; structural basis for cellular localization, membrane association, assembly, and substrate interaction of P450

Jongsook Kim Kemper, Associate Professor

Molecular basis of the regulation of hepatic cholesterol and glucose metabolism: applications to metabolic disorders including hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, and obesity

Richard Kollmar, Assistant Professor

Molecular basis of hearing and balance in the zebrafish

Kurt E. Kwast, Associate Professor

Molecular mechanisms of oxygen sensing; oxygen-regulated gene expression; genomic remodeling of metabolism; yeast molecular genetics

Paul C. Lauterbur (deceased), Professor
Esmail Meisami, Associate Professor

Brain development; hormones and growth factors in recovery from early neural retardation; neurobiology of the olfactory system

Ann M. Nardulli, Professor

Regulation of estrogen-responsive genes

Mark E. Nelson, Professor

Computational neuroscience, sensory coding, neural control of sensory acquisition, sensorimotor integration

Lori T. Raetzman, Assistant Professor

Notch signaling pathway in pituitary gland development and disease

Victor D. Ramirez, Professor Emeritus
Edward J. Roy, Professor

Immunotherapy

O. David Sherwood, Professor

Hormonal regulation of birth and lactation in mammals: physiological and biochemical effects of relaxin on the cervix and mammary glands

William W. Sleater, Professor Emeritus
Jonathan V. Sweedler, William H. and Janet Lycan Professor and Director, Biotechnology Center

Distribution and dynamic release of neurotransmittors and neuropeptides from individual neurons

Colin A. Wraight, Professor and Head of Biochemistry

Electron and proton transfer in proteins and across membranes; biological energy conversion; control of redox cofactor function; molecular engineering of ligand-protein interactions

Kevin Y. Xiang, Assistant Professor

GPCR signaling transduction, membrane signaling complexes of beta adrenergic receptors and their function in cardiac myocyte