Physiology and Membrane Biology Faculty Members
Keith Baar, Ph.D.
Professor
195 Briggs Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-3367
kbaar@ucdavis.edu
Determining molecular mechanisms underlying the physiological and functional adaptations of muscle to exercise.
Kim E. Barrett, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Vice Dean for Research
Education Building Room 3101E
Sacramento Campus
916-734-2211
kbarrett@health.ucdavis.edu
Melissa Bauman, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean of Research Infrastructure
The MIND Institute
Sacramento Campus
mdbauman@health.ucdavis.edu
Daniah Beleford, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
1136 Oak Park Research Building
2700 Stockton Blvd
Sacramento Campus
916-734-7206
dbeleford@health.ucdavis.edu
Genetic determinants of vascular malformations.
Laura Borodinsky, Ph.D.
Professor
Shriners Hospital
Sacramento Campus
916-453-2285
lnborodinsky@health.ucdavis.edu
Electrical activity and nervous system development.
Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D.
Professor
Airline Miller Rolkin Professorship in Health Innovation
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Director of Precision Medicine and Data Sciences
4134A Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-0254
ceclancy@health.ucdavis.edu
Computational approaches to reveal mechanisms of excitability in the heart and brain.
Jorge E. Contreras, Ph.D.
Professor
4144 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-2770
jecontrer@ucdavis.edu
Connexins, pannexins and novel molecules permeable channels in health and disease.
Robert Cudmore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence
4218 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-6681
rhcudmore@heatlh.ucdavis.edu
Next generation data analysis pipelines; Neuronal and vascular function.
Eamonn Dickson, Ph.D.
Professor
4446 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-6195
ejdickson@health.ucdavis.edu
Molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration.
Rose Ellen Dixon, Ph.D.
Professor
4453A Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-0742
redickson@health.ucdavis.edu
Regulation and modulation of cardiac L-type Ca2+ channels.
Michael Ferns, Ph.D.
Professor
Davis Campus
530-754-4973
mjferns@health.ucdavis.edu
Molecular basis of synapse formation in the mammalian nervous system.
Alla Fomina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
4138 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-4454
affomina@health.ucdavis.edu
Aldrin Gomes, Ph.D.
Professor
187 Briggs Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-3207
avgomes@health.ucdavis.edu
Proteasomes and troponins in muscle physiology and pathophysiology. Proteomics of troponin related cardiomyopathies.
Theanne Griffith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
4135 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-2780
tgriffith@health.ucdavis.edu
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of thermosensation.
Mark Huising, Ph.D.
Professor
193 Briggs Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-4670
mhuising@ucdavis.edu
Islet Biology and Diabetes, transcriptional control of beta cell differentiation and plasticity of pancreatic islet cell identity.
Edward Pugh, Jr., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
3301C Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-1468
enpugh@health.ucdavis.edu
Jon Sack, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
4153 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-4131
jsack@health.ucdavis.edu
Voltage-gated ion channels.
Luis Fernando Santana, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Chair
Vice Dean for Basic Sciences
4305 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-8836
lfsantana@health.ucdavis.edu
CA2+ signaling in cardiac and vascular smooth muscle.
Igor Vorobyov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
4133 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-3932
ivorobyov@health.ucdavis.edu
Molecular modeling of ion channels and their modulation by drugs and lipids.
Jennifer Whistler, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Director, Center for Neuroscience
1544 Newton Court (CNS) 101A
Davis Campus
530-752-8153
jlwhistler@health.ucdavis.edu
Understanding how drugs of abuse change the brain and to use this information to inform the development of therapeutic interventions to treat and/or prevent drug abuse and its comorbidities of anxiety, and depression.
Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair
4131 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-5298
yarovoy@health.ucdavis.edu
Neuronal and cardiac voltage-gated sodium channels; Computational protein design of novel therapeutics; Pain, epilepsy, and cardiac arrhythmias.
Gerald S. Zavorsky, Ph.D., RRT, RPFT, FACSM
Adjunct Professor
Fellow, American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM)
Davis Campus
gszavorsky@health.ucdavis.edu
Elisa T. Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
4125 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
elszhang@health.ucdavis.edu
Uterine and placental biology; pregnancy; endometrial disorders; regeneration, wound healing, and stem cells; embryonic development
Jie Zheng, Ph.D.
Professor
4145 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-1241
jzheng@health.ucdavis.edu
Ion channels in cellular signal transduction, structure-function relationship, and the development of novel technologies for membrane protein studies.
Steve Anderson, Ph.D.
Research Physiologist Emeritus
Fluid and electrolyte transport in heart and brain with special emphasis on Na+K+2Cl cotransport and Na/H and Na/Ca exchange
Fitz-Roy Curry, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
fecurry@ucdavis.edu
Microvascular permeability; acute and chronic inflammatory mechanisms in endothelium , genetic mouse models of microvascular permeability regulation, theory and measurement of microvascular permeability and blood to tissue exchange
Barbara Horwitz, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
bahorwitz@ucdavis.edu
Genetic, neural, and hormonal regulation of energy balance; alterations with obesity and age
Martha E. O'Donnell, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
meodonnell@ucdavis.edu
Brain microvascular endothelial cell and astrocyte Na transporters in cerebral edema formation during ischemic stroke and diabetic ketoacidosis
John A. Payne, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
japayne@ucdavis.edu
Ion and water homeostasis of neurons and epithelial cells
James S. Trimmer, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
4206 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-6075
jtrimmer@health.ucdavis.edu
Regulation of neuronal excitability; affinity reagent development and validation.
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