Faculty Members | Physiology and Membrane Biology | UC Davis School of Medicine

Keith Baar, Ph.D.

Professor/Professor in Residence
195 Briggs Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-3367
kbaar@health.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
Arline 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@health.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.

Associate Professor
4155 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@health.ucdavis.edu

Islet Biology and Diabetes, transcriptional control of beta cell differentiation and plasticity of pancreatic islet cell identity.

Karl Murray, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor
NeuroMab Lab
4103 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-5231
kdmurray@health.ucdavis.edu

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, Arline Miller Rolkin Chair in Physiology and Membrane Biology, and 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, Vice Chair of Administration, and Associate Director of the Center for Precision Medicine and Data Science
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

Peter M. Cala, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Na/H Exchanger, isoform 1 (NHE:1) structure and function

Carroll Cross, M.D.

Professor Emeritus
cecross@health.ucdavis.edu

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
jtrimmer@health.ucdavis.edu

Regulation of neuronal excitability; affinity reagent development and validation.