Keith Baar, Ph.D.

Professor
195 Briggs Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-3367
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Determining molecular mechanisms underlying the physiological and functional adaptations of muscle to exercise
Laura Borodinsky, Ph.D.

Professor
Shriners Hospital,
Sacramento Campus
916-453-2285
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Electrical activity and nervous system development
Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D.

Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel
4134A Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-0254
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Computational approaches to reveal mechanisms of excitability in the heart and brain
Eamonn Dickson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
4112A Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-6195
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Molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration
Rose Ellen Dixon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
4112B Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-0742
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Regulation and modulation of cardiac L-type Ca2+ channels
Michael Ferns, Ph.D.

Professor
4218 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-4973
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Molecular basis of synapse formation in the mammalian nervous system
Aldrin Gomes, Ph.D.

Professor
187 Briggs Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-3207
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Proteasomes and troponins in muscle physiology and pathophysiology. Proteomics of troponin related cardiomyopathies
Li He, Ph.D.
Associate Researcher
1544 Newton Court,
Davis Campus
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Mark Huising, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
193 Briggs Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-4670
e-mail
Islet Biology and Diabetes, transcriptional control of beta cell differentiation and plasticity of pancreatic islet cell identity
Yu-Fung Lin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
4144 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-4876
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Molecular, and cellular physiology of ATP-sensitive potassium channels; Cytoprotection
John A. Payne, Ph.D.

Professor
4220 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-3336
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Ion and water homeostasis of neurons and epithelial cells
Jon Sack, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Vice Chair
4135 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-4131
e-mail
Voltage-gated ion channels
Luis Fernando Santana, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair
4305 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-8836
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CA2+ signaling in cardiac and vascular smooth muscle
James S. Trimmer, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor
4206 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-6075
e-mail
Regulation of neuronal excitability; affinity reagent development and validation
Igor Vorobyov, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
4133 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-3932
e-mail
Molecular modeling of ion channels and their modulation by drugs and lipids.
Jennifer Whistler, Ph.D.

Professor
Associate Director, Center for Neuroscience
1544 Newton Ct. Room 101C,
Davis Campus
530-752-8153
e-mail
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
4131 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-5298
e-mail
Neuronal and cardiac voltage-gated sodium channels; Computational protein design of novel therapeutics; Pain, epilepsy, and cardiac arrhythmias
Jie Zheng, Ph.D.

Professor
4145 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-1241
e-mail
Ion channels in cellular signal transduction, structure-function relationship, and the development of novel technologies for membrane protein studies
Roger Adamson, Ph.D.
Research Physiologist Emeritus
4147 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-2180
e-mail
Regulation of vascular endothelial permeability, modulation of vascular inflammation, and tissue fluid balance
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
4153 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-1285
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Na/H Exchanger, isoform 1 (NHE:1) structure and function
Carroll Cross, M.D.

Professor Emeritus
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Suite 3400, Professional Services Building,
Sacramento Campus
916-734-3564
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Fitz-Roy Curry, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
4224 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-6716
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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
Jerry F. Green, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
Baltimore, MD
410-989-1970
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Cardiovascular, pulmonary and exercise physiology
Barbara Horwitz, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
280 Briggs Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-0169
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Genetic, neural, and hormonal regulation of energy balance; alterations with obesity and age
Martha E. O'Donnell, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
4155 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-7626
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Brain microvascular endothelial cell and astrocyte Na transporters in cerebral edema formation during ischemic stroke and diabetic ketoacidosis
Jonathan Widdicombe, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
4112B Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-7369
e-mail
Ion and water transport across airway epithelium; cystic fibrosis