Keith Baar, Ph.D.

Professor
195 Briggs Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-3367
e-mail

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
e-mail

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
e-mail

Computational approaches to reveal mechanisms of excitability in the heart and brain.

Jorge E. Contreras, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
4144 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-2770
e-mail

Connexins, pannexins and novel molecules permeable channels in health and disease.

Robert Cudmore, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in Residence
3455B Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
e-mail

Next generation data analysis pipelines; Neuronal and vascular function.

Eamonn Dickson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
4112A Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-6195
e-mail

Molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration.

Rose Ellen Dixon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
4112B Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-0742
e-mail

Regulation and modulation of cardiac L-type Ca2+ channels.

Michael Ferns, Ph.D.

Professor
4218 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-4973
e-mail

Molecular basis of synapse formation in the mammalian nervous system.

Alla Fomina, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
4138 Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-754-4454
e-mail

Aldrin Gomes, Ph.D.

Professor
187 Briggs Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-3207
e-mail

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
e-mail

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of thermosensation.

Mark Huising, Ph.D.

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
e-mail

Molecular, and cellular physiology of ATP-sensitive potassium channels; Cytoprotection.

Edward Pugh, Jr., Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor
3301C Tupper Hall,
Davis Campus
530-752-1468
e-mail

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
e-mail

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.