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.
Jorge E. Contreras, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
4144 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-2770
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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
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Next generation data analysis pipelines; Neuronal and vascular function.
Eamonn Dickson, Ph.D.

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

Associate 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
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.
Theanne Griffith, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
4135 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-2780
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Cellular and molecular mechanisms of thermosensation.
Mark Huising, Ph.D.

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

Associate Professor
Sacramento Campus
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Molecular, and cellular physiology of ATP-sensitive potassium channels; Cytoprotection.
Jon Sack, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Vice Chair
4153 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-4131
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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
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Regulation of neuronal excitability; affinity reagent development and validation.
Igor Vorobyov, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
4133 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-3932
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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
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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
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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
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Ion channels in cellular signal transduction, structure-function relationship, and the development of novel technologies for membrane protein studies.
Andrew Hamilton, Ph.D.

Assistant Project Scientist
633 Shriners Hospital,
Sacramento Campus
916‐453‐2294
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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
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Na/H Exchanger, isoform 1 (NHE:1) structure and function
Fitz-Roy Curry, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
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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
Barbara Horwitz, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
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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
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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
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Ion and water homeostasis of neurons and epithelial cells