Physiology is the study of any biological process that is associated with the functioning of an organism. It can span many levels of complexity ranging from (but not limited to) processes shaping neurotransmission in the nervous system, to mechanisms regulating the blood supply of an organism, to endocrine regulation, to pathophysiology in disease conditions, and to studies of drug clearance from tissues. In being fundamental to understanding the function of the human body, physiology forms the basis for medicine. Modern molecular biological tools have opened up the study of cellular and organ level function with extraordinary precision as well as with extraordinary breadth. Research of faculty in the physiology focus group spans multiple areas ranging from molecular and cellular physiology to systems level thereby linking molecular and cellular mechanisms to the function and dysfunction of organs and ultimately the whole organism.
Focus Group Chair Raunak Sinha
Neuroscience Department
Neural signaling in the retina
raunak.sinha@wisc.edu
Focus Group Members
Cynthia Czajkowski
Neuroscience Department
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of pentameric ligand gated ion channel signaling
Mrinalini Hoon
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Department
Mechanisms regulating retinal circuit organization
Meyer Jackson
Neuroscience Department
Electrophysiology and imaging techniques are used to explore the basic mechanisms of neuronal signaling
Timothy Kamp
Medicine Department
Cardiac ion channels function and regulation; basic mechanisms of heart failure and arrhythmias; stem cells and cardiac regeneration
Youngsook Lee
Cell & Regenerative Biology Department
Molecular regulation of cardiovascular development, disease, function and cardiomyogenesis
Bo Liu
Surgery Department
Cell death, signal transduction, extracellular matrix, inflammation, vascular disease
Colleen McDowell
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Department
Molecular pathways of glaucoma pathogenesis
Jyoti Watters
Comparative Biosciences Department
Signal transduction and epigenetic regulation of microglial gene transcription and immune function
