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
Caroline Alexander
Credentials: Oncology Department
Position title: Mammary tumor cell biology
Email: alexander@oncology.wisc.edu
Rozalyn Anderson
Credentials: Medicine Department
Position title: Metabolism of aging and age-related disease
Email: rozalyn.anderson@wisc.edu
Arash Bashirullah
Credentials: Pharmacy Department
Position title: Developmental regulation of endocrine and exocrine biology
Email: bashirullah@wisc.edu
Grace Boekhoff-Falk
Credentials: Cell & Regenerative Biology Department
Position title: Limb and neural development
Email: boekhofffalk@wisc.edu
Edwin Chapman
Credentials: Neuroscience Department
Position title: Exocytosis, synaptic transmission, neuronal cell biology
Email: chapman@wisc.edu
Cynthia Czajkowski
Credentials: Neuroscience Department
Position title: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of pentameric ligand gated ion channel signaling
Email: cmczajko@wisc.edu
Loren Denlinger
Credentials: Medicine Department
Position title: Pathogen-host interactions important to airway inflammation
Email: ldenling@wisc.edu
Amy Fowler
Credentials: Radiology Department
Position title: Molecular imaging of steroid receptors in breast cancer
Email: afowler@wisc.edu
Ying Ge
Credentials: Cell & Regenerative Biology Department
Position title: Systems biology, cardiac disease and regeneration
Email: ge2@wisc.edu
Alexey Glukhov
Credentials: Medicine Department
Position title: Cardiac electrophysiology, biophysics, cellular and molecular biology of cardiomyocytes, cardiac arrhythmias and pathophysiology
Email: aglukhov@medicine.wisc.edu
Timothy Gomez
Credentials: Neuroscience Department
Position title: Regulation of axon guidance
Email: tmgomez@facstaff.wisc.edu
Guy Groblewski
Credentials: Nutritional Sciences Department
Position title: Membrane trafficking in digestive epithelia
Email: groby@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Mrinalini Hoon
Credentials: Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Department
Position title: Mechanisms regulating retinal circuit organization
Email: mhoon@wisc.edu
Tu-Anh Huynh
Credentials: Food Science Department
Position title: C-di-AMP signaling in bacterial physiology and pathogenesis
Email: thuynh6@wisc.edu
Meyer Jackson
Credentials: Neuroscience Department
Position title: Electrophysiology and imaging techniques are used to explore the basic mechanisms of neuronal signaling
Email: mbjackso@wisc.edu
Joan Jorgensen
Credentials: Comparative Biosciences Department
Position title: Transcriptional control of gonad development
Email: joan.jorgensen@wisc.edu
Timothy Kamp
Credentials: Medicine Department
Position title: Cardiac ion channels function and regulation; basic mechanisms of heart failure and arrhythmias; stem cells and cardiac regeneration
Email: tjk@medicine.wisc.edu
Michelle Kimple
Credentials: Medicine Department
Position title: Regulation of pancreatic beta-cell biology
Email: mkimple@medicine.wisc.edu
Dudley Lamming
Credentials: Medicine Department
Position title: Regulation of metabolism by nutrient signaling pathways
Email: lamming@wisc.edu
Youngsook Lee
Credentials: Cell & Regenerative Biology Department
Position title: Molecular regulation of cardiovascular development, disease, function and cardiomyogenesis
Email: youngsooklee@wisc.edu
Bo Liu
Credentials: Surgery Department
Position title: Cell death, signal transduction, extracellular matrix, inflammation, vascular disease
Email: liub@surgery.wisc.edu
Hiroshi Maeda
Credentials: Botany Department
Position title: Amino acid homeostasis in plants
Email: maeda2@wisc.edu
Colleen McDowell
Credentials: Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Department
Position title: Molecular pathways of glaucoma pathogenesis
Email: cmmcdowell@wisc.edu
Matthew Merrins
Credentials: Medicine Department
Position title: Beta cell biology and diabetes
Email: merrins@wisc.edu
Darcie Moore
Credentials: Neuroscience Department
Position title: Neural stem cells and aging
Email: darcie.moore@wisc.edu
Federico Rey
Credentials: Bacteriology Department
Position title: Gut microbiome, diet and cardiometabolic health
Email: ferey@wisc.edu
Gail Robertson
Credentials: Neuroscience Department
Position title: Molecular mechanisms of ion channel disease
Email: garobert@wisc.edu
Judith Simcox
Credentials: Biochemistry Department
Position title: Lipid metabolism in cold exposure
Email: jsimcox@wisc.edu
Chad Vezina
Credentials: Comparative Biosciences Department
Position title: Urinary dysfunction in aging men
Email: cmvezina@wisc.edu
Han Wang
Credentials: Integrative Biology Department
Position title: Genetic and circuit dissection of sleep
Email: han.wang@wisc.edu
Jyoti Watters
Credentials: Comparative Biosciences Department
Position title: Signal transduction and epigenetic regulation of microglial gene transcription and immune function
Email: jjwatters@wisc.edu
Eric Yen
Credentials: Nutritional Sciences Department
Position title: Intestine, assimilation of dietary fat, and energy balance
Email: eric.yen@wisc.edu
Fei Zhao
Credentials: Comparative Biosciences Department
Position title: Sexual differentiation of reproductive tracts
Email: fei.zhao@wisc.edu
Xuehua Zhong
Credentials: Genetics Department
Position title: Epigenetic regulation in plants
Email: xzhong28@wisc.edu