Focus: Identifying the signaling pathways that lead to the development and progression of breast cancer as well as mechanisms promoting liver cancer and cancer immunology. Faculty in this research group are also part of a broader university-wide group "Breast Cancer Signaling Network".
Focus: Cardiac energetics, mitochondrial physiology, non-linear dynamical systems modeling, ischemia/reperfusion injury and ischemic heart disease, autonomic and cardiovascular dysfunction under different conditions including spinal cord injury.
Focus: Identifying how diet (high fat), diabetes, leptin, and inflammation impacts organ function directly and systemically.
Focus: Research in teaching and learning, including studies of pedagogy and educational interventions associated with conceptual learning, affect, metacognition, equity, inclusion, and the use of technology, with a special emphasis on the learning of physiology and the physiology of learning.
Focus: Gastrointestinal function and disease, including inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, cancer, cystic fibrosis, and bile atresia; Effect of gut microbiota in the pathophysiology of disease processes.
Focus: Role of innate and adaptive immune cells in disease processes; inflammatory cell signaling pathways in various tissues; role of non-immune cells in tissue inflammation and disease.
Focus: Understanding mechanisms accounting for disease development, progression and complications (retinopathy, osteoporosis, bone marrow pathology, artherosclerosis and neuroendocrine changes). Diabetes and Inflammatory bowel disease are focus areas.
Focus: Neural regulation of organ system function, including metabolism, intestinal motility, cardiovascular system, spinal cord regeneration, glaucoma, and Parkinson’s disease.
Focus: Mechanisms of muscle and bone adaptation to disease and aging.
Focus: Mechanisms of acute lung injury and fibrogenesis, Asthma and corticosteroid resistance, T-cell mediated immune responses in allergic diseases.
Focus: Retinopathy, glaucoma, visual information processing.