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Faculty in Neuroscience & Molecular Physiology

 

Amberg1Gregory Amberg

Assistant Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D., University of Nevada School of Medicine.  The study of ion channels in arterial smooth muscle and their impact on arterial function. Changes in ion channel behavior during pathophysiological conditions such as hypertension

 

 

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAJames R. Bamburg
Professor (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology); Ph.D. Wisconsin 1969. Regulation of the cytoskeleton in neuronal growth and pathfinding; signal transduction pathways regulating actin dynamics; abnormalities in actin behavior in neurodegenative diseases.

 

 

Barisas1George Barisas
Professor (Chemistry and Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology); Ph.D. Yale 1971. Biomedical instrumentation; cellular immunology; molecular endocrinology.

 

 

 

Cohen1Robert Cohen
Professor (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology); Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1980. Regulation of ubiquitin-dependent signaling, protein degradation by the 26S proteasome, and deubiquitination.

 

 

chicco1Adam Chicco
Assistant Professor (Health & Exercise Science); Ph.D. University of Northern Colorado 2004. How changes in cardiac fatty acid metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction contribute to the development and/or progression of heart disease, and how dietary and pharmaceutical interventions may modulate these processes.

 

 

Di Pietro1Santiago Di Pietro

Assistant Professor (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology); Ph.D. University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 2001. Fundamental aspects of membrane protein transport.

 

 

 

Earley1Scott Earley
Associate Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D. University of New Mexico School of Medicine 2002; Cardiovascular Physiology

 

 

 

Florant1Gregory L. Florant
Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Stanford 1978. Mammalian physiology; lipid metabolism and energetics.

 

 

 

Hanneman1William H. Hanneman
Associate Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1995. Developmental neurotoxicology,identification and characterization of developmental genes involved in response to hazardous environmental chemicals.

 

 

Ishii1Douglas N. Ishii
Professor (Biomedical Sciences and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology); Ph.D. Stanford 1974. Neurobiology of insulin-like growth factors; diabetic neuropathy; blood-brain barrier and brain disorders.

 

 

 

Kanatous1Shane Kanatous
Associate Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Texas A & M University, 1997.  Enhance our understanding of molecular changes associated with hypoxia and translate these results for therapeutic applications in the treatment of myopathies.

 

 

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAKim L. Hoke

Assistant Professor (Biology).  Neural, developmental, and genetic mechanisms of behavior.

 

 

Miller1Ben Miller
Associate Professor (Health & Exercise Science); PhD., University of California-Berkeley, 2002.  Aging skeletal muscle and the regulation of mitochondrial and protein turnover.

 

 

 

Mykles1Donald L. Mykles
Professor (Biology); Ph.D. California (Berkeley) 1979. Regulation of protein turnover; calcium-dependent and ATP/ubiquitin-dependent proteinases; myofibrillar proteins.

 

 

 

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Kenneth F. Reardon

Professor & Associate Department Head (Chemical Engineering); Ph.D. California Institute of Technology 1988. Proteomics, systems biology, metabolic engineering, and enzyme-based biosensors.

 

 

Reist1Noreen E. Reist
Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D. Stanford University 1990; Molecular dissection of neurotransmitter release.

 

 

 

Michael Tamkun, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State UniversityMichael M. Tamkun
Professor (Biomedical Sciences & Biochemistry  Molecular Biology); Ph.D. Washington 1983. Ion channel molecular biology.

 

 

 

Tjalkens1Ronald B. Tjalkens
Associate Professor (Environmental  Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D. University of Colorado  Health Sciences Center 1998.  Molecular neurotoxicology, regulation of nitric oxide synthase in mammalian astroglia, role of astroglial cells in parkinsonian syndromes.

 

 

 

Tsunoda1Susan Tsunoda
Associate Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine. 1995. Cellular strategies involved in the organization of signaling proteins and ion channels in neurons.

 

 

 

Tobet1Stuart A. Tobet
Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D. M.I.T. 1985.  Development and differentiation of the neuroendocrine brain.

 

 

 

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Jozsef Vigh
Assistant Professor (Biomedical Sciences); PhD. Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary. Visual signal processing in the retina.

 

 

 

Zabel1Mark Zabel
Associate Professor (Microbiology, Immunoloby & Pathology); Ph.D. University of Utah 2001. Prion immunology.