Cardiovascular and Respiratory Physiology

Faculty Member	Summary of research interests
Ann Baldwin	Effects of environmental stress on animal physiology and behavior; Efficacy of energy healing in changing physiological measures; Use of Biofeedback with Parkinsons' patients, athletes and children
Scott Boitano	Cell-Cell communication in airway epithelium; Pathogen-Host interaction in the airway; Arsenic effects on the airway epithelium; Wound repair of the airway epithelium. Bio 5 page
Janis Burt	Gap-junction channel function and regulation; mechanistic basis for contribution of gap junctions to 1) controlled cell proliferation and 2) coordinated function of the heart and blood vessels in health and disease states.
Ralph Fregosi	neural control of respiratory muscles; control of breathing during sleep; influence of prenatal nicotine exposure on the respiratory control system
Robert Gore	mechanical properties of microcirculatory vessels; regulations of the peripheral circulation and transcapillary fluid exchange
Henk L. Granzier	Muscle Structure and Function
John Konhilas	The effect of environmental and genetic factors on the energetics of muscle contraction.
Ronald Lynch	Microscopic imaging and spectroscopy; metabolism and stimulus-response coupling in muscle and insulin-secreting cells.
Timothy Secomb	Mathematical aspects of microcirculation and blood rheology; physiological fluid mechanics
Alexander Simon	In vivo functions of gap-junction intercellular channels
Jeffery Walker	Cell signalling in cardiovascular health and disease