Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research group is interested in developing and applying functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technologies to study brain functional circuits and networks using animal models. We foc … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
Natasha Snider, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our lab has two areas of interest: the molecular basis of liver diseases and the biochemical mechanisms of disorders linked to intermediate filament gene mutations. We use biochemical, cell-based and … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Physiology |
Keith W. Sockman |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I study the ultimate and proximate factors controlling flexibility in reproductive behavior. Using songbirds as a system, I use field and laboratory studies to investigate the ecological cues regulati … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Ecology, Neurobiology, Organismal Biology, Physiology |
Erica Sparkenbaugh, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Sickle Cell Disease, hematology, hemoglobinopathies, platelets, thrombosis, hemostasis, |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Hematology, Pathology, Physiology |
Miroslav Styblo, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Styblo is a biochemist with background in nutritional biochemistry and biochemical toxicology. His research focuses on topics that require expertise in both nutrition and toxicology and typically … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Nutrition, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Physiology, Toxicology |
Faisal Syed, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Cardiovascular Artificial Intelligence Research Cardiac electrophysiologists management patients encompassing a wide range of heart rhythm disorders. Curren … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Cardiology, Department of Medicine (DOM) |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, Cardiovascular disease, Clinical Trials, Physiology, Translational Medicine |
Todd Thiele, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My primary research interests are directed at the neurobiology of alcoholism. To study the central mechanisms involved with neurobiological responses to ethanol, I use both genetic and pharmacological … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma & Lung Biology (CEMALB), Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cardiovascular Biology, Cell Signaling, Physiology, Toxicology, Translational Medicine |
Rebecca Traub, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Natural history, translational and treatment trials for inflammatory and hereditary polyneuropathies |
| Mentors: | Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neurology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Trials, Genetics, Immunology, Physiology |
Jessica J. Walsh, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research aims to gain an improved understanding of the biological basis of behavior using a multi-disciplinary approach to elucidate the molecular and circuit mechanisms underlying motivated socia … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), Neuroscience Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Autism, Mental illness, Microscopy, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology |
Paul Watkins, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Mechanistic toxicology, hepato-toxicology, research translation, biomarkers,Mechanistic toxicology, hepato-toxicology, research translation, biomarkers |
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AFFILIATIONS: Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Physiology, Toxicology |
Ellen R. Weiss, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research involves understanding the regulation of visual signaling pathways in the vertebrate retina using mice and zebrafish as model organisms. In the past 20 years we have discovered what was a … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology, Genetics, Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Metabolism, Neurobiology, Physiology, Systems Biology |




