Faculty
RESEARCH FUNDING
SOURCES
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
American Heart Association
Cystic Fibrosis
Muscular Dystrophy
Not an all-inclusive listing.
Founded in 1966, the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology is one of five basic science departments in the UC Davis School of Medicine
Our tripartite mission is to conduct innovative, cutting edge research, engage in high-level service and provide excellent educational opportunities and mentoring to students, postdoctoral fellows, and residents in the discipline of physiology. Our aim is to create new knowledge to advance understanding of biological processes and benefit society by facilitating more precise diagnosis, and effective disease treatment.
In the post molecular and post genome eras, Physiology is uniquely posed at the nexus to employ these new tools to gain a more detailed understanding of function at the molecular level or to investigate the functional consequences of alterations in gene products at the cellular, organ and organismal levels. Scientifically we are determined to access and exploit these unprecedented opportunties!
FOCUS ON FACULTY
Drawing on X-ray crystallography and experimental data, as well as a software suite for predicting and designing protein structures, faculty member Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, Ph.D. has developed an algorithm that predicts what has been impossible to generate in the laboratory: the conformational changes in voltage-gated sodium channels when they are at rest or actively transmitting a signal in muscle and nerve cells.
Find out more about this exciting research.
