Research Projects

• Warren Burggren - Physiology of embryonic heart, lungs and kidneys, and their integrated regulation, using lower vertebrate, avian and mammalian embryos

• Dane Crossley - Complex interactions between cardio-respiratory maturation and environmental stress in developing vertebrates leading to an understanding of how the developmental environment “programs” the embryonic animal to an altered cardio-respiratory phenotype in later life.

• Qunfeng Dong - Bioinformatics and biological data analysis

• Edward Dzialowski - Developmental cardiovascular and respiratory physiology, focusing on perinatal and postnatal changes in circulation and respiration in birds

• Jannon Fuchs - Control of neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation, role of primary cilia in neuron survival, using mouse mode; techniques include immunohistochemistry, cell culture, morphometry, in situ hybridization

• Mike Hedrick - The development and evolution of respiratory rhythm generation in the brainstem of vertebrates, particularly in amphibians. Respiratory and cardiovascular adapations of vertebrates in the aquatic to terrestrial transition.

• Ione Hunt von Herbing - Bioenergetics of growth and development, effects of environmental change on metabolism, using marine and freshwater fishes; techniques include respirometry, microcalorimetry, quantitative fluorescent microscopy

• Pamela Padilla - Developmental genetic responses to anoxia and hypoxia; embryogenesis and gonad function, using C. elegans and zebrafish models

• Pudur Jagadeeswaran - Physiology and genetics of adult and developmental homeostasis and thrombosis, using zebrafish model