Physiology Faculty
| Name | Campus | Specialty | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena | sabeysir@kent.edu | Kent | More on Abeysirigunawardena |
| Joseph Bedont | jbedont@kent.edu | Kent | sleep; circadian rhythms; metabolism; brain-body interactions; excretion; nitrogen stress; kidney disease. More on Bedont |
| Yeong-Renn Chen | ychen1@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Oxygen free radicals, Nitric oxide, oxidative postranslational modifications, mitochondrial biology in myocardial infarction. |
| William Chilian | wchilian@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Angiogenesis, arteriogenesis, regulation of coronary blood flow, heart failure, stem cells, regenerative medicine. |
| Lique Coolen | jcoolen@kent.edu | Kent | Mechanisms by which spinal cord injury affects urogenital and sexual function, neurobiology of addiction and understanding neural circuits that mediate female reproductive function and dysfunction. More on Coolen |
| Mark Dalman | mdalman@kent.edu | Kent | More on Dalman |
| Dimitrios Davalos | davalod@ccf.org | CCF | The Dimitrios Davalos lab studies the interactions between blood vessels, neurons and microglia in health and disease. |
| Feng Dong | fdong@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Jessica Ferrell | jfrancl@neomed.edu | NEOMED | My long-term research interests lie in examining the pathological disruptions to bile acid physiology that contribute to alcoholic- and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Our lab utilizes knockout mouse models, dietary studies, and cell and molecular biology techniques to investigate how alcohol, high fat diets, circadian disruption, or an altered gut microbiome can lead to liver injury and/or metabolic syndrome. We are also interested in studying the interactions between liver/gut metabolism and Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, as Type 2 diabetes, cholesterol homeostasis, and gut dysbiosis are thought to be involved in disease progression, while bile acids and their receptors may be novel therapeutic targets. |
| Rebecca German | rgerman@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| T. Lee Gilman | lgilman1@kent.edu | Kent | Influences of diet, stress and genetic variation on emotions, behavior, and overall brain & body health. More on Gilman. |
| Ellen L. Glickman | eglickma@kent.edu | Kent | Metabolic and thermal responses to acute cold exposure. More on Glickman |
| Gary Koski |
| Kent | Immune system and cancer, vaccines, molecular mechanisms. More on Koski |
| Manabu Kurokawa | mkurokaw@kent.edu | Kent | |
| Laura Leff | lleff@kent.edu | Kent | Molecular ecology of bacteria, bacterial enumeration and identification. More on Leff |
| Michael Lehman | mlehma18@kent.edu | Kent | Reproductive neuroendocrine system of the brain in mammals as governed by intricate neural and hormonal communication between the brain, pituitary gland and gonads. More on Lehman |
| Eric Mintz | emintz@kent.edu | Kent | Behavioral neurobiology, circadian rhythms, feeding, and social behavior, sex differences in biological rhythms. More on Mintz |
| Aleisha Moore | amoor149@kent.edu | Kent | The Moore lab aims to define and understand neuronal networks regulating gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons, the final output cells in the brain controlling fertility. Currently, we are funded by the National Institutes of Health to investigate whether changes in the regulation of GnRH neurons by cells co-expressing the neuropeptides Kisspeptin, Neurokinin B and Dynorphin (aka KNDy neurons) leads to infertility in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the most common endocrinopathy in women worldwide. To achieve this, we use a preclinical model of PCOS combined with genetic, anatomical, and functional tools to identify and analyze how changes within KNDy neurons and associated networks lead to the development of PCOS symptoms. More on Moore |
| Devin Mueller | dmuell10@kent.edu | Kent | Neural mechanisms of learning and memory that underlie drug use and emotional regulation. More on Mueller |
| Colleen Novak | cnovak13@kent.edu | Kent | Neural and endocrine mechanisms of activity thermogenesis in obesity. More on Novak |
| Vahagn Ohanyan | vohanyan@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Heather O'Leary | holeary@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Richard Piet | rpiet@kent.edu | Kent | Neurophysiological mechanisms involved in regulating the activity of the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons and their contributions to biological timing and fertility. More on Piet |
| Gunnar Poplawski | poplawg@ccf.org | CCF | Translational therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, stem cell and gene therapies for spinal cord injury, in vitro and in vivo models of glioblastomas, hIPSC derived neurons to study regeneration. |
| Priya Raman | praman@neomed.edu | NEOMED | My lab is interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying vascular complications and Alzheimer's disease-related dementia associated with diabetes and obesity. We are studying the role of a post-translational protein modification (O-Glycosylation) and a proatherogenic matricellular protein (Thrombospondin-1) in vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic changes and seeking to understand how targets contributed to vascular and cognitive anomalies in metabolic disorders. |
| Erin Reed-Geaghan | ereedgeaghan@neomed.edu | NEOMED | My lab is interested in the role of the immune system in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease (AD). Specifically, we seek to understand the ways in which the brain鈥檚 resident immune cells, microglia, contribute to the neuroinflammatory processes driving neurodegeneration. We believe microglia from men and women respond differently in AD, contributing to the sex differences in disease onset and progression, and we鈥檙e working on identifying the reasons for these differences. We are also interested in how these cells communicate with the circulating peripheral immune system, and the ways in which these interactions affect disease progression. |
| Angela Ridgel | aridgel@kent.edu | Kent | Motor functions, Parkinsons disease, rehabilitation. More on Ridgel |
| Apollo Stacy | stacya2@ccf.org | CCF | |
| Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan | svijayar@kent.edu | Kent | Signal transduction, sperm physiology, fertilization, contraception. More on Vijayaraghavan |
| Bradley Winters | bwinters@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Cellular neurophysiology of brainstem sound localization circuits that process timing and intensity differences between the two ears. |
| Liya Yin | lyin@neomed.edu | NEOMED |