Name Research Interests Affiliation Primary Department
Fayal Abderemane-Ali

Structural, functional and pharmacological studies of ion channel macromolecular complexes.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
E. Dale Abel

Research focuses on metabolic mechanisms that are responsible for cardiovascular complications of diabetes and the role of mitochondrial dysfunction and autophagy in the pathophysiology of insulin resistance and its complications.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine
Jeffrey Abramson

Membrane protein crystallography; structural determination of membrane transport proteins

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Avishek Adhikari

How does the brain control fear and anxiety elicited by different imminent threats?

College of Letters & Science Department of Psychology
Olujimi Ajijola

Cardiac Neurobiology, Bioinformatics, Transgenic murine and Porcine Models of Cardiovascular disease, Viral Tracing, Neuromodulation

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Orkun Akin

How does neuronal activity during development affect synapse and circuit assembly?

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology
Jeffrey Ardell

Autonomic control of the normal and diseased heart

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Arthur Arnold

We study the sex chromosomal and hormonal factors that cause sex differences in physiology and disease.

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Navid Bavi

Mechanosensation, Structural and functional dynamics of sensory membrane proteins, Multiscale modelling

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Ambre Bertholet

Mitochondria, bioenergetics and electrophysiology

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Gene Block

Neurobiology of circadian rhythms

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Mehdi Bouhaddou

We are a systems biology lab that seeks to understand how human biochemical signaling circuitry is remodeled by viruses and other perturbations

College of Letters & Science Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Nicholas Brecha

Neurochemical and anatomical pathways in the vertebrate retina that mediate vision

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology
Catherine Cahill

Chronic pain and opioid addiction

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Hua (Linda) Cai

Molecular mechanistic and translational studies of cardiorespiratory diseases

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
Stephen Cannon

Ion channel disorders of skeletal muscle, mathematical modeling, gene therapy

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
S. Thomas Carmichael

Neural repair after stroke

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurology
Scott Chandler

Neuronal mechanisms controlling jaw movement

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Christopher Colwell

Neural control of behavior, circadian rhythms

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Stephanie Correa

Effects of sex variables on the neural control of temperature and energy balance

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Anthony Covarrubias

We investigate immuno-metabolic dysregulation in macrophages during aging, metabolic disease, and cancer

College of Letters & Science Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Rachelle Crosbie

Muscle regeneration, muscular dystrophy, drug discovery, mouse models of disease

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Lydia Daboussi

Research in the Daboussi lab lies at the intersection of the fields of glial biology, axonal regeneration and cytoplasmic-to-nuclear signaling. We are focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of nervous system plasticity to gain insight into regeneration after injury and during chronic disease

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology
Mirella Dapretto

Neuroimaging/imaging genetics of language and social cognition in typical and atypical development (emphasis on adolescence and autism spectrum disorders); cultural neuroscience

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Lindsay De Biase

Neuron-glial interactions in health and disease

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Arjun Deb

Cardiac repair and regeneration, wound healing, progenitors, fibroblasts

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Eric Deeds

Computational modeling of gene regulation, cell signaling and cellular physiology

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Linda Demer

We are uncovering the mechanisms of cardiovascular calcification and how it is increased by statins and exercise.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine
Laura DeNardo

mPFC circuits for learning and memory

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Sophie Deng

Dr. Sophie Deng is a clinician-scientist whose research aims to develop new stem cell-based therapies to treat corneal diseases. One area of her research investigates the role of Wnt signaling pathways in the regulation and regeneration of human limbal epithelial stem cells and the other main area of her research investigates the anti-scarring function of extracellular vesicles derived from corneal stromal stem cells.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology
Kacie Deters

The goal of my research is to understand the intersection and contributions of markers (eg. genetic, neuroimaging, social factors) of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease in the Black community.

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Mario Dipoppa

Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience; Machine Learning; Neural Networks; Neural Coding; Neural Dynamics

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology
Ajit Divakaruni

Control of cell physiology by mitochondrial metabolism and bioenergetics

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
Jeffrey Donlea

Sleep regulation and function

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology
V. Reggie Edgerton

Neural control of movement and neuromuscular plasticity

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Mansoureh Eghbali

Heart disease, pulmonary hypertension and sex differences in cardiopulmonary disease

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
Gordon Fain

My laboratory investigates the physiology of mammalian photoreceptors.

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Mark Frye

Neural circuit neurophysiology and behavior

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Tomas Ganz

Systemic iron metabolism and host defense

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Pulmonary
Alan Garfinkel

Mathematical modeling of electrophysiology

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Kaustabh Ghosh

Mechanobiology of vascular inflammation and degeneration in eye diseases

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology
David Glanzman

The focus of my laboratory's research is on the cell biology of memory, particularly how memories are stored.

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Fernando Gomez-Pinilla

Action of diet and exercise on brain injury and disease

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery
Tamir Gonen

Mechanisms of membrane transport, channels, homeostasis, cryoEM structural biology MIcroED

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Thomas Graeber

Cancer and Immuno Systems Biology

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
Alan Grinnell

Synaptic function

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Ming Guo

neurodegeneration and regeneration, aging, mitochondria

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurology
Yousang Gwack

Molecular mechanism of innate and adaptive immunity

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Elissa Hallem

The neural basis of sensory behaviors in free-living and parasitic nematodes

College of Letters & Science Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Ronald Harper

Neural mechanisms underlying sleep state

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology
Andrea Hevener

Molecular underpinnings of insulin resistance and the relationships between insulin resistance, obesity and chronic disease

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Endocrinology
Weizhe Hong

Neural circuit mechanism of animal social behavior

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Biological Chemistry
Tzung Hsiai

Our multidisciplinary research team focuses on address tissue/organ development, injury, and repair by embracing advanced imaging, computation, molecular, and senor technology.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine
Elaine Hsiao

Microbiome, Neurobiology of Disease, Neuroimmunology, Host-Microbe Interactions

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Jing Huang

Molecular mechanisms of aging and longevity regulation

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
Alexander Huk

Visual, cognitive, and computational neuroscience

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Oluwatayo Ikotun

Immunology and Inflammation

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
Jonathan Jacobs

My laboratory studies host-microbiome interactions in gastrointestinal, metabolic, and inflammatory disorders.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Digestive Diseases
Varghese John

Therapeutic approaches for alzheimer's disease

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurology
Baljit Khakh

We are interested in how glia regulate neural circuits.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Duncan Leitch

In the Leitch lab, we study sensory system function and diversity from comparative and evolutionary perspectives, integrating approaches ranging from genetics to physiology and behavior. Often, we make use of non-model organisms with unique sensory adaptations to understand fundamental principles of nervous system architecture and function.

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Zhaoping Li

Nutrient, microbiome and metabolism

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine
Aldons Jake Lusis

Our lab uses genetic approaches, in human subjects and animal models, to investigate interactions involved in common forms of cardiovascular disease.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Eduardo Marban

cardiovascular function, extracellular vehicles as therapeutic agents, biopacemakers

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine
Sotirios Masmanidis

Neural mechanisms of motor control and learning.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology
Nicolas Massaly

Our research aims at better understanding pain-induced neuronal alterations, how they affect the rewarding and aversive properties of stimuli, elucidate how they impact substance use liability, and ultimately open new routes for pain pharmacotherapy improvements

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
Walter Metzner

Sensory processing/motor control, especially auditory feedback control of vocalization; Behavioral Neuroscience (Neuroethology)

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Steven Mittelman

How obesity increases cancer incidence and makes cancer harder to cure, specifically childhood leukemia

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Elizabeta Nemeth

Iron physiology and pathology: mechanisms and regulatory circuits (pregnancy, inflammation, infection, iron deficiency and iron overload)

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Pulmonary
Thomas O'Dell

Synaptic and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Memory Formation

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Riccardo Olcese

Ion Channel Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
Michela Ottolia

Cardiac muscle, Transporters, Excitation-Contraction Coupling. The primary area of interest of the Ottolia Laboratory is to understand how cytosolic calcium is regulated in cardiac cells. We focus on the role of the plasma membrane sodium-calcium exchanger (NCX) which constitutes the main calcium extrusion mechanism in the heart and alterations in its activity have been associated with ischemia reperfusion injury, arrhythmia, and heart failure.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
Rene Packard

Chemotherapy-induced cardiac injury and repair; characterization of high-risk atherosclerotic lesions

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Diane Papazian

The structure, function, and biogenesis of voltage dependent ion channels

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Ketema Paul

Sleep and circadian regulatory mechanisms.

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Chao Peng

Molecular mechanisms of the progression and diversity of neurodegenerative diseases

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurology
Yirong Peng

Genetic Dissection of Retinal Circuits

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology
Patricia Phelps

Determine how transplanted olfactory ensheathing cells enhance axon regeneration after spinal cord injury

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Peipei Ping

My research program focuses on developing integrative omics and data science approaches to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying physiological functions in normal and diseased hearts.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Joseph Pisegna

Molecular Physiology of Gastrointestinal Hormones

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Digestive Diseases
Gina Poe

Investigating the mechanisms by which sleep traits serve learning and memory consolidation

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
April Pyle

Aspects of stem cell biology as well as more translational aspects of human pluripotent stem cell differentiation towards skeletal muscle for use in therapeutic approaches for patients with muscular dystrophy

College of Letters & Science Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Pearl Quijada

Cardiovascular development and disease

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Roxana Radu

Retina & Retinal Pigment Epithelium Biochemistry: Understanding Pathophysiology of Age-Related Macular Degeneration and related retinopathies using preclinical models

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology
Dinesh Rao

Physiology and pathology of non-coding RNA and their interactors in hematopoiesis

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Pathology
Srinivasa Reddy

Lipoproteins and lipid metabolism in human diseases

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Elaine Reed

The Reed lab studies mechanisms of immune-mediated allograft injury and mapping innate and adaptive immune responses to viral and bacterial pathogens.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Pathology
Karen Reue

Genetics of obesity and diabetes

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Human Genetics
Amy Rowat

Mechanobiology, Mechanotransduction

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Tamer Sallam

Noncoding RNA, RNA modification, metabolism and heart disease

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Alapakkam Sampath

My laboratory is interested in elucidating the mechanism of phototransduction in retinal rods and cones, and establishing how the information generated by these photoreceptors is encoded downstream in the retina.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology
Barnett Schlinger

Steroid hormone synthesis and action in birds; hormonal control of brain and behavior in tropical bird species

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Felix Schweizer

Dynamic regulation of neurotransmitter release

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology
David Shackelford

Cancer metabolism. Studying the intersection of signal transduction and metabolism in cancer in order to identify the molecular and metabolic basis of tumorigenesis.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Pulmonary
Pavak Shah

Synaptogenesis, neural circuit development, and the determinants of whole brain dynamics

College of Letters & Science Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Orian Shirihai

Mitochondria & metabolism in CVD models; adipose tissue bionergetics

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Endocrinology
Kalyanam Shivkumar

Autonomic regulation of cardiac excitability

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Melissa Spencer

Muscular dystrophy, gene therapy, CRISPR based therapies for DMD and immune response to AAV vectors

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Neurology
Igor Spigelman

Neuropharmacology

School of Dentistry Department of Dentistry
Hui Sun

Novel signaling pathways that suppress pathogenic blood vessels

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Yvette Tache

Brain-gut interaction

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Digestive Diseases
Elizabeth Tarling

Immunometabolism - lipid metabolism and immunity

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Tara TeSlaa

My lab studies metabolic flux, how it changes in different physiological states including disease, and how it relates to cellular identity

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
James Tidball

The immunobiology and physiology of muscle disease, regeneration and development

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Peter Tontonoz

Metabolism, gene regulation, diabetes, atherosclerosis

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Pathology
Soban Umar

Pulmonary vascular biology, Right heart dysfunction, Cardiopulmonary pathophysiology, Cardioprotection

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
Thomas Vallim

Gene regulation, nutrition and metabolic diseases

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Biological Chemistry
Marmar Vaseghi

Understanding the role of the nervous system in promoting cardiac arrhythmias in setting of heart disease using a combination of tissue clearing, optogenetic, neural recordings, and electrical mapping techniques in small and large animal models to find and develop novel neuromdulatory therapies

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Julio Vergara

Biophysics of muscle excitation-contraction coupling

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Claudio Villanueva

Our lab is interested in understanding how cells regulate their metabolic programs. These studies will provide opportunities to understand how cells burn energy and how we may use that information to prevent obesity and treat diabetes

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Thomas Vondriska

Chromatin biology and epigenomics of the cardiovascular system

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
David Walker

Molecular biology of aging

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Shimon Weiss

Single Molecule Biophysics

College of Letters & Science Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Stephanie White

Neural basisi for socially-learned vocal communication

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Roy Wollman

systems biology, cellular signaling variability, spatial transcriptomics

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Ernest Wright

Structure and function of cotransporters

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Xinshu (Grace) Xiao

Bioinformatics, genomics, neuroscience

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Xia Yang

Multitissue multiomics systems biology of complex diseases

College of Letters & Science Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Stephen Young

I work on basic mechanisms for plasma triglyceride metabolism as well as diseases of the nuclear envelope.

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Ye Zhang

Glia cell development and function in health and disease

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Chuchu Zhang

We study the neural mechanisms of internal sensations i.e. how we feel inside our body. One focus is to investigate the molecular and circuit mechanisms of nausea

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Jie Zheng

Therapeutic development in ophthalmology

David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology
Hong Zhou

Dr. Zhou uses cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) and tomography (cryoET) to study structure-function relationship of cellular and viral complexes in health and diseases, with areas of interest in immunology and infections, metabolism, and neurosciences

College of Letters & Science Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics