Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Field Description
The study of physiology covers a broad range of investigations under the umbrella of "how living organisms function". The Field of Molecular and Integrative Physiology (MIP) offers a comprehensive program of study and research opportunities emphasizing training in molecular/genomic aspects of cell, organ and whole animal physiology, with an emphasis on physiological genomics. The program of study provides an outstanding foundation in physiological mechanisms at the cellular, tissue, organ and whole animal level, and how these mechanisms interface with molecular and genetic aspects. As a member of the Biomedical and Biological Sciences Graduate Program (BBS), MIP is part of a vibrant graduate community in the Veterinary College.
Contact Information
Website: http://www.vet.cornell.edu/bbs
Email: bbscornell@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 253-3276
Email: bbscornell@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 253-3276
College of Veterinary Medicine
Office of Graduate Education
S3-009 Schurman Hall, Box 38
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Subject and Degrees
- Physiology (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)
Concentrations by Subject
Physiology
- behavioral physiology
- cardiovascular and respiratory physiology
- endocrinology
- environmental and comparative physiology
- gastrointestinal and metabolic physiology
- membrane and epithelial physiology
- molecular and cellular physiology
- neural and sensory physiology
- physiological genomics
- reproductive physiology
Faculty
Carolyn E. Adler - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: regeneration, stem cell biology, tissue homeostasis, transcriptional regulation of cell differentiationDorothy Marie Ainsworth - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: cardiovascular and respiratory physiology; neural and sensory physiology Research Interests: cardiovascular and respiratory physiologyDouglas Francis Antczak - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics; reproductive physiology Research Interests: placental development; fetal-maternal signalling; genomic imprinting; pregnancy immunologyKlaus Werner Beyenbach - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: environmental and comparative physiology; membrane and epithelial physiology Research Interests: cellular transport mechanisms and electrolyte regulation; NaCl secretion in renal tubulesAdam Boyko - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: physiological genomics Research Interests: Genetics of domestication and rapid adaptation, canine genomics, evolutionary and population genetics, bioinformatics
Paula Cohen - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: physiological genomics; reproductive physiology Research Interests: etiology of spontaneous birth defects in mammals; mechanisms of meiotic recombination; DNA repair proteins in meiosis and recombination; germ cell development; ovarian developmentScott A. Coonrod - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology; reproductive physiology Research Interests: reproductive physiology; molecular and cellular physiology; the role that novel, highly abundant and egg-restricted molecules play in epigenetic reprogramming during the egg-to-embryo transition; mechanisms by which specific histone modifications are dynamically regulated during hormone-dependent gene transcription in breast cancer cellsBethany Cummings - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: endocrinology; gastrointestinal and metabolic physiology; molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: Obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes pathogenesis and treatment; Development and study of rodent models of bariatric surgeryRobin Dando - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: behavioral physiology; molecular and cellular physiology; neural and sensory physiology; physiological genomics Research Interests: Neurotransmitter interactions and signaling events which occur within the taste system. My lab uses state of the art physiological, genomic and behavioral techniques to elucidate the nature of how and why we taste. Robin Davisson - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: cardiovascular and respiratory physiology; molecular and cellular physiology; neural and sensory physiology; physiological genomics; reproductive physiology Research Interests: molecular mechanisms determining normal cardiovascular function and pathogenesis of certain cardiovascular diseases; central neural control of blood pressure and autonomic function; molecular determinants of cardiac disease; molecular pathophysiology of preeclampsiaScott D. Emr - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: membrane and epithelial physiology; molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: regulation of cell signaling and membrane trafficking pathways by phosphoinositide kinases; protein kinases; ubiquitin modifications; vesicle-mediated transport reactionsClaudia Fischbach-Teschl - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: membrane and epithelial physiology; molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: tissue-engineered model systems for analysis of microenvironmental conditions fundamental to cancer pathogenesis and therapyMaria J. Garcia-Garcia - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: membrane and epithelial physiology; molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics Research Interests: developmental biology in mice and flies; genetics of development mechanisms that influence embryonic morphologyRobin Desmond Gleed - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: cardiovascular and respiratory physiology Research Interests: respiration, hypoxea, and pulmonary circulation; anesthesiologyPatricia A Johnson - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: endocrinology; environmental and comparative physiology; reproductive physiology Research Interests: endocrinology; reproductive physiologyMichael I Kotlikoff - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: cardiovascular and respiratory physiology; molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: cardiovascular and respiratory physiology; molecular and cellular physiologyNatasza Kurpios - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: Study of signaling pathways that direct organogenesis of vertebrates to determine distinct cellular behaviors and cell shape during development Cynthia A. Leifer - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: gastrointestinal and metabolic physiology; molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: regulation of innate immune receptors such as Toll-like receptors (TLRs); role of TLRs in autoimmunity, initiation of inflammatory responses to microbial infection, development of molecular and cellular, as well as whole animal models to study the biology of TLRs Sergiy Libert - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: behavioral physiology; endocrinology; environmental and comparative physiology; gastrointestinal and metabolic physiology; molecular and cellular physiology; neural and sensory physiology Research Interests: Mice; molecular biology of aging, age-associated diseases, cancer, neurodegeneration; anorexia, energy metabolismDavid Ming Lin - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology; neural and sensory physiology Research Interests: axon guidance and target formation during the development of the mouse olfactory system, using genetic, in vitro, and genomic approachesEllis Roger Loew - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: environmental and comparative physiology; membrane and epithelial physiology; neural and sensory physiology Research Interests: physiology of vision; sensory biophysics; sensory ecology and nutritional ophthalmologyMarla E. Lujan - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: endocrinology; reproductive physiology Research Interests: nutritional regulations of female reproductionVicki N Meyers-Wallen - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology; reproductive physiology Research Interests: developmental biology; genetics; reproductive biologyAlexander Yu Nikitin - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: genetic modeling of human cancer in the mouse; early detection and monitoring of carcinogenesis; neoplasms of reproductive and endocrine systemsLinda M Nowak - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: membrane and epithelial physiology; molecular and cellular physiology; neural and sensory physiology Research Interests: membrane biophysics; molecular biology of glutamate receptors; cellular neurophysiology; pharmacology of synaptic transmissionKimberly O. O'Brien - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: endocrinology; gastrointestinal and metabolic physiology; reproductive physiology Research Interests: calcium metabolism and bone health; control of maternal/fetal nutrient; partitioning and cellular mineral transport; micronutrient status in international settings; development of mass spectrometric methodology; pediatric bone health; pregnancy and mineral metabolism in adolescentsNed J. Place - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: behavioral physiology; endocrinology; environmental and comparative physiology; reproductive physiology Research Interests: mammalian reproductive biology with a focus on the life history of trade-offs associated with timing of hormone secretion and reproductive effort, sexual differentiationShu-Bing Qian - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: endocrinology; molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics Research Interests: Translational regulation of gene expression in stress response, cancer, diabetes, and aging.Susan Mary Quirk - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: reproductive physiology Research Interests: reproductive physiology; focus on molecular and cellular aspects of ovarian functionMark Stephen Roberson - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology; reproductive physiology Research Interests: reproductive physiology; endocrinology; molecular and cellular physiologyChris B. Schaffer - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: neural and sensory physiology Research Interests: advanced optical techniques used to observe and manipulate in vivo biological systems with the goal of developing microscopic scale understanding of normal and disease-state physiological processesJohn C. Schimenti - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics; reproductive physiology Research Interests: molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics; reproductive physiology; mouse enetics and functional genomics; genomic instability; genetic recombination; genetics of gometogenesis and development; use of ES cells to mutagenize the mouse genomeVimal Selvaraj - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: endocrinology; molecular and cellular physiology; reproductive physiology Research Interests: Mammalian reproductive physiology; stem cells; technologies for wildlife conservationCarolyn S. Sevier - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: signalling of cellular oxidative stress; molecular mechanisms used by cellular pathways that sense and signal redox imbalances within the cell
Geoffrey William G Sharp - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: endocrinology; membrane and epithelial physiology; molecular and cellular physiology Research Interests: signal transduction and second messengers involved in the control of insulin release; intestinal ion and water transportAlexander J.A. Travis - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: membrane and epithelial physiology; molecular and cellular physiology; reproductive physiology Research Interests: biology of male germ cells; signaling and metabolism of sperm during capacitation; organization of lipid raft subdomains in sperm; conservation applications of germ cell reproductive technologiesRobert Samuel Weiss - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics Research Interests: genomic maintenance mechanisms; cell cycle checkpoints; molecular responses to genomic stress; mouse models of genomic instabilityMariana Federica Wolfner - (Ithaca)
Concentrations: Physiology: molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics; reproductive physiology Research Interests: molecular and genetic mechanisms of reproductive processes