天美传媒

Katie Hinde investigates the ways a mother's milk in humans and other mammals shapes infant growth, health, and neurodevelopment.

Importantly, milk not only builds the infant鈥檚 body, but fuels the infant鈥檚 behavioral activity. Most recently she has begun to explore the complex evolutionary dynamics among mother, microbes, and babies. Hinde鈥檚 research impact on breastfeeding and breast milk can also translate into more personalized clinical recommendations and health optimization for mothers and their infants.

She is also a leader in public outreach efforts through her "Mammals Suck... Milk!" science outreach blog. In addition, she leads the annual 鈥淢arch Mammal Madness鈥�. Inspired by (but in no way affiliated with or representing) the NCAA College Basketball March Madness Championship Tournament, March Mammal Madness is an annual tournament of simulated combat competition among mammals.

James Sulikowski researches the migration and metabolism of aquatic animals, specializing in sharks. 

He has worked with fisheries to observe the impact of chronic stress variables on their biological functions. This has evolved to testing neurotransmitter efficiency and protein regulation among different species.

His work further extends to utilizing telemetry, ultrasound and other tracking methods to observe how fish have adapted their migration patterns around human impacts.

Sulikowski is an associate director and professor for the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences as well as the School of Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Faculty.

His work has been featured on Discovery Channel鈥檚 鈥淪hark Week,鈥� NBC鈥檚 鈥淭oday Show,鈥� National Geographic 鈥淥cean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin,鈥� and the BBC series 鈥淩ise of Animals.鈥�

Glenn Gaesser is an expert in the impact of exercise, diet and cardiovascular health.

Gaesser's work has included exercise training interventions, muscular efficiency, and oxygen uptake during and after exercise. He's an advocate of breaking long periods of stagnance with physical activity. He speaks on the notion of health at any size, supporting a non-weight-loss-centered approach to treating obesity-related health issues. Metabolic efficiency and dietary habits are a major part of his work.

Gaesser is the center director for the College of Health Solution and a professor of Exercise Physiology.

He has served as the Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine. He has also worked with the Center for Disease Control and has collaborated with NASA as well.

Dr. Rajini Rao is a professor of physiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her area of research expertise is studying the roles of intracellular ion transport in health and disease. She serves as the director of the graduate program in cellular and molecular medicine and the director of the Center for Membrane Transport at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Dr. Rao received her undergraduate degree in chemistry and biology from Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, India. After receiving her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Rochester in 1988, she spent five years as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Carolyn Slayman at Yale University. She arrived at Johns Hopkins in 1993.

One of her lab's many accomplishments is the discovery of an oncogenic role for SPCA2 in breast cancer, opening a new chapter in the study of this isoform. Currently, Dr. Rao's lab researches the roles of intracellular cation transport in human health and disease using yeast as a model organism.

Her academic activities are divided equally between education, mentoring and research. As the director of the graduate program in cellular and molecular medicine, she oversees a multi-departmental training program that includes approximately 130 faculty mentors and 150 graduate students. She is a faculty mentor in other graduate programs at the School of Medicine (biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology; cellular and molecular physiology) where she teaches, direct courses and holds small group discussions. She has mentored more than 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in her lab, many of whom have won national awards and independent fellowships.

As part of her long-standing effort to improve the representation of minority groups at all levels of academia, Dr. Rao has participated in numerous diversity committees and panels. She served on the admissions committee for the summer internship program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, which offers research experience to students of diverse background.

Dr Longman鈥檚 research is primarily focussed on human adaptability. He has developed the use of contemporary sports to study the processes and mechanisms associated with human adaptability and evolution. He currently works with ultra-endurance athletes to enhance understanding of energy and resource allocation during periods of energetic stress.
Danny is an accomplished athlete, having competed nationally in track and field and rowing.
He currently competes in ultra-endurance events and has set numerous British and official World Records in open water swimming and ocean rowing respectively. When not studying or competing, Danny enjoys travelling and cycle touring.

Jonathan is an expert in muscle function, particularly relating to speed and strength. He also specialises in sports injuries and sports biomechanics. Jonathan has a wide range of sporting interests, particularly Canoeing and Kayaking having competed and coached to an international level.

After completion of medical school and a PhD at Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Bhakta joined the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency program. With an undergraduate background in engineering and graduate work on T cell development, he was drawn to pulmonary and critical care medicine early given the combination of physiology and immunology present in this specialty. He also found the challenges in working with patients and families on critical illness rewarding. After completing fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine and a postdoctoral fellowship both at UCSF, Dr. Bhakta joined the faculty in 2013.

Clinical activities:
He attends in the Moffitt-Long Intensive Care Units, sees patients in the Chest Faculty Practice clinic on Parnassus Avenue where he also supervises fellows in their outpatient practice, and interprets pulmonary function tests as an attending in the Adult Pulmonary Function Laboratory, where he is also the Associate Director. He also sees patients in collaboration with the neuromuscular diseases clinic to manage respiratory systems and respiratory failure.

Research activities:
Research is another important and personally rewarding part of his career. He leads human trials to obtain clinical data and tissue samples to understand the molecular basis for variations in the presentation of asthma. His other work advances the application of pulmonary function testing. Through his experience in programming and quantitative modeling, he is able to work with genomic and detailed pulmonary function data. His research activities not only contribute to the scientific and medical communities, but also synergize with his delivery of evidence-based, patient-centered medicine.

Teaching activities:
He finds that his clinical and research activities enhance his performance as an educator. He is the Director of Education of the UCSF Adult Pulmonary Function Laboratory, where he oversees the education of MD pulmonary and critical care fellows in pulmonary physiology. In addition to this responsibility for the curriculum, he gives lectures and undertakes one-on-one teaching with fellows while interpreting tests. He gives recurring lectures to students, residents, and fellows, and engages in bedside teaching when attending in the Intensive Care Units. He is a site director and Coach in the Pulmonary Fellowship Training Program. To stay current, he participates in manuscript reviews for journals and has authored book chapters on asthma phenotypes, asthma exacerbations, and pulmonary function testing.

Professional Activities:
As a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT) Committee, he is committed to disseminating best practices for pulmonary function testing through technical standards and guidelines. He is co-chairing an update to the ATS/ERS lung volumes measurement technical standard. He also co-chaired an ATS Workshop to address the use of race/ethnicity in PFT interpretation.

Marianne Alleyne is a researcher at the , an assistant professor of entomology at the , and is affiliated with the Illinois Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. Her research group, the Alleyne Bioinspiration Collaborative, or ABCLab, uses a variety of insects as inspiration for the novel design of materials and mechanical systems. 
Alleyne is a past president of the Entomological Society of America. She is also regularly featured on news outlets like  and . 
Research Interests:

Insect physiology

Physiology


Bioinspiration


Bioinspired design


The ABC Lab is broadly interested in what structures and systems in nature (specifically those found in arthropods) can help us more efficiently design novel technologies. We rely on fundamental scientific data to inform the bioinspired design process. Our focus is on multi-functionality of insect wings (cicadas, flies, dragonflies, beetles) and insect associated structures (leafhopper brochosomes). We also study the clicking mechanism of click beetles.
Education

B.A., integrative biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1991

M.S., entomology, University of California, Riverside, 1995


Ph.D., entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000


Other links

My scholarly activity is helping students learn physiology better. I teach a number of different populations of students and have tried numerous active learning and team-based learning pedagogies in my classes to help students learn interactively and enthusiastically. I have also published a number of papers to improve the learning of physiology in Advances in Physiology Education. I am a tenured full professor at a medical school at a midwestern university.  

Christopher A. Lowry, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology and Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC), a Principal Investigator in the Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System, VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education, & Clinical Center (MIRECC), Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), and director of the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Laboratory at CU Boulder. He is Co-Director, with Dr. Lisa Brenner, of the Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education (MVM-CoRE). Dr. Lowry's research program focuses on understanding stress-related physiology and behavior with an emphasis on the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in stress resilience, health and disease.

's interdisciplinary research improves animal and human gastrointestinal and mental health. By understanding how environmental factors such as nutrition and stress alter communication between the resident microbiota, intestine, and brain, his work strives to formulate dietary interventions that reduce gastrointestinal symptoms during functional gastrointestinal disorders, psychological stress, and cancer.
Affiliations: Loman is an assistant professor in the , part of the  (ACES) at the . He is affiliated with the , also part of ACES, and the . 

Wade Van Horn is an assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and is an investigator with the Biodesign Institute's Center for Personalized Diagnostics, and the Magnetic Resonance Research Center. He joined Arizona State University in 2012 after an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the Department of Biochemistry and the Center for Structural Biology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah's Department of Chemistry. His current interests focus on the interplay between biomolecular function and structure, especially as it relates to human physiology and pathophysiology.



Education

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Utah 2007