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Dr. de Lartigue's research program investigates how the gut communicates with the brain to regulate feeding, motivation, and energy balance, and how these processes are disrupted in obesity and metabolic disease. A central focus is on vagal sensory neurons, which detect gastrointestinal signals and transmit them to the brain to influence both physiology and behavior.

The Crone Laboratory studies how neural circuits that control breathing are altered by spinal cord injury with the goal of developing new approaches to restore breathing and prevent ventilator dependence in people living with spinal cord injury.

The University of Arizona's Physiological Sciences GIDP presents Mary Catherine Roa and Giuliana Fusco as part of the Physiological Sciences Student Forum.

Dr. McGee combines the experimental techniques of conditional mouse genetics, electrophysiology, repeated two-photon calcium imaging in vivo, and behavioral assessments of vision, to explore how to modulate plasticity for therapeutic gain in disorders of vision.

Work in the Wu laboratory centers on adaptive immunity, renal hemodynamics, and gene-environment interactions in hypertension and kidney disease. The overarching research goal is to define renal microcirculation, the role of immune cells in electrolyte transport, and the susceptibility of these processes to genetic variants and environmental stressors.