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The University of Arizona's Physiological Sciences GIDP presents Rachel Battershell and Dayannara Munoz as part of the Physiological Sciences Student Forum.

Since establishing her independent research program at the University of California, San Francisco in 2019, Dr. Liu has employed multidisciplinary approaches including large-scale genetic and behavioral analyses, immunohistochemistry, functional imaging, and patchclamp electrophysiology to investigate the organization and modulation of nutrient-specific appetites.

Since joining the nephrology faculty in 2003, Dr. Crowley has been
studying the functions of specific angiotensin receptor pools in the
body. Throughout this time, he has cultivated a research focus on
the role of inflammatory mediators in hypertension and target
organ damage, reflected in his more recent publications.

Ran and his team aim to understand how the coding of cognitive features of satiety, hunger, thirst, nausea, hypoxia, and visceral pain is constructed from the coding of basic physical variables like force, chemicals, and osmolarity along the ascending interoceptive circuitry.

The University of Arizona's Physiological Sciences GIDP presents Rachel Battershell and Dayannara Munoz as part of the Physiological Sciences Student Forum.

Since establishing her independent research program at the University of Minnesota in 2020, Dr. Evans has focused on understanding the mechanisms regulating salt intake and the contribution of the renal nervous system to sodium balance. Her research has incorporated multidisciplinary approaches developed throughout her training, including classical renal physiology techniques, molecular biological approaches, chronic renal physiology techniques, and integrative studies of salt-sensitive hypertension.

Dr. Funk is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona whose laboratory investigates bone-specific pathways with the goal of identifying and developing new therapeutic approaches to promote skeletal health.

Dr. Lillo combines electrophysiology, calcium imaging, molecular biology, and in vivo vascular models to study how endothelial dysfunction contributes to cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. He is currently developing translational research programs aimed at understanding and targeting endothelial signaling pathways in vascular and cardiac pathology.

Dr. Bel is an Associate Professor at Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. The Bel lab uses state-of-the-art mouse models, combined with high resolution microscopy and molecular biology to understand how the intestine functions. Learn more about his research at Bel lab.

Dr. Symons has been at the University of Utah since 2001 and is Professor in Nutrition and Integrative Physiology. He is also an Investigator in the School of Medicine Molecular Medicine Program.