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Physiology Faculty

Lydia Arbogast, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1856
Email: larbogast@siumed.edu
Email: larbogast@siumed.edu
Our research area is reproductive neuroendocrinology with a focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms for hormone action in the hypothalamus and the neuronal circuitry involved in the control of prolactin release from the anterior pituitary gland.

Brent Bany, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1596
Email: bbany@siumed.edu
Email: bbany@siumed.edu
Uterine and placental biology in mice and man.

Bojun Chen, Ph.D.
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmisson using the

Buffy Ellsworth, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1539
Email: bells@siu.edu
Email: bells@siu.edu
We are interested in how forkhead transcription factors regulate pituitary gland development and function.

Chelsea Griffith, Ph.D.

Buck Hales, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1544
Email: dhales@siumed.edu
Email: dhales@siumed.edu
Dietary intervention for the prevention and treatment of ovarian cancer, in order to understand the role of oxidative stress and inflammation in hormonal carcinogenesis.

Deepak Hiremath, Ph.D.

Phil Jensik, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1525
Email: pjensik@siumed.edu
Email: pjensik@siumed.edu
Our laboratory studies the transcription factor deformed epidermal autoregulatory factor 1 (DEAF1)

Jonathan Krimsier, M.S.
Phone: 453-1473
Email: jonathan.krimsier@siu.edu
Email: jonathan.krimsier@siu.edu

Jacob Nordman, Ph.D.
Impact of stress on the neurocircuitry of violent aggression


Denise Zaczek, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-8470
Email: dzaczek@siumed.edu
Email: dzaczek@siumed.edu

Zhengui (Patrick) Zheng, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-8430
email: zzheng57@siumed.edu.
Developmental and molecular basis of sexual differentiation during vertebrate organogenesis