Faculty Areas of Interest
Cardiorespiratory physiology
This research group is composed of six independent laboratories with active research programs on the mechanisms controlling pulmonary gas exchange, circulation, and respiratory rate. Another area of research is smooth and cardiac muscle excitation-contraction coupling, the mechanisms that link electrical changes in the surface membrane of muscle cell to contraction. Investigators in the cardiorespiratory physiology research group employ a combination of molecular, cellular, biophysical, and whole organ approaches in their studies.
Faculty
Albert Berger
berger@u.washington.edu
Neural and chemical control of respiration; neuron structure and function
Mike Regnier
mregnier@u.washington.edu
Molecular mechanisms of striated muscle contractile regulation
