Jonathan Baker

Jonathan Baker Ph.D. Associate Professor; INBRE Principal Investigator/Director; Interim Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Nevada Research We use single molecule techniques (TIR fluorescence microscopy and optical traps) to study how mechanoenzymes like actin and myosin transfer chemical free energy to mechanical work and inversely how they convert mechanical signals into chemical responses. We are particularly interested […]

Scott Earley

Scott Earley Ph.D.: Contact, Professor of Pharmacology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology | Department of Pharmacology Research My lab is focused on elucidating the functional significance of the transient receptor potential (TRP) superfamily of cation channels in the cerebral vasculature and other organ systems. The mammalian TRP superfamily is composed of 28 distinct gene products assigned […]

Martin Schiller

Martin Schiller, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine Biography Dr. Martin Schiller received a B.A. from Hofstra University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Utah State University after postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Maryland College Park and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He was a fellow and […]

Michael Webster

Michael Webster, Foundation Professor, Principal Investigator Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Nevada Summary Michael Webster is a vision scientist who studies the cognitive and neural processes that underlie how we see. Much of his work focuses on characterizing how our perception adapts when the environment changes (e.g we move to a drier climate) or we change […]

Francisco Sy

Francisco Sy, MD, MS, DrPH Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Biography Dr. Francisco Sy is a professor of Public Health and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). At the National Institutes of Health (NIH), […]