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 […]

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), […]