T32 Grant Faculty Mentors
Name |
Degree(s) |
Primary Department or Program |
Research Interest (sleep circadian interest if not a sleep/circadian expert) |
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Alderete, Tanya L | PhD | Integrative Physiology | Shift work, diabetes, obesity and the microbiome |
MD |
Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes |
Regulation of body weight (diurnal metabolic rhythms; clocks in metabolic tissues) |
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Broussard, Josiane L. | PhD | Health and Exercise Science | Tissue-specific insulin sensitivity and metabolism (sleep, circadian rhythms, timing of behaviors such as eating and exercise) |
PhD |
Integrative Physiology |
Vascular biology and obesity (sleep, HIV, cardiometabolic disease) |
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Diniz Behn, Cecilia | PhD | Applied Mathematics and Statistics | Mathematical modeling of sleep, circadian rhythms, and metabolism |
MD, PhD |
Anesthesiology |
Myocardial ischemia, acute lung injury (circadian clocks and cardiac function) |
|
PhD |
Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine |
Behavioral Sleep Medicine, insomnia |
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PhD |
Integrative Physiology |
Stress physiology (sleep, circadian rhythms, inflammation) |
|
PhD |
Psychology & Neuroscience/ Institute for Behavioral Genetics |
Genetics and executive function (sleep, cognition and insomnia) |
|
PhD |
Geriatrics |
Endocrine regulation of metabolism (sleep, circadian rhythms, and bone) |
|
PhD
|
Integrative Physiology |
Sleep, circadian rhythms and development |
|
PhD |
Integrative Physiology |
Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (circadian rhythms, inflammation, depression and PTSD) |
|
PhD |
Psychology & Neuroscience |
Neurochemistry, neuropharmacology of stress, drug addiction, brain and the immune system, psychoneuroimmunology (circadian rhythms, Inflammation, Serotonin and Mood) |
|
PhD
|
Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes |
Diet, exercise, obesity, & aging on metabolism & energy expenditure (sleep, circadian rhythms and metabolism) |
|
PhD |
Integrative Physiology |
Insufficient sleep, inflammation, pre-disposesition and/or exacerbates chronic pathologies |
|
PhD |
Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Mass spectrometry, metabolomics, & proteomics-biomarkers of COPD, Type 1 diabetes and asthma (biomarkers of insufficient sleep) |
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PhD |
Integrative Physiology |
Integrative physiology of aging (time restricted feeding) |
|
PhD |
Pediatric Endocrinology |
Obesity, diabetes, depression (sleep, stress) |
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PhD |
Psychology & Neuroscience |
Neurobiology of psychological stress and stress adaptation; (circadian rhythms and the role of clock gene expression in brain function) |
|
PhD |
Integrative Physiology / Institute for Behavioral Genetics |
Genetics for behavioral and physiological actions of drugs of abuse (circadian rhythms, sleep and nicotine) |
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MD, MCR |
Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes |
Circadian and sleep distubances and bone health |
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PhD |
Psychology & Neuroscience |
Pain modulation systems; immune and glial regulation of neuronal function; immune-to-brain communication; drugs of abuse, learning/memory, and neuronal excitability (circadian clock and glial function) |
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PhD |
Integrative Physiology
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Sleep and circadian rhythms, cardiometabolic health and performance |