@ucd-physiology.bsky.social
Founded in 1966, the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology is one of five basic science departments in the UC Davis School of Medicine. https://health.ucdavis.edu/physiology/
Starting a new lab and trying to navigate your science, papers, grants, and institutional duties? Want to meet people in the same situation and connect with established scientists who can their perspectives? Join the SGP-JGP Junior Faculty Network! sgpweb.org/programs/jfn.
03.03.2026 18:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Check out the latest @physrep.bsky.social cover image and article from #PMB Zavorsky Lab, "Calculating pulmonary shunt fraction using standard clinical measurements", by Gerald Zavorsky et al.: doi.org/10.14814/phy...
04.03.2026 00:23 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thermal medicine, the controlled use of heat and cold has been part of healing traditions for millennia. Now, thanks to new sensors, wearables, and AI, researchers can track individual thermal responses with unprecedented precision and turn them into personalized health insights.
02.03.2026 18:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Postdoctoral positions available in #PMB Zhang Lab!
27.02.2026 06:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
October 2025 - Director Colleen Clancy shared groundbreaking work on using digital twin technology to transform cardiovascular medicine. By combining computational modeling, AI, and multimodal biomedical data, her team is building personalized virtual replicas of the human heart.
23.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Really cool talk on the power of storytelling from @doctheagrif.bsky.social at #bps2026. I can't wait to try out her storytelling strategies and check out her stories!
22.02.2026 23:59 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0We are still accepting applications for postdoc positions in our lab! Please repost!
24.02.2026 06:06 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
I had a great time talking about the importance of storytelling our science at the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social President’s Symposium today! Always extra fun with my little fan club tags along 🩷
22.02.2026 21:47 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Center for Precision Medicine and Data Sciences team is using supercomputing to simulate complex proteins, analyze massive omics datasets, build predictive AI models, and model synthetic heart cells to better understand disease and drug response.
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Director Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D., co-chaired the NIH Digital Twins in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Research Workshop, held virtually on September 25–26, 2025.
Visit: health.ucdavis.edu/precision-me... for more info!
Our latest profile is here! Dr. Theanne Griffith (@doctheagrif.bsky.social) studies molecular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms for proprioception. Follow the link below to listen to our full interview!
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
#WomenInNeurosciene #StoriesOfWiN
Join us Sunday night in San Francisco at the 2026 JGP-SGP Mixer! Connect with colleagues for a few hours in a fun, festive atmosphere. There is no charge, but to attend you must be an SGP member and register at jgp sgp2026mixer.eventbrite.com. Visit sgpweb.org/membership to join or rejoin SGP.
18.02.2026 03:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us tomorrow at 1pm in GBSF for a #PMB Special Seminar with Dr. Janina Sörmann @janina-sormann.bsky.social from University of Copenhagen. She will discuss "Targeting hASICa in Stroke with Deep Learning-Generated Miniproteins".
17.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to host Dr. Manuel Pioner for next week’s "Frontiers in Pharmacology" seminar!
@ucdavispharm.bsky.social
Apply by Feb 23—Junior Specialist position in #PMB’s Belford Lab
14.02.2026 22:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My lab at the University of California, Davis is hiring a Junior Specialist! Apply by February 23.
JPF07490: Junior Specialist: Vascular Biology – Beleford Lab
For more information and to apply: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07490
A lifelong passion for writing helped rising star @doctheagrif.bsky.social land a book deal and publish 15 chapter books for early readers, covering topics ranging from what the cerebellum does to how a cake bakes.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
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In this recent study, Christopher M. T. Hayden from @ucd-physiology.bsky.social and colleagues observed that #kidney disease impairs #tendon function in rats, providing a model for further evaluating mechanisms and interventions🦵 🔬
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Excited to be speaking at this year’s Biophysical Society Presidential Symposium on the importance of communicating science to the public 👩🏾🔬🧫🧬🔬🥼🧪👩🏾🔬
30.01.2026 00:58 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
The President’s Symposium at #bps2026 serves to empower biophysicists to tell stories that build public confidence in science. Speakers will discuss perspectives on the crisis in US investment in science, and approaches for conveying the value of research to human health and prosperity
28.01.2026 19:51 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1Congratulations @mfnavedo.bsky.social
29.01.2026 23:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out our reviews on "Translating cardiovascular ion channel and Ca signalling mechanisms into therapeutic insights". Massive effort from junior investigators, emerging researchers & other leaders in the cardiovascular field. @ucdavis.bsky.social
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@lfsantana68.bsky.social @vesselman.bsky.social Congratulations on this new paper!
29.01.2026 18:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excitability isn't intrinsic to ion channels alone; it's an emergent property of the CMIC Axis. @vesselman.bsky.social & I link Capillaries, Mitochondria & Channels to function. Break the link, lose the function. doi.org/10.1113/JP28... @jphysiol.bsky.social
29.01.2026 18:44 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
We're incredibly excited to announce that Dr. Theanne Griffith @doctheagrif.bsky.social of #PMB Griffith Lab has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2026! Congratulations, Theanne, on this well-earned achievement! 🎉🌟
Her lab research: www.thegriffithresearchgroup.com
Join us today at noon for our Distinguished Lecture Series with Alexei Kananenka of @udelaware.bsky.social . He will show how 2D infrared spectroscopy reveals a water-assisted mechanism of potassium ion transport in K⁺ channels!
22.01.2026 18:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats to Dr. Beleford, named among ‘2026 Top Doctors!’
21.01.2026 05:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Grateful to have been nominated by my peers 🙏🏾
21.01.2026 03:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Honored that our recent paper on how caffeine altered adaptation to exercise was picked for APSselect. 🧪
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