Postdoctoral Research Opportunities Physiology is a collection of scientific disciplines that describes how molecules, cells and organ systems work together. It is the study of how organisms respond to changes in their environment, how they achieve homeostasis, how they reproduce, and how they defend themselves against adversity. Physiology is also the study of how organisms move and reason and learn to cooperate.
Physiologists address some of the most exciting and pivotal questions in modern biology.
With the advent of the millenium, the pendulum of exciting ideas and forefront research has returned to focus on Physiology, a senior basic science that is the foundation of medicine. We are in an exciting and challenging period of diversity and advancement, in which we apply interdisciplinary cell and molecular biology to integration of organ function. In turn, the discipline of physiology continually adapts to changes in experimental approaches and questions stemming from reductionistic trends. Contemporary physiology has quickly advanced to a new level, positioned centrally among the biological sciences to make unique, important contributions to integrative biology. Today we have powerful genetic tools to probe control systems, the essence of physiology, at multiple levels.