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IBP Undergraduate Student and recent graduate Haya Kaliounji featured in UCLA Newsroom

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Professor Amy Rowat featured in the LA Times

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Peter Narins

I study sound production and hearing in frogs. Frogs call to attractmates. Several years ago Dr. Albert Feng from the University ofIllinois and I discovered a Chinese frog that has an unusual earmorphology-it has an ear canal, much like mammals, unlike any of theother 6,000 species of amphibians, except one other.

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The Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology (formerly the Department of Physiological Science) is dedicated to explaining the function of complexbiological systems, in cells, organs, and individuals. The recent rapid advances in molecular andcell biology and genetics, including the sequencing of numerous genomes, has provided anunprecedented opportunity to use this new information to understand how the genes interact toproduce emergent phenotypes in complex systems. The research of our faculty spans many levels. Weuse approaches that range from RNA interference to ion channel electrophysiology to geneticintervention in behavior to mathematical modeling to robotics, all to make sense of sensory,motor, endocrine, and cardiovascular systems.

At the undergraduate level, the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology offers the B.S. degree in Physiological Science, and contributes strongly to theInterdepartmental Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. The Department also offers a 2-yearresearch-oriented M.S. program in Physiological Science. Ph.D. students inthe Department come from a variety of interdepartmental programs, including, the Ph.D. Program inMolecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology, and theInterdepartment Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience.

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