Joseph Santin

Assistant Professor

Biological Sciences,

santinj@missouri.edu

Dr. Joe Santin is interested in both applied and fundamental questions about how the nervous system helps animals survive in their environments. The focus of most of his lab’s efforts is on animals that experience challenges to the nervous system that tend to be big problems in many human diseases. These include inactivity of neuromuscular systems (think, “if you don’t use it, you lose it”) and impaired oxygen and glucose transport (think, brain damage in stroke and cardiac arrest). He hopes to increase our chances of finding new and creative solutions to major human health issues by learning from animals that already “know” how to get around these problems.