Charles A. Fuller
Professor
cafuller@ucdavis.edu

Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior

Office
280H Briggs Hall
(530) 752-2979

Lab
(530) 752-9698



 
Degrees:
1975 PhD University of California, Davis (Physiology)
1973 MS University of California, Davis (Physiology)
1971 BS University of California, Davis (Zoology)
Research Interests:

Regulation of circadian and homeostatic systems; sleep-wake physiology, energetics and metabolism in rodents and non-human primates
Professional Societies:
American Physiological Society
Society for Neurosicence
International Society for Gavitational Physiology
American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology
Society for Research on Biological Rhythms
Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
American Society of Primatology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Aerospace Medical Association
Sigma Xi
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Exercise Science  
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology  
Publications: Last updated 11/22/2009
  • Fuller, P.M., T.A. Jones, S.M. Jones and C.A. Fuller. Neurovestibular modulation of circadian and homeostatic regulation: vestibulo-hypothalamic connection? Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99: 15723-15728, 2002.
  • Fuller, C.A. and P.M. Fuller. Circadian Rhythms. In: Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, ed. V.S. Ramachandran, Elsevier Science, USA, pp. 793-812, 2002.
  • Tang, I-H., D.M. Murakami, and C.A. Fuller. Unilateral optic nerve transection alters light response of suprachiasmatic nucleus and intergeniculate leaflet. Am. J. Physiol., 282:R569-R577, 2002.
  • Warren, L.E., B.A. Horwitz, J.S. Hamilton, and C.A. Fuller. Effects of 2G on Adiposity, Leptin, Lipoprotein Lipase and Uncoupling Protein-1 in Lean and Obese Zucker Rats. J. Appl. Physiol., 90:606-614, 2001.
  • Ingham, E.I., E. Gunhan, P.M. Fuller and C.A. Fuller. Immunotoxin-Induced Ablation of Melanopsin Retinal Ganglion Cells in a Non-Murine Mammalian Model. J Comp Neurology. 516:125-40, 2009.
  • Fuller CA, TM Hoban-Higgins, VYa Klimovitsky, DW Griffin, and AM Alpatov. 1996. Primate circadian rhythms during spaceflight: results from Cosmos 2044 and 2229. Journal of Applied Physiology. 81:188-193
  • Edgar DM, WC Dement and CA Fuller. 1993. Effect of SCN-lesions on sleep in squirrel monkeys: Evidence for opponent processes in sleep-wake regulation. Journal of Neuroscience. 13:1065-1079
  • Hsieh, K.C., E.L. Robinson and C.A. Fuller. Sleep architecture in unrestrained rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) synchronized to 24-hour light-dark cycles. Sleep 31:1239-1250, 2008.
Laboratory Personnel:
Chronic Acceleration Research Unit (CARU)

Tana M. Hoban-Higgins, Edward L. Robinson, Kristyn Ringgold

Teaching Interests:
Systems physiology & Neuroscience. Biological Rhythms and Sleep. Environmental Physiology. Gravitational Physiology.
Courses:
NPB 140 Principles of Environmental Physiology Winter
MCP 242 Biological Rhythms and Sleep Fall
NPB 101 Human Systemic Physiology Spring