Peying Fong

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Professor of Physiology

BS, Biology, Yale University
PhD, Physiology, University of California, San Francisco

Office: Coles Hall 212
Phone: 785-532-4524
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Research Interests

Peying Fong’s research interests and the focus of her lab center on understanding the structure and function of proteins that facilitate salt, solute, and water movement across intracellular and plasma membranes. Transport processes enable by these channel and transporter proteins underpin functions critical to all systems within the body. This is underscored by the plethora of diseases that can ensue when they do not function properly.
In addition to being a graduate faculty member in Anatomy and Physiology, Dr. Fong is a member of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group, and The Johnson Cancer Research Center. She is a Senior Editor and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physiology, and she is a Fellow of The Physiological Society.

Professional Societies

  • The Biophysical Society
  • The Society of General Physiologists
  • The Physiological Society
  • The American Physiological Society

Teaching

Dr. Fong teaches the Digestive Physiology block of Systems Physiology II (VAP 817) in the first-year veterinary curriculum. Her didactic teaching extends to instruction in Renal and Gastrointestinal Physiology in AP 717 of the One-Year Master's Curriculum. She also offers AP 828: Electricity in Biological Systems, to introduce graduate students to this important dimension of physiology.