Research and Teaching Interests

Neuroscience, ion transport: regulation and roles in cellular processes.

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine (1972-74)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah (1971-1972)
• Ph.D., University of Utah (1971)

Courses

• BIO 211: Introduction to Neuroscience
• BIO 327: Genetics and Cell Biology II
• BIO 396: Stem Cells and Society
• BIO 421: Junior/Senior Seminar
• CAS 101: Freshman Forum

Selected Publications

• Russell, J.M. Sodium-Coupled Chloride Cotransporters: Discovery and Newly Emerging Concepts. In: Physiology and Pathology of Chloride Transporters and Channels in the Nervous System: From Molecules to Diseases, Eds.: F. Javier Alvarez-Leefmans and Eric Delpire. Elsevier, 2009.
• Russell, J.M. The Sodium-Potassium-Chloride Cotransporter, Human Cytomegalovirus, and the Cell Cycle. In: Physiology and Pathology of Chloride Transporters and Channels in the Nervous System: From Molecules to Diseases, Eds.: F. Javier Alvarez-Leefmans and Eric Delpire. Elsevier, 2009.
• Davis, BA, Hogan, EM, Russell, J.M. and Boron, WF. ATP Dependence of Na+-Driven Cl-HCO3 Exchange in Squid Axons. J. Membrane Biol. 222: 107-113, 2008.
• Crowe, W.E., L.M. Maglova, P. Ponka and J.M. Russell. Human cytomegalovirus-induced host cell enlargement is iron dependent. Am. J. Physiol.: Cell Physiol. 287: C1023-C1030, 2004. [article]
• Maglova, L.M., W.E. Crowe and J.M. Russell. Perinuclear localization of Na-K-Cl-cotransporter protein after human cytomegalovirus infection. Am. J. Physiol.: Cell Physiol. 286: C1324-C1334, 2004. [article]
• Gritchenko, I., I. Choi, X. Zhong, P. Bray-Ward, J.M. Russell, and W.F. Boron. Cloning, characterization and chromosomal mapping of a human electroneutral Na+-driven Cl-HCO3 exchanger. J. Biol. Chem. 276(11):8358-63, 2001.
• Russell, J.M. Sodium-Potassium-Chloride Cotransport. Physiol. Rev. 80: 211-276, 2000.
• Altamirano, A.A., Breitwieser, G.E., and Russell, J.M. Activation of Na+,K+,Cl- cotransport in squid giant axon by extracellular ions: Evidence for ordered binding. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1416: 195-207, 1999.