Welcome to the Osborn-Evans Collaborative
Combining expertise to study the role of kidneys in hypertension at the University of Minnesota
How does the brain process the barrage of neural and hormonal signals it “senses” to adjust nervous system activity to regulate arterial pressure - day in, day out, over years and years?
Our Research Questions
How does your brain “know” what your blood pressure is?
Why is salt in your diet linked to high blood pressure (hypertension)?
What is the connection between your diet, brain function, and hypertension?
Meet Our Team
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John Osborn, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
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Louise Evans, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
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Dusty Van Helden, M.S.
Lab Manager
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Mariana Ruiz Lauar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
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Nayara Pestana de Oliveira, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
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Roman Tyshynsky
Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate
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Dan Baumann
IBP Ph.D. Candidate
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Arthur de la Cruz-Lynch
MSTP Graduate Student
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Jaryd Ross
Lab Manager
Flagship Publications
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Function of Renal Nerves in Kidney Physiology and Pathophysiology
John Osborn, Roman Tyshynsky, and Lucy Vulchanova
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Increased Perfusion Pressure Drives Renal T-Cell Infiltration in the Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rat
Louise C. Evans, Galina Petrova, Theresa Kurth, Chun Yang, John D. Bukowy, David L. Mattson, and Allen W. Cowley Jr
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Resting Afferent Renal Nerve Discharge and Renal Inflammation
Elucidating the Role of Afferent and Efferent Renal Nerves in Deoxycorticosterone Acetate Salt Hypertension
Christopher T. Banek, Mark M. Knuepfer, Jason D. Foss, Jessica K. Fiege, Ninitha Asirvatham-Jeyaraj, Dusty Van Helden, Yoji Shimizu, and John W. Osborn