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Living History of Physiology
 Aubrey
Taylor
June 4, 1933, El Paso, Texas
Aubrey Elmo Taylor was born in El Paso and grew up in Bryson, Texas,
Ventura and Oxnard, California, and Fort Worth, where he was graduated from
Paschal High School, a school popularized by novelist Dan Jenkins. After a
hitch in the US Army and brief employment with the meat processor Swift &
Company, Taylor enrolled at Texas Christian University where in 1960 he
received a baccalaureate degree with a double major of mathematics and
psychology.
Taylor enrolled in the graduate program at Arthur C. Gutyon's physiology
department at the University of Mississippi Medical School, where in 1966 he
earned his PhD. His postdoctoral research was in membrane transport and
nonequilibrium thermodynamics at A.K. Solomon's Biophysical Laboratory at
Harvard University under the Guidance of Peter Curran, Ernie Wright, and
Stanley Schultz.
In 1967 he returned to Mississippi as an associate professor of
physiology and was appointed professor of physiology and anesthesiology in
1973. It was here that he started encouraging young clinicians to use his
laboratory to train in basic research, a tradition that he has continued.
While at Mississippi Taylor developed an interest in both medical and
graduate education and served on the medical school admissions board for 10
years and as director of the physiology department's graduate school
program. He also taught undergraduate mathematics at the University's
extension center in Jackson. In 1977 Taylor moved to his current position as
chair of the physiology department at the University of South Alabama.
Taylor's research spans several areas of cardiopulmonary physiology,
beginning with his first concerns with the stability of the cerebral
ischemic reflex involving control theory approaches, such as Bodie and
Nyquist plots, to his more recent studies conducted on the mechanisms of
capillary transport of solutes and water in the microcirculation of lung,
gastrointestinal tract, skeletal muscle, and subcutaneous tissue. His
studies also have focused on oxygen radical involvement in various forms of
lung and brain pathology and how the lung's vascular resistance changes in
various forms of pulmonary vascular disease.
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