Zachary Knight
Professor, Department of Physiology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
PhD, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, UCSF
BA, Chemistry, Princeton University
Zack's laboratory investigates the neurobiology of homeostasis, especially the neural mechanisms that govern hunger, thirst, and thermoregulation.
zachary.knight[at]ucsf.edu
Sophia Laskaris
Lab Manager, Website manager
BS, Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston
[email protected]
Brooke Jarvie
Postdoc
PhD, Neuroscience, University of Washington
BS, Biomedical Science, Colorado State University
NIH National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow (2020–)
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Shenliang Yu
Postdoc
PhD, Cell Biology, Yale University
BS, Biological Sciences, Fudan University
[email protected]
Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR) Postdoctoral Independent Research Award recipient
Jonathan (JP) Riggle
Postdoc
PhD, Integrative Neuroscience, University of Chicago
BA, Neuroscience, University of Virginia
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Alejandro Lopez
Postdoc, Gastroenterology Fellow
MD, Weill Cornell Medicine
PhD, Biological Sciences, Rockefeller University
BS, Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Tara Aitken
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
PhD, Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco
BS, Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
NIH National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellow (2021–2024)
UCSF Discovery Fellow (2019–2022)
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James Grove
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BA, Linguistics, University of Chicago
NIH National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellow (2020–)
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Truong Ly
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BS, UCLA, Integrative Biology and Physiology
MS, UCLA, Integrative Biology and Physiology
NIH National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellow (2023–)
[email protected]
Zhengya Liu
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BS, Nanjing University, Biology
MS, McGill University, Neuroscience
Naz Dundar
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
BIF PhD Fellow (2023–)
UCSF Discovery Fellow (2023–)
Anagh Sinha Ravi
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2023–)
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Jun (Joseph) Oh
Medical Student, UCSF School of Medicine
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
[email protected]
Heeun Jang
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Garrison lab
PhD, Biological Sciences, Rockefeller University
BS, Life Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology
NIH National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow (2019–)
[email protected]
Grace Lee
Research Technician
BS, Neuroscience, Duke University
Jingkun Zhang
Visiting Scholar
M.D., Peking University
Nikos Chatziris
Assistant Specialist
BS, Psychology, University of Crete
MS, Neuroscience, University of Crete
Jaewon Choi
Research Technician
BA, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Rhea Nanavati
Research Technician
Yoochae Lee
Research Technician
Undergraduate Student, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley