Zachary Knight
Associate 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
Jake Carlson
Postdoc
PhD, Chemical Biology, Harvard University
BS, Biochemistry, Biology, University of Michigan
Life Sciences Research Foundation Lilly Fellow (2015–2018)
jacob.carlson[at]ucsf.edu
Ling Bai
Postdoc
PhD, Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
BS, Biology, Tsinghua University
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Fellow (2017–)
ling.bai[at]ucsf.edu
Brooke Jarvie
Postdoc
PhD, Neuroscience, University of Washington
BS, Biomedical Science, Colorado State University
brooke.jarvie[at]ucsf.edu
Tzu-Wei (David) Kuo
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
MS, Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University
MD, National Taiwan University
Taiwan Ministry of Education Study Abroad Fellow (2014–2016)
tzu-wei.kuo[at]ucsf.edu
Chris Zimmerman
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BS, Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
BSE, Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellow (2017–)
Genentech Foundation Predoctoral Fellow (2016–2017)
UCSF Discovery Fellow (2015–2018)
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2013–2016)
chris.zimmerman[at]ucsf.edu
Tara Aitken
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BS, Neuroscience, University of California – Los Angeles
tara.aitken[at]ucsf.edu
James Grove
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BA, Linguistics, University of Chicago
james.grove[at]ucsf.edu
Lindsay Gray
Lab Manager and Specialist
MS, Gerontology, University of Southern California
MS, Biology, Dominican University of California
BA, Biopsychology, Mills College
lindsay.gray[at]ucsf.edu
Seher Kosar
Specialist
MS, Neuroscience, Universities of Strasbourg, Basel, and Freiburg
BS, Biology, Middle East Technical University
seher.kosar[at]ucsf.edu
Timothy Corpuz
Specialist
BA, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California – Berkeley
timothy.corpuz[at]ucsf.edu
Sheyda Mesgarzadeh
Specialist
BS, Neuroscience, University of California – Los Angeles
sheyda.mesgarzadeh[at]ucsf.edu
Former Lab Members
Yiming Chen, Graduate Student, 2014–2018 (Next – Postdoc in Karl Deisseroth's lab at Stanford)
David Leib, Graduate Student, 2013–2018 (Next – Postdoc in Beverly Davidson's lab at Penn)
Oliver Miller, Postdoc, 2017–2019 (Next – Scientist at Circuit Therapeutics)
Lisa Beutler, Postdoc, 2016–2019 (Next – Assistant Professor at Northwestern)
Chan Lek Tan, Postdoc, 2013–2018 (Next – Scientist at Genentech)
Dina Faddah, Postdoc, 2014–2016 (Next – Postdoc in Rusty Gage's lab at Salk)
Seonghyun (Jamie) Ahn, Specialist, 2016–2018 (Next – Medical Student at California Northstate)
Rachel Essner, Specialist, 2016–2018 (Next – Graduate Student in Mark Andermann's lab at Harvard)
Erica Huey, Specialist, 2016–2018 (Next – Graduate Student in David Ginty's lab at Harvard)
Michelle Zhang, Specialist, 2016–2017 (Next – Medical Student at Stanford)
Ailar Poormoghaddam, Specialist, 2016–2017 (Next – Medical Assistant in Los Angeles)
Yen-Chu Lin, Specialist, 2014–2016 (Next – Graduate Student in Jonathan Victor's lab at Weill Cornell)
Elizabeth Cooke, Specialist, 2014–2016 (Next – Graduate Student in Weizhe Hong's lab at UCLA)
Gwendolyn Daly, Specialist, 2015–2016 (Next – Medical Student at New York Medical College)
Daniel Estandian, Specialist, 2013–2015 (Next – Graduate Student in Ed Boyden's lab at MIT)
Colleen Mosley, Specialist, 2012–2014 (Next – Technician in Timothy Read's lab at Emory)