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 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
Tara Aitken
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BS, Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
UCSF Discovery Fellow (2019–)
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
Usan Dan
Specialist
BA, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
BA, English, University of California, Berkeley
usan.dan[at]ucsf.edu
Former Lab Members
Chris Zimmerman, Graduate Student, 2014–2019 (Next: Postdoc in Ilana Witten's lab at Princeton)
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)