Zachary Knight
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
PhD, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, UCSF
BA, Chemistry, Princeton University
Zack is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and a member of the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF. His 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–)
Jake was formerly a postdoc in Gary Ruvkun's lab at Harvard.
jacob.carlson[at]ucsf.edu
Lisa Beutler
Postdoc
MD, University of Washington
PhD, Genome Sciences, University of Washington
BS, Genetics, University of California – Davis
NIH Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (2018–)
Lisa is currently a clinical fellow in endocrinology at UCSF and was formerly a graduate student in Richard Palmiter's lab at UW.
lisa.beutler[at]ucsf.edu
Ling Bai
Postdoc
PhD, Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
BS, Biology, Tsinghua University
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Fellow (2017–)
Ling was formerly a graduate student in David Ginty's lab at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
ling.bai[at]ucsf.edu
Oliver Miller
Postdoc
PhD, Neuroscience, Tulane University
BA, Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, Neuroscience, University of California – Santa Cruz
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow (2018–)
Oliver was formerly a graduate student in Benjamin Hall's lab at Tulane and Roche.
oliver.miller[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
Yiming Chen
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BS, Biology, University of Wisconsin – Madison
HHMI International Student Research Fellow (2015–)
yiming.chen[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
Seonghyun (Jamie) Ahn
Specialist
BS, Neurobiology, University of California – Davis
Jamie was formerly an undergrad in Diasynou Fioravante's lab at UC Davis.
seonghyun.ahn[at]ucsf.edu
Seher Kosar
Specialist
MS, Neuroscience, Universities of Strasbourg, Basel, and Freiburg
BS, Biology, Middle East Technical University
Seher was formerly a masters student in Ed Mann's lab at Oxford.
seher.kosar[at]ucsf.edu
Sheyda Mesgarzadeh
Specialist
BS, Neuroscience, University of California – Los Angeles
Sheyda was formerly an undergrad in Carlos Portera-Cailliau's lab at UCLA.
sheyda.mesgarzadeh[at]ucsf.edu
Former Lab Members
David Leib, Graduate Student, 2013–2018 (Next – Postdoc in Beverly Davidson's lab at Penn)
Chan Lek Tan, Postdoc, 2013–2018 (Next – Senior Scientist at Genentech)
Dina Faddah, Postdoc, 2014–2016 (Next – Postdoc in Rusty Gage's lab at Salk)
Rachel Essner, Specialist, 2016–2018 (Next – Graduate Student at Harvard)
Erica Huey, Specialist, 2016–2018 (Next – Graduate Student 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)