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
Naymalis La Santa Medina
Lab Manager
BS, Biology, West Virginia Wesleyan College
AS, Veterinary Technology, Pierpont Community and Technical College
LATG, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science
RVAT, State of West Virginia Board of Veterinary Medicine
naymalis.lasantamedina[at]ucsf.edu
Brooke Jarvie
Postdoc
PhD, Neuroscience, University of Washington
BS, Biomedical Science, Colorado State University
NIH National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow (2020–)
brooke.jarvie[at]ucsf.edu
Claire Gizowski
Postdoc
PhD, Neuroscience, McGill University
BS, Neuroscience, University of Alberta
Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellow (2019–)
claire.gizowski[at]ucsf.edu
Shenliang Yu
Postdoc
PhD, Cell Biology, Yale University
BS, Biological Sciences, Fudan University
shenliang.yu[at]ucsf.edu
Aphroditi (Didi) Mamaligas
Postdoc
PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Neuroscience
BA, Case Western Reserve University, Psychology
BA, Case Western Reserve University, Chemistry
NIH National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow (2020–)
aphroditi.mamaligas[at]ucsf.edu
Jonathan (JP) Riggle
Postdoc
PhD, Integrative Neuroscience, University of Chicago
BA, Neuroscience, University of Virginia
jonathan.riggle[at]ucsf.edu
Tara Aitken
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BS, Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
NIH National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellow (2021–)
UCSF Discovery Fellow (2019–)
tara.aitken[at]ucsf.edu
James Grove
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BA, Linguistics, University of Chicago
NIH National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellow (2020–)
james.grove[at]ucsf.edu
Truong Ly
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BS, UCLA, Integrative Biology and Physiology
MS, UCLA, Integrative Biology and Physiology
truong.ly[at]ucsf.edu
Zhengya Liu
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BS, Nanjing University, Biology
MS, McGill University, Neuroscience
zhengya.liu[at]ucsf.edu
Naz Dundar
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
naz.dundar[at]ucsf.edu
Anagh Sinha Ravi
Graduate Student, UCSF Neuroscience Program
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
anagh.ravi[at]ucsf.edu
Jun (Joseph) Oh
Medical Student, UCSF School of Medicine
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
junyeop.oh[at]ucsf.edu
Chris Barnes
Specialist
chris.barnes[at]ucsf.edu
Heidi Huang
Specialist
heidi.huang[at]ucsf.edu
Jaewon Choi
Specialist
jaewon.choi[at]ucsf.edu
Wendy Fang
Specialist
wendy.fang[at]ucsf.edu
Rhea Nanavati
Specialist
rhea.nanavati[at]ucsf.edu
Courtney Hudson
Graduate student, joint with Garrison Lab
BS, Biopsychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
CHudson[at]buckinstitute.org
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–)
heeun.jang[at]ucsf.edu
Former Lab Members
Sarah Shehata, Specialist, 2021–2022
Nilla Sivakumar, Specialist, 2020–2022 (Next: Graduate Student at UCSF)
Chelsea Li, Specialist, 2020–2021 (Next: Medical Student at Stanford University)
Tom Ding, Specialist, 2020-2021
Tzu-Wei (David) Kuo, Graduate Student, 2013–2020 (Next: Postdoc in Dawen Cai's lab at Michigan)
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)
Lindsay Gray, Specialist/Lab Manager, 2018–2020 (Next: Freelance Writer)
Timothy Corpuz, Specialist, 2018–2020 (Next: Medical Student at Saint Louis University)
Sheyda Mesgarzadeh, Specialist, 2018–2020 (Next: Medical Student at University of Arizona)
Seher Kosar, Specialist, 2017–2020 (Next: Graduate Student in Denis Burdakov's lab at ETH Zürich)
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)
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 Stephanie White'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)