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
Ling Bai
Postdoc
PhD, Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
BS, Biology, Tsinghua University
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Fellow (2017–2020)
ling.bai[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
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
Jun (Joseph) Oh
Medical Student, UCSF School of Medicine
BA, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
junyeop.oh[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
Tom Ding
Specialist
BA, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
tom.ding[at]ucsf.edu
Chelsea Li
Specialist
BA, Human Biology, University of Virginia
chelsea.li[at]ucsf.edu
Nilla Sivakumar
Specialist
BS, Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
nilla.sivakumar[at]ucsf.edu
Former Lab Members
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)