Department Research Information
Research Centers
Department of Physiology faculty direct and/or participate in a number of leading research centers both on and off the UCSF campus. Among these research centers are:
UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience
The Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology
The Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease
The Gallo Research Center
The Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction
Core Faculty Research Interests
Kaveh Ashrafi, PhD - Fat and Feeding Regulatory Circuits
Michael Brainard, PhD - Sensory Stimuli Driving Neural Change
Loren Frank, PhD - Learning, Memory and Plasticity in the Rodent Brain
Lily Jan, PhD - Neural Circuits
Yuh Nung Jan, PhD - Neural Circuits
David Julius, PhD - Elucidating molecular mechanisms of touch, pain, and neurotransmitter action
Yuriy Kirichok, PhD - Electrical Signaling at the Mitochondrion in Health and Disease
Zachary Knight, PhD - Neural Feeding Circuits
Igor Mitrovic, MD - Physiology and Biomedical Science Education
David Morgan, PhD - Biochemistry of the Cell Cycle
Philip Sabes, PhD - Sensorimotor Integration and Learning Using Psychophysical, Physiological, and Computational Approaches
Massimo Scanziani, PhD - Neural Circuitry of Higher Brain Functions
Michael Stryker, PhD - Development and Plasticity of the Cortex