The Department of Physiology welcomes Dr. Bill Jia, PhD, as our newest Sandler Fellow! Dr. Jia has his PhD from Harvard where he studied Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology. His lab will focus on electrical and ionic signaling mechanisms for cellular decision making…
Congratulations Loren Frank, PhD. Frank has dedicated himself to developing programs with in Physiology and was integral in writing a propsal to establishing the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience. Frank has gone above and beyond to help those in the community establish funding and…
The Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, the highest honor bestowed by SfN, recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to neuroscience throughout their career. At the SfN annual meeting this past fall, Styker was celebrated for "Pioneering Visions:…
The National Institute of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward (HRHR) program awards more than $200 million to researchers across different stages of their careers, including six UCSF researchers.
Emily Goldberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology at UCSF where her lab studies how coordination between immune and metabolic systems controls inflammation and chronic disease. <more>
David Julius, PhD, a professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and the Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine who has received medicine’s most prestigious awards, including the 2021 Nobel Prize for co-discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.
Eye Movements in REM Sleep Mimic Gazes in the Dream World
Multiple Brain Regions Coordinate to Conjure Wholly Imagined Worlds
By Robin Marks
When our eyes move during REM sleep, we’re gazing at things in the dream world our brains have created, according to a new study by…
David Julius, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine at UC San Francisco, has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
