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 Alcohol and Addiction and 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
Emily Goldberg, PhD - Immunometabolism
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
Massimo Scanziani, PhD - Neural Circuitry of Higher Brain Functions
Michael Stryker, PhD - Development and Plasticity of the Cortex