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 Alcohol and Addiction and Research Center
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
Walter Gonzalez, PhD - Neuronal dynamics controlling adaptive behaviors in mice and birds.
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
Kevin Yackle, PhD - Breathing and other central pattern generators