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:

The W.M. Keck Foundation 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, Ph.D. - Fat and Feeding Regulatory Circuits

Herwig Baier, Ph.D. - Genetic Architecture of Zebrafish Visual Perception and Behavior

Michael Brainard, Ph.D. -

Nigel Bunnett, Ph.D. - To Define Mechanisms Controlling Neurogenic Inflammation and Pain

David Copenhagen, Ph.D. -

Mary Dallman, Ph.D. - Brain-Pituitary-Adrenal Interrelationships

Tejal Desai, Ph.D. -

Robert Edwards, M.D. - Molecular Analysis of Neurotransmitter Release

Loren Frank, Ph.D. -

Adam Gazzaley, Ph.D. - Furthering the Understanding of the Neural mechanisms of Attention and Memory and Its Alterations In Normal Aging and Neurological Disease

Mats Gustafsson, Ph.D. -

Lily Jan, Ph.D. -

Yuh Nung Jan, Ph.D. -

David Julius, Ph.D. - Elucidating molecular mechanisms of touch, pain, and neurotransmitter action

Yuri Kirichok, Ph.D. - Electrical Signaling at the Mitochondrion in Health and Disease

Juan Korenbrot, Ph.D. -

Stephen Lisberger, Ph.D. -

Igor Mitrovic, M.D. - Physiology and Biomedical Science Education

Louis Reichardt, Ph.D. -

Phillip Sabes, Ph.D. - Sensorimotor Integration and Learning Using Psychophysical, Physiological, and Computational Approaches

Michael P. Stryker, Ph.D. - Development and Plasticity of the Cortex

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