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Biography
Zachary Knight is a Professor in the Department of Physiology at UCSF and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His lab studies the neural mechanisms that control homeostasis, including especially the regulation of hunger and thirst. Zack received his B.A. in Chemistry from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCSF, where he performed research in the lab of Kevan Shokat. Zack then performed postdoctoral studies in physiology with Jeffrey Friedman at Rockefeller University, before returning to UCSF to start his independent lab in 2012.