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

Dr. Parker directs the Social Neurosciences Research Program, which seeks to advance understanding of the biological basis of social functioning across a range of species, and to translate these fundamental insights to drive diagnostic and treatment
advances for patients with social functioning difficulties.

Dr. Sadayappan's research is driven by a deep commitment to improving muscle health, with a long-term goal of preventing and treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, heart failure, distal arthrogryposis of skeletal muscle, and smooth muscle-related diseases.

The University of Arizona's Physiological Sciences GIDP presents Rachel Battershell and Dayannara Munoz as part of the Physiological Sciences Student Forum.

The University of Arizona's Physiological Sciences GIDP presents Daniel Chrisenberry and Dustin Jeffery as part of the Physiological Sciences Student Forum.

Dr. Antonson is an Assistant Professor in the Immunophysiology and Behavior Program within the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC). She established her research program in 2021 to investigate how prenatal inflammatory exposures alter placental function and fetal brain development. Dr. Antonson's multidisciplinary training in immunology, neuroscience, reproductive physiology, and microbiology enables her to interrogate complex interactions across the maternal-fetal interface and placenta-brain axis.

Work in the Wu laboratory centers on adaptive immunity, renal hemodynamics, and gene-environment interactions in hypertension and kidney disease. The overarching research goal is to define renal microcirculation, the role of immune cells in electrolyte transport, and the susceptibility of these processes to genetic variants and environmental stressors.

Dr. McGee combines the experimental techniques of conditional mouse genetics, electrophysiology, repeated two-photon calcium imaging in vivo, and behavioral assessments of vision, to explore how to modulate plasticity for therapeutic gain in disorders of vision.

The Crone Laboratory studies how neural circuits that control breathing are altered by spinal cord injury with the goal of developing new approaches to restore breathing and prevent ventilator dependence in people living with spinal cord injury.

Dr. de Lartigue's research program investigates how the gut communicates with the brain to regulate feeding, motivation, and energy balance, and how these processes are disrupted in obesity and metabolic disease. A central focus is on vagal sensory neurons, which detect gastrointestinal signals and transmit them to the brain to influence both physiology and behavior.