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.