PHYSIOLOGY - Key Persons

Angelie Khu

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Human Resources Liaison

Armando Martinez

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Administrative Support

The Ashrafi lab investigates the intersection of metabolism, learning and memory, and aging. Most of the studies employ C. elegan s as an experimental system. A wide range of approaches including molecular genetics, genomics, biochemistry, pharmacology, imaging, and behavioral analyses are utilized. Additional areas of investigation include deciphering neuroendocrine determinants of fat content, mechanisms by which environmentally pervasive pesticides, pollutants, and chemicals act as obesogens, and using C. elegans to study the counterparts of human obesity genes. Collaborative efforts include extending the C. elegans findings into murine models and using cutting-edge label-free methods for imaging lipids and other metabolites in intact animals.

Ashrafi, Kaveh

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Professor, UCSF School of Medicine

Casey Carpio

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Grants Officer

David Julius

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Member of the Department Leadership Team
Chairman of the Department of Physiology, 415 - 476 - 0431

Dirk Kleinhesselink

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CIN Systems Administrator

Dora Scott

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Executive Analyst to SOM Vice Dean for Research

Julia Liebowitz

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Kavli IFN Administrator and Director of Communications

Kaveh Ashrafi

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Kaveh Ashrafi earned his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech before pursuing a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Washington University School of Medicine. He completed subsequent postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and The Massachusetts General Hospital before joining the UCSF department of Physiology as Assistant Professor. Dr. Ashrafi holds a number of awards including a Jack D. and DeLoris Lange Endowed Chair in Systems Physiology, two Haile T. Debas Academy of Educators Excellence in Teaching Awards from UCSF, and a Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to being an Associate Professor for the Department of Physiology, he is faculty in the PIBS Graduate Program as well as the BMS Graduate Program and affiliated with the Cardiovascular Research Institute.