Teaching Faculty


Gregory W. Aponte's picture
Professor
510-642-7226
Nutrition: Gut-Brain Axis
Danica Chen's picture
Professor
510-642-0603
Molecular and cell biology, Physiology, Metabolic biology, Biology of aging, Stem cell biology
Marc Hellerstein's picture
Professor, The Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair in Metabolic Nutrition
510-643-2550
Metabolic Biology
Sona Kang's picture
Associate Professor
510-664-7254
Metabolic biology
Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of adipose biology
David Moore's picture
Hormone signaling, particularly by nuclear receptors. Metabolic regulation in normal and disease states.
Anders M. Näär's picture
Professor of Metabolic Biology
510-642-8178
Metabolic Biology
Gene Expression
MicroRNAs
James Olzmann's picture
Professor
510-642-1053
Cell biology, chemical biology, systems biology
Lipid droplets, organelle crosstalk, and lipotoxicity in metabolic diseases and cancer
Barry SHANE's picture
Professor of the Graduate School
510-643-6692
Andreas Stahl's picture
Professor
510-642-6900
Metabolic diseases, adipocyte biology, liver cancer, lipid transport, in vivo imaging, bioluminescent probes for macro- and micro-nutrients, tissue engineering and hydrogels, cellular biomechanics, human iPSC-based microfluidic devices
Hei Sook SUL's picture
Professor, Doris H. Calloway Chair in Human Nutrition
510-642-3978
Regulation of Adipose Tissue Development and Lipid Metabolism
Denis Titov's picture
Assistant Professor
510-664-4562
Regulation of Human Metabolic Pathways; Molecular Basis of Aging; Systems and Computational Biology
Jen Chywan Wang's picture
Molecular Endocrinology, Metabolic Regulation of Glucocorticoid Receptor, Metabolic Diseases

Cooperative Extension Specialists


Susana Matias's picture
Cooperative Extension Specialist
510-642-0980
Public health nutrition

Adjunct Faculty


Alicia Henson's picture
Program Coordinator and Education Specialist
Dale E. JOHNSON's picture
Adjunct Professor
Ronald M KRAUSS's picture
Adjunct Professor
510-450-7908
Dietary, genetic and drug effects on lipoprotein metabolism and cardiometabolic risk.
Mary N. R. Lesser's picture
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Pediatric Dietitian
510-642-1038
Maternal Nutrition, Developmental Nutrition, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Mikelle McCoin's picture
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Dietetics Program Director
510-642-2790
Gunes Parlakgul's picture
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Organelle structure and function, spatio-temporal regulation of metabolism, high-resolution microcopy, deep-learning and neural-networks for image analysis
Veerle Rottiers, PhD's picture
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Metabolism, Aging, Obesity, Genetics, C. elegans

Affiliated Faculty


Rachel Brem's picture
Associate Professor
Fungi as a model system for the study of genetic variation and evolution
Andrew Dillin's picture
Endocrinology and genetics of aging.
Emily Goldberg's picture
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF
inflammation regulation and metabolic health
Holly Ingraham's picture
Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Hormones and Nerves in Female Physiology
Suneil Koliwad's picture
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Lipid and energy metabolism, inflammation, innate immunity, and neural circuits controlling appetite and peripheral metabolic pathways
Gregory Ku's picture
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF
415-478-9847
Pancreatic Beta Cells
Samantha Lewis's picture
Assistant Professor
510-664-5834
mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles
Christian Vaisse's picture
Vera M. Long Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research Professor, UCSF
Genetic predisposition to obesity and diabetes
Allison Xu's picture
Professor, Joseph and Vera Long Foundation Endowed Professor in Diabetes and Obesity Research, UCSF
415-476-2807
Neuronal regulation of energy balance, glucose and lipid metabolism

Emeriti Faculty