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Zachary Knight

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The Neurobiology of Homeostasis

Zachary Knight @zknight.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We have an opening for a Lab Manager position in my group at UCSF. Consider joining us! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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Laboratory Manager- Knight Lab

Primary Work Address: 1550 4th Street, Suite 190, San Francisco, CA, 94158-0724 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. We are seeking a Laboratory Manager to support the...

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Zachary Knight @zknight.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

If you are a student and postdoc interested in body-brain communication - check out Chris's lab!

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Alice Adriaenssens @adriaenssenslab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Unbelievably proud of @nataliefigueredob.bsky.social for winning the prestigious Bogue Fellowship 🌟 She'll be heading across the pond to train with the @zknight.bsky.social lab for 3 months. Exciting things to come for this bright young scientist 🧠. @uclnpp.bsky.social @ccmnlondon.bsky.social

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Zachary Knight @zknight.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Beautiful images - great to see so many using this approach.

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Zachary Knight @zknight.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Nice article in NY Times today about AgRP neurons, GLP1s, and hunger. By Gina Kolata. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/h...

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What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger

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Kate Wassum @katewassum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv

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A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit - Nature

Adaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning off a brain path...

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Zachary Knight @zknight.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Impressive new study from Chris Zimmerman shows that visceral malaise reactivates the representation of recently consumed flavors, providing a mechanism for post-ingestive learning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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