Zuker attended the Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso in Chile, and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Harvey Lodish. He did his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley with Gerald Rubin.
His lab has contributed to our understanding of mammalian taste, in collaboration with Nicholas Ryba"s laboratory at the National Institutes of Health beginning in the 1990s. Prior to working on mammalian taste, his lab focused on visual signal transduction pathways in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly). He is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus.
After more than 20 years at the University of California, San Diego, he began his appointment at Columbia University in 2009.
National Academy of Sciences.
