Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine
·
2025 - Present
Medicine, Gastroenterology,
Medicine
Recent Publications
A gut sense for a microbial pattern regulates feeding.
Journal Article Nature · September 2025 To coexist with its resident microorganisms, the host must have a sense to adjust its behaviour in response to them. In the intestine, a sense for nutrients transduced to the brain through neuroepithelial circuits guides appetitive choices1-5. However, a s ... Full text Link to item CiteMultifunctional microelectronic fibers enable wireless modulation of gut and brain neural circuits.
Journal Article Nat Biotechnol · June 2024 Progress in understanding brain-viscera interoceptive signaling is hindered by a dearth of implantable devices suitable for probing both brain and peripheral organ neurophysiology during behavior. Here we describe multifunctional neural interfaces that com ... Full text Link to item CiteEvaluation of Flavor Effects on Oral Nicotine Liking and/or Disliking Using the Taste Reactivity Test in Rats.
Journal Article Nicotine Tob Res · March 26, 2022 INTRODUCTION: Tobacco product flavors may change the sensory properties of nicotine, such as taste and olfactory cues, which may alter nicotine reward and aversion and nicotine taking behavior. The hedonic or aversive value of a taste stimulus can be evalu ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Gut epithelial control of nutrient reward
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2024 - 2028Harnessing the neuroepithelial gut-brain circuit in binge eating disorder
ResearchPI-Fellow · Awarded by Brain and Behavior Research Foundation · 2024 - 2026The efferent synapse in neuropod cells
ResearchPostdoctoral Associate · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Pittsburgh ·
2017
Ph.D.