Overview
I am a sensory neuro-gastroenterologist. My laboratory studies the connection between the brain and the gut.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine
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2025 - Present
Medicine, Gastroenterology,
Medicine
Assistant Professor in Neurobiology
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2024 - Present
Neurobiology,
Basic Science Departments
Recent Publications
A sensory map of the gastrointestinal tract
Preprint · March 10, 2025 Full text CiteThe pressure not to eat.
Journal Article Nat Metab · March 2024 Full text Link to item CiteThe preference for sugar over sweetener depends on a gut sensor cell.
Journal Article Nature neuroscience · February 2022 Guided by gut sensory cues, humans and animals prefer nutritive sugars over non-caloric sweeteners, but how the gut steers such preferences remains unknown. In the intestine, neuropod cells synapse with vagal neurons to convey sugar stimuli to the brain wi ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Efferent modulation of neuropod cells in the small intestine
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027Gut glutamatergic neurotransmission in sugar preference
ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026The efferent synapse in neuropod cells
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Yale University ·
2016
Ph.D.