Dr. Diego Bohórquez
Duke University

Sugar: A gut choice
 
Dr. Diego Bohórquez is an Associate Professor in Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Neurobiology, at Duke University.

His work focuses on gut-brain signaling, in the transformation of chemosensation in the gut into neural signals that alter behavior.

Following his discovery of neuropods, specialized gut cells that synapse with vagal neurons, Dr. Bohórquez characterized neural circuits that transmit sensory information from the food we eat to our brain. Recently, he revealed that the preference for sugar over a non-caloric sweetener is governed by neuropod activity.

Dr. Bohórquez is the founder of Gastronauts, a scientific community for gut-brain research that hosts monthly international seminars, a podcast and a Biannual Global Symposium.

Further information
Bohórquez Lab website
Ted Talk by Dr. Bohórquez: How does our gut talk to our brain?
Gastronauts website

For more information, please contact naama.reicher@mail.huji.ac.il