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Learning from post-ingestive rewards
Abstract
The progress of a meal is controlled by sensory feedback generated during eating. I will describe our work investigating how these signals are integrated in the caudal brainstem and used to control behavior. A central theme is how feedback from the mouth and gut interacts both during ingestion and over longer timescales through learning.
Zachary Knight
UC San Francisco
Zachary Knight is a Professor of Physiology at UCSF and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His lab studies the neurobiology of homeostasis, including the regulation of hunger and thirst. Zack received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCSF, where he worked with Kevan Shokat, and then performed postdoctoral research in physiology at Rockefeller University, where he worked with Jeffrey Friedman. He returned to UCSF to start his independent lab in 2012.
Hosted by - Liqun Luo (Luo Lab)
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