The gut-brain connectome

Guest: Dr. Diego Bohorquez, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke Department of Medicine, Assistant Research Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine
Topics: Gut-brain neurobiology, enteroendocrine cells

 

Dr. Diego Bohorquez

 

Gutbrains.com – Diego’s website

Diego’s Duke Department of Medicine faculty page

Full text article in the Journal of Clinical Investigation: “The gut connectome: making sense of what you eat”

Click to Download: Radio In Vivo August 23, 2017

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Coronaviruses Drug


Guests: Dr. Timothy Sheahan, Research Assistant Professor, and Dr. Amy Sims, Research Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
Topics: New anti-viral drug (GS-5734) with potential to treat coronaviruses, in vitro lung epithelial cell model, working in a Biosafety Level 3 lab

 

Science Translational Medicine publication, “Broad-spectrum antiviral GS-5734 inhibits both epidemic and zoonotic coronaviruses

Video: “New antiviral drug holds potential to defeat myriad coronaviruses”

Dr. Amy Sims faculty profile

Dr. Tim Sheahan faculty profile

Click to Download: Radio In Vivo August 9, 2017

Dr. Amy Sims

Dr. Tim Sheahan

Cyber-enabled bionic organisms

Guest: Dr. Alper Bozkurt, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University
Topics: Cyber-enabled bionic organisms for environmental sensing and search-and-rescue, computer-aided training systems for dogs

 

Dr. Alper Bozkurt

 

iBionicS (Integrated Bionics Microsystems) Lab – Bozkurt Research Group

NCSU press release: “Researchers Develop Technique to Remotely Control Cockroaches”

Alper’s NCSU Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty page

NCSU press release: “New Tech Aims to Improve Communication Between Dogs and Humans”

Click to Download: Radio In Vivo July 12, 2017