Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, November 21, 2025
Charles Zuker, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience, Columbia University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Body-Brain Axis
Recommended Readings:
Canovas, Jose A., et al. “A brain center that controls consummatory responses.” Cell (2025).
Juen, Zhang, et al. “The structure of human sweetness.” Cell (2025).
Jin, Hao, et al. “A body–brain circuit that regulates body inflammatory responses.” Nature 630.8017 (2024): 695-703.
Juen, Zhang, Miguel Villavicencio, and Charles S. Zuker. “A neural substrate for short-term taste memories.” Neuron 112.2 (2024): 277-287.
Li, Mengtong, et al. “Gut–brain circuits for fat preference.” Nature 610.7933 (2022): 722-730.
