Lectures and seminars Seminar: "Does the gut feel touch?" with Arthur Beyder, Mayo Clinic
Welcome to a seminar with Arthur Beyder, MD, PhD and Associate Professor in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Clinic, 28 August at 15:00 in Room Peter Reichard, Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Solna.
Speaker
Arthur Beyder, MD, PhD and Associate Professor in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Clinic
Title
"Does the gut feel touch?"
About the speaker
Art grew up in Ukraine and emigrated with his family from the former USSR to the United States in 1989. He spent the next nearly 20 years in Buffalo, NY. Art came to Rochester, MN in 2007 and all of his four children are Minnesotans.
Art graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo in biophysics and mathematics in 1998. He stayed at SUNY Buffalo for a combined MD-PhD, which he finished in 2007. Art then pursued further training at the Mayo Clinic in the clinician-investigator program. Between 2007 and 2014, he did an internal medicine residency and gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship training and post-doctoral research. In 2014, Art joined the Mayo Clinic staff as a physician-scientist. He is currently a consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Physiology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Art runs an NIH-funded research program the aim of which is to determine the mechanisms of “gut feeling,” and in particular how these mechanisms can be used to understand and treat gastrointestinal motility disorders. His specific expertise is in the areas of mechanical and electrical aspects of the digestive system function. His work has focused on the cellular and molecular aspects of ion channel physiology and biophysics in the gut and how forces are sensed and transduced by these ion channels. Art’s group discovered “gut touch,” which is an intrisic tactile sense in the gut that allows it to, like finger tips, determine the physical aspects of luminal contents to regulate motility and secretion. Dr. Beyder’s group is funded by the NIH, and their work was recognized by the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, recognizing the creativity of his group’s work. Art’s group has published in high-impact journals, like Cell, PNAS, JCI, Circulation, Gastroenterology, and Journal of Physiology among others. Dr. Beyder also holds several US patents.