The Gut-Brain Connection | Do Microorganisms Impact Our Social Behavior?
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How do the microorganisms that live in us, on us, and around us influence our biology? Joseph Bruckner joins us today to discuss the gut-brain connection, and how social development is affected by the microbes that reside in our bodies…
Joseph is a Senior Scientist at InVivo Biosystems, a company that strives to help pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, biotechnology companies, and academic research institutions advance their research and drug development endeavors.
With extensive experience in immunology, virology, microbiology, neurobiology, and more, Joseph is on a mission to develop solutions to "accelerate discovery and address underserved conditions".
In this episode, we cover:
- The mechanisms that are responsible for microbial interactions with the brain.
- The experimentation that is done to investigate how microbes influence social behavior.
- How bacteria evolve to survive in specific microenvironments.
- The importance of fine-tuning the interactions between microbes and their host.
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| 0:00.0 | we studied how microorganisms influence the brain and the development of the brain. |
| 0:05.7 | Since doing after doing that work, I've since started to position as a senior scientist, |
| 0:10.3 | small biotech company called Envivo Biosystems. It's been understood pretty well, |
| 0:15.6 | you know, more recently that the community of microorganisms that lives on us and in us, |
| 0:21.8 | and around us influences biology or, you know, any host's biology. |
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| 1:04.8 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
| 1:08.0 | not part of the Finding Genius Foundation. I have a Joseph Brookner. He was a senior scientist |
| 1:12.4 | at Envivo Biosystems. We had to talk about a possible death-brain connection and social development. |
| 1:19.2 | So we'll get into more Joseph's bio and he was in sure now. So Joseph, thank you for coming. |
| 1:23.8 | Thanks for having me. If you would tell me a bit about your scientific career and |
| 1:27.9 | then where you're at today, and then we'll get into some questions on your research. |
| 1:31.9 | Sure. I suppose I started out in science really being interested in things like parasites and |
| 1:37.2 | viruses, because creatures like that tell you a lot about kind of basic cell biology and |
| 1:43.2 | you know how human biology works, and they're just very interesting. So I started out interested |
| 1:48.1 | and did a little bit of work in those fields, and then went to get my PhD in cell biology and |
| 1:55.3 | found a love for neuroscience. So in graduate school, I suppose became a neuroscientist, |
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