Joshua Gross

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I obtained my PhD from West Virginia University in Cellular & Integrative Physiology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Marc Caron at Duke University. As Director of the Nutritional Neuropharmacology Laboratory in the PSU Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Biobehavioral Health, I will investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying food reward and its downstream dysregulation of metabolism, particularly in response to obesogenic diets. My laboratory will employ an array of techniques — ranging from molecular pharmacology to behavioral analyses in genetically-engineered mice — to study how GPCR-dependent gut hormones, neurotransmitters, and dietary nutrients regulate food reward in the context of obesity, eating disorders, and diabetes.