Farhan Abu is an Assistant instructor in the Children research Institute, UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. He received his undergraduate from VBS Purvanchal University of India, and a Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.
During Dr. Abu’s training he learn the neuronal correlations to behaviors and its sensory modulation upon feeding and starvation. As a post-doctoral fellow (2015 to 2018) in Greg Suh’s lab at the NYU Lagone Medical Center, New York, he studied the roles of caloric sensing neurons in the brain altering the differnet physiological responses related to feeding and hunger . He then moved to Benjamin Ohlstien’s lab at the Columbia University, New York, as an Associate Research Scientist. Here he trained on gut, cell biology and stem cells of fruit fly as a model organism and working on aspects that controls the food digestion and absorption.
