生命科学学院学术报告

题目：Mechanosensation: From Ion Channels to Animal Behaviors

讲座人：Wei Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of  Physiology, UCSF

时间：6月22日13：30-14：30

地点：新生物楼311

摘要：

Mechanosensation, the sensation for mechanical force, employs mechanosensitive ion channels to detect touch, pain, body movement, sound and other cues. In this talk, I will describe our work using Drosophila sensory neurons as a model to elucidate the molecular and cellular basis for mechanosensory behaviors. I will show the neural structure for gentle touch sensation in the fly larvae, and the mechanosensitive channel that mediates its extraordinary sensitivity. I will then describe the intriguing properties of this channel, and how it fulfills the mechanical-electrical transduction with its unique features. I will also discuss how this research strategy could be applied to the highly diverse mechanosensory behaviors.

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