Dr. Stavros Lomvardas, assistant professor in the department of anatomy at UCSF, is interested in olfactory receptor choice.
About 900 genes encode the receptor proteins in your nose that help you smell. However, each neuron in the olfactory epithelium expresses only one of those genes. Dr. Lomvardas is interested in how the nervous system “chooses” which receptor protein is expressed. In this episode, Stavros explores the cellular machinery that selectively enhances or silences the expression of genes and how these discoveries were made.
More on the Lomvardas Lab's research
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Super interesting !
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ReplyDeleteWow! Very interesting. Our body is SO complicated. Usually you don't think a lot about how your anatomy works. You just live and that's all. But I used to write a lot biology works for myessayslab and I know that everything is not that simple.
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