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Neuroscience Seminar Series

Title: Feeling the Force: PIEZO Ion Channels in Interoception

Speaker:
Kara Marshall, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Our internal organs are often moving during their normal functions: hearts beat, lungs expand, and bladders fill. The mechanical forces generated by these movements are actively detected by the nervous system to drive physiology. Force detection in mammals is accomplished through mechanosensory PIEZO ion channels, which are critical for several internal sensory processes, including baroreception and the detection of bladder filling.  We use PIEZO ion channels as molecular handles to understand how mechanosensory information is detected, and how it influences important physiological processes in the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts.   

On February 6, 2024 at 4:00 - 5:00PM
In-person in CRA 12.110.

This will also be available on MS Teams.
Meeting ID: 260 169 385 994
Passcode: T9mV6ee7

CRA 12.110

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Jennifer Morina
Email
972-883-2448

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