[Neuropostdocs] Prosser Lecture: Steve Roper on Chemoreception

[Joan Cornell]

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>Final reminder:
>
>
>Dear MIP & NSP  Colleagues (Faculty, Academic Staff & Graduate Students):
>
>Dr. Steve Roper, Professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Neuroscience at 
>the Medical School of the University of Miami, Florida, will present 
>the  C. Ladd Prosser Lecture, this afternoon (Friday April 12, at 4 pm) in 
>Room B102 --Auditorium of the Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -- 
>building (South Goodwin Ave).
>
>The lecture  is entitled "From Proteins to Perceptions: Bridging the Gap 
>between Molecular and Cellular Approaches in Taste." Dr. Roper has done 
>pioneering work in mechanisms of chemoreception and chemoperception using 
>both comparative and mammalian systems and employing a variety of 
>molecular, cellular and integrative approaches.
>
>A reception will follow the lecture in the atrium of CLSL.
>
>Thanks in advance for your participation-
>
>Essie Meisami
>
>*****
>
>Abstract of Dr. Roper's lecture:
>
>"Tremendous strides have been taken recently in the molecular biology of 
>taste.  As a result, a number of G protein-coupled taste receptors, 
>downstream effectors, and ion channels for taste transduction have been 
>identified.  However, physiological studies are sometimes at odds with 
>molecular biological findings.  For example, molecular biological 
>investigations suggest that taste cells express only one class of taste 
>receptors such as bitter receptors or sweet receptors, but not 
>both.  However, functional studies show that many taste cells respond to 
>multiple classes of taste chemicals.  This and other discrepancies remain 
>unreconciled.    My laboratory has devised a new method that promises to 
>overcome many problems in recording physiological signals in taste 
>cells.  Our goal is to use this technique to bridge the gap between 
>physiological and molecular biological studies and provide a more complete 
>picture of taste transduction mechanisms."
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Joan Cornell
Neurosciences Program
University of Illinois
393 Morrill Hall, MC-119
505 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Telephone:  217/333-3166
FAX:           217/265-0927
jcornell@life.uiuc.edu
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>  
> Final reminder: 
>  
>
> Dear MIP & NSP  Colleagues (Faculty, Academic Staff &
> Graduate Students): 
>
> Dr. Steve Roper, Professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Neuroscience at
> the Medical School of the University of Miami, Florida, will present
> the  C. Ladd Prosser Lecture, this afternoon (Friday April 12, at 4
> pm) in Room B102 --Auditorium of the Chemical & Life Sciences
> Laboratory -- building (South Goodwin Ave). 
>
> The lecture  is entitled "From Proteins to Perceptions:
> Bridging the Gap between Molecular and Cellular Approaches in
> Taste." Dr. Roper has done pioneering work in mechanisms of
> chemoreception and chemoperception using both comparative and mammalian
> systems and employing a variety of molecular, cellular and integrative
> approaches. 
>
> A reception will follow the lecture in the atrium of CLSL. 
>
> Thanks in advance for your participation- 
>
> Essie Meisami 
>
> ***** 
>
> Abstract of Dr. Roper's lecture: 
>
> "Tremendous
> strides have been taken recently in the molecular biology of taste. 
> As a result, a number of G protein-coupled taste receptors, downstream
> effectors, and ion channels for taste transduction have been
> identified.  However, physiological studies are sometimes at odds
> with molecular biological findings.  For example, molecular
> biological investigations suggest that taste cells express only one class
> of taste receptors such as bitter receptors or sweet receptors, but not
> both.  However, functional studies show that many taste cells
> respond to multiple classes of taste chemicals.  This and other
> discrepancies remain unreconciled.    My laboratory has
> devised a new method that promises to overcome many problems in recording
> physiological signals in taste cells.  Our goal is to use this
> technique to bridge the gap between physiological and molecular
> biological studies and provide a more complete picture of taste
> transduction mechanisms." 
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Joan Cornell
Neurosciences Program
University of Illinois
393 Morrill Hall, MC-119
505 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Telephone:  217/333-3166
FAX:          
217/265-0927
jcornell@life.uiuc.edu

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