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Minghong Ma, Ph.D

Department of Neuroscience

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Email: minghong@mail.med.upenn.edu
Phone: (215)746-2790
Address:
110 Johnson Pavilion
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Education

• 1997-2001 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience
  
• 1991-1997 Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
  Ph.D., M.Phil. and M.A., Neuroscience
  
• 1988-1991 Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
  M.S., Biophysics
• 1984-1988 Beijing University, Beijing, China
  B.S., Physiology and Biophysics
  
  

Research Interests

• Olfactory coding in mammals

The mammalian olfactory system has the remarkable ability to discriminate thousands of odorants. As the primary neuronal elements in the olfactory system, olfactory sensory neurons are responsible for detecting odor molecules and subsequently sending signals to the brain. These neurons selectively express one or a few olfactory receptor genes from a repertoire of ~1000, the largest gene family in the mammalian genome. We are interested in the functional and molecular organization of the olfactory system and the mechanisms underlying olfactory coding and processing. Our approach combines techniques from different disciplines including optical imaging, patch clamp recording, immunohistochemistry, molecular cloning, in situ hybridization, Affymetrix genechip and gene-targeting.

 

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