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Paul Moberg
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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