Friday Lecture Series

Control of Animal Behavior and Decision Making through TRP Channels

Craig Montell, Ph.D., Duggan Professor,

department of molecular, cellular and developmental biology,

University of California, Santa Barbara

 February 8, 2012

3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (Refreshments, 3:15 p.m., Abby Lounge)

Caspary Auditorium

Recommended Readings

Kwon, Y., Kim, S. H., Ronderos, D. S., Lee, Y., Akitake, B., Woodward, O. M., . . . Montell, C. (2010). Drosophila TRPA1 channel is required to avoid the naturally occurring insect repellent citronellal. Current Biology, 20(18), 1672-1678

Lee, Y., Moon, S. J., & Montell, C. (2009). Multiple gustatory receptors required for the caffeine response in drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(11), 4495-4500

Liu, Z., Wang, X., Yu, Y., Li, X., Wang, T., Jiang, H., . . . Smith, W. W. (2008). A drosophila model for LRRK2-linked parkinsonism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(7), 2693-2698

Montell, C. (2005). The TRP superfamily of cation channels. Science’s STKE [Electronic Resource] : Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment., 2005(272)

Waldo, G. L., Ricks, T. K., Hicks, S. N., Cheever, M. L., Kawano, T., Tsuboi, K., . . . Kendall Harden, T. (2010). Kinetic scaffolding mediated by a phospholipase C-β and G q signaling complex. Science, 330(6006), 974-980