Seminar 10 February 2010: Dr Mario de Bono

Location: Dental Lecture Theatre
Time/Date: 10th February 2010, 16:00 - 17:00

The Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences will be holding the following seminar:

TITLE: Life in rotten places: Oxygen and carbon dioxide sensing in C.elegans

SPEAKER: Dr Mario de Bono, MRC LMB, Cambridge 

DATE AND TIME: 10 February 2010 at 4pm

VENUE: Dental Lecture Theatre F

Dr de Bono research is in the combination of genetics and neurobiology in C.elegans to address regulation of behaviour in response to environmental stimuli, eg interested in Oxygen-sensing CO2-sensing and evolution of behaviour.

Publications include:

Natural variation in a neural globin tunes oxygen sensing in wild Caenorhabditis elegans. Persson A, Gross E, Laurent P, Busch KE, Bretes H, de Bono M. Nature. 2009 Mar 4 Epub ahead of print, PMID: 19262507 PubMed - as supplied by publisher

Published: 6th August 2009