Sandhya Koushika
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Cellular neurobiologist TIFR India who loves genetics, live imaging and worms. Science is fun, let's go exploring. Sci comm, write bad poetry, 2 girl mom lab: https://tinyurl.com/5n7s6ens https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=c4zDSQ8AA
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They found that regardless of which cell they put the protein in, those cells became light sensitive.
Show PostIn the early 2000s, he and Georg Nagel discovered channelrhodopsin, an algal protein with unique properties, found on the surface of the cell. When it is illuminated by blue light, a channel opens through the protein. Charged ions then flow into the cell, creating an electrical impulse.
Show PostPeter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.
Show PostBREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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So excited especially for Peter Hegemann to get the Nobel Prize for his contributions to Optogenetics! ongratulations also to Karl Deisseroth and Georg Nagel to a well-deserved prize. Did I mention basic science at Unis especially is underfunded and made these discoveries back in the day possible?
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