Demystifying Mechanotransduction Ion Channels
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
A bit of mystery has enshrouded the type of specialized mechanotransducers--force sensors--underlying the process of converting a mechanical force into a biological function--mechanotransduction--and how they're able to sense a force and, subsequently, transduce to downstream biological functions. During the BPS 2016 annual meeting, Bailong Xiao will share a discovery made while exploring how newly identified mechanotransducers function at the molecular level.