Jumping Spider Rhodopsin: a new tool for optogenetics in GPCR signalling

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Type: Seminar
Start Date: 03-04-2017 16:00
End Date: 03-04-2017 17:00
Location: Room 500 - 501, Central Building
Speaker's name: Elena Lesca
Speaker's institute: PSI Villingen, Switzerland
Contact name: Eva Jahn
Host name: M. Wulff
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Optogenetics, the control of light-sensitive proteins for biomedical applications, is revolutionizing our ability to control biological activity at the cellular level. We aim to engineering light-controlled G protein-coupled receptors capable of stimulating signalling pathways by interacting with scaffold proteins in sophisticated networks, thus modulating cell behaviour. We selected Jumping Spider Rhodopsin-1 as a GPCR model to dig into signalling.

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