> Howdy folks !
> I am a molecular biology researcher and was wondering if any of you had
> heard of applying molecular biology techniques to neuroscience. Specifically
> use of protein sequence analysis. Please post your replies to this group
> and I will summarize.
>> Thanks,
>> -Keerthi
There is quite a lot of call for the application of molecular biological techniques within neuroscience. For example, in the lab I'm in now--- I'm a third year grad student in the Lab of Molecular Psychiatry--- we are using molecular techniques to better understand the biological basis of stress and depression (in the case of my own boss, Ron Duman) or drugs of addiction and, hopefully, addictive states (in the case of Eric Nestler). There are two or three other PI's in the Lab of Molecular Psychiatry, working on schitzophrenia (Ariel Deutch) and assorted other stuff (Kevin Sevarino, Terry Kosten who does mostly behavioral stuff, no mol bio, maybe a couple of others I've forgotten...).
As a matter of fact, I was just today trying to think of a way of analyzing the function of various domains of some of the proteins I work with. Would that be the kind of work you do? How do you go about analyzing the protein domains? X-ray crystallography? I'm very interested!!
Please write back. I'd be interested in talking with you further.
-- yh.
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Yukiharu "Yuki" Hadeishi - <yhadeish at biomed.med.yale.edu>
Neither the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program nor the Divison of
Molecular Psychiatry will have anything to do with any of my opinions...
