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Our lab is interested in how organisms adapt to their ecological or behavioral niche. We emphasize a curiosity-based approach in which specialized, unconventional model systems are exploited to reveal fundamental principles in signal transduction, protein biophysics, and evolution. We aim to understand how these molecular mechanisms impact organismal physiology and behavior.
Bellono NW*, Leitch DB*, Julius D (2018) Molecular tuning of electroreception in sharks and skates. Nature In Press
Bellono NW*, Leitch DB*, Julius D (2017) Molecular basis of ancestral vertebrate electroreception. Nature 6;543(7645): 391-396. PMCID: PMC5354974.
Bellono NW*, Bayrer JR*, Leitch DB, Castro J, O’Donnell T, Brierley SM, Ingraham HA, Julius D (2017) Enterochromaffin cells are gut chemosensors that couple to sensory neural pathways. Cell 170(1): 185-198. PMID: 28648659.
Bellono NW, Escobar IE, Leftkovith AJ, Marks MS, Oancea E (2014) An intracellular anion channel critical for pigmentation. eLife 3: e04543. PMCID: PMC4270065
