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POSTDOC PROFILE: CHRISTINA ZIMANYI [GAUDET LAB]

Christina Zimanyi hails from Big Bear Lake, a resort town in the mountains of Southern California, where as a youth she enjoyed just about anything other than the…

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ONE SMALL TWEAK CONVERTS A TRANSPORTER FROM A ONE-WAY INTO A TWO-WAY STREET [GAUDET LAB]

Ahmet Vakkasoglu (l) and Rachelle Gaudet At the heart of our adaptive immune system is the presentation of internal antigens, usually peptides, to cytotoxic T cells. The Transporter…

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SENSING SOUND WITH A MOLECULAR HANDSHAKE [GAUDET LAB]

Marcos Sotomayor and Rachelle Gaudet The vertebrate inner ear is in charge of transforming mechanical stimuli from sound and head movement into electrical signals that are sent to…

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MCB’S RACHELLE GAUDET RECEIVES TENURE

Rachelle Gaudet The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Rachelle Gaudet has received tenure at Harvard University. Gaudet first came to…

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MOLECULAR MECHANICS OF HEARING AND DEAFNESS

Cadherin-23 stretching simulations. A close-up view of the linker region between cadherin-23 repeats 1 and 2 is shown during a molecular dynamics simulation in which the protein is…

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RACHELLE GAUDET AWARDED KLINGENSTEIN FELLOWSHIP

Rachelle Gaudet Rachelle Gaudet has been selected to receive a Klingenstein Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences for 2007 for her project, "Structural biology of temperature sensing by the…

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FINE-TUNING HEAT SENSITIVITY

This illustration is a surface representation of the TRPV1ankyrin repeat structure (in green) with a bound ATP molecule (multicolor sticks) on a background of capsaicin-laden red pepper flakes.…

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PUTTING A FACE ON A CLASS OF VIRAL DEUBIQUITINATING ENZYMES

(l to r) Authors Wilhelm Weihofen, Rachelle Gaudet and Christian Schlieker Herpesviruses (members of the Herpesviridae family) are widespread pathogens, causing disease in humans and animals. The family…

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