Abstract: Series 110, Lecture 2
The Harvey Lectures Series 110 (2014—2015)
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Lecture #2: Thursday, November 20, 2014 — Watch Video of Lecture
Receptors, Neurons, and Circuits: The Biology of Mammalian Taste
Charles Zuker, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry
Professor of Molecular Biophysics
Professor of Neuroscience
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University
New York, New York
The taste system is one of our fundamental senses, responsible for detecting and responding to sweet, bitter, umami, salty, and sour stimuli. We study the logic of taste coding as a platform to understand how our brain creates an internal representation of the outside world and transforms sensory signals at the periphery into percepts, actions and complex behaviors.