My
research mainly focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying taste
perception.
To elucidate the function of genes that are selectively
expressed in taste bud cells, I
use transgenic tools, produce animals with mutated genes
to perturb normal taste bud
cell physiology, and then assay the effect of these mutations
on taste transduction. In
addition, I am also interested in delineating the anatomical
relationships between
taste bud cells and their innervating cranial nerve fibers,
and defining neuronal
pathways from taste buds to the gustatory cortex.
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Feng Li