Presentation Year

2024

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

G-protein-coupled receptors are responsible for binding to odorants and initiating responses in vertebrate olfactory neurons. These receptors are coupled to specific G proteins, whose expression can be used as markers for olfactory neuron maturation during embryonic development. My project focused on developing a quantitative reverse-transcriptase PCR assay to investigate the expression of the G-protein Golf in an aquatic caudate amphibian (the Axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum). The developmental expression of other caudates has been thoroughly investigated, but not in Axolotls. I designed an absolute quantification assay and tested it on late stage embryos and larvae.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

Primary Contact: First Name

Josafath

Primary Contact: Last Name

Aparicio

Primary Contact: Email

jna38@humboldt.edu

Primary Contact: I am a

Undergraduate Student

Primary Contact: Phone Number

818-458-3386

Node ID

1632

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