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DGPtalk: Eureka

Prof. Peter Hegemann: The smaller the animal, the better the optogenetics

Season 3, Ep. 36

Karolina Pondel-Sycz's guest on the DGPTalk Eureka podcast is professor Peter Hegemann, a German biophysicist and fellow of the Department of Biophysics at Humboldt University in Berlin. Prof. Hegemann is one of the discoverers of channelrhodopsin, a family of light-activated ion channels. This discovery gave science new opportunities to study the neural networks of living organisms and initiated the new scientific field - optogenetics.

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