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Dopamine in the mushroom body of fruit flies controls the persistence of stress-induced courtship suppression.

The Chemical Biology of Microbes and Membrane Proteins Lab is driven by a fundamental interest in how proteins function at the molecular level. The team seeks to establish quantitative ...