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TNQ Sciences Maed in India
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TNQ Sciences is a podcast connected with TNQ’s annual Distinguished Lectures. This lecture series aims to bring internationally renowned scientists face-to-face with the Indian scientific community. The podcast is in the form of an interview of each year’s speaker by a well-known Indian science journalist, Dr Ramaseshan Ramachandran. Each interview attempts to explore the story behind the work of these scientists and the impact of their scientific research.
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How We Sense Pain? Featuring Nobel laureate Professor David Julius
In this episode of TNQ Sciences, Professor David Julius, a physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate, talks about his work on molecular mechanisms for pain sensation and heat including the characterization of the TRP-V1 and TRP-M8 receptors that detect capsaicin, menthol, and temperature. We get to know why birds don’t respond to capsaicin, thresholds for TRP receptors and whether they're affected by regional or racial differences, and his seminal contribution of the neural and molecular basis for the sense of temperature and pain.
Joining him in conversation is Ramaseshan Ramachandran, well-known science journalist and former science correspondent for The Hindu newspaper and Frontline Magazine.
To know more about Dr David Julius and his work, visit https://www.tnq.co.in/davidjulius/
To know more about TNQ and the Distinguished Lectures series, visit https://www.tnq.co.in/
CREDITS
Host: Dr Ramaseshan Ramachandran
Guest: Professor David Julius
Produced and Created for TNQ
This is a Maed in India production
Head of Production: Mae Mariyam Thomas
Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome
Producer: Sean D’mello, Ruchi Sawardekar
Sound Editor & Mix Engineer: Kartik Kulkarni