{"id":40744,"date":"2011-03-04T11:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=40744"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:45:31","slug":"postcard-in-the-lab-with-snail-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/04\/postcard-in-the-lab-with-snail-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard: In the lab with snail brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/03\/web_110215_neurobiology_kleckner_9908.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/03\/web_110215_neurobiology_kleckner_9908.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large alignright\" alt=\"web_110215_neurobiology_kleckner_9908\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who she is: <\/strong>Sangita Murali &#8217;12 of South Dartmouth, Mass.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Her major<\/strong>: Neuroscience<\/p>\n<p><strong>What she&#8217;s taking this semester:<\/strong> Neurobiology, psychopharmacology, Physics 108 and &#8220;Frost, Stevens, and Williams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why she&#8217;s taking this course, BI\/NS 308<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> &#8220;For my major and to gain a better understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying signaling in the nervous system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What she likes about this course, taught by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Nancy-Kleckner.xml\">Associate Professor of Biology Nancy Kleckner<\/a>:<\/strong> &#8220;It&#8217;s really amazing that we get the opportunity to study what neurotransmitter receptors are expressed in oocytes (a female germ cell involved in reproduction) and manipulate action potentials in <em>the Helisoma Trivolis<\/em> (snail) nervous system at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x57725.xml\">the undergraduate level!<\/a> This is probably one of my favorite courses taken at Bates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What she was thinking<\/strong>: &#8220;Whatever you do, don&#8217;t contaminate the saline with acetylcholine!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who she is: Sangita Murali &#8217;12 of South Dartmouth, Mass. Her major:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86930,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40744\/revisions\/86930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}