How We Sense Pain? Featuring Nobel Laureate Professor David Julius

In this episode of TNQ Distinguished Lectures, 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