Recent ACS Chemical Biology Journal Publication - Narrated by Erick Carlson (Graduate student, Georg Lab)

Erick Carlson, a graduate  student in the Georg laboratory narrates a slide show about a recent l publication in the journal: ACS Chemical Biology.  

• Manuscript ID: cb-2015-007483
• Title: "The Fungal Sexual Pheromone Sirenin Activates the Human CatSper Channel Complex"
• Author(s): Shameem Sultana Syeda, Erick J. Carlson, Melissa R. Miller, Rawle Francis, David E. Clapham, Polina V. Lishko, Jon E. Hawkinson, Derek Hook, Gunda I. Georg 

You can view the presentation via this link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acschembio.5b00748 

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