#  Venkatesh N. Murthy 

Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

 

 

 



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 email <vnmurthy@fas.harvard.edu> 

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 The Murthy group studies the physical, neural and algorithmic basis of olfaction using real-time techniques including psychophysics, physiology, optical microscopy and computation. The mouse is the main model system, but the group is beginning to explore this sense in ants and humans.



 

 

 





 

 

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