| 词条 | Francisco Bezanilla |
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Francisco Bezanilla is a Chilean-American scientist and professor at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. BiographyBezanilla earned an undergraduate biology degree as well as master's and Ph.D. degrees in biophysics, all from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.[1] Initially intending to earn a medical degree, Bezanilla shifted his focus to research and the Ph.D. program, finding that he liked how neurophysiology combined two of his interests, electronics and biology.[1] He conducted research on the nerve cells of Humboldt squid at the Montemar Institute of Marine Biology.[2] Leaving Chile for the United States in 1969, Bezanilla completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the National Institutes of Health. While in the US, Bezanilla heard that the Humboldt squid was no longer available in Chilean waters. Also noting the political changes in Chile under Augusto Pinochet, he decided to stay in the US. Working on gating current experiments, he became a frequent collaborator with Clay Armstrong, who he had met at Montemar.[1] In experiments at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Bezanilla and Armstrong built their own signal averaging device and became the first to measure the tiny gating currents in sodium channels.[1] In 1977, Bezanilla became a neuroscience professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and later joined the University of Chicago, becoming the Lillian Eichelberger Cannon Professor in the Department of Pediatrics.[3] Bezanilla was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.[4] He was the 2013-2014 president of the Biophysical Society.[5] Some of his recent work includes the application of light pulses to gold nanoparticles to activate neurons.[6] Bezanilla's daughter Magdalena is a biologist and university professor.[7] References1. ^1 2 {{cite journal|last1=Mossman|first1=K.|title=Profile of Francisco Bezanilla|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|date=November 13, 2008|volume=105|issue=46|pages=17597–17599|doi=10.1073/pnas.0810116105|url=http://www.pnas.org/content/105/46/17597.full|accessdate=November 24, 2015|pmid=19008354|pmc=2584747}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bezanilla, Francisco}}2. ^{{cite journal|last1=Scully|first1=Tony|title=Neuroscience: The great squid hunt|journal=Nature|date=August 20, 2008|volume=454|issue=7207|pages=934–936|doi=10.1038/454934a|url=http://www.nature.com/news/2010/000000/full/454934a.html|accessdate=November 24, 2015|pmid=18719561}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|title=Francisco Bezanilla|url=https://news.uchicago.edu/profile/francisco-bezanilla|publisher=University of Chicago|accessdate=November 24, 2015}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Francisco Bezanilla|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/60662.html|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=November 24, 2015}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Past Officers|url=http://www.biophysics.org/AboutUs/Leadership/PastOfficers/tabid/2241/Default.aspx|publisher=Biophysical Society|accessdate=November 24, 2015}} 6. ^{{cite web|last1=Yonck|first1=Richard|title="Optocapacitance" shines new light on the brain|url=http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/8216-optocapacitance-8217-shines-new-light-on-the-brain/|publisher=Scientific American|accessdate=November 24, 2015|date=April 10, 2015}} 7. ^{{cite web|last1=Nealy|first1=Michelle|title=Emerging Scholars: Cell Biology Pioneer – Magdalena Bezanilla|url=http://diverseeducation.com/article/16806/|publisher=Diverse: Issues in Higher Education|accessdate=November 24, 2015|date=February 2, 2012}} 7 : Living people|Chilean scientists|Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences|Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni|University of California, Los Angeles faculty|University of Chicago faculty|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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