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William L. Pak is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to neuroscience, with specific attention to cellular and molecular neuroscience, sensory systems, food science, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

The scientist's main topics of work include neurobiology and insect physiology research, ion channels and receptors, botanical research and applications, and circadian rhythm and melatonin.

William L. Pak has contributed to publications principally in the Journal of Neurogenetics. Among their recent papers are:

  • The light-activated TRP channel: the founding member of the TRP channel superfamily, 2022, Journal of Neurogenetics
  • The initial years of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory summer course on the neurobiology of Drosophila, 2024, Journal of Neurogenetics

Their research collaborations include working with coauthor Baruch Minke.

Best Publications

  • Isolation of a putative phospholipase c gene of drosophila, norpA, and its role in phototransduction

    B.T. Bloomquist;R.D. Shortridge;S. Schneuwly;M. Perdew

  • The Drosophila ninaE gene encodes an opsin.

    Joseph E. O'Tousa;Wolfgang Baehr;Richard L. Martin;Jay Hirsh

  • Induction of photoreceptor voltage noise in the dark in Drosophila mutant

    Baruch Minke;Chun-Fang Wu;William L. Pak

  • Nonphototactic mutants in a study of vision of Drosophila.

    William L. Pak;Joseph Grossfield;Nancy V. White

  • Cyclophilin-related protein RanBP2 acts as chaperone for red/green opsin

    Paulo A. Ferreira;Tomoko A. Nakayama;William L. Pak;Gabriel H. Travis

  • Drosophila ninaA gene encodes an eye-specific cyclophilin (cyclosporine A binding protein)

    Stephan Schneuwly;Randall D. Shortridge;Denis C. Larrivee;Toshiko Ono

  • Mutants of the visual pathway of Drosophila melanogaster.

    William L. Pak;Joseph Grossfield;Kay S. Arnold

  • cGMP-dependent changes in phototaxis: a possible role for the foraging gene in honey bee division of labor.

    Y. Ben-Shahar;H.-T. Leung;W. L. Pak;M. B. Sokolowski

  • Molecular, Biochemical, and Electrophysiological Characterization of Drosophila norpA Mutants

    Michael T. Pearn;Lydia L. Randall;Randall D. Shortridge;Martin G. Burg

  • Genetic and molecular identification of a Drosophila histidine decarboxylase gene required in photoreceptor transmitter synthesis

    M G Burg;P V Sarthy;G Koliantz;W L Pak

  • A spinosyn-sensitive Drosophila melanogaster nicotinic acetylcholine receptor identified through chemically induced target site resistance, resistance gene identification, and heterologous expression.

    Gerald B. Watson;Scott W. Chouinard;Kevin R. Cook;Chaoxian Geng;Chaoxian Geng

  • The Target of Drosophila Photoreceptor Synaptic Transmission Is a Histamine-gated Chloride Channel Encoded byort (hclA)

    Chaoxian Gengs;Hung-Tat Leung;David R. Skingsley;Mladen I. Iovchev

  • Isolation of light-induced response of the central retinula cells from the electroretinogram ofDrosophila

    Baruch Minke;Chun Fang Wu;W. L. Pak

  • Drosophila rhodopsin: Photochemistry, extraction and differences in the norp AP12 phototransduction mutant*

    Sanford E. Ostroy;Meegan Wilson;William L. Pak

  • Phosrestin I undergoes the earliest light-induced phosphorylation by a calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase in drosophila photoreceptors

    Hiroyuki Matsumoto;Biji T. Kurien;Yuichiro Takagi;Esther S. Kahn

  • Fast electrical potential from a long-lived, long-wavelength photoproduct of fly visual pigment.

    William L. Pak;Kellie J. Lidington

  • Degeneration of photoreceptors in rhodopsin mutants of Drosophila.

    Debra S. Leonard;Valorie D. Bowman;Donald F. Ready;William L. Pak

  • ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE INITIAL PEAK OF THE EARLY RECEPTOR POTENTIAL.

    William L. Pak;Richard A. Cone;Richard A. Cone

  • Mutation that selectively affects rhodopsin concentration in the peripheral photoreceptors of Drosophila melanogaster.

    D C Larrivee;S K Conrad;R S Stephenson;W L Pak

  • Novel mechanism of massive photoreceptor degeneration caused by mutations in the trp gene of Drosophila.

    Jaeseung Yoon;Hagit Cohen Ben-Ami;Young Seok Hong;Soyeon Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Chun-Fang Wu
Chun-Fang Wu University of Iowa
Paulo A. Ferreira
Paulo A. Ferreira Duke University
Rebecca W. Doerge
Rebecca W. Doerge Carnegie Mellon University
Baruch Minke
Baruch Minke Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thomas G. Ebrey
Thomas G. Ebrey University of Washington
Adrian J. Wolstenholme
Adrian J. Wolstenholme University of Georgia
Kendal Broadie
Kendal Broadie Vanderbilt University
Gordon M. Shepherd
Gordon M. Shepherd Yale School of Medicine
Harry Grundfest
Harry Grundfest Columbia University
Gerald M. Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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