Benton Richard
Associate Professor
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Richard Benton received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Cambridge, and was an EMBO/Heley Hay Whitney post-doctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University, New York. He joined the Center for Integrative Genomics in September 2007 as Assistant Professor and promoted to Associate Professor in August 2012
Research Interest
Interest in the molecular basis of odour detection by the Ionotropic Receptor (IR) family of chemosensory receptors, which have derived from the ancestral ionotropic glutamate receptor family of ligand-gated ion channels.
Publications
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Juan Antonio Sánchez-Alcañiz, Giovanna Zappia, Frédéric Marion-Poll, Richard Benton Nat Commun. 2017; 8: 14192. Published online 2017 Jan 27. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14192 PMCID: PMC5290141
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Ben Sutcliffe, Julian Ng, Thomas O. Auer, Mathias Pasche, Richard Benton, Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis, Sebastian Cachero Genetics. 2017 Apr; 205(4): 1399–1408. Published online 2017 Feb 14. doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.199281 PMCID: PMC5378102
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Zachary A Knecht, Ana F Silbering, Joyner Cruz, Ludi Yang, Vincent Croset, et al., (2017); 6: e26654. Published online 2017 Jun 16. doi: 10.7554/eLife.26654Includes additional comments & authors PMCID: PMC5495567
