Congratulations to Emily on her newly published paper The DEG/ENaC channel DEGT-1 is a proprioceptor of C. elegans foregut movement. We not only receive sensation from the outside world such as sight and hearing, but also from our internal worlds such as hunger and balance. One form of internal perception is proprioception where we receive feedback of our body’s position and how it movement. Here she has uncovered the role of a channel for internal sensation of pharynx movement. You can read the paper here.
Congratulations to Emily as her paper on internal mechanosensation is published!