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How do we set our circadian clock???

 
Papers we will read for thursday, think about, and write about:
Start here.  Paper number 1.  How is it that some blind people still have circadian entrainment, how is it that they still see time somehow?
A different take on the possible mechanism
A critical test of one part of the melanopsin story.
Other Papers that you might find interesting:
sci-1.pdf
sci.pdf
MelyanEtAl.pdf
Melanopsin and its signaling pathway.
Vitamin B2-based blue-light photoreceptors in the retinohypothalamic tract as the photoactive pigments for setting the circadian clock in mammals
Melanopsin expression in xenopus
Maybe everything you read in science isn't right after all.