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Linda B. Buck

b. 1947

Linda B. Buck is an American biologist born in 1947, best known for her groundbreaking work on the olfactory system, for which she shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard Axel. Her research elucidated how the mammalian nose detects and distinguishes thousands of odors through a large family of G-protein-coupled receptors. She continues to explore the neural circuits underlying odor perception and behavior.

Biology

A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: a molecular basis for odor recognition
The olfactory receptor gene superfamily of the mouse
Odorant receptor gene choice in olfactory sensory neurons: the one receptor-one neuron rule revisited
Combinatorial receptor codes for odors
Spatial patterns of odorant receptor expression in the olfactory epithelium

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