Ashiq Hussain (Doctor rerum naturae) es un investigador neurocientífico pakistaní, que desarrolla estudios en las interacciones del sistema olfativo y el envejecimiento humano asociada con la neurodegeneración.http://www.pnas.org/content/106/11/4313.longTHE OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM OF TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC VERTEBRATESPOSITIVE DARWINIAN SELECTION AND THE BIRTH OF AN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR CLADE IN TELEOST FISHhttp://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/11/05/1318596110.full.pdf+htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24874173https://www.improbable.com/2013/11/20/zebrafish-also-find-these-scents-disgusting/https://www.popsci.com/article/science/found-receptor-smell-rotting-fleshhttp://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashiq_Hussain5https://www.parhlo.com/top-10-overseas-pakistanis-that-are-taking-the-world-by-storm/http://www.dawn.com/news/1198878/https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002455https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002454
Educación y primeros años Hussain recibió un BSc (Hons.) en genética con distinción magna cum laude por la Universidad de Agriculture de Faisalabad u luego un M.Sc. en biología molecular por el prestigioso Centro de Biología Molecular y Aplicada, con summa cum laude y Medalla de Oro Memorial Prof. Ishrat Hussain Usmani de investigación. Obtuvo su PhD (en neurociencias), a los 29 años, con notable distinción summa cum laude por la Universidad de Colonia mientras conducía estudios en esa universidad y en la de Harvard Hussain continuó estudios posdoctorales en la Universidad Yale y en el Instituto Max Planck de Neurobiología. Desde 2014, el Dr. Hussain es un Embajador de acceso abierto de la Sociedad Max Planck.http://oambassadors.mpdl.mpg.de/?page_id=348
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1. BBC Science News: Rotting flesh receptor discovered in zebrafish http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24874173
2. Harvard University Gazette: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/01/something-doesnt-smell-right/
3. ScienceNews:Why death smells so deadly https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/why-death-smells-so-deadly
4. Popular Science PopSci:Found: A Receptor For The Smell Of Rotting Flesh https://www.popsci.com/article/science/found-receptor-smell-rotting-flesh
5. DiePresse.com:Das Facebook der Hyänen https://diepresse.com/home/science/1475642/Das-Facebook-der-Hyaenen
6. Improbable Research:“Zebrafish... also find these scents disgusting” https://www.improbable.com/2013/11/20/zebrafish-also-find-these-scents-disgusting/
7. Inkfish Science:Found: A Rotten-Smell Button in the Brain http://inkfish.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/found-brains-rotten-smell-button.html
8-Top 10 Overseas Pakistanis That are Taking the World by Storm https://www.parhlo.com/top-10-overseas-pakistanis-that-are-taking-the-world-by-storm/
9-Footprints: A Pakistani in Cologne http://www.dawn.com/news/1198878
10- People of Pakistan: Ashiq Hussain, a neuroscientist, making a difference in Germany https://web.archive.org/web/20151125214838/http://globalperspect.com/people-of-paksitan-ashiq-hussain-a-neuroscientist-making-a-difference-in-germany/
11- How Taste And Odor Perception Is Altered In Pregnancy http://reliawire.com/taste-odor-pregnancy/
12- Pregnancy Changes Perception of Tastes and Odors https://neurosciencenews.com/pregnancy-taste-odor-neuroscience-4188/ https://www.mpg.de/10485283/insect-pregnancy-odour-perception
13- Smelling and tasting what’s good https://web.archive.org/web/20160917145241/http://www.neuro.mpg.de/3332503/news_publication_10484847?1462384800
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