Blair Jenkins, MD, PhD, joins Carla and Ethan to discuss her 2019 eLife paper. Tune in for an interesting discussion about the sense of touch, skin, and the importance of Black voices in neuroscience. She wishes to thank Dr. Ellen Lumpkin and members of the lab as several of the insights in the podcast, particularly those about the physiologic role of Merkel cells in touch, stem from Dr. Lumpkin’s work published prior to Blair’s paper.

 You can read Blair's full eLife paper here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6386521/pdf/elife-42633.pdf