Sleep in Drosophila
The genetic tractability and expansive circuit mapping toolkit of Drosophila provide an ideal model system for studying sleep and other complex behaviors. Fly sleep has been shown to follow a circadian pattern and display many of the fundamental features of mammalian sleep, including homeostatic control. Over the last decade, many cellular and molecular components controlling Drosophila sleep regulation and function have been described. This small conference will bring together experts in the field to discuss the latest advances toward a comprehensive mechanistic understanding of fly sleep. For perspective, we will also include special talks on sleep behavior in various other model systems.
Application deadline: June 28, 2019 (11:59 p.m. ET)
Organizers
Gerry Rubin, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Amita Sehgal, HHMI/University of Pennsylvania
Invited Participants
Ravi Allada, Northwestern University
Daniel Cavanaugh, Loyola University Chicago
Chiara Cirelli, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jeffrey Donlea, University of California, Los Angeles
Giorgio Gilestro, Imperial College London
Leslie Griffith, Brandeis University
Susan Harbison, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH
Anne Hart, Brown University
Charlotte Helfrich-Forster, University of Wurzburg
James Jepson, Universty College London
William Joiner, University of California, San Diego
Matthew Kayser, University of Pennsylvania
Alex Keene, Florida Atlantic University
Kyunghee Koh, Thomas Jefferson University
Luis de Lecea , Stanford University
Gero Miesenboeck, University of Oxford
David Prober, California Institute of Technology
Elzbieta Pyza, Jagiellonian University
Yi Rao, Peking University
Dragana Rogulja, Harvard Medical School
Michael Rosbash, HHMI/Brandeis University
Richa Saxena, Harvard Medical School
Orie Shafer, City University of New York
Paul Shaw, Washington University in St. Louis
Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, Colunbia University
Divya Sitaraman, University of San Diego
Nicholas Stavropoulos, NYU School of Medicine
Paul Taghert, Washington University School of Medicine
Bruno Van Swinderen, University of Queensland
Mark Wu, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Young, The Rockefeller University
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Conference Childcare
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