The Somnostat: Neuronal Machinery for Balancing Sleep Need and Sleep
Sleep is vital and universal, but its biological function remains unknown. We seek to understand why we need to sleep by studying how the brain responds to sleep loss. Our studies in Drosophila have pinpointed neurons whose sleep-inducing activity switches on as sleep deficits accrue, revealed how this activity switch works, and furnished a molecular interpretation of sleep pressure, its accumulation, and its discharge.
Date:
17 January 2019, 16:15 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2019)
Venue:
Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details:
lecture theatre
Speaker:
Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)
Organiser:
Cortex Club (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
lukaskrone@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Lukas Krone
