Kicking off our Spring 2023 Seminar Series is our own Orie Shafer!

Dr. Orie Shafer (ASRC, CUNY)

Circadian and Homeostatic Regulation of Sleep in an Insect Brain

Sleep is the foundation of health and well-being and is regulated by two major processes residing within the animal brain: circadian timekeeping and homeostatic sleep control. These processes are highly conserved and genetically tractable invertebrate model systems have consistently enriched and informed our understanding their operation in mammalian brains. In this seminar, I will briefly summarize ~20 years of my lab's work on the circadian clock in Drosophila brain and highlight new work focused on how circadian timekeeping and sleep homeostasis cooperate to control sleep timing and duration in the fly.

To join, email: el1417 at hunter dot cuny dot edu