Sensing environmental temperature is crucial for the development and survival of animals. Insects such as fruit flies have ...

Understanding the importance of circadian rhythms in maintaining health and wellness through sleep, diet, and exercise.

Findings open avenues for therapies to combat sleep disorders, which particularly affect older people and increase disease risk Sleep serves as the brain's nightly clean-up crew, flushing out harmful ...

Researchers have uncovered how non-neuronal cells in the brain – glial cells – play an active role in regulating sleep and ...

Homeostasis is the ability of living organisms to maintain stable internal conditions, such as temperature, hydration and ...

A rare genetic trait called Familial Natural Short Sleep helps people thrive on just 4 hours of rest, promoting healthy aging ...

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) may be pests to humans, but they have their own pests to contend with. Ectoparasitic mites such as G. queenslandicus are some of the worst. Being bitten can put ...

We are interested in how neural circuit activity underlies behaviour including circadian rhythms, sleep, memory and movement. We use Drosophila, electrophysiology, behaviour, pharmacology, imaging, ...

Circadian clock disruption promotes the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in male Drosophila Sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions are frequent comorbidities of Parkinson’s disease (PD), a ...

We thank A. Jain for help with sample collection and library prep; the Cornell Genomics Facility for sequencing; N. Brown, D. Chen, Y. Hafezi, and A.-M. Jaksic for feedback regarding the experimental ...

We thank the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center and Tsinghua Fly Center for fly stocks. This work was supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFA0802400), the National ...