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Melanie Ford

Washington University in St. Louis

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Breaking free from the clocks tyranny restores memory to brain damaged flies

Stephane Dissel, Ellen P. Morgan, Lijuan Cao, Zachary Peters Wakefield, Shohan Shetty, Dorothy Chan, Vincent Duong, Jeffrey M. Donlea, Hamza Farah, Vasilios Loutrianakis, Melanie Ford, Lillith Streett, Erica M. Periandri, Zhaoyi Li, Irene Huang, , Paul J. Shaw

This study shows that enhancing sleep restores memory in flies with damaged Mushroom Bodies, revealing a role for circadian rhythms in memory impairment.

bioRxiv · Jan 25, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Fragmentation and Social Jet Lag increase temperature preference in Drosophila

S. Tanner Roach, Melanie Ford, Vikram Simhambhatla, Vasilios Loutrianakis, Hamza Farah, Zhaoyi Li, Erica M. Periandri, Dina Abdalla, Irene Huang, Arjan Kalra, Paul J. Shaw

This study shows that sleep deprivation, fragmentation, and social jet lag in Drosophila increase temperature preference, suggesting a link between sleep disruption and thermoregulation through specific clock neurons.

Frontiers in Neuroscience · May 19, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Sleep promoting neurons remodel their response properties to calibrate sleep drive with environmental demands.

Stephane Dissel, Markus K. Klose, Bruno van Swinderen, Lijuan Cao, Melanie Ford, Erica M. Periandri, Joseph D. Jones, Zhaoyi Li, Paul J. Shaw

The paper shows that dFB neurons in Drosophila adjust their response properties based on environmental demands and prior metabolic challenges to regulate sleep drive.

PLoS Biology · Sep 29, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience