Xihuimin Dai

This study identifies four SpsP neurons in Drosophila as an integrating hub for sleep regulation through a circuit involving upstream and downstream synaptic partners.

The paper identifies two circadian neurons in Drosophila that are influenced by light and dopamine to promote morning wakefulness.

The paper introduces FlyBox, an open-source behavior monitoring system for Drosophila that is affordable and customizable, along with FlyBoxScanner software for activity monitoring.

The paper identifies novel clock neuron subtypes in Drosophila that regulate sleep timing through distinct projection patterns and a common receptor.

The paper introduces conditional CCTomics tools to study chemical transmission in Drosophila, demonstrating their effectiveness by analyzing CCT gene expression in clock neurons and revealing an antagonistic relationship between CNMa-CNMaR and PDF-PDFR signaling.

This study identifies ppGpp as a molecule present in Drosophila that regulates sleep and starvation-induced sleep loss through the mesh1 gene and Dilp2 neurons.