Bethany A. Stahl

The paper shows that sleep deprivation impairs Wallerian degeneration in fruit flies, while sleep induction accelerates it through glial activation and engulfment.

The paper demonstrates the successful generation of stable transgenic lines in Astyanax mexicanus using the Tol2 transposase system, enabling the expression of fluorescent markers in specific cell types.

This study shows that RNA storage methods like RNAlater and flash freezing affect gene expression, with RNAlater causing biased results in RNAseq experiments.

The paper identifies increased Hypocretin/Orexin signaling as a genetic basis for sleep loss in Mexican cavefish compared to surface fish.

This paper develops a system to measure sleep and metabolic rate in Drosophila, revealing sleep-dependent regulation of metabolic rate and its genetic basis in starvation.