Renbo Mao

This study identifies SNRK as essential for sleep regulation in Drosophila, showing that its loss causes severe sleep loss, which is rescued by neuronal SNRK expression or nicotinic acetylcholine receptor blockade.

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.

This study identifies SLC6A17 as a glutamine transporter in synaptic vesicles, linking its dysfunction to intellectual disability through genetic and biochemical analyses.

This study shows LKB1 is required for sleep in both Drosophila and mice, with reduced sleep observed in Lkb1 mutants across species.