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Leonie Kirszenblat

The University of QueenslandORCID 0000-0002-7755-8534Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:Drosophila· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:electronic health records· 1

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Sleep promotes aversive value coding in Drosophila

Leonie Kirszenblat, Makoto Someya, Hokto Kazama

This study shows that sleep in Drosophila alters the coding of odor value in dopamine neurons, leading to more aversive odor representations and behavioral changes upon arousal.

bioRxiv · Jul 4, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

A conserved role for sleep in supporting spatial learning in Drosophila

Krishna V. Melnattur, Leonie Kirszenblat, Ellen P. Morgan, Valentin Militchin, Blake Sakran, Denis English, Rushi Patel, Dorothy Chan, Bruno van Swinderen, Paul J. Shaw

This study shows that sleep supports spatial learning in Drosophila, with sleep loss and aging impairing learning, which can be reversed by enhancing sleep.

SLEEP · Sep 21, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

{-}{-} Downregulation of a satiety signal from peripheral fat bodies improves visual attention while reducing sleep need in Drosophila .

Deniz Ertekin, Leonie Kirszenblat, Richard Faville, Bruno van Swinderen

The paper shows that reducing a satiety signal in Drosophila mimics starvation, leading to less sleep and improved visual attention and feeding behavior.

PLoS Biology · Aug 3, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience