Ahmad Z. Aljobeh

The paper shows that electrical synapses in C. elegans filter sensory information to guide context-specific behavioral choices by modulating neuronal excitability and integration of temperature stimuli.

The paper develops methods to analyze sleep and neural activity in adult C. elegans, finding that sleep increases arousal threshold without altering sensory neuron responses.

The paper shows how two plasticity mechanisms in a single C. elegans neuron encode thermosensory information and actuate a temperature-preference memory.