Drosophila Sleep Neurogenetics Laboratory

Broadly speaking, our lab is interested in two aspects of sleep research: 

• How environmental factors influence sleep and circadian behaviours? 

• How sleep-related cellular mechanisms modulate progress of human diseases?

These research questions are addressed using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as an experimental model, allowing the application of diverse methods to identify evolutionary conserved molecular mechanisms.

Please see below the main research themes