What a few weeks - Congratulations to Leela who defended her thesis today! Absolutely amazing job!
sleep, brain development, & behavior
What a few weeks - Congratulations to Leela who defended her thesis today! Absolutely amazing job!
What an amazing day - the first thesis defense in the Kayser Lab! Congratulations to DOCTOR Samy Belfer on an incredible job.
After 3 spectacular years, we bid farewell to Charlette, who is off to medical school (congrats etc etc). We will miss you….
Matt was named a National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine! Not totally sure what it is yet so don’t ask.
Congrats to Matt Churgin (Fang-Yen lab), Milan, and Kristin (Raizen lab). Now the whole entire world can use motels and lodges to study little critters sleeping. See for yourself
Julci was selected for the 2019 Janelia Undergraduate Scholars Program, and will be working with Marta Zlatic for the summer. Amazing Julci!!
(age is summed fyi)
Jaclyn Durkin joins us for a postdoc, after completing her PhD with Sara Aton (studying sleep and development!) at Michigan. Hard at work right away…
This work establishes a fly model for the essential component of CBT-I, which is the first-line treatment for insomnia. Fantastic collaboration with Michael Perlis, Director of Penn Behavioral Sleep Medicine. Check it:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0376-6
We celebrated in style…
Great fun working on this project with the Keene Lab at FAU. Congrats to all and thanks for involving us!
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=30606795
Amy Poe joins us for a postdoc following her PhD with Chun Han at Cornell. Amy will be studying sleep in the larval system. Welcome to Philly!
And in unrelated news, the lab stays open for awhile longer!