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Dra.
University of Pennsylvania
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Schedule
Monday, July 12, 2021
4:00 PM Europe/Lisbon
Domain
NeuroscienceHost
Brain-Body Interactions
Duration
70 minutes
We seek to determine how circadian rhythms and sleep are integrated with physiological processes to provide optimal fitness and health. Using initially a Drosophila model, and more recently also mammalian models, we have found that aspects of the blood brain barrier (BBB) are controlled by the circadian clock. BBB properties are also influenced by sleep:wake state in Drosophila, and, in fact, appear to be contribute to functions of sleep. This and other work, which implicates sleep in the regulation of metabolic processes, is providing insights into sleep function
Amita Sehgal
Dra.
University of Pennsylvania
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Brain organization and function is a complex topic. We are good at establishing correlates of perception and behavior across forebrain circuits, as well as manipulating activity in these circuits to a
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Understanding how brains learn requires bridging evidence across scales—from behaviour and neural circuits to cells, synapses, and molecules. In our work, we use computational modelling and data analy