The 159th WPI-IIIS seminar

EVENTS

Date	Monday, October 7, 2019
Time	12:00 -13:00
Venue	1F Auditorium, IIIS Building, University of Tsukuba
Access	Take a bus bound for "Tsukuba Daigaku Chuo" or the "University Loop-line On-campus Bus [Tsukuba Daigaku Junkan Bus]" and get off at oshi Gakusei Shukusha Mae
Speaker	Dr. David Prober Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Subject	"Evolutionarily conserved regulation of sleep"
Summary	Sleep is observed throughout the animal kingdom, but it remains unclear to what extent sleep evolved independently in vertebrates and invertebrates, and it is largely unknown whether mechanisms identified using model systems are relevant to humans. We use the zebrafish, a diurnal vertebrate that combines advantages of mammalian and invertebrate models, to explore genetic and neuronal mechanisms that regulate sleep. I will describe experiments showing that a well-conserved genetic pathway regulates sleep in both invertebrates and vertebrates, including humans, suggesting that it plays a central and ancient role in sleep. I will also describe studies using zebrafish and rodents that address a longstanding controversy over the role of the serotonergic raphe in sleep. Click here for more information: http://wpi-iiis.tsukuba.ac.jp/seminar
Contact	International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine Phone: 029-853-8080 (ext.8080)

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