Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Friday, May 27, 2022
Gero Miesenböck, FRS
Waynflete Professor of Physiology,
Director, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour,
University of Oxford
Mechanisms for Balancing Sleep Need and Sleep
Recommended Readings:
Empirical Articles
Harrell, E. R., Pimentel, D., & Miesenböck, G. (2021). Changes in Presynaptic Gene Expression during Homeostatic Compensation at a Central Synapse. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 41(14), 3054–3067.
Kempf, A., Song, S. M., Talbot, C. B., & Miesenböck, G. (2019). A potassium channel β-subunit couples mitochondrial electron transport to sleep. Nature, 568(7751), 230–234.
Donlea, J. M., Pimentel, D., Talbot, C. B., Kempf, A., Omoto, J. J., Hartenstein, V., & Miesenböck, G. (2018). Recurrent Circuitry for Balancing Sleep Need and Sleep. Neuron, 97(2), 378–389.e4.
Podlaski, W. F., Seeholzer, A., Groschner, L. N., Miesenböck, G., Ranjan, R., & Vogels, T. P. (2017). Mapping the function of neuronal ion channels in model and experiment. eLife, 6, e22152.
Pimentel, D., Donlea, J. M., Talbot, C. B., Song, S. M., Thurston, A., & Miesenböck, G. (2016). Operation of a homeostatic sleep switch. Nature, 536(7616
