Investigating Sleep Through an Evolutionary Approach

Award Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards (Cycle 2) (Phase 1)

Focus Area Sleep

Project Description

to combine CRISPR-powered genetics and machine-learning-powered behavioral analysis to study how sleep evolved in its regulation and function in a selected group of the Drosophila genus.

Investigators

Giorgio F. Gilestro, PhD

Imperial College London

Lucia Prieto-Godino, PhD

The Francis Crick Institute