Using Sandpipers to Test the Essential Functions of Sleep

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

Focus Area Sleep

Project Description

to perform molecular and ultrastructural analyses to quantify the synaptic and cellular effects of extreme chronic sleep loss in the sandpiper, a model of sustained high waking performance.

Investigators

Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD

University of Wisconsin-Madison

John Lesku, PhD

La Trobe University