BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The sleeping fly: neural circuits that control behavioral state - 
 Leslie Griffith\, Brandeis University
DTSTART:20100831T130000Z
DTEND:20100831T140000Z
UID:TALK25583@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:stefan pulver
DESCRIPTION:Why and how we sleep has been a matter of speculation and stud
 y for millennia. Primate and rodent model systems have provided great insi
 ghts into sleep\, but the circuitry in these organisms is quite complex. T
 he recent finding that insects sleep suggests that Drosophila melanogaster
 \, a simple and genetically tractable organism\, can be used to study this
  process. This lecture will present behavioral and molecular evidence that
  the strategies used by the fly brain to generate sleep mirror those of th
 e human brain and that the architecture of sleep circuits is evolutionaril
 y conserved.\n
LOCATION:Part II lecture hall\, Department of Zoology
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR