A study in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that mental health and well being improve when #insomnia is successfully treated ja.ma/2TaVRx1

Want to monitor worm or fly larval behaviors over long time periods? Thought so. Check out our new paper in ⁦Nature Protocols⁩! With Raizen and Fang-Yen labs, and ⁦Matt Churgin⁩. ⁦⁦Penn Medicine⁩ Penn NGG⁩ ⁦@ForMahoney⁩ #sleep nature.com/articles/s4159…

Across species, animals sleep more when young. How is this controlled? Check out our latest preprint! We identify the first known gene to regulate sleep maturation. Amazing effort over many years by soon-to-be PhD Leela Dilley and great colleagues. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It's happening! My first student defends his thesis on Monday. Huge congrats (almost) to Samy Belfer. And my second student defends her thesis 10 days later... Unreal. Penn NGG Penn MSTP

KayserLab Penn NGG Samy Belfer Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences @UPenn Congratulations, Samy!!🎉🎓🎉

First tweet! Does anyone know of an updated database that can bulk convert Flybase gene IDs to Entrez gene IDs? KayserLab

A quiescent state following mild sensory arousal in Caenorhabditis elegans is potentiated by stress biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

An fun opportunity for HS students interested in analytics:

Working on an R01 and my Facilities and Equipment pages seem out of date for These Times - all about my office building. What would realistic F&E pages look like now? I'll start:

The pandemic has forced the cancellation of research experiences critical for MD-PhD applicants. In response, APSA is connecting URM future MD-PhD applicants with labs for virtual summer research opportunities. Pls consider signing your lab up! #MedTwitter #AcademicChatter

.IKEA USA Help delivery came today missing a bed. No customer service representatives taking calls? What do we do next?

Moscato, E. H., Dubowy, C., Walker, J. A. and Kayser, M. S. (2020). Social Behavioral Deficits with Loss of Neurofibromin Emerge from Peripheral Chemosensory Neuron Dysfunction. Cell Rep 32(1): 107856. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

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Kind of a cheat day, because I've heard Samy Belfer present this work himself - but now you can read it too! Sleep opportunity restriction improves insomnia in humans. Incredibly, it increases sleep time in short sleeping fly mutants! doi.org/10.1038/s41380…

Our latest study is out in Science Advances ! The CHD8/CHD7/Kismet family links blood-brain barrier glia and serotonin to ASD-associated sleep defects advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/23/e…

As a physician, it is upsetting and inexcusable for @DelrayMedCenter to not allow one visitor for a 97-year-old patient. It is essential to his care and his best days have come after speaking to his family over the phone. COVID-19 is an excuse to limit visitors, not prevent any.

And just like that, in the blink of an eye, only 25 years after my first lab gig…TENURED!! (Coincidentally, on my birthday 😂🎂) Enormous thanks to incredible friends, colleagues, and mentors along the way!! Penn NGG Penn_ChronoSleepInst Penn Medicine Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences @UPenn Penn MSTP

Perlegos, A. E., Durkin, J., Belfer, S. J., Rodriguez, A., Shcherbakova, O., Park, K., Luong, J., Bonini, N. M., Kayser, M. S. (2024). TDP-43 impairs sleep in #Drosophila through Ataxin-2-dependent metabolic disturbance. Sci Adv, 10(2):eadj4457 science.org/doi/full/10.11…