Dr. Stephane Dissel

I graduated from University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. As an undergraduate student, I joined the laboratory of Dominique Ferrandon studying the immune response of Drosophila. This experience led me to pursue a PhD at the University of Leicester, U.K., working on the fruit fly circadian clock. My PhD thesis was centered around the role of the circadian photoreceptor Cryptochrome in the clock. During my PhD, I became increasingly interested in sleep and joined the laboratory of Paul Shaw at Washington University in St Louis as a postdoc in 2012. After spending 6 years in St Louis (Go Cards) I started my own laboratory at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in January 2018.