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New PLOS Biology Paper: The role of the dorsal fan-shaped body in sleep regulation

News: March 26, 2025

We are happy to share that our most recent work, titled: " The dorsal fan-shaped body is a neurochemically heterogeneous sleep-regulating center in Drosophila," has been published in PLOS Biology. In this paper, we introduce the most dFB-specific, 23E10-based Split-GAL4 line to date, investigate the...

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Previous Lab Members and Researchers

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Anna Burns (Undergraduate Researcher) Kiran Eiken (Undergraduate Researcher) Ally Elder (Undergraduate Researcher - UMKC Graduate 2020) Emily He (Undergraduate Researcher) Joseph David Jones, Ph.D. (Ph.D. Candidate - Defended 2022) Andrew Montgomery, Ph.D. (Post-doctoral Research Fellow - 2023/2024)...

An optimized appetitive visual short-term memory paradigm in Drosophila

Publication: Journal Article

Holder, Brandon L., Jennifer A. McEllin, and Stephane Dissel. 2025. “An Optimized Appetitive Visual Short-Term Memory Paradigm in Drosophila”. BioRxiv.

Abhinav Krovvidi

Person: Undergraduate Researcher

I joined the Dissel lab in Early 2023 to pursue undergraduate research on Drosophila and memory. Soon after starting I was tasked with developing the protocol for the Appetitive Olfactory Memory Assay, working on developing the work on the T-Maze paradigm started by my predecessor. I then graduated...

Nina Mitchell

Person: Undergraduate Researcher

I joined the Dissel lab in January 2024 to continue undergraduate research on Drosophila. Since then, I have been developing an alternative protocol for appetitive olfactory short-term memory utilizing the Y-Maze paradigm. I am working towards my B.S. in Biology and applying to medical school, where...

Neuronal Signaling: Cell-specific tools for understanding behavior

Publication: Journal Article

Holder, Brandon L, and Stephane Dissel. 2025. “Neuronal Signaling: Cell-Specific Tools for Understanding Behavior”. ELife 14: e106686.

Local High School Students Visit to Learn About Our Research

News: March 14, 2025

We were happy to host some local high school students to learn about what we do in our lab! Students got to sort flies based on sex, eye color, and wing shape, use a microscope to view dissected brains and VNCs, examine some of our behavioral equipment, and view some immunohistochemical images from...