{"631021":{"#nid":"631021","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GT Neuro Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;A Motor Theory of Sleep Control\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYang Dan, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPaul Licht Distinguished Professor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMolecular and Cell Biology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUniversity of California, Berkeley\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESleep is a fundamental biological process, and its disruption has profound impacts on human health. Using a variety of techniques including optogenetics, electrophysiology, imaging, and gene expression profiling, we identify key neurons in the sleep control circuits and map their synaptic connections. Sleep appears to be controlled by a highly distributed network spanning the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain, where REM and non-REM sleep neurons are part of the central somatic and autonomic motor circuits. The intimate association between the sleep and autonomic\/somatic motor control circuits suggests that a primary function of sleep is to promote biological processes incompatible with movement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cA Motor Theory of Sleep Control\u201d - Yang Dan, Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2020-01-14 14:12:35","changed_gmt":"2020-01-14 14:12:35","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-03-09T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-03-09T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-03-09T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-03-09 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-03-09 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-03-09 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"https:\/\/vcresearch.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/yang-dan","title":"Dan profile"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:garrett.stanley@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGarrett Stanley\u003C\/a\u003E, faculty host\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}