Dillon Barton, an undergraduate from Belle, Mo., is one of the students that studies fruit flies’ sleep behavior. Photos by B.A. Rupert
Matthew Thimgan, assistant professor of biological sciences at Missouri S&T, and his students are studying the sleep patterns of the Drosophila melanogaster, aka the common fruit fly. The insect gives them a way to identify genes and pathways that regulate sleep and to learn about how sleep deprivation affects health and performance.
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