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The Harley Hotchkiss Memorial Lecture Series and the Department of Neuroscience are pleased to present:
“Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis”
Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Friday November 13, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience
Everyone is Welcome!
Chiara Cirelli received her medical degree and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pisa, Italy, where she began her investigation of the molecular correlates of sleep and wakefulness and the role of the noradrenergic system in sleep regulation. She continued this work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she has been a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry since 2001. Together with her long-term collaborator, Dr. Giulio Tononi, Dr. Cirelli has developed a comprehensive hypothesis about the function of sleep, the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis. This hypothesis is being tested at different levels, using electrophysiological and behavioral experiments in humans, in vitro studies in cortical slices, electron microscopy experiments in flies and mice, and fMRI and DTI experiments in humans. Other experiments in Dr. Cirelli’s lab are also testing whether lack of sleep, especially during adolescence, may have long-term consequences for the functional and anatomical connectivity of the brain.
Contact:
LeAnna Kalvi | leanna.kalvi@uleth.ca