Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP240102385

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP240102385

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Quiet sleep is for repair, active sleep is for learning. Sleep is thought to achieve many different functions, from brain waste clearance to regulating emotions and perception. Understanding sleep functions in animal models has been difficult because sleep has been typically reduced to a single state. Our discovery of distinct sleep stages in the fruit fly provides a powerful way to study how different conserved sleep functions are regulated. This project will use new strategies for manipulating sleep stages in flies to understand their respective physiology and functions. We will test our hypothesis that different categories of sleep functions have been segregated by evolution into different stages: a quiet stage concerned primarily with brain repair and an active stage important for learning.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2024

End Date: 31-12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $493,410.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Systems biology | Animal neurobiology | Central nervous system | Zoology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Animal neurobiology | Central nervous system | Expanding Knowledge In the Biological Sciences | Systems biology | Zoology

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