Akanksha wins an award for her first research poster presentation on investigating how Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) induces sleep dysregulation in fruit flies at the Aresty Summer Science Annual Symposium 2022! Impressive accomplishment for a freshman who joined the lab just 10 weeks ago! Over the summer, she injured flies at different voltages to induce various severities of TBI in flies. After injury, their activity was recorded using Drosophila Activity Monitoring systems. From this data, the flies’ circadian rhythm strength, period length, and activity, and most interestingly, sleep was uncovered over a 7-day period!
