Stéphane Dissel

It’s the never ending story. Fail, fail, fail, succeed, enjoy success for one day, get back to failing some more, and so on….

It’s tiring tbh…. I know that I would never get away with this kind of stuff. Heck I would not even try….

Since I know about them and it was mostly before my time on this planet…

So I have found that the “I thought everybody knew this” approach is not always the best option. So I’m careful about saying that even if obviously I can’t understand how they would not know about Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd….

Just a Monday night thought of course….the joy of academia

Oh I have been in this situation so many times. “Why should I know about this? I was not even born” is the usual response I get…. I don’t understand this kind of thinking

Well, the data clearly demonstrates that these VNC neurons are much more potent regulator of sleep. So I would argue that the dFB neurons are the contaminating cells in that « dFB-specific » driver….#drosophila #Sleep

So I came back from the Gordon sleep conference and it took me a while to integrate this but a famous researcher described sleep-promoting neurons located in the VNC that are present in the most widely used « dFB-specific » GAL4 driver as contaminating cell…

3.30h to go through security. But by some miracle I made my flight.

Fun times touring the Hobby Airport. Some TSA strike. Southwest could have told me about this much earlier. I may not get my flight. Good times

Nope

Nope…a bottle of Alsace wine. Typical shape for the bottle

On my way to my favorite meeting. The Gordon sleep conference

If you know anything about wine you should know where this is from just based on the shape of the bottle…

Channeling the slash in me. Bourbon, guitar. Friday night. What else?

The mystery of sleep: How does the brain know when it’s time to sleep? Why do we feel an irresistible drive to sleep after being awake for too long? A recent study led by Prof. Anissa Kempf at the Biozentrum has revealed that in fruit flies, a small set of neurons can se...

Why do we feel an irresistible drive to sleep after being awake for too long? A recent study led by Prof. Anissa Kempf has revealed that, in fruit flies, a small set of neurons can sense when the fly needs rest. Learn more 👉
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/... @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch #sleep

A Hyperkinetic-dependent redox-sensing mechanism operates specifically in dorsal fan-shaped body neurons to promote sleep Sleep is a universal and tightly regulated process that is controlled by both circadian and homeostatic mechanisms1. Work in Drosophila melanogaster h…

Congratulations to my friend Anissa Kempf for this paper emphasizing the need to use the proper genetic tools when linking sleep effects to specific neurons. This was needed. Well done
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Go Annika. You will get a lot of pushback from students. But I agree that it seems students these days don’t know how to study anymore. It’s unbelievable, how did we get there? And AI is an absolute disaster. Last semester, I have had a lot of AI generated assignments that were totally wrong.

Been there, done that. When I tell this to my students they think I’m joking or I’m crazy….

Cool

Can PIs take it?? I’m joking but I wish I could have done this as a postdoc or PhD student. I know the course is awesome.

Yes yes yes

This list is full of truth. As a recently tenured faculty I agree 100% with all of these advices.

Sorry to hear.

Good luck

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Feliz Navidad

Unbelievably nice weather for this time of year. Merry Xmas to all

On the left, the image shows a schematic of a fly head, ring neurons and EPG neurons together with some calcium imaging frames. On the right is a photo of a fly on a ball in virtual reality and another schematic of a VR system.

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My 22 yo daughter is back for the holiday and playing her music. Live from KC it’s whole lotta love. And I love her so much.