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SUMMARY:Light Sleep - Gero Miesenboeck
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DESCRIPTION:Gero Miesenböck is Waynflete Professor of Physiology and foun
 ding Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at the Unive
 rsity of Oxford. A native of Austria\, Gero studied medicine at the Univer
 sity of Innsbruck and was a postdoctoral fellow with James Rothman. Before
  coming to Oxford in 2007\, he held faculty appointments at Memorial Sloan
 -Kettering Cancer Center and Yale University School of Medicine.\n\nGero h
 as received many awards for the invention of optogenetics. He is a Fellow 
 of the Royal Society and a member of the German and Austrian Academies of 
 Science.\n\nHis lecture\, entitled "Light Sleep\," will illustrate the ena
 bling power of optogenetics with recent work on the homeostatic regulation
  of sleep. Optogenetic interventions have helped to pinpoint neurons whose
  sleep-inducing activity switches on as sleep deficits accrue\, reveal how
  this activity switch works\, and furnish a molecular interpretation of sl
 eep pressure\, its accumulation\, and its discharge.\n
LOCATION:Max Perutz Lecture Theatre\, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC 
 Laboratory of Molecular Biol
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