Jeffrey Donlea, PhD

Jeffrey Donlea, PhD

Associate Professor, UCLA

Faculty advisor: Paul Shaw, PhD

Dissertation (2010): Use-dependent plasticity regulates sleep need in Drosophila melanogaster

Faculty profile

Related publications

  • Ganguly-Fitzgerald I, Donlea J, Shaw PJ. Waking experience affects sleep need in Drosophila. Science. 2006 Sep 22;313(5794):1775-1781. doi: 10.1126/science.1130408.
  • Seugnet L, Suzuki Y, Thimgan M, Donlea J, Gimbel SI, Gottschalk L, Duntley SP, Shaw PJ. Identifying sleep regulatory genes using a Drosophila model of insomnia. J Neurosci. 2009; 29(22):7148-57. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5629-08.2009.
  • Donlea JM, Shaw PJ. Sleeping together using social interactions to understand the role of sleep in plasticity. Adv Genet. 2009;68:57-81. doi: 10.1016/S0065-2660(09)68003-2. Epub 2010 Jan 13.
  • Donlea JM, Ramanan N, Shaw PJ. Use-dependent plasticity in clock neurons regulates sleep need in Drosophila. Science. 2009; 324(5923):105-108. doi: 10.1126/science.1166657.
  • Seugnet L, Suzuki Y, Donlea JM, Gottschalk L, Shaw PJ. Sleep deprivation during early-adult development results in long-lasting learning deficits in adult Drosophila. Sleep. 2011; 34(2):137-46. doi: 10.1093/sleep/34.2.137.
  • Donlea JM, Thimgan MS, Suzuki Y, Gottschalk L, Shaw PJ. Inducing sleep by remote control facilitates memory consolidation in Drosophila. Science. 2011; 24;332(6037):1571-1576. doi: 10.1126/science.1202249.
  • Donlea J, Leahy A, Thimgan MS, Suzuki Y, Hughson BN, Sokolowski MB, Shaw PJ. Foraging alters resilience/vulnerability to sleep disruption and starvation in Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012; 109(7):2613-2618. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1112623109. Epub 2012 Jan 30.
  • Donlea JM, Ramanan N, Silverman N, Shaw PJ. Genetic rescue of functional senescence in synaptic and behavioral plasticity. Sleep. 2014; 37(9):1427-1437. doi: 10.5665/sleep.3988.
  • Dissel S, Angadi V, Kirszenblat L, Suzuki Y, Donlea J, Klose M, Koch Z, English D, Winsky-Sommerer R, van Swinderen B, Shaw PJ. Sleep restores behavioral plasticity to Drosophila mutants. Curr Biol. 2015; 25(10):1270-81. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.027. Epub 2015 Apr 23.
  • Dissel S, Klose M, Donlea J, Cao L, English D, Winsky-Sommerer R, van Swinderen B, Shaw PJ. Enhanced sleep reverses memory deficits and underlying pathology in Drosophila models of Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiol Sleep Circadian Rhythms. 2017; 2:15-26. doi: 10.1016/j.nbscr.2016.09.001. Epub 2016 Sep 28.