Stephane Dissel, PhD

Stephane Dissel, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Faculty Advisor: Paul Shaw, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2012-2017

Faculty Profile

Related publications

  • Dissel, S., and Shaw, P.J. (2013). Drosophila model systems for genetic sleep research. In The Genetic Basis of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, P.J. Shaw, M. Tafti  and M. Thorpy, eds. (New York: Cambridge Press), pp. 152-185.
  • Dissel S, Seugnet L, Thimgan MS, Silverman N, Angadi V, Thacher PV, Burnham MM, Shaw PJ. Differential activation of immune factors in neurons and glia contribute to individual differences in resilience/vulnerability to sleep disruption. Brain Behav Immun. 2015 Jul;47:75-85. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2014.09.019. Epub 2014 Oct 30.
  • Dissel S, Melnattur K, Shaw PJ. Sleep, performance, and memory in flies. Curr Sleep Med Rep. 2015;1(1):47-54. doi: 10.1007/s40675-014-0006-4. Epub 2015 Feb 5.
  • Melnattur K, Dissel S, Shaw PJ. Learning and memory: do bees dream? Curr Biol. 2015 Nov 2;25(21):R1040-R1041. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.001.
  • 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 May 18;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 Jan;2:15-26. doi: 10.1016/j.nbscr.2016.09.001. Epub 2016 Sep 28.
  • Dissel, S. and Shaw, P.J. (2017). Sleep and Memory Formation in Drosophila. In: J.H, B. (ed.) Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference. Cambridge, Massachusetts: eBook ISBN: 9780128052914
  • Dissel S, Shaw PJ. Neuroscience: Flipping the sleep switch. Nature. 2016 Aug 18;536(7616):278-80. doi: 10.1038/nature18918. Epub 2016 Aug 3. Erratum in: Nature. 2016;537(7620):317.
  • Seugnet L, Dissel S, Thimgan M, Cao L, Shaw PJ. Identification of genes that maintain behavioral and structural plasticity during sleep loss. Front Neural Circuits. 2017 Oct 23;11:79. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2017.00079.
  • Dissel S, Morgan E, Duong V, Chan D, van Swinderen B, Shaw P, Zars T. Sleep restores place learning to the adenylyl cyclase mutant rutabaga. J Neurogenet. 2020 Mar;34(1):83-91. doi: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1720674. Epub 2020 Jan 30.
  • Dissel S, Klose MK, van Swinderen B, Cao L, Ford M, Periandri EM, Jones JD, Li Z, Shaw PJ. Sleep-promoting neurons remodel their response properties to calibrate sleep drive with environmental demands. PLoS Biol. 2022 Sep 29;20(9):e3001797. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001797.