William Vanderheyden, PhD

William Vanderheyden, PhD

Assistant Professor, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine

Faculty advisor: Paul Shaw, PhD

Dissertation (2012): The role of ERK in sleep and synaptic plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster

Faculty profile

Related publications

  • Gerstner JR, Vanderheyden WM, Shaw PJ, Landry CF, Yin JC. Cytoplasmic to nuclear localization of fatty-acid binding protein correlates with specific forms of long-term memory in Drosophila. Commun Integr Biol. 2011; 4(5):623-626. doi: 10.4161/cib.4.5.16927.
  • Gerstner JR, Vanderheyden WM, Shaw PJ, Landry CF, Yin JC. Fatty-acid binding proteins modulate sleep and enhance long-term memory consolidation in Drosophila. PLoS One. 2011; 27;6(1):e15890. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015890.
  • Vanderheyden WM, Gerstner JR, Tanenhaus A, Yin JC, Shaw PJ. ERK phosphorylation regulates sleep and plasticity in Drosophila. PLoS One. 2013; 8(11):e81554. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081554.