About
Bart van Alphen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Allada lab at Northwestern, where he works on understanding why we sleep. Until recently, the best answer to that question was: 'Because we get tired'. Using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism, Bart studies how sleep is regulated by the brain, how sleep affects learning and memory and how sleep can drive waste clearance.
Joined
May 2016
