Picture credits to Justine Fenner
Welcome to the Syed Lab, where we study the circadian clock using Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly. We are located at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, FL.
Our area of interest is biological physics with the aim of understanding complex behavior as it arises in the natural world. The complex behaviors we are interested in include locomotion, sleep, feeding, and collective phenomena that may arise from interaction among multiple individuals. We focus on the model organism fruit fly to understand these behaviors and take advantage of their built-in timekeeper, the circadian clock, as a starting point in tracing the molecular and neuronal pathways that generate complexity in these animals.
The laboratory investigates behavioral dynamics mostly at two levels:
(1) molecular, examining physical interaction and modification of the proteins that are “inputs” to the pathways
(2) organismal, examining individual and collective activity or “outputs” of intact fruit flies.
For more information, visit any of the pages on our site.
Our area of interest is biological physics with the aim of understanding complex behavior as it arises in the natural world. The complex behaviors we are interested in include locomotion, sleep, feeding, and collective phenomena that may arise from interaction among multiple individuals. We focus on the model organism fruit fly to understand these behaviors and take advantage of their built-in timekeeper, the circadian clock, as a starting point in tracing the molecular and neuronal pathways that generate complexity in these animals.
The laboratory investigates behavioral dynamics mostly at two levels:
(1) molecular, examining physical interaction and modification of the proteins that are “inputs” to the pathways
(2) organismal, examining individual and collective activity or “outputs” of intact fruit flies.
For more information, visit any of the pages on our site.