Budhaditya Chowdhury

Budhaditya Chowdhury

Assistant Professor of Biology
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About Budhaditya Chowdhury

Lab Website

www.chowdhuryflylab.com

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow: Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
  • Postdoctoral Associate: Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
  • PhD: Animal Behavior, Bowling Green State University
  • BS: Zoology, Visva-Bharati University (India) 

Faculty Research Interests

  • Mechanisms of sleep and social behavior in Drosophila 
  • Automated analysis of social behaviors 
  • Multivariate analysis
  • Circadian rhythms

Recent Courses Taught

  • NEUR253: Neurobiology
  • BIOL202: Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience

Recent and Representative Publications

  • Chowdhury B, Abhilash L, Ortega A, Liu S, Shafer O. Homeostatic control of deep sleep and molecular correlates of sleep pressure in Drosophila. Elife. 2023 (PMID: 37906092)
  • Wani AR, Chowdhury B, Luong J, Chaya GM, Patel K, Isaacman-Beck J, Kayser MS, Syed MH. Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis. Current Biology. 2024 PMID: 39383867
  • Chowdhury B, Wang M, Gnerer JP, Dierick HA. The Divider Assay is a high-throughput pipeline for aggression analysis in Drosophila. Communications Biology. 2021 PMID: 33469118
  • Chowdhury B, Chan YB, Kravitz EA. Putative transmembrane transporter modulates higher-level aggression in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS). 2017 PMID: 28193893

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