Budhaditya Chowdhury
About Budhaditya Chowdhury
Lab Website
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