Tyler DeWitt

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I am a fourth year transfer student from The Santa Rosa Junior College, majoring in MCD Biology (BS) with a minor in Bioinformatics. I am currently involved in Dr. Jeremy Lee’s Alzheimer’s Disease research lab. Specifically, I study the potential relationship between sleep deprivation on the pathology of, on Alzheimer’s Disease in a Drosophila melanogaster model. I am currently, conducting a Drosophila Activity Monitoring (DAM) assay. This behavioral assay uses Infrared light beams to track the movement of fruit flies and can provide insight into their sleep patterns.