Krishna Melnattur

Employment

• Ashoka University Assistant Professor
  2021 - Present
• Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Staff Scientist
  2014 - 2021
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Visiting postdoctoral fellow
  2009 - 2014

Education

• University of Massachusetts Amherst PhD
  2000 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (14)

• Mutations in antimicrobial peptides differently affect sleep and plasticity
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.28.679065
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• Comparative biology of sleep in diverse animals
  Journal of Experimental Biology 2023 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245677
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• A conserved role for sleep in supporting spatial learning inDrosophila
  2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.27.174656
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• Disrupting flight increases sleep and identifies a novel sleep-promoting pathway in Drosophila
  Science Advances 2020 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz2166
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• The Sleep Nullifying Apparatus: A Highly Efficient Method of Sleep Depriving Drosophila
  Journal of Visualized Experiments 2020 DOI: 10.3791/62105
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• Staying awake to stay alive: A circuit controlling starvation-induced waking
  PLOS Biology 2019 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000199
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• Learning and memory: do bees dream?
  Current biology : CB 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.001
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• Sleep, Performance, and Memory in Flies.
  Current sleep medicine reports 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s40675-014-0006-4
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• Multiple redundant medulla projection neurons mediate color vision in Drosophila.
  Journal of neurogenetics 2014 DOI: 10.3109/01677063.2014.891590
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• A hard-wired glutamatergic circuit pools and relays UV signals to mediate spectral preference in Drosophila.
  Neuron 2014 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.010
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