Natasha Kharas Receives NIH Fellowship

Graduate studentNatasha Kharasfrom the lab ofValentin Dragoi, has received a three-year, pre-doctoral fellowship from theNational Eye Institutefor her project titled, “The effects of sleep on neuronal coding in cortical layers and behavioral performance.”

Kharas’s research focuses on how sleep improves behavioral performance. She explains that since 1929 research has shown that a person performs a task better after sleeping—recent studies show this holds true even with a nap as short as six minutes.

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