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Dr Deniz Ertekin

PhD Student
Queensland Brain Insitute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute
d.ertekin@uq.edu.au
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Publications

Journal Articles (6)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Ertekin, Deniz, Kirszenblat, Leonie, Faville, Richard and van Swinderen, Bruno (2020). Down-regulation of a cytokine secreted from peripheral fat bodies improves visual attention while reducing sleep in Drosophila. PLOS Biology, 18 (8) 3000548, e3000548. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000548
Karunanithi, Shanker, Cylinder, Drew, Ertekin, Deniz, Zalucki, Oressia H., Marin, Leo, Lavidis, Nickolas A., Atwood, Harold L. and van Swinderen, Bruno (2020). Proportional downscaling of glutamatergic release sites by the general anesthetic propofol at Drosophila motor nerve terminals. eNeuro, 7 (1) ENEURO.0422-19.2020, ENEURO.0422-14. doi: 10.1523/eneuro.0422-19.2020
Grabowska, Martyna J., Steeves, James, Alpay, Julius, van de Poll, Matthew, Ertekin, Deniz and van Swinderen, Bruno (2018). Innate visual preferences and behavioral flexibility in Drosophila. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 221 (23) jeb185918, jeb185918. doi: 10.1242/jeb.185918
Kirszenblat, Leonie, Ertekin, Deniz, Goodsell, Joseph, Zhou, Yanqiong, Shaw, Paul J. and van Swinderen, Bruno (2018). Sleep regulates visual selective attention in Drosophila. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 221 (24) jeb191429, jeb.191429. doi: 10.1242/jeb.191429
Troup, Michael, Yap, Melvyn H. W., Rohrscheib, Chelsie, Grabowska, Martyna J, Ertekin, Deniz, Randeniya, Roshini, Kottler, Benjamin, Larkin, Oife, Munro, Kelly, Shaw, Paul J and van Swinderen, Bruno (2018). Acute control of the sleep switch in Drosophila reveals a role for gap junctions in regulating behavioral responsiveness. eLife, 7 e37105. doi: 10.7554/eLife.37105
Kulkarni, Abhishek, Ertekin, Deniz, Lee, Chi-Hon and Hummel, Thomas (2016). Birth order dependent growth cone segregation determines synaptic layer identity in the Drosophila visual system. Elife, 5 (MARCH2016) e13715, e13715. doi: 10.7554/eLife.13715

Thesis

Ertekin, Deniz (2020). The effects of diet on sleep and visual selective attention in Drosophila melanogaster. PhD Thesis, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/bf7dff7
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