Brandeis researchers Michael Rosbash, the Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, and Professor Emeritus of Biology Jeffrey C. Hall have received this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Michael Young from The Rockefeller University,  for their pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythm.

• The Guardian
• Nobel Press Release
• 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to 3 Americans for Body Clock Studies (NY Times)
• The Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Your Body’s Circadian Clock (Wired)
• Brandeis Press Conference
• Collection of related papers and comments (Nature)
• Timing is Everything (Science)
• Nobel winners identified molecular ‘cogs’ in the biological clocks that control our circadian rhythms (The Conversation)
• the infographic version of the story (Compound Interest)
• Reflections on contributing to “big discoveries” about the fly clock: Our fortunate paths as post-docs with 2017 Nobel laureates Jeff Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Mike Young

More about Michael

• Understanding Circadian Rhythms: A Tale of Friendship, Behavior, Genetics, and Luck (video, iBiology)
• Clockwork Genes: Discoveries in Biological Time (video, HHMI)
• HHMI News
• We’ll always have RNA
• Rosbash Lab website
• latest lab publication: Temporal calcium profiling of specific circadian neurons in freely moving flies

More about Jeff

• Jeff Hall interviewed on USA Today
• Profile of Jeffrey C. Hall (PNAS)
• A Neurogeneticist’s Manifesto
• Neurogenetics of Courtship and Mating in Drosophila
• History 150b: Gettysburg (course website, spring 2002); see also The Stand of the U.S. Army at Gettysburg

More about Drosophila

• Fly Life: A day-in-the-life of a fly scientist (from the Fly on the Wall blog)
• drosophilaresearch.org
• FlyBase
• stories about Drosophila on this blog