Amita Sehgal

Research.com Recognitions

• 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Best Publications

• Expression and structure of the human NGF receptor

  Dan Johnson;Anthony Lanahan;C.Randy Buck;Amita Sehgal

  1245
  Citations

• Rest in Drosophila Is a Sleep-like State

  Joan C Hendricks;Stefanie M Finn;Karen A Panckeri;Jessica Chavkin

  1174
  Citations

• Loss of circadian behavioral rhythms and per RNA oscillations in the Drosophila mutant timeless

  Amita Sehgal;Jeffrey L. Price;Bernice Man;Michael W. Young

  808
  Citations

• Gene transfer and molecular cloning of the human NGF receptor

  MV Chao;MA Bothwell;AH Ross;H Koprowski

  612
  Citations

• Pharmacological Rescue of Synaptic Plasticity, Courtship Behavior, and Mushroom Body Defects in a Drosophila Model of Fragile X Syndrome

  Sean M.J. McBride;Catherine H. Choi;Yan Wang;David Liebelt

  563
  Citations

• Regulation of CLOCK and MOP4 by Nuclear Hormone Receptors in the Vasculature: A Humoral Mechanism to Reset a Peripheral Clock

  Peter McNamara;Sang beom Seo;Radu Daniel Rudic;Amita Sehgal

  555
  Citations

• Circadian Rhythms and Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster

  Christine Dubowy;Amita Sehgal

  524
  Citations

• Sleep in Drosophila is regulated by adult mushroom bodies

  William J. Joiner;Amanda Crocker;Benjamin H. White;Amita Sehgal

  521
  Citations

• Regulation of the Drosophila Protein Timeless Suggests a Mechanism for Resetting the Circadian Clock by Light

  Melissa Hunter-Ensor;Andrea Ousley;Amita Sehgal

  505
  Citations

• Isolation of timeless by PER Protein Interaction: Defective Interaction Between timeless Protein and Long-Period Mutant PERL

  Nicholas Gekakis;Lino Saez;Anne-Marie Delahaye-Brown;Michael P. Myers

  502
  Citations

• Block in nuclear localization of period protein by a second clock mutation, timeless

  Leslie B. Vosshall;Jeffrey L. Price;Amita Sehgal;Lino Saez

  482
  Citations

• Rhythmic Expression of timeless: A Basis for Promoting Circadian Cycles in period Gene Autoregulation

  Amita Sehgal;Adrian Rothenfluh-Hilfiker;Melissa Hunter-Ensor;Yifeng Chen

  456
  Citations

• Genetics of Sleep and Sleep Disorders

  Amita Sehgal;Emmanuel Mignot

  440
  Citations

• A Drosophila model for age-associated changes in sleep:wake cycles

  Kyunghee Koh;Joshua M. Evans;Joan C. Hendricks;Amita Sehgal

  392
  Citations

• Identification of SLEEPLESS, a Sleep-Promoting Factor

  Kyunghee Koh;William J. Joiner;Mark N. Wu;Zhifeng Yue

  377
  Citations

• Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, and Disorders of Aging.

  Joanna Mattis;Amita Sehgal

  377
  Citations

• Identification of a Neural Circuit that Underlies the Effects of Octopamine on Sleep:Wake Behavior

  Amanda Crocker;Mohammad Shahidullah;Irwin B. Levitan;Amita Sehgal

  371
  Citations

• Positional cloning and sequence analysis of the Drosophila clock gene, timeless

  Michael P. Myers;Karen Wager-Smith;Cedric S. Wesley;Michael W. Young

  369
  Citations

• JETLAG Resets the Drosophila Circadian Clock by Promoting Light-Induced Degradation of TIMELESS

  Kyunghee Koh;Xiangzhong Zheng;Amita Sehgal

  364
  Citations

• Regulation of feeding and metabolism by neuronal and peripheral clocks in Drosophila

  Kanyan Xu;Xiangzhong Zheng;Amita Sehgal

  358
  Citations

• A role for the proteasome in the light response of the timeless clock protein.

  Nirinjini Naidoo;Wei Song;Melissa Hunter-Ensor;Amita Sehgal

  348
  Citations

• Role of Molecular Oscillations in Generating Behavioral Rhythms in Drosophila

  Zhaohai Yang;Amita Sehgal

  348
  Citations

• A constitutive promoter directs expression of the nerve growth factor receptor gene.

  Amita Sehgal;Nila Patil;Moses Chao

  345
  Citations