Killam Seminar Series: Ecology and evolution of sleep: Understanding sleep beyond the laboratory
Supported by the generosity of the Killam Trusts, The Neuro's Killam Seminar Series invites outstanding guest speakers whose research is of interest to the scientific community at The Neuro and McGill University.
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Host: Adrien Peyrache
Ecology and evolution of sleep: understanding sleep beyond the laboratory
Abstract: Sleep is a universal and vital behavior. However, research has largely focused on its mechanisms in a few model organisms and in humans, limiting our understanding of how sleep varies across ecological contexts, populations, and species. This talk will examine current knowledge on the ecology and evolution of sleep and identify the critical gaps that must be addressed to explain its ultimate evolutionary function.
Paul Antoine Libourel
Researcher, Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, France
Paul-Antoine Libourel is a CNRS researcher whose work lies at the intersection of neuroscience, ecology, and engineering. Trained in biomedical engineering and electronic imaging, he began his career as an instrumentation engineer at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, where he contributed to research on locomotion and biomechanics. In 2009, he joined the SLEEP team at the Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon (CRNL) and later earned his PhD, focusing on the evolutionary origins of sleep states in reptiles.
