Patrick Emery

Patrick Emery is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School, affiliated with the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, NeuroNexus Institute, and Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. His research focuses on circadian and circatidal rhythms, using Drosophila melanogaster and Parhyale hawaiensis as model organisms. He explores molecular and neural mechanisms underlying biological clocks, their synchronization to environmental cycles, and impacts on sleep and behavior.

Education: University of Geneva, Switzerland (BS, MS, PhD in Biology). Research emphasizes temperature compensation of circadian clocks, light entrainment, and glial regulation of sleep. Current projects include studying circatidal rhythms in Parhyale and circadian rhythms in Drosophila.

Lab URL: emerylab website. Active in mentoring and offers postdoc positions in circadian rhythm research. Collaborations involve co-authors like Chaturvedi, Reppert, and Melikian. His work bridges chronobiology and molecular genetics, with implications for understanding health consequences of clock disruptions.