Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Does sleeping more help your memory? What is the purpose of sleep? We know sleep is required for long term memory preservation, but how does it work? Mashel Fatema Saifuddin studies how brain cells in worms communicate with each other during sleep to allow for memory formation.
Saifuddin was a UCSF Grad Slam 2023 presenter, a competition that challenges PhD students to present a compelling talk on their research in three minutes or less using compelling language that non-specialists can understand.
For students, the contest is an incentive to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. For the audience, it's an entertaining glimpse into research graduate students are engaged in. https://graduate.ucsf.edu/grad-slam
View all 10 Grad Slam competition talks: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVLbDUiGesPxqpjXZ6PUZOLQ8QPoSQZbk
Mashel Fatema Saifuddin is part of the UCSF Tetrad Program
Noelle L'Etoile, PhD, faculty mentor
https://tetrad.ucsf.edu/
Does sleeping more help your memory? What is the purpose of sleep? We know sleep is required for long term memory preservation, but how does it work? Mashel Fatema Saifuddin studies how brain cells in worms communicate with each other during sleep to allow for memory formation.
Saifuddin was a UCSF Grad Slam 2023 presenter, a competition that challenges PhD students to present a compelling talk on their research in three minutes or less using compelling language that non-specialists can understand.
For students, the contest is an incentive to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. For the audience, it's an entertaining glimpse into research graduate students are engaged in. https://graduate.ucsf.edu/grad-slam
View all 10 Grad Slam competition talks: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVLbDUiGesPxqpjXZ6PUZOLQ8QPoSQZbk
Mashel Fatema Saifuddin is part of the UCSF Tetrad Program
Noelle L'Etoile, PhD, faculty mentor
https://tetrad.ucsf.edu/
