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| SALK/IPSEN/Science Symposium on Biological Complexity | |||
| Biology of Time (Circadian, Lunar and Seasonal Rhythms) | |||
| January 22-24, 2018 | |||
| TENTATIVE PROGRAM | |||
| Date | Time | Session | Speaker |
| Monday, 1/22 | |||
| 9:00 AM – 9:05 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Inder Verma & Elizabeth Blackburn | |
| 9:05 AM – 9:45 AM | Keynote Address | Michael Rosbash – The Functions and Connections of Sleep-promoting Circadian Neurons in Flies | |
| 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Session 1: Clock molecular mechanism | ||
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Yoshi Fukada, Chair – Post-transcriptional and post-translational regulation of the circadian clockwork in mice | ||
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Carrie Partch – Dissecting the molecular basis of circadian timekeeping | ||
| 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Break | ||
| 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Eva Wolf – Molecular interactions of mammalian circadian clock proteins | ||
| 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Short Talk – Ying Xu | ||
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Maria Robles – Post-translational modifications in the circadian control of metabolism | ||
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Session 2: Clocks and sleep | ||
| 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Amita Sehgal, Chair – Using a Drosophila model to understand circadian and sleep physiology | ||
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Yang Dan – Neural circuits controlling sleep | ||
| 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM | Break | ||
| 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM | Katja Lamia | ||
| 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM | Short Talk – Tsuyoshi Hirota | ||
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Charles Czeisler – Circadian clock regulation of sleep and wakefulness in humans | ||
| 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Brenner Lecture | Michael Hastings – Analysis of circadian time-keeping in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: neurons, astrocytes and genetic code expansion | |
| 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Brenner Lecture Reception | ||
| 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Nobel Dinner | We will be celebrating the Nobel prizes of Drs. Young and Rosbash with a dinner to be held in the Salk Foyer. | |
| Tuesday, 1/23 | |||
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Session 3: Clocks in Plants and Food Production | ||
| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Steve Kay, Chair – GI Integrates light, clock and hormone signaling networks to regulate growth in plants | ||
| 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Stacey Harmer – Circadian regulation of development enhances plant growth and reproduction in the natural environment | ||
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Break | ||
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Luis Larrondo – Fungal Synthetic Biology: Transcriptional rewiring and The Emergence of a Primordial Visual System capable of Eidetic Memory | ||
| 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Short Talk – Robert Moseley | ||
| 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Andrew Millar – A Phospho-Dawn of plant protein modifications anticipates light onset | ||
| 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM | Lunch + Poster Session | ||
| 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Session 4: Clocks and Metabolism | ||
| 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Carla Green, Chair – Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Regulation of Metabolism by the Circadian Clock | ||
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Joseph Bass – Circadian Control of Stimulus-Induced Transcription | ||
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Break | ||
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Paolo Sassone-Corsi – Epigenetics, Nutrition and the Biological Clock | ||
| 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | Short Talk – Luciano DiTacchio | ||
| 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM | Gad Asher – Rhythmic oxygen levels reset circadian clocks through HIF1a | ||
| 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Break | ||
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Special Lecture | Ulrich Schibler – Oscillations in the liver: a pleasant journey from spatial to temporal gene expression | |
| 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM | Reception | ||
| Wednesday 1/24 | |||
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Session 5: Seasonal clocks and nocturnal-diurnality | ||
| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Steve Reppert, Chair – Circadian clocks and monarch butterfly migration | ||
| 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Kristin Tessmar-Raible – Day, season and moonphase timing in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii | ||
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Break | ||
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Roelof Hut – Flexible timing: effects of light and metabolism | ||
| 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Short Talk – Alessandra Porcu | ||
| 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Takashi Yoshimura – Molecular basis of vertebrate seasonal adaptation:Towards the understanding of human seasonal rhythms | ||
| 11:45 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch + Poster Session | ||
| 1:30 PM – 4:15 PM | Session 6: Clocks in Immune Function and Therapy | ||
| 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | John Hogenesch, Chair – #ClocksInTranslation: towards genome based circadian medicine | ||
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Ajay Chawla – Host Immunity and Energetics | ||
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Break | ||
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Mimi Shirasu-Hiza – Circadian-Regulated Metabolism and Aging | ||
| 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | Short Talk – Yong-Hoon Kim | ||
| 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM | Christoph Scheiermann – Circadian control of leukocyte migration and function | ||
| 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM | Reception | ||
| 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Closing Dinner w/Speaker | Michael Menaker – Biological Clocks: Past, Present, and Future | |