UC San Diego's Center for Circadian Biology will host its 14th Annual Circadian Biology Symposium to be held at the Sanford Consortium - Roth Auditorium, UC San Diego.
We have invited a select, stellar group of chronobiologists from around the country and beyond, and a few local colleagues, to speak at this symposium. Each year, the symposium attracts leaders in the field, with active participation from our 58 PIs within the CCB. We welcome and encourage registrants from your research personnel, other institutions, and industry.
Registration is open!
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To donate toward scholarships to enhance the inclusion of diverse students at the symposium, please click on the button below:
The aims of the conference are to:
- Provide participants with a comprehensive view of modern circadian biology.
- Exchange a broad spectrum of ideas and techniques in circadian biology.
- Promote interactions among the faculty and lab personnel of UC San Diego, Circadian Biology Center, the invited speakers, and other participants.
- Further acquaint the speakers, their groups, and other registrants with the depth and breadth of circadian biology research conducted at UC San Diego.
Confirmed Speakers
2024 Speakers
(Listed alphabetically)
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Deborah Bell-Pedersen, PhD |
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Dan J. Buysse, MD |
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Horacio de la Iglesia, PhD
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María P. Fernández, PhD |
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Kathleen Greenham, PhD |
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Jeffrey Haspel, MD, PhD |
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Ian Hickie, MD |
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John Hogenesch, PhD |
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Dorothee Kern, PhD |
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Katja Lamia, PhD |
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Wanhe Li, PhD |
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Atul Malhotra, MD Professor of Medicine, Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California, San Diego |
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Selma Masri, PhD Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine |
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Jose Pruneda-Paz, PhD Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego |
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Melissa E.S. Richardson, PhD |
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Frank A.J.L. Scheer, M.Sc., PhD |
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Nicholas J. Webster, PhD |
Contact Pattie Stoughton patties@ucsd.edu for assistance.
Registration
Registration is open!

- Registration includes 3-day symposium plus Friday evening happy hour & banquet dinner. Also includes daily refreshment breaks, and breakfast & lunch on Thursday and Friday.
Registration Types:
- Student Registration - Students and Postdocs from all institutions (includes CCB trainees)
- CCB Faculty Member - Official CCB Faculty membership (all who are listed on people pages on the CCB website)
- Regular Registration - All other attendees
- Banquet guest add-on - Add a guest for the closing banquet (be prepared to include guest name)
Registration Fees:
Poster Session
We welcome our registered attendees to participate in a poster session to be held Thursday afternoon at 2:00pm. Priority for limited space will be given to students and postdocs. Four prizes will be awarded ($75 Amazon gift card); winners will be announced during the banquet dinner.
Sign-up information coming soon!
Poster prize winners of 2023
Congratulations! (Awardees are listed alphabetically)
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Aida Coric moon-controlled timers: Linking the light valence detector L-Cry to the circalunar clock in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii |
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Samantha Iiams Title: The Impact of Circadian Aligned |
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Luísa Jabbur Title: Do bacteria care about the seasons? |
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Kanjana Laosuntisuk Talk: Controlling for total RNA abundance |
Contact Pattie Stoughton patties@ucsd.edu for assistance.
Network Awards
CCB will offer a limited number of scholarships to undergraduates, Masters, and PhD students whose activities and experiences contribute to expanding the diversity of scientists involved in biological rhythms research.
Submission details coming soon!
Sponsorship
Sponsorship Information - An exciting event and opportunity
The Annual Symposium, hosted by the Center for Circadian Biology (CCB) at UC San Diego, brings together over 150 attendees for this 3-day event.
The symposium features an unparalleled breadth and depth of leading-edge research and groundbreaking biological timing discoveries in plants, animals and humans, and spans molecular biology to clinical applications. By sponsoring, you will join the Who’s Who in circadian research in this exciting venture and help us invent the future.
Click here for sponsorship information
To become a sponsor or learn more, please contact:
Pattie Stoughton - patties@ucsd.edu
Ana Minvielle - aminvielle@ucsd.edu
Organizing Committee:
- Susan Golden (CCB Director, Molecular Biology, UC San Diego)
- Amir Zarrinpar (CCB Associate Director, Gastroenterology, UC San Diego)
- Sonia Ancoli-Israel (Psychiatry, UC San Diego)
- Stu Brody (Molecular Biology, UC San Diego)
- William Joiner (Pharmacology, UC San Diego)
- Katja Lamia (Scripps Research)
- Atul Malhotra (Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, UC San Diego)
- Michael McCarthy (Psychiatry, UC San Diego)
- Satchin Panda (Salk Institute)
- Jose Pruneda-Paz (Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego)
- Dorothy Sears (Endocrinology & Metabolism, UC San Diego)
- Benjamin Smarr (Bioengineering, UC San Diego)
- Karen Tonsfeldt (Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UC San Diego)
- David Welsh (Psychiatry, UC San Diego)
For additional information, please contact:
Pattie Stoughton
Research Administrator
Center for Circadian Biology (CCB)
University of California, San Diego
E-mail: patties@ucsd.edu
Many thanks to our generous sponsors of 2024