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CCB Fall Workshop on Biological Timing

Friday, November 16, 2012

Telemedicine Bldg. Rooms 143/145 - UCSD School of Medicine Campus

Schedule

8:30
 
Continental Breakfast
 

Session I: (9:00 am - 10:30 am)
Moderator: Satchin Panda

9:00 An evidence-driven approach to studying human feeding behaviors
Shubhroz Gill, Graduate Student in Panda Lab, Salk Institute
9:30 Identification and in vivo functional analysis of small molecule compounds for melanopsin
Megumi Hatori, Postdoc in Panda Lab, Salk Institute
10:00 High-throughput screening approaches for understanding mammalian circadian clock mechanisms
Hirota Tsuyoshi, Postdoc in Kay Lab, UCSD
10:30
 
Break
 

Session II: (10:45 am - 12:30 pm)
Moderator: David Welsh

10:45 Circadian clock genes in bipolar disorder
John Kelsoe, Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD
11:15 Clock gene and calcium rhythms in cardiomyocytes
Stephen Beesley, Postdoc in Welsh Lab, UCSD
11:45 Engineered harmony for genetic clocks
Arthur Prindle, Graduate Student in Hasty Lab, UCSD
12:15 CCB and You
Susan Golden, Director of CCB, Professor of Molecular Biology, UCSD
12:30
 
Lunch
 

Session III: (1:30 pm - 3:30 pm)
Moderator: Stu Brody

1:30 Exploring the structural basis for 24-hour timekeeping in mammals
Carrie Partch, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz
2:00 Arabidopsis circadian clock protein, TOC1, is a DNA-binding transcription factor
Joshua Gendron, Postdoc in Kay Lab, UCSD
2:30 Oxidized quinones signal onset of darkness directly to the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator
Yong-Ick Kim, Postdoc in Golden Lab, UCSD
3:00
 
Break
 

Session IV: (3:15 pm - 4:15 pm)
Moderator: Michael Gorman

3:15 Open access - It's not a matter of "If" only "When" and "How"
Philip Bourne, Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Industry Alliances, Professor of Pharmacology, UCSD
3:45 Photoperiod-dependent transmitter switching in the adult brain regulates responses to stress: Lights off - I feel better now!
Nick Spitzer, Professor of Neurobiology, UCSD
4:15
 
Reception
 

Invited Speakers

Shubhroz Gill
Graduate Student in Panda Lab,
Salk Institute
 
Megumi Hatori
Postdoc in Panda Lab,
Salk Institute
 
Hirota Tsuyoshi
Postdoc in Kay Lab, UCSD
 
John Kelsoe
Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD
 
Stephen Beesley
Postdoc in Welsh Lab, UCSD
 
Arthur Prindle
Graduate Student in Hasty Lab, UCSD
 
Susan Golden
Director of CCB,
Professor of Molecular Biology, UCSD
 
Carrie Partch
Assistant Professor of
Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz
 
Joshua Gendron
Postdoc in Kay Lab, UCSD
 
Yong-Ick Kim
Postdoc in Golden Lab, UCSD
 
Philip Bourne
Associate Vice Chancellor for
Innovation and Industry
Alliances, Professor of
Pharmacology, UCSD
 
Nick Spitzer
Professor of Neurobiology,
UCSD
 

Please click here to download the workshop flyer.