CCB Fall Workshop on Biological Timing
Friday, November 20, 2015
15th floor, Village West, Building 1, UCSD
No registration required; check in for name badge at registration desk.
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Confirmed Speakers
Joseph Boyd - Postdoc in Susan Golden Lab, UCSD
Susan Cohen - Postdoc in Susan Golden Lab, UCSD
Susan Golden - Director of CCB, Professor of Molecular Biology, UCSD
Elizabeth Harrison - Postdoc/Visiting Scholar in Gorman Lab, UCSD
Alexander Kauffman - Associate Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology, UCSD
Dominic Landgraf - Postdoc in Welsh Lab, UCSD
Catherine Marinac - Graduate Student in Sears Lab, UCSD
Ludovic Mure - Postdoc in Panda Lab, SALK
Arthur Prindle - Postdoc in Suel Lab, UCSD
Erica Schoeller - Postdoc in Mellon Lab, UCSD
Andrew Steele - Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Schedule
| 8:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
Session I: (9:00 am - 10:30 am)
Moderator: Jeff Elliott
| 9:00 | Dominic Landgraf (Postdoc in Welsh Lab, UCSD) – Circadian clocks in mouse models of mood disorders |
| 9:30 | Elizabeth Harrison (Postdoc/Visiting Scholar in Gorman Lab, UCSD) – Portrait of an ER: Circadian rhythms and sleep strategies in physicians on rapidly rotating shifts |
| 10:00 | Alexander Kauffman (Associate Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology, UCSD) – Looking at circadian control of the LH surge in females |
| 10:30 |
Break |
Session II: (10:45 am - 12:45 pm)
Moderator: Dorothy Sears
| 10:45 | Catherine Marinac (Graduate Student in Sears Lab, UCSD) – Prolonged nightly fasting, metabolic health, and breast cancer prognosis |
| 11:15 | Susan Cohen (Postdoc in Susan Golden Lab, UCSD) – The cyanobacterial circadian clock: When and where |
| 11:45 | Erica Schoeller (Postdoc in Mellon Lab, UCSD) – The role of Bmal1 in male reproductive behavior |
| 12:15 | Speed networking event – CCB faculty present brief snapshots of their research programs – Davide Dulcis, Susan Golden, Donald MacLeod, Atul Malhotra, Dorothy Sears, Terry Sejnowski |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
Session III: (1:45 pm - 3:15 pm)
Moderator: William Bechtel
| 1:45 | Andrew Steele (Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) – Knowing when it's time to eat: dopamine receptor 1 neurons mediating circadian entrainment to feeding |
| 2:15 | Joseph Boyd (Postdoc in Susan Golden Lab, UCSD) – Combined computational and genetic approach uncovers signaling network interactions of the cyanobacterial circadian clock |
| 2:45 | Ludovic Mure (Postdoc in Panda Lab, SALK) – Structural determinants of melanopsin |
| 3:15 |
Break |
Session IV: (3:30 pm - 4:30 pm)
Moderator: Katja Lamia
| 3:30 | Arthur Prindle (Postdoc in Suel Lab, UCSD) – A novel bacterial cell to cell communication mechanism |
| 4:00 | Susan Golden (Director of CCB, Professor of Molecular Biology, UCSD) – How to improve your R01 score |
| 4:30 - 6:00 | Reception |
