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CCB Fall Workshop on Biological Timing

November 8, 2024

15th floor, Seventh College, West Tower 1, UC San Diego


Registration is free but is required to attend. The venue has an occupancy limit; we will close registration when we reach capacity.

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This year's Fall Workshop will include a nine presenters (faculty, postdocs, and PhD students); will include light breakfast, lunch, refreshment breaks, and will conclude with an ice cream networking social during the poster session.

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Schedule & Participants

Join us at 8:30 am for breakfast.

 

Opening Remarks

 

 9:00 am

 

Amir Zarrinpar
CCB Co-Interim Director
Associate Professor
Medicine, UC San Diego

 


Session Moderator (9:00 am - 10:30 am)

Varun Viswanath
PhD Student, Ben Smarr Lab
Jacobs School of Engineering
UC San Diego

 

 9:05 am

Omar Mesarwi, MD
Associate Professor
Pulmonology, UC San Diego

9:05 am - 9:40 am

Talk: Hypoxic physiology and time-restricted feeding

 

 9:40 am

Severine Soltani
PhD Student, Ben Smarr Lab
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, UC San Diego

9:40 am - 10:05 am

Talk: Digital biomarkers associated with naps reveal
social and biological influences on day time sleep rhythms

 

 
10:05 am

Jamie Burks
PhD Student, Ben Smarr Lab
Bioengineering, UC San Diego

10:05 am - 10:30 am

Talk: Parameterizing phase for improved biomedical
classification

15-min Break (10:30am-10:45am)

Session 2

 


Session Moderator (10:45 am - 12:00pm)

Alex Neitz
Postdoc, Susan Golden Lab
Center for Circadian Biology
UC San Diego

 

10:45 am

Diksha Sharma
PhD Student, Carrie Partch Lab
Physical & Biological Sciences, UC Santa Cruz

10:45 am - 11:10 am

Talk: Identifying small molecule ligands for PAS domains
in the circadian clock

 

11:10 am

Renny Ng
 PhD Student, Chih-Ying Su Lab
Neurobiology, UC San Diego

11:10 am - 11:35 am

Talk: Day/night cycles regulate pheromone acuity to
gate rhythmic courtship behavior

 

11:35 am

Joanna Eckhardt
PhD Student, Judy Pa Lab
Neuroscience, UC San Deigo

11:35 am - 12:00 pm

Talk: Circadian rhythm timing and fragmentation are associated with Alzheimer's disease biocarkers and poorer cognition in older adults

Lunch Break (12:00pm-1:00pm)

Session 3

 


Session Moderator (1:00 pm - 2:20 pm)

Christian Harding
Postdoc, Atul Malhotra lab
Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
UC San Diego

 

 1:00 pm

Yumeng Wang
Postdoc, Chris Colwell Lab
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

1:00 pm - 1:25 pm

Talk: Impact of dim light at night on sleep architecture and
electroencephalographic activity in a mouse model of autism

 

 1:25 pm

Sergio Hidalgo
Postdoc, Joanna Chiu Lab
Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis

1:25 pm - 1:50 pm

Talk: The role of the circadian clock in regulating
seasonal biology

 

 1:50 pm

Stephany Flores-Ramos
Postdoc, Amir Zarrinpar Lab
Biomedical Sciences, UC San Diego

1:50 pm - 2:15 pm

Talk: Metatranscriptomics yields bacterial transgenes with
pronounced metabolic effects

Closing Remarks

 

 2:15 pm

 

Paula Desplats
CCB Co-Interim Director
Associate Professor
Neurosciences, UC San Diego

2:15 pm - 2:20 pm

Poster session
& Networking

 
Networking: Poster Session and ice cream social hour

2:20 pm - 3:15 pm

 Organizing Committee:

  • Christian Harding, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, UC San Diego

  • Jose Pruneda-Paz, Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego

  • Benjamin Smarr, Bioengineering and Halicioglu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego

  • Karen Tonsfeldt, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UC San Diego

  • Pattie Stoughton, Center for Circadian Biology, UC San Deigo

 

For additional information:

Pattie Stoughton
Administrative Officer
Center for Circadian Biology (CCB)
University of California, San Diego
E-mail: patties@ucsd.edu