WEDNESDAY - February 15, 2012
Session I: Cells & Circuits
Institute of the Americas - Hojel Auditorium
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Moderator: Jose Pruneda-Paz
Susan Golden (UC San Diego) - Opening remarks
Yi Liu (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) - Posttranscriptional control of the Neurospora circadian clock
Andy LiWang (UC Merced) - It takes two rings to oscillate: rhythmic ring-ring stacking tells time in clock
Alex Webb (University of Cambridge) - The circadian regulation of signalling in Arabidopsis
Michael Young (The Rockefeller University) - Genes and cells affecting sleep duration in Drosophila
THURSDAY - February 16, 2012
Session II: Pacemakers & Networks
Institute of the Americas - Weaver Center
9:00 am - 12 noon (Continental breakfast will be served)
Moderator: Steve Kay
Mary Harrington (Smith College) - Links between disruption of circadian rhythm networks and negative health consequences in animal models
John Hogenesch (University of Pennsylvania) - Networks of the mammalian circadian clock
Joseph Takahashi (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) - Molecular and genetic basis of circadian rhythms and other complex behavior in mammals
Hiroki Ueda (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan) - Systems and synthetic biology of mammalian circadian clocks
BUFFET LUNCH
Institute of the Americas - Plaza
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Special Session: Emerging Technologies
Institute of the Americas - Hojel Auditorium
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Moderator: Satchin Panda
Roger Tsien (UC San Diego) - A fluorescent paintbox to image biochemistry in live cells and organisms
POSTER SESSION
Institute of the Americas - Deutz Room & Arango Foyer
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
FRIDAY - February 17, 2012
Session III: Inputs & Outputs
Institute of the Americas - Hojel Auditorium
9:00 am - 12 noon (Continental breakfast will be served)
Moderator: Michael McCarthy
Michael Gorman (UC San Diego) - Photoperiodism in mammalian clocks
Andrew Huberman (UC San Diego) - Neuronal identity and timing: interacting forces to drive visual circuit development
Katja Lamia (The Scripps Research Institute) - Circadian transcriptional repressors Cry1 and Cry2 modulate glucocorticoid signaling
Karl Obrietan (The Ohio State University) - Photic regulation of signaling pathways in the suprachiasmatic circadian clock
BUFFET LUNCH
Institute of the Americas - Plaza
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Session IV: From Lab to Clinic
Institute of the Americas - Hojel Auditorium
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Moderator: Sonia Ancoli-Israel
Steven Brown (University of Zurich) - Genetics and Environment: cellular determinants of human circadian clocks
Mary Carskadon (Brown University) - Adolescent sleep: Intersection of circadian biology and lifestyle demands
Sara Mednick (UC San Diego) - How napping affects human performance
Mark Rosekind (National Transportation Safety Board) - Chronobiology and transportation safety: Risks and opportunities
Dinner & Guest Presentation
UCSD Great Hall
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Happy Hour
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Buffet Dinner and Guest Presentation
Gene Block (UCLA) - Challenges to the public research university: From access to activism
There were 4 cash prizes of $150 each awarded to the 4 best posters.
1st Place Winner:
Joshua Gendron - UCSD, Steve Kay's lab
Title: Reciprocal regulations between TOC1 and CCA/LHY
2nd Place Winner:
Susan Cohen - UCSD, Susan Golden's lab
Title: How bacteria inherit a sense of time
3rd Place Winner:
Jennifer Evans - Morehouse School of Medicine
Title: Formal & physiological mechanisms regulating coupling within the mammalian pacemakers of the PER2
4th Place Winner:
Tsuyoshi Hirota - UCSD, Steve Kay's Lab
Title: Chemical genetic screen for circadian clock modifiers identified a new CKIdelta-selective inhibitor
