Virtual Conference, UC San Diego
UC San Diego's Center for Circadian Biology (CCB) will host its 11th Annual Circadian Biology Symposium. 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 56 PIs within the CCB. We welcome and encourage registrants from your research personnel, other institutions, and industry.
The Symposium will feature three half-day morning sessions from 8am to 11:45am (Pacific Standard Time).
Registrants, click here for Whova Symposium login page.
To maximize the opportunity for participation in a year that has made it difficult to come together, CCB is waiving registration fees for the 2021 virtual symposium.
Click here for symposium flyer
Click here for sponsorship information
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
Cheryl Anderson (Dean of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, UC San Diego)
Allison Brager (Maj. US Army and Neuroscientist)
Amandine Chaix (University of Utah)
Shaunak Deota (Trainee, Panda lab, Salk Institute)
Charna Dibner (University of Geneva)
Eran Elinav (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
Azure Grant (Trainee, UC Berkeley)
Dirk Haller (Technical University of Munich)
Richard Lang (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center)
Vanessa Leone (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Francis Levi (University of Warwick, UK)
Tami Martino (University of Guelph, Canada)
Margaret McFall-Ngai (University of Hawaii)
Jeremy Rich (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
Anand Saran (Trainee, Zarrinpar lab, UC San Diego)
Frank Scheer (Harvard Medical School)
Russell Van Gelder (University of Washington)
Schedule
Meeting times are Pacific Standard Time
TUESDAY - February 9, 2021
Theme: Circadian Medicine
Moderator: Hanne Hoffmann (Michigan State University)
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8:00 am |
Welcome |
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8:05 am |
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Clocks, cancer, and chronotherapy | |
8:35 am |
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Measuring circadian clocks in cancer patients: why, how and what for?
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9:05 am |
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Trainee Talk: Artificial pancreas systems and glucose rhythmicity in type-1 diabetes | |
9:20 am |
Break (15 min) | ||
9:35 am |
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Circadian medicine for treating cardiovascular disease: chronotherapy, circadian lighting, drugging the clock, preclinical translation | |
10:05 am |
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Clock function in cancer stem cells | |
10:35 am |
Break (30 min) | ||
11:05 am |
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Special Session - Diet and disparities in heart health Moderator: Dorothy Sears (UC San Diego) |
WEDNESDAY - February 10, 2021
Theme: The Microbiome
Moderator: Dawn Nagel (UC Riverside)
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8:00 am |
Welcome |
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8:05 am |
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Host microbiome interactions in health and disease | |
8:35 am |
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Dominant and secondary drivers of small intestinal host-microbe diurnal rhythms in metabolic dysfunction | |
9:05 am |
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Trainee talk: Using engineered native bacteria to restore metabolic dysfunctions associated with aging in mice | |
9:20 am |
Break (15 min) |
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9:35 am |
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Circadian rhythm of the gut microbiome: predictive signatures and function in metabolic disorders | |
10:05 am |
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Partner dialogue drives the onset and maturation of daily rhythms in a model symbiosis | |
10:35 am |
Break (30 min) |
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11:05 am |
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In search of the super soldier Special Session Moderator: Susan Golden, UC San Diego |
THURSDAY - February 11, 2021
Theme: Circadian Metabolism
Moderator: Anne-Laure Huber (Cancer Research Center of Lyon, France)
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8:00 am |
Welcome |
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8:05 am |
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Circadian timing of glucose homeostasis | |
8:35 am |
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Human circadian system, misalignment and food timing effects on metabolism | |
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9:05 am |
Break (15 min) |
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9:20 am |
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Benefits of time-restricted feeding in preclinical models of cardiometabolic disease |
9:50 am |
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Trainee talk: Circadian omics analysis of sex-dependent response to time-restricted feeding (TRF) of a western diet in the liver of middle-aged mice | |
10:05 am |
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Atypical opsins in development and homeostasis | |
10:35 am |
Concluding remarks
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Registration
Registration info
To maximize the opportunity for participation in a year that has made it difficult to come together, CCB is waiving registration fees for the 2021 virtual symposium.
The Symposium will feature three half-day morning sessions from 8am to 11:45am (Pacific Standard Time).
Having trouble logging in to the event on the Whova app? Be sure to use the same email address to log in to the Whova app that you used to register for the event.
Poster Session
The poster session will run the duration of our virtual event
Please visit the poster session on the Whova app (Agenda item Tuesday 7:00am), use the poll to vote for your favorite.
We are no longer accepting poster submissions (Deadline 2/1/2021)
We welcome our registered attendees to participate. We will have 4 prize awards valued at $75 each. One First Place poster award, and three Outstanding posters awards.
Poster prize winners of 2020
1st Place Poster:
Alessandra Porcu (Postdoc, David Welsh Lab, UC San Diego) – Altered light exposure during adolescence induces neurotransmitter plasticity in the medial amygdala affecting anxiety-like behaviors in mice
Our 3 Outstanding Posters:
Joydeep De (Postdoc, William Joiner Lab, UC San Diego) – Inputs to the sleep homeostat originate outside the brain
Ernst Dustin (Postdoc, Susan Golden Lab, UC San Diego) – Adaptation of cyanobacteria to a compromised clock-output pathway
Alanna Chan (Graduate Student, Katja Lamia Lab, Scripps Research) – Investigating the role of Cryptochrome 2 in human cancer
Sponsorship
Sponsorship Information - An exciting event and opportunity
The 11th Annual Symposium, hosted by the Center for Circadian Biology (CCB), at University of California, Bringing together over 150 attendees for this 3-day event.
The mission of the Center for Circadian Biology is to advance leading-edge research in circadian biology that will have dramatic and lasting impacts on improving human health, the environment and the economy. Our aim is to establish UC San Diego and Torrey Pines Mesa as the premier international center of academic excellence in circadian research.
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.
To become a sponsor or learn more, please contact:
Liz Kelly - eakelly@ucsd.edu
Pattie Stoughton - patties@ucsd.edu
Click here for sponsorship information
- Susan Golden (CCB Director, Molecular Biology, UC San Diego)
- David Welsh (CCB Associate Director, Psychiatry, 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 (Reproductive Medicine, UC San Diego)
- Amir Zarrinpar (Gastroenterology, 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 2021
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