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2018 News

mishraNovember 2018
CCB applauds Fall Workshop winner of best CCB trainee talk!
Himanshu Mishra won the prize for best CCB trainee presentation for his talk entitled "Modeling neuronal circadian rhythms in bipolar disorder using human induced pluripotent stem cells." The prize is a career-boosting speaker slot at our 2019 CCB symposium.

fwsNov 2, 2018
CCB Fall Workshop on Biological Timings
More than 100 attendees enjoyed the 2018 Fall Workshop which featured 11 speakers (Graduate Students, Postdocs, and faculty).

bcsOctober 2018
New circadian tutorials added to BioClock Studio website
The BioClock Studio website! Recently added education resources: a tutorials on classic SCN transplant experiments, a game that guides students through experiments that revealed extra-occular photoreceptors in birds, and an animation explaining photoperiodic flowering of plants.

zeeAugust 2018
Phyllis Zee, Sleeping well to stave off dementia
What is the relationship between sleep and dementia? CCB Advisory Board member, Dr. Phyllis Zee, and her colleague Dr. Roneil Malkani have published an editorial, “Sleeping well and staying in rhythm to stave off dementia.”

partchMay 21, 2018
Partch and colleagues link kinase to larks and owl chronotype
CCB Member, Carrie Partch, UC Santa Cruz was awarded the 2018 Aschoff’s Rule by Luis Larrondo for her lab’s work on the mechanistic basis for circadian timekeeping, identifying a new role for the kinase CK1delta, which controls clock timing to determine if you are a morning lark or a night owl.

fireFeb 14, 2018
Salk and UC San Diego scientists receive $1.5 million to study firefighter health
Satchin Panda, co-leader of a 3-year study of 150 firefighters to improve heart health, which will restrict food intake to a 10-hour window. The time-restricted dieters will use an app, developed by Panda’s lab, to track eating, sleeping, and exercise (video).

daanFeb 9, 2018
Remembering Serge Daan
Serge Daan was an eminent Dutch circadian biologist trained with two legendary figures in our field, Jürgen Aschoff and Colin Pittendrigh. In his long career, he made a variety of seminal contributions to our understanding of circadian clocks.

saraJanuary 2018
Sara Mednick moves her lab to UC Irvine
CCB member, Sara Mednick has moved her Sleep and Cognition Lab to the Cognitive Science department at UC Irvine.