2015/2016 Schedule, Clocks & Sleep Club
Note that the Clocks & Sleep Club will now meet on the first Friday of every month.
*3:30p
The location for this season has changed to BJC Institute of Health 7AB
- August 28: Matthew Thimgan (Missouri University of Science & Technology), “Metabolic regulation of sleep in Drosophila”
- October 2: Guy Bloch (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Social synchronization of circadian rhythms in honeybees” and He Huang (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center), “Photoperiodic Control of Growth”
- November 6: Istvan Kiss (SLU), “Jet lag and the network structure of the circadian clock: Vasopressin deficient mice are resistant to jet lag”
*Please note the time for this and all remaining meetings has been moved to 3:30p. - December 4: Cristina Mazuski (Herzog lab, WUSTL Biology), “Identification of VIP firing patterns that entrain circadian rhythms and behavior”
- *January 8: Jiajia Li (Hughes lab, UMSL), “Circadian control of innate immunity in macrophages by miR-155 targeting Bmal1” and “Biologic Rhythms in the Immune System”
- February 5: William Schwartz (University of Massachusetts; WUSTL Visiting Professor), “On unihemispheric sleep”
Dr. Schwartz will discuss the following article: Rattenborg NC, Lima SL, Amlaner CJ. Half-awake to the risk of predation. Nature. 1999 February; 397:397-398, doi:10.1038/17037 - March 4: Matt Tso (Herzog lab, WUSTL Biology), “Investigating the Role of SCN Astrocytes in Circadian Activity Rhythm via CRISPR/Cas9″
- CANCELLED: April 1: Erik Musiek (WUSTL Neurology), “Clock genes in neuroinflammation”
- May 13: Geraldine Kress (Musiek Lab, WUSTL Neurology), “Circadian system influence on the diurnal oscillation of beta-amyloid”
- June 3: Michael Hughes (University of Missouri, St. Louis), “Gene expression atlases and new tools for analyzing and visualizing RNA-seq data”
*Please note the time for this meeting has been moved to 3:00p.
- Monday, June 27: Satchin Panda (Salk Institute), “Molecules and circuits underlying melanopsin photoreception”
*Please note: this meeting will be held at 11:00a in McDonnell Sciences 929 (Medical Campus). - July 1: Jeff Jones (WUSTL Biology), “SCN output circuits: a systems neuroscience approach”
*Please note the time for this meeting has been moved to 3:00p.
- August 5: Jeff Haspel (WUSTL Internal Medicine), “Turtles All The Way Down: Autophagy Rhythms and Their Place in Circadian Physiology”
*Please note the time for this meeting has been moved to 3:00p.
All meetings are listed on the Neuroscience Calendar of the Office of Neuroscience Research.
