Clocks & Sleep

2nd Friday of the month (*unless noted)
3:30p – 5:00p
HYBRID: Farrell LTC 205 and Zoom conference (^unless noted)

There will be food, drink and conversation for those attending in-person!

For inquiries contact the Hope Center or Erik Herzog.

NOTE: Each presenter has 30 minutes for slides and 15 minutes for questions.

• September 8: Selma Masri (University of California, Irvine) “Dissecting the role of the circadian clock in cancer”
• October 6*
  • Linda Jiameng Sun (DeBosch lab, WashU Pediatrics) “Hepatocyte Period 1 dictates oxidative substrate selection independent of the core circadian clock”
  • Li-Feng Jiang-Xie (Kipnis lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology) “The Self-Cleansing Brain and Ontogeny of Sleep”
• November 3
  • Maria Gonzalez (Herzog lab, WashU Biology) “Circadian rhythms and brain cancer- leveraging biological clocks to improve clinical treatment”
  • Aidan Schneider (Hengen lab, WashU Biology) “The Sleep Signature: A Disentangled State in Each Neuron”
• December 8
  • Ashish Sharma (Musiek lab, WashU Neurology) “Jetlag and neurodegeneration: Impact of circadian desynchrony on pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease”
  • Chi Chan Lee (Kerschensteiner lab, WashU Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences) “Role and function of intergeniculate leaflet on non-image forming functions”
• January 12
  • Amanda Cimino (Guilak lab, WashU Orthopaedic Surgery) “Synthetic gene circuits for autonomously regulated circadian-driven drug delivery to target flares in arthritis”
  • Lizzie Tilden (Y. Chen lab, WashU Neuroscience) “Temporal dynamics of Protein Kinase A across the sleep-wake cycle”

For previous years’ talks, check out the archives link below.

All meetings are listed on the ONR Calendar of the Office of Neuroscience Research.